Press Release - August 29, 2011 |
| Scalar Decisions Attains VMware vCloud® Powered Validation
Toronto, ON – August 29, 2011 — Scalar Decisions, the national IT solutions integrator, today announced that its public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud® Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director. A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), the VMware vCloud Powered service delivers a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware. Enabled by the vCloud Powered service infrastructure, Scalar Managed Zimbra is a hosted email capability offering. Paul Kerr, President and CEO of Scalar, said “We are proud to achieve VMware vCloud Powered status . Our next-generation Scalar Managed Zimbra email and collaboration offering is already gaining great traction in the Canadian marketplace as organizations seek to reap the benefits of hosted and managed IT services. This latest achievement will only strengthen our position as a leading provider of managed services to Canadian organizations.” “The VMware vCloud Powered program was developed to enable our service provider partners to differentiate themselves and help them bring their enterprise-class cloud services to market in this competitive landscape,” said Don Schleicher, Vice President, Service Providers, VMware. “We look forward to supporting Scalar further as it delivers on the agility and performance customers are looking for in the cloud computing landscape.” Customers of Scalar have the ability to move workloads from their VMware vSphere-based virtualized or private cloud environment to the VMware vCloud Powered service and back again. This application portability is a key differentiator allowing customers to achieve the flexibility and security they need while enabling increased IT agility. Scalar sought VMware vCloud® Powered validation in order to highlight their expertise in the area of managed infrastructure. As a validated provider, Scalar can now provide users with enhanced responsiveness and agility, and reduced IT costs through increased consolidation, task automation and simplified management in services including hosted email. About Scalar Decisions VMware, VMware vCloud and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The use of the word “ partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company. For further information please contact: Aoife Mc Monagle, Scalar Decisions |
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