AMD SeaMicro Servers Will Power New Verizon Cloud
October 8, 2013
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: John Rath.
Seeking to optimize for speed and performance, Verizon will use AMD SeaMicro SM15000 servers to link hundreds of cores together in a single system to power its new Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud platform and cloud-based object storage service. Verizon and AMD co-developed additional hardware and software technology on the SM15000 server that provides unprecedented performance and best-in-class reliability backed by enterprise-level service level agreements (SLAs).
“Verizon created the enterprise cloud, now we’re recreating it,” said John Stratton, president of Verizon Enterprise Solutions. “This is the revolution in cloud services that enterprises have been calling for. We took feedback from our enterprise clients across the globe and built a new cloud platform from the bottom up to deliver the attributes they require.”…
In 2011 Verizon acquired Terremark, whose Enterprise Cloud offering made it an early leader in the corporate cloud computing space. With its new offering, Verizon has re-engineered the infrastructure and software driving the platform…
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