DAI Moves Production Servers to Virtustream Enterprise Cloud Platform 
DAI, a global development firm, is moving crucial production servers to Virtustream’s enterprise cloud platform, xStream. DAI’s production servers support mission critical services for over 500 users using Lotus Domino, IBM Sametime, SharePoint, and SQL Server applications.
DAI, a global development firm, is moving crucial production servers to Virtustream’s enterprise cloud platform, xStream. DAI’s production servers support mission critical services for over 500 users using Lotus Domino, IBM Sametime, SharePoint, and SQL Server applications.
Ultimately migrating physical, on-premise servers and enterprise applications to a private, multi-tenanted cloud like xStream requires a business transformation and “a guarantee that both the data center and cloud platform can truly deliver enterprise class performance,” said Sean Jennings, vice president, Solutions Architecture at Virtustream in a statement.
With its business growing, DAI looked to the cloud to save money, become more agile, improve business processes and better manage its power and cooling systems, according to Larry Campbell, DAI’s vice president for Information Management and Technology.
“Migrating from our own internal data centers to Virtustream’s xStream platform was a strategic business decision, one we knew would yield significant cost savings as a result of increasing IT capacity and reducing heating and cooling costs all while improving business continuity,” Campbell said in a statement.
Virtustream focuses on the aggregate requirements of workloads operating within the cloud and can dynamically allocate resources to those workloads with the greatest demand. Rather than offer commoditized virtual machines with memory or CPU parameters, Virtusteam cloud solutions guarantee CPU, memory, network and storage I/O resources as defined by the number of “infrastructure units” a user signs up for.
This approach means that clients determine how these resources are used, which eliminates restrictions on the number of virtual machines, the size of those machines or how and when they may be used. The company’s xStream platform also offers various levels of business continuity, depending on the type of IUs purchased, according to Jennings.
Working with Virtustream’s Cloud Advisory Services team, DAI deployed the xStream Advisor, Virtustream’s cloud assessment tool, to analyze its current infrastructure, design an efficient cloud-based solution, and develop the framework to successfully migrate DAI’s applications to the cloud, Campbell added.
Additionally, the Virtustream xStream Advisor calculated the power and environmental benefits DAI would realize by moving to the cloud and determined that DAI’s reduced power consumption would lower its server-based carbon emissions by over 74%, he said.
As business executives and IT professionals understand the elasticity, security and performance that xStream has to offer, “we’ve seen a significant increase in interest for our Cloud Advisory Services and more enterprise clients considering or planning cloud migrations,” Virtustream’s Jennings added.
Currently, more than 75% of DAI’s production servers run on the xStream platform with additional servers set to migrate to cloud this summer.
