(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Since virtualization solutions provider VMware (www.vmware.com) launched its latest virtualization platform, vSphere 4, in May, it has been downloaded more than 500,000 times, and the pace has rapidly increased to an average rate of more than 3,660 downloads per day.
According to VMware’s Thursday announcement, its wide adoption shows that the vSphere platform is being used as the foundation for running many businesses’ critical applications in the cloud, providing the agility, cost savings and efficiency required to run business critical applications, along with uncompromised control over application service levels.
“As customers continue to leverage virtualization for business critical applications, what becomes paramount is not just virtualizing server resources but also improving availability, security and scalability for applications,” VMware server business vice president and general manager Raghu Raghuram said in a statement. “VMware vSphere is a proven platform that has consistently delivered optimal performance, security and cost savings to businesses of all sizes.”
Among the half-million downloaders of vSphere, several companies have used this platform to power their offerings. Data center operator and managed services provider Peak 10 (www.peak10.com) deployed VMware’s vSphere 4 platform in September, enhancing its virtualization services infrastructure to give customers the ability to implement internal cloud computing environments with access to external cloud resources.
More recently, managed IT infrastructure services provider Terremark Worldwide (www.terremark.com) announced Thursday that VMware vSphere technologies helped power its new cloud-enabled disaster recovery services, which provide fully secure, pre-provisioned computing and network capacity with advanced data replication and fully managed data center failover.
VMware reports that customers consistently report significant cost savings, including reduction in capital expenditures by up to 60 percent and average reduction in operating costs of 33 percent when comparing their VMware environment to a physical environment. With added performance and scalability, VMware vSphere extends these benefits to all applications, while delivering twice the consolidation ratio of competing offerings.
