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VMware heads for Virtualized Hosted Service



I mused about it quite sometime back (in one of my strategy articles). And given that all SPs are runnning only Linux it might be pretty easy to adopt the VI3.

Under typical hosting service agreements, a customer has to pick a number of servers for a three-year agreement and pay for them, whether they are used or not, said Bogomil Balkansky, senior director of product marketing at VMware. With VMware's Service Provider Program, hosted service suppliers will be able to offer virtual servers to customers.

The arrangement will allow hosted service providers to take a step toward utility computing, where their customers pay for only the resources needed at the moment, not the maximum number of servers that might be needed to meet a peak load.

Hosted service providers will be better able to make use of their own resources, renting capacity on the same server to different customers. Each virtual machine is isolated from the data and applications of the others. One may crash and the others on the same physical server keep running, Balkansky explained in an interview.


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