Comments on: IronScale: Not Another Cloud

By: Reed

Reed — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:18:54 +0000

Scott, I think you missed the point of IronScale. It provides users control of their entire hosted IT infrastructure from anywhere in the world via an easy to use web browser-based graphical user interface. This applies to building and managing their infrastructure. Not only can users build a server rapidly, they can control how it is provisioned without slowing things down. They can also maintain their environment, easily performing tasks like adding storage to a server, switching networks, restore to snapshot point in a matter of minutes through the UI. IronScale is also a fully manged offering, so it includes fully managed 24×7 proactive tech support with everything in the environment. The key is the time saved using IronScale.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:47:35 +0000

Hi Stacey, yes honesty is good. But who else is calling themselves a cloud provider with only rapid provisioning? Other companies have had rapid provisioning for a long time and aren’t calling themselves a cloud provider either. Some hosting companies aren’t claiming to be rocket ships too…

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:12:57 +0000

Scott, I wanted to use this to point out that rapid provisioning doesn’t necessarily equate to cloud computing. StrataScale is offering that without calling itself a cloud. Refreshing honesty sometimes gets noticed.

By: GigaOM Cloud Computing Briefing « digital asset management weblog

GigaOM Cloud Computing Briefing « digital asset management weblog — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:56:15 +0000

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By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:45:30 +0000

So this is an article about a dedicated server company who is not a cloud provider and not calling themselves a cloud provider? Aren’t there about 900,000 dedicated server companies not providing cloud services?? Am I missing something or does StrataScale give really nice presents to GigaOM article writers?

By: James

James — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:40:14 +0000

I’ve seen a demo of this IronScale product. It actually is pretty cool. The fact that there is essentially a centralized and secure portal to manage all of your environments was appealing to me and my needs.