vps247.com Launches Free iPhone App

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Posted by James[UH], 09-02-2010, 04:47 AM
Free iPhone application, control VMs whilst out and about

Manchester, 02 September 2010: vps247.com have, in record breaking time, designed, built and released their version 1.0 iPhone application.

The free app, allows clients control over their running VMs. Functions such as stop, start and restart are available. A major feature is also mrtg bandwidth graphing, you can view daily, weekly, monthly and yearly traffic usage of your account.

"It is a major milestone for us to launch version 1.0 of our iPhone application. The app was put together in a very short period of time, thanks to our highly skilled in-house development team." said James Smith, director of parent company M247 Ltd. "We're constantly pushing the boundaries and version 2.0 will feature enhancements, including allowing VM creation from the app itself".

vps247.com are also pushing ahead with an Android application and hope to have a beta available later this year.

Infrastructure behind the cloud
vps247.com, a division of M247 Ltd, services are hosted in the Manchester (UK) based IceColo colocation facility, with a total of 20Gbps of connectivity in to the facility. IceColo features an innovative eco cooling solution, resulting in unrivalled power efficiency.

The nodes are highly specified machines, with all running 48GB memory and 16 CPU cores. There is an iSCSI storage backend, utilising replication and SAN failover for maximum protection. Testing has shown a two second interruption during SAN failover, after which running Virtual Machines continue operation

About M247 Ltd
M247 are one of Europe"s leading web content delivery and Internet infrastructure providers, powering some of the world's busiest websites. M247 operates the state-of-the-art GlobalAXS Communications 10G network spanning London, Manchester, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Brussels and the premium IceColo colocation facility in Manchester. Speak to us today about how we can help your business with MPLS, IP transit, VPS Cloud hosting and data centre space.