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Persistent Systems Acquires Innovative Cloud Platform Business From Doyenz, Inc.
PUNE, INDIA and SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 18, 2012) - Persistent Systems ( BOMBAY : PERSISTENT ) ( NSE : PERSISTENT ), the global leader in software product and technology services, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement through its US subsidiary to acquire 'rCloud,' an innovative cloud platform business from privately held Doyenz, Inc. Doyenz'srCloud, an innovative business continuity cloud platform,provides backup and disaster recovery for physical and virtual servers on the cloud for SMBs. Persistent Systems will continue to serve rCloud customers under the Doyenz brand.The Company will develop and enhance the rCloud service, maintaining employees and channel partnerships instrumental to its business.Terms of the definitive agreement were not disclosed.
This acquisition furthers Persistent Systems' objectives in growing its IP-led business, and strengthens the Company's cloud computing and SMB offerings. Doyenz's team of seasoned cloud experts and its rCloud service, will enable Persistent Systems to extend its cloud expertise and to provide a complete end-to-end solution to existing and new customers, delivered through the channel.
According to a recent Forrester Research report titled, "An Infrastructure And Operations Pro's Guide To Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Services," 70% of SMBs interviewed said they considered DR (disaster recovery) to be of high or critical importance in the decision to adopt cloud services.*
"We are committed to delivering the most advanced solutions in cloud computing and this acquisition will further expand our IP led solutions in the cloud and SMB space," said Nara Rajagopalan, Chief Product Officer, Persistent Systems, Inc. "With hundreds of partners representing over 3500 customers, Doyenz's proven rCloud disaster recovery solution is meeting a critical need in the global SMB marketplace. We are delighted to welcome Ashutosh Tiwary, CEO of Doyenz and the Doyenz team of cloud platform experts to Persistent."
"Our vision was to make recovery of IT applications and data faster, simpler, and more accessible to companies of all sizes," said Ashutosh Tiwary, CEO of Doyenz, Inc."Persistent's acquisition of Doyenz's market leading disaster recovery cloud platform will allow us to grow and deliver even more enterprise-class, affordable, cloud-based disaster recovery services to Managed Service Providers, serving the SMB community.The team and I are excited to join Persistent Systems and work together to further develop innovative disaster recovery and cloud services for our customers."
"Doyenz's rCloud is a critical component to our business, providing innovative cloud-based disaster recovery services to our partners," said Alex Rogers, CEO of CharTec. "Persistent Systems brings strong financial backing and top notch software professionals to rapidly develop innovative disaster recovery services for the channel."
*"An Infrastructure and Operations Pro's Guide To Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Services," Forrester Research, Inc., March 20, 2012.
About Doyenz: Doyenz provides an innovative cloud platform that meets the business continuity needs of small and medium-sized businesses. Doyenz rCloud provides backup and disaster recovery for VMware environments allowing IT professionals to restore virtual environments in under fifteen minutes, providing quick access to business critical applications. Doyenz is a privately held company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington with additional facilities in Boston, Massachusetts and London, England. For more information, please visit http://www.doyenz.com.
About Persistent Systems: Established in 1990, Persistent Systems ( BOMBAY : PERSISTENT ) ( NSE : PERSISTENT ) is a global company specializing in software product and technology services. For more than two decades, Persistent has been an innovation partner for the world's largest technology brands, leading enterprises and pioneering start-ups. With a global team of more than 6,000 employees, Persistent has 300 customers spread across North America, Europe, and Asia. Today, Persistent focuses on developing best-in-class solutions in four key next-generation technology areas: Cloud Computing, Mobility, Analytics and Collaboration, for telecommunications, life sciences, consumer packaged goods, banking & financial services and healthcare verticals. For more information, please visit: http://www.persistentsys.com.
Forward-looking and Cautionary Statements: For risks and uncertainties relating to forward-looking statements, please visit: http://www.persistentsys.com/Portals/0/forward_looking_cautionary_statement.shtml
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The Pirate Bay Moves To The Cloud To Thwart Shutdown
October 18, 2012
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports Your Universe Online
The Pirate Bay has moved its servers into the cloud in an effort to thwart authorities targeting BitTorrent sites.
The widely used, file-sharing website said it will begin hosting its infrastructure through multiple cloud-hosting providers in multiple countries, a move that will save money while simultaneously making it more difficult for law-enforcement agencies to take the site offline.
All attempts to attack [us] from now on is an attack on everything and nothing, The Pirate Bay (TPB) said in a statement posted on its site.
The site that youre at will still be here, for as long as we want it to. Only in a higher form of being. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harm us.
A TPB representative told TorrentFreak that users of the site would continue to have their identities hidden.
The hosting providers have no idea that theyre hosting The Pirate Bay, and even in the event they found out it would be impossible for them to gather data on the users, the representative said.
TPB says it will maintain control of its transit routers and load balancers, which allows the site to distribute file-sharing requests across multiple machines while keeping the identity of the cloud-provider and its users concealed.
If the police decide to raid us again there are no servers to take, just a transit router, TPB said.
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The Pirate Bay Moves To The Cloud To Thwart Shutdown
The Pirate Bay moves to the cloud to escape authorities
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The Pirate Bay migrated its entire operation to the cloud on Tuesday, Torrentfreak.com reports. Pirate Bay officials say this move in effect makes the site raid proof. The popular search engine used to find torrents, or small information files that allow the downloading of content from the BitTorrent peer-to-peer system.
The Pirate Bays backend is spread across several cloud servers worldwide, which all run a virtualized copy of the server containing the sites data. If one server is taken down by authorities, the sites backend can route traffic to a copy of the server that remains online. Similar setups are used by major websites like Amazon, and it results in more reliable service and increased uptime.
Swedish police last raided The Pirate Bay back in May 2006, resulting in the seizure of 25 servers across five locations. Following that raid, the sites administrators took additional steps to further conceal the locations of their servers, although the site says it has been told it is in the sights of the Swedish authorities once again.
The Swedish district attorney Fredrik Ingblad initiated a new investigation into The Pirate Bay back in 2010, the site writes in its blog. Since our recent move to a .SE domain, the investigation has been cranked up a notch. Taken at face value, those comments seem to indicate another raid may be in the not-too-distant future.
But is The Pirate Bay really raid proof? There is action law enforcement could take in order to make things difficult for the sites administrators.
Authorities could take down the pieces of the network which direct traffic to the virtual servers. This work would need to be done quickly: after eight hours of no communication with the network, those virtual servers shut down automatically. Once that happens, they cannot be restarted without a password.
Even then that might not mean muchall data on these servers are encrypted. So while The Pirate Bay might not yet be raid proof, it certainly has become exponentially more difficult to control.
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The Pirate Bay moves to the cloud to escape authorities
Pirate Bay ditches servers and switches to the cloud
Looking for new ways to avoid raids and the seizure of its information-full servers, the file-sharing service moves all of its content to the cloud.
In the midst of threats of a possible police raid, the Pirate Bay decided to armor itself and become literally raid-proof. It's ditched its servers and moved to several cloud-hosting providers in different countries around the world.
"Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our earthly form and ascending into the next stage, the cloud," the Pirate Bay wrote in a blog post. "Our data flows around in thousands of clouds, in deeply encrypted forms, ready to be used when necessary. Earth bound nodes that transform the data are as deeply encrypted and reboot into a deadlock if not used for 8 hours."
Switching to the cloud makes sense for the file hosting service -- it cuts down on resources and should reduce the site's downtown for users, according to TorrentFreak. Additionally, the data should be more secure since it's not being hosted in just one place.
"Moving to the cloud lets TPB move from country to country, crossing borders seamlessly without downtime," the Pirate Bay told TorrentFreak. "All the servers don't even have to be hosted with the same provider, or even on the same continent."
The file-sharing service has taken several steps to buffer itself against a possible shut down by the authorities. It first got rid of trackers, then it tossed its torrents in February and started using magnet links, and now it's servers are gone.
"All attempts to attack The Pirate Bay from now on is an attack on everything and nothing," it said in the blog post. "The site that you're at will still be here, for as long as we want it to. Only in a higher form of being. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harm us."
Since March, the Swedish authorities have taken down one of the site's kingpins in a high-profile arrest and extradition from Cambodia to Sweden. Gottfried Svartholm Warg, who is one of the co-founders of the file-sharing service, is now being tried on charges of hacking tax records in Sweden.
The Swedish authorities have become increasingly more serious about clamping down on sites that deal in copyright infringement. Earlier this month, they raided Web host PRQ and seized a handful of servers for Web sites that allegedly partook in illegal file sharing. The Pirate Bay used to be hosted by PRQ but no longer uses this provider.
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Pirate Bay ditches servers and switches to the cloud
The Pirate Bay ditches its servers, sets sail for the cloud
The Pirate Bay's home page announces the site's move to the cloud.
The Pirate Bay is getting rid of its physical servers and exchanging them for virtual machines spread across multiple cloud services. By hosting its infrastructure in multiple data centers and even multiple countries, the widely used torrent site says it will avoid being shut down by authorities targeting BitTorrent sites.
Numerous torrent sites went offline earlier this month after a Swedish police raid of the hosting company PRQ, which was launched by the founders of The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay itself wasn't affected by that raid because it had already stopped relying on PRQ for hosting. But it has been the target of raids on previous occasions, and has suffered downtime because of the types of IT hassles that afflict most businesses. Moving to the cloud will help on both counts.
On its Facebook page, The Pirate Bay said "we've gotten rid of the servers," and "We're about to become even more untouchable." In a bit of excited hyperbole, it also said "Our data flows around in thousands of clouds, in deeply encrypted forms, ready to be used when necessary. Earth bound nodes that transform the data are as deeply encrypted and reboot into a deadlock if not used for 8 hours. All attempts to attack The Pirate Bay from now on is an attack on everything and nothing."
A few months ago, The Pirate Bay said it had plans to build aerial server drones using Raspberry Pi computers.In reality, The Pirate Bay switched from its own infrastructure to those of cloud providers yesterday, going through five minutes of downtime while the changeover was made. The new infrastructure is being hosted with "several cloud hosting providers" in two countries, torrent news site TorrentFreak reported today.
If one cloud-provider cuts us off, goes offline or goes bankrupt, we can just buy new virtual servers from the next provider. Then we only have to upload the VM-images and reconfigure the load-balancer to get the site up and running again," a Pirate Bay spokesperson told TorrentFreak.
The Pirate Bay still maintains its own load balancer and transit routers, to hide the location of its cloud providers and encrypt traffic to prevent user data from being exposed, the article states.
"The worst case scenario is that The Pirate Bay loses both its transit router and its load balancer," TorrentFreak writes. "All the important data is backed up externally on VMs that can be reinstalled at cloud hosting providers anywhere in the world.
If the police decide to raid us again there are no servers to take, just a transit router," The Pirate Bay said. "If they follow the trail to the next country and find the load balancer, there is just a disk-less server there. In case they find out where the cloud provider is, all they can get are encrypted disk-images."
A less optimistic viewpoint comes from ExtremeTech, which points out that there are still plausible ways for authorities to take The Pirate Bay offline. "The load balancer will be hosted with a major ISPand its easy enough for the feds to compel an ISP to pull the plug," ExtremeTech wrote, noting that installing a new load balancer isn't cheap or easy.
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The Pirate Bay ditches its servers, sets sail for the cloud
The Pirate Bay site moves to the cloud
Published: Oct. 17, 2012 at 3:14 PM
LONDON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- File-sharing website The Pirate Bay, which started in Sweden, says it has moved its servers to the cloud to block attempts to take it offline or shut it down.
The site, which has come under attack for allegedly encouraging illegal sharing of copyright material, said it would now operate from cloud-hosting providers around the world, the BBC reported Wednesday.
Its new cloud-based servers use the Internet for storage and do not have to be hosted with the same provider, or even on the same continent, making it resistant to efforts to close it down, the site said in a statement.
"All attempts to attack [us] from now on is an attack on everything and nothing," it said.
In 2006, police in Sweden raided the offices of The Pirate Bay, shutting down its servers and taking the site offline.
Since then it has been hosted on servers in several different locations around the world.
"Moving to the cloud lets TPB move from country to country, crossing borders seamlessly without downtime," a Pirate Bay representative told the TorrentFreak website.
"The hosting providers have no idea that they're hosting The Pirate Bay, and even in the event they found out it would be impossible for them to gather data on the users," the representative said.
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The Pirate Bay site moves to the cloud
The Pirate Bay moves to the cloud
17 October 2012 Last updated at 12:01 ET
File-sharing website The Pirate Bay has moved its servers to the cloud to frustrate attempts to take it offline.
The site, which has been blamed for encouraging illegal file-sharing, will now operate from cloud-hosting providers around the world.
It says the move will save money and make it harder for law-enforcement agencies to shut it down.
"All attempts to attack [us] from now on is an attack on everything and nothing," it says.
In 2006, police in Sweden raided The Pirate Bay, shutting down its servers and taking the site offline.
The Pirate Bay (TPB) now says its new cloud-based servers, which use the internet for storage, do not have to be hosted with the same provider, or even on the same continent - making it impervious to attempts to close it down.
Its statement continues: "The site that you're at will still be here, for as long as we want it to. Only in a higher form of being. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harm us."
A TPB representative told the TorrentFreak website: "Moving to the cloud lets TPB move from country to country, crossing borders seamlessly without downtime.
"The hosting providers have no idea that they're hosting The Pirate Bay, and even in the event they found out it would be impossible for them to gather data on the users."
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The Pirate Bay moves to the cloud
The Pirate Bay switches to cloud-based servers
It isnt exactly a secret that authorities and entertainment groups dont like The Pirate Bay, but today the infamous site made it a little bit harder for them to bring it down. The Pirate Bay announced today that it has move its servers to the cloud. This works in a couple different ways: it helps the people who run The Pirate Bay save money, while it makes it more difficult for police to carry out a raid on the site.
All attempts to attack The Pirate Bay from now on is an attack on everything and nothing, a Pirate Bay blog post reads. The site that youre at will still be here, for as long as we want it to. Only in a higher form of being. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harm us. The site told TorrentFreak after the switch that its currently being hosted by two different cloud providers in two different countries, and what little actual hardware it still needs to use is being kept in different countries as well. The idea is not only to make it harder for authorities to bring The Pirate Bay down, but also to make it easier to bring the site back up should that ever happen.
Even if authorities do manage to get their hands on The Pirate Bays remaining hardware, theyll only be taking its transit router and its load balancer the servers are stored in several Virtual Machine instances, along with all of TPBs vital data. The kicker is that these cloud hosting companies arent aware that theyre hosting The Pirate Bay, and if they discovered the site was using their service, theyd have a hard time digging up any dirt on users since the communication between the VMs and the load balancer is encrypted.
In short, it sounds like The Pirate Bay has taken a huge step in not only protecting its own rear end, but those of users as well. If all of this works out the way The Pirate Bay is claiming it will, then dont expect to hear about the site going down anytime soon. Still, theres nothing stopping authorities from trying to bring it down, or from putting in the work to try and figure out who the people behind The Pirate Bay are. Stay tuned.
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Hybrid Backup Software addresses local and cloud-based needs.
LONGMONT, Colo. -- Rebit Inc., developers of award-winning, "ridiculously simple" backup software for consumers, professionals and small businesses, today announced its enhanced RebitPro hybrid backup software, which now backs up both clients and servers.
Developed for small businesses that require the speed and security of local backup but also want the redundancy and protection that offsite cloud backup provides, RebitPro seamlessly marries full system local backup and recovery with cloud backup to provide a comprehensive backup solution that is simple to use. Rebit's unique hybrid architecture leverages a single backup engine and user interface to back up both clients and servers, locally and in the cloud.
"Before RebitPro, backing up clients and servers both locally and in the cloud required multiple backup systems," commented Paul Guerin, CEO, Rebit Inc. "Running multiple independent backup systems results in duplication of effort, cost and unnecessary complexity. With RebitPro's innovative, hybrid architecture, businesses can now have simple, comprehensive, and cost-effective client and server backup and recovery in a single solution."
"Combining local and cloud backup for disaster recovery in one interface and backup package, Rebit has created what may be the missing link for solo attorneys and small law firms when it comes to an affordable, easy-to-use and comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution," stated Nerino J. Petro Jr., technology editor, GPSolo magazine.
"I installed and tested RebitPro for a small police department requiring 24/7 operation," said Gerry Anthony, president, G-tech Solutions. "The installation went very smoothly, and took less than 30 minutes to complete and set up both a network and cloud backup schedule. RebitPro exceeded my expectations, allowing for multiple points of backup, local, network and cloud all at the same time. It is intuitive enough to keep both a local and network backup updated without any degradation in performance on the server."
"I plan to offer RebitPro to all of my clients with servers and small networks," added Mr. Anthony. "It will help them get away from multiple vendors - one for local backup and one for cloud backup - and will work in real time, giving a better point of recovery if something should happen. RebitPro will simplify the backup process for a significant number of my clients and remove the concerns they have about current backup processes with multiple vendors. For me, it provides a simple solution to a complex problem - server backup."
RebitPro is available through Rebit's network of authorized partners or online at http://www.rebit.com. For more information, visit the Rebit Pro product page. Rebit is also introducing major enhancements for its channel partner program. To become an authorized partner, visit http://www.rebit.com/partner.
For small office and home office users who simply require client backup, RebitPlus is available. More information about RebitPlus can be found at http://www.rebit.com.
About Rebit Inc.
Rebit Inc. is a software company committed to delivering automatic and complete backup for Windows, removing the burden of managing backup from users. Rebit was named a Top300 Startup in 2011. Rebit 5 has earned the Editors' Choice Awards from PC Magazine and the DigitalReviews Network. "Follow the frog" on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and the Frog Blog. http://www.rebit.com
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Zadara Storage Announces Integration with OpenStack Cloud Block Storage, 'Cinder'
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenStack Summit -- Zadara Storage, the innovator in cloud block storage that brought Private Storage to the Public Cloud via Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, and Dimension Data (formerly OpSource), announced today their latest storage industry break-through: integration of their Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) service with OpenStack Cloud Block Storage (Cinder) for Public and Private Clouds.
The integration with OpenStack expands the availability of VPSA to developers and users world-wide, offering all the benefits of Zadara's solutions suite including Cloud Block Storage, Cloud File Storage, High Performance, True High Availability, RAID Protection, Flexibility and Elasticity (grow and shrink performance and capacity on the fly), and Security and Privacy (including data-at-rest encryption).
Zadara Storage is an active contributor and thought leader for OpenStack's Cloud Block Storage (Cinder) code, including Compute (Nova) and Block Storage (Cinder). "As early and ongoing supporters, developers and users of OpenStack, it is a delight to announce we have completed our integration with OpenStack Cloud Block Storage (Cinder)," states Zadara's CEO, Nelson Nahum, adding, "It is now easier than ever for Cloud Service Providers and Private Cloud Users to adopt and benefit from our Cloud Block Storage Software."
"OpenStack's flexible architecture and strong ecosystem of technology innovators like Zadara give users control when it comes to selecting the cloud technologies best suited for their business needs," said Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation. "We appreciate Zadara's continued contributions to and support of the community, and are excited to see more Enterprise-class storage options available for OpenStack users."
Zadara's software-only solution for Cloud and Cloud Block Storage paves the way for the next generation of Enterprise-class Storage-as-a-Service. Cloud Providers and Private Clouds can adopt Zadara Storage software easily and efficiently. Channel Partners will also find benefits of economy and scale for their customers with the accessibility of Zadara's Cloud Block Storage and solutions suite. The Cloud is now ready for your critical Enterprise and web applications with Zadara's Virtual Private Storage Array and Cloud Block Storage integration with OpenStack Cloud Block Storage (Cinder).
About Zadara StorageWinner of Venturebeat's and Under the Radar cloud competitions, Zadara Storage offers Enterprise-class storage for the cloud. With Zadara Storage, cloud storage leapfrogs ahead to provide cloud servers with high-performance, fully configurable, highly available, fully private, tiered storage. By combining the best of Enterprise storage with the best of cloud and cloud block storage, Zadara Storage takes the cloud to the next level enabling Enterprises to migrate mission-critical applications to the Cloud. Discover the benefits of cloud without the compromise: zadarastorage.com.
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