Lenovo solves the partner network equation with hybrid cloud
September 9, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Drew Turney.
With roughly 35,000 employees worldwide and headquarters in both Beijing and Morrisville, North Carolina, PC maker Lenovo has quite a network of partners in North America. When the company started investigating a new hosting environment to service its partner network, it needed to be secure, accessible for partners 24/7, easily and quickly updated, and provide single sign-on capability.
Most importantly, resource constraints meant the new site had to be up and running without changes to the back-end systems. The result is Lenovo Partner Access, a hybrid cloud environment based on an application called webNetwork, which delivers a private datacentre, a public cloud build and local device resources through a common desktop with a single password…
Lenovo called on independent cloud service consultant 2nd Watch to manage the migration and hosted environment. Today, the system operates on Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) EC2 inside a virtual private network, with MySQL database technology and AWS relational database service and domain name system…
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