(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Based on customer demand, US telecom Verizon (www.verizon.com) has enhanced its global, on-demand Computing as a Service offering (known as CaaS), providing business customers with better control and flexibility over their computing environments.

According to its Thursday announcement, CaaS clients now have access to server cloning, application and operating system expansion, and expanded networking flexibility.

Server cloning gives IT administrators the option to customize the configuration of a CaaS virtual server and then create a golden, or reference, server image, eliminating the need to manually create the same server image multiple times and lets them rapidly deploy server clones supporting the same corporate application.

With added support for SUSE Linux, the Verizon CaaS platform can be used with commonly deployed enterprise resource planning packages. In addition, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has been added as a “click-to-provision” database server option.

And enterprises are given expanded networking flexibility with virtual router and shared virtual private options including Verizon Private IP for connecting back-end systems to Verizon CaaS via an online portal. In addition, customers can purchase metered, burstable bandwidth up to 1Gbps to meet immediate requirements for temporary computing capacity.

In addition to adding new features, Verizon has successfully completed the first annual SAS 70 Type II examination of controls for its CaaS data centers, demonstrating that Verizon Business has controls and processes in place to manage and monitor its CaaS platform, as well as customers’ critical applications and infrastructure. The SAS70 Type II is part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that governs data center operations and internal controls, and while it was originally intended for the financial services industry, the SAS70 has become a widely recognized auditing standard for evaluating outsourced data center solutions. This evaluation helps to ease concerns customers may have about migrating the delivery of critical IT services to the cloud.

“Verizon CaaS was widely recognized as one of the industry’s most comprehensive cloud-based computing solution for enterprises when it was launched last June,” Verizon Business IT solutions executive director Joseph S. Crawford said in a statement. “With the addition of new features and the completion of the SAS 70 Type II data center audit, we are continuing the investment in our flagship cloud offering as enterprise clients increasingly look to cloud computing to fundamentally change the way they consume IT resources.”  Full Source: TheWhir

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