CloudServer by Active Technologies

The Active Technologies company offers since November, 2011 completely updated CloudServer service — lease of computing powers for creation of own infrastructure in "cloud". Service completely saves from need of purchase of the server hardware, its installation in data center and also its support and upgrade. Creation of own data center will take only several minutes, claim in Active Technologies.

It is the simplest to order and configure CloudServer thanks to an evident slider: it is necessary to select the operating system (Windows Web Server, Windows 2008 Standard, Windows Enterprise, Windows Datacenter, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.); then to specify parameters of the virtual machine (amount of RAM, quantity of physical cores of CPU, type of a storage system). Virtual machines are activated in several minutes, and the convenient web interface will allow to manage far off servers and if necessary to reconfigure, emphasized in Active Technologies.

Important feature of service of CloudServer is the possibility of type selection of the storage system (SS) on the basis of arrays from SATA, SAS and SSD disks. Other feature of new service is security. Except use of a virtual network for each client (VLAN), mirroring of data and backup (snapshots), the CloudServer web interface gives the chance to quickly organize a cluster of high availability with different algorithms of balancing of loading. These functions allow to provide the continuity of work of business of any level, says Active Technologies.

In the whole CloudServer provides: up to 32 GB of RAM (to 1 TB on a special request) and up to 16 cores of CPU on 1 virtual machine (the number of machines is not limited, and the starting configuration makes only ¼ CPU and 256 MB of RAM); the licensed software of Microsoft (it is included in cost); flexibility and scalability — fast increase in power of the server during peak load periods and reduction during recession periods (data transfer and repeated setup will not be required); full control over expenses due to per second tariffing with reports; the application programming interface (API) allows to automate all infrastructure management processes through usual development tools — PHP, Java, Ruby, .NET and so forth; the high level of SLA, administration and architecture of High Availability (ensuring the minimum idle time of servers at any possible incident) guarantee reliability of service.

According to Active Technologies, the service of CloudServer succeeded a hosting of VPS and dedicated servers. It optimum is suitable for placement of the high-loaded content projects, databases and business applications (1C, Sharepoint, SQL Server, Exchange, etc.). The related service of Active Technologies which optimum supplements CloudServer is service of remote desktops (Desktop-as-a-Service/DaaS) for the organization of access to a workplace with all documents and applications at any time and from any place in the world where there is an Internet.