Carpathia Hosting and Citrix Team Up to Take Enterprise Cloud to the Next Level
Carpathia Hosting, the leading provider of enterprise managed
hosting services for government agencies and businesses, announced it has teamed up with Citrix Systems Inc. to launch the
second generation of its enterprise cloud offering, Carpathia
InstantOn™. Powered by Citrix XenServer™, InstantOn is the first cloud
solution truly aimed at meeting the needs of enterprise computing for
public clouds and private virtual datacenters, while delivering cloud
solutions that are managed, flexible and scalable.
Carpathia
InstantOn is easily-accessed and managed through Carpathia's web-based
E3 Portal™ and is powered by XenServer, the only enterprise-class,
cloud-proven server virtualization platform. Enterprises using
Carpathia InstantOn can easily deploy custom compute and storage
solutions, blending dedicated and cloud resources in a single solution.
Solutions are available in either multi-tenant or private clouds to
meet the most stringent security and compliance requirements including
government standard like FISMA and DIACAP, financial standards like PCI
and healthcare standards like HIPAA.
"Delivering robust public and private cloud solutions for production-ready applications has been our focus from day one," said Jon Greaves, CTO, Carpathia Hosting.
"With the announcement of our second generation cloud service built on
Citrix XenServer, we are giving our customers additional flexibility,
scale and management that further allows them to take advantage of both
our enterprise cloud services as well as our traditional managed
hosting services."
Built
to meet the needs of small, mid-size and large organizations with
production-ready applications, the following cloud services are
available with Carpathia InstantOn:
- Virtual networking. Networking
solutions to support virtual compute and storage allowing InstantOn to
be deployed in enterprise configurations taking advantage of solutions
like Citrix Netscaler® VPX™.
- Virtual Compute. On-demand
computing services for both simple virtual machines and complex
topologies including connections to existing dedicated infrastructure
in a secure manner.
- Virtual Storage. Object and block
storage solutions designed to support enterprise compute requirements.
Storage can be shared between multiple virtual machines and dedicated
servers with multiple copies of each object.
- Private Cloud or Private Virtual Datacenters. Virtual
Compute and Storage solutions deployed in a private or reserved
deployment. Combines the advantages of cloud technology such as
dynamic scaling and instant provisioning while being fully managed.
- Compliant Cloud. Designed to meet government IT standards including FISMA
and DIACAP. Enhancements include RSA authentication, SSL VPN for
management access and inter/intra virtual machine firewalling.
- Virtual Disaster Recovery. Replicated
data ensures you have a current offsite copy of mission critical
information at a fraction of the cost of traditional disaster recovery
solutions. Pay for cloud resources on-demand during DR testing and DR
events.
- Virtual Development & Test. Virtual
Compute, Storage and Networking solutions designed specifically for
test labs for easy deployment and promotion into production at a
dramatically lower price-point than deploying dedicated development and
test lab environments.
Enterprises
using Carpathia InstantOn can also easily deploy custom compute and
storage solutions, blending dedicated and cloud resources in a single
solution. InstantOn can be used in conjunction with Carpathia
AlwaysOn™, a traditional managed dedicated hosting solution, to deliver
the ultimate in flexibility. Underlying all Carpathia InstantOn
solutions is Carpathia Cloud Orchestration™. Cloud Orchestration
allows cloud and managed dedicated resources to scale seamlessly in a
single solution allowing customers to select which applications and
services fit best in the cloud and which should reside on dedicated
infrastructure.
"We
have been impressed with how Carpathia Hosting has approached building
enterprise cloud solutions for public and private clouds, especially
when it comes to access and payment models tailored for enterprises
deploying production-ready applications," said Simon Crosby,
CTO, Datacenter and Cloud Division at Citrix Systems. "The combination
of Citrix Cloud Center (Citrix C3) and Carpathia's unique Cloud
Orchestration model has resulted in an enterprise cloud solution that
is truly industry-leading."
In
addition to Carpathia InstantOn, the companies plan to team up on
additional cloud offerings including virtual desktop as a service.
Carpathia Hosting and Citrix will host a live webcast on March 16 at 1:00pm EDT
to discuss private and public clouds for the enterprise as well as
Carpathia Hosting's second-generation InstantOn cloud service. For
more information and to register for the webcast, visit www.carpathiahosting.com/enterprisecloud.