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Cloud Linux Named “Best Start-Up” In 2010 For The Cloud Computing World Series
Jul 9th
Award recognizes LVE innovation that can “crash proof” servers in shared hosting environments
Princeton, NJ, July 8, 2010 – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, is the recipient of the 2010 Best Start-Up Award by the The Cloud Computing World Forum in the “World Series” Innovation competition. Cloud Linux received the award for its new innovation on how to “crash proof” servers as hosting providers migrate to a cloud based services model.
CloudLinux was launched in early 2010 and is a new commercially supported operating system proven to increase server density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability. Cloud Linux invented the Lightweight Virtual Environment™ a kernel-level technology that isolates specific hardware resources in a lightweight environment and prevents one tenant on a shared server from affecting others – especially due to a sudden peak load from a single tenant. The technology is designed to eliminate the risks of unstable servers that can undermine businesses’ operations and profitability.
“Seamless migration to a cloud based business model requires a solid infrastructure that can be managed to be made rock solid reliable while optimizing infrastructure assets,” states Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of Cloud Linux Inc. “We built CloudLinux to protect customers from outages often caused because of a lack of control over individual tenants. The last six months have been a great success for us – signing on many partners, including one of the largest shared hosting companies, UK2Group. This award is a rewarding validation of the work we are doing and the team is greatly honored to be receiving the award.” CloudLinux has signed on eighteen datacenter partners, and is installed on more then five hundred servers. It is compatible with all major hosting control panels, including Plesk, cPanel, ISPManager and InterWorx control panel products, as well as with Apache and LiteSpeed web servers. It is also used as a base for Parallels next generation H2E hosting platform. The company’s vision is to design a simple and elegant solution that helps companies improve server security, efficiency, density and performance as they migrate to Cloud-based services.
The Cloud Computing World Forum is sponsoring the Cloud Computing World Series Awards. Winners of the Cloud Computing World Series Awards were announced on June 29th at an award ceremony held at the Olympia Conference Center in London.
For more information about CloudLinux, please visit www.cloudlinux.com
About CloudLinux, Inc.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.
CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.
To join online discussions and receive news updates you can find CloudLinux on: Twitter and LinkedIn. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.
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IBM and European Union Join to Develop New Collaborative e-Business Model Extending Open Source and Cloud Technologies
Jul 8th
Press Release Jul 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced, in collaboration with the European Union, industry and academia, the launch of a research consortium which aims to help businesses more easily take advantage of Internet-based services – or “e-services” – to create collaborative business operations and achieve shared business goals.
The unique effort focuses on the development of a new computer science model that will enable organizations to greatly accelerate the typically time-intensive process around the coordination of e-services and increase the automation and efficiency around deploying new e-service blends. The research will enable even small to mid-sized businesses to create or join into flexible e-service blends, without investing in expensive IT expertise. The initiative will create open-source software to enable many organizations around the world take advantage of the technology.
“Up until now, organizations have had to invest significant time and money in conventional, mostly manual blending and customizing efforts to enable their e-business service operations to communicate and work collaboratively,” said Dr. Fabiana Fournier, consortium leader and scientist at IBM Research. “ACSI represents a new combination of computer science principles that are designed to enable businesses to retain a laser focus on operations and goals as they achieve new efficiencies in blending and interleaving e-services.”
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How public sector IT organizations can tap into the power of the cloud
Jun 21st
How can you turn cloud computing from a mere concept to one that is a reality in your IT organization, bringing real value to both internal stakeholders and external constituents? Quite simply: With the right approach and the right tools. Now’s the time to tap into the cloud to exploit the potential economies of scale and achieve cost savings.
Cloud computing enables your IT organization to focus on the best and most cost-effective way to deliver services. It allows your internal customers to focus on what matters most: their core business requirements, such as a new public information portal or an online forum to publicize requests for proposals. Rather than providing IT with details about how many servers with so much CPU and RAM are needed, your internal customers can leverage the cloud to request capacity to perform specific services. And IT can offer services from a dynamic resource pool. As resource needs fluctuate, you have the flexibility to choose the best solution with the available resources. It’s a win-win for everyone.
Why Leverage the Cloud?
For public sector organizations, there are benefits to pursuing a cloud initiative, through private, community, or public cloud services. Though the private cloud is the most obvious option for government organization, the community cloud model has become an especially powerful idea for the public sector. Multiple agencies with similar concerns and requirements can create an environment that serves overlapping agency needs. This is especially relevant in the current climate of lower budgets and information-sharing requirements at both the federal and state levels. The community cloud provides many benefits of public cloud services without the security concerns. This model stands or falls based on the power of dynamic resource allocation. As the size of the community grows, the economies of scale are more and more compelling. With the right networks in place, the community cloud provides a pool of location-independent resources that can be leveraged equally, as needed, by the participating organizations (e.g. the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Rapid Access Computing Environment).
Public cloud services can be used to provide overflow capacity or a fully hosted environment (e.g., the U.S. General Services Administration’s USA.gov Web site) for those government services with less-stringent security requirements. For example, a government agency might anticipate much higher usage of a service during a short period of time (e.g., tax season, natural disasters), and with the proper integrations in place, Internet traffic could easily be load-balanced between the public and private cloud to quickly increase capacity, all without incurring any long-term costs.
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Cloud Computing a Threat, and Opportunity, for Taiwan’s PC Makers
Jun 14th
TAIPEI — When Richard Lee, an electronics magnate, peers into the murky future of cloud computing, he sees both opportunity and challenge.
The company he heads, Inventec, makes laptops, servers and other electronic hardware for Western brands like Hewlett-Packard, using the renowned low-cost Taiwanese manufacturing model. But if all the hype around cloud computing becomes reality, that business model may have to change.
“It might impact our legacy business,” Mr. Lee said in an interview. “But the good news is that it could also push us into new cloud computing opportunities.”
While the term is tossed around in reference to a variety of technologies, in essence cloud computing refers to delivering software, storage and other services via the Web from vast data centers. That is a shift away from the PC-based computing model, in which software is stored on individual machines.
If the supporters of cloud computing are right, the laptops that Inventec makes will become less important, as computing power migrates to server farms and as simpler, cheaper mobile devices like the Apple iPad proliferate. But the servers that Inventec makes could gain a more significant role if they are adapted to the needs of the data centers powering the cloud.
Inventec is just one of Taiwan’s world-beating technology companies that is bracing itself for this paradigm shift. Like other governments in the region, including that of South Korea, it has announced a plan to help its technology companies compete in a new cloud computing age. And a consortium formed in April is bringing Taiwanese telecommunications, manufacturing, Web security and other software companies together to figure out how to meet the government’s ambitious goals.
Cloud computing could offer one way for Taiwan to move beyond the business of contract manufacturing, with its low profit margins, and into more lucrative areas — provided that Taiwanese companies are able to shed mind-sets of the past and address their current weaknesses.
“We’re searching for a new model,” said C.Y. Ling, director general of the Department of Investment Services in Taiwan.
The cloud computing services market in Taiwan was forecast to hit 6.2 billion Taiwan dollars, or $192 million, this year, up from 3.7 billion dollars in 2006, with most of the business in storage and remote security, according to a report from the Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute in Taiwan.
At a recent forum on cloud computing in Taipei, Taiwanese participants gave somewhat angst-ridden views on the shortcomings of the island’s companies, while Western participants were conspicuously more upbeat. That may have something to do with the fact that Taiwan contract makers’ profit margins are a thin 3 percent to 5 percent, according to analysts’ estimates, while Western brands’ much higher margins give them more breathing room for risky innovations.
Mr. Lee of Inventec said that Taiwan companies needed to focus more on software. Combining the gadget-making that Taiwan is already strong in with software services will be the key to thriving in the age of cloud computing, he said. “We’re our own worst enemy — there has been too much emphasis on hardware.”
Unlike the United States, where the government largely leaves innovation to the free market, Taiwan has traditionally seen government-led campaigns to develop important technologies — semiconductors, PCs, then flat-screen video displays — and to help Taiwan companies figure out how to mass-produce and commercialize them.
So it is with cloud computing. In late April, Taiwan’s cabinet announced a 24 billion-dollar cloud computing plan. The plan includes investments in research centers and the establishment of a cloud computing industry alliance. The cabinet hopes that within five years cloud computing will be a $30 billion industry in Taiwan, creating 50,000 new jobs and luring investment.
The plan followed the South Korean government’s announcement last December that it would pump 610 billion won, or $487 million, into cloud computing.
Mr. Ling of the Department of Investment Services said his department planned a road show to Silicon Valley and Boston this year, in part to drum up cloud computing investment for Taiwan.
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Five cloud computing startups to watch
May 28th
The May BizSpark event in Paris, Microsoft and technology venture capitalists had the chance to assess the upcoming wares from Europe’s brightest young hopefuls in the software development world.
With cloud computing dominating the IT news headlines, surveys and analysts’ attentions, the bulk of the development houses were presenting cloud computing technology and business models. The following companies had to present to a panel of experts from Microsoft and the European venture capital community. They were all impressive and will no doubt begin to shape the marketplace.
Money Dashboard
Based in Scotland, Money Dashboard proves that no matter what goes wrong, a strong business sector will get back up and win. Banking and financial services in the UK have taken a battering in the credit crisis, especially in Scotland where Royal Bank of Scotland required emergency government funding in order to survive. But the Scottish cloud-based financial services model looks to have real potential.
The ultimate aim is to provide a cloud-based service that enables users to use the internet for more than the budget management that they currently do and instead harness the power of the internet to manage and generate their own wealth. Money Dashboard provides the user with a single interface for all their financial services, no matter the provider, easing the management of personal funds and ending the nightmare of having to remember half a dozen registration details. Money Dashboard’s business model is to act as a trusted middleman between the consumer and financial service providers, guiding the financial service provider towards targeted users in a lead-generation business model. Views of the Azure-based interface were impressive and the business model makes sense, in fact it has been tried before by an Asia Pacific banking group, but it was too early to market.
No Excuse Accounting
This Spanish smartphone application is pitched at the vital contractors market, which is a valuable marketplace in Spain and the UK. The company claims that contractors such as builders, plumbers; electricians and plasterers spend an extra working day of the week doing their essential administration such as sending out invoices. This application allows pre-prepared accounting documents and invoices to be created, sent and managed from a smartphone. There are already a wide number of PC-based applications, but this could be the first smartphone application; and contractors are major users of smartphones.
The business model is that once a user registers for and downloads the application they are charged on a transactional basis every time a document is sent via the application. It has been designed for Microsoft and Apple smartphones and can already be downloaded from the iPhone Apstore and Microsoft Windows Marketplace.
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