NTT Europe Online Launches Virtualized Services Portal

NTT Europe Online a managed hosting specialist, has announced the availability of what it calls a groundbreaking virtualization customer portal. NTT claims it offers unprecedented levels of control and flexibility to companies deploying virtualized services in any of its European data centers.

The portal gives IT Managers around-the-clock, on-demand access to VMware's powerful VirtualCenter control node, enabling users to configure provision and manage their virtualized IT environments online. Available 24/7, the secure Web portal is supposed to simplify the management process by allowing users to activate, deactivate and reboot their hosted virtual servers in a matter of seconds from their desktop. It also enables the seamless drag-and-drop migration of server resource across virtual machines without engaging SLA support services from the NTT Europe Online team.

In addition to helping organizations optimize their hosted IT infrastructure, the Customer Portal provides IT users with full-featured reporting capabilities, which can be tailored to cater to both management and technical reporting requirements. A unique 'Snap Shot' report function gives IT Managers an instant view or model of capacity usage and performance, which can then be separately reconfigured and tested before deployment. It includes an undo-function, meaning if the new 'Snap Shot' configuration isn't optimized, users can simply revert back to the original model at the click of a mouse.

"The Customer Portal means that we now have a transparent overview and complete control of our virtual servers ─ something we would look to our host specialists NTT Europe Online to supply," said Peter Barker, head of development of UK digital agency, Rufus Leonard. "A core part of what we offer is the speed at which we can deliver our digital services. The online portal means we can launch new or reconfigure existing virtual servers for our clients much quicker than before. This has dramatically reduced the time it takes us to develop, test and launch clients' web-projects,” added Barker.

Craig Pennington, VP of Operations said of the announcement: "It is our responsibility to develop products and solutions that make the lives of our customers easier. The new Customer Portal provides businesses with unprecedented control over their entire hosted IT environment. It has traditionally been time intensive and complicated to re-deploy server capacity and truly exploit the flexibility of virtualized computing power. Our aim is to bring down all of these barriers so that managing hosted virtual servers is simple, intuitive and hassle-free."