{"id":3560,"date":"2012-09-11T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2356817"},"modified":"2012-09-11T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:15:00","slug":"profitbricks-live-virtual-scaling-by-the-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/profitbricks-live-virtual-scaling-by-the-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"ProfitBricks: Live Virtual Scaling by the Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A two-and-a-half-year-old Berlin-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) start-up you never heard of called ProfitBricks thinks it can take on Amazon Web Services and win.<br \/>\nBy its lights the likes of Amazon, Rackspace, Savvis and GoGrid are all first-generation and it\u2019s not.<br \/>\nIt claims to have completely re-engineered cloud computing and went GA with its widgetry in the US on Monday. The stuff\u2019s reportedly been running in Europe for six months and has amassed 70,000 servers.<br \/>\nIt says it\u2019s first to offer live vertical scaling of CPU cores and RAM without forcing the user to reboot the server.<br \/>\nNobody has been able to add resources to an instance (a virtual machine) without taking the server down before, it says. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2356817\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-and-a-half-year-old Berlin-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) start-up you never heard of called ProfitBricks thinks it can take on Amazon Web Services and win.<br \/>\nBy its lights the likes of Amazon, Rackspace, Savvis and GoGrid are all first-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}