StratoGen Sees Growth Accelerate in Private Cloud Deployments

LONDON, July 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

- Leading Cloud Hosting Company StratoGen Reports Huge 2^nd Quarter Growth in Private Cloud Deployments. Is the Cloud Changing the way we View IT?

StratoGen today reported an 82% growth in private cloud deployments in the 2^nd quarter as organisations focused on moving their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud. Despite the recent high profile outages of some cloud providers, IT managers are pushing forward with ever more ambitious migration projects.

Mark Lewis, Business Development Manager said "Business confidence in the cloud has far exceeded our expectations in recent months. We've seen more and more companies taking on complex cloud migration projects in a bid to enhance service levels and performance. In a relatively short time IT managers have embraced the cloud concept and are now looking to virtualize their entire legacy infrastructure."

Cloud hosting is set to account for 80% of all web hosting by 2020, according to industry experts. However, the risk to IT departments is large and growing as a multitude of hosting companies build clouds with little or no experience, selling into a market with no track record.

"We are delighted to see these growth figures, and there is no doubt now that cloud has had a breakthrough year in 2011. However, there continues to be a lack of transparency amongst cloud providers which makes selecting the right hosting company extremely difficult. In particular, very few publish specifications of their platform or the service levels they have achieved. If organisations are moving their entire IT function to the cloud then these are questions which need to be answered" commented David Elliott, Technical Director.

StratoGen provide cloud hosting environments in the form of virtual datacentres, which facilitate private cloud deployments. Within each virtual datacentre organisations can easily build and deploy virtual machines, routed networks and firewalls using a powerful web based portal or API.

For further information on VMware hosting from StratoGen visit http://www.stratogen.net/products/vmware-hosting.html

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About StratoGen

StratoGen is a leading VMware hosting company with a worldwide client base and award winning cloud platform. StratoGen hosted VMware products include a 100% uptime service level guarantee.

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