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Flexiant today announced a partnership with CloudWork and Parallels to integrate Flexiant’s cloud orchestration software for on-demand, fully automated provisioning of cloud services with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, the market leading virtualization solution for hosting and cloud service providers. CloudWork, a Netherlands based provider of cloud solutions hardware and software, and existing partner of both Flexiant and Parallels, will perform the integration of Flexiant’s software into Parallels Virtuozzo Containers.

Customers require agile provisioning of cloud services from their suppliers to stay competitive while controlling costs. Flexiant solves this challenge for service providers by providing a unique cloud orchestration platform to immediately control, build and monitor cloud services. By extending their platform to include virtualization based on Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Flexiant will meet existing and future customer requirements for both capability and cost-effectiveness.

Ping Identity, the cloud identity security leader, today unveiled PingOne, the world’s first multiplexed identity switch in the Cloud. One connection to PingOne provides businesses the convenience of tier 1 Single Sign-On (SSO) access to all of their cloud applications and gives IT one place to centralise control and automate identity management. One connection to PingOne equips cloud application providers to offer tier 1 SSO to all of their customers. For security conscious businesses, tier 1 requires exclusively standards-based, federated SSO protocols such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID with zero tolerance for storing passwords or managing duplicate end-user accounts in the cloud.

PingOne is the only on-demand cloud identity management service to equip application providers as well as end users with complete tier 1 SSO and multiplexed (one-to-many) capabilities. With one connection, PingOne allows IT to securely manage access to all cloud applications in a central user directory, such as Microsoft Active Directory. This eliminates all but one secure set of employee credentials. Similarly, application providers can use one simple REST API process to enable secure, standards-based SSO in less than 30 minutes.

"Enterprises asked us for a better way to connect their workforce to the cloud," said Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity. "PingOne is the answer. It can be set up in hours and is completely self-service. The service doesn’t replicate Active Directory and it doesn’t store passwords. It’s 100 percent based on open standards, which is the most secure way to do identity in the cloud."

independenceIT (iIT), provider of the complete cloud workspace, today announced that GreenPages Technology Solutions, a national cloud, virtualization consulting and integration firm, has partnered with iIT to provide the company’s Total Freedom Workspace and Instant Freedom Workspace cloud solutions to its small and mid-sized business (SMB) customers.

The solutions will be made available as part of GreenPages’ Virtualization & Cloud Computing and Managed Services offerings. iIT’s cloud computing solutions will give GreenPages’ customers the ability to quickly and easily access all of their business applications and data in the cloud, from any device, at any time.

“independenceIT brings unique capabilities to the table,” said Michael Halperin, VP of Managed Services for GreenPages. “We are proud of our heritage of strength in virtualization and we see iIT’s services as a great add to our portfolio. We are excited to be bringing this capability to our customers.”

Gale Technologies, a leading provider of innovative software solutions that power IT as a Service for the lab, data center, and cloud, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of technology and intellectual property (IP) from Virtiv Corporation, to accelerate the development of easy to use automation solutions for virtualized environments. Customers of Gale Technologies will benefit from being able to have centralized command and control for automated provisioning of virtual environments including vSphere, Hyper-V, Xen and KVM. Gale Technologies previously appointed Virtiv co-founder James Thomason as Chief Technology Officer in 2011. A 16-year technology executive specializing in early-stage start-ups, Thomason is driving the company’s vision in developing the latest cloud computing technologies. The most recent example of Thomason’s vision can be seen at http://www.CloudScheduler.com.

ServiceMesh, provider of the market-leading enterprise cloud platform for Global 2000 companies, today announced the availability of the Agility Platform version 7.4, with new features to help enterprises transform their costly and constrained IT services delivery approach into an application-centric, agile IT operating model that quickly aligns to business needs. The ServiceMesh Agility Platform is the only enterprise-grade solution on the market that accelerates this transformation by managing the lifecycle of cloud applications independent of the underlying infrastructure while maintaining compliance, security and governance through flexible policy definition and enforcement. The result is a significant reduction in the cost, complexity, and time to market for application solution delivery.

Global 2000 customers are seeking ways to extend the benefits of cloud computing to more business-critical applications and data, but these organizations require stringent control over service-level performance, reliability, and governance. Agility Platform 7.4 satisfies these needs with new capabilities that include advanced disaster recovery, failover, and high-availability features for cloud applications and services. In addition, new policy-driven security and configuration management capabilities make it easier to enforce standardization and compliance requirements, while expanded support for VMware vCloud Director enables the Agility Platform to extend its governance and lifecycle management capabilities to all vCloud Director deployments.