RMS demonstrates the importance of the private cloud

When RMS looked to deploy edge RMSone betas of your risk management solution, customers realized that the cloud-based service would be significantly less valuable if it was not very reliable.

With customers around the world, 24 hour uptime should be normal, not a choice. And as specialists in risk management, RMS knew exactly how to assess risks in the use of the public cloud. So it was with surprise that they invited some other journalists to Iceland and I this week to reveal their new private cloud, cloud of RM, which feeds its catastrophic risks RMSone assessment tools and move towards the general release from next April.

Located in the Centre of Verne Global data at the site of the former the Naval NATO Air Station Keflavik, just west of Reykjavik, Iceland, RMS and your provider Datapipe technology are able to take full advantage of 100% green energy infrastructure of Iceland along with free air cooling and the latest in modern datacenter design. (Tuned for the next article drilled by the World Fund of Verne).

With high-performance Cisco UCS servers and storage EMC Symmetrix VMAX cloud feeding the cloud RM, backed by the Green cloud Datapipe platform stratosphere peak workloads, RMS HPC feels have the database they need to offer their services complex, but critical to its clients from the insurance company. Most importantly, have a cloud service you can trust; a critical feature is the most popular services on the public cloud.

Speaking to Paris Georgallis, VP of operations at the platform of RMS and a man responsible for the side of the House technology, you have the definite impression that would have liked to have been able to not make the important investment in backend represented by its presence in the Icelandic datacenter cloud technology. But the reality of the situation with Amazon EC2, where he had done some of their early development and testing made it clear that it was not a suitable solution for your line of business, mission-critical appeal.

He said that still make use of the Amazon Cloud for some development efforts and non-critical tasks of CPU, but that he felt that, for now, the future of the cloud of criticism for the business would be the model private cloud, not the public.