CA Technologies Customer Increases Agility and Unlocks Cost Savings with Application-centric Cloud Platform ISLANDIA, N.Y., April 7, 2011 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that Bird Hosting, a cloud service provider and longtime 3Tera customer, has signed a multi-year license agreement with CA Technologies, extending the company’s previous month-to-month arrangement and tripling the number of servers running the software. Bird Hosting has managed its entire catalog of services, including shared hosting, virtual servers, clustered servers and virtual private data centers (VPDCs) on the CA 3Tera® AppLogic® platform since early 2009, resulting in increased flexibility and cost savings. “The CA
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Call Center Services and Solutions For Your Business On The Cloud Global Response Global Response is a leading provider of outsourced customer contact solutions and call center services for multichannel retailers, direct response advertisers, healthcare and insurance providers, government and higher education. Global Response offers many IVR applications: Lead generation, NACSZ capture, automated surveys, Help lines, FAQ’s, and Order Status. Global Response also offers Voice Broadcasting – the ability to send out thousands of calls communicating time-critical information. Five9 With over 170 employees world-wide, Five9 has one of the largest engineering organizations in the industry, allowing the
Microsoft Tweaks License Agreement to Encourage Cloud Migration Microsoft is not leaving any stone unturned in an effort to get companies to switch over to cloud computing, the Microsoft cloud that is. Last week at the Microsoft Hosting Summit in Bellevue, Washington, the company announced that it had made changes in its license agreement in order to encourage companies to go on the cloud. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, the new licensing option “enhances business opportunities [for partners] by paving the way for qualified Microsoft customers to take advantage of cloud computing without having to bear the economic burden for
SGI Offers Free Cloud Computing in Japan In an attempt to provide relief to earthquake and tsunami stricken Japan, SGI is making available its SGI Cyclone Technical Computing Cloud services free of charge for up to ninety days, to customers in this island nation. With this initiative, the technical computing specialist is enabling businesses in Japan to gain immediate access to technical computing via SGI Cyclone. Customers who require immediate access to large-scale on-demand cloud compute resources can use Cyclone to transition their workloads and data to SGI Cyclone over the Internet. Those interested to know more about this offer
Microsoft Study Says 40% of SMBs to Go On Cloud within 3 Years Microsoft, a major player in cloud computing with its Azure platform, released its global “SMB Cloud Adoption Study 2011” last week. The study was conducted to investigate the impact of cloud computing on small and medium businesses (SMBs), and the results are quite encouraging. The study, conducted in conjunction with market research firm Edge Strategies, polled 3,258 SMBs with 250 or fewer employees in 16 countries – Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, the U.K. and
15 Recommended Cloud Computing Management Tools Abiquo Designed from the ground-up to provide next generation Cloud management, Abiquo is the most complete and advanced solution available on the market today. Abiquo provides class-leading features like virtual to virtual conversion through a platform that is easy to implement and operate, liberating your IT organization from the drudgery of managing thousands of virtual machines, without relinquishing control of the physical infrastructure. Bitnami BitNami Cloud is based on the Amazon Cloud, you have access to a wide variety of server types that can be configured with custom storage. You can start with a
Cloud Based Service Level Agreements A common theme in the chatter about cloud computing is the need for SLAs around performance and availability. These SLAs simply don’t exist or are specified in a way that makes them look like they’ll never be violated. For example, Amazon’s availability SLA is around the network connectivity for an entire availability zone. So if you have a single instance that can access the internet (whether or not your app will run on it), there is no violation. This is hardly a new state of affairs and there doesn’t seem to be much change coming
Why is Rackspace targeting Startups? I have often spoken about how cloud computing can help level the playing field between established enterprises who can afford to spend millions on information technology (IT) infrastructure to support their operations, and smaller entities that cannot. (See: Fighting Above Your Weight Class Through Cloud Computing). Cloud computing, with its on-demand model that lets users pay for only that what they use, and the fact that it eliminates heavy setup costs, is a boon for smaller companies. At the same time, with its scalability, a small firm can grow and expand with the assurance that
