(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Through its extensive network of partners, data center consulting firm International Computerware (www.iciamerica.com) has introduced vCube, what its calls “the first partner driven data center solutions platform,” which offers process driven modular architecture built on proven technologies, allowing users to build economical, reliable, and tailor-made private clouds.
According to its Wednesday announcement, there are two vCube offerings immediately available for data center deployments, Infrastructure as a Service vCube and Desktop as a Service vCube. Both offerings allow organizations to easily manage their own internal private clouds. The vCube design was developed around ICI’s intellectual property and experience in data center architecture, and integration using its proven consulting methodology, nCubed: Now, Next, Nirvana.
The vCube data center solutions platform is comprised of servers, switches, unified storage, virtualization, monitoring, information protection, and other modular components creating a simplified, flexible, and customer configurable solution. ICI has also included best-of-breed technologies such as Akorri’s (www.akorri.com) BalancePoint for the IaaS vCube, and Liquidware Labs’ (www.liquidwarelabs.com) Stratusphere and ProfileUnity for the DaaS vCube.
“As we enter into a new era of IT, technology is changing at an even faster rate and cloud computing has become a viable solution to contain costs and share compute resources and applications,” ICI chief technology officer Brad Maltz said in a statement. “Organizations must now be able to understand the concepts of the private cloud, public cloud, and hosted clouds and understand how they can take advantage of this paradigm shift in computing.
“This is where ICI’s vCube becomes a solution accelerator and technology enabler,” Maltz continued. “The concept of the private cloud is to create a service offering from the internal IT department where a standardized, manageable, and simplified integration of technologies is needed to power the private cloud. The vCube was developed to enable customers to take their first steps towards a federated and cloud computing model.”
Existing HP, Dell, and Cisco servers, and Brocade and Cisco switches can be incorporated into nCube configurations, eliminating the risk of compromising a client’s existing data center partnerships. The initial vCube offerings consists of VMware’s (www.vmware.com) vSphere virtualization platform, Apparent Networks (www.apparentnetworks.com) PathView Network Monitoring Solution, EMC (www.emc.com) Unified Storage, EMC Information Protection Modules (Avamar or Data Domain), and APC (www.apc.com) rack and power equipment. All vCubes are racked, configured, and tested at ICI’s Innovation Facility in Marlborough, Massachusetts.
“We’re very pleased that ICI selected our PathView products as the basis for the integrated network management capabilities in both of their new vCube offerings,” Apparent Networks business development vice president Keith Bartlett said in a statement. “It demonstrates ICI’s commitment to bringing the best array of technologies to bear on customers’ IT challenges. With PathView functionality, ICI customers get an entirely new dimension of network visibility and problem solving capabilities. They get clear sight lines from the desktop to the data center across virtual and physical resources. These new capabilities provide an added level of operational surety that is increasingly important to customers transitioning to cloud-based services.”
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