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How Swiss Import CloudSigma Plans to Compete in US IaaS

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18 pointscloudsigma13 comments

cloudsigma stand out only by their rampant self promotion.

They're just using some off-the-shelf iaas software. there are a few platforms using it and they all have the same features.

Welcome to Hacker News, I see this is your first ever contribution.

In terms of what you say, we actually have many unique features and could no way be described as 'off-the-shelf'. We are continuing to innovate and will be launching future first-to-market features in the coming months.

Their background is Cambridge University, And yes, financial, manufacturing, real estate and software world

Kindly explain Why do you say this platform has the same features with off the shelf features? Do other systems have the same ease of use? Do they do billing every 5 minutes (versus AWS 1 hour and Joyent 1 day?). Is the billing predictable, so one can have a budget? Etc.

Unfortunately, it looks like the other half of their strategy is astroturfing HN.

I think this comment is a little harsh. I'm a genuine cloud user interested in new offerings such as this one.

4 points for inventing the word "astroturfing"? Are you a professional ? Or a heckler?

I met these guys in Zurich and my impression was that they genuinely know what they are doing. If I remember correctly I remember their background is IT infrastructure for the financial world.

"Clean" no-non-sense IaaS is as easy to use equally by high-school teenagers and large enterprise architects. Many seek alternatives to Amazon Web Services.

“Its SLA is impressive, too, at a 100-percent uptime guarantee with 50x compensation for downtime in certain situations.”

100% uptime? We’ll see…

The service is impressively good. Support is fast and interested in what you need. The bandwidth is incredible and cheap as hell! Processing power seems great (even on lower speeds) The features keep coming and KVM/Qemu rules the virtualization world! ;)

Hey, sorry for that, I'm just a happy user/fan

Agree with this article. AWS et al are serving a sub-set of the potential market. There are loads of developers such as myself that are crying out to have more control and flexibility in the cloud without a lot of the artificial vendor constraints imposed currently.

Just discovered these guys. Nice interface actually. Investigating a bit more but so far so good.

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