Here are just some of the ways the efficiencies of Grid Hosting can benefit your business:

Hardware

• Use of all available hardware, leading edge & other
• Extend life of legacy hardware
• Expand using new server technologies
• Resilient, auto-scaling, compute & storage utility
• Virtualised hosting services

Development

• Rapidly design, build, manage and tear-down network applications
• Virtual appliance catalogue of servers, firewalls, gateways, load balancers, storage networks, control panels
• Increasing number of Grid-ready applications
• Drag-and-drop browser interface for virtual appliances
• Deploy applications in a matter of hours
• Scale applications from fraction of a server to hundreds of servers
• Replicate applications on demand, deployed over and over again
• Single or multi-grid-locations deployment
• Run almost any existing multi-tier Linux application

Monitoring & Management

• Integrated monitoring system
• Hundreds of counters available for building custom dashboards
• Disposable infrastructure assembled visually
• Minimise costs by managing application resources used
• From a single point of control, while the system is running:
• Add/Remove servers on the fly
• Manage user credentials
• Reboot servers
• Install software
• Build virtual appliances
• Backup the system
• Repair damaged storage volumes
• Inspect logs and perform all other management tasks

High Availability

• Storage mirroring across multiple servers
• Run identical application instances on the grid or different data centers
• Hot standby of your entire application capability
• No data loss assurance

Automation & Integration

• Fully scriptable command-line interface
• Start/stop of applications and appliances
• Detect appliance failure
• Detect intrusions
• Communicate events to external management system
• And much, much more...