NWC News Network, Sept. 4 2008, 1700 hrs
Datacraft, has announced its tie-up with VMware whereby it will provide a broad range of datacenter virtualization and consolidation services, based on VMware’s datacenter virtualization and management suite, for clients throughout Asia Pacific. The new partnership enables the solution provider to address the growing need among businesses for more efficient server utilization and reduced datacenter footprint, in the face of mounting pressure to cut costs, reduce energy consumption, and minimise environmental impact.
According to Andy Cocks, Datacraft’s Director for Solutions and Alliance, datacenters in many Asian companies are getting increasingly crowded, as corresponding new servers are added, resulting in challenges such as limited floor space, inadequate server cooling, slow application provisioning, ineffective backup and disaster recovery and low server utilization rates.
“By working with VMware, we are now able to address our clients’ datacenter virtualization requirements more holistically. Its platform allows us to help companies more easily manage the operations of their datacenters. This process results in greater efficiency and allows the number of servers in a data centre to be consolidated thereby saving money, space and increasing capacity for future growth,” said Cocks.
“We are pleased to be working with Datacraft to implement server virtualization for its extensive clientele across 13 countries in Asia Pacific,” said Manish Sharma, Senior Director, VMware.
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