Vienna, Va., Oct. 4, 2012—NJVC®, an
information technology solutions provider headquartered in Northern
Virginia, and Virtustream, Inc.,
a leading enterprise cloud software company, today announced a new alliance to provide the
Virtustream xChange cloud marketplace to government customers. Under the terms of
the agreement, NJVC customers will use xChange technology to shop for on-demand
compute services from providers that are looking to sell unused capacity, often
at a discount. This service will soon be available to the
federal government through the new NJVC Cloudcuity™ Government Marketplace via the NJVC Cloudcuity Management Portal.
NJVC recently announced its Cloudcuity
portfolio of services to support mission- and business-focused cloud computing
environments, and is now expanding its capabilities through this alliance.
“Virtustream xChangewill give NJVC Cloudcuity users
the automated ability to compare the cost of
service offerings across the Cloudcuity Management Portal,” said Kevin L.
Jackson, vice president and general manager,
NJVC Cloudcuity. “Users will be able to take
advantage of temporary price reductions through spot pricing and arbitrage. In addition, it will give the company the ability to dynamically adjust rates and apply a variety
of pricing methodologies, such as fixed, variable, tiered and subscription, delivering on an important tenant of agile acquisition.”
Virtustream’s xChange allows
enterprises in any vertical, including government, healthcare, education and
financial services, to create a
virtual cloud marketplace of approved vendors and consumers of cloud services.
Each industry vertical has unique requirements and standards for the cloud, for
example, healthcare (HIPAA), ecommerce (PCI), government (FISMA, G-cloud) and
defense (DIACAP, NIST-800-53). As a result, it had been difficult to
interconnect clouds within verticals to share capacity (cloud-bursting),
applications (community clouds) or information (cloud federation).xChange now
provides this secure and compliant capability.
Hosted on Cloudcuity, the
government-focused xChange will also provide supplier scoring, billing, price
comparisons and workload migration, while offering a dashboard on performance
and service level agreement requirements. Employing a marketplace concept, xChange enables
users to respond to dynamic pricing based on availability and demand.
“xChange is a trusted cloud
marketplace that brings together approved vendors and consumers, and enables users
to buy/sell capacity, access spot pricing and see future pricing,” said Kevin
Reid, Virtustream chief executive and technology officer.“The majority of broker
applications use a department store model—one shop with a handful of
suppliers. xChange leverages dynamic market conditions to reduce the cost of
infrastructure, while assuring enterprise cloud customers that they will stay
competitive, compliant and secure.”
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With a focus on information technology
automation, NJVC® specializes in supporting highly secure, complex
IT enterprises in business- and mission-critical environments, particularly for
the intelligence and defense communities. We offer a wide breadth of IT and
strategic solutions to our customers, ranging from strategic consulting to
managed flexible services in five business areas: Cloud Services, Cyber
Security, Data Center Services, IT Services and Print Solutions. Our global
workforce includes dedicated and talented employees, with more than 90 percent
holding security clearances. We partner with our customers to support their
missions with security-cleared, dedicated and talented employees ready to
deploy globally. To learn more, visit www.njvc.com.
Virtustream is a leading cloud innovator offering
enterprise class cloud solutions for enterprises, governments and service
providers. Virtustream simplifies moving complex IT to the cloud—whether
private, public or hybrid—while delivering the full economic and business
benefits of the cloud. Virtustream offers xStream: a secure, high availability, enterprise class hybrid cloud solution,
delivering application level SLAs for mission critical applications (SAP,
Oracle, Microsoft and thousands more). xStream is available as software for
existing data centers and as a managed service from Virtustream's cloud—all
backed by professional services to design, migrate and manage clouds.
Virtustream offers xStream worldwide; owns data centers in the United States
and EMEA; operates an international Cloud Exchange; has offices in San
Francisco, New York, London, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Toronto and Dublin, and
has partners in Asia and China.
Media Contacts:
Michelle Snyder Audra
Capas
NJVC 5StarPR
703.839.7609 703.437.9301
michelle.snyder@njvc.com audra@5starpr.com
Lisa Desmond Heather Fitzsimmons
Virtustream, Inc. Mindshare PR
615.368.7325 650.800.7160
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