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GSS LAUNCHES GRID AND VIRTUALIZATION PRACTICE GROUP
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, October 10, 2006 –
Global System Services Corporation (“GSS”), a Sun Principal Partner and AMD
Solution Provider, today announced that it has begun delivering grid computing and
virtualization solutions based on Sun N1 Grid, VMware, and opensource
virtualization technologies. GSS’ Grid and Virtualization Practice Group helps customers consolidate
servers and to automate server and application deployment and configuration
management.
In the past, grid computing has been
used mainly for research. However, the
technologies necessary to build and manage compute grids are directly
beneficial to enterprises.
Grid computing allows any number of
computers to be managed like a single machine.
To make this possible it is necessary to automate insertion and removal
of physical machines, operating system installation and configuration,
application deployment and configuration management and workload distribution. These automation challenges exist in every
large data center. By meeting these
automation requirements, Sun N1 Grid technology delivers vast cost savings to
large enterprises.
The capabilities of current multi-core,
64-bit microcomputers far exceed the requirements of many applications. However, applications often run on different
operating systems and have disparate configuration requirements such as
operating system tuning and version-specific dependencies on other software. By compartmentalizing operating systems and
applications within virtual machines on the same physical computer virtualization
technology makes it possible to consolidate a large number of dedicated servers
to a small number of more powerful computers.
Virtual machine technology and grid computing
are complementary. While virtualization
allows a larger number of dedicated servers to be consolidated to a smaller
number of computers, it does not reduce software complexity or administration
overhead. Grid computing solves these
problems.
“We are working closely with large
enterprise and government customers to solve practical problems with grid
computing and virtual machine technologies,” said Ron Herardian, Managing
Partner at Global System Services Corporation.
“The ability of these technologies to reduce data center operating costs
and administrative overhead is absolutely compelling.”
Customers can find out more about
grid computing and virtualization by contacting GSS at +1 (650) 965-8669.
About GSS
Global System Services Corporation
(GSS) is a leading software and services firm with customers worldwide. In addition to software products, GSS
provides services ranging from technology planning and solution architecture to
implementation. GSS is a Premier ISV
Partner in the Sun Partner Advantage Program, a member of the Sun Software
Partner Council, and an AMD Solution Provider.
GSS is based in
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