Atlantic.Net, widely known for its innovative, industry-specific hosting solutions, introduced a cloud computing platform designed to enable organizations of all sizes to build, test, and deploy Windows or Linux servers instantly and enjoy pay-as-you-go billing.

In a statement, Founder, President, and CEO of Atlantic.Net, Marty Puranik, said that the new cloud servers would allow the customers to enjoy the benefits of pay-as-you-go billing, free set-up, no contracts, and no commitments. “With over 16 years of industry experience, we optimized our cloud computing platform to deliver the best experience with today's hottest applications on the web,” Puranik said.

Operating at 40 gigabits per second-- between four and 400 times faster than competing products, Atlantic.Net's core cloud computing infrastructure provision instantly, provide very fast disk performance, bill by the second versus monthly or hourly and can be customized to the specific needs of our clients. In a statement, director of Data Center Services, Josh Simon said that Atlantic’s cloud computing platform was designed to surpass all of the hype and uncertainty and clear up the confusion surrounding Cloud Computing

“Our product development team worked tirelessly to deliver a unique, robust, one-of-a-kind solution tuned for Web applications. We studied what was available and decided to make the leap to the next generation of computing technology. From the ground up, our cloud platform implements many innovative features not available in any other platform. We addressed storage, computing capacity, provisioning, and even billing in a whole new way. The resulting computing experience is totally different and more secure than anything that's been available,” Simon noted.

Transition to cloud comes with its own benefits like savings, simplicity, flexibility, security, speed and live expert support 24/7/365. In the release, Atlantic.Net announced that it is offering a free trial of its public cloud platform to show organizations the benefits of moving to the cloud. The offer is for limited period, the company said.

In a recent interview with TMCnet’s Erin Harrison at Cloud Expo 2010, held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Josh Simon said, security and ease of use are continuing priorities for the cloud server hosting provider.“I think security is the number one concern,” Simon said