It’s not there yet, sometime this fall.

Thank you for your responses:
a) We currently use a fully managed hosting provider (direct competitor to ServePath)
b) We have a hardware based firewall (CISCO)
c) This also serves as our VPN

The native Windows firewall is a bit mickey-mouse as compared to Cisco. This also helps us with regards to keeping some of of larger customers happy. Simply knowing there is a hardware based FW in place is helpful.

With regards to the DHCP IP issue. In the trial run, we added a few servers and they did not come online (we could not connect to them). The customer service dept could not figure out why the devices were not able to get an IP address.

Note:
We are also not sure about how managed back-up works. Access to the back-up is another concern.
In order for us to trust the cloud (not just gogrid) but all providers.

1) real-time support (like a fully managed hosting provider) is needed
2) The people on the phone talking to us must know how to deal with every item related to the server and infrastructure
3) Hardware based FW must be in place
4) Ability to have physical access to the servers/devices (not sure how this will work OR if it is even possible)

Note: if we have a problem with our servers today, we simply call our provider and they can have someone physically looking at our machine within minutes.

I understand these are items you may be working on BUT it would be helpful to us.

Our hosting bill is $20k + per month. We would love to move to the cloud as our costs would go down and we can add servers within minutes. This is the future but is it ready? is it the real deal?

With regards to RAM/processor: it would be great if we could get

i) 8 GB RAM + Dual Core
ii) 8 GB RAM + 2 Dual Core Processors
iii) 16 GB RAM + 2 Dual Core Processors

Sorry for the long post

You are correct in that AppLogic 2.45 is in beta. (my bad) What I was trying to say is that unlike EC2, which is in limited release until the end of the year, 3tera’s windows solution is available to everyone now.

Just a quick FYI about the 3tera announcement, according to their press release, their offering is a beta as well (“announces beta availability of AppLogic™ 2.4″). Whether it’s a beta or not shouldn’t matter (Gmail is a beta as well, right?)

@Trey,

To quickly address your points:
1) Software firewalls (linux/windows) was what GoGrid launched with. Additional hardware components are in the works
2) Not sure I understand this point
3) Support is free to GoGrid users and with various tiers available depending on the issue. Depending on the nature of the issue, different support personnel have different layers of support access to GoGrid.

What RAM sizes are you looking for?

-Michael

Microsoft certainly isn’t going to fold in this game, but I wonder if they are holding a winning hand or just bluffing the way they have been against Google.

Understanding that the cloud works differently, this is not ready for primetime.

Limitations to the amount of RAM installed on each device is something that is hindering us from moving all our devices to GoGrid

Pure play hosting companies probably have had to deal with a similar problem while using Windows OS VMWare images.

- Ranjit Nayak

Michale ,

Its time to update that comparison chart on your website .

I seriously hope that you & Flexiscale guys comeup with a good product and support to migrate data to and from EC2 so that i have comfort of option when i move my Business Process into the cloud . Lack of option is one major reason why a lot of people are restraining from moving to EC2 /S3 type of services .

I see a BIG Ticket acquisition in this space in next two years . Most Probably by MSFT ,IBM or CISCO .
Good Luck .

GoGrid launched with a public beta at the beginning of this year after 3 years of development. One of the most important features of GoGrid was to develop a GUI that was user-friendly, something that Window’s users can definitely appreciate and understand. It makes the usability of the product much higher. However, we also launched an API to provide the programmatic flexibility to control the GoGrid Cloud Infrastructure. Basically, the best of both worlds (GUI and Command-line through the API).

While there are choices now, users will naturally gravitate towards an environment which they are the most comfortable.

This sector will only become even more exciting in the future!

-Michael
Technology Evangelist for GoGrid