Customers missing out on VMWare's Resource Pool benefits

Cloud hosting companies don’t seem to be passing on the benefits of VMware’s Resource Pool capabilities.

But customers can now get what is thought to be the UK’s first truly fixed-price pre-pay cloud hosting service that fully utilises VMware’s Resource Pool capabilities and guarantees no overspend and improved hosting performance.

The StratoGen Hosting Advanced Resource Pool (SHARP™) is saving companies up to 40 per cent on their monthly bills. Users pay upfront for a specified amount of processing power, memory and storage space to deploy on as many virtual machines (VMs) as are necessary.

This is a big change from most hosting plans which charge users on the number of VMs used to create their private cloud hosting environment. Charges are normally calculated based on a variety of different meters from bandwidth to RAM hours used and customers are often hit with surprise bills.

SHARP, on the other hand, works in a similar way to a mobile phone or utility contract with customers knowing exactly how much processor power, memory and storage space they have available. Users are able to prioritise resources to certain VMs and are alerted if their network is nearing capacity, with the option to adjust their infrastructure as necessary.

The hosting product gives users much greater control over their hosting expenditure, the flexibility to create their own servers and dramatically reduces waste of resources.