Altaway/VM's are dynamically deployed on a supercomputer-class facility combining up to 256 computing nodes and potentially thousands of microprocessors able to operate concurrently. This cluster is managed as a single pool of hardware resources and responds to changing business demands in real-time while maximizing server resource utilization.

Altaway centrally manages and control all virtual machines and maximizes utilization of all physical servers. Altaway also monitors virtual machine performance and availability across all physical servers in the environment, modifies resource allocations and migrates virtual machines across hosts based on utilization profiles.

The cluster is currently composed of computing nodes (HP ProLiant and IBM xSeries servers) and storage nodes (Ultra 320 RAID systems and FAStT storage servers):

Altaway is continuing to expand the cluster with more computing and storage nodes as well as with network protection and intrusion detection systems.