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. Read the rest of this entry »
CohesiveFT’s Elastic Servers Available for Deployment to FlexiScale’s On-Demand Cloud
June 24, 2008
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All Around the World
March 2, 2008This post was meant to be just about all the places we will be appearing/visiting in the next few months and then I though it would be worth mentioning the geographic spread of our customer base already. (We were primarily just targetting Europe to begin with), so far we have customers in: The UK (obviously), Spain, Germany, Norway, Sweden, India, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Iceland, Brazil, Australia, Canada, Slovenia, Denmark etc (I got halfway down the list of customers at this point). You’ll notice the USA is missing, that’s because I thought just putting ‘USA’ understated it a bit, so, some (but probably not all), of the states we have customers in: California, Minnesota, Missouri, Texas, Washington, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Conneticut, Iowa.
Now much as I would love a travel budget to visit each of the places I mentioned, I can’t see that ever happening, but we will be doing a number of trips this year to places where we do have large customer bases.
- London: We’ll be in London every few weeks, meeting clients, talks, etc
- Cologne: Philipp Huber our COO will be at WebHostingDay March 12-13th March.
- San Francisco: Tony Lucas CEO (Me!) will be at the Web 2 Expo, and in an around SF from the 18th to 29th of April
- Newcastle (UK): March 11th, (Me again!) at the AWS User Group talking about cloud/utility computing.
That’s the confirmed trips at the moment, no doubt we will be adding more later as time goes on.
Tony
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To infinity, and beyond!
March 2, 2008Ok, well maybe that’s a bit overstating the power that FlexiScale has, but you get the idea, (and I’m a sucker for Animated Films)
We’ve been working flat out here over the past few months continuing adding new features to FlexiScale, and they will start to be rolled out in the next few weeks. We’re still keeping quiet about what some of them will be, until we roll them out, but let’s just say, we are all *really* excited about them.
Watch this space for more news in the next month as we roll them out.
Apart from that great news, a quick update on how FlexiScale is going, well, brilliant actually, usage has increased 100% in the last ~45 days, and we’re expecting it to keep speeding up from there. We’ve seen the first results of customers using the FlexiScale API thanks to our friends at Cognifide. More and more people are switching to it every week, infact in February we setup more new FlexiScale customers, than we did setup dedicated servers (for our existing business), and that’s pretty amazing!
We are going to start featuring some success stories on the blog soon, so if theres any customers reading this who would like a mention, just drop us an e-mail.
Until next time!
Tony.
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2008, it’s going to be a fun one
January 11, 2008Well here we are, the last couple of months have flown past so apologies for the lack of update, and all of a sudden it’s 2008!
Progress on FlexiScale is continuing very nicely, with more and more people using it every day. We intend to bring out the managed version of FlexiScale at some point in February, and we expect that to be a fairly big success.
We have a lot of plans for further development of FlexiScale over the coming year, and are going to be steadily recruiting staff to help get us there, (we’re currently planning to add up to another 10 people), so if you are interested in working for us, reinventing the entire computing market one step at a time then get in touch!
Tony.
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and it continues….
October 11, 2007An update on how things are going here in Camp FlexiScale.
Since FoWA (and the coverage we’ve got since then on various blogs) has lead to an enormous amount of leads coming in, so much so we’ve filled our initial build out of servers (well of course, we haven’t actually filled it, but we have it at the capacity level we are happy with). We also still have a lot of people waiting to be added onto the platform.
Rest assured, a large order of new servers is being ordered and will be on it’s way shortly, we’re adding capacity for up to another 6000 instances in the next few months so that should satisfy most people 
We’re also quite surprised (but pleased) at the number of current Amazon EC2 & S3 customers looking at either using our platform as well, or instead of Amazon’s. We’ll hopefully be publishing some case studies on some of these in the future.
Finally, we’ll be exhibiting at the Web 2 Expo in Berlin 6-8th November, and Philipp Huber our COO will be speaking on a panel regarding Web 2.0 Apps, and next generation data centres, so if you are attending please do pop by and say hello (we’re 4 down from Amazon’s stand *grin*).
Tony.
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What a Week
October 7, 2007As anyone reading this blog will probably know we were exhibiting at Future of Web Apps (FoWA) this week. It was a massive effort to get ready for the event, and we were very hopeful for what we could achieve in terms of exposure and leads as a result of it. We couldn’t have dreamed of what we got though. Read the rest of this entry »
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Cheese & Pickle
September 28, 2007After all the recent fun we’ve had helping CheddarVision out, I shouldn’t really have been surprised by an e-mail I got recently.
It was from Jim @ Isotope Communications, the people advising CheddarVision, and his first words were ‘we are in a bit of a pickle’. (Hence the title).
They are working with what appears to be the next big viral hit, Big Udder, the Cow Version of Big Brother (some would say that was the last series that was on TV, but I digress…..). It’s already been featured by the BBC, The Times, The Mirror, Channel 4 & Metro at the time of writing. Unsurprisingly, their traffic was going through the roof, and they needed us to come to the rescue again.
So far the traffic has peaked at over 20 megabits a second, more than enough to kill the average hosted site, but FlexiScale has handled it without a second thought.
I should also thank the people from West County FarmHouse Cheesemakers, for the amazing cheese they sent us this week as a thankyou for CheddarVision, everyone enjoyed it a lot.
Tony.
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Cheddarvision puts FlexiScale to the test
September 21, 2007On 17 September 2007 we got a panic call from the owners of Cheddarvision, a favourite on Myspace and YouTube. This web site is normally fairly quiet - after all, watching cheese mature isn’t exactly exciting, as nothing happens for months at a time. But on 19 September they were due to taste test the cheese and the guys were very worried that there would be so much excitement from fans that the site would fall over from the extra traffic, so they wanted an affordable hosting solution that would cope with whatever happened. Time to move them onto FlexiScale. Read the rest of this entry »
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SeedCamp
August 10, 2007XCalibre is proud to be involved with SeedCamp this September. Read the rest of this entry »
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You would think the Education Authority would learn…
August 6, 2007Ok, that subject line is probably a little unfair, but as you can probably tell by now if you’re an avid reader of this blog (who am I kidding!), I like punchy subject lines.
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