Hyper-V Cloud Launched by Server Vendors

As reported on ZD Net, Microsoft is teaming up with server vendors to provide validated private-cloud stacks. Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM and NEC have agreed to provide validated stacks as part of the program. Dell and IBM will start offering their pre-configured Hyper-V Cloud systems immediately, and the other partners will follow in the coming months. Microsoft is calling the program 'Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track' and it was developed for customers who want faster private cloud computing deployments.

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Microsoft and server vendors offer certified private-cloud stacks.

"Microsoft’s goal in providing the Fast Track stacks is to offer mid-market and high-end customers more choices from more vendors when building shared networking, compute and storage resource pools inside their datacenters, he said. Microsoft is leaving it up to each of the partnering vendors as to which storage or networking or blade devices they recommend. The only requirement is the resulting Hyper-V private-cloud stacks follow the 90-page guideline that McCann’s team, Microsoft Consulting Services and the OEMs created over the past eight months. 'We can’t tell server vendors how to build out their servers. We are a software vendor' said McCann. 'We’ve been appropriately humble and are not trying to be a bully.'”

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