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Troubadour
Troubadour is capitalizing on the cloud by providing VARs and end-user
customers with an infrastructure-as-a-service computing model that
reduces IT costs and frees up resources so companies can focus on their
core competencies. Troubadour’s VAR and manufacturing partners are
giddy with delight as the cloud computing company expands their
channel’s market opportunity by freeing up corporate tech spend so VARs
can sell more high-value tech projects.
Troubadour’s infrastructure-as-a-service model, offered through its
Virtual Data Center (VDC), allows organizations to outsource the
commodity aspects of their environments like server maintenance,
storage growth, duplication, replication and backups. Troubadour bills
its cloud computing solutions as a service at a fixed monthly
subscription rate, which, the company says, can reduce capital
expenditure anywhere between 30 to 50 percent.
Troubadour’s VDC combines SaaS and virtualization technologies with
24/7 monitoring. Customers can also customize dashboard views to see
the entire environment. Troubadour’s VDC options include VDC Host,
which provides individual virtual server sessions to support multiple
operating systems and applications; VDC Blade for testing and
developing environments that need to scale multiple servers; and VDR
Target for the off-site replication of core servers and data.
Troubadour invested more than $1 million to create its Virtual Data
Center and cloud computing offerings (the company anticipates a return
by Q3 2010). The company sells through resellers and targets all sizes
of businesses, from the SMB to the Fortune 500.
