CARI.net to Deploy Abiquo Enterprise Edition across its Infrastructure to Enable Cloud Computing for 8,500 Customers in over 150 Countries
Redwood City, Calif. – April 13, 2011 – Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software company, today announced that CARI.net Inc., a hosting provider with more than 8,500 customers in more than 150 countries, has selected Abiquo Enterprise Edition to enable on-demand Cloud computing to its customers.
After a rigorous evaluation of cloud management vendors over the course of six months, CARI.net chose Abiquo’s cloud services for its class-leading features, enterprise security and compliance policies, and ease of use. CARI.net needed a management solution that would enable them to provide on-demand cloud resources to its worldwide customers and reseller channel, and found that Abiquo was the only solution that met all of the criteria that they need. Additionally, Abiquo’s powerful, yet affordable, product integrates with popular external storage vendors, supports all major hypervisors including Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM, Xen Server, Xen Community, Virtual Box and VMware ESX/ESXi, and empowers a multi-tenant self-service model.
“We found a number of shortcomings in the product offerings provided by both the traditional hypervisor vendors, and other cloud management vendors,” said CARI.net CEO Joe McMillen. “In addition to providing best-of-breed features like business policy, Abiquo is the only cloud management vendor to support Windows and Linux on all major hypervisors simultaneously. Being hypervisor and platform agnostic is critical since CARI.net customers have such a range of needs.”
CARI.net launched a shared hosting platform 10 years ago that allowed its customers to purchase distributed web hosting, database instances and email storage, all amalgamated into a simple point-and-click business control panel. To handle customer growth within this panel, CARI.net needed a scalable cloud management system that permitted customers to control and provision their hosted applications on demand while still meeting enterprise requirements for security, compliance and governance.
“Abiquo’s visual interface is intuitive, attractive, clean and powerful. CARI.net has worked with many solutions that require innumerable hours of training to learn, but anyone with IT experience can learn to use Abiquo in 10 minutes without training,” said Mike Carpenter, CARI.net director of business development.
Abiquo’s web based user interface is driven by drag and drop actions with minimal keyboard input, employing powerful APIs to execute complex functions. For example, a single drag-and-drop action will convert a virtual machine from one hypervisor type to any other, saving time and ending vendor lock-in. Business policies are set similarly, allowing CARI.net to enforce rules for security and compliance for an individual customer and/or across their global infrastructure in mere minutes.
According to Mike Carpenter, “Abiquo understands the needs of those IT professionals that are looking for ways to simplify delivery and management of cloud services. They have exactly what we were looking for – the best management for turn-key cloud resources.”
“CARI.net has developed a sophisticated, enterprise-class cloud offering that gives customers the flexibility to choose the cloud resources that will work best for them,” said Abiquo CEO Pete Malcolm. “Abiquo lets them easily manage their global customers and will scale up as more hardware is brought in to support the growing demand. We think this represents the way that many organizations will use the cloud, and how more MSPs will provide it.”
About CARI.net
CARI.net has remained a hosting leader since 1997 with a wide variety of hosting options including fully-managed and self-managed servers, clusters, public and private cloud offerings, and advanced storage options well as server virtualization hypervisors. They service some 8500+ customers and resellers throughout over 150 countries.CARI.net builds, owns and operates all of their own datacenters and are capable of handling customers and demands of any size. CARI.net currently owns 7 state of the art datacenters in San Diego. They have a 100 percent Cisco-switched, multi-homed, multi-gigabit backbone. For more information, please visit www.CARI.net.
About Abiquo
Abiquo is the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software company. Designed to meet strategic objectives, rather than as a temporary tactical fix, Abiquo is built on open standards, allowing organizations of all sizes to dramatically improve business agility, mitigate risk, and reduce costs. With Abiquo, organizations can use business policy to manage an entire, globally deployed computing infrastructure, comprising unlimited physical and Cloud resources including private, public and hybrid Clouds through a “single pane of glass”. As a result, Abiquo customers are able to significantly decrease the cost and complexity of managing their virtual IT environments, while maintaining control of the physical infrastructure and increasing agility to change hypervisors as needed. For more information, visit www.abiquo.com.
CARI.net provides every kind of managed hosting that you might need, from dedicated servers, to server clusters (or farms), to public, private and hybrid cloud computing. Call CARI.net to see what we can do for you.
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