Monthly Archives: November 2010

Plenty of Space in the Easyspace Cloud

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Easyspace, one of the UK’s largest domain name and web services providers, has announced its new Virtual Private Server Standard package offering 1024MB RAM on either Linux or Windows based servers.

Easyspace’s Standard Cloud Virtual Servers deliver more control over websites providing dedicated resources like RAM and disk space, unlike a traditional shared hosting service, making them the ideal choice for dynamic content and e-commerce sites.

The new standard packages offer scalability and burstable memory meaning customers don’t have to worry about upgrading to a new machine if they start off with a basic website and eventually expand, whether by adding more sites, or even by increasing traffic.

An Easyspace Cloud VPS server can be set up in minutes, allowing customers to offer new services or release new content to market quickly and effectively. Applications can be deployed, tested and fine tuned before being released to production environments, negating the usual install delays. Seasonal traffic spikes can be countered and simply managed using Easyspace’s on demand cloud VPS control.

To celebrate the launch of these new standard cloud packages, Easyspace is offering all customers a 25% lifetime discount on the service. All customers will be able to purchase a Virtual Server Hosting package for GBP 14.99 until 30th November 2010: more space for less cost – a perfect combination.

Full details can be found at: http://www.easyspace.com/virtual_servers/standard_vps.

Founded in 1997, Easyspace has grown to become one of the largest providers of domain names and web services in the UK. Over the past decade, Easyspace has gained a reputation for offering high quality and innovative products backed by excellent customer service. The company has grown to become one of Europe’s largest hosting companies serving over 300,000 consumer and SOHO customers.

iomart Group Profits From Rapid Growth in Cloud Computing

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A 36% rise in revenues has helped cloud computing and managed hosting services company iomart Group plc report a 105% increase in profit after tax of £1 million in its half yearly results to September 30 2010.

Angus MacSween, CEO, iomart Group stated: “In the first half of the financial year we continued to successfully grow both the size and quality of our customer base. iomart is one of the very few, trusted UK providers of complex hosting services and this has led to exceptionally low churn and high recurring revenues from existing and new customers.”

“We’re very pleased with the progress we’ve achieved during the first half of the year, with all of our hosting brands performing well over the period. All brands have continued to innovate in their respective markets and have focused on improving quality of service and customer retention, in line with the Group’s strategy of becoming the UK’s foremost managed hosting provider.”

Having reached an inflexion point last year, the Group continues to trade profitably.

“We’ve seen a significant increase in our EBITDA profitability in our existing operations, and we expect this to be further accelerated by our acquisition of Titan Internet post period.”

iomart Group acquired Essex based managed hosting company Titan Internet Limited for GBP4.2 million at the end of October. The Group expects the acquisition to be immediately earnings enhancing before the one off costs of integration synergies.

The Group also revealed that its corporate hosting arm, iomart Hosting, has organically increased its customer base by 50% and that much of this growth is attributable to cloud services.

Angus MacSween stated: “Cloud computing is definitely proving to be a game changer in the way that organisations are viewing their IT service delivery. We are witnessing a paradigm shift away from traditional on premise models to the cloud, but for many organisations the move to the cloud will prove challenging and a whole host of technical and business process issues will need to be addressed for a successful migration.”

“Increasingly organisations will turn to suppliers that have the proven technical skills, infrastructure and tools to help them develop the processes that will keep them in control of their IT, thus fully delivering the maximum benefits that the cloud undoubtedly offers.”

“Our strategy is simple. We have a highly experienced and innovative technology team and we are currently using all the flavours of virtualisation technologies to develop ‘private and hybrid clouds’ for mission critical applications which we provide under our 100 percent uptime guarantee. Using our multiple data centres we can provide an enviable level of resilience and backup/disaster recovery options, all of which gives us a tremendous head start in this embryonic marketplace.”

“In addition to our organic revenue growth, we’re especially delighted at the levels of additional business that we are gaining from our brands’ existing customer base. Our range of high quality services combined with investment in technological innovation means we believe we are very well positioned to continue to deliver strong growth.”

iomart Group is one of the UK’s leading providers of managed hosting and cloud computing services. From a single server through to private cloud networks, iomart specialises in the delivery and management of mission-critical hosting services, enabling customers to reduce the costs, complexity and risks associated with maintaining their own web and online applications. For more information, visit http://www.iomart.com.

Fujitsu Makes Cloud Computing Dynamic

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Fujitsu have announced that it sets new worldwide standards for cloud services with its Global Cloud Platform – and introduces the Dynamic Cloud, a new set of pre-integrated and configured services enabling easier migration to private or hybrid cloud-based services.

Providing a bridge between today’s largely on-premise datacenter infrastructures and tomorrow’s cloud-based delivery models, the new homogeneous Global Cloud Platform underlines Fujitsu’s truly worldwide service delivery capabilities as a trusted and reliable full-scale IT provider.

The Fujitsu Dynamic Cloud gives customers complete control over the critical make-or-break factors for enterprise cloud adoption. By providing policy- and business requirement-based choice over granular factors such as the physical location and future portability of data, Fujitsu removes the major stalling points of compliance and lock-in.

In introducing a new standard for its cloud services around the world, Fujitsu is enabling its customers to better serve their customers. Guaranteed local hosting and data mirroring at strategic points around the world overcomes latency issues for services delivered remotely, enabling ‘anytime, anywhere’ web-based services and on-demand access to applications.

Through global harmonisation, Fujitsu also provides consistency on all elements of cloud including dynamic, agile utilisation, Service Level Agreement (SLA)-based uptime, pricing, billing and support – no matter where in the world they are deployed.

Fujitsu has now completed the build-out of a global network of energy-efficient Tier 3+ data centers offering the highest levels of data protection, reliability of service, and security – enabling the introduction of its Global Cloud Platform. By switching to Fujitsu-hosted cloud services, customers will enjoy full compliance with applicable local legislation, plus peace of mind in terms of the ultimate levels of security and privacy, and SLA-based availability. The first implementations are expected to go live in April 2011.

Dynamic Cloud platform

Fujitsu’s Dynamic Cloud of globally-linked standardised offerings builds on the Infrastructure as a Service offering launched in Central Europe, Middle East, Africa and India (CEMEA&I) in November 2009. As enterprises migrate services, Dynamic Cloud provides easy portability of applications and support for key business processes.

Customers are also freed from the prospect of cloud lock-in. Fujitsu recognises that portability of data across data centers and hosted service providers is critical, therefore also making open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) available. As businesses continually evaluate where their cloud based business processes belong, and look out for “better, faster, cheaper” solutions, so Fujitsu’s Dynamic Cloud Platform is designed to ensure ease of access and portability of data, both among partners, and in and out of a Fujitsu cloud, when and where needed.

“Completion of the Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform and introduction of the Dynamic Cloud are two huge steps that enable our customers to accelerate their adoption of cloud computing,” says Andre Kiehne, Vice President Services at Fujitsu Technology Solutions. “No matter where you are in the world, Fujitsu now provides a delivery platform for cloud services at a consistent standard – just the same as customers expect from our hardware products. Our Dynamic Cloud is based on this comprehensive framework, and provides cloud-enabling technology by provisioning the right mix of traditional and cloud IT services – as well as cast iron guarantees when it comes to future portability.

“Paying only for the services they use, businesses have the option to ‘try before they buy’ and to quickly implement services that deliver real business value,” says Kiehne. “These combined offerings set Fujitsu apart from other cloud vendors and pave the way for additional layers of cloud services that we are planning for the future – such as platform as a service.”

Fujitsu enables cloud bursting

The new infrastructure enables customers to switch data and services between private and trusted clouds, in a process known as “cloud bursting”. By allowing the exchange of data and seamless interface between private and trusted cloud, and between hosted and on-premise services, customers are able to offload entire IT infrastructures to cloud environments – and start reaping the benefits in terms of cost control and guaranteed service availability.

Fujitsu is demonstrating an “agriculture cloud” at VISIT, the Fujitsu Forum Europe event which takes place in Munich, Germany, on November 24th and 25th. This portrays how traditional farmers are able to make use of our cloud technology to successfully manage their business – and to enable the easier migration of successive generations of farmers, through knowledge and resource sharing.

Fujitsu is a leading provider of ICT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 170,000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$50 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2010. For more information, visit: www.fujitsu.com

RackForce Launches Basic Version of Infrastructure Cloud

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Canadian hosting and data center provider RackForce Networks announced on Tuesday it has added Dynamic Datacenter Services Cloud – Basic service.

The entry level cloud service starts at $79 per month and an SLA of nearly 100 percent to its cloud services portfolio.

As RackForce’s new base service, ddsCloud-B is designed to support applications with less stringent requirements, such as development & test and tier 2 applications.

Just over a year ago, RackForce launched its original ddsCloud service which is the company’s premier cloud computing service.

RackForce’s ddsCLoud-B Cloud service is hosted in its GigaCenter data centers in Kelowna, British Columbia, while its ddsCloud-E service is hosted in its 151 Front Street facility in Toronto.

The company recently upgraded its 30,000 square foot GigaCenter, adding extra power and cooling to support the growth of its cloud business.

“Our high performance ddsCloud infrastructure was designed to offer a multi-tier cloud service for varying workloads,” says Tim Dufour, CEO and president of RackForce. “In April 2010 we successfully launched our enterprise class cloud service for critical workloads. Now with the ddsCloud-B we will be providing a cloud service for less demanding, less critical workloads, at an even lower price point.”

The ddsCloud-B will be dynamically scalable to, or from, RackForce’s existing enterprise cloud offering as both products use VMware as their virtualisation platform and both are connected to RackForce’s 10Gbps converged network and SAN fabric.

ddsCloud-B is now available through the RackForce website and its select reseller partners. Visit www.rackforce.com for more information.

Radiant expands national cloud infrastructure in Toronto

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Radiant Communications Corp. have announced the opening of its cloud datacenter located in Toronto, expanding the company’s cloud computing infrastructure to two facilities. Radiant’s other facility is located in Vancouver. Together, the two datacenters provide one of the widest cloud computing footprints in the country.

“The availability of Radiant’s AlwaysThere Enterprise Cloud platform in Toronto gives companies greater geographic options when selecting their cloud or managed hosting partner,” said Radiant’s President and CEO, David Buffett. “Located at a central downtown address, the Toronto facility provides companies situated near the datacenter with the added advantage of geographic proximity and high end-user performance.

“The central location of our facility in downtown Toronto minimises network latency for Toronto based customers and provides a disaster recovery location for our Vancouver based clients,” said Buffett.

When a company selects a cloud hosting provider, the services are typically delivered from a single datacenter, making the customer vulnerable to disaster based outages in that area.

Radiant has two datacenters situated in Western and Eastern Canada, which allows customers to select the datacenter nearest their offices, providing the best end user experience possible while also taking advantage of Radiant’s disaster recovery services hosted in the other datacenter.

Another competitive advantage of Radiant’s AlwaysThere cloud infrastructure is that it is based in Canada and not subject to the U.S. Patriot Act. Under the provisions of this legislation, American authorities can access and collect companies’ data without their knowledge or consent.

“Some Canadian businesses want assurance that their data will remain under the jurisdiction of Canadian privacy laws,” said Buffett. “They are more comfortable knowing their data is kept here, always under the control of a Canadian corporation.”

Radiant’s infrastructure reflects this focus on privacy. “Our approach is quite unique in Canada in that we bundle cloud services with high-speed business Internet and private networking security products to create a hosted ‘private cloud’ with security and user experiences comparable to any internal IT infrastructure,” said Buffett.

AlwaysThere cloud-based solutions are flexible, reliable and affordable. Radiant’s AlwaysThere products are sold on a pay-as-you-use pricing model. Virtual servers are available from $149 per month and the company’s flagship Hosted Microsoft Exchange service is available for between $4.95 and $14.95 per user, per month.

Radiant’s AlwaysThere services are sold by a direct sales force to midsize businesses in Canada and through partner programs with IT service vendors across the country.

About Radiant

In operation since 1996, Radiant currently serves over 20,000 business locations in Canada and the United States from its offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.

Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, Radiant Communications (www.radiant.net) provides businesses across Canada with a comprehensive and innovative suite of data communications and cloud computing services: the largest on-net DSL footprint across Canada & the US, T1 and E10/E100 fibre broadband, MPLS private networking, and AlwaysThere Cloud Computing services. Many of Canada’s largest retail chains and thousands of other small to mid-sized businesses depend on Radiant solutions for their mission-critical data networks and enterprise-level applications.

Progressive Infotech becomes Microsoft Cloud Accelerator Partner

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Progressive Infotech, a leading independent provider of IT Infrastructure Solutions and Services today announced that it is Microsoft Cloud Accelerator Partner. This partnership will enable Progressive to generate revenue more efficiently with faster deployments, service customers remotely, and benefit from a recurring revenue stream from the subscription-based offering.

Progressive Infotech, as Microsoft Accelerator Partner will offer Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) solutions to its customers. Microsoft’s BPOS consists of software-as-a-service bundles that organisations access through Microsoft’s server farms. BPOS applications are based on Microsoft Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Office Communications Online and Office Live Meeting. Progressive will add BPOS to its Professional Service Line, which provides complete cloud computing offerings to organisations.

According to Mr. Prateek Garg, MD & CEO, Progressive Infotech, “We have added another feather to our cap by being a Microsoft Cloud Accelerator partner. This will help us in readily offering our customers the options for moving all or part of on-premises applications to the Web, for extending existing applications’ functionality with new Web-based features, and for enhancing current on-premises operations with the benefits of software-plus-services.”

Benefits to Progressive:

  1. Recurring revenue streams: Due to the nature of the hosted service, Progresive Infotech will be able to generate revenue more efficiently with faster deployments, service customers remotely, and benefit from a recurring revenue stream from the subscription-based offering.
  2. Value-Added Services: Progressive Infotech will provide higher margin, value add services to the customers such as customisation, integration services, and mobility solutions.
  3. Agility: Progressive will have the advantage of development tools, automated service management and global datacenter presence to respond faster to customer needs. Therefore, it can focus more on its competitive differentiators, and reach new markets.

Benefits to End Customers:

  1. Quickly Launch New Products: The organisations’ end customers will be able to bring their products to market faster as their queries qill be responded quickly.
  2. Focus: The organisations will spend more time focusing on the competitive differentiators rather than operational hyrdles.
  3. Money Saving: The organisations will incur less expenditure on the ongoing maintenance and infrastructure costs.

Microsoft and Progressive are well-positioned to offer cloud services that will help the customers to innovate and differentiate while reducing costs. The two companies collaborate on various Microsoft technologies as well. Progressive Infotech is among the few organisations worldwide to have achieved Integrated Quality Management Services encompassing International accreditations for Quality, ITSM & Security.

About Microsoft Cloud Computing – Windows Azure:
Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manages web applications on the internet through Microsoft datacenters. Microsoft Cloud Accelerate engagement is designed for the most cloud-committed partners. It is for the partners who fulfill a premium level of requirements; their dedication will be rewarded with benefits like a Cloud Accelerate Badge, priority listing in Marketplace, and more. Enterprise organisations unsure about how to explore the potential benefits of cloud computing should empower their top designers, application architects, and IT professionals to test these capabilities now by deploying well-suited new projects and by migrating appropriate existing applications.

About Progressive Infotech
Progressive Infotech is a leading independent provider of IT Infrastructure Services encompassing Provisioning, Integration and Management of IT Infrastructure. Progressive’s services offering span across the IT infrastructure needs of an enterprise and has three strategic business units; Infrastructure Provisioning & Integration, Managed Services and Professional Services. It is the Premier Enterprise Partner of HP and has strategic alliances with all the industry majors and provides IT Infrastructure Management services across the industry verticals. Founded in 1998, the company employs over 1100 associates and operates from its head office in Noida, covering more than 130 locations country wide including regional offices in all major cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata. For more information about the company, visit www.progressive.in.

Frost & Sullivan to Host Summit in Singapore

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Frost & Sullivan will be hosting the Next Generation Communication & Collaboration Summit on December 7, 2010. This one day summit aims to bring together industry players and subject matter experts to discuss and evaluate some of the present and future challenges facing the Industry through interactive panel discussions along with stand-alone presentations.

The business landscape in Asia Pacific has in recent years undergone tremendous change in the way organisations communicate and collaborate internally, as well as with each other. With Asia Pacific having very high diversity, different regions or countries have adopted collaboration solutions according to their cultural preferences and economic development. The high growth of Asia Pacific as a region has led to innovative and competitive solutions that seen in the market place today.

The changing landscape, coupled with the global financial crisis and competitive market environments, have led to enterprises focusing on productivity to drive efficiency, collaboration to drive innovation within their enterprise and cost reduction through cloud services.

“The computing industry is preparing for a paradigm shift in the way computing is performed worldwide. There is a growing awareness among consumers and enterprises to access their information technology (IT) resources extensively through the Internet, a development broadly called ‘Cloud Computing’”, says Arun Chandrasekaran, Research Manager at Frost & Sullivan.

He adds, “The primary restraint for the adoption of cloud is the security and privacy issues. Customers are apprehensive about factors such as regulatory compliance, inadequate service level agreements, shared infrastructure (for public clouds), data storage issues, and unclear legal implications. In the absence of clarity on the aforementioned issues, most CXOs err on the side of caution and limit the usage of public clouds.”

This one day forum will look at 3 main topic tracks: Unified Communications, Collaboration and Cloud. The Unified Communications (UC) Track will look at the current state of the market, the adoption trends, opportunities in the market and the business case for UC. The Collaboration Track takes a closer look at some of the audio, video and web technologies in the market, their market potential in Asia Pacific, and presents customer successes stories to better understand the explosive growth in this market while the Cloud Track looks at how enterprises are shaping the market dynamics in the cloud computing space and pushing the industry to a higher level of maturity.

Key topics include Leveraging Unified Communications to improve business processes; Driving Innovation through Collaboration; Getting ready for Cloud Computing – IT Strategy, Architecture & Security; Using IT to help companies to become more ‘green’; Leveraging Social Media to Improve Customer Service; and How tablet computing will change the way we use information.

For a detailed program agenda and speaker list, please visit http://www.frost-ngcc.com/summit.html.

Microsoft is a Platinum Sponsor for the summit while Aspect, Dell, HP and Plantronics are Gold Sponsors. Datacraft, InterCall, Jabra and Polycom are Silver Sponsors while Avanade is a Partner. ZDNet Asia is the official online media partner while CIO Magazine, Computerworld Singapore and MIS Asia are media partners for the summit.

Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company’s Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO’s Growth Team with disciplined research and best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and implementation of powerful growth strategies. To find out more visit http://www.frost.com

Caspio Simplifies Data Analysis in the Cloud

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Caspio, Inc., a leading platform-as-a-service without coding, have launched new Advanced Reporting features that allow users to create more powerful reports for real-time data analysis in the cloud. Caspio’s step-by-step wizards provide a simple way for anyone to publish spreadsheet and database information as an interactive report on their own website for users to quickly explore, share and analyse critical business information in real time.

“The amount of information people have to absorb in today’s business environment is staggering. That’s why we have made it easier for customers to start with any set of data and point-and-click their way to powerful reports accessible to authorised users or the general public,” said company founder and CEO, Frank Zamani. “The new additions, combined with our built-in online database and application builder, allow for a new breed of highly intelligent web and mobile applications.”

The new features deliver dynamic reporting and data visualisation capabilities that enable non-technical users to easily add calculations, summaries and grouping to traditionally flat data, all without any programming.

Advanced Reporting Features Include:

  • Calculated Fields – Intuitive wizards make it easy to define calculations and add custom formulas to reports.
  • Totals and Aggregation – Roll up data in various ways using common aggregations like sum, average, min, max, count and a complete list of functions.
  • Data Grouping – Information can be visually organised into expandable groups to simplify data categorisation.
  • Embedded Deployment – Exclusive to Caspio, the embedded deployment technology allows users to seamlessly embed applications on any website, CMS, blog or mobile site just by pasting the provided deploy code.
  • Dynamic Dashboards – Ability to create web-based dashboards displaying multiple reports and charts on the same page.
  • Unlimited Users – With its flexible “unlimited user” pricing and proven scalability, Caspio is an ideal solution for organisations looking for both internal and large scale public-facing applications.

A pioneer in cloud computing since 2000, Caspio bridges the gap for non-technical business users to create powerful web-based and mobile applications and deploy them seamlessly to any website, eliminating development time and infrastructure costs. Today, the Caspio platform powers over 400,000 web applications for Fortune-500 companies, small-to-medium sized businesses, government agencies, universities, and over 80 percent of the largest newspaper websites in North America.

Advanced Reporting features are available now in Caspio packages starting at $79.95 (about £50) per month, with generous capacity for unlimited users and 20 applications to start. For details, videos, and information on other recent features, visit www.caspio.com/support/product-updates.asp.

Caspio, Inc. is the world’s leading leading do-it-yourself platform-as-a-service. The company’s philosophy is to empower business users to create and deploy online databases, forms, and applications easily and without programming. Caspio’s platform-as-a-service replaces coding with intuitive point-and-click wizards, enabling users to rapidly produce web database components for capturing, publishing, and managing data online. Caspio shrinks development time from weeks to hours, and from thousands of dollars to a small monthly fee. A free 14-day trial is available at www.caspio.com.

Federal Communications Commission Selects Terremark

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Terremark Worldwide, Inc., a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, have announced that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has selected Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud platform to support its strategy to leverage cloud computing, including the agency’s plan to host its website in the cloud. Terremark’s highly secure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering will support the FCC’s efforts to provide richer online services to citizens through a comprehensive overhaul that includes a complete and comprehensive redesign of FCC.gov and its online systems.

The Enterprise Cloud provides the FCC with on-demand access to reliable computing resources delivered from an IaaS platform that is certified and accredited to Federal Information Security Managements Act (FISMA) requirements. The unique ability of Terremark’s industry-leading cloud computing solution to directly and securely connect with dedicated servers housed in the FCC’s datacenter was another vital differentiator in the agency’s selection process.

The Enterprise Cloud, which is based on Terremark’s proven utility computing platform and delivered from top-tier, massively connected datacenters, provides the FCC with a dedicated pool of processing, storage and networking that allows the deployment of computing resources in real-time. The platform is supported by highly experienced, certified professionals who are exceedingly knowledgeable about government security requirements and employ various security measures, from a proprietary memory analytics and integrity validation system to managed intrusion detection and prevention, to secure the customer environments.

“The FCC’s selection of the Enterprise Cloud serves as further validation of the compelling value Terremark’s cloud computing solutions provide our federal customers,” said Bruce Hart, COO of Terremark Federal Group. “With various federal government agencies leveraging our ultra-secure and highly scalable cloud platform to meet their real-time IT infrastructure needs, Terremark continues to distinguish itself as the cloud computing leader in the federal market. Our proven ability to comply with the highest security standards while delivering leading-edge IaaS solutions designed to fulfill each customer’s specific requirements ideally positions our company to further benefit from the U.S. government’s increasing adoption of cloud computing.”

Terremark Worldwide is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry’s most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers in the United States, Europe and Latin America with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, Terremark delivers government and enterprise customers a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery, security, data storage and cloud computing services. More information about Terremark Worldwide can be found at http://www.terremark.com.

Hostway Corporation Launches FlexCloud Servers

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Hostway Corporation, a global leader in infrastructure and web application hosting, today announced the release of FlexCloud Servers, a scalable, on-demand cloud computing solution that combines the flexibility of a public cloud with the reliability and performance of an enterprise grade virtual environment. Hostway delivers a pay-as-you-grow, elastic, enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure that can be self-provisioned and administered 24 hours a day, giving the customer full administrator access and complete control to scale individual computing resources.

FlexCloud Servers were designed to be one of the most flexible, reliable, and easy to use cloud hosting solutions on the market. An intuitive web-based management console enables users to create and self manage multiple clouds; automating the administration of resources including server instances, CPU/RAM/Disk, IP addresses, security, load balancing and more. Public and private image libraries facilitate saving and cloning of images, user initiated snapshots save multiple states, and backups are automatically scheduled and performed. With FlexCloud, provisioning takes minutes, enabling near real time availability of resources to meet growth and variability requirements.

Unlike most public clouds, FlexCloud Servers incorporates high availability features including automated failover of instances, fully redundant host, network, and storage hardware, and enterprise class Storage Area Networks to increase performance and reliability. With FlexCloud, users sacrifice neither speed nor reliability to gain the flexibility of true cloud computing.

“We’re thrilled to write the next chapter of the Hostway leadership in the cloud” says Todd Benjamin, vice president of Enterprise Hosting for Hostway. “With FlexCloud Servers we picked and chose the best that cloud technologies and business models have to offer, creating a package of features and functionality that is unparalleled in the industry.”

To further encourage users to experience the benefits of FlexCloud, Hostway is offering a revolutionary pricing model known as Automatic Price Protection. With this model, pricing will automatically be set at the LOWER of the usage based or fixed monthly rating. CIOs can realise the best of both worlds – pay as you go for low or variable utilisation, with the predictability of a fixed monthly cap on the amount that a resource will cost. Price Protection is virtually unheard of in the industry today.

FlexCloud Servers can now be ordered online at http://www.hostway.com/cloud-servers. For more information about Hostway’s purpose optimised cloud platforms and cloud based applications visit http://www.hostway.com.

Hostway Corporation provides managed, cloud, and shared hosting solutions, colocation, domain name registration, ecommerce solutions and other Web-based services to over 1.4 million websites and 600,000 customers worldwide. The company operates more than 250,000 square feet of state-of-the-art data center space that reduces the complexity and cost of Web-based technologies for small businesses and large enterprises. Founded in 1998, Hostway is one of the world’s largest Web hosting companies with a direct presence in 14 countries, 17 worldwide operation centers and more than 700 employees.