What are we about?
Accelerating the way Business Operates...
…is the on-demand delivery of computepower, database storage, applications, and other IT resources through a cloud services platform via broad-based networking withpay-as-you-go pricing.
Our Cloud Solutions Team
Fred Saayman
Head of Brand: Huawei & Cloud
freds@pinnacle.co.za
+27 (11) 265 3338
Jannie Engelbrecht
Huawei Cloud Business Unit Manager
Seshni Gafoor
Huawei Cloud Business Development Manager
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud Computing setup consists of the following components:
- Cloud Computing Infrastructure. Usually is a large infrastructure built to offer resources as a services in Internet
- The Network. Provide the connection to the Cloud. Usually refers to Internet, but can only be private network for Private Cloud
- End Devices. These can be desktop, laptop, tablets or even mobile devices.
You will see typically 3 types of cloud service model
- IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service: These are the Virtual IT Resources including Compute, RAM, Storage and Network components. IaaSnormally support multi tenancy and are provisioned as needed
- PaaS - Platform as a Service: Software Platforms that enable Applications, Web Platforms, Service Delivery Platforms
- SaaS - Software as a Service: Business Applications that are rented on a usage basis
And these Cloud service model can be deployed as Private Cloud, Public Cloud or Hybrid Cloud
As users, you can subscribe to the cloud services without worrying the under lying complexity of setup. The service provider will perform the end to end management, end to end security mgmt, and end to end automation and on-demand mgmt.
You can expect Cloud to have the following features:
- Delivered as a service: No in house development
- Pay for only what you use: Consumption based Model
- Flexible: Resources are Virtualized and Capacity is available “On Demand” to meet the needs of end users fluctuating or diminishing IT requirements
