Cloud Computing on Ulitzer

CHICAGO, IL and LONDON -- (Marketwire) -- 01/22/09 -- CohesiveFT (http://www.cohesiveft.com), the leader in automated software assembly, today announced it has partnered with ElasticHosts Ltd. (http://www.elastichosts.com), the second European cloud infrastructure and the world's first public cloud based upon KVM (the native Linux virtualization platform). As a result, users are now able to deploy virtual servers to ElasticHosts' cloud infrastructure via CohesiveFT's Elastic Server on-demand service. Elastic Server is an automated "factory" that allows IT professionals to assemble, deploy, and manage virtual servers using a simple point-and-click interface. Beginning today, customers can assemble custom Enterprise-class servers for deployment to ElasticHosts' European cloud computing infrastructure. Free trials are available for both ElasticHosts cloud infrastructure and CohesiveFT's Elastic Server factory, allowing customers to test drive the joint solution.

"Installing and configuring software components and operating systems on virtual servers from scratch is extremely time consuming and expensive," said Richard Davies, Founder and CEO of ElasticHosts. "CohesiveFT's Elastic Server automates this process, allowing our users to concentrate on the benefits of our highly scalable, flexible, and cost effective KVM-based UK cloud. The combination of ElasticHosts and Elastic Server is a fast track to realizing returns from cloud computing -- ElasticHosts customers can immediately deploy well over five thousand custom server images."

"Configuring a server has always been time-consuming and complex," said Sujay Jayaram, CEO of WeddingPath. "We have been a satisfied customer of the ElasticHosts team for years and are very excited by the scalability, flexibility and ease of use that the ElasticHosts cloud offers. CohesiveFT's Elastic Server Factory can get us up and running on this platform quickly."

The Elastic Server platform is a complement to virtualization and cloud offerings. Users assemble custom servers by choosing from a library of popular components. Once assembled, these custom application stacks can be configured to a variety of virtualization and cloud-ready formats, downloaded and deployed in real-time. There are over two thousand users of the service who have assembled more than five thousand Elastic Server images for public and private use. The addition of ElasticHosts highlights CohesiveFT's platform momentum following recently introduced support for Virtual Iron, Amazon EC2 in Europe, and the Ubuntu operating system.

"We are very excited to add the ElasticHosts cloud deployment option to our on-demand service," said Patrick Kerpan, CTO at CohesiveFT. "Users can now deploy their custom, dynamically assembled Elastic Servers to multiple clouds in multiple geographic regions setting the foundation for initiatives requiring cloud failover and cross-cloud security."

Custom virtual servers for the ElasticHosts cloud are available now via Elastic Server (http://elasticserver.com).

About ElasticHosts - Flexible Servers in the Cloud

ElasticHosts is the second European cloud infrastructure provider and the world's first public cloud based upon KVM, the native Linux virtualization platform. For more information, visit www.elastichosts.com.

About CohesiveFT

CohesiveFT is a leader providing customer capabilities for cloud and virtual infrastructure and was listed among InformationWeek's "top cloud computing startups you should know." For more information, visit www.cohesiveft.com.

About WeddingPath

WeddingPath is a UK based community for brides and grooms planning their weddings. For more information, visit www.weddingpath.co.uk.

Elastic Server is a registered trademark of CohesiveFT. ElasticHosts is a trademark of ElasticHosts Ltd. WeddingPath is a trademark of Singlebass Ltd. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.