Aug 28, 2012 : Hosting.com Advances the Managed Cloud

📅 August 28, 2012 - Hosting.com announced its advanced managed cloud for Service enhancement, ease of migration and protection of virtual and cloud-based environments.

Hosting.com, a provider of enterprise-class managed cloud hosting and recovery services, yesterday announced several enhancements to its array of managed cloud services. Improvements include feature enhancements to its Cloud Replication service and a new Cloud Ready Dedicated Server offering. Also, the company announced it has cloud-enabled its Dallas data center.Protect with Cloud ReplicationHosting's award-winning Cloud Replication service, powered by VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5, debuted at last year's VMworld 2011. Since then, Cloud Replication has emerged as a leading solution for off-site disaster protection. By leveraging cloud technology, it brings cost-effective disaster recovery to small and medium-sized companies. With this new version of Cloud Replication, customers can now view the progress of recovery steps being taken during a test or failover via the Hosting.com Customer Portal. In addition, Hosting.com has added the ability for customers to retain historical failover results and support for multiple recovery plans.Simplify Migration with Cloud Ready Dedicated ServerCloud Ready Dedicated Server is a newly released option for customers needing a dedicated server platform, but wanting the benefits associated with cloud based solutions. It allows administrators to:

Manage dedicated servers with their existing Cloud and virtualization management toolsMigrate workloads between dedicated servers and other Cloud platformsRecover dedicated server workloads to other machines running Cloud Ready Dedicated Server, despite differences in underlying server hardware and software."These enhancements to our services show Hosting.com's commitment to delivering a reliable enterprise-class cloud experience," said Craig McLellan, Hosting.com's Chief Technology Officer. "They demonstrate a persistent engineering focus to deliver the Always On platform our customers expect.""Hosting.com has continued to innovate with their VMware vCloud Powered Cloud Replication service," said Joe Andrews, Director, Cloud Product Marketing, VMware. "Their commitment to VMware vCloud and disaster recovery solutions, combined with their differentiated customer value, is evident with these feature enhancements."