Grid Computing News : DataSynapse, Cisco Connect at VMworld

DataSynapse used this week's VMworld conference in Las Vegas to announce that its FabricServer software platform has been integrated with Cisco's VFrame data center provisioning and infrastructure orchestration technology. DataSynapse said data center architects will now be able to "dynamically scale a complete application service stack as virtualized application and hardware infrastructure objects." FabricServer and VFrame treat the application and infrastructure as service components, the grid computing pioneer said, adding that the products can "dynamically apply or remove these services in unison. Customers benefit from right-sized hosted infrastructures and enhanced capacity with real-time utilization policies." FabricServer manages service levels of complex enterprise applications and their platforms by configuring, activating and scaling applications based on business policies and demand. VFrame can then reprogram the underlying hardware to meet service requirements as defined within each application group. "Many customers want to deploy virtualized infrastructures all the way from the infrastructure up to the application layers," Bill Erdman, senior marketing director for Cisco's Data Center Technology Organization, said in a statement.... read more