Press release
IBM Cloud Computing CTO to Keynote CloudSlam’10(TM) Conference
Mar 8th
IBM Cloud Computing CTO to Keynote CloudSlam’10(TM) Conference
Company is Named Exclusive Diamond Collaborator for Conference March 23 – March 25 2010
TORONTO, March 8 /PRNewswire/ — CloudSlam’10™, a virtual conference developed to promote collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in the world of Cloud Computing, will commence on March 23. CloudSlam’10™ is organized by leading experts and authorities in the Cloud Computing industry and backed up by the world’s largest Cloud Computing community. Key topics will include Cloud Standards, Security, Transition Strategies, Compliance & Impact of Cloud Computing on the Global Economy. Attendees will hear breaking news, views & opinions which are exclusive to CloudSlam’10™.
CloudSlam’10™ gives industry leaders’ and professionals’ keen insights into published research, unique and evolving ideas and best practices, as well as an opportunity to network with leading experts within the Cloud Computing industry. The conference is designed to be a thought leadership platform for Business, Government and Academia. It’s also an ideal opportunity for corporate leaders to glean information on the latest innovations in Cloud Computing, generate new contacts and develop ideas on how to capitalize on what’s estimated to eventually become a $100 billion dollar market.
The CloudSlam’10™ speaker line-up will highlight new players in the Cloud Computing arena, as well as established players like IBM, who has been selected to be the Exclusive Diamond Collaborator for CloudSlam’10™. Dr. Kristof Kloeckner, CTO Enterprise Initiatives and Vice President Cloud Platforms, IBM Corporation, will present the Day One Headline Keynote address at the CloudSlam’10™ virtual event.
Drawing on experience of working with IBM customers and IBM’s internal cloud deployments, Dr. Kloeckner will review the conditions under which Cloud Computing can deliver its promise of cost reductions, delivery efficiency, flexibility and agility, as well as share insights around customer adoption based on careful selection of workloads and appropriate deployment models.
In addition, IBM senior software engineer Doug Tidwell will discuss the need for and status around cloud computing standards.
IBM Primary Keynote Sessions:
* “Headline Keynote Presentation” – Presented on March 23rd @ 13.30(pm) EDT.
* “Headline panel Discussion” – Presented on March 23rd @ 16.00(pm) EDT.
* “Headline Expert Session” – Presented on March 24th @ 13.30(pm) EDT.
* “Headline Case Study Session” – Presented on March 25th @ 14.45(pm) EDT.
Commenting on the announcement today, CloudSlam’10™ Chairman – Khazret Sapenov said, “We are truly delighted to have IBM join this year’s proceedings as our Headline collaborator for the event. IBM brings a wealth of expertise and know-how which we are certain will educate our event delegates, Cloud Computing group community members, as well as the Global audiences tuning in worldwide.”
CloudSlam’10™ – Produced by Cloudcor, Inc.™, is the premier Cloud Computing event. As an affordable way for industry leaders to exchange ideas and experiences, CloudSlam’10™ opens new horizons of cloud computing and serves as a springboard to success. CloudSlam’10™ will take place March 23-25 2010 -Online. For more information, contact Khazret Sapenov at k.sapenov@cloudslam.org or visit http://cloudslam10.com
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RELIACLOUD JOINS THE RANKS OF AMAZON AND RACKSPACE
Feb 24th
ReliaCloud and enStratus Team Up to Present CloudCamp Events and
Cloud Computing Webinar for IT Directors
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (February 24, 2010) – ReliaCloud, the new service that offers small-to-medium-sized enterprises cloud computing servers and storage space, has announced a new partnership with enStratus, a national cloud management platform that delivers governance for enterprise applications in the cloud. Together ReliaCloud and enStratus offer companies a seamless, manageable cloud computing service. The two organizations are also joining forces to sponsor 2010 CloudCamp events and an April 7, 2010, webinar to educate information technology professionals about the business advantages of using cloud computing.
“We are thrilled to offer the enStratus solution to ReliaCloud customers,” said Jason Baker, chief technology officer for ReliaCloud. “The highly regarded management platform and experience in cloud security and availability management at enStratus is invaluable to regulation-heavy businesses or enterprises that are concerned about reliability and business continuity.”
To go beyond basic cloud computing service, ReliaCloud customers now have access to a suite of software management tools from enStratus that are also used with Amazon Web Services, Rackspace and Microsoft Azure platforms to maximize:
- Security – enStratus has a patent-pending security architecture that ensures separation of security keys from encrypted data and provides advanced user management and activity logs for compliance;
- Reliability – Automated management tools, auto-recovery engine and unique clustering capabilities that minimize human error and enable support of service level agreements up to 99.9999 percent; and
- Cloud Independence – enStratus provides business continuity through cloud-independent backups as well as cross-cloud disaster recovery.
“enStratus is pleased to add ReliaCloud to its supported list of cloud providers,” says George Reese, chief technology officer of enStratus. “We’re confident that ReliaCloud is ready to serve IT directors who are seeking a reliable and secure partner that they can trust in the cloud.”
In addition to launching their affiliation, ReliaCloud and enStratus are hosting the Minneapolis CloudCamp on Tuesday, March 2, which is a local gathering of early cloud computing adopters who want to exchange ideas on the evolving topic. Other upcoming 2010 regional CloudCamps are taking place on Friday, March 5, in Chicago; Tuesday, March 16, in Philadelphia; Tuesday, March 23, in Washington, DC and Tuesday, May 25, in Denver. For more details about a specific CloudCamp go to www.cloudcamp.org.
To continue cloud computing education efforts, ReliaCloud and enStratus are also hosting a webinar on Wednesday, April 7, 2010, for IT directors and chief technology officers who want to learn what cloud computing can do for their respective businesses and hear examples of success stories. The webinar will feature Jason Baker from ReliaCloud and George Reese from enStratus. More details about the Webinar are posted on the ReliaCloud blog at www.reliacloud.com/blog.
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Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances with Windows Now Available
Feb 23rd
We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Reserved Instances with Windows, which work like Reserved Instances with Linux/UNIX. You simply pay a low, upfront fee for each Reserved Instances with Windows you want to reserve and in turn receive a significant discount on the hourly price during a 1 or 3 year period. After the one-time payment, that Windows-based instance is reserved for you, and you have no further obligation; you may choose to run that instance for the discounted usage rate for the duration of your term, or when you do not use the instance, you will not pay usage charges on it. You can find more detailed information on Reserved Instances at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/.
We are pleased to announce today the availability of Extra Large High Memory instances, for use with all operating systems. The new instance type is specifically designed for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, memory caching, and rendering. You can also leverage this new instance type as a lower cost option if you are already using Standard Extra Large instances. The High Memory Extra Large instance type is defined as:
- Extra Large: 17.1 GB memory, 6.5 ECU (2 virtual cores with 3.25 ECU each), 420 GB storage, 64-bit platform
Please visit the Amazon EC2 detail page for more information on the Extra Large High Memory instance type.
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The Cloud – Cloud Recruitment Jumps by 233% in 2010
Feb 16th
New figures released today show that the demand for Cloud Computing specialists jumped by 233% in the first month of 2010.
Resource On Demand, a Cloud recruitment firm, has logged a record number of enquiries for salesforce.com and SaaS (Software as a Service) Specialists, jumping from 3 to 10 enquires per week. This is consistent with anecdotal evidence that shows increasing numbers of organisations placing their reliance in the Cloud, fuelling demand for Cloud specialists.
Lee Durrant, MD of Resource On Demand, believes that demand for Cloud Computing countered the downturn and gave way to a boom in cloud recruiting:
“Cloud computing is now more than a buzz word, organisations are seeing both economic and sound operational reasons to use Cloud technology. This appealed to organisations during the recession, due to value for money paired with an increased level of performance, and continues to appeal to them in the post-recession market place.”
Resource on Demand are aiding this rapid-growth market by offering a ‘pay as you go’ recruitment fee, which works hand in hand with SaaS models who also offer low monthly subscription fees.
Lee added: “With Resource On Demand, you pay a fixed, low monthly subscription fee, which starts when we find someone to fill the position and continues for the first 12 months in this position. If they leave, for whatever reason during the first 12 months, you simply stop paying the monthly fee. This means your costs remain unchanged and you can grow your business in this difficult environment.”
Resource on Demand began to see green shoots of recovery in the final quarter of 2009 and is now expanding to cope with the demand that they are facing.
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Lee Durrant is available for further comment through Blue Cherry PR.
Please contact Mark Crosby to arrange a face-to-face interview or ‘phone call with Lee Durrant.
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NOTES FOR EDITORS on Resource On Demand:
Resource On Demand offers recruitment services in the salesforce.com ecosystem on a subscription basis. This service is specifically designed for the Cloud Computing / SaaS industry.
By fully embracing the SaaS spirit of low cost and low risk, it allows Salesforce.com partners and consulting firms to scale up and down effectively. Built on a SaaS model, it offers the same benefits of scalability, flexibility and low risk, all delivered for a low monthly fee.
The salesforce.com industry is one of the fastest growing industries on the planet. Resource On Demand (ROD) was founded in Feb 2009 to assist the growth of this industry and the companies within it.
Having spent 20 years in the IT recruitment industry, our Founders have gained a solid reputation for honesty, openness and getting the job done in a notoriously fast-moving industry.
Resource On Demand is a natural progression for recruitment within the salesforce.com industry. We understand the salesforce.com industry because we’re part of it (we’re already wondering how we managed our CRM, database and accounting without it). More importantly, though, we understand how to get the right salesforce.com people into the right jobs.
With conventional recruitment, you generally pay 15-20% of the person’s base salary when they start working for you. This can be quite a large lump sum and makes the cost of recruitment difficult especially for SMEs looking to grow quickly. Often, there is no insurance against this fee either – meaning that if your new recruit doesn’t survive their probation period the fee can be lost and, worse still, a new fee required to fill the position again.
With Resource On Demand, you pay a fixed, low monthly subscription fee, which starts when we find someone to fill your position and continues for the first 12 months of their career with you. If they leave, for whatever reason during the first 12 months, you simply stop paying the monthly fee. This means your costs remain unchanged even if, as can often happen in a growing industry, you end up going through half a dozen people in a year.
What you have, in effect, is ‘pay-as-you-go’ recruitment: instead of a single up-front fee, which can vary according to the salary you’re offering and the percentage your recruiter charges, you make fixed, monthly payments for as long as the position exists. This gives you complete control over your budget and the flexibility you need to scale up or down as your business evolves.
What’s more, a large up-front placement fee means it usually takes some time for a new employee to generate enough revenue to cover their recruitment costs. With Resource On Demand, a single day’s consultancy fee will easily cover your monthly subscription, so your new hire is profitable virtually straight away.
The benefits at a glance:
• Save Money – Focus Budgets on Competitive Advantage rather than Recruitment
• Low risk – Able to recruit whole teams of salesforce.com people without huge costs
• Pay as you go, predictable costs
• Flexibility and Scalability
Lee Durrant, Director of Resource On Demand says: “We felt that the salesforce.com market in the UK would explode in 2010, and that the Consulting companies within this space would need to grow quickly to meet the demands of their customers. By using our subscription recruitment model they are able to spread the cost of recruiting for the country’s top salesforce.com talent.”
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Zeus Named One of “100 Coolest Cloud Computing Products”
Jan 26th
Jan 26, 2010 – Zeus Technology, the only pure software-based application traffic management company, today announces that Zeus Traffic Manager has been named as one of the “100 Coolest Cloud Computing Products” by Everything Channel’s CRN. The Top 100 Cloud Computing products are attributed to 20 vendors within five categories
– storage; security; productivity; infrastructure and platform.
Zeus’ powerful layer-7 load balancing software manages online traffic, to ensure websites are fast, secure, consistently available and do not crash, even during unpredictable peaks in demand.
Zeus’ Application Delivery Controller (softADC) solutions can be installed on any preferred platform and operating system of choice and deployed in any Physical, Virtual or Cloud environment, providing complete flexibility for partners, resellers and customers. Zeus continues to extend its capabilities within the Cloud taking it to the next management level, with the addition of the Zeus Cloud Traffic Manager, scheduled to launch later this year.
Paul Brennan, CEO, Zeus Technology, says, “It’s great to see that Zeus has been recognised within this league table of ‘100 Coolest Cloud Computing Products’. It is a further testament of Zeus’ expertise in the Cloud space. We are continuing to see an inevitable growth in the trend towards Cloud adoption, with more organizations harnessing its true value and remaining at the forefront of new technology.”
The list was based on nominations from Solution Providers rating technology, channel influence, effectiveness and visibility along with business and sales impact. The final selections were made by a panel of Everything Channel Editors. Winners were announced online at www.Channelweb.com and will be featured in the January 25 issue of CRN.
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3Tera Wins the 2009 Best Cloud Computing Service and Best SaaS
Jan 22nd
3Tera Selected for Third Straight Year for Its Impact on Enabling Cloud Computing and SaaS Solutions for the Hosting Industry
By marketwire 
ALISO VIEJO, CA — (Marketwire) — 01/21/10 — 3Tera®, the leading developer of cloud computing platform software and utility computing services, announces HostReview, a top-rated online resource for the Web hosting industry since 1998, named 3Tera to both its 2009 Top 10 Web Host Awards’ Best Cloud Computing Service and Best SaaS Provider lists. 3Tera received the prestigious honor for a third consecutive year, confirming its leadership role as proven innovator and enabler of new services to the hosting market.
The Best Web Hosting Awards are based on the overall product offering, value, customer service and users’ reviews of the selected companies. Winners were at the forefront of technological innovation and exemplary customer service in the previous year and are the companies to look at in 2010. Since 2006, the HostReview Annual Web Hosting Awards have grown to be one of the most prestigious hosting awards of its kind. The categories for the annual awards are updated every year, in order to reflect the changing technological and business landscape.
3Tera was selected as Best SaaS Provider, as well as Best Cloud Service, for the AppLogic cloud computing platform, which enables new market opportunities for hosting companies to offer cloud computing and virtual private datacenter solutions. For the full HostReview Top 10 Web Host Awards list, please see http://www.hostreview.com/awards/2009_annual_awards.
“We chose 3Tera as one of our 2009 Best SaaS Providers and Cloud Computing Services award winners because its cloud computing solution continues to have a tremendous impact on the entire hosting industry,” said Darren Tabor, CEO of DevStart, network owner of HostReview. “A three-year winner of our awards, 3Tera’s AppLogic cloud computing platform has proven to consistently enable hosting providers to enter new markets and offer highly scalable, affordable and well-established cloud and utility computing services attracting both small companies and big enterprises.”
