Big Brain Chooses OnApp for Deployment of SMB Cloud Services

OnApp
Limited announced that Virginia-based hosting provider Big
Brain Global Inc. has launched a range of cloud services built on
the OnApp cloud platform.

The company chose OnApp to create cloud
services for its SMB customers, who need affordable but HA hosting
for database-driven applications. The cloud joins the existing range
of virtual private server, dedicated server and colocation hosting
services.

The company made his choice after
narrowing its options to OnApp and VMware. OnApp’s built-in
autoscaling, automatic failover and flexible support for different
billing models played a role in the decision, enabling Big Brain to
give its customers enterprise features and performance while only
paying for the cloud resources they use. The ability to manage VMware
workloads was also important in Big Brain’s decision, since it gives
its customers greater choice of hypervisors and enables the company
to target larger business customers with its cloud services.

"OnApp cloud gives us the high
level of performance our customers need, but at a price that works
for them," said Brian Smith, Big Brain’s CEO. "Our
customers can’t believe how reliable their cloud services have
become, even when they scale up their business. Customers who have
migrated from dedicated servers are ecstatic about the new platform.
It’s an instant upgrade in reliability and capacity for their hosted
applications, and it’s more efficient and more profitable for us,
too."

"Big Brain is a great example
of how easy it can be for an established hosting provider to make the
transformation to a successful cloud provider," said Kosten
Metreweli, OnApp’s chief commercial officer. "Working with
OnApp enables companies like Big Brain to create compelling and
distinct cloud services that are tailored for their customers, and we
hope we’ll be working with Big Brain to keep adding features their
customers need for years to come."

Big Brain hopes to extend its OnApp
cloud with the platform’s integrated storage and CDN capabilities in
the near future. Big Brain can use disk drives in its hypervisor
servers to create scalable, high performance distributed storage for
its cloud users. With OnApp CDN, the company can make use of the
OnApp federation of clouds to help customers scale their websites and
applications to 161 locations in 40 countries, without having to
build its own global infrastructure.