ZuniCore Overview – Who is ZuniCore?
ZuniCore is a cloud hosting company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, and is a subsidiary of PEER 1 Hosting. ZuniCore brands itself as the first cloud built for business by a team of consultants from the business community. In addition, they offers a host of benefits to business—from simple cost savings and IT efficiencies to the capacity for IT departments to develop their own APIs to interact with Zunicore in a way that makes sense for their particular organizations.
Zunicore’s cloud hosting services offer businesses a unique blend of tools and resources, while maintaining flexibility and control. The following list highlights unique features of ZuniCore’s cloud hosting service:
A) Physical GPU with true Utility Billing
B) Autoscaling & Autoscaling Load Balancers
C) PaaS availability
D) Self-Managed Firewall
E) FastFibre Network™
F) Persistent SAN Storage
G) Geographic Diversity
ZuniCore Cloud Resource Pools
What are they?- Cloud Resource Pools are computing resources, set aside in which one or more virtual server images can be created, configured, run and removed.
Why are they important? – Commercial websites typically need web servers, databases and other dedicated services. These are often installed on separate server images for reasons of security, scalability or performance. Cloud Resource Pools allow the user to create and configure such virtual images within a predefined Cloud Resource Pool.
Zunicore GM Greg Rusu at Cloud Expo Euro
Greg Rusu, a Colo & Cloud Industry Thought Leader recently spoke at the Cloud Expo Europe, here is the video of his presentation with the description “Watch GM Greg Rusu provide great insight into why Zunicore is the first cloud built for business.”
Hands-Free Autoscaling
Greg Rusu, General Manager of ZuniCore talks about ZuniCore’s hands-free autoscaling.
GUI, Technology Stacks
Robert Miggins, Senior VP Business Dev of Zunicore talks about ZuniCore’s GUI and Technology Stacks.
Persistent SAN by Default
Alessandro Douvis, Backup & SAN Manager of Zunicore talks about ZuniCore’s Persistent SAN by Default.
Cloud Resource Pools
Robert Miggins, Senior VP Business Dev of Zunicore talks about ZuniCore’s Cloud Resource Pools.
The Tough Questions:
Why did PEER 1 take so long to release a cloud product?
Is ZuniCore their first shot at Cloud Hosting, or is this their improved result of previous efforts?
ZuniCore claims that their product is the first cloud solution to be built by consultants from the business community, yet that seems quite vague.
Have they done a good job defining their target market?
ZuniCore Updates
In June 2012, ZuniCore’s Parent company PEER 1 announced that their new HPC Self Serve cloud will be
powered by the Zunicore Cloud Platform. HPC Self Serve is a hybrid cloud computing environment that allows users to combine virtual and physical servers in an on-demand fashion.
Greg Rusu, head of Zunicore and previously featured as an Industry Thought Leader on Colo & Cloud, recently stated that “With PEER 1 Hosting’s new HPC Self Serve Cloud, businesses will benefit from maximum performance on-demand, whenever they need it – while managing ever-tightening constraints on business resources and budgets.”
