Telefónica Digital launches global IaaS cloud service
November 6, 2012
Grazed from InformationAge. Author: Editorial Staff.
Spanish telco launches Instant Servers, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) public cloud offering aimed at developers, businesses and large enterprises Telefónica Digital launched its global cloud computing platform Instant Servers on Tuesday, offering configurable virtual servers designed for mobile, enterprise and machine-to-machine applications.
Customers using Instant Servers will be able to acquire, manage, monitor and control their virtual servers at all times from a dedicated website, Telefónica said, in addition to deleting ones no longer needed…
According to Telefónica Digital, Instant Servers comes with a “market leading” service-level agreement (SLA) promising 99.996% availability. In comparison, Amazon’s Elastic Cloud 2 (EC2) and Microsoft’s Windows Azure IaaS cloud platforms offer 99.5% availability. In addition, Instant Servers offers “superior virtual servers performance”, Telefónica Digital claimed, allowing customers to achieve significatly lower operating costs by making more use of each virtual machine…
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