“occasional minor outages are just part of the reality of cloud computing today”
- Steve Jones, CEO of Explore Consulting
Organization: GoGrid
Description:
GoGrid is a leading Cloud Infrastructure Hosting provider with extensive expertise and experience running complex, on-demand cloud, dedicated and mixed server infrastructures. With over 10 years of dedicated hosting experience, our team wanted to develop a new kind of hosting solution to address the scaling needs of today's businesses. Over the years, we have seen some of the limitations with dedicated servers and managed hosting, in terms of flexibility, elasticity and their lack of an on-demand nature. Virtual Private Servers have been around for awhile and always seemed like a good idea, but somehow they always seemed to lack the performance, throughput and reliability of physical boxes. Through our experience in the dedicated server hosting market, extensive R&D in Xen-based grid technology, and needs of the many rapidly growing companies we serve, the opportunity became clear.
Our answer to that challenge is GoGrid, the first multi-tier, cloud computing platform that allows you to intuitively manage your cloud hosting infrastructure completely on demand through an intuitive, web interface, or programmatically through a REST-like Application Programming Interface (API).
We are based in San Francisco where we operate our own data center and manage thousands of servers for customers all over the world. We have been in business for nine years, but before that our founders ran a successful Internet access ISP that started back in 1995.
[source - http://www.gogrid.com/about/]