Virtual machines

VMs are available on top of a KVM hypervisor.  We offer support for many different operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Free/Net/OpenBSD, and SmartOS.

• Undersubscribed to no more than 80% load
• Compatible with VMware, Hyper-V, etc.
• Built with high IOPS for high performance enterprise loads ** Standard VM Includes: 50GB boot drive, private networking, and no variable charges.
** Compatible with Windows Server 2008 or greater, Linux 2.4 and other operating systems

Differentiated from the large public cloud services providers

• Serving businesses within a “watershed” 100-mile radius of our host data center
• Pricing is predictable and consistent, calculated by element (number of cores and amount of RAM) rather than by transaction/bandwidth.
• Resources delivered to Stack41 customers are always under-subscribed to eliminate competition for processing capacity.
• Platform designed specifically for high IOPS to reduce transaction time
• Mission-critical, data intensive applications run more efficiently thanks to low latency due to close proximity to customer location
• No charge for transactions or moving data in and out
• SLA-driven, built for enterprise applications, not simply “best effort”
• Tier III+ host data center delivers substantial physical redundancy benefits

Financial differentiators vs. enterprise-operated premise-based (private) cloud

• Stack41 model is purely OPEX delivering accounting advantages
• No costs for hardware refresh, avoiding inability to meet IT objectives due to budget pressures
• No expensive maintenance contracts
• No hypervisor costs with our standard platform
• Current and future application flexibility due to not being “tied” to a particular vendor platform or architecture