Enomalism to offer customized Elastic Cloud Computing services & platform

Enomaly Inc today announced the limited release of the Enomalism Elastic Computing Cloud Platform. The customized grid service will target the specialized capacity demands of large-scale hosting and data centers.

Applications using this type of grid enabled infrastructure or environment enables enterprises to efficiently utilized a series of geographically disperse virtual computing resource clouds of computing capacity. Recently this approach to hosting has been referred to as "cloud computing." Each cloud enables various "storm fronts" and allows customers to intellegently & elastically adapt their environment based on real world conditions. Enomalism customization eliminates the so-called success penalty often incurred by customers seeking to leverage general-purpose servers, storage, and networking equipment and services in a hosted environment.

The Enomalism Elastic Cloud is primarily made up of the following components; the Enomalism Enterprise Edition, Allocation / Accounting Manager, Geo-targeted load balancer, and a clustered file-system.

Enomalism Elastic hosting technology is designed to eliminate the problems inherent with typical shared hosting infrastructures. This technology provides customers with a "clustered" handling of security, load balancing, and necessary website resources.

Gold Allocation / Accounting Manager
Gold is an open source accounting system that tracks and manages resource usage on High Performance virtual servers. It acts much like a bank in which resource credits are deposited into accounts with access controls designating which users, projects and machines may access the account. As jobs complete or as resources are utilized, accounts are charged and resource usage recorded. Gold supports familiar operations such as deposits, withdrawals, transfers and refunds. It provides balance and usage feedback to users, managers, and system administrators.

Since accounting needs vary widely from organization to organization, Gold has been designed to be extremely flexible, featuring customizable accounting and supporting a variety of accounting models. Attention has been given to scalability, security, and fault tolerance. Gold facilitates the sharing of resources between organizations or within a Grid by providing distributed accounting while preserving local site autonomy.

Load Balancer
Virtual Server based Load balancing software uses multiple virtual machines to spread work around and thereby speed & performance. Enomalism uses user-mode load balancing software with its own network stacks that runs over Linux and Solaris in the form of a virtual server. All the work is done by the software; the operating system is used only for accessing the physical network interfaces and TCP/IP functions. It supports many different load balancing methods, including round robin, random, hash, and least resource. The software can provide load balancing not only for Web servers, but almost any kind of service, including HTTP, FTP, SQL, POP3, IMAP, and SMTP.

Geo-Targeting
A sudden increase in traffic from China? No problem, the load balancer creates 10 new instances in the Asian Cloud and point all Chinese traffic to those instances.

Geotargeting, or geographical targeting, is a way for servers and applications to automatically adjust for a geographical location. Load Balancing tied directly to geo-targeting allows you to target system resource more specifically to the region requiring the most demand. This approach allows for an adaptive scaling for only the regions that require it. By providing operating system level geotargeting, administrators can more intellegently create an elastic computing server environment.

Clustered File System
Enomalism uses a clustered file-system called GlusterFS and is capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS utilitizes one of the most sophisticated file systems in terms of features and extensibility. It borrows a powerful concept called Translators from GNU Hurd kernel. Much of the code is in userspace and easily manageable.

Squid Web Proxy Cache
Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, and HTTP as well other various data objects. Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process. Squid keeps meta data and especially hot objects cached in RAM, caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking DNS lookups, and implements negative caching of failed requests. Squid supports SSL, extensive access controls, and full request logging. By using the lightweight Internet Cache Protocol, Squid caches can be arranged in a hierarchy or mesh for additional bandwidth savings.

Stunnel — Universal SSL Wrapper
Stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) available on both Unix and Windows. Stunnel can allow you to secure non-SSL aware daemons and protocols (like POP, IMAP, LDAP, etc) by having Stunnel provide the encryption, requiring no changes to the daemon's code.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Migration Support
The Enomalism Elastic migration kit provides management and migration of virtual images between a local virtualized server environment and the remote Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Environment.

Learn more about the Enomalism Elastic Compute Cloud sevices at http://www.enomalism.com


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Enomalism is part of the GeoElastic Alliance
The GeoElastic Alliance of regional hosting centers enables members to offer collective hosting services that can withstand the crush of daily requests for rich, dynamic, interactive content, transactions, and applications specifically targeting the regions requiring the most demand. When delivering on these requests, GeoElastic intellegently detects and avoids regional Internet problem spots and vulnerabilities, to ensure web based applications perform optimally, media and software download flawlessly, and applications perform reliably.

Learn more at www.GeoElastic.com

An Enomaly Company
A wide range of successful companies rely on Enomaly's open source consulting experience to increase productivity, improve operational efficiency and reduce risk. Enomaly works closely with enterprises to plan, prepare, and coordinate achievable customer-specific content management and open source strategies. Using a service-oriented architecture (SOA), Enomaly offers a wide range of strategic services including; open source application development, information/content management, enterprise migration support.

Learn more at http://www.enomaly.com