Randy Bias, CEO of Cloudscaling, and Cloud Central advisor, provided valuable consulting advice when we were first developing our cloud.

Randy has recently been interviewed by The up.time IT Systems Management Blog, take a listen to the podcast.

CloudHarmony recently conducted storage performance benchmarking on a number of cloud infrastructure providers including Cloud Central.   Cloud Central’s storage results were rated very good, please take a look for yourself at http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/06/disk-io-benchmarking-in-cloud.html

Cloud Central’s storage architecture features a highly reliable, performant and secure Sun storage hardware, running the ultra scalable ZFS filesystem.  We leverage multiple gigabit connections and iSCSI in our architecture, with redundant power, network and SAS connections in the architecture.

We also use enterprise grade Intel Solid State Disk (SSD) within our storage architecture.  SSD’s enable us to create a hybrid storage pool, enabling very fast read / write IO.  This makes Cloud Central Cloud Servers especially great for transactional systems (eg databases) that require fast IO commits.

Cloud Central will be attending CloudCamp Sydney, which is being held on the 6th of August 2010. Registrations are open at http://j.mp/cBOK61 we look forward to meeting you there!

Many thanks to Andre Leibovici from MyVirtualCloud.net for this video showing how to create a new Cloud Central Cloud Server, add a public IP address, then permit remote access to the newly created Cloud Server.

CloudCentral Server Provisioning Evaluation from Andre Leibovici on Vimeo.

Today we are releasing our new whitepaper – The Business Case for the Cloud.  Please take a look and let us know what you think, we look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback.

Cloud Central Cloud Servers have been added into the list of public cloud providers on the Cloud Harmony’s comparison, speed testing and availability monitoring website.

Visit http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest to perform a speed test (select Cloud Servers, then Asia then Start Test to commence the test).  Availability (uptime) monitoring statistics can be viewed at http://cloudharmony.com/status.  We are proud to say that we have the best cloud performance in the Asian region for Australian customers, and that our uptime statistics are currently 100%

More news coverage in the Australian IT press, take a look at http://www.itnews.com.au/News/168570,canberra-cloud-scraps-beta-tag.aspx for more info.

I participated in an interview with Andre Leibovici’s APAC Virtualisation Roundtable back on Feb 9 2010, unfortunately I had not had the time to post it up until now as I’ve been busy preparing our system for our upcoming launch on Monday the 8th of March 2010.

Take a look at http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=707 for the full interview, and thanks very much to Andre for having me, he has a very good blog over there that is worth checking out for anyone with an interest in Virtualisation and next generation computing topics!

We are pleased to announce that we are sponsoring Cloud Camp Sydney, which is being held on Thursday the 4th of March 2010.

Event details can be found at http://cloudcamp.org/sydney/2010-03-04 - entries are still open for the event and all are welcome to attend.

We look forward to connecting with everyone at the event!