(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Software developer Flexiant (www.flexiant.com) has completed the bottom-up re-write of its public cloud platform with the launch of FlexiScale 2.0, which lets users grow their installations from one server to a thousand servers in just seconds.
According to Flexiant’s Wednesday announcement, FlexiScale 2.0 gives start-ups and small and medium-sized businesses the flexibility to manage streaming video, social networking, Software as a Service, and a wealth of other applications.
Supporting Windows Server and all common versions of Linux, FlexiScale 2.0 lets customers run as many virtual dedicated servers as they want on a pay-as-you-go basis, and they can be based upon either an OS or appliance images from Flexiant’s own library, a custom image, or a clone of an existing customer server. Flexiant’s advanced storage system eliminates the long OS installation cycle — servers are available in seconds no matter how it is built. Servers in the virtual data center can be built either through Flexiant’s web-based user interface or via an API that gives users flexibility in how they can control servers.
With the ability to setup or taken down virtual servers in less than 60 seconds, businesses can rapidly shape their IT resources in response to dynamic market conditions. And with no long-term commitment or capital expenditure, FlexiScale 2.0 facilitates clear focus on core business activities by reducing time, energy and effort spent on IT provisioning and investment.
FlexiScale 2.0 is powered by the company’s flagship technology, “Extility”, a licensed virtualized cloud platform technology launched in March as a licensed product for data center owners, providing end-users all the benefits of real-time server estate management through its unique user interface and API. FlexiScale 2.0, in turn, has a very user-friendly look and feel, giving users full control over the functionally enriched FlexiScale 2.0.
“Our existing FlexiScale customers are very important to us and we know they will love the improvements and new features of FlexiScale 2.0 that the Extility technology suite has enabled,” Flexiant founder Tony Lucas said in a statement.
FlexiScale 2.0 not only allows end-users to benefit from a wholly scalable hosting infrastructure but also reaches out to the wider world of IT services delivery companies with the opportunity to extend their offering to existing customers, while differentiating their services in a progressively demanding market place where nearly all IT services have been commoditized.
New features version 2.0 include a completely revised graphical user interface, a richer API for programmatic server control, substantially reduced charges, highly accelerated initial boot times, Virtual Data Centers letting customers organise their own array of servers. It also gives customers the ability to attach, detach, resize, snapshot, image and clone virtual disks, as well as to create their own servers from uploaded images.
