Thursday 17 May 2012

Manufacturer to move hosted JD Edwards ERP to 'virtual private cloud'

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For some companies considering cloud ERP, managed hosting might be the vehicle that takes them there. It’s true of TUG Technologies Corp., a manufacturer of aviation ground support equipment based in Kennesaw, Ga., that is moving its Oracle JD Edwards ERP to a “virtual private cloud” at its New York-based managed hosting provider, Velocity Technology Solutions Inc.

 

To others, hosting a private cloud on remote virtual infrastructure is enough. "The 'virtual cloud' is real," said George Goodall, senior research analyst at Info-Tech Research Group, based in London, Ontario. "We've seen an evolution in hosting. Initially, enterprises put their own hardware into a provider's data center. And then the provider offered managed services with patching and upgrades on standardized hardware. And now that hardware actually hosts a variety of different applications in a virtualized infrastructure, hence the virtual cloud."

 

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