ActiveCloud: A public cloud based on technologies of Microsoft

2016

Gain of protection with 5nine Software

On December 23, 2016 the ActiveCloud company announced use as the instrument of protection of the A-Cloud service of technology against company 5nine Software.

For ensuring the maximum degree of protection of a cloud of A-Cloud created on the basis of Microsoft Hyper-V, ActiveCloud technology unrolled in it a three-level system:

• firewall,
• antivirus
• means of an intrusion prevention.

By means of the last identification of the extraordinary network traffic caused by vulnerabilities is executed, threats at the level of applications^[1].

The product of company 5nine works at hypervisor level that allows to block external and internal vulnerabilities. At the expense of it high-speed performance of a system of protection increases approximately by 70 times, and a system consumes resources 30% less.

The high level of cybersecurity and opportunity to manage settings of protection of the IT infrastructure – key requirements of customers. Existence in a public cloud of the solution from 5nine in fact does it private: users can isolate the virtual machines and their groups, independently set security policies, providing data protection. Yury Brazhnikov, director of the Russian office 5nine Software

Integration into cloud Microsoft OS allows customers to set security settings from a uniform control panel virtual machines. Now identical cybersecurity politicians, both in own DPC, and in our cloud are available to clients of ActiveCloud. One more important advantage of solution 5nine is that it completely conforms to requirements of the Russian legislation in the field of data protection. Alexey Pashkov-Orlov, development director of services of ActiveCloud company

Description

ActiveCloud announced in March, 2016 start of the new cloud project within an initiative of Microsoft Cloud OS Network Russia. The public cloud of ActiveCloud based on technologies of Microsoft provides capacities for creation of IT infrastructure of any level of complexity at the affordable prices.

The cloud was unrolled on the equipment placed in the Russian DPCs that conforms to requirements of the domestic legislation on a personal data storage. It allows corporate customers to use the modern technologies created based on the Microsoft platform and to provide to applications the high speed of a response to territories of Russia.

The Russian initiative of Microsoft Cloud OS Network Russia is the part starting the little earlier global Cloud OS Network (COSN) program. Its participants provide cloud services of more than 3.7 million customers in hundred countries. In Russia authorization on participation in the program was received by eight leading suppliers of cloud services, including ActiveCloud company. Advantage of the program is that its participants get access to technologies of Microsoft and also expert support and consultations of experts of corporation. During partnership of ActiveCloud and Microsoft deployment of IT infrastructure and its full-function testing for compliance to standards of vendor was carried out.

Основная статья: Microsoft Cloud OS Network (COSN) Program

The software solutions and standards applied today in ActiveCloud cloud using technologies of Microsoft provide reliable infrastructure and a technology platform for business development, thanks to flexible scaling for selection of computing powers "on demand", to sales opportunity of architecture practically of any complexity, the high level of security due to isolation of the environment and management of politicians of access. Also advantage of a cloud platform is the possibility of creation of hybrid environments due to consolidation of computing resources of customers and safe consolidation of their private or already available cloud infrastructure of Microsoft Azure from the virtual, developed in a cloud ActiveCloud. In addition to listed, the standardized cloud services of ActiveCloud have one more feature: their users can expand, reduce or transfer without excess finance and time expenditure separate elements of IT infrastructure between DPCs, the countries and providers. Such approach to formation of IT infrastructure does business of the customer really dynamic and flexible, due to use of cloud resources upon real consumption. And thanks to integration of a cloud at technologies of Microsoft with own platform of management ActivePlatform users receive automatic billing and the single console of management of all cloud services of ActiveCloud company.

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