SIMtone's Cloud CP For CVG's America's Cup Race

SIMtone Corporation has announced that it is sponsoring the Green Comm Challenge team, also known as Circolo di Vela Gargnano (CVG), in an effort to qualify, compete, complete and conquer the 33rd America’s Cup Race. The company’s cloud technology driven Universal Computing platform will be used to help the Italian team and their remote land-based and off shore support teams to stay inter connected.

“We are delighted to support the first America’s Cup boat driven by world-changing innovation and a scientific mission that is completely aligned with our vision,” said Mario Dal Canto, chief executive officer of SIMtone Corporation. Officials at the company say that its solution will help the teams exchange information 24 x 7 during the two pre-regattas scheduled for July and October this year and the main Match in 2010, and will also help in protecting the environment.

“By eliminating complexity in the organization, SIMtone will make Green Comm ‘go faster’ and enable the entire team to work together simply and safely from anywhere,” said Dal Canto. “With SIMtone, the only carbon involved with the Green Comm Challenge will be in the hull!”

Instant dual direction access to digital data such as weather reports, location of vessel, state of sails, general health of vessel, wind speeds, wind direction, predicted wave heights, competitor’s precise ever-shifting coordinates, and wellness and status of team members, is extremely important for a team attempting even a sniff at victory in this prestigious and courageous event.

“With SIMtone’s simple to use yet massively scalable network computing solution, we are able to minimize our information system’s carbon footprint while delivering unmatched performance, mobility and flexibility to the team of the Green Comm Challenge on-demand, anywhere they need it,” said Lorenzo Rizzardi, President of CVG.

The CVG team and its 90 x 90 feet sail boat is also technically supported by Sofinnova, Wave Group, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); the University of Pisa, and the Politecnico of Turin, Italy.

Company officials say that technical and research team is jointly headed by Professor Mario Gerla of the Computer Science Department, UCLA, and Professor Giovanni Lombardi of the Department of Engineering, University of Pisa, and will receive collaborative efforts from Politecnico of Turin.

The collaborative efforts are in keeping with one of the seven mantras of the time, as reported by TMCnet, which dictates that organizations must make serious efforts to reach out and work with each. The seven guidelines for succeeding in current economic environment are collectively called the CES (News - Alert) 7 and were pronounced and initiated at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2009.

“SIMtone transforms computing into low cost services that are usable anywhere, via any network, with non-processing devices, radically reducing end-to-end power consumption and the overall carbon footprint,” said Dal Canto.

The company’s related product, the SIMtone Virtual Service Platform software, reported TMCnet, enables service providers, enterprise organizations and SMBs to transform existing application and desktop infrastructures into “cloud computing-enabled” infrastructures that are highly manageable and securely accessible on-demand and from any LAN, WAN or Internet access point.