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CloudSigma Launches Native Oracle Solaris-Based IaaS Offering for the Enterprise
[September 30, 2014]

CloudSigma Launches Native Oracle Solaris-Based IaaS Offering for the Enterprise


PALO ALTO, Calif. --(Business Wire)--

CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, today announced the launch of a SPARC and Oracle (News - Alert) Solaris-driven infrastructure-as-a-service offering leveraging Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones. Bringing the power of Oracle Solaris to its cloud platform makes CloudSigma one of the first major public clouds to support Oracle Solaris natively on SPARC. Oracle Solaris supports more than 11,000 third-party enterprise applications across a wide range of industries and was engineered specifically for cloud environments. Now, with CloudSigma's new service, customers can benefit from Oracle Solaris' advanced security, compliance, efficiency, scalability and performance in a public cloud, offering on-demand capacity elasticity, a high degree of control and unprecedented flexibility.

"We've been excited to see the recent developments in the Oracle Solaris offering and have worked closely with Oracle to demonstrate the unique power of this platform for the enterprise," said Robert Jenkins (News - Alert), CloudSigma CEO. "This new service will allow customers to engage with a SPARC - Oracle Solaris environment in new ways, as well as bring the benefits of the cloud paradigm to existing Oracle Solaris based workloads. We are fully committed to supporting the full range of customer computing requirements in the cloud and Oracle Solaris is an important part of that. After all, why should enterprises have to change their infrastructure or preferred operating system when they move to a public cloud? CloudSigma eliminates the restrictions other cloud providers impose and allows users to fully design and customize their cloud deployments. We offer a true virtual data center."

The CloudSigma cloud represents a neutral platform to migrate legacy systems or set up testing and production environments. Now, customers can not only deploy across the full range of x64/x86 compatible operating systems unmodified, but can also drive powerful SPARC - Oracle Solaris-based environments from the same unified interface and plaform.



"The recent release of Oracle Solaris 11.2 has turned it into a full cloud platform with OS, virtualization and Software Defined Networking (SDN) capabilities as well as a full distribution of OpenStack - all in one product," said Markus Flierl, vice president of Solaris Development at Oracle. "Oracle Solaris offers customers industry leading performance, efficiency, security and compliance. We are excited to see the Oracle Solaris ecosystem grow through partners like CloudSigma."

The CloudSigma offering for Solaris Kernel Zones allows customers to choose the version of the kernel they wish to run, enabling them to keep their public cloud Oracle Solaris environment in line with their existing private environment. This is combined with an ability to freely size each virtual machine to be tuned to the customer use case.


"Enterprise customers care not only about feature sets, but also about efficient environment management, particularly at scale," Jenkins continued. "That's why we've worked hard to integrate our new Oracle Solaris-based offering into our API and WebApp for a virtually seamless experience. We can offer 100 percent automation via our API of all cloud management features, making it ideal for a wide range of use cases, including very dynamic environments. We are especially interested to see how customers expand their Oracle Solaris usage to embrace the elasticity and automation we can offer them."

CloudSigma's IaaS offering with Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones is currently in closed beta and will be launching shortly into full production across the range of CloudSigma locations, including San Jose, Washington DC and Miami in the U.S. and Zurich, Switzerland in Europe.

See the new IaaS offering for Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones at Oracle OpenWorld
CloudSigma CEO Robert Jenkins will be presenting and demoing the new Kernel Zones IaaS offering at Oracle OpenWorld.

Session: General Session 7808
Presentation Title: Solaris update and Road Map
When: Tuesday, September 30th, 10:45 -11:30am
Where: Hotel Intercontinental, Grand Ballroom B

About CloudSigma
CloudSigma is a pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider that offers highly-available, flexible, enterprise-class cloud servers and cloud hosting solutions, both in Europe and the U.S. CloudSigma is one of the most customizable cloud providers on the market, giving customers full control over their cloud and eliminating restrictions on how users deploy their computing resources. With CloudSigma, customers can provision processing, storage, networks and other fundamental computing resources as they please, as well as easily deploy any operating system or application with full root/administrative access. The result is a high-performing cloud at an efficient price.

With infrastructure in Equinix (News - Alert) data centres in Zurich, Switzerland, as well as Washington DC, San Jose & Miami, US, and a DRFortress data center in Honolulu, CloudSigma selects the highest-quality facilities to support its innovative infrastructure. CloudSigma is increasingly being recognized for its advancement of the cloud IaaS industry and more information may be found at www.CloudSigma.com or by visiting the company on Twitter (News - Alert) @CloudSigma, Facebook and Google+.

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