Skygone Inc to Exhibit at CA World 2011 as Certified Cloud Operator

Grazed from GIS User.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Skygone Inc will exhibit at the CA World 2011 conference to be held November 13-16, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Skygone has achieved Certified Cloud Operator (CCO) and Certified Cloud Architect (CCA) accreditation on the CA AppLogic� turnkey cloud computing platform, making them qualified to provide enterprise-class cloud computing solutions…



This is a great opportunity for us to meet and share ideas with other CA Technologies customers and partners, says Ryan Hughes, Skygone Inc. COO. Earlier this year, Hughes was recognized as a Cloud Accelerator by CA Technologies, joining an elite group of cloud thought leaders and experts.

Powered by the CA AppLogic platform, Skygone Cloud can offer customers instantly deployable web applications as part of a robust and scalable IT infrastructure that fully contains everything it needs to run. The technology also enables customers to easily scale and replicate entire applications, host mission-critical applications on a redundant, high-performance infrastructure, maintain legacy applications that reside on legacy platforms and provide instant development platforms for developing new applications.

Skygone is positioned as the leading GIS cloud provider on our cloud platform. Skygone’s vendor-neutral approach allows them to provide the best of breed GIS technologies from both commercial and open source providers, says Ryan Shopp, senior director of product marketing, Virtualization and Automation, CA Technologies.

Through Skygone’s GIS application store, theGISmarketplace.com, customers can take advantage of the CA AppLogic platform to instantly deploy prepackaged geospatial solutions to solve many business problems. Whether businesses are looking to implement location-based services (LBS) for their customer base, manage assets and facilities, or conduct risk-avoidance what-if scenarios, theGISmarketplace.com makes available a wide variety of cloud-based geospatial solutions from the industry’s leading GIS applications.

Our cloud platform is ideal for mobile development because we can support the entire product lifecycle from development, to testing, to deployment, says Val Dotchkov, Skygone Inc. CTO. We also have the knowledge and experience in location intelligent integration into enterprise business systems like SAP, Salesforce and help desk systems."