CloudSigma, a public IaaS cloud hosting provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, has launched a SPARC and Oracle Solaris-driven Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering leveraging Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones. Bringing the power of Oracle Solaris to its cloud hosting 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. With CloudSigma’s new cloud-based service, customers can benefit from Oracle Solaris’ advanced security, compliance, efficiency, scalability and performance in a public cloud hosting environment, offering on-demand capacity elasticity as well as a high degree of control and flexibility.
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.
Software Defined Networking
“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, CEO of CloudSigma. “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.
The CloudSigma cloud represents a neutral platform to migrate legacy systems or set up testing and production environments. 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 platform.
“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.”
API-driven Cloud
The CloudSigma cloud hosting 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,” added Jenkins. “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.”
