This is the second webcast in our Private Cloud Computing Infrastructure series. In case you missed it, the on-demand webcast is now available for viewing. Click here.
The webcast gives you an overview of how Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center empower hosters to deliver managed hosting, cloud services, and on-demand virtualized IT infrastructures. You can learn how the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters makes it easy for them to get on this inevitable path. This free, extensible toolkit provides guidance, sample code, and best practices that make it easy to build and launch on-demand infrastructures and cloud services for your customers.
View the webcast recording to see what the toolkit is composed of, how it works, who is using it, and how it can help you.
Coming up next month on December 11th is the third webcast of the series titled ‘Building a Private Cloud with the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises’. Register now for the webcast.
Hello, I'm Ryan Jones, Virtualization Product Manager at MaximumASP. We provide managed hosting services on the Microsoft platform to over 50,000 domains in 120 countries.
MaxV and Microsoft’s Platform with Hyper-V, System Center and Dynamic Data Center Toolkit Provides Our Customers Flexibility of the Cloud.
Twelve short months ago, we launched MaxV, the world's first low cost, highly available, instantly scalable virtual dedicated server. By collaborating with Microsoft and implementing the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit, we were able to provide the flexibility of the cloud, but without the pain of application re-architecture or developer re-training. In addition, we were able to provide our customers with a ‘single pane of glass’, which unified the System Center suite into a single dashboard, to monitor their hosted infrastructure at MaximumASP.
Customer response was remarkable - their hosted IT infrastructure was finally agile enough to meet the ever changing needs of their businesses. Their servers were always available, by leveraging Failover Clustering, with no code changes. They could add additional servers, or upgrade between predefined device configurations, with little more than a server reboot. And since capacity could be added easily, their IT costs tracked demand for IT services.
The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit was a valuable resource for the rapid deployment of the MaxV platform. The toolkit and customer-driven feedback were the leading forces in product development – Dominic Foster, CTO.
Upcoming MaxV R2 Alongwith Full Integration of Microsoft’s Hyper-V, Virtual Machine Manager and Dynamic Data Center Toolkit Addresses the Growing Customer Needs.
Order Delivery Time Reduced By 50%. Support Costs Decreased By 75%. Consolidation Ratios Increased By 10%. Zero Maintenance Downtime. Reduced Power Consumption. Reduced Cost of Delivering Service.
The needs of our customers are continuing to grow. Clients now demand the ability to purchase processor, memory, and storage resources independently of one another. Individuals also want to be able to purchase larger virtual instances, and they want them more quickly than ever. We turned to the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit, and its updated Virtual Machine Manager content, to kick start development of MaxV R2.
With MaxV R2, and its full integration of Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager, customers are able to configure custom virtual servers with a la carte pricing. In addition, customers are able to receive their custom MaxV R2 instance in up to 50% less time than with the initial MaxV offering. During maintenance windows, customers experience no downtime, with the advent of Live Migration in Hyper-V and Maintenance Mode in Virtual Machine Manager.
In addition to providing significantly improved services on the R2 platform, we have also been able to significantly reduce support costs. Our virtual machine provisioning code was decreased by over 75%. With clustered shared volumes and improved memory management in Windows Server 2008, consolidation ratios have increased by 10%. Power Management technologies, including Core Parking and Core Affinity, have also significantly reduced the power consumption of the MaxV infrastructure, lowering the costs of delivering the service, and decreasing environmental impact.
Ultimately, by leveraging the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit, and its regular updates, MaximumASP has been able to provide new products and services which meet the changing demands of the marketplace, while decreasing both product development and operating expenses.
MaximumASP was a pilot partner during the development of the DDTK-H, and is a charter member of the Dynamic Data Center Alliance.
ISA Technologies is a privately owned West Australian Company and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. We have been operating for more than 20 years and specialize in Microsoft Consulting and Professional Services, Microsoft based Software Development, Network Services Consultancy, Managed Services and High Performance Computing.
ISA and Microsoft Partnership will deliver end-to-end service offerings through the cloud and at a lower total cost of ownership
ISA’s expertise in High Performance Computing, our customer demand for virtualized cloud services and our partnership with Microsoft have come together to define a number of new commercial offerings; including Virtual Managed Hosting, Software as a Service Applications, and Cloud Computing.
These new offerings are built using the Microsoft platform approach and the service will combine ISA’s HPC data centre infrastructure across two data centers in Perth and Bunbury; which include a total of over 600 cores. The leveraged Microsoft platform includes the Dynamic Data Centre Tool Kit, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008 and System Center.
We are aiming to take advantage of Microsoft’s complete platform approach and Cloud Computing and Virtualization vision, to offer customers a commercially viable and cloud based solution for hosting, software delivery and their entire IT infrastructure, if they require it.
We see the application of the Microsoft Platform in this instance as limitless and the opportunities for virtual hosting, application delivery and cloud computing are only bound by the requirements of individual customers. The Microsoft platform approach allows ISA to provide end to end service offerings through the cloud and a lower total cost of ownership.
What are the current needs in the market?
In the market place today, we believe that there is a genuine requirement for hosted serviced compute space based on the Virtualized model; especially as real estate becomes more and more of a premium to organizations throughout the globe. We also believe that there is an opportunity for applications to be delivered through the Software as a Service model; to enable customers to leverage technologies and literally turn them on and off as they please (although we prefer they turn them on!).
How will the needs be met through the Microsoft platform?
This will be delivered on Microsoft’s platform; a platform that ISA has chosen because:
ü It offers, through the Dynamic Data Centre Toolkit and System Center, a secure and flexible infrastructure for the delivery of new services;
ü It offers a complete set of components including Hyper V, System Center, Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server, to lower the overall cost of delivery and overall support costs; and
ü It offers ISA a familiar environment to work and develop new offerings.
Blog post by: Toby Hill, Account Manager, ISA Technologies
Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters: Foundation for a Partner-Hosted Cloud
This is the second webcast in our series. The first webcast was 'A Beginner’s Guide to Building the Foundation for a Cloud Computing Infrastructure'. In case you missed it, you can view the on-demand webcast.
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center empower hosters to deliver managed hosting, cloud services, and on-demand virtualized IT infrastructures. The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters makes it easy for hosters to get on this inevitable path. This free, extensible toolkit provides guidance, sample code, and best practices that make it easy to build and launch on-demand infrastructures and cloud services to your customers.
Attend this webcast to see what the toolkit is composed of, how the toolkit works, who is using the toolkit, and how it can help you.
Date: Monday, November 16, 2009
Time: 10:00 am to 11:00 am Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Presenter: Hameed Mohammed, Industry Manager – Microsoft Communications Sector
Level: 300
Register today for the webcast!
Server Deployment cut by 1,000 hours a month. Data Center savings of up to $2 million annually. Faster time-to-market with cloud offerings.
Hostway Corporation is one of the world’s largest Web hosting companies, providing a full range of Internet services to 2 million direct and indirect customers worldwide. To curb server proliferation, reduce hardware and setup costs, and improve availability, the Hostway Enterprise Services division used the Windows Server® 2008 R2 Data Center operating system, the Hyper-V™ technology, Microsoft® System Center Data Center solutions, and the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters to create an on-demand, dedicated virtual server offering.
With the new platform, Hostway will slash server deployment work by up to 1,000 hours a month and expects hardware and electrical costs to drop by nearly U.S. $2 million annually. Hostway was also able to cut 60 to 90 days from its product introduction cycle and get to market sooner with a cost-effective offering that boasts 100 percent uptime.
A key reason we went with Microsoft was the totality of its solution, including tools like the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters. Microsoft brought together everything we needed in a cohesive package. Thanks to the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit, we were able to launch our Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) service with nearly zero programming - Joe Young, Senior Windows Administrator, Hostway.
One of the factors that influenced Hostway’s decision for Windows Server 2008 R2 was the targeted virtualization and “cloud” computing deployment assistance that Microsoft provides. Cloud computing refers to hosting and managing applications and services through Internet-based data centers, and it is becoming a popular deployment option in the hosting business.
The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters brings all Microsoft virtualization and cloud technologies together in one place. Having this package was a huge help for me; otherwise, I would have been running down documents on the Internet – Joe Young.
The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters provides step-by-step guidance, sample code, best practices, and collateral to help hosting providers rapidly build and launch managed services powered by Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center data center solutions. It even provides advice for hosting partners in marketing and selling managed services and solutions.
Read the complete case study
Reliance Data Center, a part of Reliance Communications (RCom), has launched a hosted infrastructure service based on the Microsoft platform for Enterprises and Small & Medium businesses (SMBs) in India.
Reliance Cloud Computing Services
The new service, 'Reliance Cloud Computing Services', will initially be offered from their Mumbai data centers. Currently, RCom has nine data centers across the country, occupying around 6.5 lakh square feet of hosting space. The Rs. 2,900-crore Reliance Data Center division has also managed to command 60 percent market share.
To begin with, RCom will provide virtual hosting services and has created service schemes depending on computing resource requirements. Over the course of the year, Reliance Data Center will enable enterprises and SMBs in India to gain access to a variety of enterprise scale IT solutions, applications and services on the pay-as-you-go model.
Based on Microsoft Platform and Technologies
Reliance Cloud Computing Services are based on Microsoft's virtualization and management technologies, and the hosting service is made possible through the Dynamic Data Centre Toolkit, which is a tool for leveraging virtualization infrastructure on Windows Server 2008 R2. This is also being complemented by System Center Operations Manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager, to create managed services and partner hosted cloud offerings.
Read full article here.
We broadcast the first webcast of our Private Cloud series on October 20th titled 'A Beginner’s Guide to Building the Foundation for a Cloud Computing Infrastructure'. In case you missed it, the on-demand webcast is now available for viewing. Click here.
The webcast gives you an overview of Microsoft’s cloud computing infrastructure strategy and how it can help customers’ lower costs while improving agility within their data centers. It talks about the latest technologies, tools, and resources that make it possible for you to build the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure in your customer’s environment.
At your convenience, you can also learn about the two extensible service offerings: Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters (available now!) which enables hosting partners to offer managed servers in a hosted environment; and Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises (availability scheduled in the first half of 2010) which enables data centers to dynamically pool, allocate, and manage resources to enable IT as a service.
Don’t miss it! View the webcast here.
Coming up next month is the second webcast of the series on November 16th titled ‘Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters: Foundation for a Partner-Hosted Cloud’. Register now for the webcast.
Dear Hosters of the World:
Customers looking for hosting are moving away slowly from dealing with physical servers, customer support phone calls, cabling, scripting, extra capacity, maintaining application infrastructure and all such pre-historic necessities. They need hosting services that wrap around their business seamlessly versus the other way round.
How does that break down on your side?
It means one or more of the following:
o You have relevant services, offers for your target market.
o Your infrastructure is a well oiled, flexible machine running at max utilization.
o Efficient and effective processes are in place.
o Every touch point takes customers a notch up the loyalty ladder with you. Not towards your competitor.
What is it that enables the above and more?
Well ... a hint. Just think of 5 hosters that are doing great according to you. See how they are able to remain nimble and grow. You will see one clear pattern.
They have superior ‘Business-driven IT Infrastructure’ in place - to enable services; to maintain optimized infrastructure and processes; to help provide great customer service and more.
Look at the hosting industry. It is where the Airlines were in the early 70’s - similar potential, similar challenges. Investment in IT is one of the keys for your future survival and growth.
Read this extract from the book ‘Business-driven Information Technology: Answers to 100 critical questions’, by David R. Laube and Raymond F. Zamm. It brings forth some interesting points on how IT has transformed the entire Airline industry, and how it still continues to do so. “The original intent was to develop an inventory management system to reduce clerical costs. However, American Airlines discovered that information captured by the system was invaluable in managing passenger service levels, aircraft capacity, baggage handling, food and fuel requirements etc. etc. As American Airlines continued to experiment, it found new competitive uses of its IT, such as extending the reach into travel agents’ offices in the 70s, using the information to develop sophisticated pricing models.” Today that system called SABRE forms a backbone for even the web based travel sites we use, as consumers.
Just pause for a moment here. Think about how you can transform your business by bringing in resources on board that can help you remain relevant, through IT.
It is ironic. Hosters help run sophisticated IT applications for their customers, but an overwhelming majority of hosters themselves are not taking advantage of IT for their own business.
There is no standard dosage of IT. Too much of IT at once is dangerous too. If you use a spreadsheet today, see how you can take advantage of the easy-to-use SharePoint to automate workflows. If you have a patchwork of applications for provisioning, billing and customer support, step back and see how a little integration can transform the way you take orders, provision services and support your customers. Act today! Take a step - even if it is a small one. But start moving in that direction. You will be amazed at the ROI.
Microsoft has resources you can tap into: templates, guides, IT business models, relevant code samples and more. I will elaborate on that in my next post.
Hameed Mohammed, Industry Manager, Microsoft Communications Sector
Microsoft India Hosting Days, October 28th 2009, Hotel Taj Lands End, Mumbai, India
Join us for the Microsoft India Hosting Days. Learn about cutting edge technologies and business models to deliver online services to your customers. Network with key industry professionals and Microsoft executives. Register Now!
Technical Session, 10:00 am to 1:20 pm
We will talk about how you would get most out of an Optimized Web platform for service delivery using ASP.NET, IIS, SQL. We will also talk about core backend Infrastructure solutions that run & manage a Data Center and improving user experience with rich internet applications.
Who Should Attend: Technical Decisions Makers, Infrastructure IT Professionals, Architects & Web Developers.
Business Session, 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
In this session we will talk Data Center Strategy and everything that goes into building and managing a Data Center. Then, hear us and partners talk about how we would make this real: leverage Microsoft platforms to build SaaS applications, partnership programs and monetize this opportunity
Who Should Attend: Business Decision Makers, Technical Decisions Makers, CXOs of Hosters, End Customers, System Integrators.
Keynote & Panel Sessions, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
In this concluding session, Microsoft India Managing Director Rajan Anandan will talk about our Software + Services Strategy. This will be followed by a Panel Discussion moderated by Frost & Sullivan. The Panel will drive thought leadership and strategy discussion with Business Leaders from Hosting companies, end customers and policy makers on the online business
Who Should Attend: Business Decision Makers, Technical Decisions Makers, CXOs of Hosters, End Customers, System Integrators.
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In my previous post I introduced our upcoming Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for the Enterprise (DDTK-E) and the benefits it offers Enterprise customers and System Integrators. Today I would like to reveal some of the opportunities the DDTK-E presents for our Hardware Partners.
The DDTK-E is designed to extend the most common VM provisioning actions to take advantage of hardware specific functionality, and to assign existing datacenter infrastructure resource pools to a requested workload. To this end, we have been working closely with some of the leading hardware manufacturers to enable their unique functionality through hardware-specific PowerShell commandlets.
Extensibility - VM Provisioning Actions
Consider the simple action of creating a VM. When taking advantage of rapid-provisioning features as provided in a SAN-enabled environment, a number of customized tasks must be performed prior to, and after the actual creation of the VM as defined by SCVMM, such as creating a LUN, assigning a LUN, etc. These tasks are captured in an administrator-configured XML file which, at runtime, executes the default and partner-specific tasks in their proper sequence to enable the advanced hardware features. Think of what this means for your data center assets: the seamless enablement of the unique, high-powered, differentiating features, you have come to appreciate in your hardware.
The Opportunity - What does this mean for our Hardware Partners?
For our Hardware Partners the story is simple. PowerShell-enabled technologies can be leveraged and automated via DDTK-E’s extensibility. We are asking our partners to identify and validate the atomic-level tasks that need to be executed in order to perform the most common provisioning actions. We then work closely with these partners to perform as much parallel validation as possible. Once these PS scripts are validated, our customers are provided with a link to a Hardware Partner’s script, which they can download and leverage in a DDTK-E driven environment. Stay tuned! There is more to come.
Luis Camara Manoel is Group Program Manager in the Microsoft’s Solution Accelerators team.
This is the first webcast in our series. It will give you an overview of Microsoft’s cloud computing infrastructure strategy and how it can help customers’ lower costs while improving agility within their data centers. Find out how the latest technologies, tools, and resources make it possible for you to build the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure in your customer’s environment.
Learn about the two extensible service offerings: Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters (available now!) which enables hosting partners to offer managed servers in a hosted environment; and Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises (availability scheduled in the first half of 2010) which enables data centers to dynamically pool, allocate, and manage resources to enable IT as a service.
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Time: 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Presenter: Isaac Roybal, Product Manager - Microsoft Virtualization Marketing
Register today for the webcast!
Richard Campbell and Greg Hughes from RunAs Radio talked to Isaac Roybal, Product Manager in Microsoft’s Virtualization Marketing team about Microsoft’s efforts in creating Private Cloud technologies. Private Cloud focuses on using cloud technologies - within the organization's firewall. Isaac talked about how Microsoft has been using its own cloud technology internally for PSS and digs into the Dynamic Data Center Toolkits for Hosters and Enterprise. Check out the interview here.
RunAs Radio is a weekly Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals working with Microsoft products.
Hello, I’m Randall Robinson, CIO & GM Operations of RackForce. As part of our Dynamic Dedicated Server (DDS) vision, we recently launched ddsCloud. It enables computing resources - memory (RAM), processing (CPU) and data storage (SAN) - to be throttled up or down independently of each other - perhaps and unique and best choice for many businesses.
Speedy delivery to our customers. Ease of managing resources. All at a fraction of the cost!
We deliver a highly-available enterprise-class server to our customers within minutes of their order - a task that not all that long ago would have taken hours or even days - and at a fraction of the cost to boot.
This incredibly dynamic model is powered through best-in-class virtualization technologies (MS Server 2008 R2 - Hyper V), high-availability clustering and enterprise grade hardware configured in a robust and scalable cloud infrastructure environment and then we manage it all with Microsoft's System Center suite of tools (SCVMM, SCOM, SCCM).
With our ddsCloud, RAM and other essential computing resources can be increased (or reduced) on the fly and with almost zero impact. In addition to saving time and meeting critical business needs when they're needed, customers don't need to "over buy" in order to ensure they have the capacity to handle sudden or explosive growth so it also saves our customers money.
Microsoft’s Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters helps real-time provisioning & modification of resources
With help from the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters, the ddsCloud's road map includes building on these capabilities so we can provision and modify resources automatically in real-time at the customer's request, all from within the RackForce Customer Service Center portal. The customer will be able to right-size resources to suit their requirements at any given time and make changes at a moment's notice.
Another important piece of the puzzle, and one that is quite unique to RackForce, is our scalable and green infrastructure. After all how scalable can a solution be if the infrastructure behind the solution is not designed to be equally scalable and sustainable right? Our new GigaCenter is a 30,000 SF ultra-green data center (you can tell we're all pretty proud of it) that's designed for maximum efficiency and scalability. We project that the ddsCloud delivered from GigaCenter will have a carbon footprint that is only 2% of that created in a traditional data center. And that is a staggering difference!
Hello. My name is Luis Camara Manoel. I am a Group Program Manager in the Microsoft’s Solution Accelerators team. I would like to introduce the upcoming Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for the Enterprise (DDTK-E) which my team is building, and show you how it benefits Enterprise customers and Systems Integrators. This is the first of a series of blog posts. In my next post, I’ll tell you how Technology Partners can plug in and leverage it in their own product offerings.
Why Should You Care?
Simply because DDTK-E is built to extend what our Technology Partners and Systems Integrators do best; build first class data centers while we give business unit IT managers the flexibility and control they crave to manage their own ever-changing environments.
So What Is DDTK-E?
In a nutshell, think of it as a set of FREE tools to enable data centers to dynamically pool, allocate and manage resources to enable IT infrastructure as a service. To be clearer, there two main component areas:
1. Guidance: To help SIs and Enterprise assess IT infrastructure readiness to build a dynamic data center. We’ll help them plan, deliver, operate, and manage the infrastructure they need to support the dynamic data center.
2. Automation
a) Portals for on-boarding a new organization and infrastructure request, managing a virtual environment, and accessing reports.
b) A light-weight provisioning engine designed to be extensible to leverage our technology partners’ products.
c) A SQL DB where we store information about the users, their environments, and the technologies they use in their infrastructure, etc.
Under The Hood
In building DDTK-E, we are integrating Microsoft’s latest and greatest technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V R2, and SCVMM 2008 R2.
How Would An Enterprise Customer Use DDTK-E?
A common scenario could include a business unit IT manager (BUIT) that needs an application to be built, so he goes to a portal where he captures the IT requirements for this new workload. These requirements may include compute, storage, and network assets, as well as specific VM profiles they wish to use. The data center administrator (DC Admin) then gets notified of the request, checks for the availability of resources in the data center, and assigns them to the requested workload. Once ready, the request is approved and the BUIT can access a self-service portal, where he can now take full control of the environment he custom built for his workload. Here he can create VMs, start them, stop them, delete them, etc. etc. etc. as well as access valuable reports regarding his application.
To summarize:
1. BUIT on-boards application capturing requirements for workload.
2. DC Admin assigns appropriate compute, network and storage resources.
3. BUIT accesses Self-Service Portal where he has full control of the environment.
4. BUIT accesses reports regarding his workloads, costs etc.
How Would A Systems Integrator Use DDTK-E?
SIs can approach their accounts to help them assess their infrastructure readiness before deploying the DDTK-E. For this purpose we are providing SIs with fabric readiness guidance that describes the infrastructure they need. Another gem in this toolkit is our Microsoft Assessment and Planning tool, which SI’s can use to automatically, and without the help of local agents, discover and inventory enterprise assets, and generate proposals for the deployment of DDTK-E. And did I mention, both DDTK-E and MAP are free?
Look out for my next post about the great opportunities DDTK-E presents for our Hardware partners, as well as its extensibility story.
Stay tuned!
Luis Camara Manoel
Hello, I’m Jess Coburn, Founder and CEO of Applied Innovations (www.appliedi.net), and I would like to share with you why we deployed the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters. Applied Innovations specializes in Windows Hosting, and was founded in 1999 to offer affordable, cost effective, scalable and reliable web hosting that would allow small to medium sized businesses grow and compete in the online marketplace. These fundamental goals have really been the cornerstone of our company and how we help more than 25,000 businesses succeed on the Internet today.
When working with a customer, our first objective is to gain a full understanding of their business and business needs. We then deliver a customized solution that helps them address and overcome those needs to become successful. In taking this approach, we transcend the traditional relationship of client and vendor and become their online business partner. For our customers and all businesses today, the #1 concern is to reduce costs without sacrificing their own success.
Where does Microsoft’s Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters come in?
As a web hosting provider and the online business partner of our customers, it is our responsibility to help them solve such problems.
So the issue we were faced with was: How do we reduce overall costs for our customers and yet provide them the flexibility and scalability required to remain competitive online? And, do this without sacrificing our own profitability!
This is where the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters comes in and why it has become one of our core product offerings.
When our team was first introduced the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters, we knew immediately that this solution, if leveraged properly, could allow us to reduce costs and increase profitability.
What does the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters offer us?
As proposed, the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters offered us:
· The ability to offer high availability to a larger range of customers and affordably build hardware fail-over clustering using Windows Server 2008 Clustering Services. Allowing us to further meet our 100% Uptime SLA!
· The ability to provide a fully managed solution and at the same time reduce the costs of administration by leveraging System Center operations manager and System Center Virtual Machine Manager to provide centralized management and monitoring. Allowing us to reduce our own costs and increase profitability.
· The ability to provide best in class management of software updates and reporting to the customers by making use of System Center configuration manager. Providing both us and the customer peace of mind knowing that their servers were always up to date with the latest security and software patches.
· And finally, by integrating Data Protection Manager (DPM) we’re able to integrate automatic backups and guarantee our customers reliable and timely backups and restores.
So what’s been the result of deploying the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters, for our customers?
As a result of deploying the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters, our clients have gained the flexibility to dynamically scale their CPU, memory and storage as their needs changes and can adjust their hosted IT infrastructure and costs in response to the dynamic changes of their business. Our customers have been able to reduce costs without sacrificing scale and we’ve been able to provide this service and remain extremely profitable.
The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters is a strategic competitive advantage for ourselves and our customers and I encourage any hoster looking to provide this same level of flexibility to take a look at it.
Thanks!
Jess
