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Cloud Services With Isilon

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Isilon today announced that NetHosting has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to power its new cloud storage service. Using Isilon’s X-Series, powered by the OneFS operating system, NetHosting has consolidated its new cloud service operations onto a single, shared storage resource, simplifying data management to improve service quality and reduce operating costs. With Isilon, NetHosting can scale storage capacity and performance in lockstep with demand, enabling the hosting leader to deliver highly reliable, flexible and efficient cloud storage services to its growing customer base.

If any of you haven’t tried the new Isilon system you need to.  It’s worth it.  It makes everything work faster.

  • A single, scalable volume provides true operating leverage.
  • Isilon applications including SmartConnect and SmartQuotas simplify the administration of common cloud tasks such as balancing load across the system, have native support for on-demand storage and enforcing/reporting on actual end-user utilization.
  • With the ability to add capacity and/or performance in less than 60 seconds, Isilon enables you to balance spending with actual storage usage – key for a successful cloud business model.
  • With Isilon, you dramatically reduce management time with a single file-system and avoid spending your time managing multiple systems, multiple volumes and multiple filers.
  • The Isilon Scale-out storage platform enables you to support virtualization solutions and provide for shared access on the same storage device with varying degrees of isolation.
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SpotCloud Now A Big Cloud Hosting Aggregator

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

SpotCloud is the first commercial Cloud Capacity Clearinghouse and Marketplace for Cloud Computing Infrastructure providers. The platform is an intermediary and acts as a conduit for capacity services offered by a global pool of suppliers.

SpotCloud.com aims to help aggregate available cloud hosting resources. It is the first commercial cloud capacity clearinghouse and marketplace for cloud communications infrastructure providers.

SpotCloud enables the concept of Transient Compute Capacity to address regional spikes in demand such as for content delivery, load balancing and performance optimization / testing. The capacity itself is provided via a global inter-connected pool of regional cloud providers. The strength of the concept is in treating any and all providers as nameless, faceless group of providers of raw localized computing capability. Rather than moving large data workloads (ie. Grid), you instead move smaller locked-down virtual machine based appliances across a federated pool of capacity providers utilizing resources where your customers are located. (edge based computing).

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Azure Cloud Server Now With More Control!

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Microsoft unleashed a raft of features for its Azure cloud service this week, bringing it several degrees closer to a true cloud infrastructure service. New features, announced in beta, include remote desktop viewing for Azure “roles” (or virtual machines), full support for Internet Information Services (IIS) roles, the ability to create and maintain customized virtual machines (VMs) in Azure and a host of other services.

“We’ll see if it works,” said Chris Bardon, chief software architect at Toronto-based ComputerTalk, a unified communications and automated voice interaction software maker. Bardon said he thought Microsoft was walking a tightrope between letting users mess around on their own versus delivering a headache-free service people would actually pay for.

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