August 25, 2011 — UK-based cloud infrastructure provider Flexiant announced on Thursday that it has partnered with platform as a service provider Standing Cloud to launch “Standing Cloud powered by Flexiant.” The integration of Flexiant’s Extility cloud platform with Standing Cloud’s application layer will simplify the deployment and management of cloud applications, according to the press release.

A diagram illustrates Flexiant’s Extility cloud platform network (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – UK cloud solutions provider Flexiant ( www.flexiant.com ) announced on Monday that it has upgraded its cloud platform Extility and has launched IPv6 support. According to the press release, this announcement marks Flexiant “as the first cloud software provider in Europe to announce full commercial support for IPv6.” This announcement comes two weeks after Denmark web host Netgroup deployed Flexiant’s Extility cloud virtualization platform.  Flexiant says Extility 1.3 enables data center operators and the end-user to manipulate virtual resources and ensure they are always deployed where needed

A diagram illustrates Flexiant’s Extility cloud platform network (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – UK cloud solutions provider Flexiant ( www.flexiant.com ) announced on Wednesday that Denmark-based web hosting provider Netgroup ( www.netgroup.dk ) will now deploy Flexiant’s Extility cloud virtualization platform.  According to the press release, Flexiant’s Extility software enables Netgroup to create and run a cloud platform while integrating it into Netgroup’s existing software and hardware investments.

A diagram illustrates Flexiant’s Extility cloud platform network (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – UK cloud solutions provider Flexiant ( www.flexiant.com ) announced on Wednesday that Denmark-based web hosting provider Netgroup ( www.netgroup.dk ) will now deploy Flexiant’s Extility cloud virtualization platform.  According to the press release, Flexiant’s Extility software enables Netgroup to create and run a cloud platform while integrating it into Netgroup’s existing software and hardware investments. “The key requirement for any cloud platform is that it enables, through a high degree of automation, a company or hosting provider to respond rapidly to changes in customer demand and provides absolute clarity around how that platform will be monetised and consumption measured,” Robert Karssiens, Flexiant’s director of sales and marketing said in a statement

A screen shot of the OpenStack control panel demo (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Dell ( www.Dell.com/OpenStack ), Equinix ( www.Equinix.com/OpenStack ) and Rackspace Hosting ( www.rackspace.com/cloudbuilders ) announced on Thursday that they have partnered to develop an OpenStack cloud demonstration and test environment. The demo environment will be available in three data centers, located at the Equinix International Business Exchange in Silicon Valley, and Ashburn, Virginia, and the Rackspace data center in Chicago. The companies also plan to collaborate on additional demo environments in Equinix data centers in Europe and Asia in the second quarter of 2011.

February 9th, 2011 By: THN News SMB Dedicated Content Sponsored by StrataScale Server Hosting and Cloud Hosting Private cloud hosting represents a revolutionary new frontier in the information technology and – more specifically – the web hosting world.  Finally, the promise of computing power as a utility is upon us and it brings with it a new set of opportunities and challenges.  Many organizations are options to deploy their solutions into public cloud hosting environments, where there applications and data share physical hardware, storage, and network environments with hundreds or thousands of other companies.  While this certainly meets the needs of many businesses, many others are unwilling to take such a public plunge either because of security restrictions, performance concerns, or worries about loss of control of their infrastructure.   Because of this, a new hosting model has risen known as Private Cloud Hosting.  In the private cloud hosting model, your web site or corporate hosting infrastructure runs in a dedicated and/or virtualized environment and can be scaled up or down as your needs change.  The first advantage most often cited for private cloud hosting environments is that of security, which means both the actual physical security of the environment as well as the perceived security of the environment in that it is private unto itself.  Sites that strive to reach PCI compliance for their electronic commerce applications have found that private cloud hosting environments can be secured in a way that can allow them to successfully achieve this goal.  Physically dedicated hardware provides the assurance that no data can be mistakenly transferred or shared between businesses, which is obviously almost a pre-requisite for any electronic commerce environment.   Many private cloud hosting solutions rely heavily on virtualization technologies, such as the Xen Cloud Platform ( http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html ).  The Xen Cloud Platform is a popular Linux-based selection among many leading hosting companies who are now offering private cloud hosting packages based on the underlying virtualization of the environment.  A cloud based on something like Xen’s solution offers the best of both worlds.  Customers are able to both control their own utilization of system resources as their needs change without the time and expenses inherent in provisioning new server and network infrastructure.  At the same time, the underlying virtualization technology allows you to fully utilize the hardware across a variety of applications and usage scenarios.  If designed properly, this sort of solution allows businesses to optimize both their time and money investment, while perhaps simplifying the actual deployment architecture.  For example, in an optimized private cloud hosting environment, you are more focused on the actual solutions you deploy (Databases 1 and 2, Email VM 1, Web Site 1 and 2, etc.) and the dedicated capacity assigned to each which frees customers from worrying about the nine servers and their various storage needs potentially needing to scale soon to a total of 14 servers.  One additional advantage is related to the topic of resource flexibility but can be presented in a different light.  A cloud hosting environment is uniquely positions to help your business manage drastic swings in workload, whether that be due to a new organization coming on board, a roll-out from a test phase to production, or simply an onslaught of new customers due to some improved functionality or marketing.  In the traditional dedicated hosting world, these sorts of scenarios can bring a business to a complete halt if not planned for properly (and that planning itself takes a great deal of time and money in many cases).  Private cloud hosting offers the ability to reduce overall cost of a solution, the flexibility to scale to meet changing business needs, and the capacity to fully utilize your hardware and network resources. Related posts: Top 5 Reasons Why Your Company Should Transition to Private Cloud Computing Public Cloud or Private Cloud Hosting Dilemma: Which Way to Go? Fusepoint Extends Private Cloud Hosting Solutions Pokemon.com Formally Launches powered by Private Cloud Hosting at INetU ThinkGrid unlocks Private Cloud for the Channel computing new frontier private cloud hosting web hosting xen cloud platform

A screenshot of Cryptzone’s Endpoint Encryption (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK cloud hosting provider ThinkGrid ( www.thinkgrid.co.uk ) announced on Monday that it has launched a new cloud encryption service to encrypt data stored on an organization’s cloud platform.