Internap Announces World's First Commercially Available OpenStack Cloud Compute
Service
- World's first cloud compute service built on OpenStack open source platform -
Full range of OpenStack and VMware public and private cloud services provides
enterprises with unmatched flexibility - Global, high-performance network with
100% uptime SLA ensures seamless access to cloud services
ATLANTA, Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Internap Network Services
Corporation (INAP), a provider of intelligent IT Infrastructure services, today
announced the world's first commercially available public cloud compute service
based on the OpenStack open source platform. Internap's Open Public Cloud compute
service delivers high-performance, on-demand provisioning and scaling of
enterprise computing capacity to meet changing web and application demands. The
OpenStack platform offers a set of standardized APIs allowing customers to
utilize the cloud without worrying about being locked in to a single provider.
The Open Public Cloud complements Internap's Custom Public Cloud, a VMware?-based
compute cloud, resulting in unparalleled flexibility for customers. These public
cloud compute offerings build on Internap's private cloud services and its
recently introduced cloud storage service, also based on OpenStack, creating one
of the most comprehensive enterprise cloud offerings available today. Internap's
global Performance IP(TM) network, with a 100% uptime SLA, is fully-integrated
with its cloud services, ensuring seamless access and an optimized experience for
end users.
According to a recent report from Gartner, public cloud services spending is
expected to grow four times faster than overall IT spending, reaching nearly $177
billion by 2015. "Enterprises moving to the cloud want the ability to select
services that meet their specific control, security and cost requirements rather
than a 'one size fits all' option," said Paul Carmody, senior vice president of
product management and business development at Internap. "As an active member of
the OpenStack open source community and a provider of VMware vCloud? Powered
services, Internap offers enterprises maximum flexibility with public cloud,
private cloud and a scalable cloud storage service. This allows customers to
'future-proof' cloud investments, moving from one cloud platform to another or
using a hybrid approach as priorities and business needs evolve."
MedAptus, a leader in the healthcare revenue cycle space for charge capture,
management and workflow efficiency, is using a hybrid cloud solution from
Internap. MedAptus counts amongst its customers some of the nation's largest and
most prestigious healthcare organizations.
"We were seeking both a private cloud that could support our growing customer
base and a scalable and cost-efficient disaster recovery solution. The
flexibility of Internap's cloud offering allowed us to easily select the services
that fit our unique requirements," said Larry Hagerty, president at MedAptus.
"Internap's Dedicated Private Cloud gives us the benefits of a VMware
environment, including enterprise-class security, fully-dedicated resources and
the control to create our own virtual machines. Its Custom Public Cloud provides
a back-up site that allows us to spin up virtual machines on demand if needed
and, because it's a pay-as-you-go model, there's no recurring charge, which
drives down our total cost of ownership for the overall solution."
Internap's Enterprise Public Cloud Offering
Open Public Cloud: A highly-scalable, cost-effective public cloud with an
easy-to-use management interface and APIs that can meet dynamic capacity needs on
demand. Based on the OpenStack platform, this service leverages the low-cost,
open source Xen Cloud Platform and is integrated with Internap's OpenStack-based
cloud storage offering for maximum flexibility.
Custom Public Cloud: A "pay-as-you-go," multi-tenant public cloud that speeds
adoption and delivery by leveraging the VMware platform, thereby eliminating the
need to re-architect applications that have already been virtualized internally.
Customers can architect tailored cloud configurations and create customized
network configurations on demand through VMware's vCloud Director portal.
Internap at Cloud Computing Expo
At Cloud Computing Expo November 7-10 in Santa Clara, Calif., Internap will
showcase its cloud portfolio, with demonstrations spanning Open Public Cloud,
Custom Public Cloud and the company's patented Managed Internet Route
Optimizer(TM) (MIRO) technology, which analyzes network performance
characteristics in real time to route traffic over major Internet backbones
globally for intelligent, optimized and highly-reliable delivery of data and
applications.
Additionally, Adam Weissmuller, director of product management at Internap, will
present a speaking session, "Overcoming Latency: The Achilles Heel of Cloud
Computing" at the event on November 10 at 2:45 p.m.
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customers to focus on their core business, improve service levels, and lower the
cost of IT operations. Our enterprise IP, CDN, colocation, managed hosting and
cloud solutions are differentiated by unparalleled levels of performance,
availability and support. Since 1996, thousands of businesses have entrusted
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Forward-Looking Statements
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statements include statements related to the features, functionality and
performance of our products and services, including our cloud storage and cloud
compute services, and the benefits our customers are expected to receive from
them. Because such statements are not guarantees of future performance and
involve risks and uncertainties, there are important factors that could cause our
actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements.
These factors include the actual performance of our products and services; our
ability to respond successfully to technological change; the availability of
services from Internet network service providers or network service providers
providing network access loops and local loops on favorable terms, or at all;
failure of third party suppliers to deliver their products and services on
favorable terms, or at all; failures in our network operations centers, data
centers, network access points or computer systems; our ability to provide or
improve Internet infrastructure services to our customers; and our ability to
protect our intellectual property, as well as other factors discussed in our
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uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking
statements as a prediction of actual results. We undertake no obligation to
update, amend or clarify any forward-looking statement for any reason.
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