Savvis, a provider of outsourced internet infrastructure services for the enterprise, has previewed its new cloud compute platform, Project Spirit, to power enterprise-class Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) with multi-tiered Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities.
The company said that cloud infrastructure is a style of application infrastructure in which scalable resources are provided as a service. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the ‘cloud’ that supports them. Project Spirit focuses on virtual data center provisioning that extends beyond the application deployment designs available in many cloud service offerings.
The company claimed that key advancements in Project Spirit will include increased automation enabling transition from creating virtual machines to being able to create a virtual data center at the push of a button. It further claimed that cloud compute, storage, security and network layers will be fully virtualised delivering more features faster at lower costs. Its VPDC, powered by the new cloud compute platform, will feature increased capacity to flex to higher levels more rapidly than current offerings.
Savvis added that the new platform will offer multiple grades of user selectable QoS levels via its portal and enforced by QoS controls. The new cloud platform will deliver enterprise-grade cloud services that offer security practices previously used only in IT environments such as firewalling, file integrity monitoring and intrusion detection/prevention services.
Bryan Doerr, chief technology officer of Savvis, said: In terms of cloud services for the enterprise, we are moving from a world of limited user controls, to a world of complete virtual data center provisioning with advanced user design in the portal. Our next generation cloud services and resulting virtual private data center will, for the first time, enable push button web application hosting for the enterprise.
Savvis expects to launch the beta version of the new offering later this year.
