iland Catalyst Features Take Guesswork Out of VMware Cloud Migration

iland Internet Solutions Corporation announced upgrades to Catalyst, a complementary cloud assessment tool that simplifies the journey to the cloud.

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The Catalyst features make it for organisations using VMware to model and right size cloud requirements for cloud backup, DR or migration without costly over-provisioning or detrimentally under-provisioning.

As more organisations migrate from traditional data centres to cloud-based infrastructures, they must optimise costs by accurately predicting the right amount of cloud resources needed based on the size and frequency at which an application is used. They must also determine if workloads are compatible with cloud services. These factors are often miscalculated throughout the cloud journey, resulting in resources often being over or under provisioned.

Catalyst ensures a fit at the time of purchase and throughout the lifecycle of a customer’s use of the company’s cloud services based on individual workloads, application groups and entire production sites with pricing that is flexible and predictable.

With Catalyst, customers can:

Match cloud resources with application requirements
Ensure workloads are compatible with iland cloud services
Determine the bandwidth needed to optimise application performance
Estimate service costs per month and ad hoc periods
Provide network analysis to ensure the feasibility of backup, DR and migration use cases while providing initial seed and ongoing data transfer times.

“Whether it’s your first time moving to the cloud or if you’re adding more workloads and applications, the last thing you want to do is worry about guessing if your environment is capable of leveraging the cloud and the cost to get there,” said Dante Orsini, SVP, iland. “iland Catalyst removes that stress for customers around the world and helps our partner community right-size the cloud for their customers. And the new features we’re announcing today, make Catalyst even more precise and easier to use.“

Single universal tool
Most cloud assessment tools are limited to covering specific aspects of an IT environment, requiring organisations to employ several tools to analyse compute, storage and network usage. Catalyst analyses multiple requirements and platform attributes while pre-checking and validating systems to predict cloud requirements and ensure compatibility.

Features of Catalyst cloud assessment tool include:

Ability to calculate annual long-term retention objectives on cloud-based backup scenarios
Mac OS support to provide Catalyst capabilities for both Windows and Mac environments
Veeam Cloud Connect Replication storage calculator to predict storage needs on Veeam-based DR environments
Veeam Scale Out Backup Repository (SOBR) object storage calculator to size cloud archives
Speed-test and bandwidth assessment capabilities for iland’s datacentre in Melbourne, Australia in addition to its eight other global datacentres in Sydney, Australia, Los Angeles, CA, Dallas, TX, Washington, D.C., London, UK, Manchester, UK, Amsterdam (Nederland) and Singapore.

“When working with new customers and prospects, intelligence and insights are the top competitive differentiators,” said Chris McDuffie, VP, cloud architecture, Structured Communication Systems, Inc., solution provider of secure, cloud-connected digital infrastructure in Portland, OR. “iland Catalyst gives us the ability to know exactly what resources our customers need to make their move to the cloud a success. With Catalyst we have the ability to get it right the first time around without over or under provisioning.“

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