(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Adding to the flood of announcements issuing from VMworld (www.vmworld.com) in San Francisco this week, data center operator and managed services provider Peak 10 (www.peak10.com) announced that it has deployed VMware's vSphere 4 platform, enhancing its virtualization services infrastructure.
In a press release issued Monday, Peak 10 says the platform "further enables customers to implement internal cloud computing environments with access to external cloud resources."
Peak 10 says the platform enables it to offer customers pools of virtualized resources that federate between on- and off-premise environments on demand. The interoperability of hosted and on-premise VMware virtualized environments is an attribute that has been mentioned repeatedly in announcements from the event this week.
"IT teams face increasing pressure to implement more cost-effective solutions for their IT infrastructures, and because we have always offered technology solutions for business problems, vSphere 4 helps us better support their goal," says Monty Blight, the vice president of managed services at Peak 10, quoted in the company's announcement. "Many customers have strongly expressed their reluctance to re-develop their applications for the cloud, and vSphere 4 eliminates that issue."
According to Peak 10, deploying the vSphere 4 platform provides the company's customers with an enhanced set of features that includes twice as many virtual processors per virtual machine, four times the memory, a threefold increase in network throughput and additional SAN tiers.
Customers of Peak 10's private cloud product will be able to use vSphere upgrade checks, health checks, capacity planning, dedicated resource pools and other functions.
