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enStratus Expands Cloud Management To Australia with Cloud Central

Kristoffer Sheather — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:33:34 +0000

enStratus announced today that it has added support for Cloud Central. enStratus will officially support our v2.0 release which is due shortly. For the full news release, visit the enStatus website.

Cloud Central attending CloudCamp Sydney Aug 6, 2010

Kristoffer Sheather — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:54:25 +0000

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!

Cloud Central Cloud Servers added to CloudHarmony.com speed test and availability monitoring site!

Kristoffer Sheather — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:44:18 +0000

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%

Cloud Central Sponsors Cloud Camp Sydney

Kristoffer Sheather — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:29:04 +0000

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!

Cloud Central Goes Live on the 8th of March 2010!

Kristoffer Sheather — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:23:27 +0000

We are proud to announce that Cloud Central’s Cloud Servers will launch to the wider public on the 8th of March 2010!

What Are We Doing?

Once we ‘go live’ on the 8th of March 2010, we will be removing the beta label from the product, and charging for services according to the pricing schedule located at http://www.cloudcentral.com.au/cloud/servers/pricing.

We’ve are introducing the following system enhancements by go live:

Performance Improvements: The performance of the Cloud Servers system has been improved, especially for smaller sized Cloud Servers.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard: Our Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition database template will be made available.
CentOS 5.4 Xen PV & System Updates: Our CentOS templates have added Xen Paravirtualisation support added for higher performance, we have also updated system packages to newer versions for improved security & stability.
Debian 5.0.4 Xen PV & System Updates: Our Debian templates have added Xen Paravirtualisation support added for higher performance, we have also updated system packages to newer versions for improved security & stability.
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Xen PV & System Updates: Our Ubuntu templates have added Xen Paravirtualisation support added for higher performance, we have also updated system packages to newer versions for improved security & stability.
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS LAMP, Web and Database Templates: Ubuntu LAMP, Web and Database templates will be available
Control Center UI: Several user interface enhancements have been made to make the system more consistent and easy to use
Security: Several security enhancements have been introduced, unfortunately we can’t tell you what they are or we’d have to kill you
System Capacity: We have added additional capacity to our system to cater for your on demand computing requirements.
Customer Services: We have added additional support resources to provide expert Australian based technical support & customer services.
Cloud Server Sizes: Large (8 GB RAM, 512 GB Storage, 4 CCU) – $0.96 / hour, and Huge (15.5GB RAM, 1024 GB Storage, 8 CCU) – $1.92 / hour Cloud Servers will be available for use. We recommend these for large scale databases.

What Should Existing Beta Customers Do?

Existing beta customers who wish to continue services after ‘go live’ should update their billing details at https://secure.cloudcentral.com.au/account/billing/details. If you have not not provided billing details by ‘go live’, your Cloud Servers will be stopped (but you can recover them by supplying valid billing details), if you have not provided valid billing details by the 15th of March 2010 your servers will be deleted.

Thanks

We thank the input of our beta testers who have helped make the service what it is today, we trust that you will continue the journey with us towards simpler, agile, reliable, secure, flexible, open, value for money computing services.

Best Regards,

The Cloud Central Team
1300 144 007 – +61 2 6173 7340
team@cloudcentral.com.au

Cloud Central Cloud Servers Public Beta Opens 15th Feb 2010

Kristoffer Sheather — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:37:08 +0000

We are proud to announce that the Cloud Central Cloud Servers public beta will commence on Monday the 15th of February 2010. We believe that our service has now attained the required level of security and stability to progress to a wider public beta.

We sincerely thank our private beta testers who have evaluated and provided feedback about our services so far. This feedback has been taken on board, and fed back into the development of the service. We look forward to your ongoing support as we enter the public beta phase of operation.

Private beta testers can continue to enjoy a free evaluation & testing period over the next two weeks. We will provide further notice about the arrangements for the public beta over the coming week.

If you have any questions, please feel contact our beta team by emailing beta@cloudcentral.com.au, or calling 1300 144 007.

Best Regards,

Cloud Central Beta Team