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Monthly Archives: November 2010
FreeBSD on FlexiScale – Clever Customers
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 …Continue Reading
Flexiant partners with Phoenix Fire to attack the US cloud market
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 …Continue Reading
Image Verification
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 …Continue Reading
Image Permissions
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), …Continue Reading
SSH Keys
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 …Continue Reading
FlexiScale 2.2 Release
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 …Continue Reading
FlexiScale 2.2 Released
Flexiant is pleased to announce the latest version of its flagship Infrastructure As A Service offering: FlexiScale 2.2. FlexiScale leading-edge technology enables start-ups and SMEs to grow from one server to one thousand servers in seconds – critical for organisations offering streaming video, social networking or SaaS, and ideal for a wealth of other applications. …Continue Reading
New Server Sizes
To quote Captain Kirk: Scotty…I need more power! We’ve had a number of requests for server sizes with larger amounts of CPU than our current configurations. We are of course happy to oblige. We have added 10 new configurations in total. A table showing all the various options is below: CPU cores 1 2 3 …Continue Reading
Flexiant makes key appointments following sustained growth
Going from strength to strength, Flexiant, the revolutionary cloud software and services company, is pleased to announce that Tim Criddle and Graham Moore have joined the company as the newest members of the Flexiant family. Flexiant has appointed Tim and Graham as Account Director and Pre-sales technical consultant respectively. This substantial strengthening of the Flexiant …Continue Reading
Flexiant Invited to Produce White Paper for Acclaimed Industry Think Tank ECOWS 2010
Flexiant, the revolutionary cloud software and services company, has been invited to contribute a scientific paper on advanced cloud bursting to the influential European Conference On Web Services (ECOWS) 2010. Flexiant’s contribution covers Advanced Cloud Bursting as well as management and security during bursting, a specialist area for the company. Other collaborators on the paper …Continue Reading
