{"id":1439,"date":"2012-05-08T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=91096214f67c87092596c7cf447d0fe3"},"modified":"2012-05-08T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T15:11:00","slug":"6fusion-cloud-resource-meter-for-vmware-vsphere-now-in-public-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/6fusion-cloud-resource-meter-for-vmware-vsphere-now-in-public-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"6fusion Cloud Resource Meter for VMware vSphere Now in Public Beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/company\/6fusion\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured alignleft\" title=\"Image representing 6fusion as depicted in Crun...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/assets\/images\/resized\/0009\/8970\/98970v1-max-450x450.png\" alt=\"Image representing 6fusion as depicted in Crun...\" width=\"191\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>6fusion, a provider of utility metered public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure management solutions, today announced that Cloud Resource Meter for VMware vSphere has achieved public beta and is now available for <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http:\/\/www.cloudresourcemeter.com&amp;esheet=50267075&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=sign+up&amp;index=1&amp;md5=26ecaea8e05b04d32de12bb147eabd3c\">sign up<\/a>. Cloud Resource Meter for VMware vSphere allows users to meter resource consumption in any VMware vSphere 4.1 or 5.0 environment providing unparalleled insight into resource consumption \u2013 all for free and all right from the VMware Console. Cloud Resource Meter for VMware vSphere product joins the existing family of <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http:\/\/www.6fusion.com\/products\/cloud-resource-meter-for-windows\/&amp;esheet=50267075&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Cloud+Resource+Meter+for+Windows&amp;index=2&amp;md5=37dcb2b206ff2604660c752d2e843d81\">Cloud Resource Meter for Windows<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http:\/\/www.6fusion.com\/products\/cloud-resource-meter-for-linux\/&amp;esheet=50267075&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Cloud+Resource+Meter+for+Linux&amp;index=3&amp;md5=fba297655881992cb759dc39578f1922\">Cloud Resource Meter for Linux<\/a> already available from 6fusion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUtility metering with the Cloud Resource Meter gives us the ability to profile our environment in a way we never have before,\u201d said Graham Brown, Director, Business Technology Consulting, Gyrocom, \u201cwhich gives us accurate data to make informed decisions on workload allocation and deployment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using 6fusion\u2019s unique <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http:\/\/www.6fusion.com\/technology\/workload-allocation-cube\/&amp;esheet=50267075&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Workload+Allocation+Cube&amp;index=5&amp;md5=a00c8925905178914ac27de8c8380903\">Workload Allocation Cube<\/a> technology with a connection to the <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http:\/\/www.6fusion.com\/technology\/uc6-cloud-platform\/&amp;esheet=50267075&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=UC6+Cloud+Management+Platform&amp;index=6&amp;md5=6ed1444cc828412d527aa6093c2f92f6\">UC6 Cloud Management Platform<\/a>, Cloud Resource Meter provides an industry standard unit of measurement allowing you to meter resource consumption across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure. This standardized approach to metering allows IT departments to improve ROI analysis, optimize resource consumption, build the business case to migrate to cloud, or simply improve IT distribution processes.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-10072\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniversal metering is foundational to any utility,\u201d said John Cowan, 6fusion Co-founder and CEO. \u201cCloud Resource Meter for VMware vSphere allows any VMware user in the world to quantify their cloud requirements and determine the best location to run those workloads going forward \u2013 maximizing efficiency of IT spend and ROI.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Cloud Resource Meter is available in two models \u2013 Free and Pro. Cloud Resource Meter Free provides the ability to meter and view the last 28 days of data directly in the vSphere interface or in the <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http:\/\/www.6fusion.com\/technology\/uc6-cloud-platform\/&amp;esheet=50267075&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=6fusion+UC6+Console&amp;index=7&amp;md5=50f3200e1c6abc85fb596d839b3604e6\">6fusion UC6 Console<\/a>. The Pro version provides the full capabilities of the tool, including unlimited metering, expanded reporting capabilities, technical support as well as the ability to access 6fusion\u2019s enhanced analytics tools.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Cloud Resource Meter or to sign up for access to the beta product, visit www.6fusion.com\/products\/cloudresourcemeter, or stop by booth 618 at <a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http:\/\/www.citrixsynergy.com\/sanfrancisco\/index.html&amp;esheet=50267075&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Citrix+Synergy&amp;index=9&amp;md5=913ceb1c951b150ca59dd3295f24f13b\">Citrix Synergy<\/a> in San Francisco or booth 311 at Interop Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=d07b6b8b-30a1-40ce-b1ba-ae0a2f9e6bf2\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cG-cJWIWuL9aPrzS8Yr-AKtEl1I\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cG-cJWIWuL9aPrzS8Yr-AKtEl1I\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cG-cJWIWuL9aPrzS8Yr-AKtEl1I\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/cG-cJWIWuL9aPrzS8Yr-AKtEl1I\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/-yyIrYvfPH8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful utility metering tool provides unparalleled insight into        VMware resource consumption and usage     LAS VEGAS&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;6fusion, the leading provider of utility metered public, private, and        hybrid cloud infrastruct&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,47,71,207,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6fusion","category-it-management","category-virtualization","category-vmware","category-vmware-vsphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}