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April 29, 2011

InfoRelay Online Systems Releases SnapScale Enterprise Cloud Platform

By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor

InfoRelay Online Systems, a provider of enterprise-level managed services to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), announced the release of the SnapScale Enterprise Cloud Platform.

SnapScale Enterprise Cloud Platform is designed to meet the needs of its dedicated and collocated hosting clients with rapidly-growing businesses. The service leverages large number of servers, each utilizing CPUs that incorporate Intel's (News - Alert) Virtualization Technology. These services provide a fault-tolerant network of physical machines, each capable of hosting one or more SnapScale Cloud Instances.

“We are thrilled about the release of SnapScale. It will allow our clients to expand rapidly and easily serve content through peak demand times without investing in additional hardware or colocated devices. This will allow us to provide an excellent combination of scalability, reliability and low cost,” said Joshua Abraham, director of Technical Operations at InfoRelay, in a statement.

Combined with InfoRelay's mission-critical network and highly-redundant SAN storage technologies, SnapScale eliminates single points of failure at the storage layer, the computing layer, and the network layer to offer optimal reliability and performance to clients and end users, company officials said.

InfoRelay has incorporated high levels of redundancy to the SnapScale architecture. Additionally, more than 20 different aspects of SnapScale's “health” are constantly monitored on an ongoing basis by InfoRelay. They include overall internal and external network utilization, SAN status and disk status, CPU and core usage, as well other indicators.

Since the company hosts several government customers, SnapScale incorporates both public and private cloud options. The architecture integrates multiple security and data compartmentalization features. Clients who require greater level of separation may opt for a custom private cloud, powered by SnapScale cloud technology.

SnapScale is not currently available to the general public. InfoRelay has indicated that the public release is set for the fourth quarter of 2011.

Earlier this year, InfoRelay announced its expansion to a new data center location in New York City. The new data center, referred to as LGA1, is located at 60 Hudson Street, a historic landmark in Lower Manhattan.


Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Rich Steeves
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