(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Enhancing its service offerings to meet to demands of businesses that need a dedicated environment rather than shared infrastructure, on-demand data center services provider SoftLayer Technologies (www.softlayer.com) has added Private Cloud services, which separates customers’ physical computing hardware from other users’, giving customers the privacy of dedicated hardware with the scalability of the cloud.
When combined with the SoftLayer Private Network, available with all SoftLayer computing environments, customers can use the Private Cloud to not only run their applications in an isolated environment, but also to transmit data securely, according to SoftLayer’s Monday announcement. And, as with all SoftLayer CloudLayer services, Private Cloud is available on an hourly or monthly basis.
“We’re extremely excited to introduce Private Cloud services to our customers. Private Cloud gives Softlayer customers yet another dynamic, scalable infrastructure option,” SoftLayer chief technology officer Nathan Day said in a statement. “This will provide a service with segregated physical computing hardware giving customers security and peace of mind with the benefits of unlimited, on-demand scalability.”
Private Cloud customers can select the number of cores needed to adapt to workloads and capacity required from a single core with 1GB RAM for either $159.00 monthly or $0.30 hourly plus $0.10 per GB of bandwidth, up to an 8-core system with 8GB RAM for $399.00 per monthly or $1.00 per hour plus $0.10 per GB of bandwidth.
In another announcement directed at making the cloud useful for enterprises, SoftLayer added Bare Metal Cloud computing instances to its line of CloudLayer services two weeks ago, offering bare-metal, cloud instances without a hypervisor. This provides a more viable cloud computing option for workloads that demand direct access to physical hardware, such as databases and calculation-intensive applications.
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