Cirrhus9

If you have been watching how cloud computing has begun to take shape over the last year, it's been a pretty wild ride. First, it was basically dismissed as a fad. Then, the buzz began to grow and people began to line up on each side of the topic. Some were very against it while others were strongly for it. Around November of 2008, the discussions started turning from the “it's only good for non-mission critical applications and data” to “Enterprise ready business solutions”.

From the beginning, our ultimate vision here at Cirrhus9 has always been one of a commingled structure that would include the existing “physical” data center, the private cloud and the public cloud. A combination of the three that would be seamless to the end user, easily administrated by our Managed Services team, robust and scalable for growth and inexpensive to operate.

With IBM and Amazon officially partnering up recently, this vision is becoming more of a reality by each passing day.  Add to that, the fact that 3Tera is out there and working hard to become the #1 private cloud provider and it turns out that Cirrhus9 has a pretty lethal tool set in our bag.  As additional players come on the scene, functionality, mobility and scale are only going to increase the power of these “Enterprise ready business solutions”.

Over the past few months, Cirrhus9 has been working very hard to develop strong relationships with both Amazon and 3Tera.   Both companies have been extremely supportive, which has allowed us to develop integration methodologies that play on each providers infrastructure strengths.  This is going make for plenty of exciting times in the future!

As it stands right now, the integration can be done through existing tools and API's but as we watch the landscape take shape, you can really see how these connections will be developed and smoothed out in the coming years.

The insane speed isn't going to slow down any time soon, either.  As the economic downturn forces companies of all sizes to take a hard look at how they spend their money, the migrations into the cloud are going to pick up a lot of speed.  Look out Mr. Toad, here comes Cirrhus9's E-Ticket ride!