Verizon takes on big game with new enterprise IaaS
October 6, 2013
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
The new Verizon Cloud, which entered public beta last week, has some big game in its sights. Verizon CTO John Considine said the cloud offers the scale of a huge cloud but without the “noisy neighbor” issues associated with other public clouds (read: Amazon Web Services). Noisy neighbor happens when one customer’s cloud workload on shared infrastructure sucks up most of the resources impacting other jobs on the same infrastructure.
Verizon Cloud builds on work by CloudSwitch a company Verizon acquired in 2011 again optimized version of the Xen hypervisor. And Considine said it will run existing VMware workloads – an important consideration given that VMware virtualization dominates in corporate server rooms. for more on the guts of the system and its prospects check out Gartner cloud guru Lydia Leong’s take…
Considine said Verizon will continue to support and sell its existing VMware-oriented Terremark cloud offerings — but it’s clear what its priority is now. This effort represents a further, serious fraying of VMware’s relationships with service providers and telcos. VMware, as we all know, is now offering its own public cloud services that compete with such partners…
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