Platform On Demand

Architecture & Security

Powered by the VMware Virtualization platform, Champion's Platform on Demand allows customers to dynamically provision servers for their different application solutions from a pre-allocated pool of dedicated computing resources. Platform on Demand also provides a flexible "burst mode" that allows clients to access additional computing power as needed. Customers can also access Champion's partners managed security services, which protect the business-critical applications running in customer environments with a variety of highly sophisticated security measures, including comprehensive vulnerability assessments, log aggregation and event correlation, network session flow analysis, attack replay, and much more.

Champion's Platform on Demand is powered by Terremark's proven Infinistructure utility computing platform. Infinistructure leverages technology from world-class infrastructure partners such as HP, IBM, VMware and Cisco to achieve unmatched flexibility and control.

Platform on Demand Architecture & Security

Always available
The grid architecture of Platform on Demand provides complete physical redundancy to eliminate downtime due to hardware failure. In fact, the system can even move applications across physical devices live and with no service interruption. Automated resource balancing also provides continuous monitoring and optimization to ensure peak performance.

Security
Champion's Platform on Demand provides a highly secure foundation for your business applications, with an architecture designed to help meet today's critical compliance and certification requirements, including SAS70 Type II, PCI-DSS and Safe Harbor.

Champion's full suite of managed security services is available for Platform on Demand. Delivered from its Secure Operations Center, Champion's managed security services help protect business-critical applications running in customer environments with a variety of highly sophisticated security measures, including comprehensive vulnerability assessments, log aggregation and event correlation, network session flow analysis, attack replay, and application firewall management. Optional multi-factor authentication offers Platform on Demand customers the first cloud computing platform that supports additional verification beyond a password to log into its management console. Integrated firewalls and private VLAN architecture provide a secure network infrastructure. All connections to the management console are secured by SSL, and a VPN connection is required to connect directly to servers via the Platform on Demand console. Finally, our team of security experts keeps a vigilant eye on our global infrastructure, providing high levels of physical and logical security.