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Black Top Shopping Selects MrMail.com Cloud Hosting to Support New E-Commerce Division
Internet Publisher Client turns to Cloud Computing Expert to Support Global Media Distribution and Secure Retail Transactions
(PRWEB UK) 30 October 2012
Launched in 2010, Black Top Shopping is owned and operated by D&DS Subsidairys, a Nevada corporation. The company provides print and video media coverage on the global fashion industry, along with discount and rebate offers, expanded operations to include retail jewelry sales in 2011. The primary factor in making its decision was the global distributed server network, MrMail.com's VMware Zimbra Premium Services platform provides which is essential to delivery high speed response to its audience around the world. MrMail/com cloud hosting allows the company to consolidate its media publication and retail operations conserving the company's financial resources even as its network continues to expand.
"MrMail.com Cloud Hosting is the ideal choice because it helps us in three target sectors essential for our growth," said David E. Smith, President of D&DS Subsidairys. "First, it reduces our hosting overhead - giving us the ability to use services on demand, reducing the time and resources that would be required in traditional hosting; second, it provides the speed and efficient delivery we need with the global server distribution allowing each geographical area to have immediate access to our services; and third, MrMail Cloud Hosting significantly improves our collaboration capabilities making it easier for us to respond to customers anywhere in the world from a local network."
Working with Suneva Webcasting, Inc., MrMail.com provided Black Top Shopping.com with a solution consisting of a VMware Cloud Server, LinuxCentos 6.3 operating system, Nginx webserver with an Apache backend and Parallels Plesk 11 administration panel. The solution helps the company to deploy services and interactive features to cater to the fast developments in the retail fashion industry, bringing down the deployment times of specialized services from days to hours.
"With the new e-commerce division, the ability to integrate their network seamlessly was the primary concern; both their contributors and website visitors desire a secure and fluid experience when they access the different sections of Black Top Shopping.com. The growth in their operations faced a significant challenge in managing the diverse demands from each of these divisions using traditional hosting. MrMail's VMware Zimbra Premium Services Cloud Hosting provides them with an integrated system and the flexibility needed while reducing their costs," said Oliver Bross, CEO of MrMail.com.
TheVMware Cloud Hosting Systems offered by MrMail.com provides clients with an viable alternative to traditional hosting models, where multiple applications require significant financial commitment to set up and maintain.
About BlackTopShopping
D&DS Subsidairys, Inc., founded 2003 has its headquarters in Las Vegas, Nevada, with a branch office in Brooklyn, New York. The company launched Black Top Shopping.com in 2010 which publishes news and information related to the retail fashion industry.
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FCM360 Launches Low-Latency Financial Cloud to Meet Financial Trading Needs in New York, Chicago, London, Hong Kong …
NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FCM360 has just launched a global financial cloud hosting solution for traders, sell-side software vendors (ISVs) and exchanges to meet global trading infrastructure requirements by connecting the world's major financial hubs.
"FCM360 created its new low-latency financial cloud to meet the needs of financial traders, brokers and matching technology providers that need global high-speed, low-latency trading infrastructure located in the world's major financial centers. The core of the backbone that provides colocation and managed hosting that spans from New York, Aurora and Chicago, Illinois, London and Frankfurt to Hong Kong and Tokyo. The FCM360 financial cloud is based on having super pops and hosting facilities in sought-after locations such as NY4 New York, LD4 London, FR2 Frankfurt and hosting facilities in Hong Kong and Tokyo," according to Jubin Pejman, Managing Director of FCM360 (http://www.fcm360.com).
NY4 and LD4 have become the most sought-after locations to trade and distribute data in the financial industry and are the two most appropriate locations for FCM360 to offer its financial cloud service. This is unlike competing cloud products that do not offer comprehensive solution because they rarely disclose their locations or provide clients with full service offerings for their infrastructure needs.
"FCM360's low-latency network provides the fastest routes between all of its hosting hubs including 32.5 millisecond latency between New York and London and 4.29 milliseconds between London and Frankfurt the fastest latencies available between these routes. With these speeds, trading houses that replace existing and more expensive infrastructure with our financial cloud are assured that the networking and processing latency will meet or exceed their existing deployment," notes FCM360's Pejman.
Market makers, hedge funds, low-latency trading platforms, funds with less than $100 million under management, liquidity aggregators and proprietary traders rely on FCM360 for trading infrastructure. FCM360 also provides connectivity to over 50 exchanges, Electronic Crossing Networks (ECNS) and brokers worldwide.
"We deliver a single point of contact to manage every facet of trading infrastructure," says Pejman.
FCM360's financial cloud solution solves four common problems:
1. Location Disclosure Full location disclosure and proximity to exchanges, liquidity venues and low-latency market data and news feeds are essential. With FCM360, traders know the actual latency offered by our financial cloud-trading infrastructure. "This has been one of the key tenets of building FCM360's trading infrastructure and a major shortcoming of competing financial cloud models," says Pejman.
2. Low Latency If a trading house completely replaces its larger and more expensive bare-metal trading infrastructure, FCM360 ensures that the networking and processing latency meets or exceeds their existing deployment.
3. Multiple Connectivity Options The FCM360 financial cloud offers an array of connectivity options to exchanges, ECNs, banks and market data/news providers. Pejman adds, "With our investment in infrastructure, traders can be confident that the network cost-effectively connects seamlessly to trading counterparties around the world."
Pulsant Pushes Cloud to the Max with Advanced Infrastructure Platform & 'Triple A' Service
READING, England, October 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
New Enterprise Cloud solution - faster, leaner and greener than ever before
Cloud, connectivity and hosting experts, Pulsant, are launching a new Enterprise Cloud, which surpasses current cloud performance levels by offering unlimited capacity and unrivalled speed backed by enterprise standard service level agreements (SLAs) and customer-focused 'Triple A' support.
The first cloud proposition in the UK to be built around HP's latest Gen 8 severs, Pulsant's cloud also harnesses the power of Intel E5 chips and the latest version of VMware's Hypervisor virtualization software, to deliver an infrastructure that outperforms previous configurations. Pulsant confirms that its new servers produce a six fold performance increase for the most demanding workloads and applications as well as 70% more compute per watt and 66% faster time to resolution.
Unlike many commodity-style clouds, Pulsant's Enterprise cloud infrastructure is supported by measurable SLAs. It is also backed by the company's 'Triple A' service model which ensures customers have the right 'Access, Ability and Action' to support them 24/7 - all delivered from multiple operational sites within the UK.
Mark Howling, CEO of Pulsant, states, "We have been delivering cloud solutions for over ten years. What we are bringing to market now is true next generation cloud - it's not just an upgrade or enhancement. The servers, which are a result of a 300 million investment by HP, are faster, leaner and more powerful than anything we have seen before. With this advanced platform, Pulsant can truly deliver on cloud's promise of unlimited scalability, total flexibility, quicker access and processing. Our customer trails have recorded a 40-50% increase in speed. They have also shown a 20% reduction in power usage which means that our cloud platform is significantly greener too."
Pulsant's Enterprise Cloud solution is ideal for those who want to push cloud to the max with 'big' data applications or complex analytics also for handling real-time, high volume transactions such as e-commerce and online retailing. It is also perfect for mid-tier and rapidly growing organisations looking to migrate to a reliable high performance cloud platform that delivers enterprise orientated security, high resilience and elastic capacity within a supportive and competitively priced service framework.
Pulsant actively encourages transparency and believes that cloud providers should be able to supply specify infrastructure details and cloud locations as part of their client contracts. With its Enterprise Cloud it also champions the practice of 'build your own cloud' which allows customers to customize their cloud environment in line with their own operational requirements.
Howling reinforces, "At Pulsant we use world class technology from leading vendors in solutions shaped to fit our client's businesses. Our investment policy ensures that infrastructure is continually updated and that servers are replaced at least every three years. For many of our customers where governance and latency are issues, it is also important that they know where their data is. Our Enterprise Cloud is delivered from the UK, from Pulsant's wholly owned ISO 27001 compliant, Tier 3 data centres. We can even
offer multiple-sites for cloud back up to create true remote mirroring from nationally dispersed sites for all critical data applications."
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YOKU Cloud Hosting looks to change the dedicated hosting market one cloud at a time.
TNC Domain Management, the creators of successful hosting brands like "ResellerChoice" has just unveiled Yoku a new cloud hosting offering providing services ranging from cloud server hosting and cloud application hosting to private clouds and cloud solutions development.
New York, New York (PRWEB) October 17, 2012
Yoku Cloud Hosting solution is based on Microsofts Hyper-V virtual server platform that deploys Windows and Linux based machines in a virtual environment. The Cloud infrastructure is currently operating out of Yokus downtown NYC datacenter located near the NY stock exchange. Yoku anticipates future growth to different geographical locations. You can review Yokus web site and offerings on their beta site located at http://www.yokuhosting.com
Since 2001 Yoku's Cloud Hosting executive team has made a significant investment in time and money in developing its virtual dynamic data center.
Some key points about the YOKU Cloud Hosting's solution:
Rob Conley managing partner at Yoku Cloud Hosting said At YOKU Cloud Hosting we are targeting businesses and individuals requiring a reliable and competitively priced virtual server (VPS) or managed cloud hosting service. One of our goals at Yoku Cloud Hosting is to go above and beyond for our clients with a friendly and personable level of support and customer service not found in hosting today.
In addition, Rob added I have noticed a shift in the hosting services marketplace over the last few years. Larger companies have moved into the hosting space and developers and businesses are now losing the personable care and service that is needed for small businesses and application developers just starting out. We support our cloud hosting clients and businesses; we will work closely with them and help optimize their hosted applications or servers. This devotion to our clients and providing them with great value and customer care is what makes Yoku Cloud Hosting different from the rest and I feel its the best choice for small business owners and developers.
YOKU Cloud Hosting will be publishing in the next few weeks beta codes for a chance to access their service at no charge during their opening beta.
YOKU Cloud Hosting is operated by TNC Domain Management LLC who is a leader in the Windows reseller web hosting space with brands like ResellerChoice" since 2001. For more details about YOKU Cloud Hosting or to sign-up you can access to the website at http://www.yokuhosting.com
Yoku Cloud Hosting data center is located in Downtown New York City with multiple peers and uplinks.
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FireHost Dominates in Compliance Again; Cloud Hosting Company Achieves HITRUST CSF Certification
DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - Oct 17, 2012) - FireHost, the leading secure cloud hosting company, today announced that it has successfully achieved Common Security Framework (CSF) Certified status from the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST). In doing so, FireHost has attained certification from what is considered to be the most widely used program for assessing the security posture of business associates and managing third-party compliance. FireHost proactively secured the certification based on its unerring commitment to securing electronic personal health information (ePHI) from malicious cyber-attacks that become more sophisticated every year. FireHost offers HIPAA-ready cloud hosting options for healthcare customers that need to meet the stringent compliance standards required of the industry.
"While many organizations say they meet compliance standards, it's very hard to prove. By obtaining this certification, FireHost has been audited by an independent, third party HITRUST CSF Assessor and has confirmed that it meets the requirements of the CSF," said Kurt Hagerman, director of global compliance at FireHost. "The HITRUST CSF certification is another way FireHost shows its commitment to the healthcare industry."
HITRUST was established out of the belief that information security should be a core pillar of, rather than an obstacle to, the broad adoption of health information systems and exchanges.The HITRUST CSF Assurance Program provides multiple benefits to both healthcare organizations and their business associates by offering a common and efficient approach to managing security assessments associated with multiple and varied assurance requirements.
"HITRUST has been working with the industry to ensure the appropriate information protection requirements are met when sensitive health information is accessed or stored in a cloud environment," said Daniel Nutkis, chief executive officer of HITRUST. "We are pleased that FireHost has taken the steps necessary to achieve HITRUST CSF Certified status, and we expect their customers to have confidence in this designation."
About FireHost
FireHost is a secure cloud hosting company focused on protecting companies' sensitive data and brand reputations with an architecture built for security, scalability and performance.Customers with specific compliance or performance needs subscribe to FireHost's PCI, HIPAA or high traffic solutions, including some of the largest companies in the world as well as many fast growing eCommerce, SaaS and healthcare IT providers.FireHost provides services from Dallas, Phoenix, London and Amsterdam. http://www.firehost.com
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Old-School Web Hosts Fight Back Against Amazon Cloud
Since its launch in 2006, Amazons Elastic Compute Cloud aka EC2 has changed the way companies and developers think about hosting software applications. In the past, you called up a web hosting outfit, negotiated a price, and signed contract, and they assigned you a certain number of servers sitting in a data center. But with EC2, you just opened a web browser and spun up a few virtual servers, paying only for what you needed.
But now, the traditional web hosts are fighting back.
This week, two of the biggest names in web hosting Dreamhost and Media Temple announced new cloud services based on OpenStack, an open source platform that seeks to mimic the Amazon way.
OpenStack has received tremendous hype since it was announced in 2010, but its only recently that the platform has been used in production. Rackspace officially switched its servers to OpenStack in August, offering a public cloud along the lines of Amazon, and HP rolled out its public cloud offering in May. Meanwhile, countless outfits are using OpenStack to help you set up a private cloud an Amazon-style service thats only available to your own employees.
Dreamhost is entering the public cloud fray with DreamCompute, while MediaTemple is adding private cloud services to its portfolio of offerings.
Dreamhosts entry into the public cloud market has been long anticipated. It joined the OpenStack Foundation in April and has not been quiet about its ambitions.
Central to Dreamhosts cloud computing strategy is Ceph, an open source storage system created by Dreamhost founder Sage Weil. DreamCompute is based on OpenStack with Ceph and network virtualization from VMwares recent acquisition Nicira.
Weil launched a separate company called Inktank in May to support Ceph, but Dreamhost does offer a Ceph-based storage service called DreamObjects that can integrate with DreamCompute.
Other companies looking to get into storage for OpenStack include Basho, which already has a partnership with Citrix to provide block storage for CloudStack, a competing open source cloud computing system.
Media Temples offering is based on an OpenStack appliance from Morphlabs called the mCloud Helix Solution. The appliance includes OpenStack running on Dell servers with solid-state disks, along with Dells open source deployment software Crowbar. The appliance will also include 24/7 remote support and maintenance.
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In Ongoing Effort to Make Cloud Hosting Accessible to Small Business, Infinitely Virtual Expands Basic Support Options
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
As part of its continuing effort to make cloud hosting accessible and affordable to small and midsize businesses, Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of virtual server cloud computing services, has introduced its Basic + Support tier of services, adding an array of enhanced support features at a low monthly per-user price of $9.99.
The new Basic + Support tier includes software installation, user management, file system permissions management and unlimited data restores.
These new features expand the companys popular Basic Support program, which is automatically included with every Infinitely Virtual hosting plan, at no additional cost. Among the basic services: 24x7 phone and web support; complete case management; virtual hardware and operating system maintenance; managed firewall service with unlimited rules changes; limited data restore, and support for servers using vSphere, remote desktop, vnc, ssh, http and Outlook.
With the market for cloud hosting services both growing and evolving, were dedicated to removing barriers between small and midsize business users and this incredibly efficient way to harness IT resources, said Adam Stern, CEO and founder, Infinitely Virtual. Were listening closely to the market and responding accordingly, whether by adding a new level to our basic support service, or implementing truly useful hosting services, such as enabling QuickBooks in the cloud for our virtualization clients.
For organizations seeking comprehensive system and server support plans, Infinitely Virtual also offers a Premium Support tier at $39.99 a month per user, and a Premium + Support tier at $84.99 a month per user.
Premium Support includes all the features of Basic Support plus software installation and system customization, such as setting group policies, creating login scripts, configuring file sharing, security and Exchange public folders, and creating distribution lists. Infinitely Virtual also oversees system migration for Premium Support customers, and supports Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, along with Exchange 2003, 2007, and SQL 2005, 2008. Unlimited data restoration is included in the package.
Premium + Support includes all Premium and Basic features plus an additional layer of server and operating system support. This is our highest level of technical and operational support for those customers who desire more hands-on, continual support down to the individual user level, said Stern. Included in this tier is remote hands support for individual PC operating systems, for local servers (limited to supported operating systems), and for local networking equipment.
Also included in Premium + Support is complete system migration, limited to one local server for each 10 users, and network consulting.
Within the last quarter, Infinitely Virtual has taken a series of steps designed to attract small and midsize businesses to cloud hosting. During the summer, the company announced new pricing that enables customers to get the full benefits of premium McAfee anti-spam protection for 30 percent less, along with a similar 30 percent price reduction on email archiving options. Infinitely Virtual then unbundled its hosted, licensed Microsoft Office suite products, to enable customers to choose those products they need, at a per product price. And placing threat protection under one roof, the company teamed with McAfee to offer its SaaS Total Protection, a comprehensive hosted solution offering endpoint, email, Internet and network protection.
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ProfitBricks Hosting Neighborhood Pay Services Cloud-based Automated Payments
Oct. 15 BusinessWire BOSTON ProfitBricks, the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that has completely reengineered the delivery of cloud computing, today announced that it has been selected by Neighborhood Pay Services (NPS), a financial service provider for the multifamily housing industry, to host the companys cloud-based applications. NPS chose ProfitBricks to improve network reliability and performance speeds while reducing hosting costs almost by half. NPS hosts two applications in the cloud, one for renters and one for property owners/managers. The company also performs back-end financial analysis, analytics research and product testing in ProfitBricks cloud environment.
Our network use spikes with payment cycles and during parts of the month when we are more research intensive, said Richard Calmas, CEO, Neighborhood Pay Services. The ability to scale processing power up and down with demand helps us build our data center around our business model, not around the technical limits of old servers, traditional data centers and month-to-month pricing policies. The added performance and reliability we receive are an unexpected bonus. We can now do more processing for less money, faster than we did with legacy cloud providers.
The need for by-the-minute scaling is common across most organizations that are transaction intensive, said ProfitBricks Chief Executive Officer, U.S., Bob Rizika. Financial services and retail are particularly vulnerable to the limitations of legacy cloud design and pricing models. We believe were bringing a new world of opportunity to those industries, and others, by rethinking and re-architecting cloud computing from the ground up.
InfiniBand: Bringing Supercomputing Technology to Cloud Computing
Among many new technology firsts, ProfitBricks introduced an InfiniBand backed network to cloud computing, the same technology used in high performance computing. InfiniBand offers up to 80 Gbit network speed for users of the ProfitBricks cloud, more than four times the available speed from any other cloud provider. The result is dramatically faster data transfer to and from each server and storage node. Faster throughput is perfect for big data intensive applications, ultimately reducing costs for customers who can provision fewer CPU cores, memory and storage. More information about the first use of InfiniBand high performance cloud technology in the cloud can be found at ProfitBricks.com.
Please visit http://www.profitbricks.com for more information and to signup for a free 14-day trial.
ABOUT PROFITBRICKS
ProfitBricks is a global cloud infrastructure provider with a new platform engineered from the ground up to solve many of the problems of 1st generation cloud platforms. ProfitBricks was founded in 2010 by Achim Weiss and Andreas Gauger, previous cofounders of 1&1, which is a majority part of United Internet AG (UDIRF, $3.9B Mkt Cap). With funding from the founders and United Internet, ProfitBricks has built the worlds first true virtual data center technology enabling flexible user defined instances with live vertical scaling capability, class leading cloud storage allotments all with simple and transparent minute-based billing. Customers can deploy existing and new applications on the ProfitBricks public cloud, or design and build their own private cloud network all without capital or the limitations, risk and overhead of traditional co-location and dedicated hosting solutions. Headquartered in Berlin Germany and Boston, MA, ProfitBricks is comprised of over 100 team members from 16 countries. More information is available at ProfitBricks website at http://www.profitbricks.com.
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DreamHost Introduces DreamCompute Public Cloud Computing Service
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 15, 2012) - DreamHost, a global leader in Web hosting and cloud services, today announced DreamCompute, a highly scalable and cost-effective cloud computing platform for Internet entrepreneurs and developers. Using DreamCompute's open source infrastructure-as-a-service platform that is Powered by OpenStack, customers can create and prosper in the cloud, powering Web and mobile applications, digital media and e-commerce Web sites, big data analytics, and test and development environments.
DreamCompute is an exciting new edition to DreamHost's growing portfolio of services, which include shared, virtual private, and dedicated Web hosting, as well as cloud object storage with DreamObjects. DreamHost sets itself apart from the cloud crowd by developing innovative and flexible Web and cloud services using open source software.Evolving new cloud capabilities are constantly created, dynamically deployed, and expertly supported. DreamCompute is engineered for scale and efficiency using best-of-breed open source solutions, including the OpenStack cloud platform, scalable Ceph block storage, and Nicira network virtualization.As a champion of the open source community, DreamHost makes major code contributions to open source projects -- for example, by working to integrate Ceph into OpenStack.
The newly launched DreamCompute cloud service is highly scalable, quick to provision, resilient, and secure.It is ready to go for any size workload with compute instances from 1GB to 64GB RAM for ultimate scalability.All of this power comes with no capital outlay or a lengthy procurement approval process; it can be billed to a credit card, making it easy to expense.Pricing for the services will be released publicly in the coming weeks and, in the tradition of DreamHost, will be very attractive to Internet entrepreneurs and developers.In addition, DreamCompute customers will benefit from DreamHost's long-standing focus on industry-leading customer support.
DreamCompute block storage is powered by Ceph, the open source, massively scalable, distributed storage software created by Sage Weil, founder of DreamHost.Ceph is now developed and supported by Inktank and a growing community of developers worldwide.The software is capable of auto-scaling to the exabyte level and beyond, it runs on off-the-shelf hardware, it is self-healing and self-managing, and it has no single point of failure.
DreamCompute works seamlessly with DreamObjects, DreamHost's low cost, object-based public storage service based on Ceph.Both DreamCompute and DreamObjects leverage advanced Ceph technology, which is highly scalable and reliable, cost effective, and fully open source.DreamHost customers can now both process and store virtually limitless data in their quest to write and test web-scale applications.
"DreamCompute has been engineered from the operating system up to deliver the next generation cloud compute service that developers are craving," said Simon Anderson, CEO of DreamHost."With OpenStack virtual machine management, reliable and resilient Ceph block storage, and software-defined networking that truly isolates each instance in the infrastructure, DreamCompute sets a new standard for compute-as-a-service.We're very proud to be a part of delivering the future of the open and scalable cloud."
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The OpenStack Foundation "It's exciting to see DreamHost launch an OpenStack Powered Cloud, expanding the footprint of OpenStack service providers and offering even more choice for our users," said Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation."DreamHost and its engineers have been significant contributors to OpenStack since joining the effort in early 2011, especially in the areas of block storage and secure, flexible networking capabilities.We look forward to their continued participation as we deliver on our mission of creating the most widely adopted open cloud platform."
Nicira "With DreamCompute, DreamHost takes service provider innovation in the cloud to a new level," said Steve Mullaney, Vice President, Networking Business Unit, VMware, and formerly CEO of Nicira, Inc."DreamHost leverages best-of-breed cloud infrastructure solutions, including the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) to deliver the true value of cloud.On demand network provisioning moves the network out of the way and allows cloud customers to increase their business velocity."
Opscode "DreamHost is answering the entrepreneur and developer appetite for massively scalable cloud computing with a differentiated service combining deep hosting expertise with cloud scale and data center reliability," said Jay Wampold, VP of Marketing, Opscode."By using Opscode Private Chef to automate the infrastructure behind DreamCompute, DreamHost is making unlimited computing power available to the masses, delivering a platform for everything from early stage entrepreneurial endeavors to highly sophisticated application development."
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Rackspace Launches Product Certification for Private Cloud Partners
SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Today, Rackspace Hosting (RAX), the open cloud company, announced product certifications for Rackspace Private Cloud partners.
We have seen great demand from companies to certify their products, hardware or software, against Rackspace Private Cloud, said Scott Sanchez, director of strategy, Rackspace Private Cloud. We want to continue to foster adoption of open clouds and make it easier for our customers and partners to deploy Rackspace Private Cloud in their data centers.
Rackspace makes deploying and managing private clouds easy. In less than an hour, a Rackspace Private Cloud, dubbed Alamo, canbe downloaded and deployed in a customers data center and supported by the open cloud experts at Rackspace. Thousands of companies, organizations and individuals from around the world have downloaded the Rackspace Private Cloud software and are using it today. Rackspace is now extending the capabilities of this offer by providing programs to help its technology partners validate their offerings against Rackspace Private Cloud, and thereby making those solutions more attractive to customers using Rackspace Private Cloud solutions.
Product Certifications for Rackspace Private Cloud
Building hardware, applications and other platforms that power or run on private clouds based on OpenStack requires deep expertise and knowledge. Rackspace is helping to solve this problem by offering a product certification program for Rackspace Private Cloud. As a consistent, supportable and tested platform, Rackspace Private Cloud is quickly becoming the gold standard to test products for compatibility with open private clouds. There are two types of Rackspace product certifications available:
Running a large-scale, enterprise private cloud is not an easy task, Paul Rad, vice president, private cloud, Rackspace. Our goal is to help enterprise IT to deploy private clouds that have the efficiency and robustness of Rackspaces public cloud, which runs thousands of virtual machines. The product certification program opens the door for IT executives to choose a certified stack that has been validated and supported by Rackspace and its certification partners.
For more information on the product certifications for Rackspace Private Cloud visit: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/private/partners/
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AMD is excited to be at the forefront of building a robustRackspace Private Cloud partnerecosystem. Certifying the industrys highest density, most energy efficient server platform will allow customers to realize the benefits of the open cloud while drastically reducing energy consumption and operating expenses. This is a huge step forward for the industry and we look forward to being one of the leading partners in the program for standards-based, interoperable data center computing. Andrew Feldman, general manager, Data Center Server Solutions, AMD
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