Sunday 14 March 2010
Terremark
Terremark Worldwide, Inc., a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced it is the first service provider to offer hosting services for SAP® solutions on its cloud computing platform. Through its innovative Enterprise Cloud infrastructure, Terremark will be able to leverage its secure, top-tier data centers with access to massive and diverse network connectivity to provide customers a new, cost-effective model for hosting their SAP solutions in a live production environment.
“Terremark’s hosting services will offer several benefits to both small and large SAP customers,” said Michael Ressemann, global head of BPO Solution Delivery and Partner Enablement at SAP. “Our partnership with Terremark will provide customers the ability to experience significant cost savings, while not having to sacrifice the reliability of their hosted SAP applications.”
Powered by the VMware virtualization platform, the Enterprise Cloud allows customers to dynamically provision servers for their SAP solutions from a pre-allocated pool of dedicated computing resources. The Enterprise Cloud also provides a flexible “burst mode” that allows clients to access additional computing power as needed. Customers can also access Terremark’s managed security services, which protect the business-critical applications running in customer environments with a variety of highly sophisticated security measures, including comprehensive vulnerability assessments, log aggregation and event correlation, network session flow analysis, attack replay, and application firewall management.
“We are actively leveraging Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud to offer comprehensive solutions to users of SAP solutions,” said Dean Adamopoulos, CEO of Protera Technologies, one of the leading providers of hosting and consulting services in support of SAP solutions for Fortune 1000 clients worldwide. “As an SAP-certified provider of application management services, it was vital for us to find a cloud solution that met all of the requirements for reliability and security that our clients demand.”
At the center of Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud is an easy-to-use web application that allows customers to configure and provision servers in minutes, grouped and organized according to role, and dynamically extend their available resources according to utilization. A variety of preconfigured server roles are available across Microsoft Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris operating systems. Plug-and-play bandwidth on demand is available from more than 160 global carriers.
“As cloud computing continues to gain momentum in the marketplace, the ability to deliver business -critical applications like SAP solutions is key to helping customers fully leverage the cloud,” said Dan Chu, vice president, emerging products and markets, VMware. “Supporting an SAP solution landscape that anticipates peak demand can require significant compute resources, which may be underutilized during normal load periods. So we’re excited that Terremark, a VMware vCloud partner, is working with SAP to provide our joint customers cost-effective, secure on-demand access to SAP solutions, leveraging technology that dynamically expands computing power only as needed. This collaboration allows customers to reduce total cost of ownership and to shift their focus toward business innovation and driving faster solutions to their business problems, instead of managing infrastructures.”
“Our commitment to continuously adding more and more innovative capabilities to our platform helps to maintain the Enterprise Cloud’s leadership position in the cloud computing marketplace,” said Marvin Wheeler, Terremark’s COO and president of the U.S. Commercial Business Unit. “We’re excited about the additional opportunities we believe will arise from our unique ability to offer hosting of SAP solutions from the pre-eminent enterprise-class cloud computing platform.”
VMware vSphere 4 Training
Recognizing that the vast majority of corporations have adopted VMware virtualization technologies to optimize performance while reducing costs, Batky-Howell has introduced a vendor-neutral, four-day VMware vSphere 4 course as a private training delivery, available immediately. The all-inclusive training event includes training at the client’s site, all the necessary course and lab materials, and individual access to an ESX server - providing an intense, hands-on learning experience.
VMware vSphere 4 encompasses a new suite of products that provides enhanced scalability, flexibility and reliability for server virtualization and opens the door to cloud computing. With VMware vSphere 4, data centers can deliver computing resources in an agile and cost-effective way.
The vendor-neutral aspect of this course ensures that students are exposed to both VMware and third-party tools, eliminating bias towards VMware-specific or endorsed products. The classroom lab will share a cluster of ESX Servers, a variety of different storage solutions (SAN, NAS, ISCI, local) as needed, a variety of third-party tools, and access to many pre-configured Virtual Machines, including Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, and Ubuntu. Each student will perform lab exercises using their own ESX Server and a Windows Server Workstation.
“This course is an extremely affordable and intense learning option compared to authorized VMware vSphere training. Over 70% of class time is devoted to live-lab exercises, ensuring students leave the course with a comprehensive, real-world knowledge of ESX Server, vCenter, and Virtual Machine Architecture, as well as advanced management techniques,” said, Bruce Batky, CEO.
A four-day Advanced vSphere training course and a three-day course specific to VMware View Manager 3 will be announced as available for private delivery shortly. In addition, Batky-Howell will continue to offer their VMware Infrastructure 3 Install, Configure, and Advanced Management course as a private training event for those organizations who have yet to migrate to the VMware vSphere platform.
About Batky-Howell, LLC
Since 1989, Batky-Howell has specialized in providing education and skill development of IT professionals, including software developers, programmers, system administrators and database administrators. Over 43,000 students have been trained by Batky-Howell in 3,200 courses - ranging from introductory HTML to advanced topics in UNIX, Java, Oracle, VMware, .NET, and more. Flexible training delivery options allow Batky-Howell to offer customers a cost-effective solution in a private or virtual classroom setting.
The Top Virtualization Solutions people are looking for in 2009
This is the summary of Survey conducted by onCloudComputing.com in which the participants were asked only one simple question “What they are looking for in 2009 in relation to Virtualization”. So we can also call the following as “Virtualization Trends 2009”
1. Windows Virtualization
Windows takes advantage of virtualization assistance in hardware that is based on Intel Virtualization Technology and AMD “Pacifica.” By doing this, Windows virtualization enables workloads such as server consolidation, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application rehosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions.
2. Server Virtualization
Server virtualization is the masking of server resources, including the number and identity of individual physical servers, processors, and operating systems, from server users. The server administrator uses a software application to divide one physical server into multiple isolated virtual environments. The virtual environments are sometimes called virtual private servers, but they are also known as partitions, guests, instances, containers or emulations
3. VMware Virtualization
An automated datacenter, built on a VMware virtualization platform, lets you respond to market dynamics faster and more efficiently than ever before. VMware vSphere delivers resources, applications—even servers—when and where they’re needed. VMware customers typically save 50-70% on overall IT costs by consolidating their resource pools and delivering highly available machines with VMware vSphere.
4. Intel Virtualization
Increasing manageability, security, and flexibility in IT environments, virtualization technologies like hardware-assisted Intel Virtualization Technology combined with software-based virtualization solutions provide maximum system utilization by consolidating multiple environments into a single server or PC
5. Virtualization Software
Virtualization software allows a single host computer to create and run one or more virtual environments. Virtualization software is most often used to emulate a complete computer system in order to allow a guest operating system to be run, for example allowing Linux to run as a guest on top of a PC that is natively running a Microsoft Windows operating system.
6. Microsoft Virtualization
Microsoft virtualization enables workloads such as server consolidation, efficient software development and testing, resource management for dynamic data centers, application rehosting and compatibility, and high-availability partitions.
7. Hardware Virtualization
Hardware virtualization is when the virtual machine manager is embedded in the circuits of a hardware component instead of being called up from a third-party software application. The virtual machine manager is called a hypervisor. The job of the hypervisor is to control processor, memory and other firmware resources.
8. Application Virtualization
Application virtualization (also known as application portability or application service virtualization) is the practice of running software from a remote server rather than on the user’s computer. Application virtualization is an umbrella term that describes software technologies that improve portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed.
9. Xen Virtualization
The Xen hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows, Linux, Solaris, and various versions of the BSD operating systems
10. Windows 7 Virtualization
With Windows Server 2008 now shipping with hypervisor-based virtualization capabilities, it’s obvious that this technology will be making its way to the Windows client as well. Will it happen in time for Windows 7? Yes, it probably will. But Windows 7 will natively support the VHD virtual hard drive format utilized by Virtual PC and Hyper-V regardless.
Other popular Virtualization Solutions
Windows Xp Virtualization
Bios Virtualization
AMD Virtualization
Virtual PC
Virtualization Open Source
OS Virtualization
Cisco Virtualization
Oracle Virtualization
Fedora Virtualization
Centos virtualization
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