Orcon, under its iSERVE brand, has launched New Zealand’s first locally-developed cloud computing service for small to medium-sized enterprises.
Cloud computing is the provision of computing infrastructure and applications as a service, using remote computing power.
The new service is designed to give businesses the flexibility of scaling computing requirements up and down ‘on demand’.
Servers and storage can be created and removed instantaneously and customers only pay for the time they are in use says Orcon’s head of emerging business, Charlie Boyd.
“Cloud computing can increase the capacity of data storage or add capabilities on the fly without the client needing to invest in new physical infrastructure,” Mr Boyd says.
Pricing starts at RRP $0.06 per hour per CPU and per 512MB of RAM.
Orcon will also be offering a new self-service virtual server product that operates in the same manner as a real server, whether it is a particular software programme or operating system.
The virtual server can be provisioned online by the client, in real time. Customers can sign up instantly with a credit card online to get the benefits of having their own equipment at a reduced cost.
The virtual server product has an entry price of RRP $99+GST per month for a Single CPU, 512Mb RAM/15GB storage/25GB traffic package.
Orcon aquired iSERVE in May 2009.
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