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Rackspace Private Cloud Leverages VMware For Enterprise Computing Offering

August 7, 2009 by Robin Wauters 2 Comments

Rackspace Hosting, has announced its new Private Cloud offering, which allows customers to run the centrally managed VMware virtualisation platform on private dedicated hardware environments.

Rackspace recognises the demand from enterprises for a more flexible and scalable hosting solution. Although multi-tenant cloud solutions are very flexible and cost-effective, they are not always right for every segment. The Rackspace Private Cloud’s single-tenant architecture offers increased control and security, while still maintaining the scalability, flexibility and resource optimisation that make shared cloud offerings so compelling.

Rackspace Private Cloud is an evolution of its popular dedicated virtual server (DVS) offering within the managed hosting business unit. In the last year, revenue from virtualisation solutions has grown substantially, driven mainly by the increased flexibility, improved asset utilisation and lower capital and operating costs that VMware’s virtualisation provides.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: enterprise cloud, enterprise hosting, hosting, private cloud, Rackspace, rackspace hosting, rackspace private cloud, virtualisation, virtualization

VISI Launches Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) Product Based On VMware Infrastructure 3

July 29, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

VISI, Minnesota’s largest cloud computing, data center services and managed hosting provider, is proud to announce the launch of its new Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) product based on VMware’s industry-leading virtualization and management suite, VMware Infrastructure 3.

VISI’s VDS product was designed to provide a higher level of security, reliability and performance than you can get with traditional hosting products. VISI has leveraged VMware’s High Availability (HA) feature to maximize customer’s uptime by rebooting a virtual server on another physical host in the event of hardware failure.

VMware’s Infrastructure 3 allows VISI to offer customers greater control and flexibility by providing them their own operating system (OS) instance. Customers are able to select the amount of CPU, memory and storage they need. Data is stored on a SAN-based storage system for enterprise-class reliability.

As a member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), VISI is well positioned to deliver knowledge and expertise to customers from initial pre-sales and consulting engagements to post sales support and implementation services. VISI has attained the following credentials as part of its VMware practice: VMware Sales Professional (VSP), VMware Technical Sales Professional (VTSP), and VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

Filed Under: News Tagged With: cloud computing, hosting, VDS, virtual dedicated server, virtualisation, virtualization, visi, vmware, VMware Infrastructure, VMware Infrastructure 3

ServInt Adds Virtualization To Dedicated Server Line-Up

January 14, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

ServInt today introduced its new line of Dedicated Server solutions that incorporate a virtualization layer.

The virtualization layer enables easier off-server backup. It also enables better scalability by facilitating easy movement of server content from one hardware environment to another, with little downtime. The benefit of the virtualization layer also increases redundancy, as it makes the Dedicated Server comparatively easy to rebuild in case of hardware failure.

Over the years, ServInt experts have performed thousands of Dedicated Server customizations. That experience was critical in developing a virtualization layer that is superior to competing offerings. ServInt’s new line of Dedicated Servers is comprised of six offerings, each of which includes the virtualization layer by default.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: dedicated server, dedicated server hosting, hosting, ServInt, ServInt hosting, virtualisation, virtualization, virtualization layer

Release: DotNetPanel 2.8.1 And A Hyper-V Hosting Control Panel Module

December 18, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

DotNetPanel announced earlier this week the release of DotNetPanel 2.8.1 and the new Hyper-V module for creating, managing, and selling VPS accounts. Nearly two months in beta, hosting companies now have access to the first-ever Windows hosting control panel that uses Hyper-V technology.

DotNetPanel offers free 30-day trials of the new Hyper-V module, giving hosting companies the opportunity to experience the benefits of using a remarkably low-priced solution for managing and automating VPS hosting services.

DotNetPanel’s Hyper-V module also complements existing offerings including Virtuozzo. Compared to Virtuozzo, the Hyper-V provides complete VPS isolation, guaranteed memory for each VPS, snapshots management, DVD media library, and networking management.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: DotNetPanel 2.8.1, DotNotPanel, hosting, Hyper-V, Hyper-V module, HyperV, Microsoft Hyper-V, virtualisation, virtualization, VPS, VPS hosting

Rackspace Acquires Cloud Providers Slicehost And Jungle Disk

October 22, 2008 by Lode Vermeiren Leave a Comment

Rackspace Hosting today announced it has acquired privately owned VPS provider Slicehost, and storage provider Jungle Disk. (hat tip to TechCrunch)

The purchase price of the combined acquisitions is approximately $11.5 million payable in cash and stock, with the potential for up to $16.5 million in additional payouts of cash and stock based on certain performance criteria.

Rackspace is one of the largest providers of dedicated servers. Recently it has also moved into the virtualization world through partnerships with VMware and its own “cloud” division Mosso. Today’s announcement further shows that traditional hosting companies anticipate a growing importance of virtualization-based solutions.

Slicehost is one of the leading providers of Xen-based virtual servers. They cater mostly to developer crowds. In two years they have managed to build a customer base that runs more than 15.000 virtual servers.

Jungle Disk is a provider of storage software that works in conjunction with Amazon’s S3 storage platform. Rackspace announced that it will gradually move over new customers to its own storage systems, but will continue to support Amazon S3 as well.

Rackspace owns 8 datacenters in the United States, Hong Kong and the UK, and further has sales offices througout Europe and South Africa.

Filed Under: Acquisitions, News Tagged With: Amazon, cloud, hosting, jungledisk, Rackspace, slicehost, vmware, Xen

Layered Technologies Secures $ 11 Million in Private Investment

March 12, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Layered Technologies has secured $11 million in funding from private equity firm Enhanced Equity Fund and its founding investor Pangloss International. The new cash will provide Layered Technologies with working capital to expand, develop new products, and accelerate sales and marketing efforts within new enterprise markets.

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Layered Technologies is a provider of on-demand hosting, utility computing solutions and web services with clients in over 120 countries. The Texas-based company offers a grid hosting service as well as virtual private data centers.

“We see great potential for Layered Technologies to play a key role in shaping the future of grid computing and virtualized services within the hosting marketplace,” said David Howe, Managing General Partner for Enhanced Equity Fund.

[Source: Data Center Knowledge]

Filed Under: Funding Tagged With: David Howe, Enhanced Equity Fund, Grid Computing, hosting, Layered Tech, Layered technologies, Pangloss International, virtual hosting, virtual server, virtualisation, virtualization, virtualized services

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