Virtustream Enables Federation of Enterprise-Class Clouds

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge. Author: Mike Vizard.

One of the biggest issues that any IT organization has with cloud computing is a loss of the sense of control they have over those resources. As part of an effort to restore that sense of control, Virtustream, with the release of version 3.0 of its xStream cloud management software, is giving customers the ability to more granularly control application workloads running on any public or private cloud.

Virtustream CEO and CTO Kevin Reid says the company’s xStream software carves cloud resources into defined units of compute, memory, storage and networking resources using Micro-VM technology that presents the IT organization with a logical abstraction of those physical resources…

With the addition of support for the open source OpenStack cloud management in this release, Virtustream is making it possible to deploy xStream on local private clouds in addition to the public cloud service it offers. Reid says the end goal is to allow IT organizations to have maximum control over their IT supply chain regardless where IT infrastructure is located. As the first instantiation of that strategy, Virtustream previously announced that IBM has licensed xStream to make the SAP HANA in-memory computing platform available on its SoftLayer cloud service…

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