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Canberra, Australia – May 15, 2013 – CloudCentral, an Australian based leading provider of cloud infrastructure services, and CumuLogic, the leading innovator in cloud platform technologies, today announced immediate availability of CloudCentral Cloud Services powered by CumuLogic. CloudCentral customers can test and evaluate CloudCentral’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and other Cloud Services for 30 days free of charge.

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Australian developers, enterprise and government customers are evaluating clouds and platforms to understand how the cloud model fits their business requirements. With this offering, customers have an immediate opportunity to use a cloud platform for the rapid development and deployment of cloud-based applications on an enterprise-ready cloud infrastructure optimized for compute and storage performance. CloudCentral Cloud Services will allow developers to accelerate their time-to-market and never again worry about the underlying infrastructure to support the scale they need.

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CloudCentral works closely with NEXTDC to ensure the best performance and reliability for our services. We are currently using NEXTDC’s C1 (Canberra) data centre as one of our two Points-of-Presence (PoP) in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).

For a good overview of what NEXTDC has accomplished so far, check this video:

Video supplied by NEXTDC

NEXTDC C1 Data Centre Statistics:

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All new customers will receive 30 free days to test and evaluate The New CloudCentral Cloud. Contact our customer service team for access.

The CloudCentral team is excited to announce the immediate availability of ‘The New CloudCentral Cloud’. The New CloudCentral cloud is the result of over 12-months systems engineering and research by the CloudCentral team.

Platform Overview

The New CloudCentral Cloud is situated in the new NEXTDC C1 enterprise data centre located in Bruce, ACT, Australia providing you with the peace of mind of an ASIO T4 physical security and Tier-III Australian data centre facilities with guaranteed data sovereignty.

The new platform will also be available from the TransACT data centre located in Dickson ACT enabling customers to deploy highly available replicated solutions across geographically separate data centres. The data centres are connected via high-speed private gigabit network connectivity for low-latency and high bandwidth data transfer between availability zones.

CloudCentral has engineered our new platform on top of Citrix CloudPlatform, the Apache CloudStack based open cloud management platform. Also featured are the the latest high-performance Intel Xeon processors, enterprise-grade Oracle ZFS storage, and high-speed 10-gigabit networking.

Enterprise & Government Services

The New CloudCentral Cloud is arguably the most advanced enterprise-grade open cloud platform in Australia and has been selected to host Australian Government services under the terms of the Australian Government Data Center as a Service (DCaaS) Multi Use List (MUL) for cloud and cloud-like services.

A 99.95% availability service level agreement with guaranteed support response times is offered on our new cloud to provide assurance to enterprise and government customers. Higher availability level solutions can be engineered by lever-aging our multiple availability zones.

Platform Features

• Citrix CloudPlatform (based on Apache CloudStack) Open Cloud Management Platform
• Citrix XenServer 6 Hypervisor
• VMware ESX 5.1 Hypervisor (coming soon)
• Oracle ZFS High-Performance Mirrored Replicated SAS+SSD Hybrid Storage
• 10-Gigabit Low-Latency High-Performance Networking
• Snapshots (scheduled and manual)
• Templates (user, domain and public)
• Projects
• Sub-Accounts (create sub-domains within your domain for reseller, client separation or environment separation)
• Sub-Domains (create sub-domains within your domain for reseller, client separation or environment separation)
• Virtual Private Network (VPN)
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• CloudPlatform / Apache CloudStack Open HTTP REST API
• Amazon EC2 Compatible API
• Layer-2 Secure Network Segregation per Customer Network via Industry Standard 802.1Q VLAN’s
• Layer-3 Secure IP Network Firewall per Customer Network
• Layer-3/4 Load Balancer
• Directly Assigned & NAT’d IP Network Addressing

New & Updated Operating Systems + Software

• Ubuntu 10.04 Server LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 Server LTS
• CentOS 5.8
• CentOS 6.3
• Debian 6.0.6
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 (Standard, Enterprise & Datacenter Editions)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (Standard, Enterprise & Datacenter Editions)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (Web, Standard and Enterprise Editions)
• Microsoft Office 2013 (Standard and Professional Plus Editions)
• Oracle Linux 5 Update 8
• Oracle Linux 6 Update 3
• Oracle Solaris 11 Update 1
• Vyatta Network OS Community & Subscription Edition 6.5

Domains & Sub-Accounts

Additional sub-accounts can be created within your domain if you’d like to support multiple resellers or separate your environments such as development, test and production. These can be created by request to our support team.

Special Offer: 30-Day Free Cloud Services for New Customers

All new customers will receive 30 free days to test and evaluate The New CloudCentral Cloud. Please contact our customer service team for access.

Getting Started

Please contact our support team by emailing support@cloudcentral.com.au for access to The New CloudCentral Cloud and to answer any questions you may have.

 

We wish you and your family prosperity and happiness for 2013. Thank you for being our customer. We look forward to continuing our relationship in the coming year. 2012 was a relatively tough year for everyone but we trust that 2013 will bring renewed opportunities and success.

We aim to continue providing excellent customer service and innovative services to new and existing customers in 2013. Our engineering team has been working hard to develop new and improved services that will be released in the first and second quarters of 2013. Our new services will provide you with industry leading, best of breed Australian cloud computing options.

At the end of one year, and the start of another, its probably worth taking time to reflect upon our achievements in 2012:

• Achieved over 100% year-on-year growth across the business.
• Winner of Canberra BusinessPoint Award for Web & Mobile Category.
• Admitted to Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) Data-Centre-as-a-Service (DCaaS) Multi Use List (MUL).
• Awarded first contract under AGIMO DCaaS MUL.
• Achieved Oracle Silver Partner Status.
• Appointed renowned cloud and storage experts Randy Bias and Richard Elling to advisory board.
• Awarded TradeConnect (TCon) grant by ACT Government to support CeBIT 2013 Sydney trade show exhibit.
• Awarded InnovationConnect (ICon) grant by ACT Government to support development of our new High Performance Cloud Object Storage System.
• Awarded ACT Government / Lighthouse Business Innovation Entrepreneur Development Fund (EDF) grant.

On behalf of the entire team at Cloud Central I wish you all the best in 2013 and beyond,
Kristoffer Sheather, Founder & CEO.

Special Offer: Free Access to The New CloudCentral Cloud

We are providing existing and new customers with FREE access to The New CloudCentral Cloud (our powerful new high performance open cloud platform) until 31st of January 2013.

The New CloudCentral Cloud is situated in the new NextDC C1 enterprise data centre located in Bruce, ACT, Australia. Stay secure with the peace of mind of an ASIO T4 physical security and Tier-III Australian data centre facilities with guaranteed data sovereignty.

CloudCentral’s engineers have engineered our new platform on top of the open standards CloudStack based, Citrix CloudPlatform cloud management platform. Also featured are the the latest high-performance Intel Xeon processors, enterprise-grade Oracle ZFS storage, and Juniper low-latency 10-gigabit networking.

The New CloudCentral Cloud is arguably the most advanced enterprise-grade open cloud platform in Australia and has been selected to host Australian Government services under the terms of the Australian Government Data Center as a Service (DCaaS) Multi Use List (MUL) for cloud and cloud-like services.

Contact support@cloudcentral.com.au for access and more information.

Note: Free access to the New CloudCentral Cloud offer expires 31st January 2013.

CloudCentral has been featured as one of the Australian cloud service providers that is experiencing rapid growth in the Australian market.

The adoption of cloud computing in Australia is experiencing robust momentum with increasing awareness of cloud computing driving an influx of market participants as telecommunications providers, traditional IT companies and pure-play cloud vendors offer various cloud solutions.

Frost & Sullivan’s latest report, Australian Infrastructure as a Service Market (IaaS), published in September 2012, indicates that many organisations, ranging from large organisations to SMBs, are moving beyond considering just the initial cost savings that are on offer by adopting cloud-based solutions, to also recognising the increased agility and scalability that adoption offers.

“Most of the large organisations in Australia have now deployed a private cloud environment and many are considering or have begun implementing an increasing number of mission critical workloads in the cloud,” says Mayank Kapoor, Industry Analyst, Datacenter and Cloud Computing, APAC ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan.

Despite the benefits of cloud, many IT departments are still reluctant to move to the cloud. Common barriers include perceived loss of control, data sovereignty and security concerns when they move their workload and infrastructure to cloud. This concern is more common for public cloud solutions and is one of the key reasons why many of the public cloud deployments in Australia are predominantly non-mission critical in nature.

The pure play IaaS vendors primarily global players and first movers such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Rackspace and recent entrants in the local IaaS market such as OrionVM, Cloud Central, Zetta Grid and UltraServe are witnessing good success in the Australia IaaS Market.

Frost & Sullivan Australian Infrastructure-as-a-Service Market (IaaS) Report Press Release:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/frost–sullivan-australias-infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas-market-to-grow-rapidly-at-a-cagr-of-almost-50-until-2018-169136576.html

Bring your IT into the 21st century via CloudCentral and experience the infinite capacity and expandability that our cloud offers.

To celebrate the AFL & NRL footy finals we’re pleased to announce that all new customer accounts will receive a free $100 startup credit to enable you to test drive our cloud.

This offer expires September 30th 2012. Get in fast to experience the CloudCentral difference at no cost!

Signup online today at https://secure.cloudcentral.com.au/signup

We have completed the development of our new CentOS 6.2 64-bit template which is now available for deployment within our Secure Cloud Control Center.

CentOS is a free open source clone of a very popular Enterprise Linux distribution, if you are interested in learning more about CentOS, take a look at http://www.centos.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS.

CentOS 6.2 Release Notes

Our Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Debian 6.0.5 64-bit templates are in the final stages of development & testing and should be available within the next few weeks.

Please contact support if you have any questions or experience any issues.

Limited Time Special Offer: All new customers who sign up before 30th September 2012 receive a free $100 startup credit!

CloudCentral (@cloudcentral) welcome Randy Bias (@randybias) – Cloudscaling CTO and Richard Elling (@richardelling) – Stealth Storage Startup CTO as advisors!

Check out Randy and Richard’s profiles at http://www.cloudcentral.com.au/about/people

Randy Bias is the co-founder and CTO of Cloudscaling. Cloudscaling is the leading provider of open cloud infrastructure solutions for cloud-ready applications. His provocative views on the profound disruption caused by cloud computing have made Randy Bias one of the most influential voices in the industry.

Richard Elling is a rancher, ZFS fan, and technology geek living in Southern California. Richard eats disk drives, SSD’s, HBA’s and Sales Droids for breakfast, lunch and dinner, he knows ZFS like no one else. Richard is the CTO for a new, super-duper stealth company (stay tuned folks).

Limited Time Special Offer: All new customers who sign up before 30th June 2012 receive a free $100 startup credit!