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 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!

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:

1. Performance Improvements: The performance of the Cloud Servers system has been improved, especially for smaller sized Cloud Servers.
2. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard: Our Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition database template will be made available.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS LAMP, Web and Database Templates: Ubuntu LAMP, Web and Database templates will be available
7. Control Center UI: Several user interface enhancements have been made to make the system more consistent and easy to use
8. Security: Several security enhancements have been introduced, unfortunately we can’t tell you what they are or we’d have to kill you
9. System Capacity: We have added additional capacity to our system to cater for your on demand computing requirements.
10. Customer Services: We have added additional support resources to provide expert Australian based technical support & customer services.
11. 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

We’ve been lucky enough to have some great coverage both within Australia and overseas recently:

• CloudBuzz – Cloud Central: Australian for Cloud
• ITNews.com.au – Canberra Startup Launches Public Compute Cloud
• CloudAve – Cloud Central Answering the Geo Issue
• Cloudscaling.com: How Clouds Enable Global Reach
• Tier1Research: Cloud Central launches Australian cloud infrastructure service

If anyone knows of any other articles out there that are not in the list, please let us know!