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| Carrenza Launches Utility Computing Service Carrenza has launched its new Utility Computing Service (UCS). This solution not only supplies an enterprise level hosting platform, it is a truly scalable and flexible solution. Providing like for like services, this solution enables companies that require significant computing resources to cut their data centre power usage by over 60% per cent and their carbon footprint by up to 50%. Approximately 23 per cent of the IT industry's global carbon dioxide emissions are generated by the power needed to run and cool servers in data centres (Source: Gartner, October 2007). Carrenza's UCS has been designed to help businesses reduce their environmental impact by making more efficient use of virtual servers. Using UCS, four or more virtual servers can use the same hardware footprint as one traditional server. This allows the reduction of much of the switching and network infrastructure necessitated by duplicate networks running side-by-side in Co-location. Carrenza's UCS utilises virtual technology to offer a truly scalable enterprise hosting solution. It uses dedicated networked virtual servers to provide businesses with the servers, service levels and resources they require to power their organisation without them needing to buy or manage a hardware platform. Additionally, businesses can exceed the number and size of servers, the amount of storage, and the bandwidth agreed as required, without excessive financial penalties and without any changes to their contract. Carrenza UCS is developed to fit the unique needs of each individual client. Carrenza's consulting team work with the client to shape the technical solution and the commercial model for the service and then to deploy the required technology. Once installed Carrenza manages the hardware, the support, the hosting, the internet connectivity, the data centre, and the security to ensure a robust platform that guarantees business-critical operations and is fully scalable. UCS is a bespoke service; Carrenza uses a range of hardware to ensure it meets the needs of its customers businesses with UCS. The company offers virtual machines with between one and eight cores using AMD or Intel x86 64Bit processors. Each virtual machine (VM) currently runs between 2GB – 16GB of RAM on either Xen or VMWare virtual platforms with virtualisation based on Microsoft Server 2008 arriving shortly. The use of virtual machines means that each organisation's processing power is run by servers dedicated to them, eliminating the risk of reduced performance associated with co-location hosting methods. Carrenza has invested significantly in its data centres and infrastructure to ensure that customer data is secure and comprehensively robust. Each location has 24 hour on site security and full disaster recovery capabilities. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |