BlueWave Computing Achieves VMware Solution Competency in MS SQL Server, MS Exchange

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 26, 2012

BlueWave Computing, Atlantas leader in business IT support and managed services, today announced that it has successfully completed the Virtualization of Business Critical Applications solution competency in MS SQL Server and MS Exchange. This achievement demonstrates that BlueWave Computing is committed to be an expert in helping customers virtualize their IT environments. Further, in achieving this competency, BlueWave Computing acknowledges that this distinction and VMware solutions are key accelerators for enabling their growth in the virtualization and cloud markets.

VMware is pleased to recognize BlueWave Computing for achieving the MS SQL Server and MS Exchange solution competency. Achieving this competency demonstrates to customers that BlueWave Computing is committed to be an expert in helping customers virtualize their IT environments, enabling them to confidently select BlueWave Computing as a solution provider capable of delivering VMware solutions to customers on the journey to cloud computing, said Doug Smith, vice president, global partner strategy and operations, VMware. We value our partnership with BlueWave Computing and we appreciate their efforts in achieving this VMware distinction.

By partnering with VMware, BlueWave Computing can provide customers with ease of administration and backup of highly available, redundant solutions within a private cloud platform and within existing virtual environments, said Steve Vicinanza, BlueWave Computing CEO. Achieving VMwares Virtualization of Business Critical Applications Competency further demonstrates to our clients that BlueWaves engineering team possesses the certifications and expertise required to implement and support virtualization of business-critical applications such as Exchange and SQL while improving our marketplace visibility through the VMware Partner Locator.

VMware has established solution competencies as designations of expertise that enable customers to identify partners with the highest level of VMware technical solution knowledge and experience. VMware partners with competencies are able to earn customer credibility by driving deeper into customer engagements, based on knowledge and ability with the following VMware solution competencies:

Infrastructure Virtualization Competency: Recognizes partners for their demonstrated ability to virtualize and consolidate server environments using a VMware virtualization solution

Business Continuity Competency: Recognizes partners for their expertise in deploying VMware solutions for data protection, high availability and disaster recovery

Desktop Virtualization Competency: Recognizes partners for their expertise in deploying VMware solutions for virtualizing desktops and applications

Virtualization of Business Critical Applications (VBCA) Competency: Recognizes partners for their demonstrated ability to provide guidance and solutions for virtualizing business-critical applications such as Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, Oracle DB and SAP

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Competency: Recognizes partners for their expertise in VMware hybrid cloud solutions and services

Management Competency: Recognizes partners for their ability to help customers simplify and automate the operations of virtual and cloud environments with the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite

VMware Partner Network is a comprehensive program that provides a common infrastructure, extensive sales and services tools, margin opportunities and industry-recognized training for the entire VMware partner ecosystem, including solution providers, technology partners and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). VMware Partner Network is designed to help ensure a more consistent and successful user experience as well as help partners increase their business potential by increasing their skills in VMware solutions. The program helps partners maximize their investments in VMware virtualization to provide customers with the best end-to-end virtualization solutions available.

Read more about VMware Partner Network.

About BlueWave Computing, LLC

As Atlantas largest managed service provider for small and mid-sized businesses, BlueWave Computing keeps IT services Under Your Control while enabling real-time network visibility through its proprietary IT Quality Management System. Using BlueWave Computings Total Control System, businesses find IT costs are more effectively controlled, more predictable and more reliable. BlueWaves service options include IT management, cloud computing, disaster recovery, strategic planning, web development, custom application and mobile application development, 7×24 monitoring and support, Microsoft CRM and VoIP systems. Visit http://www.bluewavecomputing.com or call 770-980-WAVE for more information.

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BlueWave Computing Achieves VMware Solution Competency in MS SQL Server, MS Exchange

Nassau, Bahamas (PRWEB) December 31, 2012 Nassau-based Cloud Carib is announcing the immediate availability of hosted virtual datacenters, delivered securely as a service on VMware’s (NYSE:VMW) market-leading vCloud platform. “The paradigm shift from legacy IT infrastructure platforms to the advent of cloud computing offers organizations with on-demand flexibility, resiliency, scalability and cost control enabled with cloud-based infrastructure,” said Anthony Giorgi, member of the Advisory Board of Cloud Carib and former Sales Director of Q9 Networks (recently acquired by an investor group which included Bell Canada). “We are introducing a proven, world-class offering to the Caribbean market, enabling firms to take advantage of the latest best-in-class cloud technologies supported by VMware without the associated up-front capital investment.” Hosted infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a proven delivery model currently utilized by more than 8,000 VMware cloud service providers around the world, handling mission-critical workloads for customers like the NYSE Euronext, TD Bank, Ducati, and more. “Recently, ESG conducted a study (http://www.eweek.com/cloud/iaas-finding-favor-among-businesses-vmware/) showing that 67% of mid-market and enterprise companies surveyed are now running what they view as mission-critical workloads on IaaS, while more than 80 percent of IaaS customers surveyed are running production workloads on IaaS.” This puts Cloud Carib in a unique position to benefit from the tremendous demand we are seeing in the fast-growing Cloud IaaS space,” said Leonardo F. Gonzalez-Morillo, Sales Director, North of Latin America for VMware. Mid-market and Enterprise Caribbean firms operating in sectors that require secure, compliant, and validated IT infrastructures (for example banking, legal, and government agencies), are the ones to benefit most from Cloud Carib’s new offshore Cloud IaaS offering. The major benefits include: -Shorter implementation time compared to building a virtual infrastructure on-premise. A virtual datacenter can be provisioned in a matter of hours, versus having to wait for several days to procure, setup, and configure new hardware, and clear customs. -Simplified administration, since back-end management is handled by VMware-certified engineers, and automated by the vCloud stack. -Reduced electricity cost and datacenter footprint. Also redundant power, connectivity, and cooling, since Cloud Carib’s hardware is hosted in the biggest datacenter in Nassau, with a track record of no outages in more than 3 years. -Elastic capacity, allowing the provisioned resource pools to scale as the customer needs change, paying only for what they actually use. -Flexible billing; typically customers register the service costs as operating expenses (OpEx), making it easier to obtain approvals when compared to capital expenses (CapEx). -Easy management and monitoring: for customers already virtualized on vSphere platform, vCloud Connector plug-in is available, offering centralized management of their on-premise and remotely-hosted resources from their familiar vCenter client. IDC predicts that worldwide spending on professional services related to building or implementing cloud services revenue will grow 44% over 5 years, reaching $ 16.7B in 2015. This growth rate is 10x faster than that of the overall IT services market during the same time period. Cloud Carib recognizes the fact that customers may need assistance when moving their legacy systems to the cloud, and offers a cloud migration service, with details at http://www.cloudcarib.com. The service is offered with limited availability; existing Cloud Carib customers have priority access to this new offering. Additional slots will be offered in Q1 2013 when more availability zones are added, to address the needs of customers with specific data domicile requirements. About Cloud Carib Ltd. Cloud Carib, a Citrix-certified and VMware-certified Enterprise partner in The Bahamas, offers a range of world-class cloud computing and IT solutions, with a core focus on infrastructure and application virtualization. Headquartered in Nassau and servicing the Caribbean region, Cloud Carib enables huge cost savings and operational improvements in organizations of all sizes. The company provides cloud computing solutions and services to customers in the government, financial, hospitality and healthcare markets. For more information, visit http://www.cloudcarib.com. Connect with Cloud Carib on twitter: @cloudcarib (http://www.twitter.com/cloudcarib/) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/cloudcarib/) VMware is a registered trademark and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. Cloud Carib Becomes First in Latin America & Caribbean to Achieve VMware (NYSE:VMW) "Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service" Solution Competency, Launches Offshore Cloud IaaS

Nassau, Bahamas (PRWEB) December 31, 2012

Nassau-based Cloud Carib is announcing the immediate availability of hosted virtual datacenters, delivered securely as a service on VMware’s (NYSE:VMW) market-leading vCloud platform.

“The paradigm shift from legacy IT infrastructure platforms to the advent of cloud computing offers organizations with on-demand flexibility, resiliency, scalability and cost control enabled with cloud-based infrastructure,” said Anthony Giorgi, member of the Advisory Board of Cloud Carib and former Sales Director of Q9 Networks (recently acquired by an investor group which included Bell Canada). “We are introducing a proven, world-class offering to the Caribbean market, enabling firms to take advantage of the latest best-in-class cloud technologies supported by VMware without the associated up-front capital investment.”

Hosted infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a proven delivery model currently utilized by more than 8,000 VMware cloud service providers around the world, handling mission-critical workloads for customers like the NYSE Euronext, TD Bank, Ducati, and more.

“Recently, ESG conducted a study (http://www.eweek.com/cloud/iaas-finding-favor-among-businesses-vmware/) showing that 67% of mid-market and enterprise companies surveyed are now running what they view as mission-critical workloads on IaaS, while more than 80 percent of IaaS customers surveyed are running production workloads on IaaS.” This puts Cloud Carib in a unique position to benefit from the tremendous demand we are seeing in the fast-growing Cloud IaaS space,” said Leonardo F. Gonzalez-Morillo, Sales Director, North of Latin America for VMware.

Mid-market and Enterprise Caribbean firms operating in sectors that require secure, compliant, and validated IT infrastructures (for example banking, legal, and government agencies), are the ones to benefit most from Cloud Carib’s new offshore Cloud IaaS offering. The major benefits include:

-Shorter implementation time compared to building a virtual infrastructure on-premise. A virtual datacenter can be provisioned in a matter of hours, versus having to wait for several days to procure, setup, and configure new hardware, and clear customs.

-Simplified administration, since back-end management is handled by VMware-certified engineers, and automated by the vCloud stack.

-Reduced electricity cost and datacenter footprint. Also redundant power, connectivity, and cooling, since Cloud Carib’s hardware is hosted in the biggest datacenter in Nassau, with a track record of no outages in more than 3 years.

-Elastic capacity, allowing the provisioned resource pools to scale as the customer needs change, paying only for what they actually use.

-Flexible billing; typically customers register the service costs as operating expenses (OpEx), making it easier to obtain approvals when compared to capital expenses (CapEx).

-Easy management and monitoring: for customers already virtualized on vSphere platform, vCloud Connector plug-in is available, offering centralized management of their on-premise and remotely-hosted resources from their familiar vCenter client.

IDC predicts that worldwide spending on professional services related to building or implementing cloud services revenue will grow 44% over 5 years, reaching $ 16.7B in 2015. This growth rate is 10x faster than that of the overall IT services market during the same time period. Cloud Carib recognizes the fact that customers may need assistance when moving their legacy systems to the cloud, and offers a cloud migration service, with details at http://www.cloudcarib.com.

The service is offered with limited availability; existing Cloud Carib customers have priority access to this new offering. Additional slots will be offered in Q1 2013 when more availability zones are added, to address the needs of customers with specific data domicile requirements.

About Cloud Carib Ltd.

Cloud Carib, a Citrix-certified and VMware-certified Enterprise partner in The Bahamas, offers a range of world-class cloud computing and IT solutions, with a core focus on infrastructure and application virtualization. Headquartered in Nassau and servicing the Caribbean region, Cloud Carib enables huge cost savings and operational improvements in organizations of all sizes. The company provides cloud computing solutions and services to customers in the government, financial, hospitality and healthcare markets.

For more information, visit http://www.cloudcarib.com. Connect with Cloud Carib on twitter: @cloudcarib (http://www.twitter.com/cloudcarib/) and Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/cloudcarib/)

VMware is a registered trademark and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions.

Cloud Carib Becomes First in Latin America & Caribbean to Achieve VMware (NYSE:VMW) "Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service" Solution Competency, Launches Offshore Cloud IaaS