Rackspace Hosting today announced enterprise-class support of dedicated virtualised servers as part of its ongoing virtualisation initiative in EMEA. The virtualisation platform, built on VMware's third-generation virtualisation software suite, maximises hardware investment with better utilisation of servers through virtual machines.
The virtualisation platform will enable businesses that experience high growth or fluctuations in capacity to quickly meet these demands by making scaling easier through rapid Virtual Machine provisioning, said Rackspace spokesperson for the South African market, Geoff Dowell.
Dowell added that the service also provides easy access to a stable and secure virtualised environment and is supported by the Rackspace brand of customer service, Fanatical Support.
Rackspace MD EMEA, Brian Thomson, said: "We work closely with our customers on the type of products they need to help their business work more efficiently, and are excited to announce a virtualisation platform that will provide greater flexibility to meet performance and capacity needs.
"Customers who were looking to adopt virtualisation told us that security was a concern, so we have developed our virtual servers to provide protection against unanticipated traffic spikes and security breaches. This enables customers to gain all the benefits of virtualisation, while reducing the associated risks."
The virtualisation platform will be based on dedicated physical hardware for each customer and include the option of hybrid virtual and physical hosted environments. It will support mission-critical production systems and provide benefits, including server consolidation, data protection and on-demand provisioning.
Rackspace's US operation launched a virtualisation offering earlier this year and has a number of virtual machines under management globally, using the virtualisation infrastructure for internal IT operations as well as in its cloud hosting division, Mosso and e-mail hosting division, Mailtrust. Virtualisation is a highly complex technology, but Rackspace's team of VMware certified engineers provides customers with the technical expertise needed to design and leverage a virtualised system.
Thomson added: "Virtualisation is still an evolving technology, and we believe this is just the beginning for Rackspace. Our RackLabs research and development department continues to work with partners such as VMware, Microsoft and XenSource to make generational leaps in the virtualisation hosting arena. We expect future releases of Rackspace Virtualisation Hosting to include enhanced disaster recovery, storage and scaling capabilities." http://www.rackspace.co.za/?other=PR_ITWeb3 or www.rackspace.co.uk
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