When an availability services organization decided to offer cloud services, it was time for extensive research. After all, you can't be a cloud provider and not have the most capable, cutting-edge platform that enables easy deployment and management, reliability and use of open standards so customers can restore data from backup servers anywhere.

This brief case study walks you through this services provider's evaluation process of finding an architecture suitable for high-availability cloud services. Read on to learn which platform was selected because it relieves admins from struggling to force various vendors' solutions to work together.