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The new business employs 40 people and represents an investmengof $10 million. Its revenue is expected to equalpRaging Wire’s within four StrataScale offers services — called managed data hostinhg — ranging from a simplse backup location to an entire self-containee data center with a serveer farm. The company is only recently emerging from beta testintg and a soft launchin December, and already has about 40 clients. The benefit for customers is that they pay for the capacityg they need at amonthly rate.
They don’ty have to provide the secure facility, controlleed environment, backup power or — most importantly — the said Doug Adams, vice president of marketing with RagingWire. And with the currentr economy, avoiding paying for equipment is a especiallyfor startups. Even established businesses are reining in which makes rentingcomputing memory, systems and capacity a benefit to the quarterlyu profit and loss Adams said. “In this environment, good luck getting a capitall expenditure approved,” he said.
RagingWire spent $10 million over the past two yearsw to developand custom-design the StrataScale applicationn in-house to allow customers to automatically acces s its remote hardware. “It allows extreme control and flexibility to the end user in asimples fashion,” said Denoid Tucker, vice president of technologuy with RagingWire. Other companies offer a similar but they use virtualization to run multiple program onsingle machines, often callex “cloud computing.
” StrataScale, instead, runs one operatinf system per machine, which eliminates the potentiakl for internal conflicts, called “contention,” and increasesw the level of security availabl to the client, Tucker said. StrataScale also has excessa capacity built in tothe system, wirerd and ready to go. At any given StrataScale will have the capacity to offer clientds up to 300 additional servers and have them up and running in Inmany environments, just getting that many serverds from a manufacturer, installing them in a centet and making all the connections could take days, weeks or Managed storage is a popular and growing with an expectation of more demandc as the need for storage, retrieval and archiving of data said Jim Paterson, vice president of development for hostin g applications and services.
Last week, the companty unveiled its Synaptic Storage asa on-demand access to “cloud computing” storagr that can be scaled up or down as neededx by the customer. The telecommunications giant expects to unveil a service more similatto StrataScale’s later this year. “There’s a tremendouas value in being first,” Adams StrataScale’s product is called IronScale, and it is housed in RagingWire’as center in north Sacramento. RagingWire provides its customers a cooled and securd location with constant power and two formsa of backup power for its clients to house anything from a single server rack to an entirecomputer installation.
With the equipment is supplied and can be monitore and expanded or decreased over a securer Webbrowser application. “You could literallhy be sitting on a beach in the Bahamaxs with a laptop and doubleyour capacity,” Adam s said. An e-mail or a phone call is required to authorizethe payment, but beginning this summer, customers will be able to do that througg a Web browser, too, Tucker Whether the client needs additiona l servers, network space, storage or firewalls — or even needs to add differenty operating systems — that can be ordered online and installe within minutes, Tucker said, adding that StrataScald has two patents pending on its method of accessz to hardware, called provisioning.
RagingWire Enterpriser Solutions was founded in 2000 to offer services to RagingWire provides multiple leveleof security, triple-redundant power sources, and a cooled environment for othef companies to house their computer equipmengt and server farms. RagingWire is a private companyand doesn’y disclose current revenue. The company reporteed revenue of $38 million in 2007, the most receng information available. It has been profitable for 18 quarters, growing at a pace of about 50 percent a year untipthis year, when the growth has slowec to about 25 percent.
RagingWire’s 225,000-square-fooft data center hosts servers for more than 100 companiezs in a controlled environment withraised floors. Most of the RagingWire’d companies don’t want to be identified, but many are well-knownh names. The facility is in a neighborhood ofhuge generic-looking warehouses. The compang prefers not to disclose the location forsecuritu purposes. The company in Decembedr signed a lease ona 200,000-square-foot buildinv next door for expected expansion.
RagingWirwe is located between two power and it has its own substation behindthe
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