Agility is a Cloud Management product developed by Arjuna Technologies which enables the flexible sharing of IT resources and services within an organization, and beyond. Arjuna is offering as an “on-ramp to the Cloud [that] allows the IT department to begin to experiment with cloud computing in a gradual, incremental way, without any need for disruption to existing service,” Arjuna is positioned to help IT towards a world in which internal IT infrastructure can over time be increasingly subsumed into the cloud.
Arjuna has an international reputation for delivering scalable, fault tolerant software products to global organizations and have built our consultancy skills through ‘hands-on’ technical excellence. We are proud of our ability to develop innovative software products and uniquely positioned to help clients profit from the most compelling business and technical proposition in IT – Cloud Computing.
Appistry is reinventing the enterprise application platform for private, public and hybrid clouds. Their CloudIQ Platform enables a new generation of highly scalable, extremely reliable, data-centric applications to be delivered at a fraction of the time, cost and complexity of traditional approaches.
Their highly distinguished customers include; FedEx, State Street Bank, Northrop Grumman and multiple U.S. Government agencies. They are a huge player in the cloud server space, but not many people have heard of them. I hadn’t heard of them till earlier today. Dang… Here is a little more about Appistry Cloud Computing.
The Appistry platform includes:
CloudIQ Manager: Extensible Application Deployment and Management Software
CloudIQ Engine: A Cloud Application Server Built From the Ground up for High Performance and Elastic Scalability
CloudIQ Storage: A highly Cost-effective Distributed File Storage System
The Appistry CloudIQ Platform products may be used individually to address particular enterprise needs, but together they form the most complete, advanced, and proven platform for delivering enterprise cloud applications.
Appistry customers report a wide variety of benefits, including a 60% reduction in the time to deliver applications, a 20x increase in management efficiency, and an 80% reduction in CapEx and OpEx for mission-critical applications, all while improving enterprise agility and achieving enhanced application scalability, reliability and performance.
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.
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.
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
Signup for the Cloud Central private beta program.
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.
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.
Your new Cloud Server will be ready to use in less than two minutes.
You’re in business! Start deploying your SaaS applications and take advantage of Cloud Central’s superior infrastructure.
and services within an organization, and beyond. Arjuna is offering as an “on-ramp to the Cloud [that] allows the IT department to begin to experiment with cloud computing in a gradual, incremental way, without any need for disruption to existing service,” Arjuna is positioned to help IT towards a world in which internal IT infrastructure can over time be increasingly subsumed into the cloud.
