6fusion has announced that the company will launch a utility computing Infrastructure Node in a California data center facility later this month. The Infrastructure Node consists of an enterprise class hardware architecture that is federated by 6fusion's Utility Computing software, UC6. UC6 turns any virtualized computing infrastructure into a fully accessible utility computing system using 6fusion's patent-pending Workload Allocation Cube algorithm.

A highly scalable Blade Server and SAN architecture will be deployed at the data center in California. UC6 converts the raw server and storage hardware in to a pure play utility computing offering. The Infrastructure Node is being launched as a part of 6fusion's Utility Computing Vendor Partner Program. Under the terms of the UCV program, partners provide data center space, network access and computing resources and 6fusion uses UC6 to convert the infrastructure into a fully functional utility computing node. The new U.S. node is 6fusion's third Node to go into production worldwide.

The new 6fusion Infrastructure Node will come online this month and it will be available for IT Service Providers to operate hosted application services.

6fusion Infrastructure Nodes not only have the capability to run any type of application that operates on an x86 architecture, but customers pay only for the computing power they consume using the Workload Allocation Cube.

6fusion has plans to launch more than a dozen Infrastructure Nodes in key geographic regions around the world in 2009.