Lunacloud
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| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Cloud computing provider Cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service Web hosting |
| Founded | November 21, 2011 Lisboa, PT |
| Founder | António Miguel Ferreira Charles Nasser |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | António Miguel Ferreira (CEO) |
| Products | Cloud Server, Cloud Storage and Cloud Jelastic |
| Services | E-commerce, Cloud computing |
Number of employees | 54 |
| Website | lunacloud various national sites |
Lunacloud was a cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service provider, based in Lisbon, Portugal.[1]
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. It provided 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 were favourably rated in TechWeekEurope[5] TechRepublic[6] and CloudSpectator [7] when compared to Rackspace and Amazon EC2.
Business model[]
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Lunacloud had three base products — Cloud Servers, Cloud Storage and Cloud Jelastic. Lunacloud helped design, build, and operate workloads across both environments depending on the individual needs of the customer.
Cloud Servers[]
Cloud Servers provided scalable virtual servers using Parallels and VMware. The clouds servers could be deployed by using the control panel or API.
Cloud Storage[]
The API was also compatible with the Amazon S3 API.
Cloud Jelastic[]
Cloud Jelastic (acronym for Java Elastic) was 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 were in Lisbon.
Customer service centers[]
Website[]
Lunacloud localized storefronts, which differ in selection and prices, were differentiated by top-level domain and country code:
| Region | Sovereignty | Domain name |
|---|---|---|
| Asia | ||
 China |
lunacloud.cn | |
| Europe | ||
 Portugal |
lunacloud.pt | |
 France |
lunacloud.fr | |
 Germany |
lunacloud.de | |
 Italy |
lunacloud.it | |
 Netherlands |
lunacloud.nl | |
 Spain |
lunacloud.es | |
 United Kingdom |
lunacloud.co.uk | |
 Russia |
lunacloud.ru | |
| North America | ||
 United States |
lunacloud.com |
See also[]
- Cloud computing
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Cloud storage
References[]
- ^ "About". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- ^ "Cloud Servers". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- ^ "Cloud Storage". Lunacloud. Archived from the original on 2015-04-25. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- ^ "Cloud Jelastic". Lunacloud. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- ^ Judge, Peter (2012-07-19). "How big is a piece of cloud". Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- ^ Rodrigues, Thoran (2012-08-07). "Side-by-side comparisons of IaaS service providers". Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- ^ "Lunacloud, Amazon EC2, and Rackspace Cloud Compared | Cloud Spectator". Cloud Spectator. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
- Cloud computing providers
- Companies based in Lisbon