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After all, interoperability standards across infrastructure of similar ilk would, ostensibly, make it easier for cloud computing providers to offer the infrastructure services required to customize the environment. …
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Key Pair Technologies Announces Cloud Security and Virtualization Product Family Secure and Manage Cloud Infrastructure in zero-day deployment time PR.
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Cloud Computing Infrastructure What Makes Up a Cloud The principles of cloud computing include: Virtualization and automation Interchangeable.
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Join Rex Wang, Oracle’s Vice President of Infrastructure and Management, and Sushil Kumar, Oracle’s Vice President of Business Development, as they discuss directions in cloud computing and the role it can play in your organization.
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The two have committed to what they call the infrastructure-to-application model with an eye to establishing both companies as big players in cloud computing . As the cloud gains in prominence, and is increasingly seen as the …
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HP and Microsoft Buddy Up for Cloud Computing – GigaOM
In 2009, the IT Infrastructure Management Outsourcing client/user survey investigates over 400 contracts held by 1120 of the top ITO spending corporations and organizations globally.
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Elastra Corporation, the leading provider of application infrastructure automation software, today announced its plans for enabling enterprises seeking to leverage the on-demand capabilities of Microsoft?s Windows Azure Platform® by allowing them to design, deploy, and manage systems spanning both their data center and the public cloud provided by Microsoft.?Our approach has been one of facilitating seamless integration of internal resources with the publically available infrastructure,? said Kirill Sheynkman, President & CEO of Elastra Corporation. ?Our customers will be able to integrate in-house systems built on either .NET or Java platforms running on HyperV, VMware, and XEN with public clouds from Amazon and Microsoft. Where and how a system is deployed becomes a matter of policy and corporate governance.?Elastra, a Microsoft partner, and a participant in early reviews of Azure technology, followed a declarative model for describing infrastructure Elastra Corporation, the leading provider of application infrastructure automation software, today announced its plans for enabling enterprises seeking to leverage the on-demand capabilities of Microsoft?s Windows Azure Platform® by allowing them to design, deploy, and manage systems spanning both their data center and the public cloud provided by Microsoft. ?Our approach has been one of facilitating seamless integration of internal resources with the publically available infrastructure,? said Kirill Sheynkman, President & CEO of Elastra Corporation. ?Our customers will be able to integrate in-house systems built on either .NET or Java platforms running on HyperV, VMware, and XEN with public clouds from Amazon and Microsoft. Where and how a system is deployed becomes a matter of policy and corporate governance.?Elastra, a Microsoft partner, and a participant in early reviews of Azure technology, followed a declarative model for describing infrastructure capabilities and system requirements, as has Microsoft. Azure?s capabilities will become part of Elastra’s Elastic Modeling Languages, and enable the Elastra Cloud Server to match Microsoft?s software components to the resources provided by the Microsoft platform in the customer?s own data center as well as in the public, Microsoft-based cloud.”The fusion of the Windows Azure Platform with the Elastic Cloud Server enables architects to describe and automate the constraints and configuration dependencies between different data centers and application technologies, such as .NET, Java EE, or scripting languages like PHP,” says Stuart Charlton, CTO of Elastra. “The Elastic Modeling technology shifts the tennis match between development and IT operations into a new collaborative conversation.”Elastra for the Windows Azure Platform is planned as a free release in Q1 2010. Integration with Elastra Cloud Server, now generally available for VMware and Amazon Web Services, is slated for the same timeframe.?Our Enterprise customers have extensive investments in Microsoft infrastructure. So it?s a natural fit for us to expand our support for Microsoft technologies and enable IT to save valuable time and money automating their Microsoft infrastructure and applications using the Elastra Cloud Server,? said Peter Chiu, Director of Product Management at Elastra.
?We are thrilled that the cloud computing capabilities readily being adopted by the non-Microsoft IT groups will be delivered to the Microsoft-based ?silent majority?,? added Sheynkman.About ElastraElastra develops software that enables enterprises to automate modeling, deployment and policy enforcement of their application infrastructure. Our products work in conjunction with provisioning and virtualization solutions to orchestrate the intelligent delivery of IT infrastructure required to run complex applications. Elastra solutions enable enterprise IT organizations to accelerate the delivery of new applications, effectively utilizing internal and virtualized IT resources to help enterprise IT groups deploy applications faster, increase resource utilization, and improve IT governance effectiveness.
For more about Elastra, visit us on the Web at www.elastra.com.
a leading software infrastructure provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, announced today the start of the company’s fifth year delivering its Software as a Service (SaaS) enablement program. Progress has enabled more than 250 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to deploy thousands of on-demand applications. These ISVs use the Progress® OpenEdge® SaaS platform to build their applications for use in some of the most demanding and diverse business environments in the world.Progress OpenEdge is a SaaS platform that simplifies and streamlines the development, integration, and management of business applications for deployment ‘in the cloud’. The OpenEdge platform comprises the efficient data management, high availability, and scalability that a SaaS application requires. Equally important to the success of ISVs, Progress provides SaaS enablement services that include technical, business, and sales & marketing planning programs. Progress also offers flexible pricing options to mitigate the risk to ISVs through a shared revenue model. report from independent research organization Gartner, Inc., ‘Who’s Who in Application Platforms for Cloud Computing: The Enterprise Generalists’, states: “Application platforms for cloud computing vary from those that are narrowly focused on simple two-tier architectures to those that offer universal multi-architecture support.” The report continues on to further state: “Users who understand their requirements well will avoid overpaying for an unnecessarily complex platform, or a platform that’s underpowered for the project’s requirements.”
Progress helps ISVs by providing proven technology along with the marketing and business programs needed to succeed within their particular industry. “Progress ISVs deliver solutions for a wide range of vertical markets, including manufacturing, media, financial services, healthcare, and even those who service the agriculture industry,” said Colleen Smith, managing director, SaaS for Progress Software. “The thing that most differentiates our program is that we take the time to understand the specific SaaS deployment requirements for each vertical market. We collaborate closely with our ISVs to develop business models that help them reach the most customers possible, while maximizing their revenue.”
For example, B&L Information Systems, a provider of enterprise software for foundry and die casting industries, is a Progress ISV who has evolved its offerings toward an on-demand model, thanks to the Progress enablement program.“When we were looking to expand our business strategy and look at SaaS as a new business model – it was the Progress SaaS-enablement programs that helped us make the right decisions. This allowed us to continue to help metal casters make better decisions, faster with the new SaaS applications we created,” said Matt Gacek, vice president of Sales & Marketing, B&L Information Systems. “Our strategy is working well. 78% of our new accounts in 2009 are SaaS-based clients.”The current economy has challenged software developers to innovate, and Progress is helping them. Digital Technology International (DTI), a global financial management software provider to the news publishing industry is one such example.
“With the media landscape rapidly changing, we realized we needed to make the transition to offering SaaS-based applications and change our business model. It was our partnership with Progress Software and taking advantage of their SaaS-enablement programs that helped us make a complete shift in strategy. We were able to deliver ‘DTI Cloud,’ which enables media organizations to respond rapidly to the demands of digital news publishing,” said Steve Nilan, vice president of Marketing, Digital Technology International. “Our SaaS offering and strong technology foundation not only keeps pace with changes in the media landscape, but prepares publishers for the changes that are yet to come.”Often, time to market is a key success factor, as it was for FARA, an insurance services organization that provides risk and claims management solutions to insurance companies, self-insured corporations, and governmental entities.“We used the Progress OpenEdge SaaS platform to develop our Catastrophe Claims Management application and as a result we were the first to market,” said David Richard, vice president Information Technology, FARA. “In doing so, we have been able to differentiate ourselves from the competition with a new SaaS offering. We are also achieving 30% average annual growth.”For Bluebird Auto Rental Systems, which offers cost-effective turnkey services to vehicle rental operations worldwide, the key to their ability to compete successfully was to serve any customer regardless of size or geography.“We needed a way to expand our reach to provide auto rental software services to both small and large franchises,” states Angela Margolit, president of Bluebird Auto Rental Systems. “Ultimately, the pricing flexibility we gained by using a SaaS model has been is a key success factor. Moreover, we have a unique partnership with Progress Software that enables us to create new market opportunities and to service auto rental providers in many geographies around the globe.”
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global software company that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive to changing conditions and customer interactions as they occur – to capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce risk. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of best-in-class infrastructure software spanning event-driven visibility and real-time response, open integration, data access and integration, and application development and deployment – all supporting on-premises and SaaS/Cloud deployments. Progress maximizes the benefits of operational responsiveness while minimizing IT complexity and total cost of ownership. Progress can be reached at www.progress.com
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SaaS and Cloud Integration Company(TM), today announced that Cast Iron CEO Ken Comée is speaking at the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop New York on This year, Interop is focused on innovation, including virtualization, mobility, cloud computing, and data center advances, and how companies can leverage these new technologies to increase productivity and improve collaboration.As the chief executive of an industry leader in cloud integration, Comée has the technological and market experience necessary to provide valuable insights into advances in cloud computing infrastructure and resulting IT innovations. His conference session, entitled Cloud Computing Roadmaps, will be moderated by Alistair Croll, principal analyst at Bitcurrent.Since joining Cast Iron Systems in April 2005, Ken Comée has driven a twenty-fold increase in revenue and new customers, making Cast Iron the de facto leader in SaaS and Cloud integration.CIO, CTO & Developer ResourcesAbout Interop Interop drives the adoption of technology, providing knowledge and insight to help IT and corporate decision-makers achieve business success. Part of TechWeb’s family of global brands, Interop is the leading business technology event series. Through in-depth educational programs, workshops, real-world demonstration and live technology implementation in its unique InteropNet program, Interop provides the forum for the most powerful innovations and solutions the industry has to offer. Interop is the meeting place for the global business technology community. For more information on Interop events worldwide visit http://www.interop.com.About Cast Iron Systems Founded in Cast Iron Systems is the #1 SaaS and Cloud Integration Company(TM). Cast Iron has thousands of deployed customer integrations across all industries and around the world at companies such as Allianz, British American Tobacco (BAT), Amerisource Bergen, Emerson, IBA Molecular, Krueger International, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, PGP Corporation, and salesforce.com, among many others. All are benefiting from the simplicity, speed, and flexibility of the Cast Iron Integration Solution, which enables them to integrate Cloud-based and SaaS applications with the rest of the enterprise in just days. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Tenaya Capital. Cast Iron is privately held and led by experienced technology executives from Informatica, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Vitria, and webMethods.
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IBM’s new Virtual Server Security product is designed to secure each layer of the infrastructure of a virtual server, reports InformationWeek . The software.
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