Lunacloud

Lunacloud is a cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service provider, based in Lisbon.[1]

Lunacloud
TypePublic
IndustryCloud computing provider
Cloud computing
Infrastructure as a Service
Web hosting
FoundedNovember 21, 2011 (2011-11-21)
Lisboa, PT
FounderAntónio Miguel Ferreira
Charles Nasser
Headquarters
Lisbon
,
Portugal
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
António Miguel Ferreira
(CEO)
ProductsCloud Server, Cloud Storage and Cloud Jelastic
ServicesE-commerce, Cloud computing
Number of employees
54
Websitelunacloud.com (original UK. site)
various national sites

History

Lunacloud was founded in 2011 by António Miguel Ferreira and Charles Nasser and launched its services to the general public on June 1, 2012 (2012-06-01). It provides cloud computing infrastructure as a service, such as cloud servers [2] and cloud storage,[3] and Cloud Jelastic hosting.[4]

Reception

The performance and cost of Lunacloud's offerings have been favourably rated in TechWeekEurope[5] TechRepublic[6] and CloudSpectator [7] when compared to Rackspace and Amazon EC2.

Business model

Lunacloud has three base products — Cloud Servers, Cloud Storage and Cloud Jelastic. Lunacloud helps design, build, and operate workloads across both environments depending on the individual needs of the customer.

Cloud Servers

Cloud Servers provides scalable virtual servers using Parallels and VMware . The clouds servers can be deployed by using the control panel or API.

Cloud Storage

The API is also compatible with the Amazon S3 API.

Cloud Jelastic

Cloud Jelastic (acronym for Java Elastic) is an unlimited PaaS and Container based IaaS within a single platform that provides high availability of applications, automatic vertical and horizontal scaling via containerization to software development clients, enterprise businesses, DevOps, System Admins, Developers

Locations

Headquarters

Lunacloud headquarters are in Lisbon.

Customer service centers

Website

Lunacloud localized storefronts, which differ in selection and prices, are differentiated by top-level domain and country code:

RegionSovereigntyDomain name
Asia
 Chinalunacloud.cn
Europe
 Portugallunacloud.pt
 Francelunacloud.fr
 Germanylunacloud.de
 Italylunacloud.it
 Netherlandslunacloud.nl
 Spainlunacloud.es
 United Kingdomlunacloud.co.uk
 Russialunacloud.ru
North America
 United Stateslunacloud.com

See also

References
  1. "About". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
  2. "Cloud Servers". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
  3. "Cloud Storage". Lunacloud. Archived from the original on 2015-04-25. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
  4. "Cloud Jelastic". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
  5. Judge, Peter (2012-07-19). "How big is a piece of cloud". Retrieved 2012-08-29.
  6. Rodrigues, Thoran (2012-08-07). "Side-by-side comparisons of IaaS service providers". Retrieved 2012-08-29.
  7. "Lunacloud, Amazon EC2, and Rackspace Cloud Compared | Cloud Spectator". Cloud Spectator. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
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