Infrastructure as a Service Platform Provider Eucalyptus Announces Integration with OrangeScape Musicians aren't the only ones teaming up this summer for upcoming concerts as technology innovators all over the space are charging forward with new partnerships. This week, Infrastructure as a Service platform provider Eucalyptus demonstrated that it is looking to spread a little spring cheer with OrangeScape, a Global 10 Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider, as the two announced integration between OrangeScape's Visual PaaS platform and Eucalyptus' Infrastructure as a Service platform.
5/16/2012
Infrastructure as a Service, Cloud Computing Adoption Becoming Mainstream Network Instruments released the results of an onsite survey of Interop attendees in which it identified the factors that trigger cloud adoption and the challenges that cloud migration can bring. The results of the survey were based on the responses of 102 network engineers, IT managers and executives attending Interop.
5/14/2012
Cloud Computing, an Opportunity for Growth Cloud computing provides an environment, a "cloud," where users can share a common application, platform, and infrastructure. A cloud provides easy and scalable access to resources, serves as data-driven integration solution, allows the outsourcing of information over the Internet and helps automate business processes over network. Thanks to cloud computing, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are conveniently sharing dedicated resources like hardware, software, and product development tools and have delivered hosted services to their own PC. The cloud's success is that it can assist multiple users in multiple platforms.
5/9/2012
Symplified Unveils Symplified Structure Identity-as-a-Service Platform for Cloud Service Providers Symplified, the cloud identity company offering Infrastructure as a Service, announced the availability of Symplified Structure which enables service providers, telcos and cloud application hosting companies to integrate identity and access management (IAM) across their suite of cloud services.
Symplified Structure unifies identity management, access control, auditing, and user provisioning across existing public/private cloud services and SaaS marketplaces. Service providers can deliver the convenience of secure single-sign on (SSO) from any device to support the skyrocketing use of personal mobile devices (BYOD) within enterprises.
5/7/2012
Hexagrid's Unovie Cloud Solution Takes Infrastructure as a Service to New Heights The scalable, flexible and cost-effective nature of cloud computing has made Infrastructure as a Service technologies a must-have for the majority of forward-thinking organizations. The on-demand nature of cloud computing gives enterprises and SMBs several unique advantages over their competition, including the ability to build and provision virtual machines (VMs) as needed.
5/3/2012
Forrester Report Acknowledges Opsource's Public Infrastructure as a Service Cloud Offerings Opsource Inc., acquired by Dimension Data in 2011, came into the limelight recently when it received kudos from Forrester Research Inc., for its public Infrastructure as a Service cloud offering and disaster recovery solution.
The company was identified as an "Independent MSP Cloud" that differentiated itself from other providers with an enterprise-class cloud Infrastructure as a Service offering that offered comprehensive solutions, according to company officials.
4/30/2012
A Look Back on Hexagrid's Infrastructure as a Service Impact in 2012 so Far 2012 may only be a third of the way through but Infrastructure as a Service enabler Hexagrid isn't waiting until later this year to make a big splash in the market. Conversely, the company has already seen its name splashed over the newsfeeds these first few months, demonstrating its continued commitment to bringing faster, easier cloud technology that "just works."
4/25/2012
Infrastructure as a Service Enabler Hexagrid Charges Down the 'Open Field' As the market quickly starts to demand more and more of that faster, easier cloud technology that "just works," Hexagrid Computing is standing up a bit straighter and putting a smile on its face as that demand speaks to the exact value proposition of the Infrastructure as a Service enabler.
4/18/2012
CSC's New Infrastructure as a Service Accelerates Private Cloud Adoption in Canada BizCloud is a new service from CSC, a provider of technology-enabled business solutions and services, and built on Infrastructure as a Service architecture deployed in CSC cloud data centers. The service is touted as the industry's first on-premise private cloud billed as a service, which is ready for workloads in as few as 10 weeks.
The solution from CSC, now available in Canada, eliminates lengthy capital acquisition cycles by accelerating the adoption of a private cloud by businesses and government agencies.
4/16/2012
Infrastructure as a Service Enabler Hexagrid Talks Cloud Computing Challenges In a recent blog by Hexagrid Computing, an Infrastructure as a Service enabler, Josh Restivo discussed the challenges associated with forensic computer analysis in the virtual environment. Traditionally, forensic acquisition meant accessing physical servers and imaging physical disks. Cloud storage, on the other hand, is massive in size and may be distributed over a variety of arrays and locations. Gone are the days of big, beefy police officers lugging hardware out of a crime scene, however. In the cloud, fighting crime is a lot more nebulous.
4/11/2012
Platform Equinix Supports Unitas Global's Infrastructure as a Service in Asia Pacific Infrastructure as a Service, a component of cloud computing, enables organizations to deliver and control virtual IT resources such as storage, computing and networking capacity through a model in which the product is offered through the Internet to the client as an on-demand service.
Providers that offer Infrastructure as a Service are required to build their platforms on secure and redundant infrastructure that has the capability to deliver highly reliable and available services to their clients.
4/10/2012
Host Virtual Expands Infrastructure as a Service in Six U.S. Locations Host Virtual, a provider of Infrastructure as a Service solutions, has expanded its six U.S. cloud locations including San Jose, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Virginia and New York, to serve the company's growing customer base not only from the U.S. but also from international markets.
The company operates dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 Infrastructure as a Service clouds worldwide. Customers can deploy Linux, VOIP or FreeBSD servers to any location within minutes. The service is marked by greater scalability, self-service and ease of use.
3/26/2012
Infrastructure as a Service: Businesses Need to Start Small One of the biggest obstacles toward shifting to the cloud is not knowing which part of IT to offload to the cloud. As much as cloud computing is increasing in adoption, many businesses are taking the wrong approach, according to industry experts.
The whole point of cloud is to start small, such as deploying Infrastructure as a Service, for example. However, many customers are overprovisioning and spending more money on cloud services than they have to, according to a recent PC World report.
3/23/2012
ActiveState Taps Infrastructure as a Service Provider CloudSigma ActiveState, whose software enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, and CloudSigma, a company that touts itself for being the only international, customer-centric, pure cloud Infrastructure as a Service provider, have announced a Stackato reseller agreement.
As part of the pact, CloudSigma will resell Stackato as part of its cloud service offerings
3/21/2012
FailProof Talks Cloud Adoption, Infrastructure as a Service Platforms with TMCnet Spring is certainly here; the birds are chirping, the sun is staying out later and partnerships and technological innovations are in full bloom.
Embracing the spring fever, FailProof Technology Inc. - a full-service provider of cloud solutions catering to VARs and MSPs - announced today that it has signed a VAD agreement with Hexagrid Computing, an Infrastructure as a Service enabler. Thanks to the partnership, FailProof will be able to help VARs, solutions providers and MSPs transition their customers from aging IT boxes to secure high-performance cloud solutions seamlessly.
3/18/2012
What Defines Infrastructure as a Service? The term cloud computing is one of the hottest phrases in the tech world, and for good reason. Capable Infrastructure as a Service solutions can drastically cut operating costs and improve asset value while enabling on-demand delivery.
The problem with cloud computing is that the hype surrounding the technology has led to an oversaturation of the term, leading to confusion over what cloud computing actually tries to solve. In an effort to better define the true essence of cloud computing, Infrastructure as a Service enabler Hexagrid recently authored a white paper that details the design principles and system requirements that characterize today's leading IaaS platforms.
3/14/2012
FailProof Talks Cloud Adoption, Infrastructure as a Service Platforms with TMCnet Spring is certainly here, the birds are chirping, the sun is staying out later and partnerships and technological innovations are in full bloom.
Embracing the spring fever, today FailProof Technology Inc. - a full-service provider of cloud solutions catering to VARs and MSPs - announced today that it has signed a VAD agreement with Hexagrid Computing, an Infrastructure as a Service enabler. Thanks to the partnership, FailProof will be able to help VARs, solutions providers and MSPs transition their customers from aging IT boxes to secure high-performance cloud solutions seamlessly.
3/13/2012
Infrastructure as a Service: Are you Ready to Tread in the Cloud Pool? When it comes to diving head first into the deep end of the swimming pool, you may need to ask yourself a few pertinent questions first. Did you just eat a big lunch? Do you know how to tread in deep water? And are you prepared for the fact that the 16-year-old oblivious lifeguard who would rather read her tabloid magazine doesn't seem to particularly care if you drown or not?
3/8/2012
Infrastructure as a Service Provider Teams with RTP Technology Corporation Atlantic Metro Communications, an award-winning, full-service Infrastructure as a Service provider with solutions for businesses, has entered into a partnership with RTP Technology Corporation (RTP) to offer cost-effective business continuity and Storage as a Service solutions.
"We are excited to partner with RTP to provide businesses with a cost-effective, scalable and simple way to leverage network storage and disaster recovery solutions without capital expenditures," said Matthew Lombardi, CEO of Atlantic Metro, in a statement.
3/5/2012
GDS Launches Infrastructure as a Service Cloud-Based Solutions for Resellers in Benelux Through its recently created Cloud City Europe brand, Green Data Systems (GDS), a specialist IT distributor, has launched new Infrastructure as a Service cloud-based solutions for resellers in Benelux.
Officials with GDS said that the company is delivering these solutions from a new state-of-the-art data center facility in Deventer, East Holland. GDS selected Brocade and its cloud-optimized network solutions as the foundation for this environment, as high availability and performance are key requirements to customers using a cloud model.
2/28/2012
UK Government Taps Interoute's Infrastructure as a Service Platform Infrastructure as a Service provider Interoute added a big client name to its resume this week, as the European cloud services platform announced that it has been selected to supply Infrastructure as a Service to the U.K. government through its G-Cloud program.
2/24/2012
American Music Channel Taps Infrastructure as a Service Provider's Hosting Solution Phoenix NAP, a provider of Infrastructure as a Service solutions and primary network access point (NAP), announced it is supporting the services of American Music Channel, a portal dedicated to offering entertainment through online magazine, music videos and social network.
American Music Channel has selected the data center's Secured Servers offering to meet its hosting needs. The Secured Servers offering was added to Phoenix NAP following the acquisition of Secured Servers, a dedicated Web hosting provider, earlier this year as part of the company's strategy to offer full service data center solutions.
2/21/2012
Infrastructure as a Service Provider Eucalyptus Intros Cloud Test Lab In an effort to address the growing demand for cloud computing technologies, Infrastructure as a Service provider Eucalyptus Systems has unveiled an enterprise-class cloud test lab offering at CoreSite Realty's Bay area data center campus. Thanks to the Eucalyptus Cloud Test Lab, before officially transitioning to the cloud, enterprises can have access to a secure, fully functional hosted Infrastructure as a Service cloud to make sure their cloud application migration strategies will be successful.
2/13/2012
Oversi Unveils OverCache Infrastructure as a Service for Transparent Caching Oversi, the global provider of Internet Video and P2P caching solutions, has unveiled a new Infrastructure as a Service - OverCache IaaS - which enables a transparent caching service to providers.
Transparent caching allows service providers to effectively manage the huge traffic load on their networks. The service also improves subscribers' Quality of Experience (QoE). The market for transparent caching is growing thanks to the growth of Infrastructure as a Service solutions.
2/6/2012
Defeat of SOPA and PIPA Leaves the Door Open for Innovation In a glowing example that democracy still works, lawmakers in the House and Senate walked away from a pair of highly controversial bills anti-piracy bills last month after hoards of offline and online protesters aggressively opposed the legislation.
The Senate's Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and the House's Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) - each aimed at cracking down on copyright infringement by punishing ISPs, search engines and websites that host pirated content - were seen by millions as the first big step toward widespread Internet censorship.
2/1/2012
Attend Selects CloudSigma's Infrastructure as a Service to Power MediaCloud CloudSigma, a cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, announced that Attend, a provider of cloud services for media professionals, has selected CloudSigma's Infrastructure as a Service to power its MediaCloud and content ingest network for media professionals.
Attend will benefit from CloudSigma's flexible and customizable approach to the cloud, its ability to support high-performing applications needed by media professionals during content creation
1/23/2012
Infrastructure as a Service: UnboundID Announces Identity Management Products UnboundID, a provider of identity data solutions for cloud, telco, and enterprise computing, has announced the "industry's first" identity management products based on Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) specification.
The solution, according to company officials, provides a standardized and simpler solution for organizations provisioning and managing user identities across multiple cloud-based services, including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service offerings
1/16/2012
Infrastructure as a Service Enabler Hexagrid Weighs in on Cloud Adoption Sure it would be great for us to all live in Utopia, but most of the time it is important to take a step back and separate what is possible in this reality from what we would like to see in Utopia. This is particularly important when it comes to cloud computing, according to many industry experts.
1/9/2012
New Year's Resolutions for the Infrastructure as a Service Space While 2011 was certainly a big year for the Infrastructure as a Service space, particularly when it came to the major shift among enterprises towards the adoption of private cloud computing architectures, it appears that 2012 is poised to be the best year yet for the cloud market.
One of the main drivers for this success? The fact that the market is finally educated and comfortable enough with cloud technology and what benefits it affords to move forward with Infrastructure as a Service platforms, according to officials at Hexagrid Computing.
1/6/2012
Infrastructure as a Service Provider Phoenix NAP Tapped for Disaster Recovery Offering For U.S. fast food restaurant hot spot Del Taco, the decision to enlist the services of Infrastructure as a Service provider Phoenix NAP for disaster recovery services was an easy one.
In addition to Phoneix NAP allowing customers to enjoy colocation and hosting service - and a recently added Infrastructure as a Service offering - the company also boasts modern features and security measures in its data center in Phoenix. Accordingly, Del Taco had no problem choosing Phoenix NAP's data center in Phoenix as the location for its disaster-recovery infrastructure, the data center services provider said Tuesday.
1/4/2012
The Benefits of Infrastructure as a Service for the SMB The cloud is gaining increased attention in the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) space due to its low cost of entry and subscription-based pricing. And, while it makes sense to host applications through a third party provider, does the same hold true for the infrastructure? A recent industry piece takes a closer look at why Infrastructure as a Service makes sense for the SMB.
12/29/2011
Gartner Positions Infrastructure as a Service Company Terremark in the Leaders Quadrant In its "Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, 2011 report," Gartner has positioned Terremark in the leader's quadrant.
Gartner defines public cloud compute Infrastructure as a Service as "a standardized, highly automated, massively multitenant offering" in which compute resources, complemented by storage and networking capabilities, are owned and hosted by a service provider and offered to the customer on demand.
12/21/2011
KVH Lauded for its Infrastructure as a Service Platform KVH, a Japan focused IT/communications service provider, has found a friend in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) as TSE has selected the KVH Infrastructure as a Service platform for a beta version of "TSE Market Impact View," a new market information delivery service to be launched on a trial basis today.
12/16/2011
Infrastructure as a Service Provider Eucalyptus Spreading Word about Offerings For being only three years old, Eucalyptus has already made quite a splash in the Infrastructure as a Service market, particularly since over 25,000 Eucalyptus clouds were started all over the world including more than 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies.
But its Cinderella story may be a bit different than one would expect.
12/1/2011
Storage, Back-up and Security Drive the Growth of Infrastructure as a Service among Indian SMBs A recent study by AMI finds that small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India are gradually becoming more aware of and interested in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). This interest is driven by their increased focus on data storage/back up, servers and virus protection, spam filtering or other security solutions.
The study titled, "2011 India SMB State of the Cloud Market Overview," finds that the time is right for vendor and partners in educating India SMBs on the role and usage of cloud services.
11/28/2011
Infrastructure as a Service Enabler Hexagrid Making a Name for itself at Cloud Expo Infrastructure as a Service enabler Hexagrid kicked off Cloud Expo in Santa Clara, Calif., with a big bang this morning as it announced that it has joined forces with Boston Limited, an established distributor and integrator of Supermicro Computer server and storage solutions (NASDAQ: SMCI), to showcase the market-ready Unovie cloud which streamlines service provider delivery of private cloud solutions.
11/8/2011
Infrastructure as a Service: RightScale, Eucalyptus Tapped for Cloud Initiatives Intercontinental Hotels Group and Beijing UnGeo Information Technology have selected RightScale and Eucalyptus, providers of Infrastructure as a Service platforms, for cloud initiatives.
Officials with Eucalyptus Systems and RightScale said that these leading organizations have adopted RightScale myCloud and Eucalyptus for a "single pane of glass" to transform their IT infrastructures into fully managed private and hybrid clouds.
11/7/2011
ADW Taps Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to Offer Infrastructure as a Service Spain based Advanced Data Warehouse (ADW), a principal hosting company particularly within the Basque region, has implemented its new cloud computing solution using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
ADW said that it can now provide its customers with a powerful, stable and scalable Infrastructure as a Service.
10/31/2011
Security: Seeing Through the Cloud When broaching the subject of cloud computing with enterprise decision makers, a "We're not ready to make that jump" response is nearly always followed by a vague allusion to security concerns. The first thing to understand, however, is that "cloud" does not necessarily mean off-premise or out of your control. This is not to suggest that hosted clouds are inherently insecure or inferior. Before proceeding with a discussion of cloud security, though, it's necessary to differentiate the two approaches.
10/26/2011
Hexagrid Demos Infrastructure as a Service Platform VxDatacenter at ITEXPO When Infrastructure as a Service enabler Hexagrid took to the ITEXPO West 2011 showroom floor to demo its flagship product VxDatacenter last month, there was one message about the platform that Hexagrid wanted to come across loud and clear - people can profit very quickly by deploying this offering.
10/13/2011
Infrastructure as a Service Company etherFAX and FaxCore Enable Cloud-Based Fax Solution etherFAX, a provider of Infrastructure as a Service solutions that extend existing fax server technology to the cloud, announced that Global Airtech, a worldwide distributor of airline parts and services, has selected FaxCore and etherFAX to manage its business-critical fax communications.
FaxCore delivers fax server solutions for enterprise organizations, telecoms, Software as a Service (SaaS) and specialized ASP providers. etherFAX is interoperable with FaxCore as well as other leading fax applications to give enterprises the flexibility to leverage their existing fax investment.
10/11/2011
Infrastructure as a Service to Drive External Controller-Based Disk Storage Market A recent study from Gartner reveals that Infrastructure as a Service represents a larger long-term opportunity for commercial external controller-based (ECB) disk storage vendors.
Worldwide external controller-based (ECB) disk storage vendor revenue from external cloud computing deployments is forecast to grow from $267.4 million in 2010 to $1.45 billion in 2015, Gartner said in its report titled Forecast: External Cloud Opportunity for the Disk Storage Array Market Worldwide, 2010-2015. The market is on pace to total $417.3 million in 2011, a 56 percent increase from 2010.
10/4/2011
Infrastructure as a Service Enabler Hexagrid Remains Dominant Player in the Space with Two New Announcements Infrastructure as a Service enabler Hexagrid seems to be racking up the friends these days as the cloud enablement provider recently forged a partnership with Boston Limited, an established distributor and integrator of Supermicro Computer server and storage solutions.
Together, the two will work to offer complete pre-configured Infrastructure as a Service clouds as an optimized solution delivery model that simplifies and accelerates private cloud adoption.
9/28/2011
Survey Explores Cloud Computing, SaaS and Infrastructure as a Service Use A recent IT in Practice survey carried out by Rambøll, in collaboration with EDB ErgoGroup, found that use of cloud computing in Norway has more than doubled over the last year. However, there are several barriers and challenges that have prevented the majority of users from taking advantage of cloud computing.
9/12/2011
Infrastructure as a Service Enabler Hexagrid Welcomes New Face to Board of Directors, Gregory Freiberg Infrastructure as a Service enabler Hexagrid Computing has welcomed the newest member of its family Gregory W. Freiberg, former chief financial officer of Savvis, who will join the Hexagrid Board of Directors.
"For such a young and small company, Hexagrid has a global focus," Freiberg told TMCnet in an interview. "They have landed mature sizable customers overseas and have a strong funnel across many geographies. This is very exciting for me as I believe international is in my DNA."
9/7/2011
Infrastructure as a Service Enabler Hexagrid Readies for ITEXPO West 2011 For quite some time, cloud companies were miles ahead of the consumer market as technology as a service seemed "too good to be true" and customers were reluctant to adopt cloud technologies, according to Dave Rokita, vice president of technology operations at Hexagrid Computing.
Fast forward a few years later and now consumers have come around and experts are referring to 2011 as the year of the cloud.
8/25/2011
Infrastructure as a Service: CGI to Deliver Cloud Services to Government Agencies CGI Federal (CGI), a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group, announced it has been approved to deliver cloud services to government agencies.
The company has been granted the Authority to Operate (ATO) on the U.S. General Services Administration's (GSA) government-wide, multi-vendor US$76 million Infrastructure as a Service Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA).
8/22/2011
Hexagrid Staying on Top in the Infrastructure as a Service Space When TMCnet had the chance to sit down with Hexagrid's CFO and Vice President of Strategic Development, Joseph Seibel, in San Jose last month, one thing came across loud and clear -Hexagrid is no longer the new kid on the block in the Infrastructure as a Service space.
8/17/2011
RentTheCloud.com Helps CIOs Adopt Cloud Offerings Such as Infrastructure as a Service A-Frame Technology Services has released RentTheCloud.com, a brokerage service that matches companies seeking cloud services, such as Infrastructure as a Service, with cloud vendors.
Company officials said that RentTheCloud.com is 100 percent success-based, like a Realtor. Fees are based on a "cloud brokerage agreement" modeled after a standard realtor agreement and equal to one or two months of the cloud rental fee.
8/15/2011
Hexagrid Takes HostingCon by Storm, Spreading the Word About Infrastructure as a Service Last year, when Infrastructure as a Service enabler Hexagrid attended HostingCon - the premier conference for companies providing website hosting, hosted messaging, and software as a service - the company was just coming out of its infancy. In fact, Hexagrid had recently launched its flagship product VxDatacenter and was gearing up for the launch of its latest product V3Cloud.
8/9/2011
Phoenix NAP Data Center Improves Infrastructure as a Service Solutions Phoenix NAP, an Infrastructure as a Service provider and primary network access point (NAP), has reached an agreement to include Secured Servers, a dedicated Web hosting and servers' provider, in the data center company.
Phoenix NAP is a SAS 70 Type II certified facility and a PCI DSS Validated Services Provider. The Phoenix NAP data-center was developed to provide primary network access point for all carriers within the Phoenix metro region; it functions as a multi-tenant facility capable of offering customers with flexible data center solutions.
8/8/2011
Is the Convergence of Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service Happening? A convergence is about to happen - the meshing of Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service solutions, according to some industry experts.
More than ever, enterprises are embracing the cloud as they seek out Platform as a Service and are adopting an Infrastructure as a Service approach to address their application platforms and applications, leading to a challenging convergence of the two services. This convergence will test both providers and consumers on cultural, procedural and technical fronts, according to a recent article.
8/1/2011
Netmagic Solutions Launches SimpliCloud and HybriCloud Netmagic Solutions, a provider of pure-play managed IT hosting services and cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), announced the launch of SimpliCloud and HybriCloud, the third generation of its enterprise-grade on-demand public cloud services.
7/28/2011
Getting Control of the Cloud with Infrastructure as a Service The argument of private cloud versus public cloud is frequently debated in the tech world, especially as demand for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) continues to grow. Like other cloud technology, IaaS allows companies to set up computer systems without the typical upfront costs.
7/25/2011
Cloud.com Infrastructure as a Service Platform to Benefit from New Partnership Provider of open source cloud computing software Cloud.com has joined the NetApp Alliance Partner Program, which provides qualified infrastructure and application providers with access to NetApp solutions, software development kits, technical support, training, and more.
"The NetApp Alliance Partner Program helps bring together solution providers that have a shared vision of helping customers get the most business value from their IT investments," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Corporate Alliances at NetApp.
7/5/2011
Infrastructure as a Service Leader Introduces Email Management System Infrastructure as a Service provider Dyn has released its Enterprise Class Technology (ECT) platform to help oversee and manage email delivery.
Previously called SendLabs SmartMTA, DynECT Email Delivery was created after the company acquiesced email services provider SendLabs last year. Company officials said that their goal was to further develop an Infrastructure as a Service platform that would allow power users to connect to Dyn and deploy either transactional or bulk.
6/20/2011
SaaS Success Built on Infrastructure as a Service Foundation While recent successes in Software as a Service (SaaS), such as Salesforce.com, are driving consumer demand and adoption of SaaS to out-pace that of on-premises software solutions, SaaS challenges present opportunities for traditional developers who are willing to consider alternative software delivery methods.
6/15/2011
Infrastructure as a Service Leader Launches Three Cloud Offerings in Singapore Fujitsu, a provider of ICT-based business solutions and Infrastructure as a Service leader, has launched three cloud offerings in Singapore. The offerings are part of Fujitsu's global cloud portfolio, which will be rolled out in Singapore over the next two years
Officials with Fujitsu said that these offerings have been developed with the company's customers, based on a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities they face. Company officials said that with the launch of these three cloud offerings, organizations in ASEAN can look to Fujitsu to help start their cloud computing journey.
6/13/2011
Infrastructure as a Service: Hexagrid Assures that the Channel is Not Dead Will cloud computing kill the channel?
This very question is the subject of a blog post by Hexagrid Computing's Vice President of Technology Operations David Rokita earlier this week. And, according to the Infrastructure as a Service enabler company, the answer to this question is that "the channel is not going away, but change is on the horizon."
6/9/2011
Telx, SoftLayer Team to Ensure Infrastructure as a Service Offerings Telx, a leading provider of interconnection and data center services, will have a lot to discuss at the Cloud Computing Expo 2011 - starting tomorrow in New York City - as the company recently unveiled its Cloud Connection Centers and the fact that SoftLayer Technologies has joined the Telx cloudXchange.
6/6/2011
Paper Examines Infrastructure as a Service Deployments Enterprises will spend more than $112 billion on cloud computing in some form over the next five years, according to a new white paper titled "Migrating to the Private Cloud: Evolution of Infrastructure into a Service Model," released by SANpulse Technologies.
The white paper projects that organizations will spend more money on private cloud computing investments than on public cloud offerings through 2012.
6/1/2011
Glassbeam Picks Infrastructure as Service Leader for Extreme Data Processing OpSource, an Infrastructure as a Service provider of enterprise cloud and managed hosting solutions, announced that Glassbeam, the first company to provide a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for product analytics, has chosen the OpSource Cloud for extreme data processing.
Glassbeam uses the OpSource Cloud to process massive amounts of unstructured data. It will help high tech manufacturers better understand customer usage data and feedback from their installed base.
5/31/2011
Fujitsu Announces Free Trial of its Infrastructure as a Service Offering Fujitsu, a leading provider of ICT solutions for the global marketplace, has rolled out its Global Cloud Platform in North America. The Global Cloud Platform will be launched as a free trial of the Fujitsu Infrastructure as a Service offering, beginning May 31 and ending on August 31.
The Global Cloud Platform is already launched in Japan, Australia, Singapore and the U.K.
5/25/2011
Infrastructure as a Service Company 6fusion Teams with Autotask 6fusion, the leading provider of 100 percent channel focused, utility metered Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms and services, has teamed with Autotask Corporation, the leading provider of cloud-based IT business management software, to integrate 6fusion's UC6 cloud computing platform with the Autotask Professional Services Automation (PSA) platform.
5/17/2011
OpSource Provides Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service for Red Hat Platform OpSource, Inc., has joined the Red Hat OpenShift Partner Program, becoming the first Infrastructure as a Service vendor within this new ecosystem.
OpenShift, Red Hat's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, provides developers with a choice of languages, frameworks and clouds to develop and deploy applications.
5/9/2011
What is Infrastructure as a Service? Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)-- along with Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and cloud computing-- is changing the way that companies purchase their technology. Organizations are now able to deliver and control virtual IT resources such as storage, computing and networking capacity through Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) models - a model in which the product is offered through the Internet to the client as an on-demand service. The IaaS providers own, run, maintain and distribute IT resources more efficiently and cost-effectively than historic IT delivery models.
5/9/2011
Hexagrid Highlights Security Alternatives for Multi-Tenant Infrastructure as a Service Cloud Computing Many experts argue that this is the year of the cloud, but for Hexagrid Computing, this would more specifically be the year that businesses turn to appropriately architected multi-tenant cloud infrastructures.
Enterprise IT Security Magazine recently published an article entitled "Evaluating the Security of Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture," authored by David Rokita, who provides technical leadership in developing Hexagrid's state-of- the-art cloud computing solutions.
5/4/2011
Logicalis Partners with CA Technologies to Deliver Infrastructure as a Service Solution Logicalis UK, part of Logicalis, the international IT and Communications (ICT) solutions integrator, has selected CA Technologies' IT management and automation solutions to manage the delivery and performance of its award-winning Cooperative Enterprise Cloud Service.
The Cooperative Enterprise Cloud Service, which offers private clouds hosted at its data center, dedicated on-site private clouds, Infrastructure as a Service, and Application as a Service, is built on Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS), NetApp storage, and CA Technologies IT management tools.
5/3/2011
Hexagrid's Infrastructure as a Service Offering, V3Cloud, Helps the Cloud Channel Hexagrid Computing, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) enabler and leading developer of enterprise software solutions, has set its eyes on solving a problem it has identified - the fact that current cloud vendors fail to fully address the needs of service providers, resellers and the entire IT delivery channel.
4/20/2011
Infrastructure as a Service Market Projected to Experience Major Growth Things are looking up for cloud Infrastructure as a Service.
The cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market will grow globally from $3.7 billion in 2011 to $10.5 billion in 2014, according to estimates from the Gartner Group.
Many organizations want to "future-proof" their data management processes so they can increase capabilities for storage and processing at lower costs, according to the Gartner study, as reported by Experian QAS.
4/15/2011
IaaS Enabler, Hexagrid, Attends G2I For the first time, Hexagrid, an Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) enabler, will join regional IT leaders at Gateway to Innovation (G21), a premier event promoting the advancement of regionally developed technologies, held today, April 5, in St. Louis.
4/5/2011
Hexagrid IaaS Solutions Keep Company 'Above the Clouds' When Suresh Mandava first founded Hexagrid Computing in 2008, he recruited a team of seasoned professionals to further develop and distribute a virtual management platform that would reduce IT expenses and simplify IT management.
4/5/2011
Hexagrid's Flagship IaaS Platform VxDatacenter Fuels Growth In just two years since its founding, Hexagrid has more than doubled in size on an annual basis and expects to do the same in 2011. The Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) enabler's success is largely due to the revolutionary cloud capabilities of its flagship product, VxDatacenter, according to company officials.
4/5/2011
