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VMware Advances Hosted Computing Services
June 07, 2008 |
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New VMware Service Provider Program Helps Deliver Virtual Infrastructure to
Customers as a Hosted Offering to Increase Service Levels and Value
PALO ALTO, Calif., June 6, 2007 VMware, Inc., the global leader in
software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers, today announced
the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), which allows hosting providers such
as Web hosting services, telecommunications companies and outsourcing businesses
to bring to market new virtual infrastructure as service offerings.
The VSPP incorporates a new licensing model that makes the industry-leading
VMware Infrastructure suite available to hosting providers on a per-virtual
machine, per-month basis. With this new program, hosting providers can easily
develop their own customized virtual infrastructure as service offerings that
rent VMware virtual machine capacity to end customers.
For end customers, virtual infrastructure as a service offers significant
benefits compared to traditional hosting offerings that provide dedicated
servers or shared hosting. Dedicated server offerings often lead to long-term
capacity over-commitment and lack of flexibility, while the VSPP enables hosting
providers to offer utility computing services, which allow end customers to
instantaneously add or reduce their hosted virtual infrastructure capacity to
align with event-driven demand. With shared hosting, single operating system
instances are partitioned, forcing customers into one-size-fits-all computing
models that lack full isolation from one another. VMware hosted virtual machines
are fully isolatedif one virtual machine crashes, others remain availableand
they can be easily tailored to the particular needs of every application.
With the VSPP, hosting providers can enable end customers to benefit from hosted
virtual infrastructure that is more highly available and robust than traditional
hosted services. Hosting providers benefit from the ability to differentiate
themselves through innovative new offerings and better service level agreements
while increasing resource utilization and internal efficiency.
According to industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc., Utility computing offerings
lead the way as the most significant innovation taking place in the industry.
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The VSPP opens new doors for managed service providers to reinvent hosting
services and reach new customers of all sizes, said Raghu Raghuram, vice
president of product and solutions marketing at VMware. The added flexibility
and availability of VMware Infrastructure as a service enables hosting providers
to offer their customers immediate access to the proven benefits of virtual
infrastructure as easily as flipping on an electric switch. Hosting customers
can now rely on production system availability not possible with traditional
hosted offerings, as well as automatic data and systems protection and rapid
recovery from failures, while paying only for the computing capacity they
require at the time.
VMware has been working with a select group of leading hosting providers during
the last two years including EDS and Telefonica. VMware conducted a pilot of the
new program earlier this year, and hosting providers worldwide are currently
participating, including: Attenda (U.K.), Cobweb (U.K.), Data Return (U.S.),
Dedigate (The Netherlands), I-Tech (The Netherlands), ICM (U.K.), Intermedia.net
(U.S.), Interoute (U.K.), Macquarie Telecom (Australia), Mistral Internet
(U.K.), Net Access Corporation (U.S.), NSX (The Netherlands), Rackspace Managed
Hosting (U.K., U.S.), SmartyHost (Australia), Talk Internet (U.K), Tepucom (The
Netherlands) and Vericenter (U.S.).
Our Infinistructure utility computing platform leverages VMware virtualization
technology to provide revolutionary levels of scalability and flexibility for
our customers, said Jason Lochhead, founder and principal architect for Data
Return, a Texas-based enterprise IT operations services provider. We believe
that the ability to deliver resources in time with our clients needs gives us a
significant advantage over our competitors.
We use VMware products to power our Real Time Infrastructure, offering the
benefits of faster provisioning, higher availability and lower cost than would
be possible with conventional hardware hosting, while also helping the
environment by consuming less power and data center space, said Simon Hansford,
vice president of marketing and product management at Attenda, a U.K.-based
managed services provider.
Hosting providers can choose to license either VMware Infrastructure Enterprise
or Starter, enabling them to provide a broad range of utility computing packages
for various customer needs, from high-end managed services to individual Web
site hosting. Additional benefits of the VSPP include:
High availability: In addition to hosting fully isolated virtual
machines, VMware Infrastructure includes VMware High Availability (HA), which
automatically restarts a virtual machine affected by hardware failure on a
different physical server, ensuring minimal downtime for end users.
Resource optimization: VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS),
another component of VMware Infrastructure, load-balances virtual machines
across the pool of physical servers, in order to accommodate increased customer
demand while ensuring the stability of physical hardware.
Scalability: VMware Infrastructure enables new capacity to be easily
added and removed based on fluctuating customer needs. This is useful for
customers that have seasonal increases in computing demand, such as during
holiday or tax seasons, because they can increase computing resources without
the time and expense required to provision new hardware.
Serviceability: VMware VMotion technology enables non-disruptive
migrations of virtual machines from one physical server to another, ensuring
that hardware can be serviced without any service interruption.
Cost savings: Virtualization enables significant increases in resource
utilization while preserving customization for the customer. This allows hosting
providers to avoid hardware costs, enabling them to provide higher value to
their customers.
More information about the VSPP is available at
www.vmware.com/go/hosting.
About VMware, Inc.
VMware, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC), is the global leader in virtual
infrastructure software for industry-standard systems. The world's largest
companies use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their
existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands.
VMware is based in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit
www.vmware.com or call 650-475-5000.
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