Hivelocity Launches Next-Gen Private Cloud Powered by VMware

Hivelocity, Inc. recently acquired by Colohouse, announces its new private cloud offering powered by VMware.

This service leverages the latest in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Cloud Director, and NSX architectures and will provide fully integrated backup, restore, and DR capabilities and services.

The company utilizes its purpose built infrastructure for high performance private computing to address rapid go-to-market needs with the capacity required to control cloud costs and navigate VMware/Broadcom licensing changes.

“As businesses seek to optimize their cloud expenditures while maintaining the necessary capacity and functionality for mission-critical workloads, private cloud presents a compelling option,” says Scott Fuhriman, CTO, Hivelocity. “Hivelocity has developed a platform tailored to these needs. Whether it’s navigating VMware licensing changes, refreshing outdated hardware and upgrading to modern architectures, or requiring instant access to available capacity, Hivelocity’s private cloud solution and expert team are ready to deliver.”

Businesses face increasingly rigorous security and compliance requirements, cost control mandates, and performance demands. Every server deployed, every byte stored, and every dollar spent has to add value.

The firm’s private cloud helps infrastructure spend be optimized for cost, performance, and security, enabling customers to achieve their desired business outcomes, such as:

• Private cloud infrastructure is built on the latest in Dell server and Intel chip models.
• Backup solutions with robust and fast recovery by Veeam Software to minimize downtime and recovery needed on the infrastructure that can handle production.
• myVelocity portal with self-service capabilities for ease of deployment and management.
• Fast and scalable storage on all NVMe at all layers from production to backups powered by Pure Storage.
• Multi-site replication and recovery with low latency across our data powered by Zerto.

“Private cloud is gaining significant traction and only increasing in demand, and offers customers an option that can either complement or serve as an alternative to public cloud infrastructure,” said Philbert Shih, managing director, Structure Research.

“We are excited to offer enterprise-grade, advanced private cloud capabilities,” says Jeremy Pease, CEO, Hivelocity. “This service is another impactful infrastructure solution that is being seamlessly integrated with our extensive bare metal cloud and our broader data center and network footprint. This integration allows customers to manage their private cloud environments effortlessly, with comprehensive tools and support at their fingertips. It gives them the ability to deploy applications on the right infrastructure optimized for their needs.”