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CX Buys FileDen To Try And Lead Cloud Hosting Race

Monday, July 25th, 2011

CX, cloud Server and SaaS data file management system, has raised $5 million in new funding from Eric Schmidt’s Tomorrow Ventures and Hanna Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $10 million. CX, which has flown under the radar despite the company’s launch earlier this year, is also announcing that it has acquired fellow cloud-based file storage company FileDen. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed we are told the deal was a mixture of stock and cash.

Funny story about FileDen was BestCloudServer was in the race to buy them.  We made several offers but in the end what we were offering was not big enough to win the site over these guys.  Congratulations Cloud Experience (CX).

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CX allows users to backup, synchronize, share, and manage  their data in the cloud, from any device to any device, across multiple platforms, including desktops,  laptops, netbooks, and mobile devices.  CX will sync new, changed, offline, or deleted files to all connected computers and devices and maintains a history as you make changes. Other features include realtime backup, the ability to share a single set of synchronized files with a group of people, and more.

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License Mobility for Amazon Microsoft Deal

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Amazon Web Services (AWS Reviews) announced last week that the Microsoft “license mobility with Software Assurance” (SA) program applies to AWS cloud server services.

That means that organizations with Microsoft volume licensing and SA agreements in place have a little more flexibility on how to use Microsoft application server products that were originally licensed for on-premises use. In many cases, organizations can transfer those licenses into a hosting company’s public cloud, including leveraging AWS’ infrastructure-as-a-service offerings to run applications as services, without incurring additional licensing costs.

Amazon claimed in its announcement that companies with volume licensing and SA agreements in place have been upgrading to the cloud using Microsoft’s mobility licensing option. For instance, they may move from using SharePoint 2007 on premises to using SharePoint 2010 on the AWS cloud.

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Dedicated Cloud Hosting Firewalls

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

SoftLayer, the innovation leader in Cloud Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, and Managed hosting, today announced the introduction of High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls to its lineup of security solutions. SoftLayer customers have the option of adding this high level of protection as a new service for current or new Cloud, Dedicated, or Virtual systems that share the same VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network).

“High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls provide our customers with greater peace of mind,” said Matt Chilek, Vice President of Systems Development and Technology at SoftLayer. “Unfortunately, malicious network activity can happen to anyone, so we’re dedicated to providing our customers with the best protection possible so they can focus on their business and not worry about the security of their infrastructure.”

High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls go beyond protecting servers from malicious activity. The service includes a secondary physical firewall for failover protection, and automatic fall back when the primary firewall regains service.  This helps your cloud server to be better protected.

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