Crucial Cloud Hosting Launches Blaze

OnApp Ltd
announced it was selected, along with SolidFire, Inc. to help Crucial Cloud Hosting  launch Blaze – a new cloud service that offers
guaranteed performance for storage-intensive applications.

Blaze combines the
OnApp Cloud platform and control panel with SolidFire’s all-SSD storage system.

Traditionally, the best way to guarantee
storage performance for a hosted application has been to run it on a dedicated
server. With OnApp and SolidFire, however, Crucial has created a cloud that
offers guaranteed IOPS for each application. Using the new Blaze cloud, crucial
customers can specify IOPS for their hosted applications, and control their
cloud service with OnApp’s icloud control panel.

Crucial’s MD, Aaron Weller, said: "The combination of SolidFire’s all-SSD
storage systems and the OnApp Cloud management platform allows us to provision
storage with guaranteed performance levels, all backed by our proven commitment
to the highest levels of security, service and technical expertise. Now,
customers have complete control over their cloud environment and can use the
OnApp control panel to change the configuration of their server in real-time."

Crucial is targeting its new Blaze cloud at
companies using dedicated servers to ensure disk performance for their hosted
applications, enabling them to take advantage of the flexibility and
scalability of cloud hosting while guaranteeing storage performance. Crucial is
also targeting companies such as online retailers and digital agencies, which
can reduce cost by scaling their cloud service on demand to respond to
promotions, or as their business needs change.

"Today’s
applications need to be fast and available, no matter what the demand – and
that is exactly what OnApp and SolidFire have helped Crucial to deliver,"
said OnApp CEO, Ditlev Bredahl. "By
evolving their infrastructure with OnApp Cloud, and SolidFire’s all-SSD
storage, Crucial can meet the growing need for cloud services that can handle
the most demanding applications."

Although
developed initially for Crucial, the OnApp/SolidFire platform integration that
powers Blaze will be available to other cloud providers in the near future.