Reflex VMC Selected to Secure Savvis Project Spirit By VSM News Staff published: Tuesday, September 22 2009
Project Spirit - Next Generation Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure
Platform; VMsafe and ability to manage
and secure dynamic Cloud environments key
Atlanta, Georgia, 9/22/2009
- Reflex Systems, the pioneer
in virtualization management, security and compliance today announced that
Savvis, a global leader in outsourced internet infrastructure services for
enterprises has selected Reflex VMC to secure Savvis' next generation cloud
infrastructure solutions, dubbed "Project Spirit," recently previewed at
VMworld. The two companies, alongside VMware, will be presenting a joint Webinar
about cloud computing next month (further details below).
Savvis selected Reflex VMC based on the solution's depth of
security and breadth of system management capabilities, which have been
perceived as barriers to user organizations looking to adopt external cloud
strategies. The solution will enable Savvis to have a cloud distribution system
to allocate services to customers and will provide them with expanded options
for their service catalog offerings.
Reflex VMC will provide Savvis Project Spirit Cloud
customers with an enterprise virtual firewall, which performs virtual machine
to virtual machine blocking via kernel-level technology based on VMware's
VMsafe partner program. Furthermore, Reflex VMC will enable joint customers to
manage policies in the virtual environment through an API designed cloud
interface.
"We're pleased to provide enabling virtual
security and management technologies through Reflex VMC to assist Savvis in
serving their enterprise Cloud customers," said Pete Privateer, CEO of Reflex
Systems. "Reflex VMC provides proven innovation and award-winning features that
ensure success for organizations implementing cloud infrastructure strategies."
"The dynamic nature of Cloud infrastructure demands
innovative solutions to meet the unique security and management challenges that
the environment presents," said Ken Owens, Savvis vice president of security
and virtualization technologies. "Reflex VMC meets the challenge and provides
this functionality at the core of the infrastructure, giving us the security
and management solutions we need without impacting performance."
Savvis' Project Spirit cloud platform will power the
industry's first enterprise-class Virtual Private Data Center with multi-tiered
Quality of Service capabilities. Project Spirit focuses on complete virtual
data center provisioning that extends far beyond the simple application
deployment designs available in many cloud service offerings today. Savvis
expects to launch the beta version of the new offering later this year and
believes it will be the industry's most feature-rich cloud delivery platform
available for the enterprise.
VMware, Savvis and Reflex will also host a free Webinar on
‘Enabling Cloud Computing for your Enterprise' next week. The Webinar takes
place Tuesday, October 6, at 2pm ET/11am PT. Space is limited. Reserve your
seat here .
About Reflex VMC
Reflex integrates security, compliance and management of the virtual
environment to enable IT to manage the virtual enterprise based on existing
organizational business processes through comprehensive policy management and
enforcement, better utilization of the shared computing resources as well as
automation of data center operations across all virtual resources; whether in
the corporate data center or hosted in the cloud. Reflex's Virtualization
Management Center (VMC) enables next generation data centers to enforce IT
policies, ensure compliance with government mandates, and manage and protect
virtual servers, desktops, and networks. The VMC provides a single authoritative
visual interface, central management and security for virtual environments. By
combining the centralized event database, virtual infrastructure integration
and analysis engines with a robust visual interface it is possible to
administer, audit, secure and monitor complex, dynamic, virtual
infrastructures.
About Savvis
Savvis, Inc. (NASDAQ:SVVS) is a global leader in outsourced
internet infrastructure services for the enterprise. More than 4,000
customers, including 40 percent of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500,
use Savvis to reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the
latest advances in cloud computing. For more information about Savvis, visit www.savvis.net
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