New Argon Cloud Jumpstart Delivers a Complete Power On Ready Microsoft Private Cloud at a Low Price Point
December 10, 2015Argon Systems Inc. and SecureGUARD Gmbh in partnership has today released the Argon Cloud Jumpstart, a complete Azure Private Cloud in a single small enclosure. The Argon Cloud Jumpstart product is designed to meet a price point under thirty-thousand dollars USD which allows companies to bring up a private cloud quickly, and makes Proof-of-Concept projects affordable.
The Argon Cloud Jumpstart is a complete Microsoft Private Cloud based on the Microsoft Cloud Platform and the SecureGUARD Unified Cloud Block technologies and include compute servers, storage, switches and supporting infrastructure in a very small rack enclosure. Cloud features include Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V clusters for server virtualization, tiered and RAID high-performance storage, multi-tenancy network virtualization, Microsoft System Center services and the Azure Pack management portal. The Argon Cloud Jumpstart can be administered with a similar look-and-feel as Azure but is located and managed on premises by the company’s IT department.
Ready to use at power on, the product is a fully functional private cloud, read to spin up Windows or Linux Virtual Machines and run a customer’s workload.
"Every cloud customer we have engaged with has requested an affordable cloud infrastructure to test in their own IT environment," said Robert Keith, Argon’s CEO. "Building a cloud infrastructure has been expensive and complex. The Jumpstart is a complete cloud, with all the major features of Azure at the price of a typical network router or switch."
"Getting started with cloud, building complex technologies at customer sites has been a major roadblock to many cloud deployments," said Helmut Otto, SecureGUARD Managing Director. "We see the Jumpstart product as a major enabler for our customers planning on rolling out private clouds."