![]() Such high-performance infrastructure tools are a differentiator with other public cloud solutions, said Ziegler, which tend toward being lower end commodity servers. ![]() Logicworks also offers high-end servers sporting Intel’s Xeon 5600 “Westmere” six-core processors, 40 Gb/s storage networking, and the option of SATA or SAS RAID 10 disk arrays. In addition, VMs (virtual machines) can be moved in and out of InfiniCloud-and between in-house IT and other Logicworks systems-in both open-source cloud and VMware formats. The migration of workloads and applications into InfiniCloud and integrating InfiniCloud with in-house IT environments can be managed by Logicworks, Ziegler said. ![]() It also offers compliance with such regulations as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and Sarbanes-Oxley, he said. InfiniCloud offers customers a full set of managed services for such tasks as application monitoring, server patching, firewall security, intrusion detection, disaster recovery, load balancing and database clustering. However, Logicworks is looking to take advantage of its history as a managed hosting provider and apply that experience to the cloud to gain an advantage over Amazon and its ilk, Ziegler said. InfiniCloud offers many of the same benefits as those other infrastructure-as-a-service solutions, including being open to anyone who wants to use it and enabling customers to pay only for the resources they use. 30, will compete with some heavyweights in the public cloud arena, including Amazon with its EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). Logicworks’ InfiniCloud, which was released to beta Nov. “When cloud computing first came out, it certainly was pretty buzzy,” said Ziegler in an interview with eWEEK, noting, however, that there were concerns raised about performance and security. With its new InfiniCloud, the company has created a public cloud solution with the performance and security necessary for mission-critical applications, Ziegler said. In most public cloud environments, enterprises are content to run test-and-development workloads or non-crucial applications, according to Kenneth Ziegler, president and COO of Logicworks. Logicworks is looking to create a public cloud offering that will entice businesses to move key applications to the cloud.
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