CloudVolumes Taking App Deployment to New Extremes
I recently had a briefing with CloudVolumes and this product is pretty amazing. Capacity on Demand, Flexibility – it’s the stuff of legend, the goal so many datacenters are shooting for, investing, engineering, validating -rolling out internal clouds, building apps on them and so on. There are lots of ways to define Capacity on Demand, and CloudVolumes has a completely different take on it that introduces the ability to deliver applications, upgrade applications, and even rollback within seconds on systems that are actively running. The product can also be used to create high availability through stateless server deployments that are set to take on roles dynamically.
From one- many. This is not just the stuff of some secret lab, but a rather robust enterprise tool that takes leverage to an extreme, so that management of applications can be brought down to a single image for a given application – all of it easy to manage with a fully integrated report and control console. Further, the product is tested to scale at over 10,000 VMs, and it does all of this without packaging, streaming or anything of the sort. It is something completely different and taking it in requires a departure from what we have come to know about application installation. In desktop service scenarios, fully installed applications are available on-demand and it works with all of the major VDI products like VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop and more. Back to the datacenter scenario, for those that are well developed on VMware vCloud and vFabric AppDirector, the product is designed to integrate within and is available in VMware’s cloud Applications MarketPlace. With CloudVolumes, App management and updates can take place across thousands of VMs at the same time, managed as one, and capable of complex multi-tier app deployment through the use of application blueprints.
The secret sauce, if you will, is done through some pretty fascinating refinements of virtualized infrastructure. By integrated storage and virtual, they can deliver shared volumes through a CloudVolumes-managed VM. Further, they are able to deliver the applications to VMs in a way where it is indistinguishable from native applications. As a result of single-point architecture, the foundation is set for a highly-scalable, rapid-deployment system that is unlike anything I’ve personally witnessed. Success stories are found on the company’s website and the following press release. CloudVolumes has the potential to change a lot of perceptions about virtualization, application delivery, even business requirements, so this will be one to watch.
· Instant deployment of complex multi-tier server workloads into a running VM
· Scaling, relocation and recovery instantly across thousands of virtual machines within seconds
· Migration of workloads between the cloud and datacenter, independent of VM or hypervisor
· Single image management of applications, dependencies, data and settings
· Patches, updates and upgrades that are applied once and delivered dynamically to many VMs
· Department and user installed apps, including personalization for desktop
· Support for all Windows desktop and server apps including custom developed ones
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