Inc Loudcloud - Smart Cloud Expands The Loudcloud Operational Environment

Loudcloud also offers client companies a choice of four optional Smart Clouds that expand the LOE. Each Smart Cloud includes licenses, hardware, software, deployment, and 24/7 monitoring and management. They include industry-leading technologies and services that have been certified by Loudcloud Research. Customers can purchase the appropriate combination of Smart Clouds to match their own needs. The four Smart Clouds are Enhanced Environment, Enhanced Performance, Enhanced Development, and Enhanced Risk Management.

Enhanced Environment Smart Clouds allow customers to increase the scalability, security, and functionality of their Internet operations. The core operational components include Web servers, application servers, database servers, storage, staging, and integration services. Benefits to customers include rapid response to market, architecture that eliminates single points of failure, and seamless scalability. Enhanced environment services include the following Clouds: Web, Application, Database, Storage, Staging, Directory, Integration, and Enhanced General Support.

Enhanced Development Smart Clouds provide customers with development and evaluation tools that enable them to develop, test, and qualify their Web site applications and code. Loudcloud offers customers the RapidBuild Cloud, which provides them with a solid development environment for testing and qualifying new content and code, as well as the Stress Cloud, which enables customers to test if their site can withstand the pressure and demands of different levels of Internet traffic.

Enhanced Performance Smart Clouds provide client companies with performance evaluation tools to help them improve their end-users' Web site experience. Included among this group of Smart Clouds is the Global Response Cloud, which lets customers monitor and measure their site performance from up to 50 metropolitan areas around the world. The Transaction Response Cloud gives customers the ability to monitor and measure the performance of their site in real time. The Content Distribution Cloud accelerates site performance by caching static media on geographically dispersed servers which, in effect, put content closer to end-users. The Streaming Cloud allows customers to provide high-quality video-on-demand content on their sites.

Enhanced Risk Management Smart Clouds are a collection of enhanced security tools for customers with specialized needs. Among the areas for which enhanced security tools are offered are access control, e-mail, global recovery, and file transfers.

Loudcloud's solutions support most of the major platforms and software applications used for large-scale Internet sites. Supported operating systems include Linux, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 2000, and Sun Solaris. Supported Web servers include Apache, Microsoft IIS, and iPlanet (Netscape) Enterprise.