iAnywhere: Use of Virtualization to Facilitate Managed Mobility

“We’re empowering our partners to take advantage of the growing trend toward the use of virtualization technology to solve IT problems,” said Joe Owen, vice president of engineering, Sybase iAnywhere. “Now our partners who rely on co-located or multi-tenancy software scenarios have a scalable, secure option they can offer to their customers.”

“Virtualization of Information Anywhere management and security technology offers Stratapult exciting opportunities to offer hosted management services,” said Chad Cheek, director of business development, Stratapult. “Our customers can be assured that their data is secure, without any chance of cross-over into data from other companies using the same service. Sybase iAnywhere eliminates that fear, while also enabling us to better manage hardware dependencies which in turn will result in better operating margins for our company and lower costs for our customers.”

”Sybase iAnywhere’s choice of Microsoft’s virtualization technology demonstrates a new way to leverage its software in virtualized environments,” said Jim Ni, group product manager, Microsoft Corp. “Virtualization technology is a cost-effective and streamlined way to scale software deployments, and Microsoft has invested a great deal of development effort so software developers like Sybase iAnywhere can capitalize on this technology.”

Key advantages to using virtualized Information Anywhere management and security technology include:

Increased Scalability:
Virtual technology allows service providers to dynamically allocate server capacity across multiple customers based on network traffic and service level agreements. This also allows providers to more easily take advantage of the latest generation multi-core processors and blade servers for maximum performance and reduced hardware investment.

Greater Security:
In a managed mobility services environment, data from multiple companies may reside in shared databases and files, which creates an opportunity for one company’s data to “leak” across the environment and mix with that of a different company. By completely compartmentalizing the server and database for each company as a separate virtual image, this technology eliminates the risk of co-mingling of data, which improves security, even when run on the same host machine.-Sybase release