How Netmagic compares with Industry Benchmarks
It wouldn't be fair to ask you to come on-board without giving you a fair comparison with our competitors. So here you go:
DETAILS
Netmagic
SimpliCloud
SimpliCloud
Amazon (EC2)
Rackspace
Tata
(InstaCompute)
(InstaCompute)
HOSTING LANDSCAPE
Vmware Hypervisor Technology
Cloud Servers (IaaS)
Dedicated Servers
Hybrid (Cloud + Dedicated)
SLA & SUPPORT
SLA
99.95% (monthly)
99.999% (YEARLY)
99.95% (yearly)
99.95% (monthly)
Committed TTR
As per our SLA
1 hr
Not specified
Not specified
Credits
As per our SLA
5% of the fees for each 30 minutes of network or data center downtime, max 100%
10% of bill per eligible credit period
As per SLA
24/7 Support
24/7 Helpdesk, but no InfraManage included by default
(Forums, Online Resources, live Helpdesk), for $400/month
(Forums, Online Resources, Helpdesk), included for Free
24/7 Helpdesk, Phone, Email
24/7 Phone Support
Email
Email
Chat
(see comment)
PLANS & ASSOCIATED FEATURES
Hypervisor
Vmware
Xen
Xen
Xen
Fixed instances
Elastic Instances
CPU
Xeon Westmere 2.66 GHz per VCPU
Max 1.0GHz Xeon (2007 model) per 'compute unit', this is the equivalent of 600MHz today
Min 1.0GHz, but free scaling if capacity available
Nehalem processors
No. of CPUs
1, 2, or 4, based on plan
1 / 4 / 8
1 / 2/ 4 / 8
1 / 2/ 4 / 8
CPU-scaling
RAM
DISK
Committed
Committed
Committed
Committed
Vertical Scaling
Horizontal Auto-scaling
Persistent Storage (default)
Persistent Storage Fault Tolerance
RAID-6
No default Persistence
RAID-10
Not specified
Cost of Storage
Included
$0.15 / GB / month
Included
Included
On-demand Storage
(S3)
(Cloudfiles)
Bundled Data Transfer
Zero bundled data transfer
Server Image Management
(optional)
(optional)
IP addresses
Persistent Public + Private
Persistent Public, Transient Private
Persistent Public + Private
Persistent Public + Private
MANAGED SERVICES
Load Balancing
24/7 Support (InfraManage)
(available as option)
No, per incident only
(Cloud sites)
Optional
CDN
Coming Soon
Advanced Monitoring
(available as option)
(Optional)
(Optional)
Optional
OS InfraManage
(available as option)
(Cloud sites)
Optional
DB InfraManage
(available as option)
SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
Hardware VLAN Segmentation
Cloud Firewall Options
(available as option)
VPN Options
IDS Options
Optional
OS & DB OPTIONS
CentOS
RHEL
Suze
Windows 2003
Beta
Windows 2008
Beta
Oracle
Compatible
?
?
MySQL
Microsoft SQL
Beta
APPS, APIs, & OTHER ENHANCEMENTS
Robust API platform
Server / App Templates









