Archive for the ‘Cloud Hosting’ Category

Aria Cloud Billing

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

Aria Systems has raised $20 million to help expand billing in the cloud.   Cloud based billing systems are growing and  This brings Aria System’s total funding to $34 million.

Aria’s cloud billing platform handles the whole transactions process. This billing model is for online companies who have subscription models only. Most of the people using the subscription model are billed monthly in  cloud subscription model.  Another great thing about this cloud billing model is that they work with Authorize.net, Chase Paymentech, Cybersource, PayPal, TransFirst, and RBS Worldpay.

Aria’s large list of clients include Disney, Taleo, Internap, DreamWorks, VMware, Roku, and Ingersoll-Rand. It appears that Aria will be using this recent round of funding to expand it’s cloud billing platform to the UK and other European Nations.

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BlueLock Cloud Hosting

Monday, January 31st, 2011

BlueLock announced earlier today that the company has been named to HostReview’s 2010 Web Host Awards’ Best Cloud Computing Service list. HostReview every year posts the Best Web Hosting Awards to recognize innovators and market leaders in the hosting industry. Recently it has been rewarding outstanding contributions within the cloud hosting industry.

“We chose BlueLock as one of our 2010 Best Cloud Computing Services award winners because its cloud service continues to have a tremendous impact on the hosting industry,” said Darren Tabor, CEO, DevStart, network owner of HostReview. “A monthly winner of our Web Host Awards, BlueLock’s cloud computing service has proven to consistently provide outstanding performance and value, while enabling companies to more quickly get started on projects, grow and shrink their environments according to current needs and tap into the full benefits of hybrid cloud computing.”

BlueLock vCloud Datacenter is all about the power of the hybrid cloud. Learn what hybrid can do for you and how we can make it even easier with BlueLock CloudConnector for VMware Cloud Director. You can find more about the at their corporate website.

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Verizon Aquires Terremark

Friday, January 28th, 2011

Verizon Communications acquired Terremark earlier today for $19.00 per share in cash, or a total equity value of $1.4 billion. Terremark, which is headquartered in Miami, operates 13 data centers in the U.S., Europe and Latin America (Miami, Dallas, Wash. D.C., Santa Clara, Bogota, Saol Paolo, Santo Domingo, Amsterdam, Brussels, Madrid and Istambul. It provides secure cloud computing, colocation, and managed hosting services. For its most recent quarter, Terremark reported revenue of $84.9 million, a 22% increase over the previous year.

“Cloud computing continues to fundamentally alter the way enterprises procure, deploy and manage IT resources, and this combination helps create a tipping point for everything as a service,” said Lowell McAdam, president and chief operating officer of Verizon. “Our collective vision will foster innovation, enhance business processes and dynamically deliver business intelligence and collaboration services to anyone, anywhere and on any device.”

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