Hosting.com, a provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation offerings and a strategic VMware vCloud partner, said that clients can upload their own VMware virtual machines or VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk Format) files to Hosting.com’s Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated offerings.
According to Hosting.com, Cloud Enterprise customers can move their virtual machines, either from their own environment or another host, into one of its Cloud Super Sites. The offering can provide VMware vSphere users with a redundant layer of offsite disaster recovery and business continuance services in a hosted environment. Current and new Cloud Enterprise customers can access this functionality via the Customer Control Panel.
The company said that the offering is suitable for companies that have VMware virtual machines at their premise or another host and need additional compute capacity in a cloud environment.
The company claims that uploading the VMDK file eliminates the work associated with rebuilding applications and data in a cloud or offsite environment. In addition, users can modify their compute, storage and disc resources through the control panel to meet the resource needs of the applications running within the virtual machines.
Joel Daly, chief operating officer of Hosting.com, said: The client demand through the limited beta displayed the marketplace need for multi-platform solutions; this solution allows our colocation and managed hosting clients to develop applications, websites etc in their own virtual environments and utilise our cloud platform for launch, fault tolerance or geographically dispersed disaster recovery.
Cloud Enterprise leverages new in virtualisation platform technology with VMware vSphere 4, and is available on the computing and disk infrastructures. Starting at $125 per month, Cloud Enterprise provides cloud hosting via a web portal.
