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Once again, Gladinet (http://www.gladinet.com), the world's leading cloud computing solution provider, has just unveiled Gladinet CloudAFS(TM), a new approach to data storage management that attaches cloud storage to existing file servers and intelligently manages data transfer between the two tiers (local-cloud).

In the rough-and-tumble world of cloud storage, Gladinet (http://www.gladinet.com) is on a mission to turn the Internet into a virtual PC by integrating cloud services directly onto users' desktops. With today's release of Gladinet Cloud Desktop 2.0, the company moved one step closer to its goal.

VMware Partners from Around the World Take Home Top Honors for Delivering VMware Virtualization Solutions to Companies of All Sizes

BlueLock, an experienced provider of cloud computing and managed IT services, announced today that it has been recognized by VMware as a recipient of a VMware Partner Network Award, winning the Americas VMware Service Provider Program Partner of the Year category. The award was presented at VMware Partner Exchange 2010, VMware’s annual partner event, on February 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

I'm writing from the RIPE NCC meeting in Lisbon having just come out of an IPV6 update session given by Alex Band.

Businesses are being urgen to take action with regards to IPV6 as soon as possible. It is estimated that the IPV4 address space will be depleted within the next three years, that's to say only IPV6 addresses can be allocated thereafter.

At present 10% of the IPV4 address space is remaining and getting an IPV4 allocation is becoming increasingly difficult as the remaining IPV4 subset decreases.

First support for IPv6 in cloud computing allows users to seamlessly use native IPv6 to connect applications between datacenters

Japan’s second largest telecommunications carrier launches with the most comprehensive cloud computing solution in the Telco space today

(Aliso Viejo, CA – September 14, 2009) 3Tera, the leading provider of cloud computing technology and utility computing services for hosting providers, today announced that KDDI, Japan’s second largest telecommunications carrier, is using 3Tera’s AppLogic cloud computing platform to deliver the next generation IT platform through their new “KDDI Cloud Server Service” offering.

With the recent introduction of Gladinet Cloud Desktop version 1.2, Gladinet has introduced the ability to create an automatic backup of your Google Docs files to a redundant array of cloud storage. This feature allows you to specify a Google Docs source account, a cloud storage target, and a monitoring interval. You can also specify whether you want to use a designated folder or backup all files. If you choose to use a drop box, any files moved to it will automatically get backed up to Amazon S3, EMC Atmos, Box.net, or whichever service you select.

Do you face these business issues:-
• Are you paying too much for your current workflow or scheduling software?
• You’re locked into a rigid licensing model that is hindering your growth or flexibility?
• Does your current solution support new technologies and operating models like Cloud Computing, SAAS, PAAS or Workflow as a Service (WAAS)?
• Has your current software got bloated with CPU hungry agents, fat clients to deploy, painful upgrade paths and is it built on last century’s technology?
• Does your current solution need an army of IT staff to administer?

Amazon introduces Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) and with that stroke, completely legitimizes private clouds.

See www.aws.amazon.com/vpc/ for the announcement.

OpsWise Automation Center is well postioned to integrate with the Cloud environment, either public or private. Private clouds are more compelling to organisations with sensitive private data such as Financial Services, health care and government departments.

For more information see www.opswise.com or contact

Chitra Dunn

UK Sales manager

chitra.dunn@proxima-software.com

See the video set at http://tinyurl.com/m5ew55

For more information contact me.

Chitra Dunn
UK Sales Manager
Proxima Software Soltions
chitra.dunn@proxima-software.com

Read how Video Egg used OpsWise Automation Center to solve management challenges in a multi-site, Linx, Amazon EC2, Hadoop environment.

http://www.opswise.com/workload-automation/success-videoegg.html

If you require more information please contact me.

Chitra Dunn
UK Sales Manager
Proxima Software Soltions
chitra.dunn@proxima-software.com

This document will guide you through the creation of a simple web server running in the AWS cloud. You need to have a AWS account already set up have signed up to EC2. We're not going to be creating any permanent storage (EBS or S3) or going to be saving our instance for later use. Everything we do here will be destroyed once you terminate your instance.

CloudBerry S3 Backup is a Windows application that automates backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 secure cloud storage. CloudBerry S3 Backup provides a powerful Backup and Restore program designed to leverage Amazon S3 storage to make your disaster recovery plan simple, reliable, and affordable. Disaster recovery planning is often times an afterthought that comes to light when disaster strikes.

Billing Overview

Products fall under either of two pricing schemes to suit all of our customers:

By monthly subscription, paid in advance

This scheme offers the lowest rates for continuous use, and will suit customers who wish to host a website or other ongoing service, with the ability to scale it when demand rises.

* By hourly burst use, deducted from your prepaid balance

This scheme offers most flexibility for you to start, stop and scale your servers, as and when you need. The hourly rates are higher than our subscription rates, since the demand is less predictable for us. You can mix and match between these schemes, with burst charges applying when your use goes above your subscribed level. For example, you could subscribe for continuous disk storage, but pay for occasional virtual server use from your prepaid balance.

Cost

CPU: £0.012/core-GHz-hour
Memory: £0.016/GB-hour
Disk: £0.06/GB-month

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Network / Hardware and Virtualisation platform

Infrastructure - Please see ElasticHosts Infrastructure

Virtualisation Platform - KVM

Scalability - No limit if sufficient prepay balance

Load-Balancing - ElasticHosts supports private network VLANs. Customers can use these to communicate between one server acting as a load balancer and multiple web servers behind that

Supported OS - All PC operating systems: Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris

Hosting Features

DNS - No, but static Ips are available for external DNS

Email - No

IP Addresses - Dynamic Ips for all servers; Static Ips where required

Extra Applications

No

SLA

To be added at full commercial launch in Q3 09

Support and Community

E-mail and telephone support

No Find out more at ElasticHosts.com

Billing Overview

Our plan is a small single fixed fee charged on a monthly basis. Cloud resource usage is not factored into our billing. Space / CPU / Memory are all limitless and fall within the single monthly fee.

Cost

We currently provide two Cloud hosting solutions.

1) Web hosting platform.

Using the Plesk control panel our shared platform resides on our 64 Node VMware cloud spanning two data centres with SAN to SAN replication. This is a flat fee of £2.75 per month + VAT with no extra resource costs.

2) Dedicated server solution.

Using our Cloud infrastructure we can provide dedicated server instances with full Root / Administrator level access in either Linux or Windows. Our dedicated servers are fully configurable to suit the needs of the user. CPU & RAM resources are dynamic and scale based on the users requirements. Storage starts with 30GB and can be scaled upwards at a later date. Starting from £54.99 per month + VAT with no extra resource costs.

Online calculator - N/A

Network / Hardware and Virtualisation platform

Infrastructure - Our Cloud currently consists of 64 high powered HP servers using RedHat Enterprise Linux, across three data centres in the UK using HP shared storage replicated between sites.

Virtualisation Platform - VMware vSphere & Xen

Scalability - No Limits

Load-Balancing - Foundry ServerIron

Supported OS - Web hosting platform is CentOS 5 and Dedicated servers can be either CentOS or Windows Server

Hosting Features

DNS - Yes we provide full DNS. We also provide Domains through our web hosting side. Underlying this IP addresses provisioned are portable, using our Foundry GLB algorithms IP addresses are positioned best due to application / web demands across all three data centres.

Email - Yes

IP Addresses - We provide a single IP address for our Web Hosting Cloud and unlimited IP addresses to our dedicated server customers, subject to RIPE guidelines.

Extra Applications

We provide the full Plesk PowerVault suite of applications for all users.

SLA

We provide a very strict SLA for both Web Hosting & Dedicated server customers. Our uptime guarantee is 99.99% which is calculated on a monthly basis and can be viewed on our uptime dashboard within our website. We provide 24/7 telephone support and 1hr E-Mail response times.

Support and Community

24/7 Telephone Support, 1hr response e-mail support and ticket support.

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LOS ALTOS, CALIFORNIA - June 30th, 2009 – OpsWise Software, developers of Automation Center; announces full support for cloud computing infrastructures.

This new release enables enterprises to fully deploy OpsWise Automation Center in cloud-based infrastructures and integrate with existing operating systems and applications residing in their traditional data center or in the cloud.

The advantages of hosting in the cloud are very well documented, indeed on this site there are numerous articles explaining why the whole world and its dog should consider migrating to the cloud. This is the devil's advocate article that describes some of the dangers that you may be taking on if you do choose to make the switch.

What is going on behind the scenes?

Kevin Kelly from Wired Magazine gives his prediction of a very cloudy and machine based future. We have transcribed the video for users who don't have audio. The actual video is at the bottom of the page.

The Future of the Internet