PlateSpin
PlateSpin is a leading supplier of virtualization software that helps companies measure, analyze and automatically optimize the server resources in their data center to help improve business service levels and lower costs across the enterprise. PlateSpin provide solutions within four areas of workload management:
- Relocation
- Protection
- Provisioning
- Optimization
PlateSpin award-winning products provide analysis, planning and migration for X86 workloads in the data center that in turn reduce risk, as well as save time and money for common data center challenges.
VAR Benefits
PlateSpin…
- Yields higher profit margin opportunities than selling virtual infrastructure alone.
- Is channel-friendly and focused.
- Has a lucrative Partner Program. Learn more.
- Offers deal registration to protect margins.
- Provides virtualization solutions for one of the hottest and fastest-growing market segments today!
VAR Profile
VARs with proficiency VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server, Virtual Iron or XenSource, and who have expertise with server consolidation and/or disaster recovery, and who are familiar with solutions-selling, are ideally positioned for selling PlateSpin solutions.
Vertical Markets
PlateSpin targets companies in most vertical markets, including but not limited to:
- Large enterprise
- Government & Education
- Banking & Finance
- Retail
- Manufacturing
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Utilities
Market Overview
The virtualization market has multi-billion dollar potential in products and related services. Enterprises in every sector are engaging in virtualization efforts to consolidate servers in the data center. PlateSpin’s solutions ensure that these initiatives are completed faster and easier than ever before and with minimal business disruption.
The State of the Data Center
The data center is full of inflexible platforms and workloads that cannot be easily re-hosted across platform boundaries. Workloads and Resources operate unbalanced, and servers are either over- or underutilized.
With PlateSpin you can measure workloads and resources effectively and move workloads easily in your datacenter. As a result, you can optimize resource supply and workload demand resulting in money savings and reduced risk
Complementary Products
Compatible with VMware VI3, PlateSpin solutions help data centers move workloads onto and off of virtual infrastructures. As a result, PlateSpin can be sold in conjunction with VMware as a high value complementary solution. Other complementary products include Microsoft MOM & Virtual Server, Virtual Iron, XEN and common image techs.
Evaluation Software
Free, fully functional, evaluation software are available on PlateSpin partner portal, but with some limitations to time and quantity of use.
About PlateSpin
PlateSpin provides the most advanced data center automation software designed to optimize the use of server resources across the enterprise to improve business service levels and lower costs. PlateSpin’s patent-pending conversion and optimization technology liberates software from hardware platforms, allowing servers to be streamed over the enterprise network from any source to any destination. This freedom of movement ensures the best fit between server resource supply and application workload demands.
Global 2000 companies use PlateSpin solutions to lower costs and solve today’s most pressing data center initiatives such as server consolidation, disaster recovery, hardware migration and test lab automation. PlateSpin was recently awarded the 2006 International Business Award for Best Company and the 2006 Virtualization Technology of the Year Award (UK). The company also ranked fourth on the seventh annual PROFIT HOT 50 for emerging growth companies. Additionally, Branham Group named PlateSpin as one of the fastest growing IT company in Canada and second on the Movers and Shakers list in the Canadian IT Sector for 2007. For more information please visit www.platespin.com/.