SingleHop, IBM Acquisitions Boost Private Clouds, Cognitive Computing
March 11, 2015
Grazed from ChannelPartnersOnline. Author: Perry Vandell.
SingleHop, the private cloud hosting company, said on Tuesday that it is acquiring Server Intellect, which is best known for providing Microsoft-managed hosting solutions. SingleHop believes Server Intellect’s experience in Microsoft’s Hyper-V native hypervisor will give it an advantage over the competition.
More than half of the enterprise hypervisor market has found a home with VMware – which SingleHop also supports – but notes that Microsoft’s Hyper-V encompasses approximately 30 percent of the market…
“At the end of the day, it’s our customers who will benefit from being able to choose from the two leading hypervisors when deploying their hosted private clouds on our platform," SingleHop COO Andy Pace said. “For many enterprises, Microsoft Hyper-V is the best choice, and we are committed to extending SingleHop solutions to a broader set of customers." The company says it already has integrated Hyper-V with its own VMware-powered cloud offerings…
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