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Carpathia Hosting testing the Cloud

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Carpathia Hosting announced today its partnership with Citrix Systems and VMLogix to launch the InstantOn Virtual Lab Solution™. This service will be priced lower than deploying dedicated development test lab environments.  InstantOn Virtual Lab Solution is a fully managed development and test solution hosted in the cloud. Carpathia cloud services will be used with services for government agencies and businesses.

“Because the InstantOn Virtual Lab Solution is hosted in the cloud, customers no longer need expensive, dedicated hardware or resources devoted to managing and maintaining development and test environments that inherently are unstable and difficult to manage,” said Peter Weber, CEO of Carpathia Hosting. “The combination of Carpathia Hosting, Citrix and VMLogix technologies delivers a truly turn-key solution for enterprises and federal agencies looking to shift this critical workload from dedicated infrastructure to the cloud.”

“The InstantOn Virtual Lab solution allows users to push development and testing to the cloud, enabling them to convert capital expenses to operating expenses,” said Klaus Oestermann, group vice president and general manager, Networking and Cloud Product Group at Citrix. “Leveraging the Citrix Cloud Solution for Development and Test, users can take advantage of the pay as you go pricing model, paired with elimination of the manual build and configuration tasks. This reduces both the expense and the effort required to create a development and test environment, while enabling access to a pool of computing resources that can be quickly and automatically provisioned.”

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SaaS Based Solution by Pitney Bowes

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Pitney Bowes announced today that MapInfo(R) Stratus(TM), a Software as a Service (SaaS) based solution for publishing and sharing location-based data and services.  This service will now be offered in the cloud.  According to their press release “this provides internal audiences or external parties with instant access to location intelligence analysis for better understanding customers and building stronger relationships.”

“Visualizing data and analyzing location-based information on interactive maps has enabled us to make better informed decisions about customer service and operational improvements,” said Jay Abrams, Manager of SDA productivity, Pepperidge Farm. “For this reason, we wanted to more quickly and efficiently deliver dynamic mapping applications across the entire enterprise. We selected MapInfo Stratus to provide our executives with location-based analysis when and where they need it, helping them make better decisions about internal business processes and customer needs.”

“As the pioneer of the location intelligence industry, Pitney Bowes Business Insight continues to provide innovative solutions that enable location-based analysis across the enterprise,” said Robert Pipe, Vice President, Product Management & Marketing, Pitney Bowes Business Insight. “To meet our customers’ evolving needs, MapInfo Stratus will provide Web 2.0 interactive mapping analysis in a reliable and secure hosted environment. Being able to more quickly share critical location-based data created in MapInfo Professional via the cloud enables users at all levels of an organization to better understand their customers and to develop deeper, long-term relationships that impact bottom line growth.”

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Microsoft Office in the Cloud?

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

Microsoft announced Wednesday the launch of Microsoft Office Web Apps, which offers small businesses, consumers, students and others free access to online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote via a Windows Live account. Microsoft Office will be in the cloud.

Google which has killed the market since offering Google Docs back in 2006. They expanded their business offerings since offering , in March rolling out its Google Apps Marketplace to encourage other developers to use its platform that is all hosted in the cloud.  Cloud hosting has become a huge part of Google’s day to day life.

Will small businesses move to Microsoft’s hosted online applications, otherwise known as a cloud computing?  “For small businesses of 100 employees or less, this is all evolutionary,” says Brad Reback, an analyst with Oppenheimer & Co. “While things happen fast in the consumer market, it’s slow with [companies].” This will happen eventually, but how long will it take?

“Google can try to show it can do enterprise [hosted Web applications] but they need to show they can also do support and maintenance,” Thill says. “They also have to address the compliance issue. Some businesses, like financial and regulatory agencies, have to know where the data resides. In some cases, the data can’t reside outside of the U.S.”

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