wokay. met up with the skalicloud people quick responses:
1. trial can be extended for real developers up to 14 days - sign up for the 5 day trial, then contact customer care asking to extend 2. technology used is actually partner's from the uk (i suspect openhosting coz some of the sales phrases are similar) 3. skalicloud is positioned as infrastructure as a service (i see it as like renting a dedicated server but with the ability to scale the server elastic) 4. the web interface is somewhat comparable to virtualbox, but setting up a ubuntu 10.04 64bit is very fast (less than 1 minute) and you can have and control multiple virtual machines from the same interface. 5. they have already sold 60% of their capacity since launch in dec 2010 - hot ! 6. no oracle database installation yet - but this is possible. 7. there is a 100% uptime guarantee (raid and high availability is already pre-built) 8. skalicloud is not for hpc - high performance computing. i forgot to ask if they can do a demo for the community ! but i think this should not be a problem. imho, good for seasonal high traffic portals (like lhdn) or those with batch backend processing. in terms of pricing this is equivalent to dedicated server with equivalent specs (starting from rm500 per month), but with skalicloud you can scale down and only use what you really need eg smaller storage space, so it will be cheaper. On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Boh Yap <[email protected]> wrote: > hmmm... > > Skali is not exactly a FLOSS player, they were an early player to try > to be a major ISP, but there are leaner, smaller, cheaper guys out > there now... > > I don't think they will willingly divulge their technology to > 'educate' others (so they would think) such that other competitors > will grow to challenge them! > > On the other hand they can work with the FLOSS community... and grow > bigger; depends on their corporate mindset.. > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Mohd Kamal Bin Mustafa <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Harisfazillah Jamel > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> They did sponsor for MOSC2010. So this time around need them to share > >> knowledge for cloud. > >> > > > > We should have a community workshop on this topic. Let's play around > > with all the virtualization technologies out there and come out with > > some sort of guideline on how to implement a cloud platform out of > > this. This way more people can start offering their cloud > > implementation, increasing competition and as a result - lowering the > > price. > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > > > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://portal.mosc.my/ > > > > > > -- > #------- > regds, > > Boh Heong, Yap > > -- > To unsubscribe from and detail about this group > http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information > > MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://portal.mosc.my/ > -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://portal.mosc.my/
