ProfitBricks uses InfiniBand, a wired fabric that allows more than triple the data transfer rate between servers as compared to two of the industry's biggest players, Amazon and Rackspace. According to its website, ProfitBricks uses two network interface cards per server device so the transmission speed can reach 80 Gbit/sec at present. InfiniBand network/communication technology offers high throughput, low latency, quality of service and failover.
ProfitBricks is a European company founded in 2010 by Achim Weiss and Andreas Gauger, whose former managed hosting company, 1&1, was sold to United Internet and now is a leading international Web hosting company.
ProfitBricks allows users to customize their public cloud to their heart's content, providing a range of computing options that it says is wider than most of the big players in the market.
Melanie Posey, an IDC researcher, says ProfitBricks is carving out a niche for itself around HPC.
"Since ProfitBricks is coming into the IaaS up against established giants like Amazon and Rackspace (and now Google and Microsoft), they need to establish some differentiation in the market -- the technology is one of those differentiators," she says. Given the increased role analyzing large amounts of data could play in the future, she expects HPC offerings may continue to be an area that service providers look to up their offerings in. IBM, for example, she says is making a big push to provide data analytics software for use either on-site or as a cloud-based service.
Links:
- High performance computing, the latest 'it' thing in the cloud (NetworkWorld)
- ProfitBricks HPC offering
Update:
- original: 2012.09.12
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