8th April, 2011 by Tony Lucas
We’ve been busy here at Flexiant regularly turning out new features for Extility, our Cloud software stack, at the rate of about one major new feature a month in fact (alongside numerous other improvements and bug fixes of course). One of the biggest I’ve been looking forward to us releasing is Affinity, and that day [...]
5th April, 2011 by Tony Lucas
The world has run out of IP Addresses – panic! Ok, well it’s not quite that bad, but with the last IPv4 addresses being allocated to their local registries, that time is certainly getting very close. This site suggests we have only got until 21st April before IPv4 address space runs out. Only last week Microsoft [...]
5th April, 2011 by Tony Lucas
I’ve just arrived back from a successful week launching Extility to the US market at Cloud Connect, and have been blown away by the response to it. I think it’s worth spending some time explaining Extility, how it works, and what it does in a little more detail. Extility is Flexiant’s software that powers the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
