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Yearly Archives: 2011
Integrated Networks will see cloud go sky high
Our founder, Tony Lucas, predicts fast growth in cloud use as users change from internet-based to integrated networks. We’re about to see a shift – a tipping point in the way customers access cloud services. Although there is a great deal of talk about companies ‘bursting’* to the cloud whenever they need extra capacity, in reality, …Continue Reading
Ministerial visit to Flexiant HQ
It’s been an exciting week so far at the Flexiant camp, following an official visit from Angela Constance MSP, Fergus Ewing (Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism) and Alyn Smith (MEP). They paid us a visit on Monday to hear more about the three EU funded projects we are involved in, which together are valued …Continue Reading
Ministerial visit marks Flexiant’s pioneering work in cloud computing
Angela Constance MSP, Fergus Ewing (Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism) and Alyn Smith (MEP) will visit Flexiant, leading UK cloud software specialists on Monday 21 November 2011. The ministers will tour Flexiant’s headquarters and recently completed datacentre in Livingston. They will also hear more about Flexiant’s important role in three EU projects, valued in …Continue Reading
Extility 1.5.2 Release
Although it’s only been 5 weeks since we released Extility 1.5, we have since made a couple of exciting improvements to it which we couldn’t wait to share with you all. For that reason ladies and gentlemen, may we present to you Extility 1.5.2! And before any of you observant types come back to us …Continue Reading
Interxion Launches Second Cloud Testlab at its City of London Data Centre
INTERXION HOLDING NV (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced the deployment of its second Cloud Testlab, a turnkey cloud hosting test environment enabling service providers and system integrators to test and develop cloud services at high speed and with best-in-class performance guarantees. This Testlab deployment is a …Continue Reading
Cloud APIs
I was asked a couple of days ago on Twitter whether I have any thoughts on cloud APIs. I do, and rather too many to put into 140 characters. Probably too many for a blog post, but I’ll try to summarise how I think APIs can affect a Service Provider’s choice of cloud platform. What …Continue Reading
Flexiant launches downloadable cloud with Free Trial
Leading cloud software services provider, Flexiant, has today released a downloadable edition of its Extility cloud services management software. The new Extility Foundation Edition will give smaller service providers the opportunity to compete in the provision of agile cloud services and will enable corporate users to build, manage and deploy private, public or hybrid clouds …Continue Reading
Extility 1.5 Release
Drumroll please! It has been a while since we announced a new version of Extility, but we are proud to report that as of today, Extility 1.5 is available. The eagle eyed amongst you will spot the last release was 1.3, so what happened in the mean time? Not to worry, we didn’t accidently misplace …Continue Reading
VMware Support
Extility has always been designed to be as agnostic and as flexible as possible as to the underlying virtualisation technologies it uses. Extility Service Provider Edition now supports VMware vSphere in addition to our existing support for KVM & Xen. We can provide a consistent user interface across all three hypervisor solutions. Whichever hypervisor you want …Continue Reading
Public Virtual IP, Router Nodes and q-in-q support
In Extility 1.5, we’ve completely rewritten our networking stack to bring you two cool new features. Public Virtual IP Public Virtual IP (PVIP) brings lightweight, efficient, Layer 3 connectivity to the Extility Platform. Prior to version 1.5, customers with routable IP addresses used what we call ‘Public VLAN mode’. Here, each virtual NIC with an …Continue Reading
