Tenzing is a managed hosting company with an award-winning approach to hosting business-critical Internet applications. A private company with 60+ employees, Tenzing has customer service centers in Kelowna, BC and Toronto, Ontario and datacenters in Canada’s primary NAPs: 151 Front, Toronto and the Harbour Centre, Vancouver. Challenge As a managed hosting company, Tenzing manages the complex business requirements of hundreds of different clients. To provide efficient services and support, the company needs to make the best use of its data center resources. Automating workload management across physical and virtual machines would not only increase efficiency and improve performance, but also reduce costs for both Tenzing and its customers. Many of Tenzing’s clients have both Microsoft Windows and Linux environments and require virtualization technologies that work seamlessly on both platforms. Tenzing needed a single data center management solution that was flexible enough to natively manage all industry-leading hypervisors, including VMware, Xen and Microsoft Hyper-V. Novell Solution Tenzing evaluated several workload management solutions including VMware and Citrix, before selecting PlateSpin Orchestrate from Novell to power its new cloud computing platform. “We needed a workload management solution that is hypervisor agnostic,” said Kelly Beardmore, CTO at Tenzing. “PlateSpin Orchestrate is the only solution we evaluated that does not lock us in to a single …
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