managed cloud computing

Enigmatec Corporation Limited has announced that managed cloud computing pioneer PrimaCloud will deploy Enigmatec’s run book automation software for provisioning and management of its customers’ virtual private datacenters (VPDCs) in the cloud.

In addition to automating the deployment and lifecycle management of complex cloud applications, PrimaCloud will utilize Enigmatec’s Workload Management (AWM) and Disaster Recovery (ADR) solutions to offer its customers automatically scalable enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure featuring greater than 99.99 percent uptime.

Adding run book automation capability to its managed cloud computing service enhances PrimaCloud’s capability to provide dynamic, real-time orchestration of the crucial IT components for their customer’s virtual application infrastructure. PrimaCloud’s customers in turn can realize cloud computing’s benefits of minimizing staffing and reducing capital expense.

Enigmatec’s run book automation technology links together the IT management, provisioning and support tools customers use today and provides a powerful distributed workflow platform in which to design and deploy new workflows for IT operations. Automation of these tasks is critical to the cost effective and rapid creation and management of a new virtual application environment as a utility within the cloud. Enigmatec’s dynamic provisioning enables cloud computing providers to rapidly flex IT resources to meet demand and fulfil the promises of improved service, SLA’s and the cost reductions customers expect from cloud computing.

Xsigo Systems announced today that PrimaCloud, a leading managed cloud computing services provider, has deployed the Xsigo I/O Director as the foundation of its new service offering.

The virtual I/O architecture allows customers to provision a complete virtual private data center in just five minutes, a task that would otherwise require days or weeks. With Xsigo, PrimaCloud maintains 99.99% uptime at 50% less cost and in 85% less physical data center space than would otherwise be possible. Capital and operational cost savings enabled by Xsigo virtual I/O are expected to exceed $1 million in the company’s first year of operation.

Xsigo virtual I/O allowed PrimaCloud to deploy a fault-tolerant architecture based on highly-dense, quad server systems that package 48 processing cores within a compact 2U high chassis, reducing data center space requirements by 85% compared with conventional 4U high servers. By providing 40 Gb of bandwidth to each server while consuming only two PCI slots, Xsigo virtual I/O allowed PrimaCloud to deliver superior performance from more than 200 virtual machines per 2U system, a compute density that is believed to be the industry’s highest.

Xsigo virtual I/O was deployed in conjunction with VMware ESX software and Enigmatec’s EMS cross-platform policy-based automation solution. The combination allows configuration changes to be completed entirely in software — either manually or automatically — eliminating the need to visit the data center. When adding physical server resources, installation only requires connecting two I/O cables, reducing configuration time by 90%.