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HP Acquires Stratavia

Friday, August 27th, 2010

HP acquired Stratavia earlier today for an undisclosed amount.  The Denver, CO based company Stratavia makes automation tools that span the application lifecycle, from application development to deployment to ongoing management. Its modeling, configuration and management technologies can help bridge the gap between application developers and operational teams and speed the time it takes to get new applications up and running, HP says.

“For eight years, Stratavia has been focused on developing application deployment automation solutions supporting tasks including provisioning, code deployment, configuration management, compliance, patching, as well as common user requests including migrations, refresh and back-ups,” said Thor Culverhouse, CEO of Stratavia, in a statement. “Combining Stratavia’s offerings with HP Server Automation will give clients a way to simplify and automate application deployment operations, minimizing downtime and mistakes.”

This should help make a stronger cloud server platform for HP.

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DriveHQ Updates Cloud Service Offerings

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

DriveHQ released another major cloud services offering that is designed to offer businesses a comprehensive set of services including email and Web hosting services, as well as a remote file server, online storage, backup, sharing and collaboration.

According to DriveHQ’s Wednesday announcement, “Cloud Storage & Cloud IT Solution 5.0” is the latest incarnation of technologies DriveHQ has developed in-house since 2003. Promising to drive cost savings and improve remote productivity, the latest version helps companies migrate various aspects of their businesses to the cloud including their file servers, backup systems, FTP servers, email servers, and sharing and collaboration systems.

Now I haven’t tested this out but the new cloud server offerings are rumored to support very large enterprises or educational institutes, with the ability to easily support organizations with more than 10 thousand members.

More than 1 million users, tens of thousands of businesses have chosen DriveHQ cloud-based services, incl. Online Storage, Sharing, Backup and FTP Server Hosting services.  DriveHQ focuses on high quality features that create value and save money for customers.  Their technologies and features are far ahead of other companies.

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Computer Server Shot by Drunken Mortgage Worker

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

shutterstock_18255388.jpgDrunken Utah mortgage company employee in Salt Lake City, Utah fired shots on the mortgage companies computer server last night.  Right after opening fire on the server he called the local police and told officers that someone stole his .45-caliber weapon and shot the server.

Joshua Lee Campbell was charged with a felony for criminal mischief and three misdemeanors:

  1. Carrying a weapon while under the influence.
  2. Lying to police.
  3. Public intoxication.

Investigators said the 23-year-old Salt Lake City man called police on Aug. 12 and claimed a man stole his gun and fired into the $100,000 computer server owned by RANLife Home Loans.  Investigators say they determined Campbell returned to the office late at night after drinking at an evening concert and he shot the server. Police say Campbell told them he was mugged, assaulted and drugged by a mystery man.

I thought this was a very funny story but proves a point that you shouldn’t have your servers laying around the office.  You should switch to the cloud and have your server in a cloud hosting providers facility.  If this Mortgage Company would have followed these instructions, they would still have a server and all the information that they potentially lost.

Thanks to KSL for the news story!

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