This is great timing. Just as Tony is flying to San Francisco to take part in the Structure 08 Panel discussion on Cloud Computing, we have a big announcement to make.
As of today we are entering with CohesiveFT, providers of the Elastic Server Platform, an on-demand service for dynamic assembly and deployment of virtual machines, into a technology partnership to enable deployment of CohesiveFT’s Elastic Servers to FlexiScale’s Cloud.
The integration of technologies from CohesiveFT and FlexiScale will enable true on-demand application stack assembly and deployment on our pay-as-you-go Cloud. This combination allows genuinely scaleable, high availability production environments that do not require in-house operations expertise to build and maintain such a facility. Beyond substantial manpower savings the combined solution significantly reduces capital and energy expenditures.
This partnership will also allow ISVs, application developers and QA teams to dramatically increase their productivity throughout the development lifecycle. These teams will not be dependent on resource constrained operations departments to provision development and testing environments and will be able to change their application stack definitions with the click of a mouse. Further, these development environments need only be retained while they are actively in use, and can be recreated with speed and quality whenever they are required.
Initially Elastic Server-branded virtual machines will be available from FlexiScale’s Control Panel as templates built in a Xen virtual format for deployment into Virtual Dedicated Servers (VDS) in FlexiScale’s Cloud. The Elastic Server templates will feature application stacks as pre-built virtual machine images of popular components. Users will have access to these custom images on demand, eliminating the typical administrative overhead of assembling virtual machine images “by hand”.
The combination of FlexiScale and CohesiveFT provides customers with a self-service, rapid-response environment for deploying any kind of application. Anchored by our on-demand computing Cloud and CohesiveFT’s dynamic virtual server assembly capabilities, this new approach takes all the upfront financial capital, human capital and lead time opportunity costs out.
“Cloud computing is revolutionizing the application development lifecycle,” says Pat Kerpan, our new technology partner, president and chief technology officer of CohesiveFT. “Our partnership with FlexiScale will provide companies the ability to build and deploy a custom virtual server to a cloud in minutes which brings massive efficiencies to the adopters of this approach.”
This collaboration will enable full dynamic connectivity between the Elastic Server platform and FlexiScale’s Cloud in the very near future. It will provide you as the user with the added benefit of building exactly what you need in your application stacks and the ability to provision and start-up the server in minutes using your FlexiScale credentials from within the Elastic Server platform.
This is so cool. I can’t wait to see it in action.
Phil Huber
