ProfitBricks Sees Performance as Cloud Opportunity

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Rich Miller.

After you’ve bult one of the world’s largest web hosting companies, what do you do for an encore? If you’re Achim Weiss and Andreas Gauger, you set your sights on the cloud computing market.

Weiss and Gauger were pioneers in the European hosting sector, and helped build Germany’s 1&1 Internet into a web hosting juggernaut. With their new company, ProfitBricks, the duo are hoping to win over software developers and latency-sensitive businesses with a high-performance infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering…

In a cloud landscape with a dominant player (Amazon Web Services) and dozens of contenders, ProfitBricks is focusing on performance, offering beefy, vertically-scalable dedicated instances running atop a high-speed network powered by Infiniband technology. Rather than choosing from pre-configured virtual machines, users can customize their instances fall the way up to 48 cores and 196 GB of RAM…

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