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Provision what you need in minutes, and add managed services whenever you want them.
With Aptum Prizm your team provisions virtual machines, storage and networking on Shared Cloud, and adds resources as your workloads grow. You see the cost of every change before you commit to it, and there are no egress fees and no charges for disk activity, so your monthly bill stays in control.
Shared Cloud is the most cost-effective way onto Aptum's cloud. Your virtual machines run on shared physical hosts with the capacity pooled across them, which is what keeps the price down, and everything above the hardware is the same platform every Aptum customer gets.
You pay a set rate for what you use, and you can commit to a pool of resources for a discount on the workloads you can forecast. There are no egress fees and no IOPS charges.
Start with what one project needs and grow into dedicated hardware on the same platform when a workload outgrows shared hosts. No re-platforming, no second contract, no migration project.
Your team owns the environments, the access controls and the firewall rules. Aptum owns the hardware and the platform layer, in data centres we operate from.
Your team can run all of it, and Aptum's managed services can take on the operations that are undifferentiated for your business. Shared Cloud is the most affordable entry point to Aptum's full managed stack.
Your team builds and changes environments directly in Aptum Prizm. Compute, storage, networking and access are all self-served through the API or the interface. Aptum's managed services can be added on top of any of it.
Provision, resize and decommission virtual machines in minutes. A resize needs a restart, and nothing here needs a support ticket.
Manage private VLANs, public IPs, firewall rules, port forwarding and VPN users yourself, from the portal.
Spread traffic across your instances with Layer 4 load balancing, sticky sessions and a choice of routing algorithms.
Choose Standard SSD at 2 IOPS per GB or Performance SSD at 6 IOPS per GB, and set it per workload.
Give each person the permissions their role needs, with role-based access control, and add two-factor authentication on top of it.
Build and change environments in code with a full REST API and support for Terraform, as well as through the interface.
See a real-time estimate before you deploy, and track spend by environment so you can charge it back to the right team or project.
Take snapshots, create virtual machines in batches, set affinity groups and bring your own QCOW2 or ISO images.
The question is worth asking per workload, because it comes down to whether that workload can sit on hardware shared with other customers. Both run on the same platform, so a workload can move between them as its requirements change, and your team manages it the same way either side of the move.
| At a glance | Shared Cloud (VPC) | Dedicated Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Tenancy | Your virtual machines share physical hosts with other customers | Your virtual machines run on hosts reserved for you |
| Compute | Pooled across shared hosts | Reserved hosts, with no other tenants on your compute |
| Storage | Shared storage, Standard or Performance SSD | Shared storage by default, with dedicated storage available at additional cost |
| Pricing | A set rate per vCPU, per GB of RAM and per GB of allocated storage, charged for what you use | A fixed monthly rate for the hosts you reserve |
| Best when | You want the most cost-effective route, from development through production | Your workload needs consistent performance, or single-tenant hardware is required for compliance or business reasons |
Both run on the same platform, self-service through Aptum Prizm. Want to operate the entire stack and control the configuration in detail? Private Cloud is the better fit.
Plenty of providers will sell you virtual machines. Fewer will offer you the machines, the people who run them and the advice on what to run where, on infrastructure they own themselves. Shared Cloud is one way to start working with us on that platform, and you can add the rest as you need it.
Aptum charges a set rate for what you use, with no egress fees and no charges for disk activity, so traffic spikes do not show up on the invoice. Where a workload is steady, you can commit to a pool of resources and take a discount on it.
Your team provisions and manages the environment itself, and Aptum's support team is on the same contract. Where the day-to-day is undifferentiated for your business, Aptum's managed services can take it on.
Managed services, backup and security sit on top of Shared Cloud, and our professional services team can plan and run the migration. Colocation, private cloud and public cloud sit alongside it for workloads that belong elsewhere.
Aptum owns and manages the hardware in data centres we operate from across Canada, the US and the UK. When something breaks, the people who answer the phone can fix the whole stack.
"Today, with Aptum as our trusted partner, we have gained autonomy, scalability, and the ability to focus on our core business, unburdened by the constraints of our previous infrastructure."
“The experience is that things just work. When there’s something to be done, it’s done quickly, and it’s done right first time. Don’t underestimate the number of organizations out there, particularly in IT support, that just miss the mark.”
Shared Cloud is Aptum infrastructure where your virtual machines run on shared physical hosts, with private VLANs keeping your environment separate. You provision and manage everything through Aptum Prizm, or have Aptum manage it for you. This model is often called multi-tenant infrastructure, or a virtual private cloud (VPC).
Yes. Private VLANs separate your environment from other customers, and your team controls access with role-based permissions.
Shared Cloud runs your virtual machines on hosts shared with other customers, which is what makes it the more cost-effective option. Dedicated Cloud reserves the hosts for you, so the full capacity of those hosts is available to your workloads and performance stays consistent. Private VLANs separate your environment in either model, and both are self-service through Aptum Prizm.
Either, or both. Your team can run all of it through Aptum Prizm, and Aptum's managed services can take on the operations that are undifferentiated for your business. The mix can change as your needs do.
You pay a flat monthly rate per vCPU, per GB of RAM and per GB of storage, with no egress charges and no per-transaction IOPS fees. Your bill changes only when you change your allocation. Talk to an Aptum cloud expert for a monthly price for your workloads.
On hardware Aptum owns and manages, in data centres we operate from across Canada, the US and the UK. Each Aptum region is a fully separate environment, so your data stays in the region you choose.
Yes. Dedicated Cloud runs on the same platform through the same portal, so you can put workloads that need their own hardware on dedicated hosts as you grow.
