- FlexiScale
FlexiScale is the
Utility Computing platform launched byXCalibre Communications in the summer of 2007 [ [http://uk.techcrunch.com/2007/10/03/flexiscale-launches-on-demand-hosting/ Flexiscale launches on demand hosting] ] .Users are able to create, start, and stop servers as they requireallowing rapid deployment where needed. Both Windows and Linux aresupported on the FlexiScale platform.FlexiScale uses
Virtual Iron 's virtualization manager whichis based on the open sourceXen Hypervisor. Backend storage comes from ahighly redundant SAN/NAS, although the level of redundancy has recently been called into question, with more than 2 days of downtime resulting from an engineer mistake [ [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/28/flexiscale_outage/ Engineer accidentally deletes cloud] ] . It has since come to light that whilst the system has two header machines running the IBM NetApp SAN, there is only a single set of disks in the array.References
External links
* [http://www.flexiscale.com/ FlexiScale] main website
* [http://www.xcalibre.co.uk/ XCalibre's] primary website
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