Jan 29, 2009 : ViaWest Offers Enhanced Virtualization

📅 January 29, 2009 - Colocation and managed hosting provider ViaWest (viawest.com -> flexential.com) announced on Thursday it is offering ViaWest Dedicated Virtualization, an enhanced virtualization product.

The ViaWest Dedicated Virtualization more efficiently uses hardware, allows enhanced portability of operating systems, facilitates server consolidation, and permits the high availability of server resources.

ViaWest engineers have employed virtualization internally to realize the benefits of improved server resource use, server consolidation, as well as simplify systems management.

Launched in mid-2008, the company sponsored an extensive virtualization pilot program to "ensure that the product would meet complex customer requirements prior to adding it to their comprehensive managed services portfolio," according to the press release.

"Most conversations we have with clients include some aspect of virtualization in their future IT plans," says Nancy Phillips, COO and co-founder of ViaWest. "We see this solution addressing an obvious need, when companies are striving to find ways to reduce their infrastructure footprint and maximize their resource optimization. Through our own experience we have seen significant benefits using virtualization, and now we can apply that high level of expertise to deliver an innovative set of solutions to our customers."

Like all ViaWest products and services, virtualization is backed by 24-hour support from the company's engineers at the network operation centers.

Headquartered in Denver, ViaWest provides a range of colocation, managed hosting solutions and comprehensive services to mid-sized and enterprise level businesses.

The company maintains 16 enterprise-class data center facilities in Colorado, Texas, Oregon, Utah and Nevada.

Last March, ViaWest acquired Texas-based data center operator Dataside.