New Veri­zon Cloud Deli­vers Enter­pri­se-Class Per­for­mance and Unpre­ce­den­ted Con­trol with Start­up Fle­xi­bi­li­ty and Speed
03-OCT-2013

NEW YORK – Veri­zon today announ­ced Veri­zon Cloud – its new cloud Infra­struc­tu­re as a Ser­vice (IaaS) plat­form and cloud-based object sto­rage ser­vice. With this ser­vice, Veri­zon is fun­da­men­tal­ly chan­ging how public clouds are built. Lar­ge enter­pri­ses, mid-size com­pa­nies and small deve­lo­p­ment shops will get the agi­li­ty and eco­no­mic bene­fit of a gene­ric public cloud along with the relia­bi­li­ty and sca­le of an enter­pri­se-level ser­vice with unpre­ce­den­ted con­trol of per­for­mance. The public beta for Veri­zon Cloud will launch in the fourth quar­ter of this year.

“Veri­zon crea­ted the enter­pri­se cloud, now we’re recrea­ting it,” said John Strat­ton, pre­si­dent of Veri­zon Enter­pri­se Solu­ti­ons. “This is the revo­lu­ti­on in cloud ser­vices that enter­pri­ses have been cal­ling for. We took feed­back from our enter­pri­se cli­ents across the glo­be and built a new cloud plat­form from the bot­tom up to deli­ver the attri­bu­tes they require.”

Veri­zon Cloud has two main com­pon­ents: Veri­zon Cloud Com­pu­te and Veri­zon Cloud Sto­rage. Veri­zon Cloud Com­pu­te is the IaaS plat­form. Veri­zon Cloud Sto­rage is an object-based sto­rage service.

Veri­zon Cloud Compute

Veri­zon Cloud Com­pu­te is built for speed and per­for­mance. Vir­tu­al machi­nes (soft­ware-based com­pu­ters and ser­vers) can be crea­ted and deploy­ed in just seconds, and users build and pay for what they need.

With Veri­zon Cloud Com­pu­te, users can deter­mi­ne and set vir­tu­al machi­ne and net­work per­for­mance, pro­vi­ding pre­dic­ta­ble per­for­mance for mis­si­on cri­ti­cal appli­ca­ti­ons, even during peak times. Addi­tio­nal­ly, users can con­fi­gu­re sto­rage per­for­mance and attach sto­rage to mul­ti­ple vir­tu­al machi­nes. Pre­vious­ly, ser­vices had pre-set con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons for size (e.g. small, medi­um, lar­ge) and per­for­mance, with litt­le fle­xi­bi­li­ty regar­ding vir­tu­al machi­ne and net­work per­for­mance and sto­rage con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on. No other cloud offe­ring pro­vi­des this level of control.

In addi­ti­on, while Veri­zon built the solu­ti­on for enter­pri­ses, it is nim­ble enough to meet the needs of small and medi­um busi­nesses, indi­vi­du­al IT depart­ments and soft­ware developers.

“This is a breakth­rough approach to how cloud com­pu­ting is done,” said Bry­son Koeh­ler, chief infor­ma­ti­on offi­cer at The Wea­ther Com­pa­ny, the nation’s lea­ding pro­vi­der of wea­ther fore­casts and infor­ma­ti­on. “Wea­ther is the most dyna­mic data­set in the world, and we also use big data to help con­su­mers bet­ter plan their day and help busi­nesses make intel­li­gent decis­i­ons as it rela­tes to wea­ther. As a big data lea­der, a major part of The Wea­ther Company’s go-for­ward stra­tegy is based on the cloud, and we are lin­king a lar­ge part of our tech­ni­cal future to the­se ser­vices from Verizon.”

Rob Wal­ters, chief tech­no­lo­gy offi­cer at Engi­ne Yard, a Plat­form as a Ser­vice that lets deve­lo­pers plan, build, deploy and mana­ge appli­ca­ti­ons in the cloud, said: “The new Veri­zon Cloud will give us ease of deploy­ment and fle­xi­bi­li­ty with full enter­pri­se capa­bi­li­ties, saving us time and money. We’ve had a long and suc­cessful rela­ti­onship with Veri­zon. We’ve deploy­ed some of our most deman­ding enter­pri­se-gra­de appli­ca­ti­ons on Veri­zon cloud infra­struc­tu­re to deli­ver the high sca­la­bi­li­ty and relia­bi­li­ty requi­red for busi­ness-cri­ti­cal apps run­ning on Engi­ne Yard.”

Veri­zon Cloud Storage

Veri­zon Cloud Sto­rage is an object-addressa­ble, mul­ti­ten­ant sto­rage plat­form pro­vi­ding safe, dura­ble, relia­ble and cost-effec­ti­ve sto­rage acces­si­ble from any­whe­re on the Web. Object sto­rage is extra robust and Web-traf­fic relia­ble, making it ide­al for cloud-based appli­ca­ti­ons. Veri­zon Cloud Sto­rage over­co­mes laten­cy issues that have plagued many tra­di­tio­nal sto­rage offe­rings, pro­vi­ding impro­ved performance.

“We are put­ting con­trol and choice back in the hands of the user, while still addres­sing their needs for avai­la­bi­li­ty, per­for­mance and secu­ri­ty,” said John Con­sidi­ne, chief tech­no­lo­gy offi­cer of Veri­zon Ter­re­mark. “We star­ted from scratch, buil­ding the core com­pon­ents we felt neces­sa­ry to achie­ve that goal.”

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The­se new cloud ser­vices are backed by the deep tech­ni­cal and ope­ra­ti­on expe­ri­ence of Veri­zon and sup­port­ed by the company’s glo­bal IP net­work, glo­bal data cen­ters and mana­ged secu­ri­ty ser­vices. Veri­zon also offers a wide ran­ge of hos­ting, mana­ged hos­ting and colo­ca­ti­on ser­vices to meet all of an organization’s IT needs.

Com­pa­nies inte­res­ted in using eit­her Veri­zon Cloud Com­pu­te or Veri­zon Cloud Sto­rage can sign-up to be a beta cus­to­mer through the Veri­zon Enter­pri­se Solu­ti­ons web­site. The sign-up and cus­to­mer ser­vice expe­ri­ence is mana­ged com­ple­te­ly online.

The pro­vi­sio­ning and deploy­ment of vir­tu­al machi­nes and assign­ment of per­for­mance levels takes just seconds. With a cre­dit card or purcha­se order on file, cus­to­mers pay as they go for com­pu­ting and sto­rage. They can con­trol their use and pay for the cost of the ser­vices they are using, adjus­ting as needs arise.

In order to ensu­re per­so­na­li­zed ser­vice for each beta cus­to­mer, access to Veri­zon Cloud Com­pu­te and Veri­zon Cloud Sto­rage will initi­al­ly be limi­t­ed to a few hundred new users per month. Cus­to­mers awai­ting their turn will be wel­co­med into the Veri­zon Cloud Insi­der pro­gram, which will enable them to be kept up-to-date on fea­ture avai­la­bi­li­ty and other impro­ve­ments as they occur.

As Veri­zon opti­mi­zes cus­to­mer expe­ri­ence through the public beta pro­gram, it will pro­vi­de oppor­tu­ni­ties for new cli­ents to take advan­ta­ge of Cloud Com­pu­te and Cloud Sto­rage. The sys­tem has been desi­gned to sup­port mil­li­ons of vir­tu­al machi­nes in each loca­ti­on whe­re Veri­zon imple­ments Cloud Com­pu­te and Cloud Storage.

Com­pa­nies with imme­dia­te cloud needs can use Veri­zon Enter­pri­se Cloud, the IaaS offe­ring of choice for busi­nesses and govern­ments nee­ding sca­lable, relia­ble and secu­re cloud infra­struc­tu­re. Veri­zon Enter­pri­se Cloud com­bi­nes the pro­ven over time sta­bi­li­ty and per­for­mance for enter­pri­se customers.

Veri­zon Cloud Com­pu­te and Veri­zon Cloud Sto­rage are instal­led in Veri­zon cloud data cen­ters in Cul­pe­per, Va., Eng­le­wood, Colo., Miami; San­ta Cla­ra, Calif.; and in Ams­ter­dam, Lon­don, and Sao Pao­lo. Initi­al­ly, cli­ents will be ser­ved out of the Cul­pe­per data cen­ter, with other cen­ters around the glo­be expec­ted to be added through mid-2014.

About Veri­zon

Veri­zon Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), head­quar­te­red in New York, is a glo­bal lea­der in deli­ve­ring broad­band and other wire­less and wire­li­ne com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons ser­vices to con­su­mer, busi­ness, govern­ment and who­le­sa­le cus­to­mers. Veri­zon Wire­less ope­ra­tes America’s most relia­ble wire­less net­work, with more than 100 mil­li­on retail con­nec­tions nati­on­wi­de. Veri­zon also pro­vi­des con­ver­ged com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons, infor­ma­ti­on and enter­tain­ment ser­vices over America’s most advan­ced fiber-optic net­work, and deli­vers inte­gra­ted busi­ness solu­ti­ons to cus­to­mers in more than 150 count­ries. A Dow 30 com­pa­ny with near­ly $116 bil­li­on in 2012 reve­nues, Veri­zon employs a diver­se work­force of 180,900. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit about.verizon.com.

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