Wharfedale Announces Successful Migration and Consolidation of a Globally Recognized Apparel Manufacturer"s SAP landscape, leading to higher Efficiency and Cost Savings

Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) August 28, 2012

Wharfedale Technologies Inc. is a leading SAP infrastructure consulting services and SAP Cloud Computing firm. Wharfedale has been providing SAP infrastructure solutions to a vast number of customers and vertical industries for over a decade which include, Architecting and Implementing SAP Disaster Recovery for 65 of the Fortune 100 companies, as well as delivering 62% of all SAP onto VBlock Migrations for SAP customers based in the US. Wharfedales highly focused SAP infrastructure expertise additionally extends into High Availability, Virtualization, Backup+Recovery, Landscape Optimizations and Managed Services. Wharfedales innovative solutions portfolio – ensured that the following apparel manufacturing | retail customer – was delivered optimal systems performance, minimal downtime – while maximizing their capital investment.

The customers landscapes consisted of SAP ERP 6.0 and BI 7.0 components running on HP-UX 11i and OS/400 DB2 5.4.5. The customer was exploring the viability of migrating and consolidating their new SAP landscape to Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) utilizing VBlock solution based on EMC, CISCO and VMware technologies in a Windows 2008/SQL 2008 environment.

Wharfedale performed Advanced SAP Landscape sizing for the customers VBlock environment based on the SAP application performance requirements. A virtual environment was then built using this design with Windows 2008 operating system, and SQL 2008 as database in a VMWare ESX 4.1 hypervisor environment on a VBlock. Wharfedale executed mock migrations from AS/400 DB2 platform to Windows 2008/SQL 2008 platform using SAP heterogeneous system copy procedures and industry best practices for migration. The actual production cutover was performed over the course of a weekend onto the new virtual platform for the ERP and BI components. The customer fully expect their VBlock to deliver robust performance needed for their business critical applications.

Apart from creating the SAP infrastructure and optimizing it for the SAP application, migration of server and storage platforms, tuning the SAP database, and improving their backup and recovery methodologies were some of the other services offered by Wharfedale Technologies to its apparel manufacturing customer.

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Wharfedale Announces Successful Migration and Consolidation of a Globally Recognized Apparel Manufacturer"s SAP landscape, leading to higher Efficiency and Cost Savings

GreenQloud Announces Collaboration with SURFmarket in The Netherlands for Higher Education Cloud Market

Reykjavik, Iceland (PRWEB) November 26, 2012

GreenQloud, the worlds first Truly Green Cloud Computing Service (IaaS) powered by 100% renewable energy, announced today an agreement with ICT marketplace SURFmarket, in Utrecht, the Netherlands. As part of this agreement Dutch universities, research facilities, instructors and students get the opportunity to manage websites, web storage, backups and key-value databases, as well as scale web apps and conduct scientific computing at a significantly reduced cost and with a lower carbon footprint.

SURF, the parent organization of SURFmarket, is recognized as the leader in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) innovation in higher education and research in the Netherlands. Within this SURF connection the Dutch higher education institutions are able to collaborate and work together in determining their cloud strategy.

By partnering with SURFmarket as an authorized reseller, Greenqloud has the unique opportunity to help universities and research facilities as well as instructors and students greatly reduce both their computing costs and carbon footprint.

GreenQloud offers two cloud computing services: Compute Qloud and Storage Qloud. Compute Qloud can be utilized for easy server and application deployment while Storage Qloud is best for file management and back up storage, featuring drag & drop multi-file uploads. The GreenQloud management console enables customers to efficiently monitor usage statistics, server load graphs, bandwidth stats, the number of servers running, total storage used, estimated billing. GreenQlouds Truly Green dashboard in the management console uniquely allows customers to monitor energy metrics and carbon emissions savings, which can be used to augment a companys existing sustainability program.

Signing our reseller agreement with SURFmarket after an intensive trial period is proof positive of Greenqlouds potential to ease the management, cost and carbon footprint of educational and scientific data, said Eirikur Hrafnsson, Co-founder and Chief Global Strategist of GreenQloud. It also serves to demonstrate how the adoption of cloud computing in this important industry sector can greatly impact the efficiency of research and education.

We are pleased to announce this agreement between SURFmarket and Greenqloud. This agreement is not only an important addition to our portfolio of cloud services, but it is the first IaaS provider with whom an agreement has been signed. From the SURF perspective it also provides practical tools for promoting sustainability within higher education: Greenqloud makes it possible to create virtual machines in the cloud by using 100 % green electricity and cooling. The Icelandic energy network is in fact completely green. By making use of Icelandic computer resources a substantial amount of CO2 will be saved, said Jan Bakker Managing, Director SURFmarket.

About GreenQloud

GreenQloud offers Truly Green cloud computing virtual servers and data storage (IaaS) powered by 100% renewable energy. GreenQloud services feature an easy-to-use, self-service web console and advanced AWS-compatible API controls for full automation of IT services.

GreenQloud was founded in 2010 and is privately funded. In 2011, Gartner chose GreenQloud as a Cool Vendor in Green IT and Sustainability. The company has won several Icelandic government grants such as the technology grant from Rannis (The Icelandic Centre for Research). Verne Global serves as the primary data center facility for GreenQloud, with Thor DC (Advania) serving as an additional location. For more information, please visit GreenQloud.com.

About SURFmarket

SURFmarket is the ICT marketplace for institutions of higher education & research and providers & publishers. SURFmarket establishes an offer with special conditions specific to the education market. SURFmarket facilitates the procurement of licenses and the distribution of and access to such software, content, ICT services and hardware through both portals SURFmarket.nl SURFspot.nl. SURFmarket is part of SURF, the ICT collaborative organization for higher education and research. For more information about SURFmarket, please visit http://www.surfmarket.nl/Paginas/English.aspx

GreenQloud Announces Collaboration with SURFmarket in The Netherlands for Higher Education Cloud Market