YuuZoo streamlines IT infrastructure with Virtual Iron
ConvergenceAsia staff
23/04/2008

YuuZoo, one of the world’s premier, mobile content aggregators, is deploying Virtual Iron Software’s solution across its content management system and mobile content distribution platforms in Singapore and the United States. Virtual Iron is a provider of server virtualisation software.

YuuZoo said it expects significant benefit from the software, including reduction of its server environment by almost half, streamlined management of its computing environment, easy provisioning and set-up of systems for new users, and cost-efficient business continuity capabilities.

The company is working with ICSP Solutions out of Singapore to deploy the Virtual Iron solution. ICSP is a provider of application development software and services enabling applications for wireless, wireline, and IP networks.

“We tested out pretty much all of the virtualisation offerings before ICSP introduced the Virtual Iron solution,” said Anthony Cacciola, CTO for YuuZoo in Singapore. The Virtual Iron feature set is comprehensive yet easy to use and manage. This is a solution that can deliver on our needs now and continue to meet them as we grow and expand our virtualisation initiative, he said.

YuuZoo has built a global distribution network that enables personalised distribution of wireless value-added services and advertising to billions of mobile end users. The YuuZoo network includes access to more than 200 leading wireless carriers, portals and wireless phone manufacturers in over 50 countries across the globe, enabling a reach to more than half of the world’s 3 billion mobile subscribers. The upstream media network includes hundreds of leading wireless content developers and owners giving YuuZoo one of the world’s largest content libraries designed specifically for mobile phone use.

The company currently supports about 50 internal users in four offices and mobile applications located in four different co-location sites using 40 servers in its Windows/Linux environment. Working with ICSP Solutions, Virtual Iron and Dell, YuuZoo expects to reduce its number of servers to eight.

In addition to the savings on servers, the company also expects significant reductions in its power, cooling and space requirements. Using two Dell blade server SANs and Virtual Iron, YuuZoo has also been able reduce its co-location space from four sites to two, significantly reducing its hosting costs.

Cacciola also expects significant operational benefits using Virtual Iron’s advanced virtual infrastructure capabilities. For example, YuuZoo can now provision a new server in a virtual environment and have it up and running in minutes rather than the week or more it used to take to get a physical server up and running.

The company is also taking advantage of Virtual Iron’s high availability and disaster recovery capabilities using 'LiveMigration’ and ‘LiveCapacity’ for automatic failover and automated policy-based management.

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