Company names Karl Pichler as the Chief Financial Officer.
Rackspace Hosting, a web hosting company, yesterday announced the appointment of Karl Pichler, 39, as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Principal Financial Officer, effective November 10, 2011. Pichler has been serving as interim CFO since April 15, 2011.
The company states that Pichler joined it in 2005 as Vice President of Finance. In April 2009, Pichler was appointed to its Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) team and served as the company's International Finance Director. As of April 15, 2011, Pichler served as acting CFO, Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer. Over his tenure, he has had several roles at the company including the further development of the finance function and the design and implementation of the company's global financing activities.
"Karl has added tremendous value to Rackspace over the last six years and brings a depth of experience to the role," said Lanham Napier, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Karl is a veteran Racker who knows our business well and shares our values. We are excited to have Karl take this next step with us as we move the company forward."
Friday, November 11, 2011
Equinix Opens Second Data Center in Hong Kong
Company continues expansion in Asia-Pacific with opening of second IBX data center in Hong Kong.
Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, recently announced the opening of the first phase of its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Hong Kong. The new IBX data center, called HK2, was built to meet the increasing demand for premium colocation and interconnection data center services, particularly from financial services organizations and cloud service providers operating in the city. HK2 represents an investment of USD 63 million and extends Platform Equinix to a total of 99 data centers, across 38 strategic markets around the world.
The company avers that located near the existing HK1 IBX data center in the western part of the New Territories region, the first phase of HK2, an investment of USD 20 million (HKD 156M), will provide 450 cabinet equivalents, expanding to 1,450 at full build-out. With direct fiber connection to HK1, the HK2 IBX data center builds on the company's existing rich network density, providing customers with a wide range of connectivity options. Major networks operating within HK2 include PCCW and Wharf T&T.
It mentions that the HK2 facility will also meet an increase in demand for data center capacity driven by the appetite for cloud computing in the market. With its world leading broadband penetration and excellent international connectivity, coupled with good policy governance, Hong Kong is rapidly becoming a desired location for cloud service providers. HK2 will offer cloud service providers access to multiple networks, which is critical to enhance application performance and ensure redundancy. BrightHost, a leading supplier of high-capacity cloud infrastructure and web hosting solutions, deployed its cloud offering within the company's HK1 data center earlier this year to meet its blue-chip customers' requirement for a presence in Asia.
The company says that in addition to having access to a carrier neutral, dense network environment, businesses deployed in HK2 will be able to enjoy close proximity and access to a vast ecosystem of partners and potential customers, enabling them to maximize business opportunities within the data center. The HK2 IBX data center offers a variety of premium data center services including colocation, interconnection and peering and direct cross connect between networks. Customers will also have access to the Equinix Marketplace, giving them the ability to discover new partners and locate services where they are required. It adds that HK2 is the third new IBX data center to be opened by the company in the Asia-Pacific region this year as part of its plans to expand Platform Equinix in the region. Earlier this year the company opened IBX data centers in Sydney (SY3) and Tokyo (TY3) - the third in both cities.
"Commercial growth and the continuation of Hong Kong's dominance as a financial hub in Asia are key drivers of demand for data center services in the local market," said Alex Tam, Managing Director, Equinix Greater China. "Data centers are an essential part of the city's infrastructure and the opening of HK2 ensures the supply of data center availability needed to support the sustainable growth of traditional pillar industries such as financial services and trading."
"Hong Kong is a key location for regional and global businesses that are keen to expand operations and build business ecosystems in this important financial market. Our global reach also means that customers looking to enter new markets can do so confidently, knowing they will receive the same level of service. Growing our global platform allows us to meet customers' ongoing needs for premium, well-connected, data center services," added Tam.
Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, recently announced the opening of the first phase of its second International Business Exchange (IBX) data center in Hong Kong. The new IBX data center, called HK2, was built to meet the increasing demand for premium colocation and interconnection data center services, particularly from financial services organizations and cloud service providers operating in the city. HK2 represents an investment of USD 63 million and extends Platform Equinix to a total of 99 data centers, across 38 strategic markets around the world.
The company avers that located near the existing HK1 IBX data center in the western part of the New Territories region, the first phase of HK2, an investment of USD 20 million (HKD 156M), will provide 450 cabinet equivalents, expanding to 1,450 at full build-out. With direct fiber connection to HK1, the HK2 IBX data center builds on the company's existing rich network density, providing customers with a wide range of connectivity options. Major networks operating within HK2 include PCCW and Wharf T&T.
It mentions that the HK2 facility will also meet an increase in demand for data center capacity driven by the appetite for cloud computing in the market. With its world leading broadband penetration and excellent international connectivity, coupled with good policy governance, Hong Kong is rapidly becoming a desired location for cloud service providers. HK2 will offer cloud service providers access to multiple networks, which is critical to enhance application performance and ensure redundancy. BrightHost, a leading supplier of high-capacity cloud infrastructure and web hosting solutions, deployed its cloud offering within the company's HK1 data center earlier this year to meet its blue-chip customers' requirement for a presence in Asia.
The company says that in addition to having access to a carrier neutral, dense network environment, businesses deployed in HK2 will be able to enjoy close proximity and access to a vast ecosystem of partners and potential customers, enabling them to maximize business opportunities within the data center. The HK2 IBX data center offers a variety of premium data center services including colocation, interconnection and peering and direct cross connect between networks. Customers will also have access to the Equinix Marketplace, giving them the ability to discover new partners and locate services where they are required. It adds that HK2 is the third new IBX data center to be opened by the company in the Asia-Pacific region this year as part of its plans to expand Platform Equinix in the region. Earlier this year the company opened IBX data centers in Sydney (SY3) and Tokyo (TY3) - the third in both cities.
"Commercial growth and the continuation of Hong Kong's dominance as a financial hub in Asia are key drivers of demand for data center services in the local market," said Alex Tam, Managing Director, Equinix Greater China. "Data centers are an essential part of the city's infrastructure and the opening of HK2 ensures the supply of data center availability needed to support the sustainable growth of traditional pillar industries such as financial services and trading."
"Hong Kong is a key location for regional and global businesses that are keen to expand operations and build business ecosystems in this important financial market. Our global reach also means that customers looking to enter new markets can do so confidently, knowing they will receive the same level of service. Growing our global platform allows us to meet customers' ongoing needs for premium, well-connected, data center services," added Tam.
CloudSigma Launches First SSD Storage Product in Public Cloud IaaS
Company's SSD storage eliminates I/O bottlenecks and allows for higher performance in multi-tenant, public cloud environments.
CloudSigma AG, a provider of cloud servers, recently launched a solid-state drive (SSD) storage solution for a public cloud IaaS environment at the 2011 Cloud Computing Expo.
According to the company, the new solution is designed to help eliminate the growing storage bottlenecks and variable performance in the cloud brought on by traditional magnetic-based storage solutions' inability to keep pace with the requirements of a multi-tenant environment. With its SSD storage product, companies can achieve higher performance than dedicated or private cloud arrangements, even in a public cloud, multi-tenant environment. Being able to handle the explosion of Input/Output (I/O) operations caused by the increasing adoption of server virtualization was identified by the company at an early stage as a key success factor for its cloud.
It explains that the growth in large-scale virtual deployments has caused a surge in the amount of random I/Os between virtual machines (VMs) and magnetic storage systems. As I/O operations become even more random in multi-tenant, public cloud environments, magnetic storage solutions that rely on physical, spinning disks simply cannot keep up. Additionally, pathways to storage systems are only so big and this rise in errant I/Os causes a massive performance bottleneck for storage systems and networks. This is especially the case since magnetic storage products can only process thousands of I/O operations per second, meaning they force today's powerful CPUs to wait until the I/O transactions have completed, thereby holding up data access, resources and performance. With server virtualization sales for public clouds predicted to grow to USD 718 million by 2014, according to research from IDC, the storage I/O bottleneck will increasingly challenge companies investing in the cloud, creating poor price-performance, as well as cloud migration issues for infrastructure that requires stable, high-capacity storage performance.
The company further explains that with a solution like its SSD storage, however, companies have the ability to create a tiered storage system by staging critical application data and files on SSD, which effectively gets rid of the CPU wait time. This multi drive-to-server model significantly improves system performance, as eliminating CPU wait time results in better resource utilization and cost performance. Additionally, since SSD storage doesn't have physical moving parts like magnetic storage solutions, it can handle the more random nature of I/O loads in public cloud environments, while sustaining a higher level of performance and without slowing down. This allows for significantly higher I/O bandwidth with lower, more stable data access latencies. To support today's higher bandwidth and lower latency requirements, the company has already upgraded its cloud to 10GigE networking.
"Many companies try to tackle storage problems in the cloud by adding more servers with magnetic storage; however, this only creates a disparity in computing resources with under-utilized servers, over-provisioned storage drives, excessive costs and storage sprawl," said Patrick Baillie, CloudSigma CEO. "With our new SSD storage product, companies can, for the first time, easily handle the random nature of I/O loads in public clouds while minimizing necessary servers and realizing significant cost savings. Because the storage performance of hard drives has not kept pace with server performance or networking bandwidths, incorporating an SSD storage solution was a necessity, and will significantly expand the breadth of computing tasks that our public cloud can handle effectively. Because the storage performance of hard drives has not kept pace with server performance or networking bandwidths, incorporating an SSD storage solution was a necessity, and will significantly expand the breadth of computing tasks that our public cloud can handle effectively."
CloudSigma AG, a provider of cloud servers, recently launched a solid-state drive (SSD) storage solution for a public cloud IaaS environment at the 2011 Cloud Computing Expo.
According to the company, the new solution is designed to help eliminate the growing storage bottlenecks and variable performance in the cloud brought on by traditional magnetic-based storage solutions' inability to keep pace with the requirements of a multi-tenant environment. With its SSD storage product, companies can achieve higher performance than dedicated or private cloud arrangements, even in a public cloud, multi-tenant environment. Being able to handle the explosion of Input/Output (I/O) operations caused by the increasing adoption of server virtualization was identified by the company at an early stage as a key success factor for its cloud.
It explains that the growth in large-scale virtual deployments has caused a surge in the amount of random I/Os between virtual machines (VMs) and magnetic storage systems. As I/O operations become even more random in multi-tenant, public cloud environments, magnetic storage solutions that rely on physical, spinning disks simply cannot keep up. Additionally, pathways to storage systems are only so big and this rise in errant I/Os causes a massive performance bottleneck for storage systems and networks. This is especially the case since magnetic storage products can only process thousands of I/O operations per second, meaning they force today's powerful CPUs to wait until the I/O transactions have completed, thereby holding up data access, resources and performance. With server virtualization sales for public clouds predicted to grow to USD 718 million by 2014, according to research from IDC, the storage I/O bottleneck will increasingly challenge companies investing in the cloud, creating poor price-performance, as well as cloud migration issues for infrastructure that requires stable, high-capacity storage performance.
The company further explains that with a solution like its SSD storage, however, companies have the ability to create a tiered storage system by staging critical application data and files on SSD, which effectively gets rid of the CPU wait time. This multi drive-to-server model significantly improves system performance, as eliminating CPU wait time results in better resource utilization and cost performance. Additionally, since SSD storage doesn't have physical moving parts like magnetic storage solutions, it can handle the more random nature of I/O loads in public cloud environments, while sustaining a higher level of performance and without slowing down. This allows for significantly higher I/O bandwidth with lower, more stable data access latencies. To support today's higher bandwidth and lower latency requirements, the company has already upgraded its cloud to 10GigE networking.
"Many companies try to tackle storage problems in the cloud by adding more servers with magnetic storage; however, this only creates a disparity in computing resources with under-utilized servers, over-provisioned storage drives, excessive costs and storage sprawl," said Patrick Baillie, CloudSigma CEO. "With our new SSD storage product, companies can, for the first time, easily handle the random nature of I/O loads in public clouds while minimizing necessary servers and realizing significant cost savings. Because the storage performance of hard drives has not kept pace with server performance or networking bandwidths, incorporating an SSD storage solution was a necessity, and will significantly expand the breadth of computing tasks that our public cloud can handle effectively. Because the storage performance of hard drives has not kept pace with server performance or networking bandwidths, incorporating an SSD storage solution was a necessity, and will significantly expand the breadth of computing tasks that our public cloud can handle effectively."
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Fujitsu Launches Dynamic Infrastructure Blocks (DI Blocks)
DI Blocks enable enterprises to take a modular, step-by-step approach towards consolidating and reshaping their data centers.
Fujitsu, a technology services and solutions provider, yesterday announced the global launch of Dynamic Infrastructure Blocks (DI Blocks), which enable enterprises to take a modular, step-by-step approach towards consolidating and reshaping their data centers. Enterprises gain a competitive edge from DI Blocks by ensuring that their IT operations are always available to meet changing business needs, and ready for on-premise private cloud infrastructures.
The company articulates that being a powerful but simple interface to fully-automated data center resources, DI Blocks are comprised of orchestrated server, storage, network, and virtualization technology, wrapped with integrated dynamic resource management software. Pools of infrastructure resources in data centers enable enterprises to quickly and easily provision IT services. As the needs of enterprise business change, DI Blocks provide an escape from the complexity and rigidity of last-generation silo technology. Data centers are transformed into highly-flexible and powerful automated pools of computing resources. Furthermore, integration and lifetime services including hardware and operating system maintenance can be provided by the company's consulting and operations support services.
It mentions that pre-integrated and factory-configured, customized DI Blocks enable enterprises to move towards scaled-out private cloud-based computing environments. Total cost of ownership is reduced by improving the overall use of server, storage, software, and networking components. IT resources are allocated on-demand, delivering improved productivity by provisioning logical infrastructure environments within minutes.
According to the company, enterprises can dynamically assign computing components as and when needed with management software such as its ServerView Resource Orchestrator which manages all physical and virtual elements, including leading virtualization technology from the company's partners, VMware and Microsoft. ServerView Resource Orchestrator supports the flexible and rapid utilization of IT resources in private clouds through dynamic resource management for physical and virtual computing resources and levers the company's public cloud expertise.
It says that DI Blocks are dedicated appliances for enterprise virtualization and private cloud infrastructures. The first set of DI Blocks will be commercially available in January 2012. Availability may vary by region. Pricing varies according to configuration. Starting at 48 cores, DI Blocks system configurations scale to more than 1700 Intel Xeon 5600 series cores, with memory of up to almost 21,000 GB and disk storage capacities of more than 900 TB, requiring 10 GB Ethernet or 8 GB Fiber Channel networks.
Yoichi Hori, President of Platform Software Unit at Fujitsu Limited said, "For enterprises, it is impossible to predict future resource requirements from IT systems, but with DI Blocks it is possible to create flexible, future-proof systems that are agile enough to meet ever-changing needs. This represents a major shift in how forward-looking companies are making the move to IT that supports their needs, rather than being restricted by rigid, outdated systems."
Fujitsu, a technology services and solutions provider, yesterday announced the global launch of Dynamic Infrastructure Blocks (DI Blocks), which enable enterprises to take a modular, step-by-step approach towards consolidating and reshaping their data centers. Enterprises gain a competitive edge from DI Blocks by ensuring that their IT operations are always available to meet changing business needs, and ready for on-premise private cloud infrastructures.
The company articulates that being a powerful but simple interface to fully-automated data center resources, DI Blocks are comprised of orchestrated server, storage, network, and virtualization technology, wrapped with integrated dynamic resource management software. Pools of infrastructure resources in data centers enable enterprises to quickly and easily provision IT services. As the needs of enterprise business change, DI Blocks provide an escape from the complexity and rigidity of last-generation silo technology. Data centers are transformed into highly-flexible and powerful automated pools of computing resources. Furthermore, integration and lifetime services including hardware and operating system maintenance can be provided by the company's consulting and operations support services.
It mentions that pre-integrated and factory-configured, customized DI Blocks enable enterprises to move towards scaled-out private cloud-based computing environments. Total cost of ownership is reduced by improving the overall use of server, storage, software, and networking components. IT resources are allocated on-demand, delivering improved productivity by provisioning logical infrastructure environments within minutes.
According to the company, enterprises can dynamically assign computing components as and when needed with management software such as its ServerView Resource Orchestrator which manages all physical and virtual elements, including leading virtualization technology from the company's partners, VMware and Microsoft. ServerView Resource Orchestrator supports the flexible and rapid utilization of IT resources in private clouds through dynamic resource management for physical and virtual computing resources and levers the company's public cloud expertise.
It says that DI Blocks are dedicated appliances for enterprise virtualization and private cloud infrastructures. The first set of DI Blocks will be commercially available in January 2012. Availability may vary by region. Pricing varies according to configuration. Starting at 48 cores, DI Blocks system configurations scale to more than 1700 Intel Xeon 5600 series cores, with memory of up to almost 21,000 GB and disk storage capacities of more than 900 TB, requiring 10 GB Ethernet or 8 GB Fiber Channel networks.
Yoichi Hori, President of Platform Software Unit at Fujitsu Limited said, "For enterprises, it is impossible to predict future resource requirements from IT systems, but with DI Blocks it is possible to create flexible, future-proof systems that are agile enough to meet ever-changing needs. This represents a major shift in how forward-looking companies are making the move to IT that supports their needs, rather than being restricted by rigid, outdated systems."
SunGard Availability Services Announces Managed Recovery Program
With this service, SunGard experts manage the entire recovery lifecycle for organizations, helping lower the cost, burden and risk in the recovery processes.
SunGard Availability Services, a provider of disaster recovery services, yesterday announced its Managed Recovery Program (MRP), a new offering that takes the pain out of application recovery for complex IT environments. With this service, SunGard experts manage the entire recovery lifecycle for organizations, helping lower the cost, burden and risk in the recovery processes. Organizations working with its Managed Recovery Program have been able to raise their confidence in recovery, while refocusing their efforts on primary production operations.
The company states that with the Managed Recovery Program, it goes beyond infrastructure and assumes complete responsibility from customer IT staffs for applications-focused recovery. The program includes planning, scoping, implementing, testing and operating recovery processes. Its programmatic approach helps customers identify and address root cause recovery pain points, such as change management for disaster recovery plans and procedures, and staff availability and skill levels needed to support testing and recovery activities. For each customer, the company assigns a service delivery manager who works as a seamless extension of the internal IT staff to coordinate testing activities and management of the recovery lifecycle.
It avers that the Managed Recovery Program includes all of the service components required to ensure successful application recovery throughout the entire recovery lifecycle including:
Definition and maintenance of recovery plans, procedures and recovery infrastructure configurations
Recovery procedure execution including startup of operating system, network and backup servers
Recovery management during disasters
Post-test reporting including detailed review of test activities, gap analysis, recommendations for improvements, remediation plans, program status reporting, contract maintenance and updates
"Managing applications recovery is a tough challenge in today's complex and changing applications environments, requiring specialized expertise, mature and repeatable best practices, and advanced recovery tools," said Larry Coble, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Recovery Services at SunGard Availability Services. "The Managed Recovery Program is unique in combining these elements to deliver confidence in applications recovery, using a lifecycle approach that enables recovery to stay current with production changes."
"SunGard's Managed Recovery Program alleviates the pain associated with application recovery and the related challenges of change management and updating recovery plans, by allowing organizations to outsource these critical but oftentimes neglected tasks," said Lauren Whitehouse, Senior Analyst, ESG. "SunGard's program is differentiated by addressing change management explicitly for each client organization, solving a root cause problem that too often undermines recovery planning. Organizations working with SunGard MRP can expect to avoid surprises in the recovery process which can lead to significant business impacts - and strengthen production operations as part of the package."
SunGard Availability Services, a provider of disaster recovery services, yesterday announced its Managed Recovery Program (MRP), a new offering that takes the pain out of application recovery for complex IT environments. With this service, SunGard experts manage the entire recovery lifecycle for organizations, helping lower the cost, burden and risk in the recovery processes. Organizations working with its Managed Recovery Program have been able to raise their confidence in recovery, while refocusing their efforts on primary production operations.
The company states that with the Managed Recovery Program, it goes beyond infrastructure and assumes complete responsibility from customer IT staffs for applications-focused recovery. The program includes planning, scoping, implementing, testing and operating recovery processes. Its programmatic approach helps customers identify and address root cause recovery pain points, such as change management for disaster recovery plans and procedures, and staff availability and skill levels needed to support testing and recovery activities. For each customer, the company assigns a service delivery manager who works as a seamless extension of the internal IT staff to coordinate testing activities and management of the recovery lifecycle.
It avers that the Managed Recovery Program includes all of the service components required to ensure successful application recovery throughout the entire recovery lifecycle including:
Definition and maintenance of recovery plans, procedures and recovery infrastructure configurations
Recovery procedure execution including startup of operating system, network and backup servers
Recovery management during disasters
Post-test reporting including detailed review of test activities, gap analysis, recommendations for improvements, remediation plans, program status reporting, contract maintenance and updates
"Managing applications recovery is a tough challenge in today's complex and changing applications environments, requiring specialized expertise, mature and repeatable best practices, and advanced recovery tools," said Larry Coble, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Recovery Services at SunGard Availability Services. "The Managed Recovery Program is unique in combining these elements to deliver confidence in applications recovery, using a lifecycle approach that enables recovery to stay current with production changes."
"SunGard's Managed Recovery Program alleviates the pain associated with application recovery and the related challenges of change management and updating recovery plans, by allowing organizations to outsource these critical but oftentimes neglected tasks," said Lauren Whitehouse, Senior Analyst, ESG. "SunGard's program is differentiated by addressing change management explicitly for each client organization, solving a root cause problem that too often undermines recovery planning. Organizations working with SunGard MRP can expect to avoid surprises in the recovery process which can lead to significant business impacts - and strengthen production operations as part of the package."
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
DiscountASP.NET Launches Premium Managed TFS Hosting Solutions
Company expands its Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting solution with managed TFS hosting services.
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Hosting provider, today announced expanding its Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting solution with managed TFS hosting services.
According to the company, the managed TFS hosting is a premium service that gives customers their own instance of Team Foundation Server on a dedicated VM which is not shared with any other customer. While source control and work item tracking is part of the managed TFS hosting solution, the customer also has the option for SharePoint and reporting as well. Managed TFS hosting is available in USA-based and Europe-based data centers.
"We are expanding our TFS hosting service in part by listening to feedback from our customer surveys," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "We heard that customers wanted more options and we are delivering on this. We will continue to improve and evolve our TFS hosting service."
DiscountASP.NET, a Windows Hosting provider, today announced expanding its Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosting solution with managed TFS hosting services.
According to the company, the managed TFS hosting is a premium service that gives customers their own instance of Team Foundation Server on a dedicated VM which is not shared with any other customer. While source control and work item tracking is part of the managed TFS hosting solution, the customer also has the option for SharePoint and reporting as well. Managed TFS hosting is available in USA-based and Europe-based data centers.
"We are expanding our TFS hosting service in part by listening to feedback from our customer surveys," said Takeshi Eto, VP Marketing and Business Development at DiscountASP.NET. "We heard that customers wanted more options and we are delivering on this. We will continue to improve and evolve our TFS hosting service."
SingleHop Releases Third Generation of LEAP
Complete redesign of interface & platform provides clients with a new level of on-demand control.
SingleHop, Inc., a dedicated and managed web hosting provider, recently announced the release of the third generation of LEAP, its proprietary infrastructure management platform. In addition to an entirely revamped interface, LEAP v3 offers clients true on-demand access to their systems, and enables clients to design infrastructure solutions from any combination of dedicated server, public or private cloud components.
The company articulates that core and unique to LEAP v3 is the Crowdsourced Marketplace, with the tag-line 'Infrastructure by Democracy'. The program allows anyone to join the community and design solutions for any particular application. Once designed, solutions can be submitted for approval, and if accepted, will be made available to other clients of the company. True to its on-demand nature, all IaaS products offered by the company, including solutions from the Crowdsourced Marketplace, can be deployed with one click through the LEAP Solutions Center.
It avers that LEAP v3 offers the following:
Ability to design hybrid solutions using a wide range of components & deploy with one click
Crowdsourced Marketplace allows hybrid solutions to be designed by the community, providing a wider range of ideas and possibilities
Organize and group any infrastructure components into solutions, which can be quickly deployed with the push of a button
Increased productivity for IT departments with a better range of IaaS management tools
Modernized user interface, designed to support hybrid computing and to facilitate agility and speed
"In LEAP v3, we've completely rewritten the book on how solutions are designed, deployed, and managed in the data center. Our clients can either build their own hybrid solution and deploy it from our new and robust Solutions Center, or they can leverage our Crowdsourced Marketplace to choose a solution designed by the independent systems architects, software companies, or other SingleHop clients," said Zak Boca, Chief Executive Officer.
"Providing high levels of automation has been at the core of our business strategy. Now, by giving our clients the ability to design and deploy their own hybrid solution, or use a solution available through our Crowdsourced Marketplace, we're even finding more ways to leverage the platform that we've built," said Marc Bollinger, Senior Project Manager.
SingleHop, Inc., a dedicated and managed web hosting provider, recently announced the release of the third generation of LEAP, its proprietary infrastructure management platform. In addition to an entirely revamped interface, LEAP v3 offers clients true on-demand access to their systems, and enables clients to design infrastructure solutions from any combination of dedicated server, public or private cloud components.
The company articulates that core and unique to LEAP v3 is the Crowdsourced Marketplace, with the tag-line 'Infrastructure by Democracy'. The program allows anyone to join the community and design solutions for any particular application. Once designed, solutions can be submitted for approval, and if accepted, will be made available to other clients of the company. True to its on-demand nature, all IaaS products offered by the company, including solutions from the Crowdsourced Marketplace, can be deployed with one click through the LEAP Solutions Center.
It avers that LEAP v3 offers the following:
Ability to design hybrid solutions using a wide range of components & deploy with one click
Crowdsourced Marketplace allows hybrid solutions to be designed by the community, providing a wider range of ideas and possibilities
Organize and group any infrastructure components into solutions, which can be quickly deployed with the push of a button
Increased productivity for IT departments with a better range of IaaS management tools
Modernized user interface, designed to support hybrid computing and to facilitate agility and speed
"In LEAP v3, we've completely rewritten the book on how solutions are designed, deployed, and managed in the data center. Our clients can either build their own hybrid solution and deploy it from our new and robust Solutions Center, or they can leverage our Crowdsourced Marketplace to choose a solution designed by the independent systems architects, software companies, or other SingleHop clients," said Zak Boca, Chief Executive Officer.
"Providing high levels of automation has been at the core of our business strategy. Now, by giving our clients the ability to design and deploy their own hybrid solution, or use a solution available through our Crowdsourced Marketplace, we're even finding more ways to leverage the platform that we've built," said Marc Bollinger, Senior Project Manager.
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