Flexential: Perfecting a platform methodology for enterprises’ multi-cloud future
James Ochoa, vice president of cloud solutions at Flexential, views the company’s extensive portfolio not simply as a collection of innovative, bespoke, and proven technologies, but more fundamentally as the solution it uses to help more than 3,000 enterprises in more than 20 industries solve their business challenges. This focus on addressing each organization’s unique needs has contributed to the company’s growth over the past 25 years and is shared by Flexential’s more than 800 employees.
“Our approach to solving the business challenges enterprises face today begins with our FlexAnywhere® Platform,” says Ochoa. “Most customers need a platform that enables a hybrid, multi-cloud future. We thrive on delivering infrastructure that enables seamless communications between the systems within the customer’s own environment, in our dedicated or multi-tenant private clouds, in the public cloud, and beyond. Our platform enables customers to connect and integrate with myriad services and resources through a comprehensive and interconnected solution that spans the entire IT ecosystem.”
Specifically designed to address critical performance challenges across various workloads and applications, Flexential’s platform methodology achieves proximity acceleration to significantly reduce latency and improve application performance by shortening the physical distance between users and workloads. Additionally, it enables edge-network localization to segment traffic, optimize network performance, and eliminate bottlenecks. Another key feature is its multi-dimensional connectivity, providing direct connections to numerous providers, including hyperscalers. This comprehensive set of features and capabilities ensures optimal performance for a wide range of workloads and applications.
One platform – The FlexAnywhere Platform
The result of the company’s platform design philosophy is the FlexAnywhere Platform, a seamlessly connected ecosystem that empowers enterprises to achieve their infrastructure goals in a highly flexible environment that can change as their hybrid, multi-cloud strategies evolve. Offering colocation, cloud, interconnection, data protection, disaster recovery, and a wide range of professional services – from industry-specific solutions to those that draw on leading-edge innovations like AI – the platform enables Flexential’s engineers to deliver tailored solutions that align with every organization’s specific hybrid IT journey, regardless of whether they are just considering the cloud or honing already sophisticated cloud systems.
Flexential even offers a free Fast-Track Cloud Workshop with a cloud architect to review existing systems, conduct total cost-of-ownership modeling to determine whether the cloud makes sense, and if so, which approach – private, public, or hybrid – is ideal. Just as importantly, the FlexAnywhere Platform is designed to integrate fully with enterprises’ existing infrastructure.
“All of the services offered on our platform are complementary and interoperable,” adds Ochoa. “We’ve worked hard to define and standardize our configuration parameters and validated procedures and guardrails to ensure maximum security and compliance so customers can rest assured their data is safe. We believe the future is a hybrid, multi-cloud world, but we also believe that some systems by necessity must remain within our customers’ four walls. The interoperability inherent in the FlexAnywhere Platform reflects that.”
High-speed, low-latency connectivity also ensures that applications work efficiently and deliver optimal customer experiences with a cloud-adjacent approach made possible by Flexential’s 40 + state-of-the-art data centers located across 19 markets in the United States, a 100 Gbps network backbone, direct connects to hundreds of carriers, 25 low-latency cloud on-ramps to numerous providers – including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud – and connections to subsea cables for global reach.
Within the platform, Flexential also offers a VMware-powered multi-tenant cloud, Hosted Private Cloud, and Hosted Private Cloud – Advanced Access, a one-of-a-kind solution that offers extensive personalization capabilities and access to domain functionality within the virtual environment that features third-party applications and plug-ins that let enterprises use familiar and trusted tools to manage workloads through direct access to management servers.
Notably, the VMware-powered clouds feature service level agreements that ensure five nines, 99.999% availability of cloud compute, and 100% availability of cloud network infrastructure. Customized solutions for compute, storage, and networking are also offered, as is a self-service portal.
“We have a strong partnership with Broadcom and a long-standing relationship with VMware,” says Ochoa. “Being a Broadcom Pinnacle Partner reflects the technical experience and innovation we have demonstrated over many years, and the comprehensive solutions we have created using VMware by Broadcom technologies. What excites us so much today is the vision of enabling a hybrid cloud where VMware Cloud Foundation is the foundation across all platforms and customers don’t have to choose multiple underlying solutions or “refactor” systems that work exceptionally well. Instead, they can simply continue to leverage their in-house experience to gain all of the efficiencies a hybrid cloud deployment brings. In that endeavor, it’s all about finding a cloud partner like Flexential that has your back for the long haul.”
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In the months to come, look to CIO.com for stories about VMware by Broadcom’s Advantage Program, and enterprises’ private, hybrid, and multi-cloud endeavors.
