Spanish IT hoster turns to IBM, Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series and Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family to develop CloudBuilder* platform Arsys is a leading Spanish provider of hosted IT services. It has over 250,000 small and medium-sized customers across 100 countries and a core of enterprise-size customers. Its services range from hosting websites to cloud computing, managed hosting, and IT infrastructure solutions. This also includes application delivery, back-up, and systems management. Employing approximately 270 people, it achieved a turnover of €41 million in 2010. The company wanted to significantly expand its cloud-based services, specifically its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering, so its customers could benefit from lower IT costs, greater flexibility, and always-available services. Challenges •Cloud computing development: Arsys wanted to extend its cloud computing platform to provide customers with greater flexibility and more cost control •Client control: It aimed to deliver services that required no up-front costs and which clients could easily manage based on pay-per-usage models Solutions •IBM and Intel: It turned to a platform consisting of IBM System x3850 X5* servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processors 7500 series and the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family •Flexibility: Simple control panel provides load balancing, different storage and server configurations, firewalls, back up policies and more Impact •100 to 1: Arsys developed a cloud platform it called CloudBuilder which delivers a server virtualization ratio of 100 to one • Virtual data center: Customers can effectively implement their own virtual data centers within a few minutes and increase or decrease IT resources based on an effective pay-per usage model •Cloud energy savings: The CloudBuilder platform and a new data center deliver a 20 percent power consumption savings and significant reduction in operational costs.
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Spanish IT hoster turns to IBM, Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series and Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family to develop CloudBuilder* platform Arsys is a leading Spanish provider of hosted IT services. It has over 250,000 small and medium-sized customers across 100 countries and a core of enterprise-size customers. Its services range from hosting websites to cloud computing, managed hosting, and IT infrastructure solutions. This also includes application delivery, back-up, and systems management. Employing approximately 270 people, it achieved a turnover of €41 million in 2010. The company wanted to significantly expand its cloud-based services, specifically its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering, so its customers could benefit from lower IT costs, greater flexibility, and always-available services. Challenges •Cloud computing development: Arsys wanted to extend its cloud computing platform to provide customers with greater flexibility and more cost control •Client control: It aimed to deliver services that required no up-front costs and which clients could easily manage based on pay-per-usage models Solutions •IBM and Intel: It turned to a platform consisting of IBM System x3850 X5* servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processors 7500 series and the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family •Flexibility: Simple control panel provides load balancing, different storage and server configurations, firewalls, back up policies and more Impact •100 to 1: Arsys developed a cloud platform it called CloudBuilder which delivers a server virtualization ratio of 100 to one • Virtual data center: Customers can effectively implement their own virtual data centers within a few minutes and increase or decrease IT resources based on an effective pay-per usage model •Cloud energy savings: The CloudBuilder platform and a new data center deliver a 20 percent power consumption savings and significant reduction in operational costs.
