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Gandi Selected by reddit for Domain Name Management

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 3, 2012) - Gandi, a leading domain name registrar and cloud-hosting provider, today announced that the rapidly growing social news site reddit has selected its corporate services to manage their portfolio of domains. With Gandi Corporate Services, reddit can count on domain name management that alleviates the administrative burden of tracking registrations in a time of proliferating ccTLDs and gTLDs.reddit's selection of Gandi reflects the growing popularity of Gandi's corporate services among organizations seekingenhanced levels of service from trusted partners.

Gandi's corporate services are a strong fit for organizations like reddit with high profiles and large domain portfolios, and which can benefit from technical and administrative scaling and management of arcane registration requirements. Gandi reports on and monitors similar registrations and can proactively capture newly available domains to maintain the brand reputation of the organization. In the increasingly global domain market, these tasks can require the valuable time of an expert. Gandi can free up that time by cost-effectively handling the tasks needed to maintain ownership of multiple business-critical domains. Gandi follows strict (no-harassment) procedures which prohibit unrelatedoutbound marketing offers, advertisements, or other communications in delivery of their services, with the goal of providing customers with a focused, trusted, and reliable partnership.

The Gandi and reddit teams also are aligned in their vision of the Internet; both organizations were strongly in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) when it was proposed last year.

"We consider customer rights and privacy to be a cornerstone of civilization," said Ricky Ramirez, systems administrator, reddit. "To us, Gandi is the new clear leader among domain name registrars with whom we enjoy a successful and productive alliance."

"We are proud to win the trust of reddit, an organization that feels as strongly about freedom of expression as we do," said Thomas Stocking, COO, Gandi. "With 3.4 billion page views last month, reddit represents the most high profile of many organizations who have recently moved to Gandi's corporate services."

About Gandi Corporate Services Gandi Corporate Services (GCS) unburden companies from the management of domain registration, transfer, and renewal. In addition to raising the bar on the type and quality of services available from registrars, GCS help to minimize brand dilution and reputation damage from phishing sites, typo squatting, and other damaging practices. Gandi Corporate Services are offered on a subscription, a-la-carte basis, providing more flexibility than "all in one" pricing models.

About Gandi Founded in 1999, Gandi is a major international domain name registrar and cloud hosting provider. Gandi manages more than 1.3 million domain names and 163 extensions. Offering a world-class alternative to purely commercial registrars, and a low-cost, innovative, cloud hosting platform, Gandi provides hosting for a community of people working on technology that enables the Internet for business, while also advocating for the free and unrestricted sharing of information and the promotion of the respect of individual rights. Organizations that Gandi.net supports include Creative Commons, EFF, and Students for Free Culture, among others. You can follow Gandi on Twitter @gandibar. For more information, please visit: http://www.gandi.net or call 410 429-7402.

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Cadre Technologies Partners With ViaWest for Managed Hosting and Private Cloud

DENVER, CO--(Marketwire - Oct 3, 2012) -

ViaWest, one of the largest privately-held data center, cloud and managed services providers in North America, announces it has entered into an agreement with Cadre Technologies, which enables Cadre to leverage an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for its customers to outsource hosting and IT services.

Cadre Technologies is a leading innovator of software for fulfillment and logistics operations including order management, warehouse management, transportation management and activity billing. The agreement establishes a standardized hosting configuration for Cadre's Cadence Fulfillment System and Accuplus warehouse management system. ViaWest will also host Cadre's entire suite of warehouse management and logistics visibility systems.

Through this partnership, ViaWest will deliver a custom configuration for each of Cadre's customers based on their unique requirements. ViaWest's flexible Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering includes private cloud, scalable storage, redundant bandwidth, and on-going operating system support, all of which are housed in a controlled, secure environment.

"ViaWest's secure data centers provide our customers with a stable environment to effectively manage their software," says Roger Rountree, Vice President of Marketing at Cadre Technologies. "ViaWest's expert staff can easily provide support to our customers, allowing them to focus on logistics, fulfillment and distribution, rather than on IT."

"This partnership allows us to provide Cadre's customers with peace of mind," comments Margie Sims, General Manager of Colorado for ViaWest. "Rather than running their own servers, Cadre's clients can work directly with ViaWest to ensure the effective management of their infrastructure. In our hosted environment, we will take over the responsibility for many day-to-day IT needs, freeing up Cadre's customer's in-house teams to run their businesses more effectively."

For more information on ViaWest and its comprehensive suite of storage and managed services, visit http://www.viawest.com.

About Cadre Technologies Cadre Technologies is a leading innovator of software for fulfillment and logistics operations including order management, warehouse management, transportation management and activity billing. The company is based in Denver, Colorado with offices in Lenexa, Kansas and Maryland. For more information contact Roger Rountree at 3032177037 or visit Cadre's website at http://www.cadretech.com.

About ViaWest ViaWest is one of the largest privately held data center service providers in North America.They provide colocation, complex hosting, cloud and managed services to businesses of all sizes nationwide.ViaWest owns and operates 24 enterprise-class data center facilities in Colorado, Texas, Oregon, Utah, and Nevada, delivering high-quality, flexible solutions designed to support customers' unique business needs.For additional information on ViaWest, please visit http://www.viawest.com or call 1-877-448-9378.Follow ViaWest on LinkedIn, Twitter or visit their YouTube channel.

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Oracle finally releases pricing for cloud software offerings

Oracle has finally answered a big question hovering over its emerging family of cloud services: What do they cost?

While not giving a public price for every one of its cloud products, Oracle's website now has pricing for its on-demand database and Java development service, as well as for some applications.

Pricing for the database service, which uses version 11g R2, starts at US$175 per month for one schema, 5GB of disk storage and 30GB of data transfer. A midtier option costs $900 per month with one schema, 20GB of storage and 120GB of data transfer.

For $2,000 per month, developers get 50GB of storage and 300GB of data transfer, but still only one schema.

The Java service is also priced in tiers, starting at $249 per month for a single WebLogic server and rising up to $1,499 for four servers, with storage and data transfer amounts also rising accordingly.

Still unknown is how much Oracle's upcoming IaaS (infrastructure as a service), which was announced Sunday, is going to cost. This is of particular interest since Oracle is positioning the IaaS as a competitor to Amazon Web Services, which is known for its low-cost IaaS.

Oracle plans to price its IaaS competitively but would rather land deals that incorporate its full cloud stack, rather than just sell commodity compute cycles in bulk, said Abhay Parasnis, senior vice president of Oracle Cloud, during a question-and-answer session with journalists.

There's no release date set for the IaaS, Parasnis said in a brief interview after the session.

The public pricing for the database and Java service come as Oracle is now ready to offer them broadly to customers after working extensively with some large companies to work out all the kinks, Parasnis said. "One of the key tenets for us is to match the enterprise-grade SLAs customers expect."

Meanwhile, for the cloud applications, human resources starts at $9.50 per employee per month and talent management begins at $1.50 per user per month.

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Citrix Advances Cloud Strategy with New Version of XenServer

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Citrix today announced the latest version of Citrix XenServer, an industry-leading virtualization platform for companies to create and manage virtual infrastructures for servers, desktops and clouds. XenServer 6.1 strengthens its server virtualization feature set for datacenter consolidation and simplifies the path to cloud computing with advanced virtual machine migration, enhanced networking and security, increased vendor compatibility and automated virtual machine conversion tools.

XenServer is a complete server virtualization platform built on the powerful open-source Xen hypervisor. Xen technology is widely acknowledged as the fastest and most secure virtualization software in the industry and is designed for efficient management of Windows and Linux virtual servers, delivering cost-effective server consolidation and business continuity. XenServer adds a rich set of management and automation capabilities, cloud management integrations and security enhancements to optimize the platform for the cloud-enabled datacenter of the future.

New features in the latest version of XenServer include:

XenServer is the virtualization platform for many of the worlds largest production virtual desktop and cloud computing environments and was recently positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the 2012 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure," and was listed as a Champion and Value Leader in Info-Tech Research Groups Vendor Landscape report on server virtualization. The free edition of XenServer has been downloaded nearly one million times. XenServer powers over 100,000 Citrix customers, four of the top five largest hosting provider public clouds and runs workloads in over half of the businesses in the Fortune 500.

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Citrix has gained a significant foothold in the cloud computing space with XenServer and more recently Citrix CloudPlatform (powered by Apache CloudStack). XenServer is already the most widely deployed virtualization platform in large public clouds today. The tight integration between XenServer and CloudPlatform demonstrated in XenServer 6.1 will provide a new level of manageability and security that will provide a strategic advantage for our cloud customers.

Availability

XenServer 6.1 is available today for download and is delivered in four product versions - free, Advanced, Enterprise and Platinum. All versions of XenServer include XenCenter management and are available on a simple per server licensing structure with premium editions starting at $1000 per server.

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IBM Boosts Security, Cloud and Analytics Capabilities With New Power Systems, Storage and Mainframe Technologies

ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 3,2012 /PRNewswire/ --

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled new technologies designed to help organizations with today's greatest challenges, including the need for improved security, the ability to take advantage of cloud computing, and the requirement to manage and analyze vast amounts of data. The new offerings include the most powerful enterprise Power Systems to date, a new high-end disk storage system and key software updates for IBM's newest mainframe computer.

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The announcement is part of IBM's continued focus on Smarter Computing systems aimed at solving the varied and intensifying challenges organizations are facing, from security vulnerabilities to managing ballooning data volumes that are expanding through social and mobile technologies.

IBM customer Toyota Australia is one example of a company with complex data management needs. Running a sophisticated just-in-time manufacturing, logistics and parts operation at its Altona plant in Melbourne, Toyota Australia uses a series of IBM Power servers running SAP software on AIX to manage and analyze data about vehicle parts availability, shipping estimates, inventory levels and sales planning. The manufacturing process is entirely reliant on this infrastructure in order for production operations to run as efficiently as possible so that not only can its dealerships receive car deliveries on time to meet consumer demand but it can meet export market demand.

According to Toyota Australia CIO James Scott, "One of our company's top concerns is data management delays. This has the potential to negatively impact our production line, costing us tens of thousands of dollars in lost productivity, and the profits of our 250 dealerships across the country. Having a fast, reliable technology infrastructure is critical to the success of our business and IBM gives us the tools we need to support the organization most effectively."

New Power Systems Tout POWER7+, Elastic Capacity on Demand and Fast Business Analytics As a result of more than $1.4 billion in R&D investment, IBM today is announcing its enterprise Power Systems with new hardware and software innovations designed to help customers gain business insights fast and securely.

IBM Power 770 and Power 780 servers now feature the new POWER7+ microprocessor, a technology that offers a performance boosts of 30 to 40 percent on application workloads compared with previous versions.(1) Among its many features, the POWER7+ offers an expanded 2.5x L3 cache memory, greater security with faster file encryption for the IBM AIX operating system, and memory compression that results in no increased energy usage over previous generation POWER7 chips.

At the top of the Power line, the Power 795 server has been enhanced to enable customers to run very demanding applications, such as business analytics, fast by utilizing up to 16 terabytes of memory with new 64GB Dual In Line Memory Modules (DIMM).

In addition, IBM has added several new capabilities to its family of Power Systems servers to help customers build virtualized private cloud or managed service cloud infrastructures, and respond dynamically to changes in application and workload requirements. Elastic Capacity on Demand for Power Systems Pools, for example, enables the sharing of resources across multiple servers, which can improve the availability and enhance the access to resources during planned and unplanned maintenance activities.

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HP unveils cloud capable servers for businesses

Published on 03 October 2012 Hits: 159 Written by ROSALIE C. PERIABRAS

Hewlett-Packard (HP) unveiled on Tuesday two new HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) four-socket servers that will facilitate customers move to cloud, while delivering increased computer power in less space and a return on investment within three months.

Theres a lot of innovation [new Gen8 servers], that is what matter most to our customers, said Veronica Escalante, category manager, Industry Standard Servers and Software of HP Philippines Corp.

According to HP, it is the industrys first four-socket servers to incorporate HP ProActive Insight Architecture, the HP ProLiant BL660c and DL560 Gen8 servers significantly reduce the time spent on maintenance tasks through high levels automation and continued monitoring of system health, saving Information Technology staff more than 30 days of administration time a year.

The company said that HP ProLiant BL660c and HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8 servers were designed to drive better performance for complex, virtualized environments so clients can access their data faster, optimize their system to achieve higher-performing workloads and add more virtual machines per server.

As building blocks for HP Converged Infrastructure, these multiprossesor servers satisfy the need for high-end computing power that enables clients to extend end-to-end virtualization, and provide a foundation for creating private and hybrid clouds.

With a three-to-one server-consolidation rate and reduced server footprint in the data center, the HP ProLian BL660c Gen8 server offers four-socket density in half the size of the previous generation, reducing total cost of ownership by up to 30 percent.

Furthermore, the HP DL560 Gen8 server provides a space-minimizing four-socket server in a 2U form factor without compromising performance, scalability or expansion requirements.

The company said that the advanced technologies of the HP ProLiant BL660c Gen8 portfolio, tested in real-world data centers and built with 150 client-inspired design innovations, eliminate common server problems that cause failures, downtime and data loss.

HPs premier in Europe, Middle East and Africa client event, HP Discover, take place on December 4 to 6 in Frankfurt Germany.

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Ellison sets sights on an all-Oracle cloud

Summary: CEO Larry Ellison has unveiled an ambitious cloud strategy built around an all-Oracle IT stack, but has failed to give evidence at Oracle Open World of performance or cost advantages over rivals.

Oracle wants to build a cathedral of cloud services, while all around it its competitors are building slums.

The company's chief executive, Larry Ellison, outlined the database giant's cloud strategyon Sunday at Oracle OpenWorld. His vision was that Oracle customers will use both a public and private cloud entirely based around the company's software and hardware.

"We're adding a new line of business, cloud computing, to our traditional business of selling software and selling hardware... and we're going to sell it on the fastest computers in the world," Ellison said on Sunday. "It makes a lot of sense for Oracle to be in all three tiers of cloud services."

Those three tiers are software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). In other words, Oracle wants to be the Salesforce, Heroku, and Google, Microsoft, Amazon and HP of the cloud.

"The infrastructure that we're offering isn't conventional infrastructure," Ellison said. "What we're offering is our OS, our VM, compute services and storage services on the fastest, most reliable machines in the world on our engineered systems all networked together with a modern Infiniband network."

In other words, Oracle's cloud is one that is built with its overarching 'software and hardware, engineered together' philosophy.

Different approach

The approach differs markedly from that of Oracle's competitors: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is known to use vast amounts of low-cost commodity servers to run its cloud, while Google has gone as far as to design and build its own stripped-down servers. Neither of these companies sell on-premise hardware.

HP, which via its significant hardware business is perhaps the closest company to Oracle in terms of form, has opted for a more open cloud strategy. Though the IT giant sells cloud-specific hardware, it uses the open-source OpenStack cloud software for its own cloud effort.

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Gladinet to Provide 1TB of Free HP Cloud Object Storage

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct.2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Gladinet has announced that for a limited time, it will include 1100 GB of free HP Cloud Object Storagehttps://docs.hpcloud.com/object-storage with each new Team Edition account as it collaborates with HP to provide collaboration, file storage, backup and team workspace solutions using HP Cloud Object Storage. This solution will be provided by the Gladinet Cloud with HP Cloud Services (http://www.gladinet.com/hpcloud?promo=gladinet_pr ). The 1100GB remains free until the Gladinet Cloud account is closed.

HP Cloud Object Storage provides a way to store and retrieve objects in a highly redundant cluster of publicly accessible physical machines. Gladinet Cloud leverages the power of this service to provide simple collaboration, file storage, backup and team workspace solutions. It also supports seamless integration with existing local storage to create a hybrid cloud with centrally managed, unified access.

Jerry Huang, Gladinet's CEO, states, "A powerful use case involves attaching a local folder to HP Cloud Object Storage to provide secure, remote access to any desktop or mobile device. In this scenario, the local folder can be synchronized with the HP Cloud Object Storage regardless of where changes occur and because there is a local copy, the data remains accessible even when Internet connectivity is lost."

The ability to seamlessly replace traditional backup media with cloud storage further demonstrates the value of Gladinet's unified approach. Any third party backup application can send data to the cloud through the existing file system interfaces, making the cloud migration completely transparent to the application.

"We are excited by this opportunity to work closely with HP as they provide the technology we need to add value to our solutions. Using HP Cloud Services with the Gladinet Cloud provides the usability, reliability and performance that customers are looking for," stated Jerry Huang, Gladinet's CEO, "and our compelling free storage offer provides an incentive for new customers to come and see what we have to offer."

For more information about the promotion, please visithttp://www.gladinet.com/hpcloud?promo=gladinet_pr.

About GladinetFounded in 2008, Gladinet started by providing users the convenience of a network drive attached to cloud storage. With the addition of products that attach cloud storage to file servers, backup to the cloud and create personal clouds, Gladinet is changing the way businesses access and use cloud storage through its widely accepted cloud storage access platform. Learn more athttp://www.gladinet.com. Follow us at http://twitter.com/gladinetor find us on Facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/Gladinet.

Contact: Franklyn Peart, SVP Business Development Gladinet franklynp@gladinet.comhttp://www.gladinet.com (954) 489-6498

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There's a Silver-Lined Cloud Peeking Out Behind Oracle's Sun

By Anders Bylund | More Articles October 1, 2012 |

Amazon.com's (Nasdaq: AMZN) Web Services platform is the longtime leader in outsourced cloud computing. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Azure has barely made a dent in the market despite repeated assaults, but Rackspace Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is gaining ground thanks to lower pricing and fanatical customer support.

That established trio of leaders had better make space for another big dog. Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) just announceda pair of cloud-computing services that will compete head-to-head with Amazon's AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Rackspace Cloud Hosting.

An AWS-like hosted solution will join a private cloud platform where the hardware is installed in the customer's data centers. Either way, Oracle is responsible for managing and operating the hardware while customers simply treat the platform as a blob of additional computing resources. This is in every way similar to what the current incumbents offer, except Oracle will prefer its own Sun Solaris-based equipment over the Linux and Windows solutions popular elsewhere.

These services may be the final payoff for Oracle's $7.4 billion Sun buyout. I'm still not convinced that the acquisition was a good idea. Sun's hardware is more of a distraction from Oracle's software core than a value-added expansion. But if CEO Larry Ellison plays his cards right, at least he found a ticket to ride around a host of hardware partners into the cloud-computing future.

If Oracle wants to copy somebody else's business model, the database expert could certainly pick far worse role models than Amazon. To help you understand why the leading e-tailer and budding IT giant garners recommendations from four separate Fool services, we've compiled a premium report on Amazon. In it, you'll see every rocket booster at Amazon's tail and every potential road block that lies ahead. Click here to get started.

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Hostway Launches One of Canada’s Largest Public Clouds in Vancouver

Secure, Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Solutions Now Available across Three Geographically Dispersed Datacenters

Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) October 02, 2012

The Vancouver, British Columbia facility is the third North American Hostway datacenter to come online in less than two years since the company launched its hosted cloud solution in 2010. The company intends to continue expanding its footprint, as worldwide demand for reliable, enterprise-grade managed services continues to grow. In fact, according to IDC, the market for public IT cloud services in Canada exceeded half a billion dollars in 2011, with the SaaS segment leading the way. The market is expected to continue rapid growth, with IDC predicting nearly 30 percent CAGR over the next four years.

Using a Vancouver-based cloud allows Canadian customers to store data under the purview of Canadas Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), as opposed to the United States Patriot Act. This also gives Canadian public entities an opportunity to move to the cloud while maintaining privacy and compliance obligations.

Weve seen tremendous demand among our existing customers for a non-U.S., West Coast data center for a variety of reasons, said Mark Adolph, executive vice president and chief financial officer for Hostway. Not only is geographic diversity for disaster recovery important, but this new option also provides access for Asia-Pacific companies looking to host in North America. We also expect Canadian companies that prefer to or are required by law to host in Canada will fuel fast expansion of our Canadian cloud.

Like its Austin, Texas and Tampa, Fla. facilities, Hostways new Vancouver cloud environment offers the same industry-leading level of system administration and network support for deployment and management of its FlexCloud public and private cloud environments. The new platform also supports easy setup of a Hybrid Cloud that links Vancouver cloud resources to the customers managed, collocated, internal or existing cloud infrastructure to create a high-performance, geographically diverse, flexible hosting solution.

The Vancouver site will also be made available as part of Hostways newly launched virtual machine (VM) replication service, one of the first disaster recovery solutions of its kind providing low-cost, compliance-level cross-site and site-to-site replication on the new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replica feature in the Windows Server 2012 operating system.

For more information about the Hostway Vancouver cloud, visit http://www.hostway.com.

About Hostway Corporation

Hostway Corporation is a leader in cloud, managed, and hybrid cloud hosting. Hostway delivers reliable, secure, and scalable Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solutions to over 600,000 customers worldwide. The company services its clients from more than 250,000 square feet of state-of-the-art data center space, spanning four continents and 12 countries. Hostway has emerged as one of the largest cloud hosting and IaaS providers in the world due to the companys expertise in developing secure, multi-tenant hosting environments and its commitment to providing SMBs and large enterprises with cost-effective business solutions. Core products include managed hosting, cloud hosting, hybrid hosting, and email and applications.

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