DynamicOps, pioneer of the Operations Virtualization(TM) platform that enables unified cloud automation and management, announced today that it has joined the Intel Cloud Builders Program, which publishes best practices, blueprints and software architectures on how to deploy cloud infrastructures. The DynamicOps-Intel Reference Architecture, published as part of the program, demonstrates how to build private and hybrid cloud solutions using the DynamicOps Cloud Suite and Dell servers powered by Intel Xeon 5600 processors.

"IT consumers are demanding self-service access to resources with delivery measured in minutes, not days, while their IT organizations are increasingly looking to cloud automation solutions to help them respond to these accelerated demands. By joining the Intel Cloud Builders program and publishing our reference architecture, we’re giving enterprise IT organizations the information they need to rapidly configure and deploy business-relevant private clouds that leverage their existing IT investments, processes and skill sets," said Rich Bourdeau, VP Marketing, DynamicOps.

Yippy, Inc. (otcqx:YIPI) ( www.yippy.com ) ("Yippy" or the "Company"), a unified search company known for its clustering technology, reported that the Company entered into an agreement to merge with MuseGlobal, a leading provider of content integration and data virtualization services.

The merger of Yippy and MuseGlobal combines two wholly synergistic companies that bring together an exclusive and vast range of resources and abilities that no other search or information-based company in the world possesses including majors such as Google, Microsoft and HP/Autonomy. The combined companies will create an information cloud that will represent a significant shift in the business of enterprise, vertical and consumer search with unlimited consumer and commercial uses. The Companies’ registered trademark "Welcome to the Cloud" embodies its combined data virtualization initiatives.

Yippy.com (formally www.clusty.com ) is an award-winning deep research engine developed out of Carnegie Mellon University. The programs were acquired by Yippy in May 2010 from Vivisimo, Inc., an industry leading Enterprise Search company that was recently acquired (May 2012) by International Business Machines (IBM). In conjunction with the purchase of the search engine software, Yippy acquired from Vivisimo/IBM a transferable, unlimited lifetime perpetual license for the software known as Velocity for web-based search applications. Velocity is the most advanced enterprise software solution with patented clustering methods that are the keys to the future of enterprise and consumer search. IBM currently holds a 10% stake in Yippy, Inc.

eApps Hosting announced a new Affiliate program for third parties that want to earn on-going commissions for referrals to the eApps Cloud Hosting services. The new program retains the favorable recurring commission terms, which pays 10% for all purchases and renewals made by a referred customer, for as long as that customer remains with eApps. A major new feature of the program is the assignment of a named Affiliate Account Manager. The Account Manager is a personal concierge, ready and willing to assist the Affiliate in any way with all aspects of the program and to ensure that the Affiliate receives personalized sales support. The new program also includes improved banners and logos and other sales collateral to help the Affiliate attract and inform potential referrals.

Affiliates will have a personal relationship with their Account Manager, who’s responsibilities include the following:

Besol, the leading provider of next generation multi-cloud management platforms for private and public clouds, today announced that the world’s leading IT analyst firm, Gartner Inc., has selected the company as a Cool Vendor in Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage Enablers, 2012” report published on 12 April 2012 by Tiffani Bova, Daryl C. Plummer, et al.

According to the Gartner report Key Findings, “The cloud services brokerage (CSB) is emerging, and first-mover advantage will be key to gaining awareness and share. CSBs are challenged to continuously build or buy the capabilities required to compete in the three CSB roles: aggregation, integration and customization”

“Feedback has already been overwhelmingly positive,” said Peter Berg, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “Our customers are not only leveraging our powerful underlying infrastructure to deliver the fast and reliable cloud service they require, they’re hearing performance accolades from their own customers ever since moving to our platform.”

iWave Software, a provider of storage and cloud automation solutions, today announced Storage Automator support for Dell Compellent storage arrays, allowing enterprise IT organizations and service providers to deliver Storage as a Service and to automate end-to-end storage provisioning. The product will be demonstrated at the at Dell Storage Forum 2012 at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Mass. on June 11-13, 2012. Conference attendees are invited to stop by the iWave booth for a hands-on opportunity to provision Compellent arrays using the Storage as a Service delivery approach.

"Automation is now a requirement for organizations to process the exponential number of service requests flooding the storage team," said Ron Smith, vice president of sales and marketing of iWave Software. "Storage Automator allows end users to provision their own storage, through a service portal, thereby lowering storage operating costs, enabling administrators to scale and improving end user satisfaction."

iWave Storage Automator provides IT departments with out-of-the-box automation for the administration of enterprise storage and private cloud environments. iWave Storage Automator offers organizations: