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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In the first product announcement since HostMySite's (www.hostmysite.com) acquisition of Hosting.com last month, the hosting and colocation services provider has successfully merged HostMySite's Elastic Enterprise Computing and Hosting.com's Cloud 9 cloud hosting solutions under the Cloud 9 brand.
According to HostMySite|Hosting.com, two new products are immediately available: Cloud 9 Enterprise and Cloud 9 Private. Starting as low as $125 per month, Cloud 9 Enterprise is a shared cloud, which offers users on-demand provisioning, interconnectivity with private cloud environments, and rapid compute and disk resources deployment, without having to sign a contract. Cloud 9 Private offers dedicated cloud hosting, letting customers take advantage of highly available, secure and redundant virtualized servers.
"We will continue to integrate HostMySite and Hosting.com solutions at a fast pace to bring relevant and client-centric solutions to the cloud and virtual marketplaces," HostMySite chief executive officer Art Zeile said in a statement. "We chose the Cloud 9 name because it is an established cloud hosting brand. The new solutions [Cloud 9 Enterprise and Cloud 9 Private] will provide consumers with unprecedented choice and control."
Prior to HostMySite's acquisition of Hosting.com, both companies operated their own independent, VMware-based cloud hosting solutions. The melding of the two solutions was facilitated due to the similar infrastructures, platforms, dedication to support, and user functionality and control, resulting in near-seamless integration.
HostMySite|Hosting.com marketing and product development vice president Robert Cassidy said that its work with virtualization provider VMware (www.vmware.com) provides Cloud 9 clients high availability and advanced automation and management features. "Cloud 9 Enterprise will prove most valuable to companies that need to align specific business needs such as website, storage, and application hosting with flexible IT infrastructure resources and want self-service provisioning," Cassidy said in a statement.
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