New Cloud Infrastructure Option for Service Providers

New Cloud Infrastructure Option for Service Providers:

Parallels Automation for Cloud Infrastructure Launches; Provides the Industry’s First Turn-Key Solution to Deliver Cloud Infrastructure Services to Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs)

September 23, 2011
New, scalable Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) module of Parallels Automation is complete with integrated provisioning, billing, and self-service management

Cloud-ready virtualization solution – Parallels Server Bare Metal – is fully integrated into PACI, combining maximum density Cloud Infrastructure using Parallels Virtuozzo Containers with world-class hypervisor technology
- http://www.parallels.com/news/id,29042

Parallels to leverage Scality RING technology in its “Parallels Automation for Cloud Infrastructure” – February 23rd 2011
- Scality and Parallels Automation Announcement

vSphere storage changes bring opportunities for VARs
- vSphere storage changes bring opportunities for VARs


 
The Open Data Center Alliance is an independent IT consortium comprised of leading global organizations from a wide array of industries who have come together to provide a unified vision for long-term data center requirements.
- www.opendatacenteralliance.org

Parallels - Solution Provider Member:
“Parallels looks forward to advancing Open Data Center Alliance Service Catalog Usage Model in the public cloud, contributing our expertise in powering 5,000 Parallels Hosting Partners globally serving more than 10 million SMBs with a wide-range of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings. Parallels enables cloud service providers to shorten their time to revenue, raise average revenue per user, and lower customer churn. Open standards and interoperability across key cloud data center elements will help all parties optimize to Profit from the Cloud.”

John Zanni, Vice President, Parallels Service Provider Marketing and Alliances- http://www.opendatacenteralliance.org./membership/membervoice

How do I size Exchange 2010?

Great Video Posted over on the Exchange 2010 TechCenter @
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/ff727932.aspx

How do I size Exchange 2010?
- About This VideoExchange 2010 introduces new functionality in server roles, including new high availability features. Join Nicolas Blank as he discusses how to size critical Exchange 2010 server roles using tools and calculators to establish the disks, IOPS, replication bandwidth, CPU cores, and memory requirement for each role.

Exchange Server 2010 SP2 and Support for Hosting Exchange

Okay, this is going to be interesting.  So if a Service Provider has deployed Exchange 2010 SP1 with the "/hosting" switch, do they have to redeploy?

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/08/30/exchange-server-2010-sp2-and-support-for-hosting-exchange.aspx