ScaleUp Targets Web Startups with Free Beta of Cloud Computing Solution with Multi-Tier Applications
July 21, 2009
Hamburg, Germany based ScaleUp Technologies announced a Beta launch of its Cloud Computing solution with Multi-Tier Applications. A spin-off of internet4YOU GmbH & Co. KG, which has been offering dedicated IT business platforms for over 10 years, ScaleUp has a unique insight into the problems of the traditional server hosting solutions:
- Operating dedicated servers is expensive and most of the time they only use 15% of their capacity - leading to wasted money & wasted energy usage
- Typical dedicated server environments have limited capacity, so peak-demand adjustments are hard to accommodate on short notice - leading to server overload at critical time
The ScaleUp On Demand Computing Solution is attacking the problems of these traditional sever environments while, at the same time, seems to offer some unique differences from other Cloud platforms I’ve seen. With many other Cloud solutions, users are offered prepackaged configurations. With ScaleUp, users can control precisely how many resources they want to have (CPU, RAM, Storage) - leading to better control over the server costs based on very unique server requirements for each client.
Multi-Tier Applications
Also, this week they are introducing Multi-Tier Applications. “This means that you will get a complete server infrastructure with multiple virtual machines. Let’s say you want to run a LAMP stack. We will then give you a firewall gateway, a web server and a database server, all built into one ScaleUp application. This enables you to scale your application way better than with a single virtual machine,” said Christoph Streit, Founder and Managing Director.
The current Beta - targeting US & European SaaS companies & web startups - will include the following applications on demand at this stage. Others are in the works for future release.
- ScaleUp LAMP infrastructure
- ScaleUp Typo3 CMS application
- ScaleUp TWiki application
- ScaleUp Wordpress Blog application
You can register your company for the Free Beta by visiting their site and clicking the “!” Application Form bubble: http://www.scaleup.it/
Check out a very cool video that does a great job of explaining the ScaleUp solution:
