June 7, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – VMware, Inc. (http://www.vmware.com/) has launched the VMware Service Provider Program which allows web hosting providers to bring Virtual Infrastructure offerings to market, it was announced yesterday. The VSPP incorporates a new licensing model that makes the VMware Infrastructure suite available to hosting providers on a per-virtual machine, per-month basis. With this new program, hosting providers can easily develop their own customized virtual infrastructure as service offerings that "rent" VMware virtual machine capacity to end customers.
Virtual infrastructure as a service offers significant benefits compared to traditional hosting offerings that provide dedicated servers or shared hosting. Dedicated server offerings often lead to long-term capacity over-commitment and lack of flexibility, while the VSPP enables hosting providers to offer "utility computing" services, which allow end customers to instantaneously add or reduce their hosted virtual infrastructure capacity to align with event-driven demand. With shared hosting, single operating system instances are partitioned, forcing customers into one-size- fits-all computing models that lack full isolation from one another. VMware hosted virtual machines are fully isolated-if one virtual machine crashes, others remain available-and they can be easily tailored to the particular needs of every application.
With the VSPP, hosting providers can enable end customers to benefit from hosted virtual infrastructure that is more highly available and robust than traditional hosted services. Hosting providers benefit from the ability to differentiate themselves through innovative new offerings and better service level agreements while increasing resource utilization and internal efficiency.
"The VSPP opens new doors for managed service providers to reinvent hosting services and reach new customers of all sizes," explained Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing at VMware, Mr. Raghu Raghuram. "The added flexibility and availability of VMware Infrastructure as a service enables hosting providers to offer their customers immediate access to the proven benefits of virtual infrastructure as easily as flipping on an electric switch. Hosting customers can now rely on production system availability not possible with traditional hosted offerings, as well as automatic data and systems protection and rapid recovery from failures, while paying only for the computing capacity they require at the time."
