Archive for July, 2010

New Cloud Hosting-Friendly App Released for iPhone and iPad

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

SMEStorage has announced version 1.40 of its iSMEStorage product, which is a cloud hosting virtualization application for theiPhone. In this newest version, SMEStorage has added support to the OS 4.0 for the iPad and the iPhone.

Company officials said that the application brings access to more than ten aggregated storage clouds directly from the iPad, with seamless viewing and management from a virtual cloud file system. There is additional cloud support storage in the form of Google News, Docs, Amazon S3, MobileMe, Microsoft SkyDrive and Live Mesh, RackSpace Cloud Files, Box.net, Mezeo, Gmail (GDrive), FTP, Email-as-a-Cloud, FTP Clouds and any WebDav enabled cloud.

“We’ve also made it easier to identify files and folders on different clouds with logo visualisations, and we also gave more information about the files including the GEO location information that we hook into for all file uploads through our service,” Osborne said.

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Infrastructure-as-a-Service With Disaster Recovery Services

Monday, July 12th, 2010

3PAR announced that CentriLogic has become the first member of the 3PAR Cloud-Agile partner program in Canada. CentriLogic has chosen the 3PAR InServ F-Class Storage Server to power its multi-facility Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Computing and Cloud Storage platforms. In addition, as a 3PAR Cloud-Agile: ASSURED partner, CentriLogic has chosen 3PAR Remote Copy software to deliver Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service.

“We decided to go with 3PAR over the competition because of its superior technology and the business benefits offered by the Cloud-Agile program,” said Jim Latimer, VP of Client Solutions at CentriLogic. “We view 3PAR’s ease of use, availability, scalability, and cross-facility capabilities as crucial to helping us meet our customers’ demands, and we believe the 3PAR Cloud-Agile program to be an important vehicle in helping drive new business.”

“The InServ F-Class offered us superior, load-balanced performance and reliability as compared with the other storage arrays we evaluated,” said Latimer. “Built-in tiered storage capabilities and the ability to cost-efficiently accommodate workloads with varying service level requirements give us the ability to effectively and efficiently tailor solutions to customer needs. In addition, by offering Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service via 3PAR Remote Copy and 3PAR Cloud-Agile: ASSURED, we were able to avoid professional services costs present with other platforms.”

“We are excited to welcome our first 3PAR Cloud-Agile partner in Canada, and to support CentriLogic’s Cloud offerings,” said David Scott, President and CEO for 3PAR. “Since its launch last year, the Cloud-Agile program has gained tremendous traction. With this new addition to the program, the Cloud-Agile partner ecosystem now encompasses leading hosting service providers in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, and South Africa.”

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Site5 Launches Shared Cloud Hosting

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Site5 launched cloud hosting services, introducing Shared Cloud Hosting and Cloud Virtual Private Servers.  The new cloud servers combine Site5’s  customer support with the agility and reliability of cloud hosting architecture. Cloud hosting offers an unprecedented level of scalability, since nodes can be seamlessly upgraded and system resources can be instantly allocated across physical servers as needed. Cloud hosting also offers rapid failover protection, quickly activating parallel nodes in the event of a hardware failure or other outage.

“Shared Cloud Hosting and Cloud VPS Hosting are designed to keep downtime for email and websites to an absolute minimum. It’s an ideal solution for businesses and consumers who need a very high level of uptime but don’t have a large IT budget to spend on complicated load-balanced, multi-server solutions. It is perfect for website owners that like to have access to enterprise grade hardware and uptime, without the massive cost,” said Site5 Chief Operating Officer Tom Sepper.

  • Shared Cloud Hosting is available in three standard configurations, starting at just $22.50 per month for 2GB of disk space and 50GB of monthly bandwidth. All plans include free website migration to Site5, a dedicated IP address, the SiteAdmin control panel, and automatic data backups.
  • Cloud Virtual Private Servers are heavily customizable. Customers may choose from 10 standard configurations, starting at $100 per month for 15GB of disk space, 600GB of monthly bandwidth, and a node powered by 756MB of RAM. All Virtual Private Servers include Site5’s exclusive “No Worry” Full Management services, the SiteAdmin control panel, daily and weekly remote data backups, and at least two dedicated IP addresses.

To learn more about Shared Cloud Hosting from Site5, please visit http://www.site5.com/hosting/cloud.

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