USMC Deal Brings New Meaning to “Mission-critical”
USMC Deal Brings New Meaning to “Mission-critical”
October 31, 2007: Virtualisation specialist and EMC subsidiary VMware has announced that it will be supporting the US Marine Corps (USMC) by deploying its products and services in data centres and mobile combat units around the world.
The USMC is looking to virtualise 98 percent of its IT infrastructure by 2012 in the hope of increasing availability, security, continuity, and sustainability and decreasing event recovery time.
The deal brings new meaning to the term “critical information,” as according to VMware, its software will provide the foundation on which to build long-term virtualisation strategy serving users whose lives, not just data, depend on continuous on-demand access to applications and information.
VMware claims its infrastructure will enable the Marines to achieve an aggressive server consolidation goal, reducing its physical infrastructure from 300 data centres housing 12,000 physical servers worldwide, to 30 data centres and 100 mobile platforms.
The company also says it will provide portability through secure, virtualised desktops that can be carried on a USB thumb drive and deployed on any PC, enabling mobile combat units to access computing environments on the fly from any location.
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