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Flexiscale partnership will encourage Cloud

Hi-Tech Scotland reporter | Thursday August 07, 2008



Livingston based FlexiScale, a leading provider of on-demand Cloud computing, has announced a significant technology partnership with CohesiveFT, providers of the Elastic Server Platform, an on-demand service for dynamic assembly and deployment of virtual machines. The partnership will enable deployment of CohesiveFT’s Elastic Servers to FlexiScale's Cloud.  

The integration of technologies from CohesiveFT and FlexiScale will enable true on-demand application stack assembly and deployment on a pay-as-you-go Cloud.  This combination allows genuinely scaleable, high availability production environments that do not require in-house operations expertise to build and maintain such a facility.  Beyond substantial manpower savings the combined solution significantly reduces capital and energy expenditures.

This partnership will also allow ISVs, application developers and QA teams to dramatically increase their productivity throughout the development lifecycle.  These teams will not be dependent on resource constrained operations departments to provision development and testing environments and will be able to change their application stack definitions with the click of a mouse.  

Initially Elastic Server-branded virtual machines will be available from FlexiScale's Control Panel as templates built in a Xen virtual format for deployment into Virtual Dedicated Servers (VDS) in FlexiScale's Cloud.  The Elastic Server templates will feature application stacks as pre-built virtual machine images of popular components.  Users will have access to these custom images on demand, eliminating the typical administrative overhead of assembling virtual machine images “by hand”.

“The combination of  FlexiScale and CohesiveFT provides customers with a self-service, rapid-response environment for deploying any kind of application” said Tony Lucas, CEO of FlexiScale.  “Anchored by FlexiScale’s on-demand computing Cloud and CohesiveFT's dynamic virtual server assembly capabilities, this new approach takes all the upfront financial capital, human capital and lead time opportunity costs out.”

Pat Kerpan, president and chief technology officer of CohesiveFT, said:“Cloud computing is revolutionizing the application development lifecycle. Our partnership with FlexiScale will provide companies the ability to build and deploy a custom virtual server to a cloud in minutes which brings massive efficiencies to the adopters of this approach.”

www.flexiscale.com

www.cohesiveft.com

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