Virtustream, Inc., a privately held infrastructure services firm, today announced that Domino Foods, Inc., marketer of the country's most well-known sweetener brands Domino, C&H and Florida Crystals, will join Virtustream at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit, held June 14-16 in Orlando, Fla. During the summit, Domino Foods CIO Don Whittington will discuss the company's decision to select  Virtustream's cloud computing platform, xStream, and recent progress using Virtustream's xStream Advisor to best understand Domino Foods' computing needs and the best way to utilize cloud computing.

Domino Foods selected Virtustream to implement a solution that would reduce capital equipment costs, improve application availability and implement a disaster recovery plan. The company will migrate more than 100 systems-including mission critical SAP applications such as enterprise portals, CRM, invoice and orders systems-to the cloud computing environment, virtualizing the majority of its IT infrastructure.  Virtustream's xStream platform is a hybrid enterprise cloud platform with guaranteed compute resources, also known as Infrastructure Units, across aggregate client workloads, whether hosted in the company's data center or installed on a customer's premise.

As part of the initial on-boarding process, Domino Foods is leveraging Virtustream's xStream Advisor, a data collection and analysis tool that evaluates how computing resources are used and provides a detailed blueprint that serves as the keystone for the cloud computing or virtualization strategy.

"Forward thinking companies realize the tremendous financial and efficiency benefits that cloud computing offers. Given the critical nature of our IT, we needed an infrastructure partner with a successful track record in designing and deploying virtualization and cloud computing environments," said Don Whittington, chief information officer at Domino Foods. "This expertise is necessary because of the complexity of our SAP systems and the stringent SLAs that our business expects."

At the Gartner summit, Whittington will discuss the progress of the Virtustream engagement to this point, as well as considerations for companies incorporating cloud computing into their overall IT strategy. The presentation, "The Cloud-A Sweet Spot for Domino Sugar," is scheduled for Tuesday, June 15, at 4:15 p.m. Representatives from Virtustream, which is a silver-plus sponsor of the summit, will be demonstrating the company's xStream platform in booth "T" throughout the event.

"The Gartner summit presentation from Domino Foods is timed at an interesting point in their cloud computing deployment, as they can provide direct perspective on the importance of proper cloud computing planning," said Kevin Reid, chief executive officer at Virtustream. "Based on the numerous virtualization deployments that Virtustream has led, our methodology is proven to make our customers 'cloud ready' while telling us exactly what levels of cloud resources are necessary to meet the customer's IT needs. Our patented on-boarding process provides valuable information so that our customers benefit fully from xStream, making their business operations more cost-effective while reducing their carbon footprint."