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It’s All Yours
Helix’s dedicated hardware and
“share-nothing” architecture keep your
projects separate and secure—before,
during, and after launch.
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People Powered Support
With Helix, you’re never alone. Your own
dedicated team of (mt) engineers—
not salespeople—is here to back you up,
24/7/365. That’s a promise.
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Cost Control
Instead of making big system
investments, just pay as you go—a
single flat monthly rate, with no
surprises.
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Unmatched Performance
Highly optimized software. SSD-based,
enterprise-grade Dell hardware.
Blazing-fast, massively scalable private
clouds, at the click of a button.
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To create the first viable OpenStack-powered private cloud, all the pieces had to fall into place.
One of the largest providers of enterprise grade server hardware in the world, Dell has helped communities, individuals, and businesses harness the power to do more for over 28 years.
Media Temple has been one of the most trusted names in web hosting and cloud services since 1998. Over 125,000 customers, from individuals to Fortune 500 enterprises, rely on (mt) to power more than 1.5 million websites.
Morphlabs, Inc. is a recognized leader in cloud and open source computing, specializing in converged infrastructure solutions for enterprise customers. The pre-integrated architecture for Helix is their latest contribution to the future of the cloud.
With Helix, you pay one flat rate of $7,500/month. To
get a comparable system from our competitors,
you’ll pay almost 3x as much in your first year.
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Market Average
VCE, Bare Metal, AWS |
Helix
Private Cloud Service |
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| Up-front Hardware Investment | $6,250/mo | Included |
| Annual Cloud Software Investment | $4,200/mo | Included |
| SysAdmin with Cloud Specialization | $8,300/mo | Included |
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Hardware & Software Integration
plus On-Site Networking |
$1,600/mo | Included |
| Hardware & Software Support | $2,500/mo | Included |
| Total First-Year Cost | $22,850/month | $7,500/month |
Unlike other cloud providers, our commitment goes way beyond spinning up your server.
Every (mt) account comes with 24/7 support from our team of friendly, in-house experts. Our trained and certified engineers are on site, waiting for your call, 365 days a year.
For all its power, Helix also offers simplicity. You won’t need an engineering degree to navigate the clean, customizable Helix control panel. The intuitive interface puts clearly labeled controls right where you’d expect to find them.
There’s really no comparison. With Helix, you pay one flat rate of $7,500/month. To get a comparable system from our competitors, you’ll pay almost 3x as much in your first year.
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Market Average
VCE, Bare Metal, AWS |
Helix
Private Cloud Service |
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| Up-front Hardware Investment | $6,250/mo | Included |
| Annual Cloud Software Investment | $4,200/mo | Included |
| SysAdmin with Cloud Specialization | $8,300/mo | Included |
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Hardware & Software Integration
plus On-Site Networking |
$1,600/mo | Included |
| Hardware & Software Support | $2,500/mo | Included |
| Total First-Year Cost | $22,850/month | $7,500/month |
Helix gives you separate and secure-able storage for your data, isolated from everyone else’s. So you’re in control of when and how it’s exposed to the open Internet. And you’ll never have to deal with the “bad neighbor” performance drain that can happen on public cloud services.
The Helix control panel also makes it easy to set customized levels of access—allowing you to create completely isolated development and production environments, for example, with completely different rules.
Blazingly Fast
Helix’s SSD-based, enterprise-grade Dell hardware is
fast—really fast. An advantage you’ll notice from the
moment your service is deployed, near-instantaneously.
Efficient
It’s remarkably green, too. Helix is the most power-dense,
energy-efficient cloud appliance on the market, using
under 10 watts per virtual machine.
Open
And Helix’s open source OS means it’s compatible with all
kinds of community-developed tools and applications.
Things that proprietary cloud software locks out.
Our fully-integrated solution starts with the mCloud Helix, a complete private cloud in a 2U form factor containing four high-performance server nodes. An OpenStack-powered private cloud with 80 vCPUs using 100% SSD compute nodes with SSD-accelerated block storage to eliminate the need for complex and costly SAN architecture, and to make SAN-speed durable storage affordable for the first time.
- 80 vCPUs (100% SSD)
- 3 TB ZFS Storage
- 60 Intel CPU Cores
- 224 GB Ram
- 4928 GB SSD Capacity
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Under 10 watts per vm
All of the following OS, and many more, run on Helix.
Built on OpenStack
Backed by a huge—and growing—open source community, OpenStack is a game-changer in cloud computing.
OpenStack is a highly scalable, open source cloud operating system, built to control large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter. OpenStack was designed to be simple to implement and feature rich.
Because all of the code for OpenStack is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license, anyone can run it, build on it, or submit changes back to the project.
Using an OpenStack-based cloud platform makes you part of a global software community of technologists, developers, researchers, corporations, and cloud computing experts. A community built around the need for a new kind of cloud: one with badly-needed cloud standards, and without the danger of being locked in to someone else’s proprietary software.
Powered by Morphlabs
True pioneers in cloud computing and open source software, the Morphlabs team has delivered innovative web services since the company’s founding in 2007. Building atop the OpenStack platform, they created the mCloud Helix’s modular, pre-integrated architecture, dramatically simplifying cloud services for enterprise customers.
Dell™ Crowbar is an open source software framework developed by Dell. With Crowbar, you can install cloud software across clusters and scale out systems quickly and automatically. Crowbar also provides capabilities for network monitoring and discovery, and gathering performance data, among other advantages. With Crowbar, you have a configurable, adjustable framework complete with many built-in features that can save time, streamline effort and potentially lower costs.
fog is a Ruby gem by Wesley Beary to control a variety of cloud services through a unified API. It deals with both server cloud and storage based services and supports Amazon S3 and Rackspace Files; as well as servers and on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Servers, Terremark vCloud and Slicehost. Support is also available for Amazon ELB and SimpleDB.
Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices.
Nexenta Systems is the world’s leading provider of enterprise-class OpenStorage solutions. The company’s flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage management.
Puppet Labs’ IT automation software enables system administrators to deliver the operational agility and efficiency of cloud computing at enterprise-class service levels, scaling from handfuls of nodes on-premise to tens of thousands in the cloud. Puppet powers thousands of companies, including Twitter, Yelp, eBay, Zynga, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Google, Disney, Citrix, Oracle, and Viacom.
Ubuntu gives you a new operating system every six months, great compatibility with other providers, security you can count on and the freedom to share it with anyone you like. But best of all, Ubuntu is and always will be absolutely free. From the start we had a clear vision – to develop the very best system and software then make it available to all.
Our East and West Coast data centers are certified Tier 3+, meaning 99.982% uptime guaranteed. They’re staffed 24/7/365 with certified technicians and armed security.
They monitor the alarm system and security cameras that are on all perimeter points of ingress/egress to the building. Bulletproof security station and shipping/receiving areas with a Biometric security system are also in place. Our personnel require authorized escorted visitations. 24” raised floor manufactured by Maxcess covering every square foot of our cages, MDF and Network Operation Center.
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Why Helix?
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