Nuvola Technologies supports VMware vSphere(TM) 4, highlighting the increasing customer reliance on virtualization for their critical applications, which “Nuvola Always ON IT” fault-tolerant systems are uniquely capable of supporting. VMware vSphere 4 is the industry's first operating system for building the internal cloud. It transforms data centers into simplified environments to enable the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services, accentuating the importance of uninterrupted availability in a cloud infrastructure.

“Nuvola Always ON IT” systems offer the industry's best protection against downtime and data loss, with field-proven uptime in excess of 99.999 percent and the operational simplicity of an industry-standard server. “Nuvola Technologies systems running VMware vSphere 4 are particularly well suited as: -- The host platform supporting VMware vCenter(TM) Server, for managing the entire VMware vSphere 4 environment -- The critical processing resource in a server pool, providing availability-on-demand during load balancing, volume spikes, time-constrained processing windows, etc. -- The underlying hardware used with VMware HA, providing a hardware/software combination that delivers continuous availability in a virtualized infrastructure that is among the best the industry has to offer.

"VMware has proven its ability to provide maximum end-user value, cost savings, operational efficiency, and business continuity protection while enabling customers to do more with less," said Bogomil Balkansky, vice president, product marketing, Server Business Unit, VMware. "The combination of VMware vSphere 4 and “Nuvola Always ON IT” systems offers customers the efficiency, control and choice they need to run their applications in private and public clouds."

“Nuvola Always ON IT” systems are designed to prevent failure and downtime of critical applications and business processes. That sets Nuvola's servers apart from conventional high-availability servers, which are designed to recover after a failure has occurred and disrupted operations. The Intel processor-based fault tolerant architecture, complete component redundancy, and self-diagnosing and servicing features of Nuvola's servers provide uptime reliability between 99.999 - 99.9999 percent -- much less than five minutes of downtime per year in continuous operation.

VMware vSphere 4 is the only virtualization solution to deliver 'Always On IT' that meets the most critical needs of SMB and ROBO customers by providing zero-downtime application availability and comprehensive data protection features ideal for smaller IT environments:

• VMware Fault Tolerance and High Availability provides true continuous availability for infrastructure and applications to further enhance service continuity, enabling critical applications to run with zero downtime or data loss due to hardware failures.

• VMware VMotion' reduces planned downtime from server maintenance activities by enabling the live migration of running virtual machines from one server to another with no disruption or downtime.

• VMware Data Recovery provides fully automated backup and recovery for all applications and data, with complete integration with VMware's management client for simple deployment and efficient operation.

• VMware vShield Zones secures applications and data inside a dynamic firewall that maintains complete protection across the physical and virtual environment with point-and-click ease.

Nuvola's unique architecture has been designed to fully integrate voice, data and video applications through unified communications.

The architecture leverage the power of Virtualization technology from VMWare,Core Networking from Cisco Systems, Dell Servers and Sun Storage combining all forms of business communications into a single platform, Nuvola Technologies is capable to deliver a unified system that provides powerful voice, video, data, and mobility applications with the benefits and the power of Enterprise Cloud Computing platform, offering unprecedented capacities, performance, reliability, and availability through a “no single point of failure” strategy.

All of Nuvola’s technology components use redundant power supplies, redundant fans, redundant controllers, dual Storage Heads for NuvolaStor, and spare capacity for Virtual Machines, providing unprecedented availability with a self healing architecture.

Dell provides value in terms of processing power with six-core processor technology while also improving performance throughput to memory which are both critical to virtualization consolidation ratios while maintaining performance

NuvolaStor is providing enterprise class storage through Sun Microsystems’s innovative ZFS file system. ZFS is a file system that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management.

NuvolaStor is built from Sun’s revolutionary file system ZFS which means that virtualization is at the core of the product. NuvolaStor is unified storage (file and block) with the ability to expand the underlying physical storage on demand without limitation.

Nuvola Technologies' unique architecture has been designed to fully integrate voice, data and video applications through unified communications.

The architecture leverage the power of Virtualization technology from VMWare with the Unified Communications solutions from Cisco Systems combining all forms of business communications into a single platform, Nuvola Technologies is capable to deliver a unified system that provides powerful voice, video, data, and mobility applications with the benefits and the power of Enterprise Cloud Computing platform.