Virtela announced a four-year extension of its managed services contract with Lam Research Corp. Under the terms of the agreement, Virtela will work with IBM to provide managed WAN/LAN, application acceleration, security and cloud network services to Lam. Key to Virtela being selected for this contract extension was its prior history at Lam Research Corp., delivering high performance enterprise networking solutions across the company's U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific locations.

Virtela Technology Services Incorporated has extended its automation and predictive analytics platforms to its managed IT infrastructure services for virtualized data centers and private clouds. The newly integrated technologies enhance the company’s managed data center network and security services. The company's managed IT infrastructure services for virtualized data centers and private clouds alleviate complexity with the latest tools, technologies and expertise designed to accelerate data center optimization and transformation, while avoiding downtime associated with operational issues. Enterprises can select from a full suite of modular services, which range from transition strategy and deployment through 'Day-2 support' and ongoing 24/7 service monitoring and/or management by the company's Global Operations Centers' engineers. These engineers offer expertise in supporting multivendor IT solutions across global data center and private cloud environments; they also leverage the company’s automation and analytics platforms. As data center networking evolves with the next-generation data center environment, IT staffs must continue to contend with traditional network operations challenges, such as time-consuming manual processes and network moves, adds and changes. These challenges dampen productivity and widen the gap between existing network infrastructure and dynamic data center requirements. Cloud-based service delivery is enabled by the Virtela Enterprise Services Cloud (ESC), a platform purpose-built for enterprise networking, security and mobility. It features a distributed network of 50 Local Cloud Centers (LCCs) around the world. Customers of the company's managed data center and private cloud services also benefit from predictive analytics technology, VirtelaPredict, which diagnoses potential data center network and security issues. The company also serves as a single point of contact worldwide for the management of an array of data center infrastructure. These technologies include LAN, WAN, security, IP telephony, Web proxy and application acceleration devices, whether residing in traditional data centers, virtualized data centers or private clouds. The company's technical staff performs predictive modeling, monitoring and management across virtualization environments. Beyond analytics, the company's IT infrastructure management services encompass network discovery, compliance and other capabilities. These include VirtelaDiscover, which automates network device and topology discovery, analysis and optimization, and VTerm, which provides authentication, authorization and audit services to centrally control and regulate access to all network devices. Enterprises can choose from the company's design, delivery, and end-to-end monitoring and management, or monitoring-only service options. Full life-cycle services include service management, technical support, customer support, security, disaster recovery and transition strategies. The company supports an ecosystem of hundreds of technology vendors, spanning network devices such as routers, switches, load balancers, WAN optimizers, wireless access points and RFID systems, as well as security devices such as firewalls, IPS (intrusion prevention system), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) gateways, VPN gateways and URL filtering. Customers can also leverage the VirtelaView portal to view predictive, real-time and historical reports about their Virtela-managed IT infrastructure. These managed data center and private cloud services are also available to the company's partner community—which includes system integrators, consultants and value-added resellers—for integration with their enterprise data center design and installation services to deliver full life-cycle solutions.

Virtela Technology Services Incorporated Presents at UBS Global Technology and Services Conference 2011, Nov-16-2011 01:30 PM. Venue: Grand Hyatt New York, Park Avenue at Grand Central, New York, New York, United States. Speakers: B. V. Jagadeesh, Chief Executive Officer and President.