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RightNow Makes Pete Stoneberg Over Government Cloud

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

RightNow  announced the appointment of Pete Stoneberg to deputy CIO, government cloud hosting, and vice president, cloud delivery. In this new role Stoneberg’s will bproviding the vision and day-to-day leadership for the RightNow CX Government Cloud platform and solution for Federal and Department of Defense (DoD) commands, engaging with RightNow’s public sector customer base as a senior solution architect and champion of RightNow’s cloud capabilities. He will also be instrumental in rolling out best practices to RightNow’s government customers, helping them to seamlessly move to and extend the cloud computing model to multiple agencies.

“With extensive experience at RightNow in cloud security and public sector engagements, Pete has a deep understanding of how to help federal government agencies transition to the secure cloud. The technical and security needs of our government customers are very specialized, and having a senior resource focused on IT and the cloud in this sector is a major competitive differentiator for RightNow.” Laef Olson, CIO, RightNow

“RightNow is committed to giving Federal agencies what they need to move to the cloud today without having to go through hurdles in their implementations, or make significant changes to their architectures to be compliant. My goal is to help agencies quickly transition to the secure cloud while meeting stringent security requirements and providing them with high levels of application control. The U.S. government is a rapidly growing business for RightNow, and I’m excited to be focused on this sector to bring increased satisfaction to our customers and their constituents.” Pete Stoneberg, deputy CIO, government cloud, and vice president, cloud delivery, RightNow

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Dunkel selects Scality S3 for Cloud Storage in Germany

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Dunkel announced the immediate availability of the first S3-compatible cloud storage service in Germany.  “During discussion with Scality, we learned of the availability of the S3-compatible API which made us broaden our scope for storage”, recalls Axel Dunkel, founder and CEO of Dunkel GmbH. After further evaluation Dunkel decided to develop a cloud storage solution based on Scality.

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“Cloud storage is a perfect supplement to our cloud hosting services and fits with our strategy of becoming a leading cloud service and cloud security provider for SMEs in Germany”, explains Axel Dunkel. “Scality’s cloud storage solution gives us the chance to provide the first S3-compatible cloud storage in Germany.”

“Many companies and web developers in Europe are concerned with storing critical data abroad; our new service gives them a great alternative,” continued Axel Dunkel. “We expect to gain a lot of new customers, not just for the cloud storage but also for our cloud hosting solutions.” Dunkel plans to attract solution providers to deploy secure and compliant cloud solutions using Dunkel Cloud Storage as a Germany-based storage cloud for their own services.

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Path to SaaS Success Webinar

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

NaviSite announced today that it will host a “Path to SaaS Success” webinar, along with moderator Jeff Kaplan, Founder and Managing Director of strategic consulting firm THINKstrategies, and leading SaaS company and NaviSite customer WorkPlace Systems, on Thursday, June 24th at 1pm Eastern Time.

The webinar will review the state of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) evolution, the common mistakes independent software vendors (ISVs) make when moving to a SaaS model and how to avoid them. The webinar will also share real world customer experiences in making the transition to an on-demand environment, followed by a question and answer period. To register for the webinar, click here: http://www.navisite.com/landing/webinars/saas-webinar/

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