Enterprises
Enterprises
Today's enterprise faces a myriad of IT challenges driven in large part by fundamental shifts in the modern business environment. First and foremost, the rapid pace of competition demands highly agile IT infrastructure and applications, able to quickly adapt to the constantly changing needs of the business. At the same time, IT organizations are continually challenged to 'do more with less,' creating an environment where fundamental processes must be reengineered to maximize efficiency and minimize time-to-market.
Cloud computing has been hailed as a solution to these challenges offering improved efficiency and scale, and enabling dynamic on-demand IT. However few cloud offerings today are able to meet the stringent requirements of enterprise customers, including:
Enterprise Grade Security & Compliance
Application Performance SLAs & Assurance
Consumption-based Pricing & Chargeback
Legacy Application Support
Hybrid Support for On & Off-site Control
Enterprises Use xStream™
xStream™, Virtustream's secure, high-performance cloud solution, is available as a managed service or as software, and is tailored to the needs of enterprise users. Our complete suite of professional services offerings complements our proven software and helps ensure the success of your cloud computing effort.
Virtustream currently runs real mission-critical applications for 50+ enterprises, including: Domino Sugar, the British Transport Police, Allied Irish Bank, Digital Chocolate, MRG, Diesel Direct, Autism Speaks and many more household names.
If you'd like to see case studies of enterprises moving to the cloud please click here to download case studies.
Governments
Governments
Cloud computing is revolutionizing the way government agencies large and small are delivering services to their constituents. Cloud offers agencies a highly effective tool to address a wide variety of IT service delivery issues such as high costs, low asset utilization, slow acquisition processes and duplicative systems, while enabling greater agility and responsiveness. The ability to share resources across agencies and with suppliers and contractors is also becoming critical in today's highly connected world.
Yet, not every cloud computing solution is suitable for government cloud efforts. To meet the unique requirements of government customers, cloud software and services providers must be prepared to deliver:
Efficient Multi-Tenant Sharing of Resources
Support for the Full Range of Cloud Security Standards
Support for Complex & Legacy Applications
Private & Hybrid Cloud Support
Guaranteed Application Performance
Consumption Based Pricing & Chargeback
Backup & Disaster Recovery Capabilities
Governments Use xStream™
Virtustream is a leading provider of cloud computing technology and services to government agencies in the U.S. and Europe. Our xStream™ Cloud Management software is architected to the highest security and compliance standards. xStream™ assists our customers in meeting mandatory requirements, such as SSAE16, ISAE3402, PCI-DSS 2.0, FISMA, IS0 27001-2005, ISO 9001-2008, HIPAA/HITEC, and other leading cloud certifications and compliance frameworks, in the customer's own environment (when coupled with identified operational and management controls).
In addition, our professional services teams have extensive experience working with government customers to craft and implement comprehensive cloud computing adoption strategies.
Virtustream has partnered with a number of suppliers who specialize in government, state and local solutions, please click here to learn more about our partner solutions.
Service Providers
Service Providers
In today's highly competitive environment, carriers, systems integrators, hosting companies, distributors, VARs and other service providers are encountering a new challenge: the rise of infrastructure-on-demand services, such as those offered by Amazon, Rackspace, and others. These cloud services represent a threat to existing revenue streams, as well as a significant opportunity to grow the bottom line.
Until now, most service providers have offered basic public cloud services best suited to startups and other non-mission-critical use cases. Yet the majority of their business is selling to enterprises and small-medium sized businesses. These customers require solutions tailored to meet their business needs.
To successfully deliver business-oriented cloud services, a service provider needs a platform designed from the ground up to securely deliver enterprise class Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Specific requirements include:
Robust Virtualization Management Capabilities
Quotas & Quality-of-Service Management
High Degrees of Automation & Transparency
An Intuitive Self-Service Interface
Application Performance Guarantees
Built-In Security & Compliance Capabilities
OSS/BSS Integration
Full APIs Support
Migrate & Support Legacy & Web-Scale Applications
Service Providers Use xStream™
Virtustream is an innovator and leading provider of IaaS software to service providers worldwide. Our xStream™ Public Cloud (xStream™ Cloud Management for Service Providers) offering gives service providers the tools required to offer revenue-generating cloud services for enterprises and SMBs, while achieving high-levels of operational efficiency, ensuring complete visibility, and integrating with existing provisioning, ticketing, billing, CRM and other operational and business support systems.
Read about our service provider clients Mobily and EarthLink and how they are powering their solutions with xStream™.
Clients
Clients
Mobily
EarthLink
Intel
Kawasaki
Morris Broadband
SGH Martineau
Marine Resources Group
DAI
Onboard Informatics
Comtex
Cambridge University Press
National Institute of Health
Digital Chocolate
Autism Speaks
XYBase
Other Valued Clients
- Barclays
Best Buy
CHF International
CPA Global
Fannie Mae - Glaxo SmithKline
Inquira
Irish Life
Johns Hopkins University
Kleinwort Benson - Mary Kay Cosmetics
MicroStrategy
PHS International
PRS Music
Shred-It - Stephenson Harwood
Tate & Lyle Sugars
Teliris
Tenet Group
Case Studies
Case Studies
Allied Irish Bank 
Allied Irish Bank (AIB) and Virtustream partner on a complete virtualization solution to reduce data center footprint and power spending, and improve business continuity planning.
British Transport Police
In anticipation of the Olympic Games, BTP undertook a thorough IT audit in conjunction with the British Government and the Olympic Commission authorities.
Diesel Direct
When Diesel Direct was affected by a major power outage, its founder sought an alternate plan for keeping the business active under such circumstances. His answer was in the cloud with Virtustream.
Domino Foods
With several businesses operating in multiple countries around the world and new systems being added regularly, Domino's IT infrastructure is incredibly complex. Virtustream's xStream™ platform was the only cloud solution available today capable of providing the right combination of performance and security worthy of Domino's enterprise class requirements.
Florida Crystals
Florida Crystals Corporation's (FCC's) SAP migration from a 100 percent physical environment to a multi-tenant, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) clould managed by Virtustream.
innocent
Launched twelve years ago, innocent is the number one smoothie brand in the UK. It sells over two million pure fruit smoothies each week in 11,000 outlets - everywhere from Boots to Sainsbury's to your local deli.
Intel - Domino Sugar
In one of the largest SAP production cloud deployments, Domino Sugar doubles performance and reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 40 percent with Virtustream xStream™ platform.
Lanx Turns to Cloud to Back SAP Environment
Lanx needed an IT infrastructure flexible, scalable and reliable enough to expand with the company's rapid growth.
Lawrence Graham Lawyers
LG selects Virtustream to optimize their virtual server environment and the invigorating overhaul of the entire infrastructure was the refreshing approach the company was seeking.
MeesPierson
Meespierson Guernsey selects Virtustream for a major server virtualization and consolidation overhaul using green technologies that deliver bottom line savings.
St Pauls Traverlers
For over 140 years, Travelers has been looking out for families and property, protecting them from losses while earning the reputation as one of the best and most experienced insurers in the industry.
Yum Restaurants
Yum Brands is the world's largest restaurant company with more than 37,000 restaurants in over 110 countries and territories and more than one million associates. Its restaurant brands include KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut. As online ordering for Pizza Hut UK increases to over one million orders a week, Yum relies on Virtustream's data center to deliver a larger slice of the action.
Use Cases
Use Cases
SAP in the Cloud
Cloud computing offers SAP customers the opportunity to achieve significant decreases in total cost of ownership (TCO), while simultaneously improving the agility, performance and resiliency of their SAP deployment. Yet because SAP enables a variety of mission-critical business processes—including finance, human capital management, asset management, sales and procurement—it is important to choose a cloud service provider with extensive SAP experience.
Production and Mission-Critical Computing in the Cloud
Cloud is now a viable solution for a wide variety of production and mission-critical application use cases. That’s not to say that any cloud computing solution is appropriate for mission-critical workloads. In fact, to host critical workloads, it’s important to select a cloud offering designed to meet their unique needs.
Migrating Existing Applications to the Cloud
When considering the migration of existing applications to the cloud, it is critical to examine the unique needs of these pre-cloud workloads. While the typical public cloud provider, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), offers little to accommodate applications not designed for cloud environments, Virtustream’s enterprise-class framework, migration tools and services simplify the migration of an existing application portfolio to a private or virtual-private cloud.
Software and Hardware Refresh Presents an Opportunity for Cloud
Upgrading large enterprise software applications, such as SAP or Oracle ERP systems, represents a significant undertaking for IT organizations. Many such updates are forced, with vendor imposed end-of-maintenance deadlines, pushing many enterprises down the upgrade path. Due to the significant investment required to update applications, as well as changing technical requirements and the mechanics of upgrading, the software update is typically accompanied by a hardware refresh as well.
A significant system upgrade, like any other large-scale corporate change, presents an opportunity to set a new direction. As a result, a major software upgrade presents an ideal opportunity to “re-platform” new enterprise applications onto the cloud.
Backup and DR in the Cloud
The on-demand and off-premise nature of cloud computing makes it ideal for disaster recovery (DR) and online data backup. Using a combination of cloud-based storage and compute services, Virtustream allows customers to safely protect and immediately restore access to digital information and systems on a 24x7x365 basis.
High Security in the Cloud
Security remains a top concern for organizations migrating systems to the cloud. But with the right partner, the cloud can be as secure as, or more secure than, a private data center. In other words, cloud can be an ideal environment in which to host mission-critical systems that require high levels of security, such as commercial or government systems hosting proprietary data or personally-identifying information.
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