Virtustream Peddles Clouds for All Occasions
June 24, 2012
Virtustream wants to move mission-critical legacy apps to the cloud where they’ll be 60% cheaper to run on-demand especially since they won’t have to be rewritten.
So it’s put out xStream 2.0, an update, which is supposed to move both web-scale applications and legacy applications to a public, private or enterprise-class hybrid cloud take your pick. Stuff, it says, you can’t do on Amazon.
It’s for the enterprise and solution providers…
For the effort they’re supposed to get enterprise-class security and compliance, application SLAs, consumption-based billing and our old friend cloud efficiency, pretty much the whole point of the exercise.
xStream uses a patented so-called µVM technology that’s supposed to assure application performance by dynamically pooling compute, memory, storage and network resources. Under the covers xStream is a macro hypervisor that works with other people’s virtualization software and µVM to deliver optimal multi-tenant virtualization by application.
That means "true" consumption-based pricing and chargebacks, so enterprises only pay for the resources that they actually use – in five-minute increments no less. It claims it’s 25% cheaper than Amazon.
xStream 2.0 comes as software, a standalone appliance and a managed service, take your pick.
It’s supposed to concoct hybrid clouds so people use a tailored mix of on-site private clouds, combined with off-site public and virtual private clouds. It says this concoction of onsite private clouds, offsite virtual private/public clouds and managed cloud services can be controlled as a single hybrid cloud.
xStream provides multi-tiered logical and physical cloud security, in depth threat monitoring and silicon-level authentication with Intel TxT.
It’s also supposed to have all the very best certifications: NIST 800-53 (Federal), DIACAP, ICD503 (Defense), FISMA (Government), G-Cloud (U.K. Government), SSAE16 (Audit), ISO27001 (Service), HIPAA (Healthcare), PCI (e-commerce), SAS70 (Audit) and ODCA.
xStream is available in three editions:
- xStream Private Cloud – allows enterprises to run private clouds in existing data centers
- xStream Public Cloud – for service providers to offer enterprise-class cloud services to their customers
- xStream Virtual Private Cloud – provides a full set of managed cloud services for enterprises from Virtustream’s own cloud
The company says it’s moved more than 500 enterprises to the cloud including Domino Foods.
It recently closed a B funding round from Columbia Capital, Intel Capital, Noro Moseley Partners, QuestMark Partners and TDF bringing total equity raised to $75 million.
It says it’s going to resell some of the capacity it frees up like they do on Spot Exchange so it doesn’t have to keep building out its infrastructure worldwide. If you remember Virtustream bought Enomaly a while back and Enomaly came up with SpotCloud for reselling capacity.
Virtustream is also beholden to Enomaly’s ECP or Elastic Computing Platform.