ReliaCloud is a cloud infrastructure service that hosts cloud servers and cloud storage

Cloud storage

Cloud storage is a model of networked online storage where data is stored on virtualized pools of storage which are generally hosted by third parties. Hosting companies operate large data centers; and people who require their data to be hosted buy or lease storage capacity from them and use it for...

 in a variety of Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 and Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 environments. ReliaCloud features an API, load balancing

Load balancing (computing)

Load balancing is a computer networking methodology to distribute workload across multiple computers or a computer cluster, network links, central processing units, disk drives, or other resources, to achieve optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, minimize response time, and avoid...

, a hardware firewall, and high availability

High availability

High availability is a system design approach and associated service implementation that ensures a prearranged level of operational performance will be met during a contractual measurement period....

. The company is privately held and apparently aims to compete within the hosting space against other companies such as Rackspace

Rackspace

Rackspace US, Inc. is an IT hosting company based in San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in Australia, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Hong Kong, and data centers operating in Texas, Illinois, Virginia, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong in late 2008...

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Facilities

ReliaCloud has two SAS 70

SAS 70

Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70: Service Organizations, commonly abbreviated as SAS 70 and available by permission of the AICPA, is an auditing statement issued by the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants with its content codified as...

 Type II data centers in which to run all instances of cloud environments. The company secures these data centers with authentication such as biometric handscans, PINs, 24x7x365 security guards, and video surveillance cameras.

Survey

ReliaCloud recently published the results results of a cloud computing survey of 150 IT decision makers to find out what companies across North America are looking for in cloud computing.

See also

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....

Cloud Infrastructure

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a central part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services . EC2 allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications...

Rackspace Cloud

GoGrid

GoGrid

GoGrid is a cloud infrastructure service, hosting Linux and Windows virtual machines managed by a multi-server control panel and a RESTful API. GoGrid is privately held and competes in the dedicated hosting space against Rackspace and in the cloud computing hosting space with those listed in the...