Posts with tag "infrastructure as a service"

Brightbox Cloud - general availability

Earlier today we officially removed the “beta” label and enabled full signup, meaning anyone can now signup and be up-and-running on Brightbox Cloud within minutes!

This general availability is the culmination of over 18 months of work here at Brightbox and a thorough private beta phase of almost 12 months.

In case you missed it, here are a few highlights:

  • High performance, flexible Cloud Servers:
    Use any OS and even bring your own,
    Out-of-band access via an encrypted graphical console,
    Separate network segment for each Cloud Server - secure from spoofing or eavesdropping.
  • Geographically isolated datacentre “Zones”:
    Effortlessly build highly-available systems which span multiple Brightbox datacentres.
  • Instantly mappable Cloud IP addresses:
    Seamlessly move IPv4 addresses between your Cloud Servers and Load Balancers.
  • Cloud Load Balancers:
    Balance traffic across a pool of Cloud Servers in multiple Zones,
    Highly available across a Region - designed to tolerate the loss of an entire Zone without disruption!
    Balance multiple protocols at once (HTTP, SSH, FTP etc) and handle 5000 concurrent connections comfortably (additional scaling options available soon)
  • No-fuss import/export of your Cloud Server images and snapshots:
    Upload your OS images and download your snapshots as raw disk images via FTPS, Share your OS images with other Brightbox users by making them “public”.

Why not create an account now? - you don’t need to make any pre-payments and it’s easy to get started.

We also have many more exciting announcements about new features etc over the next few weeks so stay tuned!

posted 03 Oct 2011 by Jeremy Jarvis

Announcing Brightbox Cloud – the UK’s first true IaaS platform!

Today, we’re announcing the private beta launch of Brightbox Cloud – our new IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) platform!

We’ve dedicated several months to developing and engineering our new cloud platform from the ground up (almost literally). We’ve kitted out two new datacentre “Zones”, set up a new resilient network across them and built-out a distributed cloud system which enables some very exciting features such as re-mappable cloud IP addresses, easy import/export of your cloud server images and much, much more.

We’re launching the private beta phase with our simple command-line client (a full control panel GUI will be available soon). Check out the screencast below to see how easy it is to get started.

If you’d like to get [free] access to our private beta programme, simply submit a request via the beta site and we’ll be in touch shortly!

I’m extremely proud of our achievement, Brightbox is the first company in the UK to offer a “true” distributed IaaS cloud – quite a shake-up for the European cloud market. Stay tuned – there’s a lot more in store!

posted 09 Nov 2010 by Jeremy Jarvis