Cloud Computing: 10gen & SoftLayer Tie Up on MongoDB
December 4, 2012
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.
10gen, the company commercializing MongoDB, and SoftLayer, the largest privately held Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider in the world, have just launched MongoDB Cloud Subscriptions. It’s a unique pay-as-you-go managed cloud subscription pushing certified pre-engineered and orchestrated MongoDB systems through a highly scalable, automated cloud platform.
The idea is to make the open source NoSQL database more available through the push-button provisioning of high-performance, production-grade, highly scalable clusters at SoftLayer’s portal or API. It’s supposed to be easy to buy and promises ease of management, administration and support…
The widgetry on offer will be three single-tenant configurations of dedicated bare metal outfitted with the 10gen’s MongoDB database – simply designated small, medium and large. They vary in disk and memory and are expected to be used as on-demand Big Data solutions…
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