During VMworld 2010, Hosting.com will unveil our Cloud 2.0 initiative.  Cloud 2.0 represents the evolution of providing single-platform hosting solutions (clients chose either managed dedicated, VPS, or Cloud) to a shift in building comprehensive solutions that incorporate an array of products and services to meet our client’s hosting demands.  These solutions have become commonly referred to as Hybrid solutions within the marketplace.

Recently, InformationWeek writer John Soat wrote an article “Cloud 2.0 – Are We There Yet” and stated:

“To me, Cloud 2.0 is exemplified in one word: hybrid. Cloud computing will offer its most compelling advantages when organizations can combine private clouds and public clouds (XaaS) in IT architectures that stretch the definition of flexibility and agility.”

Over the last 12 months, Hosting.com has continued to brand itself as one of the hosting industry’s primary locations for companies looking to augment their existing infrastructure with hosted resources, build compliant, secure multi-platform hosting solutions, connect legacy servers and applications with robust, bleeding-edge cloud technologies, and utilize cloud services to connect, grow and complete their infrastructure needs – essentially, Hosting.com has become a home for hybrid hosting solutions.

For Hosting.com, Hybrid and Cloud 2.0 represent the user experience clients of all sizes expect from service providers.  We must move away from trying to sell the value of cloud (companies have already accepted that it can save them money and help them scale) or the fact that our infrastructure architecture is superior to our competitors;  rather,the discussion all cloud providers must have is on the functionality delivered through cloud, the augmentation of existing infrastructures and the seamless, integrated management portals the industry now demands.

Central to Hosting.com’s cloud functionality is movement – movement from one Hosting.com platform to another, movement between our datacenters (Server Replication),  movement from a client’s site or infrastructure (Colocation) to our cloud solutions for scalability, burst capacity and disaster recovery, movement of VMDK files from a client virtual machine to our own for parking and ultimately cloning, and the ability to seamlessly manage all of your solutions from our Customer Portal, one of the industry’s best, to quickly scale or flex infrastructure needs.

The Hosting.com Cloud truly sets the marketplace in motion – innovated, illustrated and instituted by our technical teams and backed by unparalleled support teams.

The market is ripe and craving a solution like Hosting.com has spent months testing, validating and completing.  To answer John’s question – “Yes, we are there NOW and our clients are realizing the benefits today!”  View the ClearSaleing case study as an example, look for Hosting.com at VMworld 2010 in booth 1608 and continue to pay close attention as Hosting.com continues to evolve the hybrid and cloud marketplaces!

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