OX Summit partner and German startup ProfitBricks was founded in 2010 by Achim Weiss and Andreas Gauger, industry veterans who built 1&1 Internet into one of the world’s top Web and application services providers. It was 1&1 Internet CEO Andreas Gauger who saw already in 2006 that Microsoft – driven by Google – will most likely not be an ideal partner for hosters in the long run as they will most likely beome a SaaS provider themselves. And therefore he and 1&1 Internet supported the rise of Open-Xchange, a software vendor that is dedicated to develop software for the service provider industry. The recent moves of Microsoft with Office 365 has proved Achim Gauger right.
Coming back to ProfitBricks: The venture was designed to take advantage of the IaaS model propagated so successfully by Amazon Web Services. ProfitBricks is built on InfiniBand, Dell blade servers running AMD cores and a custom KVM-based hypervisor and management platform that the company says is 100% original intellectual property. The user interface is graphical and holistic, allowing users to create datacenter containers and manipulate network addressing and virtual machines in a simple fashion. Initially, the firm traded on high performance, positioning itself particularly against AWS, which suffers from relatively slow machine-to-machine transit capabilities and virtual machines in fixed capacities. ProfitBricks solved this with variable configurations and high-capacity internal networking. Now the company has set its sights on price, cutting its base costs for IaaS to $0.025/hour for a single core. By contrast, AWS charges $0.060/hour for its standard instance, the m1.small.
Like Open-Xchange, ProfitBricks is challenging the established players with technical innovation and business agility. So it´s a pleasure to announce that ProfitBricks just signed their partnership to join us at Open-Xchange Summit in Hamburg, September 26.
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