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Cloud Central Cloud Hosting Review

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
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Overview:
Cloud Central is located in AU with their own private “cloud” in a secure data center in Canberra.  They provide an easy way for a person to sign up for cloud hosting with a very user friendly back end. This makes it easy for cloud hosting customers to upgrade on the fly.

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Features:

  • Pay As You Grow – Start from just 3c per hour / $20 per month, and pay only for what you use
  • Rapid Scalablity – Cloud Servers offer instant scalability, increase or decrease your capacity at any time
  • Instant Provisioning – Cloud Servers can be created and running in under 2 minutes
  • Free Load Balancing – Cloud Servers can be load balanced for FREE for optimum performance
  • Persistent SAN Storage – Cloud Servers feature persistent mirrored ZFS SAN storage

Summary:

The Cloud Central platform is Xen (v.3.3) based.  What’s unique is that users receive guaranteed CPU share that is burstable to the entire CPU available on the server. Even more intriguing is the way in which the company has defined its unit of cloud computing, choosing to use the nomenclature of a nano, or 1/8th of a CCU as its base offering. The CCU is a standardized measure of compute power that Cloud Central devised to define a unit of measure to compare the performance of cloud infrastructure CPUs. Cloud Central’s Cloud Server range starts with 256MB RAM, 16GB of SAN storage space, 1/8 CCUs and a single CPU core. The Cloud Central Cloud Server range features cloud servers including small, large and extra-large units available up to a maximum of 8 CCUs, 16GB memory, and 1024GB of SAN storage space for Australian $1.92 per hour.

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Reliability and Uptime:
SLA is 99.9% uptime.

Customer Support:
Cloud Central was created from the very beginning to be a provider that our customers can rely on. There are real people behind the web site, and your Cloud Central support team is available to you 24×7. At the same time, they strive to make your experience as user-friendly, straightforward and error-free as possible, so that the need for customer service is kept to a minimum. Your data will be located in Cloud Central’s own private “cloud” in our secure data center in Canberra.

Sign up today, and have a fully functioning data center in five minutes

Traditional on-premises solutions require a lengthy process of issuing RFPs and comparing equipment, time-consuming deployment and testing, and high up-front costs. Cloud Central lets you get up and running right away.

The process is simple

  1. Signup for the Cloud Central private beta program.
  2. Login to the Control Center.
  3. Choose a Cloud Server size starting from 256 MB memory, 16 GB SAN storage – 1 CPU through to 15.5 GB memory, 1 TB SAN storage and 4 CPU’s.
  4. Choose from one of our 64-bit operating systems, including CentOS 5, Debian 5, Ubuntu 9, and Windows Server 2008 R2, with your choice of pre-installed web, application and database software.
  5. Your new Cloud Server will be ready to use in less than two minutes.
  6. You’re in business! Start deploying your SaaS applications and take advantage of Cloud Central’s superior infrastructure.

CloudCentral Server Provisioning Evaluation from Andre Leibovici on Vimeo.

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GoGrid Partner Program

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

GoGrid is lining up key partnerships to deliver open-source cloud computing to the masses with its new GoGrid Open Source Software Partner Program. I’m excited to check out this GoGrid partner program and see all that it has to off to all our the grea people looking for the top cloud hosting provider that would work the best for their business.

As many of you may know the GoGrid Exchange program lets partners share or sell a customized server image, which is available to the GoGrid community as a Partner GoGrid Server Image. The image includes the partner’s branding and technical information and GoGrid users can search by solution type — internet sec

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GoGrid Co-Founder and CEO John Keagy said the community will ease the move to the cloud by helping users provision their IT infrastructures; scale infrastructure with custom cloud server images, load balancing and cloud storage; and launch open source cloud solutions in with one mouse click from a single location.

“Many of our customers want to embrace open-source technology,” Keagy said in a statement. “GoGrid provides both the open-source software community and our customers with a fully integrated one-stop shop to build a complete cloud.”  He contacted us at Best Cloud Server a couple months ago.  I posted concerns with GoGrid and they have resolved all the cloud hosting concerns that I had.

I truly think that GoGrid is one of the best cloud hosting companies to work with.  Their top tier cloud hosting service is amazing.  They work with people

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IBM Acquires Software Company Datacap

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

IBM has acquired Datacap, a company that provides a data and document capturing and processing software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Datacap develops software solutions for data and document capture. Taskmaster is a full function capture platform for forms processing, distributed capture, document capture and document identification. Improve efficiency, reduce costs, increase accuracy and feed workflows for maximum productivity in a demanding world. Datacap extracts and converts data from a number of file types, including email files, JPEG and GIF image files, and PowerPoint presentations in seconds.

IBM says that the acquisition will help its customers “digitize, manage and automate their information assets, particularly in paper-intensive industries such as healthcare, insurance, government and finance.”

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