Industry leaders that realize substantial benefits from the breakthrough solutions made possible with the InteliCloud 360 include:

•    SaaS, IaaS, PaaS or any variation of hosting third-party applications and demanding real-time scalability
•    Web 2.0 applications and services providers committed to service quality
•    Wireline and wireless telecoms experiencing major increases in data usage
•    CDN’s utilizing edge servers for load balancing
•    Online gaming companies critically sensitive to latency

SaaS
Providers of hosted applications, regardless of whether they offer something as simple as email or as complex as SFA or CRM, are faced with multiple challenges, including (but hardly limited to) the critical need for instant scalability, the increasing requirement to integrate third-party applications, and the challenges of always coming under attack from both outside and inside. The InteliCloud 360 redefines the limits and capabilities of their network infrastructure, providing a solution to current problems and a foundation for future growth.

Web 2.0
Proper modeling is needed to ensure that users get adequate bandwidth to use Web 2.0 applications and services. This also applies to server loads. The traditional rack-and-stack architecture, although functional, it is costly to build, scale and maintain. And as budgets get squeezed, power and real estate become even more precious.

The InteliCloud 360 removes the traditional challenges that a data center architecture faces in regard to resource utilization, scalability and manageability. By abstracting the hardware out of the bottleneck equation, the 360 lets the application breathe and grow as it was intended to do by its developers.

Wireline/Wireless Providers
Over the last 10 years, traditional wireline and wireless providers have spent billions of dollars building a common access layer for delivering multiple services. However, at the service origination point (regional or national datacenter, point of presence, primary and secondary hubs, central office, etc.) the equipment is still divided into silos, with large, distinct collections of servers and storage for each service that is offered.

As competition and the consumer demand for services increase, it is critical that traditional carriers increase their agility without compromising reliability. InteliCloud offers a standards-based,, next-generation infrastructure that accomplishes that goal.

CDN
The single biggest cost of a CDN is Internet connectivity. To combat this, many CDNs are evolving their delivery infrastructure to become more distributed thus minimizing the distance between the content source and customer. The challenge with a highly distributed network is that the cost of installing and maintaining servers in hundreds, if not thousands, of locations grows exponentially. Through modeling of business processes and by virtualizing storage resources InteliCloud is able to reduce operational expenses by an order of magnitude.

Online Gaming
Gaming servers are extremely latency sensitive and often host complex and rapidly evolving worlds. The InteliCloud 360 is designed so that it can be deployed deep into the edge, while service models' scalable nature mean that changes and updates of software can be deployed quickly and seamlessly.