Amazon and Google Still Need Server Rentals

We rent servers to businesses – which is a feat in and of itself. But lately, the sort of businesses we provide our products to has been varying more than usual. That’s because many Fortune 500s are shifting to virtualized environments.

As they choose to host their applications and processes remotely, its leaving less of a demand in the data center.

Which should, theoretically, mean less business for us.

But not really. Because now there are booming companies out there that specialize in offering these virtualized services. But cloud hosting is hardly server-less. In fact, he very latest, very greatest, most efficient servers. And of these server rentals, we have plenty.

Google is rumored to have over 900,000 servers, and we’re guessing that they’re not always operating without a hitch. In times of need, who will the big G call to replace its very expensive server? Hopefully, us – because we’re the largest international server rental company out there. We have the largest selection available, from the standard x86 configuration to the more expensive M5000 and M9000 models.

We carry it all – and we carry it internationally.

Which is why we weren’t too bummed out when Amazon announced the global rollout of its "virtual Private Cloud" (VPC) feature.

According to Adam Selipsky, the vice president of Amazon Web Services (AWS), this move will change everything for the business-class consumer. Selipsky said, "With today's launch of Amazon VPC worldwide, AWS Direct Connect and the new IAM federated identity capabilities, enterprises have even more flexibility and control over deploying their workloads to the cloud." He added, "These capabilities provide even more privacy, and along with AWS's existing cloud services allow enterprises to choose the environment that is best suited to each of their workloads."

Need a flexible, dynamic environment? Aside from the VPC service, Amazon will also be offering enterprise users a direct connection to its famed cloud services, in a bid to woo them despite latency fears. The company’s brand new "Direct Connect" feature will let users link up their own networks to Exquinix’ International Business Exchange data centers, which in turn hook up to AWS.

We don’t begrudge Amazon or Google their success. In fact, we applaud them. And hope they come to us for their disaster recovery or unexpected outage needs.