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GoGrid Cloud Hosting Version 3.0 Live

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

GoGrid announced the release of GoGrid Version 3.0. GoGrid 3.0 is designed to extend the company’s leadership position as the most flexible, secure, easy-to-use, and feature-rich Cloud Infrastructure Hosting Solution available. Looks like the leading Cloud Infrastructure and Hybrid Hosting Provider is really moving forward!

“GoGrid has been on the leading edge of the cloud market helping company’s like Gomez utilize the power of cloud computing to transform our infrastructure,” said Colin Mason, Reality Load Product Manager of Gomez, the Web Performance Division of Compuware (NASDAQ: CPWR). “GoGrid delivers outstanding performance and flexibility as Cloud Infrastructure provider. With GoGrid 3.0’s features and new datacenter, we can further integrate the cloud into our business processes.”

There are many features of GoGrid version 3.0 that will put more flexibility, control, and customizable computing power in the hands of customers. Some of these include:

  • a new East Coast datacenter
  • new CPU and hard drive allocations
  • industry-leading pre-paid and volume licensing pricing plans and,
  • physical and virtual hardware firewalls for enhanced security.

For a full list of new features please visit http://www.gogrid.com/software-update

The release includes a number of security and management features designed to enable GoGrid customers to create innovative and compelling infrastructure solutions for their business needs.

“GoGrid has continually brought to market pioneering services that help businesses of all sizes seize the tremendous opportunity of cloud hosting.” said GoGrid CEO & Co-Founder, John Keagy. “Our latest release is a significant step forward in our efforts to make complex infrastructure extremely easy in the GoGrid Cloud. From the new East Coast Datacenter to our unique hybrid hosting solution, GoGrid 3.0 epitomizes GoGrid’s mission to handle the infrastructure for clients, so they can focus on their business.”

GoGrid will be hosting a webinar for new comers to Cloud Computing and the GoGrid Cloud on June 29th at 11:00am PDT. To sign up for the webinar, please visit: http://go.gogrid.com/event_29_june_2010.

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OpSource Recognized as a Top Ten Cloud Computing

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

OpSource announced that Datamation.com recently recognized the company as one of the top ten cloud computing “leaders to watch” in a list which also included IBM, AT&T, and Cisco. Leaders were chosen based on objective criteria, including customer traction, experience and market cap or financing, as well as subjective criteria, such as ability to innovate, ease of use, and how well cloud offerings integrate with the company’s broader portfolio. The top ten cloud providers doesn’t come easy.

OpSource has been helping several smaller businesses with their cloud servers and IaaS. “We believe that more than half of Infrastructure-as-a-Service will eventually be sold through channels and solution providers,” said Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource. “We are gratified that a leading publication like Datamation.com has confidence in our vision for this future, and we thank them for this recognition.”

They also have helped several larger customers such as Adobe, SAP, Taleo and Xactly, this also helped OpSource be recognized as a leader because of its unique position as the “go-to ‘cloud operations’ provider.”

In 2009, the company introduced OpSource Cloud, a cloud service for companies requiring pay-as-you-go flexibility and 100% availability as well as high security and control.

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Cloud Server Lawsuit

Monday, June 28th, 2010

This is one of the first cloud hosting lawsuits that I know about that has become very huge in the news.  We all know that cloud hosting is becoming important to all the companies around the world.  In the case of Salesforce.com and Microsoft… the battle is on.

Salesforce.com is using David Boies as counsel for its patent-infringement lawsuit against its the huge competitor. Salesforce’s lawsuit is seen by many as a response to Microsoft’s own intellectual property suit, filed in May, against the cloud-based software company. One analyst also sees the brewing legal battle as a fight for the future of the cloud, with Microsoft’s Azure on one side and Salesforce’s cloud-based productivity offerings on the other. Salesforce alleges that Microsoft violated five of its patents.

The five Salesforce patents at issue include, “Dynamic Multi-Level Cache Manager,” “Method and System for Handling Errors in a Distributed Computer System,” “Work Sharing and Communicating in a Web Site System,” “Java Object Cache Server for Databases,” and “Apparatus and Methods for Provisioning Services.” All were issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office between 2004 and 2007.

“Microsoft’s continuing acts of infringement have caused and are causing irreparable harm to Salesforce.com, for which Salesforce.com has no adequate remedy at law,” read the filing. “The hardships that would be imposed by an injunction are less than those faced by Salesforce.com should an injunction not issue.”

“The stakes are getting bigger and bigger,” Ray Wang, an analyst with the Altimeter Group, said in a June 28 interview with eWEEK. “In the battle for the cloud, the two leaders are going to be Salesforce and Microsoft. Microsoft’s Azure is the .NET side of the war, while Salesforce is the Java side. So you’re going to have drama.” Azure is Microsoft’s cloud-based development platform.

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