ServerCentral, Chicago’s leading provider of colocation, cloud, network connectivity, and managed services, announced on Tuesday that its high performance cloud will debut on June 11 at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11-14 at the Javits Center in New York City.
“ServerCentral customers have voiced their frustrations with cloud offerings which may require thousands of VMs to run large workloads,” explained Jordan Lowe, ServerCentral President and CEO. “Our cloud services support real-world enterprise and content workloads, offering the CPU, network, and disk throughput of high-performance physical servers.”
ServerCentral built their cloud with virtual machines as powerful as physical servers, enabling it to run enterprise workloads with ease. Each VM has dedicated CPU, a generous allocation of memory, and redundant 10-Gigabit connections to ensure data and applications are accessible, protected, and lightning-fast 100% of the time. Additionally, cloud users are able to configure, launch, monitor, and manage their entire cloud infrastructure in a powerful provisioning portal built by ServerCentral’s own Chicago-based software development team.
ITpreneurs Bringing Cloud Computing Essentials to Cloud Expo New York
ITpreneurs, the leading provider of competence development solutions for IT best practices, will be delivering its Cloud Essentials course at the upcoming Cloud Expo New York, taking place June 11-14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City. The two-day course covers core concepts and prepares individuals to become internationally certified by CompTIA.
“We are very pleased that ITpreneurs is providing this course offering for attendees,” said Jeremy Geelan, President & COO, Cloud Expo. “The Cloud Essentials course provides professionals not only with the content to succeed, but the confidence to excel.”
Individuals can register for the course here. Those registered for the course will be able to attend two daily technical sessions, and have access to the Expo floor and all keynote and general information sessions.
PixPuffin Photo Management System for SMBs Runs Carbon-free on Iceland’s GreenCloud
NordicPhotos image agency has released PixPuffin, a cloud-based photo management system for medium sized and small businesses. Web-based, without any need for additional software or servers, it is the first of its kind and specially designed to administer the image library of today’s companies and organizations. The system has been in constant development for over 11 years as the core system overseeing NordicPhotos’ own image library. Based in Iceland, the system is cloud hosted on greenqloud’s 100% renewable energy servers, making PixPuffin the first completely eco-friendly image management solution available.
Between single user solutions and large, very expensive server based media management solutions, the creators of PixPuffin felt that user friendly and affordable image management solutions were somewhat lacking from the market. Businesses and organizations can save a great amount of money every year by using a solution like PixPuffin, they can save time and prevent damages such as lost images and expensive copyright mistakes. Furthermore, they can improve or extend the use of their images, save on image purchase and make their marketing and PR presence better than ever.
For more information www.pixpuffin.com
“We have talked to almost 200 companies during the past few weeks and it surprised us how much of a problem image management is becoming within companies of all kinds,” said Arnaldur Gauti Johnson, Managing Director. “They are using more images than ever, but lacking systems to manage the images and the copyrights attached. Access to the images is also becoming increasingly important as many administrators in the company need to grant access to the media and clients as well as the employees and they must be able to control this access.”
PerspecSys Named “Silver Sponsor” of Cloud Expo 2012 New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that PerspecSys Inc., the leader in cloud data protection solutions for the enterprise, has been named “Silver Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
PerspecSys Inc. is a leading provider of cloud data protection solutions that enable mission-critical cloud applications to be adopted throughout the enterprise. With PerspecSys, any information that leaves an enterprise’s environment and enters the cloud can be tokenized or encrypted (using strong FIPS 140-2 encryption modules), ensuring that data remains undecipherable when it is being processed or stored in the cloud. PerspecSys accomplishes this for many large, heavily regulated companies across the world, giving them full control over their sensitive data while ensuring that end-user functionality of SaaS cloud applications is maintained. Based in Toronto, PerspecSys Inc. is a privately held company backed by investors that include Intel Capital and GrowthWorks.
So You Want to Use Open Source Cloud for Your Web Application
Before embarking on using open source cloud technology for your web property, a basic understanding of cloud, as it’s used in the industry, is essential. While there might be exceptions, here are the definitions.
A software application delivered on the web instead of installing standalone software on a particular OS requiring some environment qualifies as Software as a Service. This makes applications available anywhere on a browser in any OS, device, and also makes latest updates available asynchronously, e.g., email on the web, banking on the web.
PaaS
A web application requires software in turn to be built like the environment, application server, and web server and the configuration of these should be adequate for the applications deployed on this platform. For a Java-based application, one may require a JBoss server to deploy code. With Platform as a Service, instead of trying to manage the JBoss server deployment and configuration, it can be made available as a service and integrated right within your IDE, e.g., openshift.redhat.com, cloudfoundry.org.
Eucalyptus Is Open for (Cloud) Business
Eucalyptus Systems provides IT organizations and technology businesses with the most widely deployed cloud software platform for on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Eucalyptus is built as an open source cloud product and is uniquely suited for enterprise-class private cloud or hybrid cloud computing.
Eucalyptus is the world’s most widely deployed private cloud software platform. Our software enables companies to turn their own hardware into so called private clouds. With Eucalyptus installed on your servers and your storage system, you have a cloud of your own with the benefits that you are used to from the public cloud such as Amazon Web Services.
Some examples: Puma runs all their consumer-facing websites on Eucalyptus. This allows them to move workloads around and provide compute power to the website or campaign that needs it most. The US Department of Agriculture built a modern mobile application for farmers. The application runs on a Eucalyptus cloud installed on USDA’s existing servers. Plinga runs massive social games on both the public cloud and on Eucalyptus. They can move the games back and forth without change.
Racemi Software Automates Migration of Windows Servers to Public Clouds
Like a moving company for the cloud, Racemi provides the ability to easily migrate Windows server images to public clouds. The company is a sponsor at the upcoming Cloud Expo where visitors can see Racemi demonstrate server migrations.
Racemi announced on Wednesday its DynaCenter software can now quickly and easily migrate Windows server images to public cloud providers including Amazon EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Terremark. It also provides flexibility to move workloads from one cloud computing provider to another, as well as to a physical or virtual server – in any combination or direction.
Oracle Coupon Code ▸ oracleVIPgold Special Offer as Cloud Expo Sponsor
As a Platinum Plus Sponsor of Cloud Expo New York, Oracle is offering special passes to SYS-CON’s 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
With more than 380,000 customers – including 100 of the Fortune 100 – and with deployments across a wide variety of industries in more than 145 countries around the globe, Oracle offers an optimized and fully integrated stack of business hardware and software systems that helps organizations overcome complexity and unleash innovation.
DocuSign, bluLink Solutions Enhance Enterprise Workflow with DocuSign for Microsoft SharePoint
DocuSign today announced its collaboration with bluLink Solutions, a provider of custom enterprise solutions with Microsoft SharePoint. bluLink will use the DocuSign eSignature Transaction Management Platform to fully automate signature processes for its SharePoint clients.
“By integrating with DocuSign, we will enable our SharePoint clients to keep their document processes including approvals requiring signatures entirely electronic,” said John Bech, vice president of sales at bluLink Solutions. “Our joint solutions will deliver tremendous value to our clients by reducing transaction times from days to minutes.”
“bluLink’s deep expertise with business processes, SharePoint, and DocuSign allow it to deliver significant value to its clients extremely quickly,” said Dustin Grosse, chief marketing officer at DocuSign. “With DocuSign, bluLink can dramatically shorten signature cycle times, eliminate the need for paper and eradicate data rekeying errors. Together we make it much easier for employees to do their jobs by delivering substantial, nearly immediate ROI that also improves employee satisfaction.”
Companies interested in integrating DocuSign’s electronic signature solution with Microsoft SharePoint may visit www.docusign.com or www.blulinksolutions.com for more information.
SAP to Acquire Ariba for $4.3 Billion
SAP on Tuesday announced its intention to buy Ariba for $4.3 billion, a 19 percent premium on Ariba’s market capitalization.
The move comes soon after SAP’s SuccessFactors February buy and shows that SAP is quickly and aggressively acquiring its way to a full cloud business services capability. The announcement caps SAP’s user conference last week and the cloud and data services news from it, including cloud suite offerings like SAP Business ByDesign and SAP Business One.