Posts Tagged ‘cloud software’

Citrix Aquires Cloud Server Company Cloud.com

Friday, July 15th, 2011

Citrix Systems announced today its acquisition of Cloud.com. Cloud.com is a market leading provider of software infrastructure platforms for cloud providers. It’s groundbreaking state-of-the-art CloudStack™ product line will be used by Citrix, as the company made it clear that it wants to build on this existing technology to offer large-scale clouds for big companies. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Citrix Announces its Acquisition of Cloud Web Hosting Provider Cloud.com

Cloud.com has organized about 60 large-scaled cloud web hosting a lot of which are built on XenServer around the U.S.A., Asia and Indonesia, Cirtix also offers now “Cloudmaster Webinars”. The main purpose of those seminars is to educate costumers on the principals and concepts of this next-generation clouds, all this in hopes of increasing the number of cloud web hosting around the world. Those “Cloudmaster Webinars” will also include a two-day “Build-a-Cloud Workshops.”

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Novell Cloud Management

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Novell today announced the availability of Novell Cloud Manager, a new solution that enables customers to create and securely manage a cloud computing environment as a seamless extension of existing data center resources.  The new Novell Cloud Manager is designed for the heterogeneous reality of most IT environments, giving users the freedom and flexibility to create and manage private clouds which support all leading hypervisors, operating systems and hardware platforms.

Novell Cloud Manager lets IT administrators package, price and present IT services on-demand through a customizable interface. Customers can leverage the flexibility and cost savings of cloud computing, without the security and compliance risks inherent in public clouds.

Novell that was conducted by Harris Interactive and sponsored by Novell showed that 89 percent of respondents see private clouds as the next logical stop for organizations already using virtualization and 93 percent feel private cloud platforms should offer a management framework that can span a heterogeneous infrastructure. In addition, 91 percent of survey respondents note concern about the inherent security risks public clouds present.

“Novell Cloud Manager will simplify our IT service provisioning by enabling us to treat our physical resources and virtual infrastructure as a seamless private cloud and gain a much clearer and more granular understanding of our IT use and costs,” said Ryan Klose, chief information officer of Premium Wine Brands for Pernod Ricard. “Working with AkurIT, our Novell business partner, who implemented the virtual infrastructure and Novell Cloud Manager, our BIS Infrastructure team can be more responsive to changing business priorities. Novell Cloud Manager allows us to simplify and automate many of our business processes, accelerate IT service delivery as well as provide visibility and cost transparency to the business. Strategically, this will provide us with a competitive edge.”

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Standing Cloud

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Standing Cloud is a new cloud hosting startup that looks to take the ease of use of the fully hosted providers and combine them with the benefits of having your own server space, with the added flexibility of being able to change between these cloud service providers in a few clicks.  It’s really going to revolutionize the way we use cloud computing.

Tech Crunch state:

“If you’ve ever used a shared hosting provider that offers one-click installs of software packages like WordPress, then the basics of Standing Cloud should sound familiar. Generally speaking, installing an open-sourced application to your server involves some fairly advanced configuration — you need to upload the proper files via FTP and run installation scripts, which are tasks that are pretty daunting for your average computer user. Many hosting providers offer a solution to this, allowing you to install a pre-configured version of the software to your server space in a few clicks. But Standing Cloud CEO David Jilk says this comes at a cost — once you’ve set up an app this way, it’s a pain to switch to another service provider down the line. Standing Cloud offers a solution to this problem.”

Standing Cloud’s service is free at the moment, I just signed up with them. There will be cost you incur from your regular hosting provider though. The cost of using Standing cloud will be $19.95 a month when all the free cloud hosting trials run out.

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