VMware announced its VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), which will help deliver virtual infrastructure to customers as a hosted offering

June 7, 2007 - (TopHosts News Brief) - VMware, Inc. presented their VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), which will enable hosting providers to bring to market new virtual infrastructure as service offerings.

The VSPP features a new licensing model that makes the industry-leading VMware Infrastructure suite available to hosting providers on a per- virtual machine, per-month basis. Through the new program, providers can easily produce their own customized virtual infrastructure as service offerings that “rent” VMware virtual machine capacity to end customers.

Virtual infrastructure as a service offers significant benefits for end customers as well, compared to traditional hosting offerings that provide dedicated servers or shared hosting. Dedicated server offerings may lead to long-term capacity, over-commitment and lack of flexibility. The VSPP allows hosting providers to offer “utility computing” services, which allow end customers to instantaneously add or reduce their hosted virtual infrastructure capacity to align with event-driven demand.

Through shared hosting, single operating system instances are partitioned, and force customers into one-size- fits-all computing models that may lack full isolation from one another. VMware hosted virtual machines are fully isolated.

“The VSPP opens new doors for managed service providers to reinvent hosting services and reach new customers of all sizes,” Raghu Raghuram, vice president of product and solutions marketing at Vmware, said in a PRNewswire release. “The added flexibility and availability of VMware Infrastructure as a service enables hosting providers to offer their customers immediate access to the proven benefits of virtual infrastructure as easily as flipping on an electric switch. Hosting customers can now rely on production system availability not possible with traditional hosted offerings, as well as automatic data and systems protection and rapid recovery from failures, while paying only for the computing capacity they require at the time.”

For more information, visit http://www.vmware.com/go/hosting.