Hosting.com Offers Free Cloud Trial

LOUISVILLE, Ken. -- Hosting.com, the first name in global hosting solutions and services, today announced that its industry-leading cloud solution, CloudNine, will be available as a free trial following the launch of VMware vSphere 4 earlier this week. VMware vSphere 4 is the industry's first operating system for building the internal cloud, complementing the robust CloudNine solution, which is built on a standards-based architecture that includes the VMware platform.

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CloudNine provides cloud hosting and Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions to companies and organizations across all verticals and segments. CloudNine delivers virtually unlimited computing resources, a redundant infrastructure, outstanding flexibility and easy expandability on the reliable VMware platform.

As part of the VMware vCloud initiative, developers, IT professionals, SMBs and enterprises are invited to experience Cloud Computing firsthand with 30 days of complimentary cloud infrastructure from CloudNine. The cloud environment includes a dedicated pool of unlimited processing, memory, storage and networking resources with server root access, online customer management portal, Windows and Linux OS options and 24x7 technical support. Start your free trial here.

VMware Impact on Cloud Computing"VMware vSphere 4 is not only an exciting launch for VMware, but also for the entire virtualization and cloud computing communities," noted Jonathan Erwin, VP of Sales and Marketing for Hosting.com. He continued, "As part of the VMware vCloud initiative, the CloudNine trial offer will increase accessibility to cloud computing and hosting for companies of all sizes."

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