Cloud computing – sometimes referred to as the “third revolution” in the IT industry – follows the personal computer and Internet ‘revolutions’ and is already transforming the way we think about computing.

But what is it?  Gaining agreement on the definition of cloud computing in the tech industry is approaching the level of a religious war with definitions ranging from simple shared infrastructure, to software-as-a-service (SaaS), to pay-as-you-go computing power and storage space, to systems architecture abstracted from physical location and ownership.

Carpathia Hosting believes that to unlock the true potential of cloud computing, customers should look for the same level of service traditionally received with hosted managed services.  As such, our cloud solutions are built from the ground up as a fully-managed serviced, backed by our E3™ Promise.




HYBRID CLOUD SOLUTION
In 2009, we launched InstantOn – the first generation of our cloud platform.  Utilizing both cloud computing and storage services, we developed a cloud platform that is able to seamlessly merge dedicated servers with ‘burstable’ cloud capacity. By doing this, we created a hybrid model that brings the stability of managed services to customer cloud solutions designed to meet customer needs.

Read more about our Hybrid Cloud Solution.

ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION
The cloud concept represents a fundamental shift in computing, providing a platform for agile and cost-effective business applications and IT infrastructure including new traffic patterns, new forms of content and new applications.  These represent key drivers of the need for dynamically allocated, scalable compute resources.

We’ve gained a lot of insight from what customers think about cloud computing over the past year about what customers think about using public clouds for their own production-ready applications.As a result of that insight, we’ve taken the enterprise cloud to the next level. 

 

Read more about 2nd Generation InstantOn.