Launchpad finalist Lunacloud offers strong IaaS localization in Europe and beyond
Summary
Assuming they haven’t been scared off the cloud entirely by the continuing NSA surveillance scandal, many customers are going local in hopes that their data won’t be improperly accessed. The company, which is one of the Launchpad finalists at our Structure:Europe conference this year, aims to ease potential customers’ minds by offering infrastructure across all the major European states. But, although its localization plans are partly a data protection matter – “We don’t operate in the U.S. so there is no Patriot Act with us” – they are also intended to cut down on latency. Regarding the all-important price comparison with Amazon(s amzn), Lunacloud claims to be “quite cheaper.” Tavares also pointed to Lunacloud’s choice of offerings as a differentiating factor – because the outfit bases its services on Parallels, it can offer both pure hypervisor-based virtual machines (VMs) and more popular container-based virtualization, which gives customers more granular access to hardware capabilities, from the same physical infrastructure. You’ll have to wait and see: the 10 finalists will be competing live at our Structure:Europe conference, which is running from 18-19 September in London.
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