We have designed the ZCloud Sandbox Virtual Appliance based on Albert Einstein's wisdom, "make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Every feature listed below is meant to make you more productive, to save you time, money, and even to have fun while working on your cloud software.
As soon as you have downloaded the ZCloud Sandbox, it takes only a few mouse clicks to set it up. A snap to run too.
No mess, no fuss. It already works with five popular virtualization platforms: Linux KVM, Xen, VMWare Server, VMWare Fusion, and Microsoft VirtualPC 2007 SP1. More to come soon.
From generating AWS S3 styled access credentials, managing users, configuring a ZCloud Sandbox instance, to retrieving transaction logs in real time, the localized Zettar ZManager Web based management UI makes it easy.
With the ZManager, the invisible ZCloud Sandbox server software becomes approachable.
From delightfully quick on a small netbook sporting a tiny VIA processor, to blazingly fast on a powerful business server with mutiple Intel Nehalem multi-core processors, ZCloud Sandbox's advanced architecture fully takes advantage of the available computing power efficiently.
The Ubuntu JeOS based appliance is self-updating, assuring you the latest and most secure base appliance. The ZCloud Sandbox software will also updates itself automatically with our latest software releases. With ZCloud Sandbox, just use and enjoy it.
ZCloud Sandbox sports the same AWS S3 styled end point that involves just a hostname, and an optional port number, making it trivial to use existing AWS S3 software, and your own.
ZCloud Sandbox implements AWS S3 REST API faithfully, even down to server response messages. As such, you can tap into the rich AWS S3 ecosystem right away.
During data transfer, either upload or download, each data object is checked using its checksum, just like AWS S3 does. This features offers additional data protection, on top of what a ZCloud Sandbox storage backend offers.
Nevertheless, the object-based storage format employed by ZCloud Sandbox makes such checking fast, and unobtrusive to users and applications alike.
AWS S3 provides you access logs in a proprietary format, and often with a long wait time necessitated by its eventual consistency characteristics.
In contrast, ZCloud Sandbox makes access logs available in real time, and in the standardized Common Log Format, for which there is a plenthora of log analyzer at your fingertips - graphing your logs should you wish.
ZCloud Sandbox fully supports the latest Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols.
Its documentation also provides clear and step by step instructions regarding how to adjust a ZCloud Sandbox client environment to use self-signed certificates too.
Prefer a different language for the Web UI? It's fully internationalized and comes with Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Dutch, English (US), German, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish localizations already. Additional localizations can be added anytime.