Univa UD, a leading provider of cloud management software, announced
today that its UniCloud and Grid MP products now support Amazon EC2 Spot
Instances, enabling users to greatly reduce public cloud computing costs
by essentially setting their own price for the resources they wish to
consume.
“This is a win for our customers, and serves to solidify Univa’s
position in enabling HPC in the cloud,” said Gary Tyreman, SVP of
products and alliances at Univa UD. “Spot Instances provide an option
for auction-style computing where UniCloud or Grid MP users can bid for
capacity in the Amazon EC2 cloud. This will drive down costs through
competition while enabling a dynamic computing option for customers
whose use cases are flexible enough to take advantage of this
opportunistic model.”
Spot Instances are a new way to purchase and consume Amazon EC2
Instances. They allow customers to bid on Amazon EC2 capacity and run
those instances for as long as their bid exceeds the current Spot Price.
The Spot Price changes periodically based on supply and demand, and
customers whose bids meet or exceed the price gain access to available
Spot Instances. Spot Instances complement On-Demand and Reserved
Instances, providing another option for obtaining compute capacity.
“Thanks to UniCloud’s policy-enabled decision-making, Spot Instances
users can leverage Amazon EC2 when their price point is met,” said
Tyreman. “The UniCloud policy engine determines where it’s cheapest to
run workloads and when to move a job to a less expensive resource or add
capacity to a cluster if the price is right. Not only can Spot Instance
users establish their top price, they can automate the decision to use
this option when it makes economic sense.”
“With Amazon EC2 Spot Instances we’re bringing the benefits of cloud
computing to a broader range of customers and use cases,” said Terry
Wise, Director of Business Development for Amazon Web Services. “We are
excited that Univa UD is supporting Spot Instances with UniCloud. End
users will now benefit from having greater access to computing capacity
with a more flexible cost structure.”
UniCloud is a leading cloud management software product for HPC and
technical computing, enabling organizations to build and access dynamic
cloud computing environments. With UniCloud, application users can
manage physical and virtual infrastructures in scale and achieve an
unprecedented level of both application and cloud mobility. UniCloud
makes it easy to on-board an organization or application into a cloud
environment, and enables policy management based on established service
level agreements or requirements.
"The Amazon Spot Instances program delivers new levels of flexibility
and value not found in other clouds. Yet, to help leverage these
benefits, cloud users benefit from automation provided by Univa," said
Paul Burns, President at Neovise. "With this announcement Univa is
offering advanced levels of policy-based automation that take advantage
of fluctuations in the price of Amazon EC2 compute resources. This is a
valuable capability from Univa and is a smart way to leverage the public
cloud."
“At Univa we’ve built our products to address the key capabilities
required to be successful in cloud,” said Bill Bryce, director of
Product Development at Univa UD. “Among our core design principles are
the concepts of scalability, dynamism, extensibility, integration,
multi-tenancy, and heterogeneity. Now, with support for Amazon Spot
Instances, we’re taking our cloud management suite to the next level by
expanding the available resources to our customer’s and, at the same
time, giving them new options for policy-enabled decision-making based
on economic factors.”
For more information on UniCloud and Grid MP with support for Amazon EC2
Spot Instances, visit http://univaud.com/about/contact/.
About Univa UD
Univa UD is a leading provider of cloud management software. Companies
worldwide use our award-winning products to build and manage internal
cloud environments, leverage public cloud services, and enable cloud
service offerings for end customers. We offer the widest range of
production-ready private, public and hybrid cloud management products
available anywhere, including cloud infrastructure management and
service governance. For over a decade, Univa products have delivered
measurable business value to organizations of all kinds by reducing
costs, increasing resource utilization, and optimizing the computing
environment. Enterprises use Univa products to optimize their internal
technical and business computing environments, and service providers
rely on Univa software to create and deliver their cloud-based
offerings. With a focus on making business easier for our customers,
Univa is advancing the vision and practice of cloud computing. Visit us
at www.univaud.com.
Mary Bass
Univa UD, Inc.
512-692-4118
mary@univaud.com