In New Delhi: Taking a step further to increase its cloud market share, Verizon Business has announced the enhancements for its on-demand, global computing solution or CaaS. According to the company, the enhancements will provide business customers better control and flexibility over the computing environments.
Based on the customer demand, the company has added some new features like server cloning, application and operating system expansion, streamlined networking options virtual router and shared virtual private networks.
According to the company, the server cloning feature will provide IT administrators the option to customise the configuration of a CaaS virtual server and then create a golden or reference server image. This will eliminate the need to manually create the same server image multiple times and will enable the rapid deployment of server clones supporting the same corporate application. In addition, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has been added as a click-to-provision database server option.
In addition to adding new features, Verizon has successfully completed the first annual SAS 70 Type II examination of controls for its CaaS data centres.
The current market for cloud services, according to Gartner is pegged at $46.4 billion and is expected to reach $150.1 billion by 2013.
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