Our Intel Partnership
Virtustream and Intel have been working with global IT and ecosystem leaders to identify next-generation cloud computing needs and ease your adoption to cloud services. Delivering technology for tomorrow’s cloud today, Virtustream is working with Intel to create cloud services that work for you.
Recent advances in both hardware and software have enabled new usage models for networking, federation among multi-tenant servers, power management, and security that are shaping the infrastructure for both private and public cloud computing. In order to take advantage of these new use models, Virtustream has worked extensively with Intel on capabilities like hardware-assisted virtualization performance, trusted compute pools, unified networking and policy-based power management.
To learn more about the Virtustream and Intel, please read this case study with Domino Sugar (Click Here) or watch the following Virtustream - Intel webcast below on September 8th at 9 am Pacific (Click Here).
Below are a list of capabilities and technologies that Virtustream has worked with Intel on:
- Automatically regulate power consumption and intelligently adjust server performance: Regulate power and make adjustments according to your cloud’s workload needs, maximizing both energy efficiency and performance, with servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processors. These servers include hardware-assisted virtualization that enable increased virtual machine performance when customers use Virtustream’s cloud service. Learn more about how Domino Sugar doubled performance within their SAP environment while also reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 40 percent by using the Virtustream cloud platform powered by Intel Xeon processors. Read More.
- Secure your cloud service with hardware-assisted encryption: The latest Intel® Xeon® processors also include processor instructions called Intel® AES-NI that enable pervasive encryption for Virtustream’s customers by significantly accelerating encryption performance. To learn more, view this video.
- Build a foundation for trust, security, and compliance: A hardware root of trust can be used with Intel® Xeon® processor based servers with Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) to establish pools of trusted systems to increase the security and integrity of the cloud computing environment. Once platforms with higher integrity are established and can be identified, a valuable control point has been created for administrators trying to better protect sensitive workloads and data. Furthermore, Intel TXT protects servers against attacks to the hypervisor and BIOS, malicious root kit installations, and other firmware and lower-level software attacks. To learn more about trusting cloud services with Intel® Trusted Execution Technology, please view this video.
- Optimize the end-user experience with cloud based applications or services that are able to recognize and take advantage of the end point device’s capabilities: For cloud-based applications, it's important to look beyond availability metrics and consider the end-user experience. Virtustream and Intel are working together to take advantage of the capabilities of the end-user device by optimizing application delivery and end user experience based on the screen size, available battery life, graphics and processing capabilities, and security features. To learn more, view this video.
- Dynamically manage power and cooling in the data center: Intel offers data center power management technology that uses the processor, memory and power supply information in Intel® Xeon® processor based servers as the controls to report system power consumption and cap system power. This technology can set power to a policy defined by a IT management console, thereby allocating and dynamically balancing power at the rack, row, or data center level.
- Simplify the Network with 10 Gigabit Ethernet Unified Networking: Intel’s Ethernet 10 Gigabit adapters simplify networks while improving performance and reducing costs. Optimizations for virtualization accelerate throughput in virtualized servers running your cloud. 10 GbE unified networking allows customers to use a single, cost-effective Intel Ethernet adapter to carry storage traffic (including NAS, iSCSI, and Fiber Channel over Ethernet) over 10GbE.
Together, Virtustream and Intel present considerable opportunities to help you move forward with your cloud strategy and help make cloud computing work for you.
