A screenshot of a video demo of Claranet's virtual data center control panel
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider Claranet announced on Wednesday that it has launched a new cloud computing service for organizations looking to migrate internal IT infrastructure to the cloud.
According to the press release, the Claranet Virtual Data Center will address the key concerns of enterprises looking to move to the cloud including cost control, scalability and the speed of implementation.
“We are delivering to the market a solution that is built entirely around the needs of the user,” Michel Robert, managing director, Claranet UK said in a statement. “Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre is built on four key principles: security and reliability, based in the country of the customer’s choice all with access to the first of up to six European nodes, with ease of network integration and a platform that is hypervisor-agnostic to facilitate migration.”
Claranet says its virtual data center offers users hosting, guaranteed resources and storage. It is hosted in Tier-3 equivalent data centers and 24×7 local language support.
According to the press release, the Claranet Virtual Data Center has a single self-service portal that allows end-users to manage dedicated and shared cloud platforms. Claranet says users are able to merge existing cloud servers into logical applications and deploy them with a drag-and-drop interface.
Users can choose which countries their applications and data are hosted in. Claranet says this feature is important because its research indicates that 85 percent of organizations said that data security was the biggest risk factor in migrating to the cloud.
“Many businesses start out by just using the cloud for web hosting a mass-market service provides everything they need. But as these businesses become more comfortable with the cloud, they often want to reap some of the other benefits – and place business applications in the cloud. However, these may need much higher availability and have specific data protection requirements that the mass-market cloud may not meet,” Robert said in a statement.
“On the other hand, enterprise cloud is designed to work with enterprise-grade IT systems, which means it is more resilient, and compatible with a wider range of IT components. The Claranet Virtual Data Center is a different proposition, delivering a network-integrated cloud – so that users can connect to their cloud solution with their private wide area network without using the public internet for connectivity,” he added.
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