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AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire -06/18/12)- CopperEgg, Corp., a cloud analytics and monitoring company, today announced a partnership with Blitz.io, a new approach to Web performance testing for apps, websites and cloud services, to deliver integrated real-time Web performance testing and monitoring for cloud infrastructures. The integration delivers real-time insight into cloud capacity and performance to help better test, scale, and optimize cloud application delivery.

"Blitz.io is committed to working with best-in-class solutions to help our customers meet the new challenges of rolling out applications in a dynamic cloud infrastructure," said Tamer Abbas, Blitz.io's head of business development. "Combining Blitz.io's outside-in metrics such as response times, rates and number of users, with CopperEgg's inside-out metrics such as CPU, Disk I/O and memory utilization, enables end-to-end visibility into your app or your website performance."

Connecting CopperEgg's real-time system performance measurements to the Blitz.io native interface via the CopperEgg API enables users to correlate Application Performance Management (APM) metrics with system capacity and performance statistics on the same graph. This allows application developers and DevOps engineers to immediately see the effect of a code or system change within seconds of that change, creating a much tighter and higher fidelity testing loop.

"Integration between Blitz.io and CopperEgg not only delivers instant system performance and capacity feedback to customers, it also demonstrates the power and ease-of-use of the CopperEgg API," said Mike Raab, V.P. Business Development at CopperEgg. "Integration with Blitz.io followed the CopperEgg mantra of simple, smart, and fast. We look forward to working with Blitz.io in taking APM for DevOps to the next level."

For more information about the partnership visit: http://copperegg.com/do-you-have-the-right-vertical-scale-for-your-app.

About Blitz.ioBlitz.io is a simple yet powerful cloud-based service that enables developers creating apps, websites or cloud services to immediately and cost-effectively test the performance of their solutions under real-world conditions. Either on its own or as an integrated part of its large ecosystem of partners, Blitz.io helps application and website developers throughout the DevOps lifecycle with continuous monitoring and performance testing with no scripting required. Blitz.io supports APIs for development languages such as Ruby, Java, Maven, Node.js, Python, Perl, PHP and more. To learn more, visit, http://blitz.io/ or follow us on Twitter @blitz_io

About CopperEggCopperEgg next-generation cloud monitoring provides simple, smart, and fast insight into the performance, quality, and availability of servers, applications and services deployed on cloud, virtual and physical infrastructures. Our SaaS-based, real-time cloud monitoring and cloud analytics deliver immediate intelligence into critical cloud performance problems, correlated visibility into developing trends, and split-second decision support for organizations of all sizes. CopperEgg products are simple to try, install, use, and grow. CopperEgg is backed by Silverton Partners and based in Austin, Texas.

For more information, visit: http://copperegg.com, as well as on Twitter: @CopperEgg. You can also read their blog: http://copperegg.com/category/blog/.

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --ICAP Patent Brokerage, a division of ICAP plc and the world's largest intellectual property brokerage firm and organizer of the ICAP Ocean Tomo Auctions, is offering for auction a patent portfolio of seventeen (17) issued U.S. patents and associated pending applications regarding enterprise "rack servers" and their provision and management. The lot will be included in the 16th ICAP Ocean Tomo IP Auction on July 26, 2012, at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco, CA.

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"We are excited to be offering this patent technology lot for auction to our global buyer base." Dean Becker, CEO, ICAP Patent Brokerage, ICAP Ocean Tomo Auctions.

Background

Virtual data centers are comprised of enterprise servers that store data remotely. Thus, the location of these enterprise servers is sometimes referred to as "the cloud" and their remote access and use is sometimes referred to as "cloud computing." As these data centers (or "clouds") require to be scaled up or down based on use or demand, significant addition / re-location of servers, hardware reconfiguration, and re-cabling is often required, sometimes taking significant time and being very expensive. A cost-effective and reliable solution was required to address the need to make data centers more dynamic and efficient, all without requiring the physical relocation and rewiring of servers.

Key Characteristics & Benefits

With priority dates from 2004, the patents in this portfolio disclose an architecture for enterprise servers (ES) with varying arrangements of pluggable modules called an enterprise fabric (EF), with the following benefits:

Market Potential

This patented technology will be important to all data center providers and operators as well as manufacturers of enterprise servers and networking equipment.

Companies who have cited this patent portfolio include: Cisco, Oracle, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft and Toshiba.

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Megan Richards, acting deputy director-general of the Information Society and Media Directorate-General at the European Commission, said that personal data should not have to be located within the EU in order for EU rules governing its processing and storage to apply.

The cloud does not stop at national boundaries," Richards said at a cloud computing conference in London last week, according to a report by Techworld.

"You shouldnt care where the data is as long as it is secure and meets regulatory requirements, so now the question is how to ensure that how to make sure that when we use cloud resources, personal data does meet those requirements, Richards said.

Cloud computing refers to the use of computers and software on an internet-based network to do information processing rather than the use of local computing resources. It allows internet users to access or store information without owning the software to do it and many online companies, such as Google, operate huge servers that store the data and deliver it to users.

In January the European Commission published draft legislation aimed at reforming the EU data protection framework. Its proposed General Data Protection Regulation would introduce a single data protection law across all 27 EU member states which companies based outside the EU borders would be subject to if they process personal data of EU citizens.

Richards said that the European Parliament is currently assessing the plans and that "it usually takes a year" for legislation to be passed by the Parliament, according to a report by The Register news website.

However, the current data protection framework in Europe is creating problems for researchers who store information in the cloud, an IT expert at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) has said.

CERN's openlab project sees private sector firms invest in research by scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider. The physics experiments produce a mass of data that CERN shares with its private sector investors.

Bob Jones, head of openlab at CERN, said though that capacity issues were a problem. He said that the body is to conduct a pilot scheme that would see cloud computing utilised to move data produced from the experiments between CERN's own systems and 'data centres' in the cloud operated by its commercial partners.

However, current EU data protection laws are a hindrance to CERN's collaboration plans, Jones said.

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Security of personal data in the cloud more important than where it is stored, EU official says

Private cloud involves a multi-layered approach to architecting IT systems and delivering services to the business, making the most of virtualisation to provide a separation between the two.

There is no clever magic involved, nor does there have to be anything particularly special about the servers, storage and networking equipment used. Rather, it is a question of arranging resources in the right way and using management software to make the most of them.

To understand how things need to look, we can consider private cloud in terms of supply-side capabilities that consider physical assets and demand-side capabilities that focus on how services are delivered.

The trick, if there is one, is to ensure that supply-side capabilities are adequate, and to use software automation to enable these to be provisioned and managed in the most efficient way.

Underlying both supply and demand is the requirement for resilience to be built into the infrastructure.

Private cloud adoption involves consolidating multiple applications onto a reduced hardware footprint, which therefore increases the risk of failure.

If power goes down to a single server running a single application, for example, only one application is lost. But if a server is running multiple virtual machines, the damage could be far greater.

So it is important to ensure adequate provision is made for redundancy and failover across the architecture.

Operational management of supply-side capabilities requires a clear understanding of the server, storage and networking infrastructure and how it is packaged into logical units.

To an extent this equates to good, honest, traditional IT operations configuration management of equipment, components and firmware versions, patching status and so on.

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Can your cloud balance supply and demand?

Published : Monday, June 18, 2012 00:00 Article Views : 119 Written by : TECH TIMES

Singapore: Analytic data solutions provider Teradata recently announced the availability of Teradata Active Data Warehouse (ADW) Private Cloud, which is poised to arm companies with the tools in developing more informed decisions and establishing competitive advantages in their respective markets.

Unveiled during Teradata Universe 2012 in the island city-state, Teradata Active Data Warehouse (ADW) Private Cloud enables a more fully utilized data management proves by consolidating data warehouse servers on it.

Furthermore, aside from reducing the number of servers and storage, this private cloud can also deliver both capital and operating expense savings, including labor, data center space, power and cooling.

Leading companies have consolidated under-utilized servers and storage onto a Teradata ADW Private Cloud, reducing costs while increasing utilization of their IT resources, explained Scott Gnau, president at Teradata Labs.

By eliminating data marts, many with only 10-20 percent utilization, companies can consolidate onto a Teradata ADW Private Cloud running at 90 to 100 percent utilization, Gnau added.

Through this, business users can benefit from this private cloud by having better control of their computing resources with self-service capabilities.

Users can also demand for analytics processing by a completely functioning data lab to provision and manage data needed in less than five minutes.

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Teradata offers new private cloud service