LeaseWeb - LeaseWeb Becomes VMware Service Provider Partner

Store this angel in big sizeVMworld Europe 2009, LeaseWeb present as VSPP with exhibition stand

Amsterdam, February 17, 2009 – VMware, the bazaar baton in virtualization software, and LeaseWeb, one of Europe’s better business hosting providers, accept active a cardinal cooperation agreement.

The acceding will acquiesce LeaseWeb audience to hire rather than buy VMware software for their Web environments. As the European VSPP, LeaseWeb will be present with an exhibition angle in the vCloud pavilion during VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes from February 24 through 26.

Virtual Server
The cooperation amid VMware and LeaseWeb will be handled through the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) of VMware. This affairs provides for a baddest amount of top hosting providers to accumulation licenses for basic servers on the base of alternate rental agreements. LeaseWeb audience will account through easier acceptance to, and greater adaptability in the use of, virtualized hosting.

VMware Hosting at LeaseWeb
“This cooperation will acquiesce us to accommodate our hosting audience with virtualized committed servers in a quick and scalable manner,” says Con Zwinkels, LeaseWeb’s managing director. “LeaseWeb audience will accept the adeptness to pay their licensing fees periodically, ‘by basic server by month.’ Thus, they will no best accept to accomplish cher start-up investments for virtualized hosting. The affiliation affairs will accordingly accomplish it abundant easier for our audience to about-face to a virtualized hosting environment.”

The adeptness to assurance alternate rental agreements will aswell add adaptability to virtualized hosting solutions. Zwinkels: “This will acquiesce our audience to bound acclimate their Web basement to their accepted needs. Furthermore, it will accomplish their Web basement awful scalable and annihilate the altercation of accepting to accord with circuitous licensing models. The adeptness to hire aswell improves the ability of virtualized hosting environments. Clients alone pay for absolute use.”

Hosting Enterprise
LeaseWeb has developed a VMware-based virtualization platform. The virtualization belvedere is abnormally adorable for Web environments in the action bazaar and the college articulation of small- and medium-size businesses. “A virtualized hosting ambiance based on VMware can action them cogent advantages,” says Zwinkels. “VMware is advanced virtualization software and accordingly ideal for use in action environments and beyond business environments. The architecture of the VMware belvedere on which the basic server runs provides a top akin of scalability and availability of the Web environment. Migrating basic committed servers to added servers is aswell abundant simpler, and it will not affect the applications.”

LeaseWeb’s virtualization belvedere and added hosting casework will be approved at an exhibition angle in the vCloud pavilion in the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, during VMworld Europe 2009 from February 24 through 26. LeaseWeb is one of the sponsors of the vCloud pavilion, alternating with Cisco, Intel, Logica, Atos Origin, and added companies.

Virtual Hosting: VSPP
Hosting providers are a key ambition bazaar for VMware. For this reason, on June 6, 2007 the architect of virtualization software abandoned the old ‘pay-per-socket’ archetypal and alien the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) accurately for top hosting providers. Under this affiliation program, audience alone pay licensing fees based on absolute usage. This will account LeaseWeb’s audience in both the action and small- and medium-size business sectors. Disadvantages of the old licensing archetypal included the top start-up costs, and limitations in agreement of ability and flexibility.

LeaseWeb
LeaseWeb (www.leaseweb.com) is one of the world's arch Hosting Infrastructure Service Providers confined the Enterprise and SME market. Through its capital arrangement and blooming datacenter facilities, LeaseWeb can action secure, reliable and amount able Virtualization hosting solutions to businesses throughout the world. Its casework cover server virtualization, collocation, committed servers, webhosting, streaming, and area name registration. LeaseWeb is the freeholder of a capital arrangement that offers a bandwidth of added than 500 Gbps, spanning four datacenters in the Amsterdam region. LeaseWeb is aswell present via Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Frankfurt, New York, Vienna, Stockholm, Warsaw, Zurich, Prague and Madrid. This way, LeaseWeb enables companies about the apple to actualize and abide their online attendance in a simple and affordable manner. Founded in 1997, LeaseWeb now manages added than 15,000 servers. LeaseWeb’s audience cover Starbucks, Royal Joh. Enschedé, WIGE MEDIA AG, 123Video.nl, zaplive.tv, OGD, Relatieplanet.nl, MyAlbum.com, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Twenga.com.

LeaseWeb
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