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PrimaCloud Taps Xsigo I/O Director For Cloud Strategy

August 26, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

PrimaCloud announced today that it has deployed the Xsigo I/O Director as the foundation of its data center interconnect strategy.

The Xsigo I/O Director enables PrimaCloud to break the barriers of I/O throughput seen in existing cloud computing offerings, allowing end customers to experience application performance levels that would previously have been achievable only in purpose-built private datacenters. Additionally, Xsigo’s virtual I/O infrastructure allows PrimaCloud to automatically provision cost-effective virtual private datacenters for its customers within minutes.

With three years of experience providing cloud computing under the ENKI name, PrimaCloud management was seeing an increasing number of enterprise clients running database and transaction-intensive applications — such as Oracle — which required multi-gigabit connections to the vLAN and NAS storage to avoid I/O contention. In these applications the bandwidth required per virtual machine exceeded 3Gb/sec, which meant that a single cloud server running ten virtual machines required over 30Gb/sec total I/O bandwidth. Only Xsigo virtual I/O, with dual redundant 20Gb/sec I/O connections per server, provided the required performance. The Xsigo I/O Director’s low-latency bandwidth also serves to take maximum advantage of PrimaCloud’s SSD-cached NAS systems to delivery outstanding application throughput.

PrimaCloud’s automatically managed, hypervisor-agnostic cloud architecture requires a high level of automation to create and manage virtual private datacenters (VPDCs). The Xsigo I/O Director is able to automatically provision and manage virtual I/O and VLANs associated with virtual instances running VMWare ESX, Citrix, HyperV, and 3Tera’s AppLogic, under the control of PrimaCloud’s implementation of Enigmatec’s EMS, a cross-platform, policy-based automation engine. Using EMS to configure the I/O Director eliminates manual labor in managing VPDCs, as well as permitting automatic scaling of VPDCs to respond to changes in load, resulting in significant end-customer cost savings.

Xsigo virtual I/O is a critical element of the reference datacenter architecture PrimaCloud uses to deliver on the promise of cloud computing: cost-effective, on-demand computing delivered on a pay-as-you-go-basis while meeting enterprise requirements for performance and uptime. The simplicity of deploying Xsigo Virtual I/O has enabled PrimaCloud’s reference architecture to be deployed in any one of its 65 datacenters worldwide for public, or hosted private cloud computing, as well as at customer sites.

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Enigmatec Automates Cloud Provisioning Services at PrimaCloud

August 4, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

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.

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PrimaCloud Deploys Xsigo Virtual I/O To Deliver Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing

July 21, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

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%.

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