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A research report entitled “Cloud Computing Market: Global Forecast (2010 – 2015)” by marketsandmarkets.com had indicated that the global cloud computing market is expected to grow from $37.8 billion in 2010 to $121.1 billion in 2015 at a CAGR of 26.2 percent from 2010 to 2015.

In addition to these finding an increase in the hybrid cloud deployments has also been observed. Because different businesses have different requirements for specific types of computing platforms, hybrid hosting solutions can integrate the power and performance of a managed server with a cloud server to create a robust and flexible hosting solution.

Cashing in on this trend, Hostway Corporation - a provider of custom infrastructure services and managed hosting – has unveiled FlexLink, which is the industry’s first Microsoft Hyper-V based hybrid cloud that enables deployment of hybrid cloud infrastructure.

“The market is clearly moving to a hybrid compute model, with analysts predicting that most cloud adoptions in the future will consist of combined private/public cloud configurations,” said John Martis, the president of Hostway (News - Alert), said. “Our FlexLink solution addresses this need with the ability to blend both our FlexCloud solution and managed server resources in any combination to build a secure, flexible and dynamically scalable infrastructure.”

As part of Hostway’s enterprise hosting solutions portfolio, the FlexLink is a Microsoft (News - Alert) Hyper-V based hybrid cloud. It helps users to seamlessly port their cloud instances in and out of a Hostway hybrid environment while augmenting their infrastructure for additional compute capacity, instant scale and geographic failover.

As FlexLink is a Microsoft Hyper-V based hybrid cloud, it reduces costs for Microsoft users by eliminating the need to pay for operating system licenses.

Officials with Hostway said that the company’s hybrid hosting unifies multiple platforms through FlexLink creating a complete solution.

According to Hostway, its hybrid cloud solutions will facilitate a company’s ability to combine a managed public cloud infrastructure, such as FlexCloud, with managed hosting, colocation and private cloud services.

With the help of FlexLink, customers can now utilize any mix of Hostway’s physical and virtual hosting platforms for infrastructure requirements ranging from corporate websites and e-commerce stores to SaaS (News - Alert) applications, databases, storage and more.

In addition, FlexLink helps in customization of infrastructure services based on the security, compliance, performance and scalability demands of each component.

Apart from providing full support for Linux and other operating systems, Hostway’s hybrid cloud solution can now connect to Hostway’s hypervisor-agnostic managed private cloud, and also offer a mix-and-match hosted computing platform for businesses core infrastructure needs.

Hostway’s hybrid cloud can be used for securing critical data, for disaster recovery, testing/dev environments, extending in-house infrastructure, and more.