Broadband-Testing: HyperCloud product review
“What’s new?”
According to Broadband-Testing, “Cloud is here to stay. However, the much-documented issues with public cloud, including cost and true scalability/ease of management, as well as data security and compliance issues, mean that hybrid or private cloud have to be considered as real alternatives.”
Hybrid cloud only partially resolves those issues and can be incredibly hard to both secure and manage. And it can be expensive. Early attempts (primarily of the DIY type) at creating private cloud deployments were somewhat less than successful however.
In the initial Broadband-Testing report, we showed that, with V1 of HyperCloud, SoftIron has been able to provide effectively a turnkey solution to private cloud deployment, with none of the issues involved in a DIY build approach, with predictable performance, scalability and costs.
In V2, the focus of this report update on SoftIron, it’s a case of improvements in all areas, from initial deployment, through performance and scalability, to enhanced security and general ease of management, with more component visibility.
Overall, with V2 of HyperCloud, SoftIron has taken an already excellent recipe for private cloud and basically improved every ingredient. Yes, there are still improvements ahead, but taking that latter word, it’s fair to say that SoftIron is teraflops ahead of the competition or, more realistically, any true alternative.
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