ProfitBricks says it can out-Amazon Amazon’s cloud
September 10, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
As ProfitBricks rolls out its scale-up infrastructure as a platform in the U.S. this week, it says it can offer more powerful instances to customers cheaper than market leader Amazon Web Services. That’s a tall order, but an intriguing one.
ProfitBricks is nothing if not ambitious: It plans to take on Amazon in massively scalable cloud infrastructure. That’s no mean feat, but Bob Rizika, CEO of ProfitBricks USA, says the company — which launches cloud services in the U.S. this week — is attacking it from a position of strength…
The company was co-founded by Achim Weiss and Andreas Gauger, the duo who built the global hosting company 1 & 1 and sold it to United Internet for $3 billion a few years ago. That gives them financial resources to devote to this project, Rizika said.
ProfitBrick pushes scale-up cloud
One thing that distinguishes ProfitBricks from Amazon is its different take on scale. While Amazon’s cloud epitomizes massive scale-out architecture, ProfitBricks’ focuses on vertical scale. Customers can elect to use 1 to 48 processor cores and 1 GB to 196 GB of RAM which they can consume and pay for by the minute — not by the hour. (Amazon EC2 instances come with 1 to 16 virtual cores and from 1 to 60 GB RAM.)…
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