Auckland. 21 November 2011. Datacom is live across its data centres with VMware’s vCloud® Powered service offering - giving customers the capability to move services, applications and data quickly and easily between in-house cloud infrastructure and Datacom’s data centres.
Datacom’s Auckland Director of IT Management, Scott Green, says the new VMware vCloud®-based service provides customers with a new order of flexibility in moving workloads in and out of the cloud to achieve the most cost-effective balance of infrastructure resources.
Datacom’s service is housed in three enterprise-class data centres across New Zealand. Datacom also provides its VMware vCloud Powered service in its data centres in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane for those customers looking to leverage Datacom’s Trans-Tasman capability.
VMware New Zealand General Manager Tim Dacombe-Bird says Datacom is now accredited as both a Premier-level VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) partner and a Premier-level Solution Provider partner. Datacom’s cloud services are also validated under the VMware vCloud Powered program.
“We’re delighted that Datacom has moved so quickly to implement VMware vCloud® Powered services. We see this as a major step forward in providing VMware customers with an automated and seamless environment where customers can deploy workloads in their existing VMware environments, or Datacom’s Cloud, and migrate workloads between them as needed. Datacom is a leader in bringing the benefits of VMware vCloud Powered services to VMware customers in the ANZ region,” Tim Dacombe-Bird says.
Datacom’s Scott Green says that delivering its IaaS offering on the VMware vCloud technology stack, including the VMware vCloud API, is important, particularly to their enterprise customers. He says the VMware vCloud architecture provides an elegant framework for Datacom to host virtual servers on its IaaS platform while giving customers agility and control. But the more significant capability is workload mobility between an internal private cloud and a public cloud.
“Before now, creating a private cloud out of internal, virtual infrastructure resources and then connecting it to a public cloud for additional resources, has not been practicably possible,” Green says. “VMware vCloud Connector provides the missing pieces required to connect resources together across private and public infrastructures and manage them through a single interface.”