CloudShare Announces the "Trade up to the Cloud" Program for Surgient Customers

CloudShare (News - Alert) announced an immediate "Trade up to the Cloud" swap-out incentive program to help existing Surgient customers avoid the blues by migrating to its hosted IT as a Service (ITaS) platform. The CloudShare program delivers less business disruption and better support for the cloud-based ITaS solution and comes on the heels of recently announced plans by Quest Software (News - Alert) to acquire virtualization vendor Surgient.

The "Trade up to the Cloud" swap-out program for Surgient customers will provide a migration path to CloudShare and free use of the full enterprise product for the duration of 2010 for customers who sign up for 2011.

"With Surgient's recent acquisition by Quest, customers with substantial investment in Surgient's private cloud automation software are understandably concerned about future product direction and support," said Zvi Guterman, CEO of CloudShare.

The company enables users to create, deploy, manage and share IT on-demand in the cloud. The product delivers complete enterprise systems (OS, storage, networking, third party applications) "as a service" to meet a wide range of business needs, including software or appliance sales demos, training and IT operations. The company has gained recognition for its ability to migrate on-premise IT systems to the cloud unchanged.

CloudShare customers have achieved 50 percent or higher returns on investment when delivering IT as a service, and a large and growing percentage of Fortune 1000 companies are leveraging the CloudShare ITaS platform to manage IT-intensive business functions more efficiently. CloudShare is accessible directly and through private-label cloud marketplaces such as McAfee's (News - Alert) Global Solutions Lab, which is powered by CloudShare. To learn more about how to make the switch, visit http://www.cloudshare.com/tradeup.

CloudShare is the Cloud IT company. It enables IT as a Service (ITaS): on-demand delivery of privately branded IT environments, including virtual infrastructure (servers, storage, networking, and software) and line of business functionality (analytics, management, security, reporting and web UI), all via a cloud-based application. Its customers include VMware, Cisco, SAP (News - Alert), McAfee, Websense and others, who use CloudShare for sales demos, proofs of concept, training, IT operations, and more.

Backed by Charles River Ventures (CRV), Sequoia Capital (News - Alert) and Gemini, CloudShare is headquartered in Silicon Valley and online at www.cloudshare.com and http://www.twitter.com/cloudshare.

In related news, CloudShare announces that Kerio Technologies, Inc. has leveraged the CloudShare IT as a Service (ITaS) platform to allow end-users instant access to Kerio's virtual appliance. The company enables users to create, deploy, manage and share IT on-demand in the Cloud, delivering complete enterprise systems (OS, storage, networking, third party applications) as a service to meet a range of line of business needs.