New KVM Success Stories
Bloombase is an ISV that has built a virtual appliance on KVM for PureFlex. Bloombase, a member of the Open Virtualization Alliance, has published a solution brief about its data security software platform for enterprise virtual data centers powered by KVM. Read the solution brief here.
Spanish start-up eyeOS - named Cool Vendor in IT Operations Management by Gartner in 2011 - built its new web desktop on KVM. eyeOS Unified Desktop is a private cloud software solution that includes a web desktop interface (what the user sees), a user management platform (what IT uses) and a virtualization engine. It helps enterprises aggregate files, data, and applications through a single point of access in a browser with a user-friendly interface that recreates a desktop. IBM Pureflex with KVM is a great hosting platform for eyeOS because of its high capacity for memory, I/O and storage, and the flexibility to add resources as the workload grows, allowing clients to support more virtual desktops per server. Learn more about the eyeOS solution with IBM PureFlex and KVM here.
Helsana, the leading Swiss provider of health and accident insurance, wanted to drive up profitability by boosting efficiency and slashing IT costs. To help strengthen its market position, the company needed to implement, deploy and extend services faster. The IBM System x servers are configured with KVM virtualization to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux and VMware for Microsoft Windows workloads. To ensure high availability for its mission-critical business applications, Helsana takes advantage of the clustering features provided by the virtualization software. In addition, the company decided to implement live migration capability based on the new server platform. Read the case study here.
i-Layer, based in London, wanted to expand its IBM hardware and software resale business to meet growing customer need for secure, high-performance, cost-effective cloud solutions and hosted cloud services. The company deployed IBM BladeCenter HS23, IBM System x 3550 M4 and 3650 M4 servers with intelligent Intel Xeon processors, IBM System Storage DS3000 and SUSE Linux with KVM virtualization technology. Using KVM, i-Layer lowered its software licensing costs by 70%, and the IBM and KVM cloud platform also helped the company reduce its server-provisioning time. Read the case study here.
Novi urbanisticki zavod Republike Srpske, a government agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina specializing in urban planning, architecture, road and infrastructure planning, and ecological studies, needed to upgrade to a secure, flexible, scalable system to protect its data and intellectual property, as well as to increase employee productivity with easier, faster data access. The institute deployed IBM System x 3650 M4 servers with intelligent Intel Xeon processors running Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization v3.0 with KVM technology, an IBM System Storage DS3524, IBM 3000VA LCD 3U Rack UPSs and an IBM NetBAY rack to house the equipment—as well as IBM Lotus Domino and IBM Lotus Sametime Entry software. Read the case study here.
op5, a member of the Open Virtualization Alliance, has developed a KVM plug-in to monitor KVM virtualization infrastructure. op5 is a developer of enterprise IT monitoring and management solutions based in Sweden. It needed to find a virtualization platform for its internal IT that could deliver the performance and cost effectiveness needed to meet the organization’s demands, but found there was no suitable monitoring solution available. op5 implemented KVM as the strategic virtualization platform of choice for its internal IT and the company is now using a KVM-based solution on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v.5.5 and 6.x with KVM for all its internal IT and external IT services. op5 reduced its own software licensing costs by approximately 60% using KVM technology instead of its previous virtualization solution, and is now providing its customers with the ability to monitor the KVM virtualization platform. op5 is working with IBM and is an ISV partner that has certified op5 Monitor on the IBM PureFlex System. Go here to access a new paper on this topic.
Radware has entered the Open Virtualization Alliance to deliver the first virtual Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solution for KVM – minimizing complexity, adding flexibility and dramatically reducing overall costs in globalized applications projects leveraging virtualized private, hybrid and public cloud solutions. Together with IBM PureSystems and IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, Radware virtual ADC solution fully complies with the application lifecycle. Read more in this thought leadership paper, Successfully Deploying Globalized Applications Requires Application Delivery Controllers.
Rural Credit Banks Funds Clearing Center was founded in Beijing in 2006 and has 31 nationwide province-level rural credit union associations, including rural cooperative banks, rural commercial banks and the Shenzhen Rural Commercial Bank. Rural Credit Banks Funds Clearing Center implemented Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization on IBM BladeCenter with IBM Storage to consolidate physical space, cut costs and increase availability and scalability. Read the Red Hat case study.
In August 2012, Scale Computing launched the first and only hyper-converged infrastructure based on KVM into the marketplace. Called HC, the multi-award-winning solution integrates servers, storage and networking into a clustered appliance with a single operating system called ICOS (Intelligent Clustered Operating System). HC delivers a highly available, easy-to-use, and extremely affordable “data center cluster” to SMB customers who have not yet virtualized their environments. It’s a perfect solution for the times. According to CRN Magazine, 70% of SMBs have not yet virtualized due to the complex labyrinth of technologies that need to be woven together into a fully functional, integrated and highly available infrastructure. KVM plays a crucial part in bringing hyper-convergence to this untapped market and untangling this complexity. Download a white paper on this solution here.
With the industry’s first software-based architecture to deliver “personal telepresence,” Vidyo has eliminated the proprietary hardware components that constrain both the scalability and quality of video conferencing. Patented technology such as Adaptive Video Layering eliminates transcoding and delivers a ten-fold increase in resilience to the packet loss that is typical of “last mile” network connections to remote and mobile participants. Running as a virtual appliance on IBM PureFlex systems and KVM, each VidyoRouter VE instance supports up to simultaneous 100 HD connections. More information is available here.