Unisys moves Forward to cut cloud computing costs
October 7, 2013
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Rene Millman.
Unisys has unveiled its latest enterprise computing platform, which is aimed at helping large firms and cloud service providers cut physical server requirements by up to 70 per cent. Dubbed Forward, the platform combines Unisys’ security partitioning technology (S-Par) with Intel’s Xeon virtualisation technology to give organisations a flexible computing fabric to handle mission-critical workloads.
The company said the platform, available in December, would be ideal for organisations looking to move away from expensive Unix environments to Linux and Windows-based ones. Furthermore, the platform is reportedly capable of handling secure cloud and big data workloads, according to Unisys, and can cut down on server sprawl by consolidating datacentre resources…
In tandem with the launch, the firm is also offering consulting services – including planning, design and implementation – as well as services for specific use cases. For example, Unix-to-Linux applications migration, SAP applications and platform migration, and datacentre consolidation…
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