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Carpathia Hosting Selected by Echo360 to Provide Managed Ho
Carpathia AlwaysOn/InstantOn™ Model to Meet Peaks and Troughs of Customer
06.09.2009 – Ashburn, VA – Carpathia Hosting, the leading provider of enterprise
managed hosting services for government agencies and businesses, announced
today it has been selected by Echo360 as its managed hosting provider. Through
the AlwaysOn/InstantOn™ fully-managed enterprise cloud solution, Echo360’s
higher education customers will have a reliable and stable hosting environment for
on-demand access to university lectures.
“Echo360 contacted Carpathia Hosting to help design a solution to a common
problem many organizations are experiencing - the need to cost-effectively scale an
infrastructure to meet the peaks and troughs of their customers usage,” said Peter
Weber, CEO at Carpathia Hosting. “We worked with Echo360 to design a solution
that utilizes Carpathia AlwaysOn™ capacity for the predictable portion of their
workload, and will provide Carpathia InstantOn™ to allow bursting into the Carpathia
Hosting storage and compute cloud in the future when usage peaks.”
Carpathia Hosting’s unique solution is comprised of two components – AlwaysOn,
using Carpathia Managed Hosting services, and InstantOn, utilizing Carpathia
Hosting’s cloud computing platform to offer seamless integration of cloud and
dedicated resources. Used together, Carpathia Hosting calls this unique approach
Carpathia Cloud Orchestration™.
“By blending dedicated managed hosting and cloud computing, customers obtain a
lower unit price and retain the traditional benefits of managed hosting, including
security and availability,” said Jon Greaves, CTO of Carpathia Hosting. “This hybrid
model provides the security, availability and reliability of a traditionally hosted
environment, paired with instant access to cloud computing and storage.”
“Carpathia Hosting evaluated the entire problem we were trying to solve. The one-to-
one design support provided by Carpathia Host