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SFU Cloud - Features & Benefits
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SFU Cloud - Features & Benefits
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Features & Benefits of SFU Cloud
Elastic
Increase or decrease capacity within seconds.
Provision one or several virtual machines simultaneously.
Eliminate wastage of reserved capacity by changing CPU, memory, disk and network on-demand on a running VM.
Provides developers the tools to build highly available applications and protect them from common failure scenarios.
Owner Controlled
Have complete control of your systems including full administrative access and the ability to interact with the systems as you would with any traditionally-hosted physical machines.
Shut down or pause any system while retaining the data, and use the user portal to restart the same instance back to operation.
Access server consoles and take point-in-time snapshots to confidently apply server changes.
Hosting Choices
Deploy multiple operating systems
Apply software packages to shape the platform that suits your business application needs.
Define and configure memory, CPU and disk size that is optimal for your application and change configurations dynamically
Institutionally Integrated
Tightly integrated and embedded in the SFU Data Centre allowing systems to leverage SFU’s high-bandwidth networking and advanced data protection.
Highly Reliable
Provides a highly redundant and reliable environment that is in-line with the SFU Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plan.
Critical systems are geo-replicated to a satellite data centre providing backup against a major disaster.
Systems are backed up daily and provide RTOs that are in-line with IT Services’ backup and restore retention policy and recovery objectives.
Secure
Integrates with SFU Federated Authentication for secure web service access and subsequent system access.
Keeps your workloads and data isolated and safe from external threats and other tenants.
Complies with provincial and federal privacy laws.
Economical
SFU Cloud passes on to you the monetary benefits of running in-house infrastructure at scale in the most optimal matter
Leveraging highly skilled IT professionals
Providing disciplined hardware and software acquisition practices, combined with favorable pricing available to educational institutions.
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Thu 7/7/22 7:31 PM
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