Aug 23, 2001 : Loudcloud Launches Expertise Services

📅 August 23, 2001 - Loudcloud Inc. (loudcloud.com), a leading managed service provider, yesterday announced the availability of its Expertise services, a flexible set of offerings developed in response to enterprise customers' need to evaluate, re-architect and migrate their Internet sites tostate-of-the-art technologies. The Expertise services complement Loudcloud'snext generation of Internet operations services, providing customers a newway to leverage Loudcloud's experience operating large-scale Internetoperations.

"Being able to tap into Loudcloud's collective knowledge and experiencerunning major Internet operations greatly helped us design and architect anInternet site that is fully scalable and highly reliable," said StephenEpstein, CTO at Atriax, a leading electronic foreign exchange portal. "Withan estimated daily turnover of $1.5 trillion, the foreign exchange market isby far the largest traded market in the world and often the most volatile.It was critical that we develop an online system that could handle thatvolatility."
Loudcloud's Expertise services are focused on assessing an enterprise'sexisting Internet site operations and on designing scalable Internet sites.The site assessment component addresses a well-known need among enterprisecustomers: re-architecting site operations to lower costs and driveefficiencies. As part of an assessment, Loudcloud identifies thetechnologies and processes needed to reach a customer's desired goal anddelivers an independent assessment report outlining recommendations forprocesses, architecture, and technologies to cut costs and increase siteperformance and reliability. This gives customers a basis for decidingwhether to outsource the site's day-to-day operations.
Loudcloud will also work with customers to leverage the assessment bydesigning the customer's Internet site and transitioning the site ontobest-of-breed software, hardware and networking technologies. If a customerchooses, they can then employ Loudcloud's entire suite of outsourcedInternet operations services.
These services enable an enterprise to free itself from the day-to-dayoperations of its Internet site and focus on meeting the needs of customers.A site managed by Loudcloud is automatically scaled, monitored, and managedusing Loudcloud proprietary Opsware technology, which the company saysimproves the quality and speed of customers' Web sites by managing thethousands of pieces of information, decisions and processes required todeploy an Internet infrastructure.