Part (not all) of a pricing chart for VMs in Tenzing's new Everest Cloud offering
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider Tenzing Managed IT Services (www.tenzing.com) announced on Wednesday that it is the first Canadian company to join the OpSource (www.opsource.net) Cloud Partner Ecosystem, a deal that will see Tenzing offer its customers a public cloud service based on OpSource’s cloud architecture.
Tenzing has offered its “Everest” enterprise private cloud services for more than a year now, but the new deal enables the company to begin offering public cloud services immediately, based out of OpSource’s Northern Virginia data center, said Tenzing founder and CEO Brian Shepard, in an interview with the WHIR.
Tenzing says the new solution, which it is calling the Everest Cloud, compliments its existing enterprise cloud solution, which has been re-branded the Everest Enterprise Cloud. The new public cloud solution offers self-service infrastructure as a service with dynamic performance and scalability.
According to the Everest Cloud hosting product page on the Tenzing website, the offering includes VMware-based virtual machines, cloud storage and virtual LANs.
In joining OpSource’s Cloud Partner Ecosystem, says Sheppard, Tenzing has committed to building a Canadian public cloud zone using OpSource’s cloud platform, in its own facility located at the 151 Front Street carrier hotel, in Toronto.
When the deployment is completed, in the third quarter of 2011, Tenzing public cloud customers will have the option of placing their data in the Canadian space, or at other worldwide locations established either by OpSource, or by other participants in the Partner Ecosystem. Customers of those other OpSource partners wil, in turn, be able to place data in the Canadian location supplied by Tenzing.
“By partnering with OpSource, we were able to significantly reduce the time it takes to bring enterprise-ready public cloud services to market. We have seen a dramatic increase in the demand for public cloud hosting and this partnership will accelerate our goal to become a dominant force in the Canadian cloud market,” says Brian Shepard, quoted in the company’s announcement.
Shepard says Tenzing’s customers – which the company identifies generally as SaaS suppliers and e-commerce systems integrators – wanted a cloud solution that would enable them to reduce costs and deploy applications more quickly.
Also quoted in the press release announcing the deal, OpSource channels and alliances SVP Jon Beck said the deal would provide OpSource with a partner that can address “the data residency requirements of doing business in Canada.”
The new Everest Cloud solution is available now, in both pay-as-you-go or monthly pre-paid formats, based out of the OpSource facility in the US. The Canadian data residency option will be available in the third quarter.
About Liam Eagle
Liam Eagle has worked as a contributor to the Web Host Industry Review since its inception in 2000, and as editor since 2003. He has been editor of the WHIR's print magazine since its launch. His daily involvement in the gathering and reporting of Web hosting news and his regular interaction with Web hosting leaders gives him an uncommonly broad appreciation of the issues and tends facing the business. Through his WHIR blog, Liam spots Web hosting trends and offers opinions on the industry-wide impacts of major developments and the motivation behind big announcements. Follow him on Twitter @liameagle
No related posts.
