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10 Hot Cloud Reseller Partner Programs
Sep 1st
10 Hot Cloud Reseller Partner Programs
Here is a list of 10 Hot Cloud Computing Reseller Programs on the internet. If we missed you don’t worry about it I’m sure we’ll hear from you. You can expect this list to be updated regularly. so if you have a program that you believe is worthy of a mention, let us know and we’ll see what we can do.
Google Apps
The Google Apps Authorized Reseller Program offers IT solution providers the ability to take Google Apps – a cloud-based suite of email, calendar, IM, and collaboration tools – to new and existing customers. Watch the Quick Tour video. 
As one of the global leaders in SaaS, Google Apps has experienced accelerating adoption with thousands of businesses signing up daily and over 2 million companies already using this solution to improve their business with better messaging and collaboration tools. Hear why more and more companies are going Google.
SoftLayer Cloud
The SoftLayer Reseller Program provides qualified hosting resellers with exceptional benefits as well as confidence that they are delivering their end customers a service with the highest performance and reliability. With SoftLayer, “value-adding” hosting resellers can better fulfill their end customer’s needs and grow their own services on demand.
The program gives resellers non-exclusive rights to offer standard SoftLayer services as well as products not sold directly under the SoftLayer name brand. Resellers receive generous volume discounts on dedicated server and upgrade purchases, setup fees and more. Resellers also receive preferred services, including a customized customer portal and auto-provisioned server delivery within 2 to 4 hours on components in stock.
RedHat Cloud Partner Program
A Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider offers a trusted destination for Red Hat customers, ISVs, and partners to use Red Hat technologies in public clouds, and meets rigorous testing and certification requirements to ensure the delivery of a safe, scalable, supported, and consistent environment for enterprise cloud deployments.
Through the Certified Cloud Provider Program, Red Hat has established the industry’s first program to certify that vendors have tested the cloud and have support processes in place to quickly resolve problems should they occur.
OpSource Reseller Program
OpSource’s Distribution Partners provide systems integration and outsourced solutions that include cloud or managed hosting. These partners resell OpSource solutions. Distribution Partners, including systems integrators, MSPs and VARs must be generate more revenue from services rather than rely on decreasing margins on hardware and software. Cloud computing represents an opportunity to translate expertise in infrastructure, network and software solutions into cloud hosting services revenue.
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Top 10 Cloud Computing Load Test and Performance Monitoring Companies
Aug 20th
Top 10 Cloud Computing Load Test and Performance Monitoring Companies
Keynote
Test Perspective is a cost-effective, completely self-service With Test Perspective you can run the most realistic load tests on-demand and . With Test Perspective you can run the most realistic load tests on-demand and receive immediate feedback on modifications you make to your Web site.
Soasta
Is available as an on demand service in the cloud or as a physical or virtual appliance, SOASTA CloudTest’s seamless integration of test design, monitoring, and reporting offers everything you need to test and deliver high quality Web applications and services at an affordable price.
Monitis
With its Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework, Monitis can now sync to other Cloud computing providers very quickly – from Rackspace, GoGrid, 
Softlayer, and more. Monitis’ Universal Cloud Monitoring Framework will automate monitoring in highly dynamic cloud environments, where customers’ servers maybe added and terminated according to the load by management software or manually.
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The Top 10 Cloud Computing Trends
Aug 19th
Cloud computing is the technology of today and tomorrow.
People, companies, businesses, and organizations are fast shifting to cloud computing from client-server model. It is very hard to guess what cloud 
computing will exactly look like in the future or how it will bring changes in IT. However, we can see some trends, IT and business world are setting in cloud computing.
Following are the top 10 trends observed in cloud-computing;
Building Private Clouds
Larger organizations and enterprises are building their own private computing cloud. IBM’s “Blue Cloud” is such an example. Microsoft introduced its private cloud just last month. Private clouds are huge datacenters possessing information and data of all types. They remove the security concerns about cloud computing.
Shift in IT skills of the Professionals
With the paradigm shift from client server model to the cloud computing model, IT workers will need new sets of skills. They won’t have to operate and maintain IT infrastructure, but now they will have to know how to extract and use the best information from computing clouds.
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Top 10 Cloud Computing email services for Enterprise Businesses
Aug 18th
Top 10 Cloud Computing email services
Google Apps
Reliable, secure web-based office tools for any size business Powerful, intuitive applications like Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs can help reduce your IT costs and help employees collaborate more effectively – all for just $50 per user per year.
Offers 50X more storage than industry average – 25GB of email storage per employee.
PanTerra Networks
PanTerra Networks is the leading provider of cloud-based unified communications Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) 
solutions for small and medium sized enterprises. The Company’s WorldSmart solution is delivered from the cloud through a 100% browser-based UC client, eliminating any premise-deployed hardware or software. WorldSmart provides unified communication services for unlimited digital voice, video and fax, instant message, mobile text and email all with presence through a single user and administrative interface
Cisco WebEx Mail
Cisco WebEx Mail reduces the burden of email management so IT can focus on strategic projects instead of routine tasks. Yet administrators remain fully in control through a web-based console, allowing them to adapt to ever-changing organizational needs. Cisco WebEx Mail includes advanced migration tools that simplify the migration process. The solution interoperates with existing email infrastructure as well as archiving and security solutions. This minimizes disruptions during the transition to a hosted email solution.
Yahoo Zimbra
Zimbra is a next-generation collaboration server that provides organizations greater overall flexibility and simplicity with integrated email, contacts, calendaring, sharing and document management plus mobility and desktop synchronization to users on any computer. Zimbra Collaboration Suite’s advanced web application and server is built on open standards and technologies to deliver unparalleled per-user scalability and lower overall total cost-of–ownership (TCO).
IBM LotusLive iNotes
LotusLive iNotes e-mail is a business-class messaging solution for everyone in your organization. Remote employees, retail workers and anyone who doesn’t work behind a desk will appreciate the easy access to company e-mail. With web-based e-mail, all of your employees will have real-time e-mail access from a Web browser and Internet connection. In addition to a web-based interface, all e-mail accounts are enabled with POP, authenticated SMTP and IMAP capabilities for use with e-mail clients such as Lotus Notes or Microsoft Outlook.
ElasticEmail
Elastic email makes email sending easier for both the developer and business manager of a cloud application. Several cloud application platforms such as Windows Azure and Amazon EC2 do not provide an email delivery service and may even set limits on your email sending. Elastic Email provides direct email sending through a simple REST API. This means, instead of having to setup and configure an SMTP email server or service you can begin sending email immediately, without worry using one of the code samples found in our API Documentation.
Microsoft Exchange Online
Microsoft Exchange Online is a web version of the ubiquitous on-premise e-mail client. Features include the ability to log on to your account and wipe your mobile phone of sensitive data if it’s lost or stolen. Some drawbacks: The program works best on Internet Explorer.
AppTix
Apptix provides hosted communications services so you can focus on what’s important—growing your business. Apptix is the industry leader in business-class communications services—the proven company of choice for hosted Exchange email, business VoIP services, and SharePoint collaboration services to more than 20,000 organizations worldwide.
AppRiver
AppRiver was founded in April of 2002 to provide simple, yet powerful email and web security solutions to businesses of any size. The company’s award-winning Secure Exchange Hosting simplifies the setup, provisioning and management of Microsoft Exchange by creating a complete managed service for administrators and end-users.
RackSpace Email & Apps
Rackspace Email provides all the benefits of a desktop program without being tied to the desktop. Log into Rackspace Email from your desktop, laptop, or mobile phone, and get instant access to email, calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes.
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9 Great Open Source Cloud Services to help build your business
Aug 17th
DuraSpace
The DuraSpace organization unveiled the open source code for the new DuraCloud platform, a hosted service and open technology that makes it easy for organizations and end users to use cloud services. DuraCloud is an open source platform that is built upon commercial cloud infrastructure. The platform itself deploys into a cloud server environment and is integrated with multiple cloud storage providers, including Amazon AWS and RackSpace.
OpenStack
What the software does: The goal of OpenStack is to allow any organization to create and offer cloud computing capabilities using open source 
software running on standard hardware. OpenStack Compute is software for automatically creating and managing large groups of virtual private servers. OpenStack Storage is software for creating redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of commodity servers to store terabytes or even petabytes of data.
Enomaly
Elastic Computing Platform (Enomaly ECP) has often been described as the world’s first true IaaS platform. Enomaly is the leader in empowering telecom, IDC and managed hosting operators to deliver the benefits of Cloud Computing to their 
customers As one of the earliest pioneers of cloud computing, Enomaly has the experience to help you monetize the cloud.
Cloudera
offers enterprises a powerful new data platform built on the popular Apache Hadoop open-source software package. We unlock the storage and processing technologies of the world’s biggest Web companies, allowing our growing list of global customers to use Hadoop to solve problems and achieve their particular business needs.
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is an open source solution that originates from an NSF funded research project at University of California, Santa Barbara. The open source model is generally considered a superior way of creating infrastructure software. Innovation is faster, users and customers have more freedom and flexibility, lock-in is avoided, and secondary benefits accrue from the massive ecosystems that naturally evolve around the most prolific open source products.
Hibari
Gemini Mobile Technologies (“Gemini”) announced at “Wireless Japan 2010″ in Tokyo that it will release Hibari (meaning “Cloud Bird” in Japanese) as open source. Hibari is a database optimized for the highly reliable, highly available storage of massive data, so-called “Big Data.” Hibari can be used in Cloud Computing Applications such as web mail, Social Networking Services (SNS), and other services requiring storage of tera-bytes and peta-bytes of new daily data.
Globus Nimbus
Nimbus is a set of open source tools that together provide an “Infrastructure-as-a-Service” (IaaS) cloud computing solution. Our mission is to evolve the infrastructure with emphasis on the needs of science, but many non-scientific use cases are supported as well.
Nimbus allows a client to lease remote resources by deploying virtual machines (VMs) on those resources and configuring them to represent an environment desired by the user.
OpenNebula
OpenNebula is an open-source toolkit to easily build any type of cloud: private, public and hybrid. OpenNebula has been designed to be integrated with any networking and storage solution and so to fit into any existing data center.
With OpenNebula you can transform your data center into a flexible and agile virtual infrastructure which dynamically adapts to the changing demands of the service workload.
Joyent
Joyent’s Smart Technologies provide application virtualization, which is different from all other major cloud vendors who are focused on hardware virtualization. Joyent’s approach provides applications with better performance and cost effectiveness, due to higher application density and hardware utilization in our Smart Technology stack.
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Top 10 Cloud Computing Venture Capital Firms To Help Build Your Business
Jul 29th
For more than 30 years, NEA has been helping to build great companies. Our committed capital has grown to $11 billion and we’ve funded more than 650 companies in the Information Technology, Energy Technology and Healthcare sectors.
For more than 49 years, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) has actively partnered with entrepreneurs to build and grow successful businesses. The firm manages more than $3.7 billion in capital, has funded over 450 companies since inception and has demonstrated an exemplary track record producing premier investment returns during differing capital market environments
U.S. Venture Partners
(USVP) has helped build great companies for three decades. Since its inception in 1981, USVP has invested over $2.7 billion in about 450 companies. Throughout, USVP’s partners have worked diligently and consistently with early-stage companies, many of which have become industry leaders.
Ignition Partners
Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity.
From turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance.
Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in communications, internet, software, and services across business and consumer targets.
Sequoia
Sequoia Capital in the U.S. caters to the founders and management who have selected us as their business partners. We have learned that the only way to help develop a fabulous company is one step at a time. This only happens if the company makes wonderful products or delivers a service that thrills large numbers of customers. If that occurs then founders, management, and employees of these companies prosper. It is only then that the investor deserves to be rewarded. It has to happen in that order. There are no shortcuts.
First Round Capital
First Round Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm. As seed-stage investors, we often provide a company’s first outside capital – and typically invest alongside angel investors. Our typical initial investment in a company is around $500,000 – but we’ve gone both higher and lower.
We’re not afraid of investing in pre-revenue companies, and we understand the challenges of launching a new product. That’s why we like to take an active role in the companies we invest in.
Mission Ventures
Mission Ventures helps build successful enterprises in Southern California and creates superior returns on investment for its investors. This is accomplished by investing in the most promising early-stage companies in high growth, emerging markets, and providing significant assistance to those companies as they develop.
DAG Ventures
- Is a venture capital partnership investing in and helping outstanding entrepreneurs create leading, long-term companies across a range of markets. With roots from the 1980’s in cable TV, infrastructure, media, and wireless industries, the partnership today is privileged to work with world-class entrepreneurs as they build tomorrow’s leaders in the information technology, energy, and life science sectors. DAG Ventures invests in companies with proven technology, from the prototype stage onward. For more information on current investments,
Hummer Windblad Venture Partners
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was founded in 1989 as the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Through our history, we’ve had the opportunity to invest in the pioneers and leaders of several generations of software applications, architectures, delivery methods and business models. We’ve helped entrepreneurs build companies in desktop software, embedded systems, client-server, distributed network computing, internet, software as a service and cloud computing.
Shasta Ventures
Was formed expressly to help entrepreneurs build great companies, our primary objective is to provide outstanding service to the companies in our portfolio. It means we have the time to work with early-stage companies because we serve on a limited number of boards. And it means we care about the companies we invest in—not only the businesses, but the people as well.
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Is Cloud Computing Security the Next Y2K Opportunity?
Jul 20th
Cloud computing is often hyped as a cool new technology and a near-cure-all; move all that complicated IT infrastructure to the cloud so your company can be more efficient and save money and space in the process.
Deloitte venture capitalist Mark Jensen strongly believes in cloud computing’s value proposition, but with some important caveats.
“The problem we’ve had with the cloud is that a lot of fundamental technologies related to security and privacy don’t exist yet; making sure you’re not compromising someone’s personal information,” Jensen, managing partner for Deloitte’s National Venture Capital Services group, told InternetNews.com. “All that’s still be developed. It’s not here now, but it’s coming and it’s going to be about as important to business as Y2K was.”
The infamous Y2K panic in the late 1990s because computer systems weren’t designed to process the year 2000 and beyond would crash during the date change. It led to a massive IT reinvestment in software and hardware. Jensen thinks cloud computing will benefit for far less disastrous reasons.
“Looking at Y2K from the positive side, it forced companies that had deferred investment to become more efficient by buying new systems,” he said. “With cloud computing, I think companies will be motivated purely for competitive reasons, because the efficiencies you’re going to see in the supply chain and the ability to more easily surface customer information are going to be huge opportunities. The companies that don’t get on board will be left behind.”
Jensen said he believes it will take three to five years for cloud services to emerge that are truly enterprise-ready from a security and privacy standpoint, but he hedges even that prediction.
“The one thing that could set all the progress back is a massive security breach or a situation where some company lost significant IP [intellectual property] and their competitive advantage. Also, looking globally, different countries have different privacy standards, so it’s all going to be a huge challenge,” he said.
“We have to solve these problems, because until you do you’ll never see mission critical software in the cloud, just the little stuff. But it’s coming. We’re working with companies every day on this stuff.”
While a number of cloud providers have already staked out significant positions (e.g. Amazon, Salesforce), Jensen there is plenty of opportunity for upstart firms to provide further value. He sees Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) as one of the companies that is setting the foundation for new cloud services.
“The cloud is many things: it’s Software as a Service (Salesforce, etc.); it’s Platform as a Service (PaaS); Storage as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service (LaaS) from big providers like Amazon,’ he said. “That foundation enables a lot of startups and smaller companies to build new services. What we’re seeing is a tremendous rise in software companies that take IT to a whole new level by letting companies buy computing services by the drink rather than having to buy the whole enchilada.”
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7 Exciting Cloud Computing Start Ups To Keep An Eye On!
Jul 16th
Nimbula’s – Cloud Operating System technology delivers Amazon EC2-like services behind the firewall. Allowing customers to efficiently manage both on- and off-premises resources, Nimbula Director quickly and cost effectively transforms under-utilized private data centers into muscular, easily configurable compute capacity while supporting controlled access to off-premise clouds.
Okta, – A startup helping companies manage applications running on cloud infrastructure, recently announced that it has raised $10 million in a first round of venture funding.
Appirio – Is a cloud solution provider offering products and professional services that help enterprises accelerate their adoption of cloud technologies. Appirio’s innovation and expertise have been recognized by BusinessWeek as one of America’s Most Promising Startups and by AlwaysOn as On-Demand Company of the Year
StorSimple – Uniquely provides you with the ability to deploy on-premises, next-generation storage to address today’s application-related challenges while providing you with the ability to leverage public or private cloud storage when you’re ready
Nimbsoft – With the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution (NMS), you can monitor and manage all business applications, from the datacenter to the cloud, including SaaS, hosted, and virtualized environments—all with a single product, architecture, and console.
HostedFTP – A cloud based file sharing service that offers customers the ability to drag and drop and send large files from anywhere over the cloud. They provide you with your own Amazon AWS storage account with FTP server in the cloud.
GreenQloud - The Worlds First Truly Green Compute Cloud based on clean electricity produced by environmentally friendly geothermal and hydroelectric energy.
