VPN-Cubed brings Virtual Private Clouds to Flexiant

Have you tried Flexiant? If you haven't heard of this group from Livingston, it's about time they pop up on your radar. Their cloud products - Flexiscale the public cloud and Extility the licensed cloud infrastructure platform offer a nice management console and a robust API. Add in a little VPN-Cubed and the offerings can stand up with the biggest hitters in the game. Self-service Editions of both VPN-Cubed Cloud Only and VPN-Cubed Datacenter Connect are immediately available for use on Flexiscale as public server images. Additionally Extility licensees have access to VPN-Cubed for their networking needs as well as the needs of their cloud customers.

The VPN-Cubed appliances can be used to make simple "VPC" style networks like Amazon VPC, but which can run in any cloud without being tied to EC2 specific approaches. They can be used to run key business computing topologies that have been moved to a cloud, but need secure access to the corporate datacenter. They can be used to provision development infrastructure on the fly - allowing "N" identical copies of virtual servers to be run simultaneously - identical down to its IP address. A growing number of organizations are using sophisticated, multi-cloud, multi-datacenter meshes of VPN-Cubed Managers to create global, cloud networks and sometimes even "cloud WANs". Want to learn more? Talk to some of my buddies.

VPN-Cubed is the foundation of our "secure cloud container" solutions, enabling innovative techniques like xCloudMotion(tm), an implementation of stateless server motion which allows application topologies to move between clouds, and cross continents and oceans in minutes. This is comparable to the "OTV" capabilities recently announced by Cisco for long distance VMotion the exception being it doesn't require any specific hardware, it doesn't require service or cloud provider investment or involvement, it doesn't require the same virtual infrastructure, doesn't require the same type of UNDERLYING PHYSICAL SERVER CPU (how is that for virtualized), and certainly doesn't need 10gig Ethernet via leased lines, rather it runs on the consumer Internet.

Interested in learning more about xCloudMotion or scheduling a F2F with the us and the Felxiant team? We're in London for the Cloud Computing World Forum June 28th to July 1st. We will be at the conference, CloudCamp London, and hosting a Skills Matter Event on xCloudMotion. Drop us a line or stop by, maybe we can grab a soccer/football game and a pint.

Bradley.

The Asia Expansion is at Hand

The sun never sets on the AWS empire - but where they go, so do we. Yesterday Amazon Web Services announced the launch of its first Asia Pacific Region in Singapore. This is major news as Asia has been a growing force in the global economy. Over the last five decades poverty rates have fallen, life expectancy has risen, and the quality of life has been improving throughout Asia and the Pacific. Now with the help of AWS and CohesiveFT the quality of cloud computing is also on the rise. What does this mean? More Regions give a larger group of users more choices when starting their migration to agile infrastructure. Products and Services from CohesiveFT help users all over the globe leverage real business value from the cloud.

Elastic Server
Starting today Community and Professional Edition users can Configure, Build, Deploy, Launch, and Manage custom servers in the shiny new EC2 Asia Pacific Region.It's as easy as clicking a radio button on the Elastic Server Configuration Page. Start building out your private Asia cloud deployment or add to the sparsely populated (not for long) Asia public AMI catalog with easy to assemble Elastic Servers today.

VPN-Cubed
VPN-Cubed is also immediately available in the Asia Pacific Region. Users can launch an overlay network in the new region, connect it to another AWS Region or separate cloud (see Terremark and GoGrid - more coming very soon!), and connect it to their data center via a secure, controlled, and encrypted tunnel. VPN-Cubed is your global virtual network solution. AMIs are available now but please contact us for more information as we wait for our DevPay updates to be approved by AWS.

APAC

Terremark vCloud Express: Lucky Number 3

March has finally arrived. As Chicagoans, this month is reserved for two things: thawing our bodies out from the long winter and a green river. OK so St. Patty's Day was last week, but we're still riding high off the of the Irish. Today we are announcing the availability of VPN-Cubed at Terremark vCloud Express! Terremark cloud users can now harness the extra level of security and control in the cloud with the VPN-Cubed Overlay Network. Starting to feel the luck of the Irish yourself aren't ya? Take a seat, grab a Guinness and start extracting real business value from the clouds.

Both the VPN-Cubed IPsec Free Edition and SSL Free Edition are available today for your cloud control pleasure. We are also prepared to provide custom licenses if your needs are a little more robust than our dev/test editions can accommodate. Contact us to discuss licensing or subscription pricing - it's quick and painless.


The Linux VPN-Cubed for Terremark Server Templates are available in the drop down menu displayed above. Follow our Launch and Configuration Instructions (SSL | IPsec) to get your overlay network up and running in less than an hour. As always we are here to help if you hit any hurdles.

VPN-Cubed provides you with an overlay network in your vCloud Express environment that allows YOU control of addressing, topology, protocols, and encrypted communications for YOUR cloud-based deployments. When using public clouds like Terremark, your information assets are going into 3rd party controlled infrastructure. Yet Enterprise checks and balances require you to exhibit control over your computing infrastructure. VPN-Cubed gives you flexibility with control in the public cloud.

Your VPN-Cubed overlay network provides 4 key capabilities the cloud does not currently allow you to control:

• static addressing for your cloud devices,


• topology control by using VPN-Cubed managers as virtual switches, virtual bridges or virtual routers,


• use of popular enterprise protocols like UDP Multicast for service discovery,


• and lastly encrypted communications between all your devices.

To Arthur!

VPN-Cubed for GoGrid Available

We are celebrating the belated anniversary of VPN-Cubed® with the release of VPN-Cubed SSL for GoGrid Free Edition and VPN-Cubed IPsec to GoGrid Free Edition. We could have gotten flowers and planned a nice dinner but that isn't our style. Instead we worked with our friends at GoGrid to get our popular EC2 self-service Free Editions available in the GoGrid Exchange. With your choice of either SSL Free Edition, IPsec Free Edition or a custom enterprise configuration, we strive to fit your mood and self image, regardless we have a VPN-Cubed solution for you.

VPN-Cubed provides an overlay network that allows YOU control of addressing, topology, protocols, and encrypted communications for YOUR devices deployed to virtual infrastructure or cloud computing centers. When using public clouds your corporate assets are going into 3rd party controlled infrastructure. Enterprise checks and balances require you to exhibit control over your computing infrastructure. VPN-Cubed gives you flexibility with control in 3rd party environments.

VPN-Cubed IPsec to GoGrid Free Edition


This self-service edition of VPN-Cubed allows users to create a controlled and secure overlay network in GoGrid and launch an IPsec tunnel between their data center and that GoGrid deployment. The free edition is available at no additional cost on top of the GoGrid usage fees. Follow our IPsec to GoGrid Configuration Instructions to launch and configure your GoGrid overlay network.

VPN-Cubed SSL to GoGrid Free Edition


This self-service edition of VPN-Cubed provides added confidence when deploying to the public cloud. Create a secure and encrypted overlay network to connect all your GoGrid servers adding confidence when moving compute capacity to 3rd party control. The SSL Free Edition like the IPsec Free Edition is available at no additional cost on top of the GoGrid usage fees. Follow our SSL for GoGrid Configuration Instructions to launch and configure your GoGrid overlay network.

Need VPN-Cubed for another cloud? The GoGrid and EC2 Editions are pre-configured images that are available as self-service product. VPN-Cubed can run on virtually any public cloud, open source private cloud, or virtual infrastructure. Contact us to get the benefits of a secure and controlled overlay network in your cloud today.

Year 2.

EC2 US-West Region Available Now

You asked and we delivered (there might be a pattern here). We have been up late working hard to bring you the benefits of the new AWS EC2 US-West Region in both our product families. The Elastic Server Factory now allows you to assemble, deploy, and manage custom cloud servers in all three EC2 Regions (the US-East Northern Virginia Region, the US-West Northern California Region in the United States, and the EU Ireland Region in Europe). We also created VPN-Cubed IPsec to EC2 and SSL to EC2 Free Edition AMIs for the new region. Our dedication to you, our customers, runs deep. No sleep number, spring, nor radically 80's-style water bed will keep us from providing you with the best user experience possible.

VPN-Cubed Free Editions
US-West Region AMIs for both VPN-Cubed IPsec to Cloud Free Edition and VPN-Cubed SSL to Cloud Free Edition are available for launch. If you are currently a subscriber of a product code the US-West AMI will launch without additional subscription. If you have not previously subscribed to either Paid AMI via DevPay - Click one of the links above, follow the subscription instructions, and launch the appropriate US-West VPN-Cubed AMI (IPsec US-West AMI ID: ami-dd3f6e98, SSL US-West AMI ID: ami-d33f6e96). Please note the new US-West AMIs must be launched with different kernel and ramdisk IDs specified in the configuration instructions (SSL PDF & IPsec PDF).

Elastic Server
Assembling, deploying, and launching US-West Region Elastic Servers is a one click operation with the Elastic Server Factory. Yet another deployment option, YADO!


ElasticServer.com is a software factory that allows you to team source the design, assembly, deployment and management of your virtual servers in a way that makes them portable across multiple virtual and cloud infrastructures. Elastic Server allows you to capture, incorporate, share, and reuse everything you know about your servers at assembly time. It also provides enhanced governance, every server built has a unique ID and provenance which can be traced.

Have a software project/component and looking for a quick and painless way for your users to consume though many different deployment formats (EC2, VMware, KVM, Citrix, PXE, Parallels...)? Elastic Server allows you to market, message, and distribute your servers to your target audience through owned and controlled Elastic Server Sites. Interested in learning more? Contact us at marketing (at) cohesive.com.

Compute Regionally.

VPN-Cubed Now Available for vCloud Deployments

Hey look!!

If you take a look at these screen shots you will see that I have 3 servers - one of them is sending multicast packets (server1) and two of them are receiving multicast (server2 and server3). Whoo!

Ok - “so what you say?” “I can see that they are on the same network. They are all on the same 172.31.1.x subnet. I can do that any day of the week!”

Well, now look again.


The screen shots show the “real” host names; terremark-vpn3-c1, rackspace-vpn3-c1, and ec2usa-vpn3-c1.

This is VPN-Cubed®, the x-cloud overlay network in action. You can spread an address space you define, assign static addresses to distinct servers, use protocols like UDP Multicast, control your topology by layering virtual switches/routers, connect to your datacenter using your existing IPsec connectivity, and more!

VPN-Cubed is essentially your x-cloud container that allows you to control your infrastructure in the clouds. Combine this with other CohesiveFT solutions and you have unparalleled ability to migrate and control your architecture in the clouds.

We love the emergence of the vCloud Express hosting partners that launched with VMware last week. And we are proud to announce the industry’s first connectivity solutions for vCloud.

We can provide you the secure connectivity solution that you control, that fits your specific needs:
vCloud-to-vCloud
vCloud-to-EC2
vCloud-to-Datacenter
vCloud-to-Cloud (Rackspace, ElasticHosts, Flexiscale, more...)

It’s sort of hard to demonstrate a network - but give us a shout and we will take you on a tour of our x-cloud network. @reply / dm us at elasticserver, or contact us!

Zeus ZXTM + Elastic Server... We'll do the math.

The crew over at Zeus Technology worked with us to create the Zeus ZXTM Elastic Server Site. The Elastic Server Site allows users to quickly assemble and deploy custom ZXTM virtual or cloud appliances. Zeus' ZXTM is a souped-up IP traffic manager that is both easy to use and highly customizable. Elastic Server gives you a quick an easy way to start intelligently managing your applications, streamlining operations and providing a seamless end-user experience with ZXTM. Login to Elastic Server -> Choose your components and Configure your server -> Build -> Take ZXTM for a spin.


Zeus ZXTM is available through the Zeus Elastic Server Site. The Zeus components conveniently include a development license (performance restrictions) and gets you up and running in no time. Upgrading to a full production license is as easy as contacting the Zeus Sales Team.

Once you've download or deployed your Zeus Elastic Server it's ready to roll. Just add your services like web servers, farms, caching etc. The Zeus TrafficScript can take care of anything the Zeus Crew didn't already incorporate into the ZXTM UI. Check out the Knowledge hub for example code, walkthroughs and FAQs.

Interested in doing the same for your software component or project? Sign up for a Personal Edition Account and you'll have all the tools necessary to provide your users with a quick and easy assembly and deployment solution - The Elastic Server Factory.

The Elastic Server factory allows any developer, SI, ISV, project, team, or enterprise to source their own component supply chain and create their own server design center in the form of Elastic Server Sites. From these Elastic Server sites you can market, message and distribute your own server products. Elastic server is a great way to consume software components but also a great platform for offering your components to the public for easy consumption.

If you have any questions or would like some help getting started please reach out to us via our support forums or contact us.

Cloud-Collector.