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AWS / Eucalyptus Metadata Compatibility

8th December, 2010 by Tony Lucas

A small number of public cloud providers have a metadata service that allows virtual machines to configure themselves. We launched ours a few months ago. Today we are announcing that we have made it easier for customers to share images between FlexiScale, AWS and Eucalyptus, and thus have also made it easier to move servers [...]

Flexiant To Provide Test Bed For A 3 Million Euro Pan-European Cloud Platform

2nd December, 2010 by admin

A plan to create a pan-European cloud platform moves closer this week following the European Commission’s (EC) acceptance of a proposal by a consortium of industrial partners including software and services company, Flexiant. The three million euro research and development programme is now underway following the successful outcome of hearings with all members of the [...]

Clouds slow things down

1st December, 2010 by Alex Bligh

Ok, only one particular type of cloud – snow clouds. We haven’t been able to get into to our offices since Monday due to snow (up to four feet in places). Many of our staff can’t actually get out of their houses. Our intrepid operations director, Tabs, attempted to reach the office today, but had [...]

Scheduling Servers

1st December, 2010 by Tony Lucas

Have any of the following ever happened to you? You don’t actually need all of your servers on 24/7, but whilst you try to remember shut them down at the end of the day, you keep forgetting; You need to organise a reboot for 3am to complete an upgrade, and really don’t fancy staying up [...]

FreeBSD on FlexiScale – Clever Customers

29th November, 2010 by Tony Lucas

Just a quick post to let anyone interested in FreeBSD on FlexiScale that the clever guys at Hybrid Logic have written a really easy guide on how to get it up and running, which is available here. We’d add that once you’ve used Luke’s method once, you can use FlexiScale’s “Make Image” functionality to produce [...]

Flexiant partners with Phoenix Fire to attack the US cloud market

29th November, 2010 by admin

Pioneering cloud software and services company Flexiant marked its entry into the US market with an announcement today of its partnership with Phoenix Fire, a business development agency specialising in partner channel development for the US technology sector. The partnership demonstrates Flexiant’s commitment to the aggressive expansion of its worldwide channel as Robert Karssiens, Flexiant’s [...]

Image Verification

25th November, 2010 by Tony Lucas

Today, as part of the FlexiScale 2.2 release, we have rolled out a feature called Image Verification. Images often need to make a call-out to the image vendor on boot, for instance to obtain licence keys. One challenge image vendors have is to determine whether that call-out comes from a real image, or someone impersonating [...]

Image Permissions

25th November, 2010 by Tony Lucas

Wev’e been doing a lot of work on enhancements to our image management system. This is partly to make it easier for third party image providers to provide appliances for our platform (psst, if you are interested in providing your virtual appliance on our platform drop us a e-mail and we can tell you more), [...]

SSH Keys

25th November, 2010 by Tony Lucas

As you may have read in our FlexiScale 2.2 blog post we have just rolled out a feature that lets you add your own SSH public keys into servers you create using FlexiScale. So how does it all work? Well it’s quite simple really.  Your SSH keys are assigned to your customer account, so you [...]

FlexiScale 2.2 Release

25th November, 2010 by Tony Lucas

It feels like no time has passed since we released FlexiScale 2.1 (about 6 weeks or so actually), but there are so many great things happening here it was time for a roll-out of even more new features. SSH public key support You can now add SSH public keys to your customer account using either [...]

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