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OpenStack Consulting
Accelerate your OpenStack journey with expert guidance from certified engineers. From architecture design to seamless upgrades, we help you build and optimize your cloud infrastructure.
Consulting
Why VEXXHOST.
By using & contributing upstream to open source technologies since 2011, VEXXHOST truly knows OpenStack. We can help architect and optimize your cloud strategy with the latest OpenStack powered infrastructure as well as Kubernetes
OpenStack Package Agnostic
Our consultants will help you tackle any OpenStack infrastructure-related issues. Our experts can help by working with you on any deployment method, package, or configuration you may have.
Over 10 Years of Contributions
As users and contributors to the OpenStack code since 2011, our experts possess the knowledge and experience to identify and work with a wide range of OpenStack infrastructure-related issues.
Operational Experience
In running Canada’s biggest OpenStack public cloud and numerous enterprise private clouds around the world, we have a firm grasp on what market leaders need and what is required to leverage OpenStack’s full potential.
What we can help you with.
Architecting & Strategy
VEXXHOST will support you in improving the infrastructure for enhanced efficiency, incorporating OpenStack projects and services, operational insight for improved architecture, and implementing optimal storage solutions and migration.
Design & Applications
We offer optimization of applications for productivity performance by improving the infrastructure and establishing a seamless workflow. Our team will work with you to assess the architecture and suitability of your applications for the cloud. From there, our team will define a cloud strategy and roadmap for transformation and growth through the selection of the right platforms.
Implementing New OpenStack Projects
Our cloud experts will guide you to determine which OpenStack projects will best suit your needs. If you have an OpenStack powered private cloud, VEXXHOST can help your business do more with it by implementing a wide range of new projects. Sometimes, you may want a less active project; we can help you achieve that, giving you the option and flexibility to use the projects that best suit your needs.
Deployment
Our consulting service offers revolutionized delivery and operations process, with increased efficiency and flexibility for the company’s infrastructure to perform and learn faster. From gathering requirements, architecting, testing, deploying, to the management and maintenance of the OpenStack environment, rest assured that you can rely on us to do all the heavy lifting.
Strategic Management
VEXXHOST will be by your side providing guidance to manage the flow of the environment, ensuring services are obtained efficiently to the best of their advantages, to lead migration with your team determining strategies, tools, and techniques, and to provide operational and architectural reviews if needed.
OpenStack Upgrades
VEXXHOST's OpenStack Upgrades offering gives organizations with an existing OpenStack powered private cloud the ability to benefit from any available OpenStack release. Through our extensive experience in managing the most significant public OpenStack cloud in Canada and numerous private clouds around the world, VEXXHOST is well equipped to help businesses upgrade their cloud. This offering is delivered as a fully managed solution so you can focus on your core competencies while VEXXHOST handles the rest.
Leverage Our Expertise
With VEXXHOST's extensive involvement within the OpenStack community and history of deploying the latest releases on the same day of their launch, organizations can rest easy knowing we have the experience and the expertise.
Distribution Agnostic
Because our core is OpenStack, VEXXHOST can upgrade your OpenStack cloud regardless of your current provider and OpenStack distribution method used for its deployment.
High Availability
As VEXXHOST operates an OpenStack public cloud with a known history of reliability, you will benefit from high-availability through the use of OpenStack's Tempest project for seamless, faultless upgrades.
Maximize Benefits & Security
By upgrading to a later OpenStack release, users can take advantage of continuously evolving open-source software, benefiting from critical project updates, new features, and ensuring you aren't at risk of employing weakened or obsolete security features.
Additional Benefits
Upstream to OpenStack.
VEXXHOST’s experience and knowledge in OpenStack allow us to configure a project to suit your business’s needs, help you implement those changes and push them upstream to OpenStack’s code.
In-Depth Troubleshooting.
If an incident occurs, you may alert the VEXXHOST team, and one of our OpenStack Engineers will quickly respond and provide guidance to find the issue and help you and your team to restore service as soon as possible.
Advice on Cloud Tools.
Benefit from our recommendations for the best software and solutions for you. VEXXHOST will guide you towards which releases to go for and which should be avoided, as well as the compatibility among the tools.
Best Practices.
VEXXHOST will provide you with a Best Practice Review of your infrastructure, including hardware, networking, workshops and answers to questions your team may have and guide you on how to move forward.
We ❤️ Open Source
🎊Atmosphere is an open source project built by us.
Atmosphere stands out as a fully certified and conformant open-source platform. With both OpenStack powered certification and certified Kubernetes, it has passed all conformance tests. This guarantees a robust, high-performance, and reliable solution for your cloud needs.
Enterprise OpenStack Solutions
Build and operate production-grade private and public clouds with OpenStack. Our certified engineers provide end-to-end professional services from architecture design to ongoing operations.
What you'll get
- Deploy on-premises with full managed operations or support-only for your team — or fully hosted in our datacenters
- Run VMs, Kubernetes, bare metal, and containers on a unified platform — with Terraform, Ansible, and native API automation
- Continuous updates and zero-downtime upgrades to the latest OpenStack releases — managed entirely by our operations team
- Enterprise security with Keycloak, LDAP, SAML, and OpenID Connect — plus integrated Ceph or Pure Storage options
- Professional services for architecture design, deployment, upgrades, and Day 2 operations — tailored to your needs
- 24/7 expert support from certified OpenStack engineers who understand your infrastructure inside and out
Emergency Support
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