GreenQloud Partners with Scality

The move will allow GreenQloud to launch its range of services later this year to users around the world.

Scality, a developer of scalable object storage software for email and cloud storage applications, today announced a technology partnership with GreenQloud, a green public cloud computing service. The company claims that the move will allow GreenQloud to launch its range of groundbreaking services later this year to users around the world. It avers that GreenQloud's partnership with the company represents a union of two schools of thought, one being that a cloud service offering should include features such as flexibility, scalability and 'five nines' (99.999 per cent) up-time - while drastically cutting costs; the other that ecology and sustainability should be a primary concern for all IT companies and providers.

"All magnetic storage drives fail - it's a fact of life. Our technology starts from this premise and allows service providers to develop a fault-tolerant storage platform that works, whatever happens," said Jerome Lecat, Scality's CEO. "It does this, along with unlimited scalability, thanks to inherent features designed and built into the core of the storage platform."

According to Eirikur Hrafnsson, GreenQloud's CEO, "Carbon neutrality is going to be the number one requirement of forward-thinking companies looking to go beyond their regulatory commitments to meet ecological targets. Carbon neutrality will happen as shareholders wake up to the fact that a green strategy is not only desirable, but can also be cost-effective as energy prices continue to rise and carbon taxes are being implemented."

"GreenQloud not only embodies the true advantages of cloud services - elastic scalability of storage and virtual servers, pay as you go business model with no CapEx and automation of scale via APIs - but it raises the bar in terms of its ecological advantages and performance," Hrafnsson said. "This is why GreenQloud was honored with a most promising cloud computing award at the Structure 2010 conference in San Francisco this summer. The company is certain to further hit the headlines as its services enter beta testing in the weeks ahead."

Hrafnsson echoed Lecat's comments, saying, "We are delighted to be working with a likeminded innovator like Scality, and the value this partnership brings to our carbon-neutral cloud services. One of our missions is to be a truly green alternative to Amazon's cloud offering. By leveraging the Scality platform we can offer our customers an enterprise class, secure and infinitely scalable S3 compatible storage service at a competitive price and we will continue to work with Scality to bring new, awesome features in the object storage space in the near future."

"Thanks to these key advantages, it is clear that our services are a win-win-win offering, offering advantages to the storage industry, our clients, and the eco-world as a whole. Our new cloud services are set to become a must-have for companies looking to better their IT efficiencies, and stay green in the process," Hrafnsson added.