Our new Business Cloud.

Business Cloud

Business Cloud puts you in the driver's seat with an easy to use web-based portal.

Think of Business Cloud as having your own virtual data centre to create and organise as many virtual machines as you like, but without the hassle of managing the underlying infrastructure. Some of the things you can do with Business Cloud's control panel are:

start, stop, suspend, create or clone custom virtual machines diagnose your virtual machines with task and event logs remote console to manage your virtual machines even when the operating system has issues

vApps

vApps diagram

vApps, or virtual apps, make managing your virtual machine easy.

Applications are often distributed over several virtual machines. With vApps when you need to restore your application or build a new instance of your application, thinking of the underlying virtual machines will be a thing of the past.

Catalogs, templates and virtual appliances

Business Cloud's catalogs allow you to manage your templates effortlessly. Choose from a list of publicly available catalogs and templates of preconfigured virtual machines or build your own customised catalogs and templates.

Correctly configured templates of virtual machines, operating systems and application configuration will help speed up the deployment process and your production output. Catalogs and templates are also a great way to ensure that only pre-approved virtual machines are created within your online environment.

Current steps needed to deploy an application

Choose from a list of thousands of virtual appliances that can be easily deployed in your catalogue. These virtual appliances are prepackaged and preconfigured software from various leading software vendors.

Connect existing clouds with Business vCloud connector

If you are already running VMware vSphere™, Business vCloud connector will allow you to manage your private and public cloud from within vSphere. This is the only product of its kind in the world that will allow you to have a true hybrid (private and public) cloud platform.

You can view and transfer VMs, vApps and templates between your public and private cloud. You can also directly deploy and manage your virtual machines onto iiNet's public cloud directly from your vSphere client.

Use your existing Microsoft licenses

Through Microsoft's License Mobility through Software Assurance program you can now use your existing Microsoft license on Business Cloud. Find out more on our Microsoft Mobility information page.

APIs

For the not-so-tech-savvy business owners out there, APIs (or Application Programming Interfaces) allow you or your IT specialist to build business applications and solutions that can be adjusted to your needs.

iiNet's Business Cloud APIs are accessible online, making them easy to integrate with a wide variety of platforms.

APIs not only save you on costs, they also shave time off your valuable IT resources by automating your business processes.

You can even use these APIs to integrate iiNet's Business Cloud platform into your existing processes.

Security

iiNet's Business Cloud comes with a range of Enterprise-Class security features to help keep your virtual environment protected.

You'll have full control of your virtual machines, allowing you to configure firewalls, port forwarding and IP translation rules, as well as enable DHCP and add additional static IP addresses.

Every virtual machine or vApp can be joined to their own private network. This allows you to create many different networks and segregate different workloads, departments or customers. Business Cloud also gives you the ability to 'fence' your vApps, meaning you can create multiple vApps within the same network (such as a test and production environment) without worrying about any potential network conflicts.

Role-based control allows you to create and modify users within your business. You can restrict access to different users, monitor usage and even set quotas. If you have your own directory services (LDAP or AD system) you can even integrate with iiNet's Business Cloud portal.

Role based user control Set quotas

the iiNet difference

Local, award-winning support when you need it. If you come across a problem or have difficulty setting up your Business Cloud, our local, dedicated cloud experts are available to answer any support and account-related queries.

Australian data centre. iiNet's Business Cloud infrastructure is housed locally, which means faster access times and no issues around data sovereignty. It also means that unlike overseas providers we know and understand your business needs – we're not going to schedule outages during the middle of the Australian business day because it's night-time in the US or Europe.

National infrastructure that can grow with you. We're not just a hosting provider, we're also Australia's number 2 DSL broadband provider. With multiple domestic and international connections, we can provide you with superior connectivity.

Tools to help you manage your usage. iiNet's Toolbox function lets you view historical cost usage reports to help manage your costs and keep track of your bills. You'll be able to view usage reports from an organisational level right down to the individual machine.

99.9% Guarantee. We are committed to providing you with a reliable, secure Business Cloud and commit to a 99.9% uptime service level agreement that includes 24/7 fault reporting.

Our SLA is designed to give absolute confidence in iiNet’s Business Cloud, so much so that we are willing to put money on it. View our SLA here.