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ISO/IEC 27001, New York, StratoGen, Virtualization, VMware

StratoGen Adds New York VMware Hosting, Offers Discount

StratoGen today announced the immediate availability of its latest cloud location in New York, promoting it with an offer of a 33% discount for clients that sign up before the end of November 2012.

“We are really excited to bring our unique VMware hosting solutions to the East Coast.” said Karl Robinson, Vice President of Sales. “Everything we do is driven by the needs of our clients and this expansion is no different.  We built the platform to extremely high standards to ensure our clients’ business critical applications perform exceptionally well and are available 100% of the time. Our no compromise approach meant utilizing top end NetApp SANs and HP Blade systems to give the kind of performance that will leave others reeling.”

StratoGen cloud locations offer an enterprise grade service allowing customers to self-manage their hosted VMware infrastructure through the StratoGen control panel. In addition to deploying elastic servers or VMware appliances; clients can use the control panel to integrate with their local systems (including corporate authentication), build out complex networks, firewalls and even site to site VPNs.

StratoGen also holds SSAE 16 Type II data center certification and ISO 27001 security credentials.


Big Data, Economic growth, Government agency, Government Technology, New York, Research, Smart city

Study: Big Data, Cloud will Transform City Government

Around the world, city leaders face the challenge of delivering economic growth while meeting sustainability targets and rising expectations about the quality of municipal services, often in the face of drastic budget reductions. This is forcing many city leaders to improve efficiency and drive further innovation in the creation and delivery of services. According to a recent report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant’s Energy Practice, new platforms for communication, data sharing, and application development – particularly cloud computing and data analytics – will play a key role in this transformation.

Cumulative investment in smart government technology between 2011 and 2017 will be almost $4.8 billion, the report finds. Annual investment in smart government technologies in North America alone will surpass $1 billion in 2017, and annual investment in cloud services for smart cities will reach nearly $1.4 billion worldwide by 2017.

“Cloud-based computing, in particular, offers new options for cities that reduces capital expenditure, provides access to new skills, and reduces time-to-deployment of new solutions,” says research director Eric Woods. “Cloud-based systems also enable cities to take advantage of the huge amounts of operational data they collect to improve efficiency and develop new services.”

City leaders are also looking at investment in technology as a means of spurring economic growth. This includes a range of strategies: making the city a center of cleantech development and innovation (e.g., Denver, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam); creating new types of digital commerce and development (e.g., New York and Manchester); being at the leading edge of technology adoption (e.g., Barcelona and Friedrichshafen); becoming an exporter of technology (e.g., Seoul); or retaining or establishing a position as a regional trading hub (e.g., Singapore and Songdo). Each of these approaches, the study concludes, requires a vision of where the city is heading, an investment in infrastructure, and a commitment to innovation.

Pike Research’s report, “Smart Government Technologies”, analyzes the global market opportunity for smart government technologies. It assesses the business drivers, market forces, and technology trends that are transforming the use of information and communication technology and related technologies in smart cities and communities. The study forecasts the size and growth of the market for smart government technologies through 2017, and it also forecasts the growth in smart government data analytics and cloud-based services between 2011 and 2017. The report includes profiles of major smart government initiatives around the world and also examines the strategies of key players in the smart government market including government agencies, IT companies, telcos, and infrastructure providers. An Executive Summary of the report is available for free download on the firm’s website.