Exciting times at OrionVM - An Update
It has been a busy few weeks here at OrionVM HQ! As many of our customers would know, we have migrated our infrastructure to a new Data Centre, increased the amount of connectivity to our platform and released a new website. Things are moving at such a pace that we often forget to update everyone on our progress and the things to come going forward. I thought I would put together a quick post to outline what has been done and what is on its way.
Over the past few weeks there have been several changes at OrionVM that are a glimpse into what is to come.
- Larger Office - OrionVM HQ has been moved back into the heart of the Sydney CBD, on Bathurst Street next to Hyde Park. With the rate the company is growing, we have needed to hire more staff to keep up!
- New Staff - The OrionVM Team has grown, making it look like we should have rented a larger office. As we continue to grow the company, there will be many more staff that join the family. A big welcome to Scott, Mary and Mike. We are always looking for great staff, so feel free to ping us if you are interested. We are looking for awesome JS and Python developers :-).
- Private Cage in Equinix SY3 - We were quickly outgrowing our rack space in the Vocus DC and migrated all our infrastructure to the new Equinix Sydney3 facility. With our own private cage, we now have plenty of rack space to expand into, as well as increased transit connectivity.
- 20% Reduction in Bandwidth Prices - The data centre move gave us access to more transit and peering connectivity, allowing us to reduce our bandwidth prices by 20%. We will continue to try to reduce these rates over the next few months.
- New Website - We have pushed out our new and improved website which will make it far easier for clients to determine just how much an instance will cost.
- Ovm-ctl - Linux command line utilities released for the OrionVM CloudDC platform. This tool allows for the easy automation of infrastructure, and allows System Administrators to access the cloud from an environment they are used to. These can be found here: OrionVM Utilities
- 99.95% SLA - As part of the new website launch, OrionVM has also published our official SLA document. We back a 99.95% SLA on our Cloud Platform, giving you peace of mind. The SLA can be found here: Service Level Agreement
So what have the team here been busy with?? Without giving away too much, here is a brief list...
- Cloud Storage - The team have written the OrionVM equivalent of the popular Amazon S3 bulk object storage, we are awaiting the final hardware (raw disks + a few chassis boxes) before we release this into beta.
- Windows Support - The OrionVM CloudDC platform will soon support Windows templates once we have fully tested them. This will allow us to deliver our great Storage I/O performance to Windows servers. Let me just say that these Windows servers absolutely fly!!
- API Bindings - We are building API bindings for several of the popular languages to allow you to integrate with the platform with ease.
- Many More!
Well that is a quick update from all of us here at OrionVM HQ. If you have any feature requests or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us. There is also another big announcement on its way soon, so stay tuned!
