Firm with roots in Cebu delivers top-class cloud solution

November 19, 2012 Off By David
Grazed from Sun.star.  Author: Max Limpag.

FOR a country like the Philippines, which has high power cost, the cloud computing solution developed by a company that was incubated in Cebu is a cost-efficient solution.  “It’s the most power-efficient cloud platform. That’s important because in the Philippines we have among the highest costs of power,” Morphlabs co-founder Winston Damarillo said during an interview last Friday.  “It’s best in class, better than anybody else by 1/2,” he said.

The private cloud solution, mCloud Helix, is now available worldwide through a partnership with Dell, the world’s third largest PC seller according to Gartner. It’s being used by Media Temple, one of the world’s top web hosting companies…

Damarillo said mCloud Helix is a “very green, very energy-efficient” platform that can be run with 10 watts per virtual machine (VM). The solution is solid-state drive (SSD) based.

Media Temple has called Morphlabs “true pioneers in cloud computing and open source software who have delivered innovative web services,” Morphlabs said in an earlier press statement.  Damarillo was in Cebu last Friday to talk to local start-ups…

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