Archive for April, 2010

Next week sees the release of Ubuntu Server in the Cloud

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Canonical a large deliverer of Ubuntu, the world’s best free software platform has now entered the Cloud Server World.  As of next week the will release the Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS all on the cloud.

Very ironic that Canonical who has never been in the space enters to be a  cloud company and is going to jump out front and center this coming Tuesday, when Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS is officially released. With this release comes the formal inclusion of a cloud toolset.  Something that will be very attractive to enterprise customers who are looking to get into the cloud computing arena.  This will be the third LTS version of Ubuntu that’s been released.

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Parallels Virtuozzo

Monday, April 26th, 2010
“…we found the performance of Virtuozzo Containers to be the best. We still use other virtualization solutions in our lab environment, but Virtuozzo is the only software we use for production servers. 

– Lukas Loesche,
Director of IT Operations, Arvato Mobile

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.6 for Windows BETA

We have a lot of challenges in today’s cloud computing world such as server commissioning & retirement, maintenance of operating systems and manual deployment of applications.

Parallels offers a wide range of virtualization solutions to help you unravel these challenges and provide your organization with the ability to:

  • Maximize investment in your existing infrastructure
  • Simplify operations
  • Manage your environment from a single management console
  • Move & respond to your business faster

Other features of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers include:

  • Intelligent Partitioning

    Small footprint of virtual servers and lightening fast management operations

  • Dynamic Resource Management

    Automatic or administrator-defined control over system resources

  • Mass Management

    Centralized management of virtual environment

  • Live Migration (Linux version only)

Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is an operating system virtualization solution that harnesses the full power of your IT infrastructure by increasing the utilization of existing servers by 2X–3X over hypervisor solutions. With today’s lean budgets, higher utilization of your existing servers represents cost savings not only in maintenance and energy costs but also from the potential elimination of new server expenditures.

Virtualization at the host operating system provides a lean, efficient virtualization layer that enables higher density ratios of virtual servers to physical servers along with complete isolation between workloads. This isolation allows multiple workloads to exist across business silos without one workload affecting the performance and security of any other.

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Hostway Launches Cloud-Based Database Administration

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Hostway, a large web application hosting company, announced today that it has partnered with Stratavia, to launch NetDBAs.  NetDBAs is an enterprise-class database automation solution that simplifies the management of corporate databases.  This is all done on cloud servers which will help reduce the cost of enterprise hosting.

“We are excited to team with Hostway to launch the industry’s first database administration as a service offering on the cloud,” said Thor Culverhouse, President and CEO, Stratavia. “With Stratavia’s Data Palette driving the automation behind NetDBAs, IT administrators can better manage the full lifecycle of database operations, thereby enabling companies to realize economies of scale and better return on investment from the cloud.”

“We are excited to launch this value added solution that will automate and simplify the most time consuming and repetitive tasks typically performed by database administrators,” says Todd Benjamin, vice president of Enterprise Hosting, Hostway.” With assistance from Stratavia we have harnessed high-end enterprise-class automation technology, simplified it, and deployed it in the cloud to be cost effective and versatile, solving a prevailing challenge for today’s efficiency minded corporations.”

Hostway’s Cloud Based Article

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