) April 20, 2009 -- Peter Soderling, CEO and founder of Stratus Security Technologies, and Steve Orrin, Intel's director of security solutions, will demonstrate new kinds of Internet attacks known as XML (Extensible Markup Language) bombs at the RSA conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 5:40 p.m.

XML bombs are an emerging class of Internet cloud security attacks that threaten any company offering content and data via web services and application programming interfaces (APIs). The attacks also threaten the consumers who use the sites.

) September 14, 2009 -- WaveMaker Software™, the only Open-source Platform as a Service (Open PaaS), announced the release of WaveMaker 5.2. This release introduces one-click deployment to Amazon EC2, making WaveMaker the most easy-to-use cloud development solution.

With WaveMaker 5.2, building cloud applications is as easy as 1-2-3:

1. Leverage existing assets: WaveMaker can re-use existing data, web services and code.

2. Create self-service user interface: WaveMaker's client framework enables end-users to do their own configuration.

3. One-click cloud deployment: WaveMaker's one-click deployment manager moves application directly to Amazon EC2.

Improvements to WaveMaker 5.2

) October 1, 2008 -- With hacker and network attacks commonplace within the computer industry, ServePath, the leading San Francisco collocation, hosted and managed server, virtual server and hosted streaming media provider, has taken further measures to combat security threats through an on-going partnership with Fortinet. Offering a variety of managed security products and services, ServePath continues its desire to provide its customers the most robust threat management packages available in the managed hosting industry.

) September 23, 2009 -- newScale, Inc, the market-leading provider of Service Catalog software solutions, and Eucalyptus Systems, Inc., creators of the leading open source private cloud platform, today announced the addition of newScale solutions to the growing ecosystem of third-party software available for Eucalyptus. With this announcement, Eucalyptus users will be able to use newScale Service Catalog software to improve on-premise cloud self-service and data center provisioning, making it even easier for enterprise IT departments to deploy and manage secure, on-premise private and hybrid clouds.

) July 23, 2009 -- Security Innovation, a leading provider of software security solutions, is acquiring NTRU, who specializes in hardware and embedded security. This acquisition is a strong complement to Security Innovation's existing software security products and Information Risk services. The combined entity will offer a more complete data protection and transmission solution for organizations that build complex systems and seek total platform security.    

) December 23, 2008 -- Panda Security, a leading provider of IT security solutions, today announced the renewal of its Microsoft Partner certification for another year for Panda Managed Office Protection. In order to secure the license renewal PMOP first had to pass the "Platform Test for Hosted Solutions", a test designed for software solutions developed for Windows servers, which use Microsoft Office, SQL Server 2005 .NET Framework and/or XML Web services.

) July 23, 2009 -- Security Innovation, a leading provider of software security solutions, is acquiring NTRU, who specializes in hardware and embedded security. This acquisition is a strong complement to Security Innovation's existing software security products and Information Risk services. The combined entity will offer a more complete data protection and transmission solution for organizations that build complex systems and seek total platform security.    

) March 3, 2009 -- Today, PowerDNN, the nation's leading provider of advanced hosting services for the DotNetNuke(R) community has launched its DotNetNuke Security Notification Service for the DotNetNuke 4.x and DotNetNuke 5.x platform. The DotNetNuke Security Notification Service provides weekly security reports on the status and health of DotNetNuke websites.

) December 9, 2008 -- WaveMaker™, the leading visual development platform for web applications, today announced WaveMaker Cloud Edition. WaveMaker Cloud Edition is the first open source, integrated development environment (IDE) for cloud computing. WaveMaker Cloud Edition lets anyone quickly build great-looking web applications that deploy to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud™ (EC2).

"WaveMaker eliminates proprietary lock-in for developing cloud applications," said Christopher Keene, CEO of WaveMaker. "Now anyone can quickly and easily create and deploy web applications on-site or to the cloud."

Aurora, a leading IT company offering state-of-the-art security and compliance solutions for business critical applications, has partnered with Lumension Security™, Inc. to deliver comprehensive data protection and endpoint protection for its customers. Lumension Security is a recognized, global security software company that provides unified protection and control of enterprise endpoints for more than 5,100 customers and 14 million nodes worldwide. By combining Aurora's state-of-the-art data security and compliance solutions with Lumension Security's best-of-breed, policy-based solutions, customers will be able to mitigate risks and fully protect business critical data while ensuring compliance needs are met. (PRWeb Sep 22, 2008)

enStratus Networks announced today that Predictix has selected and deployed the enStratus Platform to manage its Software-as-a-Service merchandising solutions in the cloud. Predictix is leveraging enStratusTM to maximize the benefits of cloud computing, decrease IT hosting costs, increase security and improve scalability. (PRWeb Jun 9, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/06/prweb2506484.htm

) May 19, 2009 -- The term Cloud Telephony is being tossed around as a catchphrase these days, much like "Voice 2.0" or "Telephony Application Provider." Picking the right partner is essential to providing a great telephone experience to your customers.

) April 16, 2009 -- Open standards, open development processes and a community will be key to the future of cloud computing, according to Maximilian Ahrens, CTO of Zimory GmbH (www.zimory.com) - the world's only suppler of an Enterprise-class "marketplace" for buying and selling cloud computing.

Ahrens will speak at Cloud Slam '09 -- the largest virtual cloud computing conference - April 23 at 1:00 ET.

Ahrens is an expert and frequent speaker on service oriented architecture and virtualization. Before co-founding Zimory, he was a research scientist at the innovation development department of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories.

) June 2, 2009 -- Carpathia Hosting, the leading provider of enterprise managed hosting services for government agencies and businesses, today unveiled its Carpathia AlwaysOn/InstantOn™ fully-managed enterprise cloud solution. This hybrid model is the first of its kind, differentiating Carpathia Hosting from industry competitors.

AlwaysOn/InstantOn is the first truly hybrid, fully-managed cloud solution.

) October 14, 2009 -- WaveMaker, the leading open source cloud development platform, today announced the cloud quickstart program, a collaboration between IBM, Amazon Web Services, RightScale and WaveMaker to provide a complete cloud computing solution.

IBM Cloud QuickStart Roadmap

) November 18, 2008 -- Securing business-technology systems isn't getting any easier, according to the results of the Lumension and TechWeb Research "State of Data Protection" survey. The recent study details how users often dismiss internal security policies and even download unauthorized data and applications to their work machines for personal use.

Lumension Security, Inc.

) August 18, 2009 -- Carpathia Hosting, the leading provider of enterprise managed hosting services for government agencies and businesses, announced today it will begin offering managed cloud solutions in its Phoenix Datacenter. The addition of cloud services bolsters Carpathia's colocation, bandwidth and managed services already delivered in the Phoenix datacenter.

) November 17, 2008 -- RightScale, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that Thorsten von Eicken, the company's CTO and founder, will present at the Cloud Computing Expo, to be held November 19-21 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif. Mr. von Eicken will leverage his unique experience as CTO of the leading cloud management vendor, which has enabled thousands of production deployments, to address key concepts behind deploying on the cloud as well as the risks and rewards of cloud computing for the enterprise.
Mr. von Eicken will participate in the following sessions at the Cloud Computing Expo:
Deploying into the Clouds: Concepts, Benefits, and Experiences
Thursday, November 20, 4:50 p.m.

) June 9, 2009 -- Carpathia Hosting, the leading provider of enterprise managed hosting services for government agencies and businesses, announced today it has been selected by Echo360 as its managed hosting provider. Through the AlwaysOn/InstantOn™ fully-managed enterprise cloud solution, Echo360's higher education customers will have a reliable and stable hosting environment for on-demand access to university lectures.

AlwaysOn/InstantOn is the first truly hybrid, fully-managed cloud solution.

) September 15, 2009 -- WaveMaker Software™, provider of the only Open-source Platform as a Service, and RightScale®, Inc., the leader in cloud computing management, today announced that the two companies have partnered to provide technology integration between the RightScale Cloud Management Platform and WaveMaker's open-source visual development platform. The joint solution will enable customers to easily deploy and manage applications developed with WaveMaker's visual drag-and-drop software on the cloud through the automated RightScale platform.

) October 6, 2009 -- SensorLogic, a pioneer in Cloud Computing technology today unveiled Cirrus™ 2.0, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) for the creation, deployment and management of hosted asset tracking and monitoring applications. Enterprises and Solution Providers use Cirrus to rapidly build customized applications that track and monitor mobile workers, commercial assets and also serve as a foundation for leading B2C tracking applications. Previously called XpressIQ, SensorLogic's platform was re-branded to reflect the company's role as a leader in Cloud Computing.

) February 19, 2009 -- This new version of the AppGate Security Server enables organizations and people to grow with the AppGate Security Server Solution step by step. The virtualized server can run on almost any hardware platform based on x86 technology, for example under VMware and enables customers to experience the full potential of the AppGate Security Server, its ease of use and at the same time benefit from having a fully functional security solution without cost. The only limitation from the professional Editions is that it is limited to 20 concurrent users and support has to be purchased separately.

) February 4, 2009 -- enStratus Networks LLC announced today that it is formally launching with its first public demo on Friday, February 6 at MinneDemo, a premier technology demo and networking event. Already serving a dozen companies across a variety of industries, enStratus provides tools for managing the secure and reliable deployment of enterprise applications in the Amazon Cloud and other cloud infrastructures. enStratus will bring confidence in the cloud to companies who have been looking for a secure, high-availability approach to cloud computing.

To address the evolving security landscape, eEye Digital Security (www.eeye.com), an expert in integrated security and threat-management solutions, today announced the availability of the Blink Security Management Appliance 200, the first and only mini appliance designed to deploy and manage up to 200 computer desktops secured by eEye’s Blink Professional security software.

) February 6, 2009 -- Netfirms, Inc. (Netfirms.com) a leader in web hosting, domain names and a pioneer in grid hosting, announced today it will showcase its innovative Enterprise Grid Hosting Platform at the Cloud Computing Conference on February 11, 2009. The premiere event brings industry experts and customers together to explore Cloud Computing, Grid Computing and the future of this market. The Conference will be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

) February 6, 2009 -- Netfirms, Inc. (Netfirms.com) a leader in web hosting, domain names and a pioneer in grid hosting, announced today it will showcase its innovative Enterprise Grid Hosting Platform at the Cloud Computing Conference on February 11, 2009. The premiere event brings industry experts and customers together to explore Cloud Computing, Grid Computing and the future of this market. The Conference will be held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

) March 31, 2009 -- GreenSoft Solutions Inc. (GSI) announces its new Matrix virtualization platform. Designed to capture the full benefits of virtualization technologies, the GSI Matrix is an enterprise-class infrastructure targeted at the professional and corporate IT buyer. GSI's Matrix combines best-of-breed technologies, ServerHeroes™ support, and a performance guarantee into a true enterprise-ready hosted virtualization platform.

) December 2, 2008 -- Astaro Corporation (www.astaro.com), a leading network security provider, today announced that its flagship product, the Astaro Security Gateway, is now certified on the Intel® Modular Server platform through the Intel® Enabled Server Acceleration Alliance (Intel® ESAA) program. Through its Intel ESAA program membership, Astaro will provide an additional Network Security deployment option for organizations that seek the benefits and cost savings of consolidating server and network resources.

Astaro Corporation logo

) August 25, 2009 -- Today, PowerDNN announced the completion of a major update to their enterprise hosting platform for DotNetNuke®. The new cloud computing infrastructure, named "PowerGrid™ 2.0", expands on the capabilities of PowerGrid 1.0 and allows enterprise customers to certifiably deploy large-scale DotNetNuke web applications across up to 60 web servers in a private cloud configuration.

) May 13, 2009 -- Delve Networks (www.delvenetworks.com), the next-generation intelligent online video publishing platform provider, announced today that it is achieving record growth as it delivers its services to an impressive and diverse client roster of over 100 customers. Since the start of 2009, Delve has seen revenue increase 130 percent and experienced an 18,300 percent surge in the bandwidth of video delivered. Additionally, Delve introduced new product enhancements for its Online Video Management Platform.

) October 13, 2008 -- LongJump, a leading Application Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, unveiled a new release of its platform with features and functionality aimed specifically to meet requirements of corporate enterprises. LongJump already enables corporate IT to fully implement the LongJump platform, with its built-in application creation, workflow and customization, and data analysis capabilities ─ all without the added infrastructure costs or data center overhead. LongJump's new release provides sophisticated, actionable trending analysis, email-based workflow interaction, sandboxing for improved management of the testing and deployment process, and mobile access to applications.

) November 25, 2008 -- NOVAtime Technology, Inc. (http://www.novatime.com), a forward-thinking workforce management solution development company that continues to apply the latest technology advancements to its suite of Time and Attendance/Workforce Management products and services, today announced that the NOVAtime 4000 Software as a Service (SaaS) application passes the rigorous penetration tests conducted by Plynt.

) December 12, 2008 -- EnableTS, today unveils free software to MSPs as it delivers Enterprise Level Email Security to all of corporate America. With a Framework of Carrier Grade Components on offer to the Security Market, EnableTS now offers an entry level service free of charge to Managed Service Providers. EnableTS gives MSPs the ability to become Hosted Email Providers by putting the EnableTS Email Management Platform into the MSP's own DataCenter - for free.

The basic package allows an MSP to offer Hosted Anti-Spam and Hosted Anti-Virus in the cloud with the same levels of effectiveness as the paid for services, namely over 99.9% detection rates with near zero false positives. For this basic version, the EnableTS license costs are completely waived.

) November 1, 2009 -- Vanguard Integrity Professionals, the leading provider of enterprise security software for mainframes, today announced that four of the top five general merchandisers in the 2009 Fortune 500 list* now use Vanguard Security Software. These leading retailers are partnering with Vanguard to increase the protection of their mainframe applications and data and ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), PCI Data Security Standard and other regulatory requirements.

) March 31, 2009 -- Armorlogic, makers of Profense™, the web application firewall, today announced the release of a new Profense version. While already providing full PCI DSS section 6.6 compliance, this new version includes enhanced denial of service mitigation, improved load balancing and expanded management, logging and reporting features.

) November 26, 2008 -- NOVAtime Technology, Inc. (http://www.novatime.com), a forward-thinking workforce management solution development company that continues to apply the latest technology advancements to its suite of Time and Attendance/Workforce Management products and services, today announced that the NOVAtime 4000 Software as a Service (SaaS) application passes the rigorous penetration tests conducted by Plynt.

) March 26, 2009 -- enStratus Networks has been selected as one of this year's most innovative cloud computing technology startups and has been invited to present at the 2009 Under the Radar Conference in Mountain View, CA on April 24. The event will feature a full day's showcase of the most disruptive companies in cloud computing. enStratus CEO David Bagley will provide a 6-minute presentation on the enStratus business strategy to a judging panel of fortune 1000 CIOs, press and VCs.

enStratus Logo

) October 7, 2009 -- Coradiant Inc., a leader in Web Application Performance Management, today announced the immediate availability of the Coradiant TrueSight® Web application performance management solution for enterprise and Federal customers utilizing Terremark Worldwide, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: TMRK) Enterprise Cloud. TrueSight enhances the compelling value proposition that customers receive by providing comprehensive, real-time visibility into Web application performance as perceived by all end-users at all times.

) September 2, 2009 -- Carpathia Hosting, the leading provider of enterprise managed hosting services for government agencies and businesses, announced today it has expanded its industry leading services portfolio with a suite of services that meet the requirements of federal agencies, healthcare companies and financial services firms through its acquisition of ServerVault, an IT infrastructure management and hosting services company headquartered in the metropolitan DC area.

With this development, organizations that require the most secure and compliant facilities and managed services to protect sensitive data and systems can turn to Carpathia Hosting to meet needs including:

) June 4, 2009 -- BrightCloud today announced that Microsoft has selected BrightCloud to provide URL categorization services for Microsoft products. Microsoft has licensed access to BrightCloud's Hosted Internet Security Service in order to incorporate URL categorization into numerous Microsoft and Forefront-branded security products and services such as their upcoming Threat Management Gateway.