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Big Cloud Savings, Even Bigger Promises

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Appirio, a newer cloud hosting startup promises to save companies $1 million on IT, or it will make up the difference.

“We’re putting our money where our mouth is,” Nichols said in announcing the initiative April 22. “We think this guarantee will encourage companies to take their cloud adoption to the next level. Running your business 100% in the cloud is different than piecemeal adoption.” To be eligible, as company must currently be spending at least $5 million a year on IT, move its whole infrastructure from on-premises to in the cloud, and have more than 500 employees.

Appirio itself is a 200-employee company in Mountain View, Calif. “Our experience operating as a serverless enterprise gives us confidence that a million dollars in savings is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Nichols. Customers include the City of Los Angeles, IMS Health, Motorola, Qualcomm, Rehab Care, Diversey, Avago and the Japan Post Network.

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Next week sees the release of Ubuntu Server in the Cloud

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Canonical a large deliverer of Ubuntu, the world’s best free software platform has now entered the Cloud Server World.  As of next week the will release the Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS all on the cloud.

Very ironic that Canonical who has never been in the space enters to be a  cloud company and is going to jump out front and center this coming Tuesday, when Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS is officially released. With this release comes the formal inclusion of a cloud toolset.  Something that will be very attractive to enterprise customers who are looking to get into the cloud computing arena.  This will be the third LTS version of Ubuntu that’s been released.

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Parallels Virtuozzo

Monday, April 26th, 2010
“…we found the performance of Virtuozzo Containers to be the best. We still use other virtualization solutions in our lab environment, but Virtuozzo is the only software we use for production servers. 

– Lukas Loesche,
Director of IT Operations, Arvato Mobile

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.6 for Windows BETA

We have a lot of challenges in today’s cloud computing world such as server commissioning & retirement, maintenance of operating systems and manual deployment of applications.

Parallels offers a wide range of virtualization solutions to help you unravel these challenges and provide your organization with the ability to:

  • Maximize investment in your existing infrastructure
  • Simplify operations
  • Manage your environment from a single management console
  • Move & respond to your business faster

Other features of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers include:

  • Intelligent Partitioning

    Small footprint of virtual servers and lightening fast management operations

  • Dynamic Resource Management

    Automatic or administrator-defined control over system resources

  • Mass Management

    Centralized management of virtual environment

  • Live Migration (Linux version only)

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is an operating system virtualization solution that harnesses the full power of your IT infrastructure by increasing the utilization of existing servers by 2X–3X over hypervisor solutions. With today’s lean budgets, higher utilization of your existing servers represents cost savings not only in maintenance and energy costs but also from the potential elimination of new server expenditures.

Virtualization at the host operating system provides a lean, efficient virtualization layer that enables higher density ratios of virtual servers to physical servers along with complete isolation between workloads. This isolation allows multiple workloads to exist across business silos without one workload affecting the performance and security of any other.

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