Adopting VMware’s cloud middleware for enterprises with diverse workloads

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Meredith Courtemanche.

Savvis, a data center colocation and cloud computing company, launched its enterprise cloud services on VMware virtualization tools and a middleware solution that Savvis developed in-house. In 2012, Savvis switched to vCloud Director, VMware’s cloud middleware.

Jonathan King, VP of cloud solutions at Town & Country, Mo.-based Savvis, a CenturyLink company, describes what vCloud Director added to their cloud capabilities, how enterprises use cloud — including AWS — and what the next step is after enterprises adopt cloud…

Could you describe Savvis’ cloud infrastructure?

Jonathan King: Last year, we offered savvisdirect based on [Citrix] Xen for SMBs, and we continue to offer Savvis Symphony based on VMware for enterprises. Symphony VPDC is a multi-tenant public cloud hosted from multiple locations, including Singapore; Frankfurt, Germany; Toronto; and several U.S. data centers. We also offer Symphony Dedicated — private cloud on demand — from all of these data centers as well as over 20 more…

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