Hosting firm
Rackspace
is now offering dedicated virtual servers to European customers to help them
cope with rapid growth demands or fluctuations in capacity.
Based on
VMware
Infrastructure 3, Rackspace's new product gives each customer their own
hardware, enabling them to mix and match virtual and physical hosted
environments.
As part of the package, Rackspace enables customers to expand their capacity
at any time by rapidly provisioning pre-defined virtual machines based on
Windows Server 2003 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Redundancy is also provided, with the ability to automatically recover to a
second physical host in the event of failure.
The cost of the virtual hosted service will vary depending on the hardware
chosen and the exact options customers require, Rackspace said.
"We work closely with our customers on the type of products they need to help
their business work more efficiently," said Brian Thomson, managing director for
EMEA at Rackspace.
He added that Rackspace provides protection against unanticipated traffic
spikes enabling customers to gain all the benefits of virtualisation while
reducing the associated risks.
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