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Cloud Computing News -3PAR Announces VMware vStorage Integration With 3PAR Space-Saving Technologies
Jul 13th
Jul 13, 2010 08:00 ET
3PAR’s Plug-In for VMware® VAAI, Support for VMware vSphereTM 4.1 Strengthen Foundation for the Cloud
FREMONT, CA–(Marketwire – July 13, 2010) – 3PAR® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today full support for VMware vSphere™ 4.1 and the development of a new 3PAR plug-in for VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI). Already a leader in providing storage for cloud computing environments, 3PAR is working with VMware to support VAAI in order to deliver advanced server and storage virtualization capabilities to improve virtual infrastructure performance, agility, and scalability for public and private cloud datacenters.
“In building a private cloud, we learned first-hand just how critical it is to deploy VMware vSphere™ on top of an intelligent storage infrastructure that is designed to support server virtualization,” said Jerry Hook, Senior Manager at University of Tennessee Medical Center. “This is exactly what 3PAR delivered, and with the new 3PAR Plug-In for VAAI and integration with VMware vSphere 4.1, we anticipate achieving even higher levels of performance, flexibility and efficiency in our virtual datacenter.”
The new 3PAR plug-in supports three features of VAAI: Hardware Assisted Locking, Block Zero and Full Copy. The 3PAR Plug-in for VAAI and support for VMware vSphere 4.1 deliver the following benefits, targeted for large-scale enterprise and cloud datacenters:
–Greater scalability by preventing VMs from competing for the same resources. Hardware Assisted Locking reduces SCSI reservation contention that can impact performance in large environments. Reducing conflicting resource requests removes a barrier to virtual machine (VM) performance to enable greater VM density and scalability. 3PAR’s unique implementation of Hardware Assisted Locking takes advantage of the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC to handle data comparisons in silicon with significantly higher performance and throughput, which is especially beneficial in large-scale VMware vSphere deployments.
–Increased performance and efficiency by eliminating repetitive write commands. Block Zero offloads large, block-level write operations of zeros to storage hardware, thus reducing server workload. In addition, with the integration of zero-detection capability built into the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC, in combination with 3PAR Thin Persistence software, provisioning is further accelerated while capacity consumption is reduced since zeros are prevented from being written to physical storage.
–Enhanced agility with faster VM cloning and VMware Storage vMotion™. Full Copy increases agility by halving the amount of time required to perform common copy operations like virtual machine cloning and storage workload migrations using VMware Storage vMotion™. This is made possible by allowing the storage hardware to transparently manage large data movements, and by minimizing host, network, and disk I/O activity. With the integration of the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC and 3PAR Thin Persistence software, built-in zero-detection capabilities further speed cloning and storage workload migrations while also delivering a capacity savings benefit.
–New quality of service capabilities via support for VMware Storage I/O Controls (SIOC). VMware’s SIOC implements new quality-of-service controls that automatically ensure that the most important virtual machines receive the desired I/O resources, even in times of congestion. 3PAR Utility Storage supports SIOC to ensure consistent performance levels across all VMs.
“VMware vSphere™ 4.1 represents the next evolution in our industry-leading platform,” says Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. “As part of this release, we are excited to incorporate new storage capabilities and to offer integration opportunities that allow storage partners like 3PAR to elevate the performance, reliability, and scalability of their virtual infrastructures to lay the foundation for cloud computing.”
“Whether internally owned or managed by a cloud service provider, we believe that cloud-based infrastructures enable companies of all sizes to dramatically reduce capital and operating expenses, maintain control over service levels, and increase flexibility,” said David Scott, President and CEO of 3PAR. “We are excited to work with VMware under its VAAI initiative to provide joint customers with advanced capabilities to improve performance, efficiency, and agility to boost VMware vSphere™ ROI in enterprise and cloud datacenters.”
3PAR support for VMware vSphere 4.1 is available today and includes the 3PAR InForm® Operating System, 3PAR Recovery Manager for VMware®, and the 3PAR Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter™ Server. The 3PAR Plug-In for VMware® VAAI will be available in September and is provided at no additional charge.
About 3PAR
3PAR® (NYSE: PAR) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized, dynamically tiered, multi-tenant storage arrays built for public and private cloud computing. Our virtualized storage platform was built from the ground up to be agile and efficient and to eliminate the limitations of traditional storage arrays for utility infrastructures. As a pioneer of thin provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, we design our products to reduce power consumption to help companies meet their green computing initiatives and to cut storage total cost of ownership. 3PAR customers have used our self-managing, efficient, and adaptable utility storage systems to reduce administration time and provisioning complexity, to improve server and storage utilization, and to scale and adapt flexibly in response to continuous growth and changing business needs. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.
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Cloud Linux Named “Best Start-Up” In 2010 For The Cloud Computing World Series
Jul 9th
Award recognizes LVE innovation that can “crash proof” servers in shared hosting environments
Princeton, NJ, July 8, 2010 – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, is the recipient of the 2010 Best Start-Up Award by the The Cloud Computing World Forum in the “World Series” Innovation competition. Cloud Linux received the award for its new innovation on how to “crash proof” servers as hosting providers migrate to a cloud based services model.
CloudLinux was launched in early 2010 and is a new commercially supported operating system proven to increase server density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability. Cloud Linux invented the Lightweight Virtual Environment™ a kernel-level technology that isolates specific hardware resources in a lightweight environment and prevents one tenant on a shared server from affecting others – especially due to a sudden peak load from a single tenant. The technology is designed to eliminate the risks of unstable servers that can undermine businesses’ operations and profitability.
“Seamless migration to a cloud based business model requires a solid infrastructure that can be managed to be made rock solid reliable while optimizing infrastructure assets,” states Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of Cloud Linux Inc. “We built CloudLinux to protect customers from outages often caused because of a lack of control over individual tenants. The last six months have been a great success for us – signing on many partners, including one of the largest shared hosting companies, UK2Group. This award is a rewarding validation of the work we are doing and the team is greatly honored to be receiving the award.” CloudLinux has signed on eighteen datacenter partners, and is installed on more then five hundred servers. It is compatible with all major hosting control panels, including Plesk, cPanel, ISPManager and InterWorx control panel products, as well as with Apache and LiteSpeed web servers. It is also used as a base for Parallels next generation H2E hosting platform. The company’s vision is to design a simple and elegant solution that helps companies improve server security, efficiency, density and performance as they migrate to Cloud-based services.
The Cloud Computing World Forum is sponsoring the Cloud Computing World Series Awards. Winners of the Cloud Computing World Series Awards were announced on June 29th at an award ceremony held at the Olympia Conference Center in London.
For more information about CloudLinux, please visit www.cloudlinux.com
About CloudLinux, Inc.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.
CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.
To join online discussions and receive news updates you can find CloudLinux on: Twitter and LinkedIn. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.
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List of Cloud Platforms, Providers, and Enablers 2010
Feb 25th
Here is another list of cloud players that we’ve come across…
Cloud computing infrastructure tech&solution provider:
- 3Tera – AppLogic grid OS used as cloud computing platform by service providers and enterprises
- Appistry – Cloud computing middleware - Enables easily scalable cloud computing in the enterprise.
- Cassatt – Cassatt Active Response platform enables administrators to set policies to power physical and virtual servers safely on and off and pool their computing resources.
- CloudHan - Cloud tech and infrastructure consultant, in China.
- CloudScale Networks – Cloud enabler. Currently in private ALPHA only
- Joyent – Cloud Infrastructure (Accelerators), and consulting for developers and enterprise.
- nScaled, Inc – Cloud related services such as Migrations, Deployment, Planning, Consulting
- Q-layer – provides software for data centers that enables cloud computing, support VSAN, VLAN, VPDC, currently support VMware ESX.
- Skytap – IaaS service optimized for QA, Training, Demo, and Ops Testing. Supports VMware, Xen hypervisors & Windows, Linux & Solaris OS guests.
- Webscale Solutions – IT Strategy and Consulting on Cloud computing. Specialize in ROI investigations of CC. a CC provider evaluation framework and Enterprise Cloud Roadmap development.
Cloud computing infrastructure provider:
- Agathon Group – Cloud provider. Services include highly available VPS, virtual private datacenters and ready-to-use LAMP stacks. Self-service ordering. Custom development and managed services available.
- Amazon Web Services – Amazon EC2/S3 (Hardware-a-a-S & Cloud Storage)
- CohesiveFT – CohesiveFT Elastic Server Factory – Webservice for assembling full application stacks (contextualization, custom apps, middleware, on top of base configs) with deployment to many virtual and cloud environs.
- ElasticHosts – UK-based instant, on-demand servers in the cloud
- Flexiscale – Another instant provisioner of web servers with some advanced features like auto-scaling coming soon.
- GoGrid – instant, on-demand servers offering “control in the cloud”. Deploy Windows/Linux servers via web-interface in minutes
- GridLayer – Cloud Provider. A service by Layered Technologies that delivers Virtual Private Datacenters and virtual private servers from grids of commodity servers
- LayeredTechnologies - Cloud Provider. provider of on-demand hosting and cloud and utility computing solutions through its brand GridLayer
- ReliaCloud – Deployed within a robust and resilient virtualization environment and architected to maximize uptime and performance. Free benefits include high availability, load balancing, robust APIs, and persistent servers.
- Mosso – Rackspace’s cloud hosting service
- Newservers – Instant provisioning of web servers either Windows or Linux
- Plura Processing – On-demand infrastructure for high-performance computing
Cloud computing PaaS provider:
- Aptana Cloud – Elastic Elastic Application Cloud™ featuring fully stacked and integrated PHP app engines, Ajax/Jaxer app engines, and soon Ruby on Rails app engines — ready to use and ready to scale as you need it.
- Bungee Connect – Provides end to end tools and systems required to develop, deploy and host web applications (Platform as a Service)
- Coherence – Oracle Coherence Data Grid for EC2 and other cloud platforms
- Force.com – Salesforce.com’s application development platform (PaaS)
- GigaSpaces – middleware for the cloud, “cloudware”
- Google AppEngine – (PaaS)Now support python
- Heroku – Ruby on Rails in their Cloud
- Morph Labs – Fully managed, open, elastically-scalable, end-to-end deployment and delivery platform for Ruby on Rails and Java (Jetty, JRuby, Groovy and Grails) web applications. Leverages AWS, but completely abstracts details and complexities from developers.
- Intuit Partner Platform (IPP) – Platform as a Service (PaaS) from Intuit.
- Qrimp – An AJAX based PaaS
- RightScale – RightScale provides a platform and expertise that enable companies to create scalable web applications running on Amazon’s Web Services that are reliable, easy to manage, and cost less
- Stax – Java Platform as a Service
Cloud computing based service provider:
- CAM Solutions – Monitoring-as-a-Service(TM)
- CloudStatus- CloudEnabler. Real-time performance trending of cloud infrastructure (currently AWS).
- DATASiSAR – Cloud Computing technology based consulting & IT Services provider
- Kaavo‘s IMOD is an easy to use online application. Cloud Computing Made Easy.
- Microsoft Mesh
- Nasstar - SaaS provider. Business grade Hosted Desktop service, UK market leaders.
- Nirvanix – Cloud Storage
- TrustSaaS – uptime monitoring and alerting service (‘SaaS Weather Report’) for Software as a Service (SaaS) run by an independent third party.
- UtilityStatus - Utility Computing Platform for SaaS charged in elapsed CPU time running on EC2.
Semantic computing Cloud service provider:
- ThoughtExpress – Generic Enterprise Management Service based in semantics supported by semantic computing cloud to perform enterprise information processing to deliver: BPM, BI, enterprise modelling & semantic human interface without the need to program.
Cloud Security Consultants and Overlay Network Providers
- CohesiveFT – CohesiveFT’s VPN-Cubed products are virtual firewallls, switches, hubs, and routers that are used to build overlay networks in clouds, across clouds, and to connect enterprise data centers to public clouds.
Cloud End-Points:
- XPack - a dedicated cloud end-point from Moderro Technologies. A solid-state, power-saving, VESA mountable desktop appliance with custom desktop environment designed for web applications.
