INNOVATE IT LIMITED today announces a transformational approach to
reducing the cost of cloud application development, with the launch of
ScaleCloud. ScaleCloud is a condensed private cloud platform
in a standard 1U server form with an easy to use web browser interface.
A turn-key commercial off-the-shelf solution, requires no programming
skills to configure. It can run 480 Linux servers or 100 Windows
servers or a combination of both, but if more capacity is required
additional ScaleCloud appliances can be added to grow the cloud
resource. It allows multiple development teams to work concurrently,
whist recording metrics of resource usage, for cross-charging, or
auditing purposes. A hyperconverged complete private cloud appliance,
built on enterprise-class hardware and leading open source software,
ScaleCloud lowers the cost of development operations, enabling
businesses to move their software development to the cloud and enables
tech start-up companies to enter the industry.
An Enabler – Low Cost, Agile
By lowering the cost of owning, operating and hosting a private cloud,
ScaleCloud makes cloud services available to established businesses and
start-ups alike. ScaleCloud gives the client flexibility over their
cloud, and software developers a platform to carry out progressive
iterations freely, without impacting operational costs. All of the
OpenStack APIs are enabled, just like a larger enterprise solution,
including EC2.
Secure
Owning on-premise cloud hardware provides customers with the greatest
level of security, with no need to expose data traversing public
networks. The ScaleCloud management console is HTTPS enabled for safe
and secure remote access. Where an organization requires an additional
level of security, disk encryption is available as an option.
High Density, Rapid Deployment
ScaleCloud is an enterprise quality, hyperconverged cloud development
platform packed into a standard 1U server form, with the compute,
network, storage and elastic capability expected of a cloud solution.
The bespoke web-based interface removes the complexity usually
associated with configuring cloud solutions, reducing the time taken to
set-up and configure the cloud hardware to less than 30 minutes.
Initiating a server instance is rapid using the imaging feature.
Testing has shown standing up 400 Linux servers or 100 Windows®
2012 servers takes under 20 minutes.
Multi-tenancy
The multi-tenancy feature allows different development projects to have
defined resource quotas allocated by a single point administrator. The
administrator can define resource by number of servers and type, or
simply make a set amount of resource available to the developer, or
team. This feature also enables auditing and re-allocation of resource
as necessary.
Scalable
ScaleCloud could be the only private cloud solution customers will ever
need, it is elastic scalable infrastructure, capable of both horizontal
and vertical scaling. Scaling out is simple; using the configuration
portal the new ScaleCloud nodes are instantly recognized and the
additional compute, network and storage resource is made available to
the existing cloud.
Pricing and Availablity
At a base price of £24,490, including three years hardware and software
support. The combination of small server form and no subscription makes
ScaleCloud the most competitively priced cloud product on the market and
ideal for development operations, where businesses will realize cost
savings and increased productivity. ScaleCloud launches today in the UK.