TC 100 Profile: Virtustream Offers Consumption-Based Cloud Management

How are you managing your cloud resources? While many businesses use cloud services that rely on a policy-based allocation model, Virtustream has developed a consumption-based model that allows customers to pay only for computing resources they actually use.

Rodney Rogers, Virtustream’s CEO, told Talkin’ Cloud that his company’s xStream cloud management platform leverages “Micro VM” (µVM) technology that allows for fair and accurate provisioning and measurement of cloud resources.

µVM is an independent unit of measure that applies regardless of hypervisor or processor, according to Virtustream. It is based on Virtustream’s own statistical research and analysis from tens of thousands of data points across thousands of machines.

Rogers said µVM “provides genuine consumption-based economics” and has enabled Virtustream to help enterprises, government agencies and channel partners manage mission-critical applications in the cloud.

What is Virtustream?

Founded in 2009, Virtustream is a Bethesda, Maryland-based cloud management software and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider that ranked 24 on last year’s Talkin’ Cloud 100 list of the top 100 cloud services providers (CSPs).

Rogers noted that Virtustream developed xStream to allow enterprises to install private clouds and use secure public clouds to run and manage business-critical applications “without having to re-architect them for the cloud while delivering significant improvements even in the most challenging application environments.”

He also pointed out that Virtustream was an early entrant into the cloud management software market and has collected customer feedback over the years to ensure it can fully support its customers.

“[We] have been able to extend and enhance our cloud management platform (CMP) software based on more than five years of customer feedback and operations at significant scale,” he said. “This experience has resulted in a highly differentiated feature set that delivers value to enterprise applications, particularly large-scale systems of record, and has driven tremendous growth over the past several years as the enterprise cloud market has begun to mature.”

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Virtustream continues to drive innovation; for example, the company added OpenStack support in its XStream 3.0 release and started offering fully virtualized SAP HANA for production landscapes on its IaaS platform last year.

Additionally, Virtustream wants to continue to help businesses lower their IT costs and become more efficient, Rogers said.

To accomplish these goals, Rogers noted that Virtustream plans to refine both its cloud services and software components and expand its global operations. The cloud management software and IaaS provider is focused on its channel partner program as well, and Rogers said he anticipates program participation will continue to increase in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

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