Cloud Solutions

Cloud services started out as simple virtual machine (VM) hosting. Today, cloud providers offer a wide range of services and development platforms.

The most common types of cloud services are:

• IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service): VM hosting
• PaaS (Platform as a Service): a development environment hosted in the cloud
• SaaS (Software as a Service): a ready-to-use solution for the end user, paid through a monthly subscription or on a pay-per-use basis

Elipse Software offers PaaS solutions and, together with technology partners, SaaS solutions as well. Your applications can run on cloud-hosted operating systems, virtual machines, or containers. This means you can install Elipse E3 or EPM on platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, and access all their features from anywhere with an internet connection.

To meet the demand for our software in the cloud, you can either buy licenses or rent resources. Rented resources can be scaled up or adjusted as your needs change.

PaaS solutions

In this model, the end user or their technology partner (a systems integrator) purchases Elipse product licenses, either perpetual or for a fixed term, and runs them in a virtual environment.

SaaS solutions

In this model, an Elipse partner develops a solution based on Elipse products and delivers it, hosted in a virtual environment, to multiple end users at the same time. The partner bills its clients directly. In some cases, the agreement also includes a monthly fee paid to Elipse Software. Contact us, and we’ll help you find the best fit for your needs.

Hybrid cloud

Elipse systems can also run in hybrid mode, with part of the application running on premises and the rest hosted in the cloud. For example, an Elipse E3 SCADA application can run 24/7 inside the plant while sending all its historical data to EPM running as PaaS.

Containers

Containers offer a leaner way than VMs to run software in the cloud. A container can be thought of as operating-system-level virtualization.

Each VM has to load its own full copy of the operating system. Containers share the host operating system’s files instead, which makes them much lighter.

An application running in a container is also isolated from other containers and from the host machine, which gives the system strong built-in scalability.

Containers are easy to start and stop. Their data can be stored in disk volumes outside the container, so it is preserved independently of the container itself.

Elipse Software provides two Windows Server Core images for the Docker platform: one with EPM and one with SQL Server. You can deploy both containers to your cloud platform of choice.