A screenshot of SingleHop's Cascade cloud platform
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider SingleHop (www.singlehop.com) announced on Tuesday that it has expanded its Cascade cloud hosting platform.
SingleHop launched Cascade in January 2011.
According to the press release, this expansion enables customers the choice to create a Bare Metal virtual machine or a Canopy virtual machine.
SingleHop says the update enables customers to create an unlimited number of virtual machines on their dedicated server.
Cascade is an extension to a dedicated server, according to SingleHop. Customers manage and create virtual machines from SingleHop’s LEAP Platform.
“We see everything we do as providing on-demand computing. The addition of Bare Metal and Canopy virtual machines to our Cascade Platform introduces on-demand cloud storage to our clients, and makes the underlying hardware even more transparent than ever before,” SingleHop president and chief executive officer Zak Boca said in a statement.
SingleHop says Canopy virtual machines are designed for mission critical environments, while Bare Metal virtual machines are intended for high I/O environments.
Canopy can be used as an extension of the cloud so clients can scale storage and be billed for usage. The virtual machines are constantly monitored and in case of a crash, SingleHop will live migrate the Canopy VM to a stand-by server.
According to SingleHop, “the processing and storage on a Bare Metal virtual machine is done on the client’s dedicated server” to enable clients with I/O applications virtual machines that best meet their needs.
“Our expansion of Cascade’s offerings was a direct result of our close relationship with our customers. We listened to how they were using our new cloud hosting platform, and designed these new products to better fit the way they wanted to implement Cascade’s cloud capabilities,” SingleHop co-founder and chief marketing officer Dan Ushman said. “The new Bare-Metal product, as well as our new Canopy cloud storage system, will enable our customers to have more control through instant and unlimited VM deployments, along with cloud hosting redundancy and scalability. ”
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