ECONOMICS

Virtustream has chosen to deploy on Virtustream's enterprise cloud platform, xStream. Comtex selected the xStream platform to augment its computing infrastructure for the company's global news and information business. As a result of this deployment, Comtex expects to significantly enrich efficiencies in resource utilization and further strengthen its world-class product reliability.

"One of our core focuses has always been on the global delivery of real-time, reliable information and news to our clients at all times," said Chip Brian, president and chief executive officer of Comtex. "The cloud has evolved over the last decade and the technology has now allowed it to gather sufficient momentum to provide greater flexibility and versatility."

Comtex will migrate its core operating systems from an existing dedicated hosted environment in Virtustream's data center onto the xStream enterprise cloud. The move coincides with a technology refresh cycle, which presents an opportune time for a transition to a cloud-based solution to remove the burden of updating or replacing aging on-premise physical servers. The company also plans to transition certain corporate data and applications to the cloud to further strengthen business continuity and availability of critical business resources.

"The cloud provides an ideal medium for managing data among distributed systems compared to traditional electronic data interchange (EDI) methods, enabling us to move data among different systems and platforms to deliver superior performance across all lines of business," said Kan Devnani, director of technology, Comtex. "Our news and data delivery is supported by utilizing best of breed technologies and partnering with industry experts that deliver enterprise-class performance with strategic managed services. xStream provides the robust infrastructure necessary to further support our business with the guaranteed uptime Comtex customers rely on -- plus on-demand capacity to flexibly accommodate the shifting needs of publishers and clients."

With xStream, Comtex is able to outsource aspects of its infrastructure provisioning and maintenance and, as a result, the business can refocus IT staff on its innovative products and technology development projects. xStream is a hypervisor-agnostic hybrid enterprise cloud platform that was designed and developed with industry leading cloud IP based on Virtustream's more than a decade of virtualization experience. xStream was architected with a focus on the intense requirements necessary to run complex enterprise applications and is backed by industry leading SLAs.

"As an early adopter of sophisticated virtualization technologies, Comtex looked to xStream's innovative cloud provisioning architecture to support its evolving business needs," said Rodney Rogers, chairman and chief executive officer, Virtustream. "xStream has the ability to uniquely run fully isolated and securitized private cloud environments within its core multi-tenant architecture. This allows Comtex to realize the pricing and elasticity advantages of public cloud technologies while also maintaining the performance and security benefits afforded by a private cloud. This has proven to be an effective natural progression for businesses currently hosting data and applications in dedicated environments that are now looking to leverage the benefits of the cloud."