Eucalyptus Systems Partners with Wipro Infotech to bring Private Cloud IaaS to India, Africa and the Middle East
Today began with HUGE news announcing that Wipro Infotech, the leading technology solutions and consulting company in India, Africa and the Middle East has entered into a strategic partnership with Eucalyptus Systems, creator of the most widely deployed Enterprise on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) Cloud Platform.
Selected excerpts from the official press release are below. You can read the fill press release here.
Cloud computing is enabling enterprises of today to vary their asset footprint and build scalable designs that respond to market needs. As a part of the collaboration, Wipro Infotech will offer the Eucalyptus' Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution as part of its end-to-end enterprise cloud computing offering. Wipro will provide integrated solutions for planning, building, and managing scalable, elastic cloud services for enterprises.
"Our partnership with Wipro will provide customers with the expertise to quickly deploy reliable, cost-effective on-premise clouds," said Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. "As one of the world's leading IT consulting organizations, Wipro provides a 'one-stop shop' for customers looking to architect their applications and infrastructure for the cloud. This partnership will play an important role in enabling enterprises to transform their IT operations so that they have the flexibility and scalability to meet business demands."
As part of the Eucalyptus - Wipro partnership, the companies plan to deploy a cloud computing Center of Excellence (CoE). The CoE is a Wipro hosted Eucalyptus cloud computing environment specifically designed to allow customers to easily and securely test cloud services, migrate current applications, and rapidly develop and deploy new cloud applications.
"Eucalyptus provides an enterprise ready, open source cloud platform that will serve as a core part of our complete technology-and-services cloud computing solutions. We strongly believe in our partnership with Eucalyptus as they have enabled the deployment of over 25,000 clouds in more than 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies. This expertise will help Wipro customers optimize spend and increase business agility in increasingly competitive markets," said Achuthan Nair, Sr. Vice President & Business Head - Professional Services Division, Wipro Infotech.
Wipro and Eucalyptus will hold a Webinar on "How to Transform Enterprise Applications to On-premise Clouds with Wipro and Eucalyptus" on Wednesday, March 14 at 8:30 pm PT / Thursday, March 15 at 10:00 am IST. To register, please visit: http://www.eucalyptus.com/webinar/wipro-eucalyptus-webinar.
Successful CA World 2011 Yields New Opportunities for ScaleMatrix and Cloud Commons
ScaleMatrix leverages leading cloud technology events to attract new clients, while driving cloud adoption through support of the “Cloud Commons” ecosystem.
November saw more than 6000 IT management experts descend on the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas for one of the year’s largest cloud technology events: CA World 2011. ScaleMatrix, a Bronze Level event sponsor and strategic partner of CA Technologies, joined a variety of industry leading solutions experts and thousands of enterprise class end users to exchange insights on various CA products and platforms, with specific emphasis on the Private Cloud platform, “CA AppLogic™.”
As one of the key infrastructure partners for CA Technologies, ScaleMatrix used the event as the official launch platform for their “Cloud in a Box™” mobile compute platform. This revolutionary offering simplifies the deployment of Private Cloud infrastructure by combining servers, cloud software, networking hardware, and HVAC/Fire Suppression, all within a mobile and proprietary ScaleMatrix high density, self-contained server rack. “We couldn’t think of a better venue or audience to debut the Cloud in a Box™ platform”, said Chief Sales & Marketing Officer Chris Orlando. “In a convention center, you don’t have access to racks, cooling, or infrastructure support – so the Cloud in a Box™ platform was ideal for housing the extensive infrastructure CA needed to run the CA World show floor and numerous product demonstrations”, Orlando said.
Attendees enjoyed numerous exhibitions, in addition to a number of key breakout sessions which included presentations from ScaleMatrix CEO Mark Ortenzi. As an established leader in the AppLogic Private Cloud revolution, ScaleMatrix presentations centered about the flexibility and feature sets offered by AppLogic. Mark said, “Events like these are great, because our team gets the opportunity to engage with such a wide variety of end users and service providers. One of the beauties of AppLogic is that the feature set and pricing model naturally lend itself to so many different scenarios. Our team walked away from the event with new opportunities from both the SMB and Enterprise space, as well a number of Service Providers looking to “quick-start” their entrance into the cloud space. “
Additional show highlights included the much-heralded launch of the Cloud Commons Marketplace and Developer Studio. This one-stop-shop for Building, Buying and Selling Enterprise Class Cloud Solutions contains a wide variety of resources for those navigating the cloud landscape. The site aims to become “the” resource destination for cloud aficionados, including those looking to take a more detailed look at the CA AppLogic platform. As such, ScaleMatrix infrastructure and professional services offerings are part of the available options visitors can choose from within the Cloud Commons Marketplace. These offerings can be seen in the Cloud Commons Marketplace or viewed here.
A common takeaway from the CA World 2011 event was the need for turnkey solutions which allow IT organizations to more easily leverage Cloud technology. Solutions need to be easily integrated and when possible should include readily available business use cases to support them. The pre-configured options available from ScaleMatrix through the Cloud Commons Marketplace answers this call, and allows clients to test-drive these highly scalable cloud solutions before they buy.
About ScaleMatrix
ScaleMatrix takes an infrastructure-based approach to providing best-in-class cloud solutions to clients at every stage of their IT Lifecycle development. By investing heavily in both facilities and personnel, and developing strategic relationships with critical hardware, software, and support service vendors – we are able to offer our clients industry leading solutions which include design, deployment, and ongoing management as part of our standard offering. For additional information, visit ScaleMatrix at www.scalematrix.com.
Contact:
James Heller
Director of Marketing, ScaleMatrix
858.633.4306
james@scalematrix.com
Building a Private Cloud with Intel Xeon processors and VMware vCloud Director
This is a good video from Intel and VMware on how to setup your own Private Cloud with Intel Xeon hardware and the VMware product stack. Long gone are the days where provisioning servers for a new project take weeks or months. Now you can automate many of the mundane tasks of deployment and offer higher levels of service to your internal 'customers.' IT as a Service is big in todays largest businesses and VMware is enabling large enterprise, small and medium businesses to offer the same service stacks to their users. Check out the video below and leave some comments on what you think about the combination of these two products.
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