The Stratosphere Elastic Cloud Computing Platform managed by global service provider Datapipe has become the world’s first Apache CloudStack platform available on a global basis, according to the company.

Datapipe said its new cloud service is aimed at high I/O environments, large-scale marketing companies, situational computing and dynamic workloads, applications with variable peak demand times such as gaming and finance and cloud disaster recovery.

Datapipe has used the Citrix CloudPlatform to allow its 10GbE cloud offering available in Silicon Valley, the New York Metro area, Northern Virginia, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

By basing its services on Apache CloudStack, Citrix VP of product marketing Peder Ulander said Datapipe’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud allows for compatibility with Amazon Web Services while still meeting the needs for storage and security required by enterprise users.

“Datapipe’s vision of providing high-performance, elastic cloud services that meet the needs of the global enterprise – while embracing Amazon AWS compatibility and open source innovation – is well aligned with our cloud efforts at Citrix.”

“With the multiple availability zones distributed across North America, Europe and Asia, Datapipe’s Stratosphere platform is the most widely deployed Apache CloudStack environment on the market.”

Datapipe VP of Cloud strategy Ed Laczynski said the new platform removes some of the confusion that can be associated with operating cloud platforms.

It has also made the cloud billing process easier by including managed services in the base price, with up to the minute reporting so customers can budget for their cloud-based services.

Stratosphere features security and compliance features and provides scaled storage, a single security zone across all regions, paused VMs which can be used to maintain machine state without compute charges and can provide access to the Hong Kong Economic Zone and access to Shanghai on Mainland China.