Sep, 2009 : Hosting.com Introduces vCloud Express Solution

📅 September 2, 2009 - New service offers quick provisioning of infrastructure for dynamic capacity requirements.

Hosting.com, a provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions, yesterday announced that it is delivering a VMware vCloud Express solution. The company states that its vCloud Express solution will provide instant provisioning, consumption-based pricing (pay by the hour) and unlimited, dynamic compute resources. It further states that it will be among the first to offer this new class of VMware Virtualized service that that can be purchased, consumed and adjusted in a pay-as-you-go model. It adds that its vCloud Express will be available as a beta service beginning September 1, 2009.

The company explains that this solution introduces true cross-platform functionality to the marketplace that is compatible with technology the industry embraces and utilizes. vCloud Express is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution that will run on its Cloud Enterprise infrastructure and is the latest announcement on its portfolio of cloud hosting solutions. It avers that consumers currently utilizing VMware internally will have compatibility between their internal infrastructure and external infrastructure resources used for application development and testing, capacity on demand, and general outsourced infrastructure needs.

"vCloud Express delivers control directly to customers. They can setup new accounts, adjust virtual machine resources, turn additional machines on or off and deploy and execute virtual machine commands with no human interaction - if so desired," noted Craig McLellan, Hosting.com CTO. "We will continue to innovate to deliver on the promises of capacity and infrastructure on-demand, utility-based pricing, and cloud interconnectivity."

Dan Chu, VP of Emerging Markets, VMware added, "Hosting.com continues to provide cloud solutions and market insights that help define and evolve this quickly growing industry. Their commitment to providing exemplary service and rapid product development made them a natural fit as a vCloud Express service provider."