Cloud computing is set to become increasingly mainstream, but ahead of their time, Xtraordinary Hosting already makes sure its customers' data is as secure as it can be.
In response to the increasing demand for web and data hosting space by SMEs with restricted budgets, BlueSquare Data has launched the Virtual Server Platform via its PoundHost brand.
) 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.
) 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.
) 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.
) October 2, 2009 -- iomart Hosting, the UK data centre and managed hosting provider, has today launched two of the UK's first genuine true cloud computing hosting platforms.
) 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.
) December 9, 2008 -- Voonami, Inc., a leading provider of outsourced IT infrastructure and data center solutions, announced today the opening of their first of several data centers at the Canyon Park Technology Center in Orem, UT. Voonami also announced two new adaptive computing data centers to be built in Sandy, UT and in Utah County. Each new data center will house up to 100,000 square feet with power capacity of 300 watts per square foot.
) January 5, 2009 -- Hostway Corporation, the global Web services leader, is delivering maximum value to small and medium size businesses by making access to cloud computing easy and ultra-affordable.
Hostway has spent much of 2008 developing and perfecting cloud computing infrastructure called FlexCloud™. As the first beneficiary of the new technology, Hostway's 60,000 North American hosting customers' Web sites will be hosted on the new cloud computing infrastructure. In the first phase of the initiative, all new customers' Web sites will be placed on FlexCloud™.
Marquee customers building storage clouds with ParaScale technology to address exploding bulk file storage requirements for digital content and archival data.
Marquee customers building storage clouds with ParaScale technology to address exploding bulk file storage requirements for digital content and archival data.
What: CloudBench Applications has issued a new white paper to outline how local governments can use cloud computing for emergency preparedness and improve data protection and recovery.
) September 30, 2009 -- iomart Hosting, one of the few UK data hosting companies to own its entire data centre infrastructure, has developed two platforms which will allow customers to make use of the 'cloud' - an on-demand, remote IT infrastructure that enables companies to access and manage scaleable computing resources without the need for capital investment. This allows cloud users increased efficiency, as well as lower costs.
) March 27, 2009 -- Appistry, a leading provider of cloud application platforms, is hosting a webinar on Mar. 31, at 11 a.m. PST entitled, "Appistry Cloud Computing Gives Cloud a Kick in the Apps." From architects and developers to senior level management, this Webinar is excellent for deeper insights into the ways Appistry CloudIQ Manager:
- Supports Existing IT Investments
- Enables Application Portability
- Automates Systems Management
- Enhances Visibility and Control.
) June 13, 2009 -- iomart Hosting is delighted to announce that it has been named Data Centre Operator of the Year 2009 in the annual 'Storrie' awards organised by Storage Magazine.
iomart Hosting wins Storrie Award
The award was presented to iomart Hosting at a glittering black tie ceremony, attended by over 400 industry and media guests, held in London's Tower Hotel, St Katherine's Dock, on the night of the 11th June 2009.
[i][b]Dataline’s expert on Cloud Computing Security lent his knowledge to the highly discussed topic of Cloud Computing in the White House for NPR’s top rated show “All Things Considered.”[/i][/b]
) June 2, 2009 -- Ventraq - a leading provider of event data transformation and business insight solutions for service providers and enterprise environments - today announced availability of its CloudBank™ data management solution. Leveraging the security and highly available processing power of cloud-based computing, solution providers can now easily scale up the collection and processing of real-time event data flow during peak traffic periods without the typical investment of often idle server "farms."
By rolling out a number of Cloud Computing solutions for its enterprise clients, Torry Harris has recently seen a lot of big-name clients sign onto its Cloud Computing offerings mainly in the Testing
) September 14, 2009 -- Horizon Data Center Solutions, a leading data center and IT flexsourcing firm serving businesses and government agencies with colocation, disaster recovery and managed IT services, has launched its cloud computing solution, called FlexSafe Cloud.
FlexSafe Cloud is a private, secure approach to cloud computing that meets the needs of organizations that want the flexibility, scalability and cost savings of virtualization, but that also require the security of a private computing platform.
The leading german Magento enterprise partner symmetrics gmbh presents a cloud computing infrastructure designed for Magento Commerce (Magento Cloud) based on the Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), in collaboration with Cisco Systems, has demonstrated the ability to rapidly, safely, and securely exchange healthcare information in a virtual - or cloud - computing environment.
) September 12, 2008 -- Jay Versluis Fine Art have made their first Limited Edition sale from their new series The Book of Clouds to duplication house Loft London (www.loftlondon.co.uk).
The Book of Clouds is a collection of images featuring clouds in many variations and was started by Jay Versluis in 2007 as a Blog with very frequent updates. See the Blog at www.bookofclouds.co.uk.
) August 27, 2009 -- Consonus today announced two complimentary events for IT professionals: "Streamline Storage with Virtualization" on Tuesday 15 September 2009 at the Consonus Data Center in Winston-Salem, NC and "Virtualization Showcase" on Thursday 17 September 2009 at Consonus headquarters in Cary, NC.
The events will provide attendees with education and information on Virtualization technologies and strategies that can help IT departments optimize data center performance, reduce costs, and improve operational flexibility.
The first annual virtual conference on cloud computing will feature an exceptional lineup of industry thought leaders. Hosted online April 20-24, 2009, Cloud Slam '09 will explore the hottest trends impacting cloud computing, widely expected to be the "next big thing" for IT. (PRWeb Mar 25, 2009)
After thorough testing, UK web hosting provider eUKhost (www.eukhost.com) has launched its new Cloud VPS Hosting service, powered by its new cloud environment that is based on VMware virtualization platform.
) 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.
) April 2, 2009 -- Top10DedicatedHosting today unveiled onCloudComputing.com to addresses the challenges of building, deploying, scaling and managing Cloud Computing Solutions and providing Consultancy and Training. It offers Research, unique and evolving ideas and best practices, as well as an opportunity to network with leading experts in cloud computing.
Cloud computing may have transformational potential, but its emergence has created an urgent and pressing question in the minds of today’s IT leaders: How do they incorporate cloud computing into exis
) October 13, 2009 -- Enigmatec Corporation Limited, the leader in enterprise data center automation today announced that it has signed an agreement with Unisys (NYSE: UIS) for Unisys to use Enigmatec's run book automation software to power a key infrastructure component of the Unisys Secure Cloud Solution.
) December 11, 2008 -- Cloud computing thought leaders at Appistry, a provider of cloud application platform software, today offered its predictions for cloud computing in the year ahead and announced an interactive webinar to explore these topics in greater detail. These predictions and webinar are offered at a time when the overall economy and cloud computing industry face a variety of challenges and opportunities.
) 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.
) 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.
) July 22, 2009 -- Eucalyptus Systems, Inc., creators of the leading open source private cloud platform, today announced that the ecosystem of third-party software solutions for the Eucalyptus private cloud software is rapidly expanding, with organizations such as AppScale, Canonical, CohesiveFT, RightScale, rPath and Ylastic providing solutions that extend the usability and accessibility of Eucalyptus. The company also announced new functionality in the latest release of Eucalyptus that makes it even easier to create and use secure, on-premise private and hybrid clouds.
As society moves towards paperless offices computers are increasingly storing invoices, accounts, customer details, important company information and records and often sensitive and confidential data.
