support for Oracle solaris

CloudSigma First to Add Support for Oracle Solaris 

Follows CloudSigma’s Open Cloud Approach, Giving Customers Unprecedented Flexibility and Control of their Virtual Data Centers in Public Clouds

Palo Alto,California- 25th October 2011

CloudSigma, the international, pure-play cloud server and virtual data center provider, today announced the addition of Solaris, Oracle’s enterprise operating system, to its cloud platform, making it the first major public cloud to support Solaris. Solaris supports more than 11,000 third-party enterprise applications across a wide range of industries. It was engineered specifically for cloud environments. Now, with CloudSigma’s added support, customers can benefit from Solaris’ advanced security, efficiency, scalability and performance in a public cloud with complete control and unprecedented flexibility.

“The additional support of Solaris furthers our commitment to maintaining an open software layer that allows customers to easily install and run whatever software they want,” said Patrick Baillie, CloudSigma CEO. “After all, why should enterprises have to change their infrastructure or preferred operating system when they move to a public cloud? CloudSigma eliminates the restrictions other cloud providers impose and allow users to fully design and customize their cloud deployment. Moreover, by offering support for the latest software and operating systems,  our customers can continue to run the resources they want. And to do it without interference from the provider; we offer a true virtual data center.”

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With such flexibility, CloudSigma creates the ideal situation for companies migrating their legacy systems to the cloud. Or setting up testing and development environments in the cloud. Since companies do not have to change their existing deployments or operating systems, like Solaris, the transition to CloudSigma is seamless and efficient. The public cloud services sector predicted to reach $66 billion by 2016, according to recent research from Ovum. Therefore, the need for such a flexible environment is only set to increase over the next few years, putting CloudSigma in prime position for growth and innovation in the IaaS market.

Each new Solaris instance can be deployed immediately to CloudSigma’s platform. At the click of a button or via API call without provisioning delay. Additionally, it’s the customer who holds the full root access and control. So, this allows them to completely customize the server after initial deployment to suit their individual needs. Customers can clone drives and servers easily. They can also create server clusters using their own customized templates. Furthermore, with full software-level control of cloud servers in the CloudSigma platform, customers are easily able to protect direct server access. This allows users to implement their own security policies on their servers as to operating system, application access and networking firewalls.

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“Other cloud computing platforms simply aren’t able to provide the level of control that CloudSigma’s IaaS offering achieves,” continued Baillie. “Maintaining control in the cloud is becoming a growing concern. Especially as patching of underlying software resources is a leading cause of server outages and system failures for those running cloud infrastructure. Where the cloud provider maintains root control, which is the norm for IaaS. In our cloud, not only do we grant our customers complete control over their resources, but they also have the flexibility to customize their applications, operating system and networking however they see fit.”
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CloudSigma is offering a one week, full-featured, no-obligation free trial with full support. This enables anyone to familiarize themselves with what an IaaS platform can offer, as well as a full range of operating systems, including Solaris.

About CloudSigma

CloudSigma is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider that offers flexible, enterprise-class cloud servers and hosting solutions in Europe and the U.S. Up to date, CloudSigma is the most customizable cloud provider on the market. This is because it gives customers full control over their cloud and eliminates restrictions on deployment of computing resources. Through CloudSigma, customers can provision processing, storage, networks and other fundamental computing resources as they please. As well as easily deploy any operating system or application with full root/administrative access. The result is the highest-performing cloud at the most efficient price possible.

We have infrastructure in Interxion’s European Cloud Hubs and SwitchNAP’s Las Vegas data center campus. CloudSigma selects the highest-quality facilities to support its innovative infrastructure. We are also increasingly being recognized for its advancement of the cloud IaaS industry. For more information, feel free to look though blog.cloudsigma.com or send us a message on Twitter @CloudSigma, Facebook or Google+.
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