Speed

It takes only 15 minutes for a researcher to prepare research program data, send it to LYGOS and tune a series of servers. If the task starts at 09:00 PM, it finishes in an hour (!)

With a direct expenditure that can even be provided from the petty cash account of any small company, an important task completed on time and thus the company can make an important decision…

Capacity

LYGOS deals with customers and processes in a broad scale with an unprecedentedly advanced automation level...

LYGOS provides secure scale economies to its users whether they are an individual, a private company or a public corporation.

LYGOS not only enables its users to benefit from innovator IT services, but also enables connecting to computers at a new kind of powerful data center with great resources via Internet (!) The charm in using such a powerful data center lies in the option to pay-per-use...

LYGOS is a power shift that will start an era of sources shared at a broader diameter, more equal access and servers powerful enough to comply with commands from users far away...

The defining element of LYGOS - the enormous Internet data center - is not its most prominent feature (!) On the contrary, it's just a building block. LYGOS is actually a group of competent team players working hard to empower itself, a strong methodology and a series of sustainable progresses that comes together with its customers (!) It is the talent to remotely activate the servers virtualized in this synergy via standard web services.

Lygos the City

Panaromic view of Byzantion [1]

LYGOS is aiming to shape the future with the solutions it will offer... like its namesake, the Eternal City that shaped the history of the world did! But where was this great city?

According to Roman historian Pliny the Elder, the city of Lygos was founded in 13th Century BC as a Thracian colony. It was a promissing city; it lied at the juncture of two seas, on some of the important trade routes of the Ancient world. However, like many others, it was destoryed by the Aegean Migrations and the Bronze Age Collapse swallowed this Thracian colony, too... In 600 years, a group of colonists under the leadership of Byzas of Megara, a city in the vincinity of Athens, sailed up to the Seraglio Point of Istanbul, where Lygos was once, and founded a city of their of own in its place in 657 BC under the name “Byzantion”.

According to legend, Byzas consulted the Oracle of Delphi before founding his city. The Oracle decreed that he should found it “opposite the blind”. Confused as he made no sense out of it until he reached to the shores of the Bosphorus, and saw the city of Chalcedon on the Asian side. Chalcedon (present Kadıköy) was located a few kilometers away from the superior location that was once Lygos, and suprised by it as they did not found their city on that spot. And therefore, he founded his city on the “opposite of the blind.”

Map of Constantinople [2]

As an Ancient Greek colony situated in the midway between coastal cities of the Black Sea and settlements throughout the Aegean and Greece, Byzantion flourished due to its position on some of the important trade routes of the Ancient World in a short time. The affects of the Persian Wars and campaigns of Alexander the Great were minimal; the city managed to remain indepedent from both great powers. However, Byzantion paid the price of siding with the loser in a struggle to be the ultimate ruler of Rome between Pescennius Niger and Septimius Severus in 196 AD. Although Pescennius was defeated and Byzantion was in ruins, the victorious Septimius Severus decided to rebuild it to its former glory. Not only he restored what has been destroyed, but he expanded the city and built numerous monuments such as the famous Hippodrome, which is now known as the Sultanahmet Square.

The city suffered extensive damage for the second time during a power struggle between Emperor Constantine I and his co-Emperor and rival Licinius. Constantine’s projects in Byzantion were not limited to restorations. Expanding and renaming it New Rome (Nea Roma, May 11, 330), he also decided to make it his Empire’s capital. That name, however, didn’t last long, and people began to call it Constantinople. The first Hagia Sophia Church (present structure is the third) was also built during his reign.

Süleymaniye Mosque, Ottoman Era, Istanbul [3]

The 1,000 years following the division of Rome and fall of the Western half of the Empire, Constantinople became one of the most populous and wealthy cities of the world. In the 7th Century, while Rome had a population of 30,000 and Paris was about 10,000, Constantinople was housing well over a million people. Until the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople on April 12, 1204, this vibrant city continued to thrive – though with ups and downs and some 40 unsuccessful sieges by many peoples. From the devastations of 1204 up to the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453, Constantinople remained as a shadow of its glorious past; nothing much more than a small town. With the Ottoman takeover, however, the city entered yet another golden age. Ottoman monuments erected, taking place in the city’s silhouette together with the Byzantine monuments. As a natural consequence of being an Imperial capital, Constantinople regained its former splendor.

As the Ottoman Empire came to end and the Republic was declared, Istanbul became a reflection of modern Turkey. Being the most cosmopolitan city of the Middle East and the Balkans and a very attractive financial center, Istanbul is now housing Lygos once again… a LYGOS that is aiming to shape the future!

Levent District, Istanbul [4]

[1] (http://www.arkeo3d.com/byzantium1200)
[2] (http://www.arkeo3d.com/byzantium1200)
[3] (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suleymaniye_Mosque)
[4] (http://www.worldturkey.com/gallery/data/media/71/levent010.jpg)

Why LYGOS?

Today’s business world, with the conditions dictated by the waves of change continues to make changes in their ways of doing business to be in accordance with the market dynamics. The structure of information techonologies change with the mega waves of development every decade, and thus changing the world, too.

“Cloud Computing” has already taken its place on stage as the new mega wave of the next decade.

Especially for the last five years, a wave of virtualization and consolidation is taking place in the institutional IT segment. We urge the ones who find this new wave very exciting to fasten their seat belt. Although cloud computing is heralded by virtualization, virtualization and consolidation promise much more. In the simplest definition, in "Cloud Computing", all kinds of services you want from an IT system like continious energy, bandwidth, application, data storage, backup, information processing, communication can be rented from the internet, allowing to pay-per-use. Also, all utilization of sources can be followed up and reported easily. There is no initial or investment cost; can be applied very fast and starts to create value rapidly.

The basic hypothesis of cloud computing is allowing process development of information technology activities using external sources, increase productivity and modernization of business activity to be more attractive, faster and cheaper. The outline of cloud computing architecture is a more flexible cost, a more flexible structure and a less complex system. Big or small, all establishments regardless of their scale can use the same software, same database, same infrastructure every hour of the day from anywhere, where there is internet access. Users that use the same solution on the cloud creates a broad user network and can communicate with each other.

Many developed nations make great progress with state projects in the cloud computing area. The calculations regarding the budget that needs to be allocated and profits that will be made out of it show that cloud computing will be the indispensable model for the future.

There is no doubt that this second wave of web - one of the most discussed subject of 2010 and will increasingly be that of 2011 - will require great and important changes in the current business processes.

While developing management systems, LYGOS is aiming not only take its part in this future, but also shaping the it with the solutions it will offer.

LYGOS is here just for that (!)

Cloud Computing...