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| Rackspace Adds Virtualisation to IT Hosting Portfolio in EMEA Rackspace Hosting announces enterprise-class support of dedicated virtualised servers as part of its ongoing virtualisation initiative in EMEA. The virtualisation platform, built on VMware's third-generation virtualisation software suite, maximises hardware investment with better utilisation of servers through virtual machines. The virtualisation platform will enable businesses that experience high growth or fluctuations in capacity to quickly meet these demands, by making scaling easier through rapid Virtual Machine provisioning. The service also provides easy access to a stable and secure virtualised environment and is supported by Rackspace's brand of customer service, Fanatical Support. The virtualisation platform will be based on dedicated physical hardware for each customer and include the option of hybrid virtual and physical hosted environments. It will support mission-critical production systems and provide benefits including server consolidation, data protection and on-demand provisioning. Rackspace's US operation launched a virtualisation offering earlier this year and has a number of virtual machines under management globally, using the virtualisation infrastructure for internal IT operations as well as in its cloud hosting division, Mosso and email hosting division, Mailtrust. Virtualisation is a highly-complex technology, but Rackspace's team of VMware Certified Engineers provides customers with the technical expertise needed to design and leverage a virtualised system. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |