Unisys Rolls Out Private Cloud Computing Platform

The Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution, available next month, bundles virtualization management tools and related infrastructure needed to create a private cloud into a single integrated offering.

The basic idea is that rather than evolving piecemeal toward what many see as the infrastructure model for enterprise computing, the Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution essentially allows an IT organization to transform its IT infrastructure in one fell swoop. While it’s unclear how many organizations have the financial and intestinal fortitude to take on the challenge, Unisys sees the general lack of knowledge in the market place about cloud computing as a significant opportunity.

Included in the Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution as an option are a raft of security technologies that Unisys originally developed for the National Security Agency (NSA), which Unisys has since applied to its public cloud service, and a series of chargeback utilities that allow IT organizations to manage the IT infrastructure as a service and bill individual business units for their consumption of IT resources. Unisys is also making available a managed service option through which it will remotely manage a customer’s on-premise cloud computing implementation.

In addition to rolling out the Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution at the SYS-CON Cloud Computing Conference and Expo in Santa Clara this week, Unisys is expanding its public cloud service with a new disaster recovery offering and announced its intention to make available application development services and a hosted desktop computing service.