Intalio today announced that it has built an enterprise cloud appliance that runs behind a company's firewall in its data centers.

Intalio|Cloud is a combination of hardware and software that the company says offers multi-tenancy, dynamic provisioning, elastic scalability, and on-demand or on-premise deployment. It comes with business process management and customer relationship management applications.

"Companies like cloud computing offerings because of the ease of provisioning and scalability, but most large organizations really want this behind their firewall," says Ismael Ghalimi, CEO. "So while cloud computing was made popular with the public clouds, such as Amazon Web Services, we think most of the action will take place behind the firewall."

The two main attributes of cloud computing, in Ghalimi's view, are ease of provisioning, meaning you can create an account for a team by going on a website and filling out a form; and elastic scalability as personified by Amazon Web Services and Google — you can start with five people and instantly grow to a million users.

The Intalio|Cloud Appliance is a rack of HP BladeSystem blade servers and enclosures, solid state drives for database storage, and InfiniBand interconnect technology. It provides multitenancy through VMware virtualization software for smaller accounts; for large accounts in which a cloud runs over multiple servers, using virtual symmetric multiprocessing. There's an AppXchange-like platform where developers can create and store customized applications for use throughout the organization.

The Intalio|Cloud Appliance can be used on demand, like Amazon's cloud services, for $9 to $99 per use per month. It can be on-premise for $19 to $49 per user per month, with a 50-user minimum. Intalio also provides a managed-on-premise deployment option, whereby all hardware and systems administration services are provided on-premise, while customers pay $49 to $99 per user per month, with a 2,000-users minimum and three-year commitment.

Ghalimi says his company has been advised by the chief architect of the investment banking division of one of the top three banks, who helped finalize the hardware architecture, networking and virtualization strategy.

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