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April 14, 2008
3Leaf Enables On-Demand Allocation across the Board
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 7 -- 3Leaf Systems, a provider of next-generation virtualization solutions for enterprise datacenters, today announced the Virtual Compute Environment, a fully virtualized datacenter infrastructure that allocates server resources on demand to support rapidly changing business needs. By virtualizing memory, CPU and I/O resources of standard x86 servers, 3Leaf Systems' Virtual Compute Environment (VCE) delivers unparalleled flexibility and mainframe-class availability to commodity servers while optimizing datacenter resources. 3Leaf Systems' VCE is a core enabling technology for the "dynamic datacenter," allowing businesses to quickly and efficiently allocate resources on demand to meet business needs while at the same time significantly reducing costs.
"3Leaf Systems is at the forefront of migrating businesses from traditional datacenter operations to fully virtualized environments," said B.V. Jagadeesh, CEO and president of 3Leaf Systems. "By virtualizing compute, memory, and I/O resources on standard x86 servers, 3Leaf will give its customers the agility and flexibility to manage and plan for cyclical fluctuations in server resource demands. Instead of the time-consuming and costly over-provisioning of capacity that has become the norm, datacenters managers will be able to realize the promise of the dynamic datacenter and its dramatic cost savings."
IT management is tasked with deploying datacenter resources to keep one step ahead of rapidly changing business environments. Mergers and acquisitions, global outsourcing, remote access for telecommuters and mobile workforces, and desktop virtualization tax existing datacenter resources and contribute to skyrocketing operational and capital expenditures. According to IDC, low server utilization wastes $140 billion of unused server resources. Combating the ever-increasing costs and keeping up with server demand requires increased scalability, faster deployment and provisioning, easy repurposing, and more efficient resource utilization.
"The demand on enterprise datacenters is continually increasing. To keep up, businesses need flexible, agile, and cost-effective solutions to provision and manage resources in real time," said George Crump, founder of Storage Switzerland. "Virtualization of memory, CPU, and I/O resources will vastly improve the responsiveness and availability of datacenter resources while lowering costs."
3Leaf Systems Virtual Compute Environment
3Leaf's Virtual Compute Environment is an advanced virtualization solution for the growing x86 server market that virtualizes compute, memory and I/O resources. 3Leaf has licensed AMD's Coherent HyperTransport technology, and announced last week an agreement to license Intel Corp.'s QuickPath Interconnect technology, enabling 3Leaf to support one hundred percent of the x86 server market.
3Leaf's technology is unique in that it delivers a complete enterprise solution that fully virtualizes the CPU, memory, and I/O resources within the datacenter. This scalable, flexible, and dynamic datacenter infrastructure enables allocation of all server resources on demand, moving them in a just-in-time fashion to and from the applications, thereby maximizing resource usage and minimizing power consumption. This vastly simplifies management and allows businesses to effectively respond to spikes in utilization. As a result, datacenter infrastructure is more agile and flexible, and operational and capital costs are dramatically reduced.
Enabling the Dynamic Datacenter
3Leaf's Virtual Compute Environment is the core enabling technology for the dynamic datacenter, which is being embraced by the industry as the next generation datacenter. The dynamic datacenter leverages virtualization to bring agility and flexibility in resource deployment while at the same time significantly lowering operating and capital costs. 3Leaf's Virtual Compute Environment enables the dynamic datacenter in a number of ways, delivering complete virtualization of server resources, easy repurposing of workloads, and fast, flexible provisioning:
- Virtualized server resources
Today's datacenters are highly inefficient, with server resources typically running as low as 10-15 percent utilization. Frequently, a single application consumes only a small fraction of the server's capacity, and redundant configurations can waste even more resources. Virtualization of compute, memory, and I/O resources enables the creation of a pool of server resources that can be allocated and de-allocated as needed, increasing agility, scalability, and resource utilization while reducing both capital and operating expenditures by fifty percent. Virtualization of I/O resources alone reduces the number of NICs and HBAs by up to 85 percent, the number of Ethernet and Fibre Channel switch ports by up to 80 percent, and the number of cables by up to 70 percent.
- Easy repurposing of server workloads
The ability to quickly and easily repurpose server workloads is key to managing rapidly changing datacenter requirements and maximizing datacenter resource utilization as workloads change during the course of the day, week, or month. Easy repurposing of datacenter resources enables server utilization to be maximized around the clock, minimizing capital outlay for dedicated server workloads and delivering up to 50 percent savings in power consumption.
- Fast, flexible provisioning
Currently, provisioning a server can take weeks or months by the time the cable is laid and the networking and storage administrators have synchronized with the server administrator. 3Leaf's Virtual Compute Environment decomposes servers into pools of virtualized resources. Provisioning a server is as simple as applying a software configuration to each server that specifies the allocated resources for that server, drastically reducing the time and cost of provisioning new servers.
About 3Leaf Systems
3Leaf Systems provides next-generation server virtualization solutions to support both scale-up and scale-out virtual servers in enterprise datacenters. 3Leaf technology simplifies operations by increasing the utilization and availability of large-scale datacenter resources. A privately held company based in Santa Clara, Calif., 3Leaf Systems investors include Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners, Intel Capital and Storm Ventures. For more information, visit www.3leafsystems.com.
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Source: 3Leaf Systems
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