SOURCE: Hosting.com
September 17, 2008 15:26 ET
Hosting.com Announces General Release Beta for Its Cloud Computing Solution -- CloudNine
CloudNine Production-Ready Cloud Computing Beta FREE for 90 Days
LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - September 17, 2008) - Hosting.com, the first name in global hosting
solutions and services, today announced its public release of CloudNine --
a cloud computing environment that provides intuitive, scalable business
solutions. Showcased at VMware's (NYSE: VMW) VMWorld 2008, Hosting.com's
CloudNine provides immediate cloud computing for businesses of all sizes
with high availability, dynamic scalability, and reduced compute costs.
Hosting.com released a private CloudNine beta to select businesses and
organizations earlier this year. Hosting.com's general release beta is
available now through November 30, 2008. Organizations that sign up for
the beta will receive a production-ready virtual machine in CloudNine that
is scalable, flexible and efficient. The beta machines will be free for 90
days, and can seamlessly transition into larger, complex hosted solutions
during or after the beta.
Many enterprise companies and those in the SMB space are searching for
opportunities to partially move their hosted infrastructure into a
cloud-platform and others are looking to completely move to a cloud
computing infrastructure to capitalize on the advantages cloud computing
provides. Through its involvement in the new VMware vCloud initiative,
Hosting.com is working with VMware and other leading technology providers
to create standard APIs and services to allow organizations of all sizes to
seamlessly extend their traditional IT infrastructures into the cloud.
Hosting.com also offers private cloud solutions for clients that require a
dedicated, single-tenant environment. "Over the past 12 months,
Hosting.com has successfully designed and deployed custom Cloud
environments that include ESX Clusters with tailored processing, memory and
redundant storage for clients seeking greater compute efficiencies," noted
Jonathan Erwin, EVP, CloudNine Sales and Marketing. He continued, "Client
satisfaction and performance on these highly available solutions prompted
the acceleration of CloudNine's creation."
CloudNine runs on a standards-based architecture utilizing world-class
technologies from providers such as VMware, Radware (NYSE: RDWR), HP,
Fortinet, Cisco and others. Hosting.com's internal developers and solution
architects worked closely with these manufacturers and others to stretch
the boundaries of virtualization and provide a client-centric, easy-to-use
cloud computing platform.
"It is evident that Hosting.com had the end-user in mind when architecting
CloudNine. CloudNine provides high availability, scalability, and
automation in an optimized virtual environment," stated Ilan Kinreich, COO,
Radware. He continued, "Radware's newly released Virtual Director will
further optimize and automate CloudNine while ensuring Hosting.com
continues to provide the industry's best SLAs and Quality of Experience
(QoE) to its clients."
About Hosting.com
Since 1996, Hosting.com, the First Name in Hosting, has provided
award-winning dedicated hosting, managed hosting, collocation, disaster
recovery and business continuance services to a global customer base
demanding a high level of security, reliability and responsiveness.
Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the web based platforms of Web
2.0 companies, software-as-a-service providers (SaaS), content distribution
networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose web presence is
crucial and high availability mandatory. Hosting.com currently owns and
operates its proprietary content delivery grid (CDG) via data center
facilities in Louisville, Kentucky; Irvine, California; San Francisco,
California; and Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit
www.hosting.com or call the company at 800-446-7627.
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