FailProof Technology Now Distributes Hexagrid Cloud Computing Platform to VARs and MSPs
Hexagrid, a leading developer of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing solutions, announces a collaborative partnership with FailProof Technology, a full-service provider of cloud solutions to VARs and MSPs. As a Value Added Distributor of Hexagrid cloud computing solutions, FailProof Technology developed a full-service program that offers solution providers the infrastructure, solutions, and business development support necessary for a successful transition to cloud computing.
"Hexagrid is delighted to support FailProof Technology as a Value-Added Distributor of our Infrastructure as a Service platform," says Suresh Mandava, CEO of Hexagrid Computing. "For any VAR or MSP trying to get into the cloud business, FailProof Technology has done all the leg work to vet cloud alternatives and package a best-of-breed cloud solution with a comprehensive training and support program to accelerate their clients’ success as cloud-enabled VARs and MSPs. FailProof Technology’s unique business model supports channel adoption of cloud by equipping VARs and MSPs with all the tools they need to successfully consult, deliver, and support the cloud computing needs of their individual markets.”…
Broadview Networks Receives 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award
Broadview Networks, a leading provider of hosted voice, data and cloud computing solutions, announced today that TMC, the global media company, has named Broadview’s Cloud Backup and Recovery and Hosted Servers as a 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award winner. The award was presented by TMC’s Cloud Computing Magazine.
Broadview offers a range of cloud-based services combined with a consultative approach to help companies of all sizes match their communications and IT needs with flexible phone systems, hosted servers, data backup for desktops and servers, hosted business applications including Microsoft Office(R), hosted business email including Microsoft Exchange(R) and Outlook(R) and next-generation services such as virtual desktops…
Cloudyn White Paper Defines Real Cloud Economics and Addresses the Trend of Overprovisioning
Today, Cloudyn published a new whitepaper that outlines how organizations can maximize their cloud investment and dynamically optimize the balance between operational and financial objectives of using the cloud. In the whitepaper, Cloudyn defines cloud economics and perfect-provisioning and offers companies a checklist for cloud cost efficiency.
“The Great Hope of Cloud Economics and the Over-provisioning Epidemic” whitepaper examines how cloud resource deployments can’t always be characterized or allocated using simple models – and the complexity of cloud pricing and provisioning is quickly moving beyond human capacity to comprehend, much less act upon. Addressed in the paper is how companies need highly intelligent tools which can not only iteratively learn resource usage patterns, but can provide actionable recommendations for how to optimize cloud deployment by rightsizing and choosing the most economical pricing plans.
CallidusCloud Expands Patent Portfolio, Acquires Two New Patents
Callidus Software Inc., the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that it has acquired two new deep domain patents that cover technologies and processes critical to the CallidusCloud(TM) space.
"Innovation continues at CallidusCloud with the rapid expansion of our patent portfolio. With these two newly acquired patents, CallidusCloud now has more than 22 patents either issued, pending, provisionally filed, or in process…
Adaptive Computing Offers End-to-End Integrated Intelligent Cloud Management with Moab Cloud Suite 7.0
Adaptive Computing (www.adaptivecomputing.com), managers of the world’s largest supercomputing systems and experts in Cloud management solutions (www.adaptivecomputing.com/products/cloud-products/moab-cloud-suite/), today announced the availability of Moab Cloud Suite 7.0 (www.adaptivecomputing.com/products/cloud-products/moab-cloud-suite/whats-new/), its end-to-end integrated intelligent cloud management platform, bringing touchless optimization to private clouds.
Expanding on previous versions of the Moab intelligence engine, Moab Cloud Suite 7.0 adds true end-to-end cloud management. IT buyers can now purchase, from a single source, the tools they need to automate and optimize their private clouds. In addition to its core intelligence engine, Moab Cloud Suite now includes integrated server provisioning, a configuration management database, real-time monitoring tools, and a new REST-based integration framework. This release also brings an enhanced service catalog, new cloud service lifecycle reporting, and an improved self-service portal…
Oni Launches New Cloud Services for Enterprises Using CA Technologies Cloud Platform
The Portuguese Telecom and IT group Will Reduce Time to Market for New Services With the CA AppLogic® Platform
CA Technologies today announced that Oni, the Portuguese telecom and IT group, has signed an agreement to use the CA AppLogic® cloud computing platform to deliver the benefits of cloud-based services to the enterprise market in Portugal…
Cloud and Bandwidth Demands Challenge IT Teams
Network Instruments, a worldwide leader in network and application performance monitoring, released its Fifth Annual State of the Network Global Study today. The results suggest a potential management storm as IT teams face significant monitoring challenges from multiple forms of cloud computing, as well as substantially increased bandwidth demands.
Study Highlights
Moving apps to the cloud: 60% anticipate half of their apps will run in the cloud within 12 months
Video is mainstream: 70% will implement video conferencing within a year…
The Cloud Computing Paradigm Shift Is Bigger Than IT
Information technology leaders in the U.S. government have been promoting cloud technologies for more than a year. In December 2010, the federal chief information officer launched an IT reform plan that required agencies to start adopting cloud technologies. At the time, some agencies had already implemented cloud solutions, and since then many others have initiated cloud programs.
It’s still early days in the federal cloud revolution, and a key challenge in adopting the technology involves federal contracting procedures…
Public sector feeling cloud concern
Many companies in Europe are yet to adopt cloud computing because of reliability and safety issues, according to analyst firm Frost & Sullivan. “The relative newness and underdevelopment of the cloud computing market is the primary reason that public sector organisations delay adoption,” says Frost & Sullivan research analyst, Jayashree Rajagopal. “Several high-profile service outages in 2011 – such as serious technical difficulties that struck Amazon Web Services and affected a public cloud that serves thousands of businesses – resulted in more reliability questions.”
With organisations worrying that a datacentre problem could result in hacking or the loss of citizens’ sensitive personal information, the research firm says organisations are considering two options: private clouds that would either be managed internally or by a third-party and hosted internally or externally; and hybrid clouds, in which the organisation provides and manages some resources in-house and has others provided externally…
Cloud Computing: Microsoft Adopts CarbonSystems SaaS as Global Standard for Environmental Management Reporting
Microsoft Corp has adopted CarbonSystems’ Environmental Sustainability Platform (ESP) cloud application as its new global standard for managing its energy, efficiency and environmental-performance reporting, underpinning its commitment to the environment and a sustainable low-carbon economy.
CarbonSystems, a global provider of environmental and energy management solutions, was selected based on its ability to use cloud computing to simplify and streamline Microsoft’s global greenhouse gas management and reporting to stakeholders…