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September 07, 2011

LightEdge Solutions Announces Initial Phase of vCloud Administrative Portal

By Deepika Mala, TMCnet Contributor

LightEdge (News - Alert) Solutions, a customer-centric player in cloud computing and resilient collocation services, recently introduced the initial phase of a vCloud administrative portal for its virtual server customers. 

The initial launch to existing customers is said to be the first step of an ambitious multi-staged process that is expected to be completed before the end of the year. 

With this addition, LightEdge has turned out to be one of only two VMware VSPP partners in the Iowa with vCloud capabilities in place to support their public and private cloud virtual server customers. This tool will be used by LightEdge as a critical differentiator for the company to continue to drive the rapidly expanding cloud computing market place.

Customers, with the help of the vCloud portal, will be allowed to create, deploy, monitor and manage their cloud-based virtual servers quickly and easily from a single application centered in LightEdge’s own “MyLightEdge” online support environment.

The portal will also allow customers to review their entire VM environment, make real-time resource updates and schedule backup snapshots to protect their systems.

“The addition of the vCloud portal will be a complete game-changer for the way that our customers are able to monitor, scale and manage their Virtual Server environments,” said Jeff Springborn, COO and president of LightEdge Solutions, in a press release.

“Customers will be able to scale resources for temporary traffic increases directly from the administrative portal at any time of day or night to ensure optimum performance of their application or website.”

Currently, LightEdge is also one of only eleven companies in the United States that has achieved a “Cloud Provider” certification with Cisco (News - Alert).

In related news, Gartner (News - Alert), Inc. positioned LightEdge Solutions, in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the 2010 Unified Communication as a Service North American report.

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Deepika Mala is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Carrie Schmelkin
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