VMWare puts US$20m in cloud partner, Terremark
Virtualisation pioneer, VMWare, has invested US$20 million in cloud start up Terremark, which uses the company’s software as part of its enterprise cloud offering. According to a statement by Terremark, VMWare’s investment consists of the purchase of 4 million Terremark stock at US$5 each, representing 5% of the company.
Terremark is one of several service providers in VMWare’s vCloud initiative, which ensures that applications developed on VMWare’s platforms inside a corporate IT environment, will run the same way on a cloud infrastructure.
Here is a map of Terremark’s data centres
Here is a description of Terremark on VMWare’s vCloud partner page:
Terremark Enterprise Cloud
Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud, a revolutionary managed cloud computing platform for mission-critical applications, combines the agility and scalability of cloud computing with world-class datacenter and computing infrastructure, allowing enterprises to meet the real-time needs of their business with greater agility and economy than ever before. At the center of The Enterprise Cloud is an easy-to-use web application that allows customers to dynamically provision, configure, deploy and manage servers in just minutes. Terremark’s 30 day free trials allows customers to try the full functionality of the Enterprise Cloud experience. Each trial includes 5GHz of computing, 10GB of memory, 100GB of high performance storage, and a multi-segment private/secure network that allows customers test their applications in an self service virtual environment.
Other vCloud partners include CloudNine, iTricity, Tata Communications and many others.
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Category: Cloud computing, Data centres, Green ICT
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