British Telecom is one of the world’s leading communications services companies, serving the needs of customers in the UK and in more than 170 countries. Their main activities are the provision of fixed-line services, broadband, mobile and TV products and services as well as networked IT services.
In the UK they are the largest communications services provider, serving the consumer, business and public sector markets. Globally, they supply networked IT services to multinational corporations, domestic business and government departments. They also provide access to their network and services to more than 1,000 communications providers in the UK and others worldwide.
"Having successfully deployed a proof of concept in two of our major data centers, we expect to make significant savings while, at the same time, we will be able to sustain application performance by making optimal resource allocation decisions,” Ben Ashford, Head of IT Capacity Planning at BT.
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6fusion provides an end-to-end cloud management platform that enables global workload distribution by turning the public and private cloud into a pay-per-use billable utility. The unique metering algorithm, Workload Allocation Cube (WAC), creates a commercial standard to quantify supply and demand for compute resources.
For IT service providers, enterprises and independent software vendors, and Infrastructure Owners/Operators, 6fusion simplifies and streamlines Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) via a single console that provides valuable insight into consumption, performance benchmarking and cost allocation without vendor lock-in.
"With VMTurbo, we are not only able to better manage our virtualized infrastructure, but we do so more efficiently, and with fewer human resources involved. This significantly improves our agility, scalability, and operational efficiency. VMTurbo has also allowed us to improve user experience by helping address sizing and performance issues with customer workloads.” - Rob Bissett Vice President, Product Management at 6fusion
Akamai’s Intelligent Internet PlatformTM addresses these challenges and makes it easier for companies to be successful online by ensuring performance, instant scalability, robust security and useful data. Made up of nearly one hundred thousand servers, deployed in 72 countries and spanning most of the networks within the Internet, these servers are all controlled by Akamai software that is constantly monitoring Internet conditions. The platform makes millions of real-time adjustments in response to congestion, security threats and network failures to ensure there is no impact to our customers.
Today Akamai handles tens of billions of daily Web interactions for companies like Audi, NBC, and Fujitsu, and organizations like the U.S. Department of Defense and NASDAQ — powering brand new business models that serve the changing online economy.
AppNeta delivers instant-value Network Performance Management solutions required to drive exceptional application performance across all data center, cloud, remote office and mobile environments. AppNeta’s award-winning PathView Cloud solutions leverage a zero administration, cloud-based service to meet the performance demands of today’s distributed network infrastructure and mainstream network-dependent applications including unified communications, cloud services and virtual service delivery.
AppNeta, developed by the team and technology of Apparent Networks, provides more than 1,000 customers worldwide with unmatched performance insight, enabling predictable and efficient delivery of today’s business-critical application services from wherever they originate to wherever they are consumed.
Founded in 1996, BlueFire is a pioneer and progressive among Australian managed and cloud hosting service companies. Offering a broad suite of services and expertise across Australia, Asia, and the Pacific Rim, BlueFire has the unique capability - to enable IT integrators, telecommunications service providers and independent software vendors (ISVs) - to rapidly bring to market the broadest range of cloud services available for their customers.
BlueFire provides an extensive range of professional hosted services including productivity application hosting, email and email security, desktop as a service, hosted telephony, performance storage, cloud storage, backup recovery, disaster recovery and business continuity, private networks, managed firewalls, as well as cloud computing services.
Novis has been providing specialized services for the whole lifecycle of SAP solutions since 2001. It is a leader in SAP design, implementation, and operation. This expertise extends right across the SAP landscape: from enterprise resource planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management, through to Customer Relationship Management, and Warehouse Management System applications.
Novis is the first company in Chile to launch a cost‑effective,
on-demand enterprise resource planning (ERP)‑as a‑service, via a cloud service, to its customers. The success of ERP‑as-aservice has placed new demands on its data center, not just in terms of improving availability and response time, but also for ensuring accurate metering of usage and space consumption.
OpSource, a Dimension Data company, provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable businesses of all sizes to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks. More than four hundred Software- as-a-Service ISVs, cloud platform providers, carriers and enterprises rely on OpSource's expertise, experience and agility to operate high-availability, business-critical hosting environments.
OpSource Cloud is the first cloud to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with the security, performance and control the enterprise demands. Founded in 2002, OpSource is SAS 70 Type II, PCI DSS Level 1 and European Safe Harbor certified and has operations in California, Virginia, UK, Ireland, and India.
France Telecom is one of the world's leading telecommunications carriers, with 182 million customers on five continents and consolidated operating revenues of 53.5 billion euros for 2008. Through its major international brands, including Orange, France Telecom provides businesses, consumers and other carriers with a complete portfolio of solutions that spans local and international telephony, wireless, Internet, multimedia, data, broadcast and cable TV services.
In Europe, France Telecom is the third-largest mobile operator and the largest Internet access provider as well as a world leader in telecommunications solutions for multinational corporations. France Telecom is listed on the Paris and New York stock exchanges.