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FireHost Grows Executive Team on Heels of European Expansion; Appoints Jim Ciampaglio as Sr. Vice President of Global …
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
FireHost, a secure cloud hosting company with offices in the US and UK, has appointed Jim Ciampaglio to senior vice president of global sales and marketing. Ciampaglio joined FireHost in late 2011 after holding many successful sales and executive roles in related high-tech and hosting companies. In his role, Ciampaglio will further expand FireHost’s global distribution channels, including the implementation of a FireHost partner program, while overseeing business development activities for the company.
“Jim is an accomplished executive with broad revenue generation experience in technology and hosting. He brings with him a strong reputation for organizational leadership, which is going to be vital as FireHost continues to grow,” said Chris Drake, CEO of FireHost. “We’re excited to have Jim on our team to drive our sales and partner programs.”
Ciampaglio was previously the COO at NeoSpire Managed Hosting. There he was responsible for all operational departments and helped guide the company through its acquisition by Hosting.com. Prior to that role, he was vice president of sales at NaviSite, a Time Warner Cable Company that provided enterprise cloud hosting and managed services. With NaviSite he launched an SMB division and successfully implemented a global sales team focused on developing the company’s expansion into new markets. Ciampaglio was also the senior director of sales for NTT/Verio, a provider of hosted applications worldwide. Ciampaglio created the viaVerio reseller advisory board and partner portal. This program earned the company awards for its success by creating a marketplace and ecosystem that allowed its resellers to communicate and grow their businesses. Ciampaglio has also worked for Verizon, Aegis Communications and MBNA America.
“FireHost’s trajectory path is what every company hopes to attain. It’s an exciting point in time for this company and I’m honored to be a part of the FireHost success story,” said Jim Ciampaglio. “Everyone here has a driving passion to make FireHost the best hosting company for our customers and I look forward to helping introduce the FireHost brand into new channels and markets across the globe.”
FireHost announced its official launch into Europe last month with secure cloud hosting services now available through data centers in London and Amsterdam. Top enterprises including Fortune 50 companies trust FireHost to secure their websites and applications, including Johnson & Johnson, Hamilton Beach, Farmers Insurance Group, and Viking. FireHost is known for blocking millions of hack attempts per month against high-target, mission critical companies, and was the first hosting provider to deliver a totally secure, PCI DSS 2.0 compliant public cloud offering.
FireHost is hiring to fill roles in R&D, marketing & sales, customer support, and operations. A full list of job opportunities can be found on the company’s website.
About FireHost
FireHost is a secure cloud hosting company focused on protecting sensitive data and company’s brand reputation 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.
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iomart Hosting Takes UK Digital Media Agency Into the Cloud
LONDON, February 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
New Brand Vision Group migrates to highly available virtual platform
iomart Hosting has delivered a highly available cloud platform to support the work of UK digital media agency New Brand Vision Group.
For the first nine years of its life New Brand Vision relied on a physical IT infrastructure but last year it decided that the flexibility afforded by cloud hosting was now needed in order to continue to deliver successful campaigns for its clients.
"It's really important for us as a digital agency to be thinking ahead about the latest trends and tactics," explains founder and managing director Ben Harris. "We felt this approach needed to be extended to our hosting as well. We knew the cloud was becoming more popular and after doing some research we realised it could be of huge benefit both to our customers and our own business."
New Brand Vision wanted high availability so iomart Hosting's technical team recommended that for greater resilience and uptime it should migrate to a VMware Cloud. The migration process was managed to ensure minimal impact on New Brand Vision's customers.
"iomart Hosting worked really closely with us and most importantly, listened to us in order to produce the right solution," says Ben. "Now we have a very reactive platform which benefits both us and our clients."
Every new client the agency takes on is provided with a new virtual machine which iomart Hosting deploys for them using a VM template which is then customised to sit behind a fully managed dedicated firewall.
Ben Harrisbelieves that the IT infrastructure that iomart Hosting has provisioned for New Brand Vision gives the agency a great framework on which to plan its clients' campaigns.
"Many of the PR and marketing campaigns that we do for clients can result in substantial increases in traffic on their websites so we have to be ready," he says. "For a small campaign we can assign virtual resource very quickly, while for larger campaigns that need load-balanced servers, it's much quicker but also much cheaper to roll them out."
Sarah Haran, managing director of iomart Hosting, says: "The ultimate benefits of having virtual servers on a cloud platform is that an agency like New Brand Vision gets much more control over assigning resources for campaigns. It can plan better and respond better."
Ben Harris agrees: "The platform we have with iomart Hosting has high availability. It's fully virtualised and so gives us better control, while mitigating risk and saving money for our clients."
New Brand Vision Group is based in Silicon Roundabout, the London hub for entrepreneurial tech companies. It delivers websites to UK and global businesses across media, finance, and services sectors.
iomart Hosting is part of iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM.L - News).
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About iomart Hosting
iomart Hosting is one of the UK's leading providers of complex managed hosting and cloud computing services to the enterprise market. It owns and manages its own network infrastructure, including five UK data centres, offering a unique 100% uptime guarantee. Services include: Private and Hybrid Cloud, Colocation, Content Delivery Networks, IP Transit, Cloud Storage and Email.
Clients include: office2office, Misys, Cimex, BT plc, Stagecoach, Skyscanner, SoftCat, Learndirect, London School of Economics, Newsquest , Shine TV and STV.
iomart Hosting is an ISO9001 & ISO27001 certified company. The company is fully accredited at Gold Partner level with VMware, Oracle and Microsoft. It is part of AIM listed iomart Group plc.
About iomart Group plc
iomart Group is one of the UK's leading providers of managed hosting and cloud computing services. From a single server through to private cloud networks, iomart specialises in the delivery and management of mission-critical hosting services, enabling customers to reduce the costs, complexity and risks associated with maintaining their own web and online applications.
By physically owning and managing its own global network infrastructure, iomart offers world-beating levels of service to its customers. The Group offers a unique 100% uptime guarantee with all hosting services being engineered to ensure no single point of failure.
iomart Group operates in its chosen markets through a number of subsidiaries: iomart Hosting, RapidSwitch, Easyspace, EQSN and Westcoastcloud. The group has been listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) since April 2000. For more information about iomart Group plc visit http://www.iomart.com
News release issued on behalf of iomart Hosting by Jane Robertson, Head of PR for iomart Group plc. For more information please email jane.robertson@iomart.com or call +44(0)141-931-6474 (dir), +44(0)141-931-6400 or +44(0)7827948993 (mob).
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Webair Carrier Neutral Cloud: Open Network Access in the Cloud
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -02/28/12)- Webair, the leader in hosting solutions, today unveiled their Carrier Neutral Cloud Service, offering clients the flexibility and freedom of a cloud hosting environment while providing total control over all network infrastructure and carrier choices. This groundbreaking new service allows transparent access from cloud environments to thousands of transit and transport providers. Clients can now choose any carrier, multiple carriers, or build custom network configurations and tie it all into their own cloud topology.
In the late 1990s, physical data center infrastructure became disassociated from particular carriers. The result was increased competition among carriers, greater consumer choice among business owners, lower bandwidth costs and more reliable services. Then cloud computing came along and businesses were choosing between the computing scalability of the cloud or the network freedom of physical infrastructure. Now, by offering scalable cloud computing services with complete carrier neutrality, Webair gives clients the best of both worlds.
Webair Carrier Neutral Cloud services are currently available on Webair's NY Cloud nodes and will be rolled out in all other markets during the coming months. Webair clients can procure direct transit and transport services from hundreds of carriers. Similar to collocation clients, public and private cloud customers will be able to order connectivity directly from carriers via Webair's cloud cross connect platform leveraging meet-me rooms in 111 8th Ave., 60 Hudson St., 25 Broadway, and Telx's Ethernet Exchange.
Customers utilizing Webair's Carrier Neutral Cloud can configure any combination of transit or transport providers to directly connect to their computing infrastructure. This allows businesses with already established carrier relationships to utilize them in cloud in a truly open access cloud environment. Clients can choose to work with providers based on metrics that matter to them such as latency, route preferences, proven stability, or cost. Clients can further save money by aggregating commitments and consolidating contracts.
"Webair's revolutionary Carrier Neutral Cloud removes barriers and provide clients with the unique ability to custom build a truly multi-homed cloud environment using any carriers they prefer," said Michael C. Orza, President of Webair. "Put simply, our clients can finally take full advantage of all of the benefits of dynamic cloud hosting infrastructure without giving up any of the freedom to control their own network configurations."
Now is the time to take advantage of modern cloud computing services without the limitations of being tied to any one bandwidth provider. For more information about the Webair Carrier Neutral Cloud please visit http://www.webair.com/solutions-carrier-neutral-cloud.html or follow Webair on twitter @WebairInc.
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Tutorial! Amazon Cloud Minecraft Server Hosting! – Video
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MachPanel 4.3 – SaaS and Cloud Hosting Control Panel for Windows – Video
23-02-2012 09:05 MachSol Inc (www.machsol.com) - A Microsoft Validated Solution Vendor provides MachPanel -- SaaS enabled hybrid control panel supporting Exchange 2010 SP2, SharePoint 2010, Dynamics CRM 2011, Lync, BlackBerry Server Express and VPS -- Virtualization and Cloud Automation Solutions.
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Harris Corporation to Discontinue Cyber Hosting Operation; Will Continue Providing Advanced Cyber Security and Cloud …
MELBOURNE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS - News), an international communications and information technology company, plans to discontinue its Cyber Integrated Solutions operation -- which provided remote cloud hosting -- and sell its related data center facility in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The operation is part of the company’s Integrated Network Solutions segment.
The company determined that although demand continues for cyber security and cloud-enabled solutions, its government and commercial customers currently prefer hosting mission-critical information on their own premises rather than remotely.
Harris has provided and will continue to provide its customers with advanced cyber security and cloud-enabled software applications and solutions as a service. Harris engineers have developed and managed some of the world’s most secure, mission-critical communications and IT networks, such as the ultra-reliable Federal Aviation Administration Telecommunications Infrastructure network. Additionally, the company's technology, countermeasures and monitoring capabilities safeguard vital information systems that support the critical missions of military, intelligence, and federal law enforcement customers.
“There is a large and growing market for cyber security and cloud-enabled solutions, and Harris is committed to continuing to be a significant player in this area,” said William M. Brown, president and chief executive officer. “These actions allow us to refocus our capital and efforts on the secure, cost-effective communications and IT solutions that our customers are demanding.”
The company expects to incur an after-tax charge of $70 million to $80 million during fiscal 2012 as a result of these actions.
About Harris Corporation
Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $6 billion of annual revenue and about 17,000 employees — including nearly 7,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect management's current expectations, assumptions and estimates of future performance and economic conditions. Such statements are made in reliance upon the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The company cautions investors that any forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results and future trends to differ materially from those matters expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Statements about the company’s expectation or amounts or timing of estimated charges associated with the plan for discontinuing the company’s Cyber Integrated Solutions operation and the related exit and disposal activities are forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties. Other factors that may impact the company’s results and forward-looking statements may be disclosed in the company’s filings with the SEC. Harris disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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DynamicOps Debuts "Fastest Path to Cloud" Seminar and Webinar
BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DynamicOps, pioneer of the Operations Virtualization™ platform that enables unified cloud automation and management, today announced that it is hosting a seminar and a webcast featuring James Staten, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc. The "Fastest Path to Cloud" seminar on February 29, 2012, and the webcast on March 15, 2012, will focus on how to quickly implement private/hybrid clouds that deliver real value.
"Many businesses find that cloud deployments take much more time and money than they had planned, but it doesn't have to be that way. We've seen a lot of customers deploy large-scale, highly personalized cloud environments at just a fraction of the typical cost and time," said Chad Jones, VP of Strategy and Product Management, DynamicOps. "We're very pleased to offer attendees the chance to hear insights about cloud best practices directly from Mr. Staten, one of the industry's foremost experts."
"We know that much of the infrastructure and operations (I&O) market is under pressure to leverage cloud computing. This pressure to get to cloud stems from myriad claims of greater time-to-market, efficiency, and cost savings - and there's some truth to these claims, as shown in the growing volume of enterprise case studies demonstrating these benefits to be true. But these gains are not universal, and there are more ways to get cloud wrong than there are paths to true benefit," wrote Staten in a recent Forrester report.[1]
"Fastest Path to Cloud" will show attendees how to avoid the common cloud pitfalls. It will feature the following:
Getting Cloud Right - Fast: In this presentation, James Staten will explain how to apply best practices in cloud computing to achieve real business value. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask this leading cloud analyst the questions that have been plaguing their cloud implementations. Overview of DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center: Chad Jones will highlight how DynamicOps' software, winner of "Best of VMworld 2011" for private cloud, provides the fastest time-to-cloud value with a comprehensive set of built-in functionality, multi-vendor interoperability, and easy to use extensibility. Attendees will learn about use cases and business benefits achieved by DynamicOps customers.
Register or learn more about the complimentary "Fastest Path to Cloud" seminar and webcast, which take place at the below dates:
Seminar – Register here
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 9 a.m. – Noon
Eventi Hotel
851 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10001
Who Will Benefit by the Seminar?
Vice Presidents, CIOs, infrastructure architects and CTOs who are considering a move to the cloud and are interested in the fastest path to get there.
Webcast – Register here
Thursday, March 15, 2012
11 a.m. ET – Noon ET
About DynamicOps
DynamicOps' cloud automation and management solutions enable enterprises to evolve existing infrastructure into scalable private, public and desktop cloud services in days. Using DynamicOps' groundbreaking Operations Virtualization technology, organizationally aware cloud platform, and extensive out-of-the-box functionality, customers realize fast time-to-cloud value and respond to market demands quickly and economically. Enterprises boost IT efficiency and easily embrace consumerization by empowering users with personalized, instantly available services. Awarded "Best of VMworld 2011 Private Cloud" and named "Cool Vendor in Cloud Management" by Gartner Research, DynamicOps is privately held and based in Burlington, MA. http://www.dynamicops.com.
[1] TechRadar™ For Infrastructure & Operations Professionals: Cloud Computing, Q4 2011, Forrester Research, Inc., November 18, 2011.
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iomart Hosting provides cloud storage and backup for new UK branding network
WEBWIRE ? Monday, February 27, 2012 - iomart Hosting, one of the UK?s leading providers of cloud computing and managed hosting services, is providing cloud storage and backup for a new personal branding network that?s just launched in the UK.
What Is My Brand, http://www.whatismybrand.com , is an online network that allows people to showcase their own unique talents, build a personal brand and express opinions on the brands they like and use.
Sunny Arora, founder of What Is My Brand, says: ?The most successful companies in the world all have strong brands - a great brand sells. We believe that this works equally well for individuals. You only have to look at people like Lady Gaga and David Beckham to know how successful a personal brand can be. What Is My Brand is all about the brand of You.?
Mr Arora says he chose Glasgow-headquartered iomart Hosting to support What Is My Brand because of its 100% uptime guarantee, round-the-clock technical support and the multiple resilience afforded by its network of UK data centres.
He says: ?As well as ticking all our boxes concerning reliability and scalability, iomart Hosting really understands the start-up environment. We have a dedicated account manager who, along with a technical services director, has worked closely with us to make sure we got exactly what we needed to launch our new network.?
What Is My Brand sits on an iomart Hosting VMWare cloud platform which includes cloud storage and dedicated managed backup to ensure that the network can grow easily as it attracts more members and advertising support.
Mr Arora explains: ?Having a cloud platform enabled us to avoid heavy set-up costs whilst offering very attractive on-going operational costs. Secondly, it provides us with on-demand scalability which means as user numbers rise we can scale up quickly, removing any time-lag that might be associated with a fixed physical infrastructure. And thirdly, we only pay for what we use.?
Sarah Haran, managing director of iomart Hosting, says: ?It?s particularly important for start-up businesses to avoid large capital outlay at the beginning. Cloud hosting is both an economical solution and a scalable one which will allow What Is My Brand to react quickly to growth in its membership.?
iomart Hosting is a subsidiary of iomart Group plc which was recently voted one of the top web hosting companies in the world and was named Scottish Digital IT Company of the Year 2011.
About What Is My Brand
What Is My Brand http://www.whatismybrand.com is an online Branding Network that helps people build a personal brand and lets them express their personal and retail brand opinions. What Is My Brand?s philosophy is to help people define what they are good at so they always stay in demand, and thus command a premium.
About iomart Hosting
iomart Hosting http://www.iomarthosting.com is one of the UK?s leading providers of complex managed hosting and cloud computing services to the enterprise market. It owns and manages its own network infrastructure, including five UK data centres, offering a unique 100% uptime guarantee. Services include: Private and Hybrid Cloud, Colocation, Content Delivery Networks, IP Transit, Cloud Storage and Email.
Clients include: office2office, Misys, Cimex, BT plc, Stagecoach, Newsquest, Learndirect, London School of Economics and Shine TV.
iomart Hosting is an ISO9001 & ISO27001 certified company. The company is fully accredited at Gold Partner level with VMware, Oracle and Microsoft. It is part of AIM listed iomart Group plc.
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Harris plans to stop offering remote cloud hosting
NEW YORK (AP) -- Harris Corp. plans to stop providing some cloud-computing hosting services and sell a Harrisburg, Va., data center facility, saying Monday that its government and commercial customers prefer keeping sensitive information themselves rather than storing it remotely.
The "cloud" offers customers computing power, software applications and data storage on servers located outside of their own properties.
Harris provides IT and communications services to the government and other customers. It said it still wants to provide customers advanced cyber security and cloud-enabled software applications and services.
The move means Harris will be ending its Cyber Integrated Solutions operations and will likely record a $70 million to $80 million after-tax charge in fiscal 2012.
Harris also said Monday that it is boosting its quarterly dividend by 18 percent to 33 cents per share from 28 cents per share. The dividend will be paid on March 16 to shareholders of record on March 7.
Shares of the company, based in Melbourne, Fla., rose 26 cents to $43.37 in afternoon trading.
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iomart Hosting Provides Cloud Storage and Backup for new Branding Network
GLASGOW, Scotland, February 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
What Is My Brand launches in UK
iomart Hosting, one of the UK's leading providers of cloud computing and managed hosting services, is providing cloud storage and backup for a new personal branding network that's just launched in the UK.
What Is My Brand, http://www.whatismybrand.com , is an online network that allows people to showcase their own unique talents, build a personal brand and express opinions on the brands they like and use.
Sunny Arora, founder of What Is My Brand, says: "The most successful companies in the world all have strong brands - a great brand sells. We believe that this works equally well for individuals. You only have to look at people like Lady Gaga and David Beckham to know how successful a personal brand can be. What Is My Brand is all about the brand of You."
Mr Arora says he chose iomart Hosting to support What Is My Brand because of its 100% uptime guarantee, round-the-clock technical support and the multiple resilience afforded by its network of UK data centres.
He says: "As well as ticking all our boxes concerning reliability and scalability, iomart Hosting really understands the start-up environment. We have a dedicated account manager who, along with a technical services director, has worked closely with us to make sure we got exactly what we needed to launch our new network."
What Is My Brand sits on an iomart Hosting VMWare cloud platform which includes cloud storage and dedicated managed backup to ensure that the network can grow easily as it attracts more members and advertising support.
Mr Arora explains: "Having a cloud platform enabled us to avoid heavy set-up costs whilst offering very attractive on-going operational costs. Secondly, it provides us with on-demand scalability which means as user numbers rise we can scale up quickly, removing any time-lag that might be associated with a fixed physical infrastructure. And thirdly, we only pay for what we use."
Sarah Haran, managing director of iomart Hosting, says: "It's particularly important for start-up businesses to avoid large capital outlay at the beginning. Cloud hosting is both an economical solution and a scalable one which will allow What Is My Brand to react quickly to growth in its membership."
Jane Robertson , +44(0)141-931-6474, jane.robertson@iomart.com
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