Hand Out Copies of Your Own Mini-Datacenter
CloudShare Pro is designed for individuals and small teams who want to run complete, networked systems in the cloud and share copies with other colleagues for collaboration. A smaller version of CloudShare Enterprise - which supports unlimited end-user invitations and VM parameters, advanced analytics and management hierarchies, and customized branding - CloudShare Pro provides a quick and easy way to create, share, manage and track multiple complete, virtual IT environments. (See how they compare.)
While in public Beta, CloudShare Pro is FREE (and by that we mean that it costs nothing, zero, nada – we only ask for your cooperation in improving it, and that you click a 'renew' button every 15 days so we know you're still interested). Only your name and email address are required to start using it.
CloudShare Pro also includes CloudShare FastUpload functionality. This patent-pending capability allows you to import a VMware virtual machine running in your local environment to your CloudShare environment, thus allowing you to work offline of CloudShare as necessary. FastUpload takes only minutes, instead of hours to days if uploading a full virtual machine to a hosting provider (or worse, physically shipping media).
Set up multi-VM environments in minutes (click screens to enlarge)
Each CloudShare Pro environment includes the following:
- Up to six VMs - Linux or Windows machines (licensing included)
- Flat network (each VM gets its own internal IP)
- Outbound access to the Internet
- Drag & drop file sharing from your desktop
- On-demand environment snapshots
- Private environments, accessible only to the author and invited peers
- Up to 10 monthly peer invites
- Invited peers can upgrade to become authors too, starting with the environment to which they were invited!
Support is provided -- more details here.
Click, Cloud, Share!
A CloudShare Pro environment is very easy to set up – you simply:
- Choose a name for your environment.
- Add virtual machines (which you can choose by clicking on icons from our list of VM templates).
- Run your environment. In a few seconds you have your own little datacenter in the cloud.
- Invite other people to use it with you!
What can I do with CloudShare Pro?
This part is entirely up to you. Whether you’re simply looking to save time in setting up multiple VMs with different operating systems, demoing a networked application or sharing an application with colleagues so they can test it – the sky’s the limit! (Sorry, the pun was inevitable.)
Currently available CloudShare Pro VM templates:
- CentOS 5 – bare, or with KDE, MySQL, or RubyOnRails pre-installed
- Windows 7
- Windows XP Professional - bare, or with Office 2010 or Office 2007 pre-installed
- Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition – bare, or with SQL Server 2008, CRM Dynamics, or Active Directory pre-installed
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition – bare, or with Oracle 11g or Microsoft Sharepoint pre-installed
Need more than CloudShare Pro?
Do you need unlimited end-user invitations and VM parameters, advanced analytics and management hierarchies, and customized branding? If so, try CloudShare Enterprise. See how they compare.
Questions?
Check out our FAQ page
and support page
to learn more and get answers to your questions.
