iland, which provides virtualization and cloud hosting services featuring gosted VMware VI enterprise solutions, managed colocation and high-speed IP bandwidth, reportedly will participate in the so-called “VMware Service Provider Program.”
The program, established by VMware, is part of the vCloud initiative from the company. It’s a framework that allows Service and Hosting Providers to utilize VMware virtualization solutions in a way that combines with their business model. According to VMWare, this generates new opportunities for Providers to offer virtualization enabled solutions.
With iland’s (News - Alert) announcement, customers can access new virtualization-enabled solutions, applications and services. This will allow them to use their hardware resources effectively with the help of VMware virtualization solutions. With this, customers do not have to pay for a dedicated set of servers to run an application. Instead, they can dynamically scale their hardware requirements to match the needs of the application.
“We’re working with VMware to help ensure our clients have access to the latest technology in cloud hosting,” said Brian Ussher, president of iland Internet Solutions. “iland can now leverage the large range of applications that run on the VMware platform as well as the 1,000-plus appliances in the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace. Now, deploying new applications to the cloud or on premise is fast, easy and affordable.”
In a standard cloud computing program, applications need be built specifically to a single cloud computing platform and require complete rewrites of existing applications. But with iland’s VMware solutions, various existing applications can be run simultaneously in a VMware-based infrastructure cloud without modification.
In November, as TMCnet reported, the company started helping companies looking to reduce infrastructure costs and stabilize monthly IT budgets with its Cloud Services. With the help of iCS, iland can create a snapshot of a customer’s physical environment and then encapsulate these systems and applications into virtual machines.
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Edited by Michael Dinan