PEER 1 unveils Mission Critical Cloud

April 2, 2013 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane McCallion.

PEER 1 Hosting has taken the wraps off its enterprise-focused Mission Critical Cloud offering, which features built-in disaster recovery capabilities. The product offers both Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technology in a PEER 1-managed and hosted environment. The offering is powered by cloud services provider Tier 3, and is virtualised using VMWare’s technology.

Richard Rivera, HPC specialist at PEER 1 told Cloud Pro: “We found that we needed to give either the entrepreneur or the business executive choice, but they have different needs. "You have an IT business professional that desires more service, desires a managed environment, desires security and desires high availability. Then you have the entrepreneur who desires to be self-managed.”…

Rivera said Mission Critical Cloud is more focused on the needs of the IT business professional, for whom the pre-existing do-it-yourself model had not been suitable. Rivera added that IT professionals want greater support from their cloud provider. “They want an extension of their own IT team – people who can look at a situation and give a second opinion, which is why we also include specialist 24/7 support with this product,” he said…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/iaas/5443/peer-1-unveils-mission-critical-cloud