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GlobalSCAPE partners with Rackspace

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

GlobalSCAPE, Inc. enters into a Partnership Agreement with Rackspace Hosting to Deliver Cloud-Based Secure Information Exchange Solutions. Through the Rackspace’s infrastructure, GlobalSCAPE will deliver cloud-based managed file transfer solutions for the secure exchange of business-to-business data. The new GlobalSCAPE product offerings will allow customers to outsource all or part of their complex and demanding information exchange needs to reduce costs, improve operational efficiencies, track and audit transactions, and provide a greater level of security. All of this will be in the cloud. This service offered by GlobalSCAPE and Rackspace is scheduled to be launched in July 2010.

“Rackspace is proud to have San Antonio-based GlobalSCAPE join the Rackspace Partner Network, further extending its proven information exchange solutions. As we continue our mission to deliver Fanatical Support, partners such as GlobalSCAPE are able to leverage our unique market differentiator to better service customers,” said Lanham Napier, Rackspace president and CEO. “Also, as two San Antonio-based companies, we’re excited to demonstrate continued growth of the city as a global center of excellence in the information technology and security industries.”

GlobalSCAPE president and CEO said “Our new relationship with Rackspace allows us to offer cost-effective, cloud-based solutions on a global basis. This is a significant milestone for GlobalSCAPE because we can better meet the needs of existing customers while also expanding our reach to new ones,” said Jim Morris. “Moving into the cloud with Rackspace positions us well today and provides us with an ideal platform and partner for expanding our family of solutions to accommodate changing customer needs going forward. We expect hosted services will be a significantly increasing part of our business in the second half of the year and in the coming years.”

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ElasticHosts Cloud Hosting Now Offered in US

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

ElasticHosts announced the launch of its cloud server solutions in the US. The offering, which will be available in the US June 1, provides ultra-flexible and easy-to-use server capacity for scalable web hosting and on-demand burst computing. Customers will be allowed to create virtual servers instantly and resize their capacity immediately.

Commenting on the company’s entry into the US, Richard Davies, CEO of ElasticHosts, said, “Having facilities in both the US and the UK means we can now serve both markets with local cloud servers, offering fast direct network links and data storage within local jurisdiction and data protection regimes to both European and North American customers. We are really excited to be moving into the US and look forward both to helping our European customers expand and to reaching new US customers.”

ElasticHosts becomes the second cloud hosting provider in the world to offer cloud servers from data centers in two continents to its customers. With the exception of Amazon, every other provider operates cloud servers in either Europe or North America, but not both.

Something I found very interesting about ElasticHosts is the fact that they have had a constant 1% growth rate a day since their launch in 2009.  Check out ElasticHosts cloud hosting review.

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Arrow Launches Cloud Services Initiative

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions has launched a portfolio of cloud computing services under its recently-announced professional services business unit called Arrow Fusion.  Arrow Fusion now includes cloud offerings including data center monitoring and management, security- and software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and business continuity and disaster recovery, according to Joe Burke, vice president of worldwide services for Arrow ECS.

Arrow expects to play a key role in solution providers’ cloud offerings, Burke said, and he doesn’t see much difference between those offerings and “big iron” hardware that the distributor also sells to VARs.

“Just because not selling a piece of hardware doesn’t mean we’re not in the same position to do what we do for the big iron guys. They can also go direct with vendors. In terms of reaching a broad base of customers, we field a large sales force and have resources around billing, provisioning. We’ll make it easier for cloud companies to reach that audience and supply their services,” Burke said.

“This gets us into a segment we’re not reaching very well today. Do we go after those partners ourselves and establish the Verio brand ourselves or find a partner? The answer was, ‘Let’s find a partner,’” Renda said. “We can not only get access to this target market via a trusted brand like Arrow, but the services we provide can [help VARs and Arrow] provide additional services, say messaging. When we talk hosted servers, it’s a rich environment where a VAR or Arrow can add professional services to integrate and design solutions. We think it’s a new set of revenue streams for VARs and for Arrow.”

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