SunGard, one of the more venerable IT software-and-service companies,
announced March 22 that it is expanding its Cisco Systems Unified Computing
System (UCS)-based private-cloud computing platform to offer high availability
for application delivery and data recovery services in North America.
The new enterprise-level package, administered by SunGard Availability
Services, will become available in the United
Kingdom and in North America in the second half of 2010.
SunGard is the first service provider to build and launch an enterprise cloud platform using the Vblock infrastructure, a
preconfigured cloud architecture/hardware/services package introduced
by Cisco in November 2009. EMC provides the
storage and security (Clariion arrays, RSA-based
security), and its subsidiary, VMware, handles the virtualization layer with
vSphere.
Cisco, of course, handles all the networking through its new multipurpose Nexus
1000v network server and its Multilayer Director switches.
SunGard Availability Services has
offered a fully managed private-cloud service—without the two new
features—in
the UK for
about a year, formerly called SunGard-as-a-Service.
SunGard, with a lengthy legacy installation base of Fortune 1000 customers,
brands the product as its own, provides general services, and adds its own
enterprise-level high-availability and data recovery features.
Private cloud computing is a different take on the mainstream version (known as
the public cloud) in that smaller, cloudlike IT systems within a firewall offer
similar services but to a closed internal network. This network may include corporate
or division offices, other companies that are also business partners,
raw-material suppliers, resellers, production-chain entities and other
organizations intimately connected with a corporate mothership.
For more information, go here.
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