Shortlist for 2012 Cloud Computing World Series Awards announced
Organisers of the Cloud Computing World Series have announced the 27 technology providers shortlisted for the 3rd Annual Cloud Computing World Series Awards.
Now in its third year, the Cloud Computing World Series Awards – www.cloudcomputinglive.com/awards – has become a benchmark for excellence within the cloud industry, as the very best from the technology world aim to become one of the lucky winners announced on 12th June 2012, at the Cloud Computing World Forum (www.cloudwf.com).
In total, the awards feature nine categories, recognising companies from across the global cloud space. 2012 has been another record-breaking year for the competition, with over 250 cloud computing providers submitting entries for their products and services.
Online Auction Benefits from Online Tech’s High Availability Cloud Hosting
Ranger Data Technologies, a software developer offering solutions and online auctions for the newspaper industry, has recently switched to hosting their online auction website, boocoo, on Online Tech’s managed cloud. Online Tech’s managed cloud is built around a high availability private cloud architecture, redundancy is built-in with multiple hosts, SAN storage and network security.
Ranger Data’s boocoo auction website was experiencing prolonged downtime with their previous hosting provider. George Willard, Jr., Senior Vice President of Operations, knew it was imperative to find a more reliable solution. “When dealing with online auction websites and people selling their items, they are not going to do business with you if your site is experiencing downtime,” said Willard.
ScaleXtreme Announces Support for Linux/Windows Server on Windows Azure Public Cloud IaaS
ScaleXtreme, a leading provider of cloud and server management products, announced full support for Windows Azure Virtual Machines to launch, monitor, manage and patch Windows Server and Linux machines in Windows Azure. Windows Azure customers can sign up for free or paid accounts and instantly start managing their Windows Azure-based servers with ScaleXtreme.
“ScaleXtreme worked with Microsoft early on to ensure immediate interoperability for our customers,” said ScaleXtreme CEO Nand Mulchandani. “Microsoft’s entry into the IaaS business is going to have a big impact on the technology industry and will be an enormous windfall for public cloud users. We’re pleased to help customers begin benefiting immediately from Microsoft’s new Windows Azure virtual machine functionality.”
Cloud Computing Concepts (C3) and 4Voice Announce Strategic Alliance
Cloud Computing Concepts (C3) and 4Voice today announced they have entered into a Strategic Alliance that will allow each firm to market and sell the services of the other and, furthermore, to deliver them across a single managed network connection. Joint clients will be able to receive reliable, fault tolerant, and disaster resistant virtual desktops, servers, and voice services in a single package. To further enhance the experience and provide continuity for joint clients, the firms have agreed to integrate the help desk and support processes.
"We are absolutely thrilled to have 4Voice as a partner," said Rick Mancinelli, C3 Managing Partner. "Having worked with many Hosted Voice companies in the past, including the largest carriers, I have not yet encountered a team with the depth of technical knowledge that 4Voice has. They understand what it takes to deliver a quality IP voice product, and they deliver."…
Terremark and EMC Align To Globally Accelerate Customers Journey to Cloud Computing
Terremark, a Verizon Company, and EMC Corporation EMC +4.28% today announced a strategic initiative under which both companies will work to identify, build and offer tailored, cloud-based solutions built on Terremark’s global service capabilities and EMC’s best-of-breed, cloud-optimized information infrastructure technologies. Through this strategic initiative, EMC will provide the advanced technology infrastructure for Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud Private Edition offering as well as public and hybrid deployments. Helping drive innovation, the companies will expand the range of options for IT organizations seeking to improve business agility, gain greater efficiency, and control costs as they accelerate their journey to cloud computing…
Adaptive Computing Granted Fifteenth Cloud Computing Patent
Adaptive Computing, managers of the world’s largest private cloud and technical computing systems, today announced that it has been granted its fifteenth cloud computing patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Patent No. 8,179,490. This patent is the most recent in a long line of core cloud computing patents issued to David Jackson, Adaptive Computing’s CTO and founder.
The growing Adaptive Computing patent portfolio covers key cloud computing concepts such as elastic computing, cloudbursting, dynamic provisioning, multi-tenancy, compute resource guarantees, usage billing and more. These patented techniques have formed the basis of Adaptive’s products and are now widely used in the industry. Enterprises today are increasingly moving their computing workloads to public and private clouds, taking advantage of cloud computing’s lower costs and higher service levels. Adaptive Computing’s innovations have made these advantages possible…
Cloud Predicted To Become Primary Operating Model for Enterprise IT in 2014
Axway (nyse euronext:AXW.PA), the Business Interaction Networks company, today details the steps IT departments must take to ensure seamless cloud adoption. Cloud computing continues to gain acceptance within the enterprise segment and in turn, software vendors are working in order to meet the need. Specifically enterprise IT has addressed the challenges concerning security, integration with internal applications, and performance and reliability relating to the cloud. With the combination of maturing platforms, generational and cultural shifts, and compelling economics, cloud-based solutions become the undeniable choice for nearly all future non-core technology purchases. Once adopted, the cloud is inherently scalable and can be online within hours, designed specifically on the organizational needs.
From research and customer insights, Axway predicts that by 2014 the cloud will be the primary operating model for enterprise IT organizations, bringing unprecedented change to IT and competitive advantage to early adopters, ultimately redefining the role of enterprise IT itself…
NetApp Creates a Federation for the Channel in the Cloud
One of the more frustrating aspects of being a solution provider is the number of channel programs you have to participate in, even when there are two or more vendors that are selling something that they are mutually dependent upon to deliver. With the rise of cloud computing that’s becoming a whole lot more common because most cloud services generally have to integrate with something that is already running on premise.
NetApp has become one of the first vendors to recognize that with the launch today of a GetSuccessful Cloud Services Program that allows NetApp partners selling cloud services to offer those services for resale via the NetApp channel…
Public Cloud Computing: Which vendor is your best bet?
When people think of Cloud Computing, the service that most readily comes to mind is Infrastructure. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) refers to the infrastructure, storage and network services that are available from most cloud vendors.
IaaS is a completely separate offering and market from the other services provided by cloud vendors such as Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) or any of the many other XaaS offerings and is often confused with datacenter outsourcing or a hosting solution. And though vendors appear to offer very similar offerings, all cloud vendors are not created equally.
So, with so many vendors out there from Amazon to Virtacore Systems, how will you know which is the best for you?…
BitNami Brings One-Click App Deployment to Windows Azure
In conjunction with Microsoft Corp’s announcement of its new Virtual Machine Image Gallery for Windows Azure, BitNami has announced that it is making two of its popular open source application bundles available free of charge for Windows Azure. The BitNami application bundles, called stacks, allow developers to get their favorite web applications and development environments up and running on Windows Azure in minutes.
“We are excited to be working with BitNami to support their open source web applications and development frameworks on Windows Azure,” says Helene Love Snell, director of Marketing, Microsoft Server and Tools Business. “BitNami’s solution allows developers to get their favorite web applications up and running quickly and easily.”