Nuvola Technologies supports VMware vSphere(TM) 4, highlighting the increasing customer reliance on virtualization for their critical applications, which “Nuvola Always ON IT” fault-tolerant systems are uniquely capable of supporting. VMware vSphere 4 is the industry's first operating system for building the internal cloud. It transforms data centers into simplified environments to enable the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services, accentuating the importance of uninterrupted availability in a cloud infrastructure.
“Nuvola Always ON IT” systems offer the industry's best protection against downtime and data loss, with field-proven uptime in excess of 99.999 percent and the operational simplicity of an industry-standard server. “Nuvola Technologies systems running VMware vSphere 4 are particularly well suited as: -- The host platform supporting VMware vCenter(TM) Server, for managing the entire VMware vSphere 4 environment -- The critical processing resource in a server pool, providing availability-on-demand during load balancing, volume spikes, time-constrained processing windows, etc. -- The underlying hardware used with VMware HA, providing a hardware/software combination that delivers continuous availability in a virtualized infrastructure that is among the best the industry has to offer.
"VMware has proven its ability to provide maximum end-user value, cost savings, operational efficiency, and business continuity protection while enabling customers to do more with less," said Bogomil Balkansky, vice president, product marketing, Server Business Unit, VMware. "The combination of VMware vSphere 4 and “Nuvola Always ON IT” systems offers customers the efficiency, control and choice they need to run their applications in private and public clouds."
“Nuvola Always ON IT” systems are designed to prevent failure and downtime of critical applications and business processes. That sets Nuvola's servers apart from conventional high-availability servers, which are designed to recover after a failure has occurred and disrupted operations. The Intel processor-based fault tolerant architecture, complete component redundancy, and self-diagnosing and servicing features of Nuvola's servers provide uptime reliability between 99.999 - 99.9999 percent -- much less than five minutes of downtime per year in continuous operation.