eApps Hosting, a provider of cloud management services for businesses and organizations, recently revealed that its Virtual Machine in the Cloud Service will now be available in a new data center in Richmond, Va.

The company’s Virtual Machine in the Cloud service runs on a true cloud platform powered by the OnApp cloud management software platform. This new release will enable customers to deploy their virtual machines in both the Atlanta, Ga. and the Richmond, Virginia data centers, which are owned and operated by Quality Technology Services (News - Alert), Inc., the third largest data center operator in the United States.

The Richmond facility occupies 1.3 million square feet of space in four distinct data center buildings, with about 183,000 square feet of raised floor being operational.

By selecting the QTS (News - Alert) Richmond data center as a location for its cloud services, eApps will now be able to offer disaster recovery services for customers with mission critical sites by storing synchronized replicas of cloud-based virtual machines in the second data center. Additionally, this solution powers economical high availability hosting services across physical cloud zones and is working on offering HA hosting services that span geographical data center locations for maximum up-time.

The eApps Virtual Machine in the Cloud service helps customers quickly deploy and provision a 32 or 64 bit Xen based Virtual Machine server running Linux or the Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition operating system. They can also have full access rights and the ability to immediately adjust computing resources to meet changes in demand.

In related news, eApps Hosting has introduced the CentOS 6 Linux Operating System templates for its virtual machine in the cloud hosting service.