(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider Voxel (www.voxel.net) announced on Thursday it has launched VoxSTRUCTURE, which it calls the “first public ‘hybrid cloud’ with a global footprint in the US, Asia and Europe.”
The hybrid cloud platform combines virtualized servers, physical servers, and content delivery services. With the launch, Voxel is offering full public availability of the VoxCLOUD computing product and the new VoxSERVERS line of instantly deployable physical machines.
Voxel says it is the first company to offer “truly diverse and global infrastructure behind a single API”, offering program-based control of the full stack.
The company says that its larger competitors like Amazon and Rackspace have yet to provide a “holistic solution that provides the flexibility needed by modern Web applications.”
Voxel’s VoxSTRUCTURE lets customers mix and match physical servers, virtual servers and content delivery with per hour, per month, or per year billing and a single bandwidth line item.
All of VoxSTRUCTURE is supported around the clock by Voxel’s technical support team.
“Infrastructure as a service offerings need to address the full application stack; that’s why we’ve created a ground up hybrid cloud offering that mixes both physical and virtual machines.” says Zachary Smith, president of Voxel. “Our comprehensive approach to infrastructure, dubbed VoxSTRUCTURE, and our individual VoxCLOUD and VoxSERVER lines are paving the way for next generation IT infrastructure deployments.”
Customers of Voxel’s hybrid cloud include open-source software community Mozilla, web-based media marketplace Mochila, and web technology firm Advomatic.
After achieving success in the United States and Europe with on-demand computing and delivery products, Voxel launched in May the Asian node of its VoxCAST CDN and private cloud computing beta in Singapore.
Then in August, Voxel began offering customers in Asia and North America VoxCLOUD in a closed private preview.
