Verizon Cloud announced; beta sign-up opens

Verizon today announced Verizon Cloud, its new cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform and cloud-based object storage service. The public beta for Verizon Cloud will launch in the fourth quarter of this year.

Verizon Cloud has two main components: Verizon Cloud Compute and Verizon Cloud Storage. Verizon Cloud Compute is the IaaS platform. Verizon Cloud Storage is an object-based storage service.

Verizon Cloud Compute

With Verizon Cloud Compute, users can determine and set virtual machine and network performance and can configure storage performance and attach storage to multiple virtual machines.

Verizon Cloud Storage

Verizon Cloud Storage is an object-addressable, multitenant storage platform providing storage accessible from anywhere on the Web.

Companies interested in using either Verizon Cloud Compute or Verizon Cloud Storage can sign-up to be a beta customer through the Verizon Enterprise Solutions website.