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Cloud Services Provider Intermedia Launches Integrated Partner Program

March 7, 2012 | Author: admin

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -03/07/12)- Intermedia, a global leader in cloud services and the largest Microsoft Exchange hosting provider, today announced the unification of the company's private label program and advisor program into one combined partner program. The Intermedia Partner Program now allows members to choose either the private label or advisor model on a customer-by-customer basis. Intermedia further developed its industry leading partner portal so that partners can easily provision and manage customer accounts for both the private label and advisor models. Intermedia is the business cloud powering over 10,000 MSPs, VARs and IT consultants -- as well as select Fortune 500 companies -- to resell an entire suite of cloud services such as hosted Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Hosted PBX, backup, security and much more.

The private label model enables VARs and MSPs to own customer billing and the overall customer relationship under their own brand. Intermedia provides dedicated sales and technical support, behind the scenes, so that private label partners remain at the front end of the solution. The advisor model is designed for partners that prefer to leverage the Intermedia brand and earn a commission on every sale. Under the advisor model, Intermedia handles customer billing and technical support. Intermedia's partner program is completely free and easy to join. Partners can choose which model to sell under on a customer-by-customer basis.

"Intermedia gives you a choice -- that's something other partner programs don't offer," says Intermedia partner, Peter Hanna, CEO, Y Fi LLC. "I'm able to make the decision between selling under the advisor or private label model based on what's best for my business and my customers. Regardless of the model I choose, I know Intermedia's expert partner sales team is always available to help me close deals. I'm able to grow my business, provide leading cloud services to my customers, and rely on Intermedia's multi-million dollar infrastructure and rock solid support."

Revenue from Intermedia Private Label Partners increased 40 percent year-over-year in 2011. Over 3,000 partners joined Intermedia's Partner Program in the last two years alone. "The receptivity of MSPs, VARs and other IT providers to Intermedia's partner programs is driven by a number of factors," says Michael Gold, president, Intermedia. "We invest heavily in the channel and give partners the tools, services and flexibility necessary to be successful cloud services resellers. This includes the ability to control billing and branding, as well as access comprehensive behind-the-scenes support from Intermedia. Partners can leverage Intermedia's Cloud Migration team to assist with end customers' migrations to the Intermedia cloud -- which is difficult to do without the well-honed tools and process that Intermedia provides."

To sign up for Intermedia's Partner Program or to learn more about the program, please call 1-800-379-7729.

ABOUT INTERMEDIAIntermedia is the premier provider of cloud services to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and the world's largest provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange. Intermedia's cloud offering is business grade and built specifically for the SMB. Delivered from Intermedia's secure datacenters, the company's Office in the Cloud suite combines Microsoft tools such as Exchange 2010 email, Lync Secure Instant Messaging, and SharePoint document management with Intermedia's proprietary offerings for complete mobile freedom, backup, security, voice and more. The company's proprietary cloud infrastructure assures high reliability and a certified support team is available around the clock. All Intermedia services are managed from the company's proprietary HostPilot Control Panel, providing customers a single point of communications control. Intermedia also empowers thousands of partners -- including managed service providers and select Fortune 500 companies -- to sell cloud services under their own brand. Founded in 1995, Intermedia was the first to offer hosted Microsoft Exchange business-class cloud email and now has over 400,000 premium hosted Exchange mailboxes under management -- more than any other provider. The company is one of a select group of companies partnering with Microsoft to bring Office 365 to market. For more information, visit http://www.intermedia.net.

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Cebit 2012: SAP Cloud Computing Strategy – Introduction – Video

March 6, 2012 | Author: admin


Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMSN4speUNw


21-12-2011 02:04 There is a massive shift in paradigm. In the past, servers and IT infrastructure have been in-house - often in the basement of the company building. This forces a company's IT success to battle against issues such as: § Limited CPU power available. § Limited main memory available. § Limited bandwidth in the internet available. With the introduction and expansion of the SAP Cloud, IT infrastructure and software applications do not have to be in-house any more, battling against the abovementioned issues. They can now be rented as a service where CPU power, main memory, and internet bandwidth are unlimited. Take a look at Video 1, where Rainer Zinow gives an overview to SAP Cloud Strategy.

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TurnKey Internet Launches WebMatrix, a New Application in Partnership with Microsoft

March 6, 2012 | Author: admin

IT solutions provider TurnKey Internet today announced their partnership with Microsoft to launch a new application called WebMatrix, a free web development tool that includes everything you need for website development pre-installed in their Dedicated, VPS and Cloud servers.

Albany, NY (PRWEB) March 05, 2012

WebMatrix pools the best open source web applications (including DotNetNuke, Umbraco, WordPress, Joomla!) and handles the downloading and installation of your new Web site. By utilizing built-in web templates or writing code yourself; WebMatrix is all-inclusive, simple and best of all free. Developing websites has never been easier. The days of hand-editing configuration files and making sure you have all the right components are long gone.

TurnKey Internets Windows web servers come pre-installed with the new WebMatrix application, with your choice of a Dedicated, VPS or Cloud server. Once youre up and running, WebMatrix provides all the tools and features needed in a single unified interface. Say good-bye to switching between multiple applications just to perform common web development tasks. With WebMatrix, youre always just a click away from easily editing your files, managing your database and modifying your server settings.

Tim Kirsch, Executive Vice President of Turnkey Internet stated, With a Windows Web Server, launching a new site from the WebMatrix application is simple smooth and fast. There are no more uploading files via ftp from one server to another. You can develop your site from right within the application and hit the publish button to make it available on the web. I am really happy to see that Microsoft is starting to integrate into the open source arena, this is a huge step for them.

In celebration of the WebMatrix launch, Turnkey Internet is excited to announce a promotional offer to include 50% off for life AND 3 Months free on their newest turnkey solution.

For more information visit TurnKeyInternet.net/WebMatrix, TurnKey Internet.net or contact Jennifer F. Hendricks at (518) 618-0999 ext. 119 or Jennifer@TurnKeyinternet.net.

About TurnKey Internet

TurnKey Internet Internet, Inc. is a leading provider of managed web hosting and IT solutions. Based in Albany, New York, TurnKey Internet, Inc. provides enterprise-class cloud based services to customers in over 150 countries via its Latham, New York data center. TurnKey Internet, Inc. has provided IT solutions since 1999, holding an A rating with the Better Business Bureau, Accredited Businesses.

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Cloud computing growing jobs, says Microsoft

March 6, 2012 | Author: admin

BY SANDRA GUY Business Reportersguy@suntimes.com March 5, 2012 6:36PM

Hostway Software Engineer Youngtae Kim works in the company's 100 N. Riverside office. Hostway is one of several companies hiring new employees because of the trend toward 'cloud' computing. The Chicago area is expected to gain 38,000 new jobs by the end of 2015 because of this trend, according to a new report being issued Tuesday. | Rich Hein~Sun-Times

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Updated: March 5, 2012 8:07PM

The buzzword cloud computing a way for companies to buy less-costly computing power on demand is forecast to create 37,868 jobs in the Chicago region by 2016, a whopping 64 percent increase from todays number, according to a forecast released Monday.

The jobs range from cloud computing engineers who command $115,000 to $145,000 yearly salaries to cloud technologists who start at $80,000 annually, to jobs in sales, marketing, finance and production at both IT companies and their business clients.

Nationwide, cloud computing is forecast to add 1.1 million jobs and, worldwide, 14 million, in the next three years, according to the IDC research firm. Local companies said Monday they are adding jobs as cloud computing expands.

Hostway Corp., which employs 60 at its data center and corporate headquarters inside the Boeing building in downtown, expects to expand its workforce by 10 percent in the next four to five years to accommodate cloud computing growth, said Chief Financial Officer Mark D. Adolph.

We will see growth in hiring in the data center, network operations and network systems, as well as cloud-related salespeople, product managers and research-and-development employees, he said.

Cloud computing lets companies in retail, banking, insurance, transportation, construction and professional services eliminate the expense of buying their own computer servers, which can cost $30,000 to $300,000. That is expected to enable these companies to hire more employees not only in IT but in jobs that help them innovate, said Adam Hecktman, director of the Microsoft Technology Center in Chicago, which employs 700. Microsoft also operates a data center in Northlake.

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Hub’s future jobs may be in cloud

March 6, 2012 | Author: admin

There are jobs in the cloud.

The rise of cloud computing services - running software and storing files online, rather than on a computer hard drive - is expected to create 20,000 jobs in the Boston area by 2015, according to a report produced for Microsoft Corp. by Framingham research firm IDC Corp.

Most of the jobs will come as companies shift from maintaining their own, expensive computer servers toward cloud services, which allow access to enterprise software and data via the Internet, according to the report, which was scheduled to be released Monday.

Shifting to the cloud could cut costs for companies and help create 1.1 million jobs in North America by the end of 2015 and a global rise in business revenues of $1.1 trillion.

Last year, the United States added 1.8 million new jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The forecast for cloud-related job growth assumes that when companies do not have to spend money on maintaining legacy systems, they will spend it on innovation elsewhere, and that will create new jobs, according to IDC analyst John Gantz.

The large enterprises are moving their computing into the cloud at a lower cost and they can repurpose that money into sales and marketing jobs, said Craig Hodges, general manager of Microsofts Northeast sales division. The report is the companys first analysis of the global impact of cloud computing.

In the Boston area, the primary drivers in the growth of cloud computing are education and financial services businesses, according to the IDC research. Hospitals and government services are slower to move to the cloud because of regulation and security issues, it said.

IDCs Gantz said cloud spending is growing almost five times faster than overall spending on technology. But with total information technology spending in 2011 of $1.7 trillion, the $28 billion spend on cloud services makes it a nascent market.

The report says that more than 50 percent of the job growth related to increasing adoption of cloud services will take place in small and medium-sized businesses. More companies are spending less on IT maintenance, but using the cloud does not amount to outsourcing tech support staff, Gantz said. Instead, those positions are being redefined when companies move to the cloud and away from servicing their own computer servers.

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More Flexibility with the 1&1 Dynamic Cloud Server

March 6, 2012 | Author: admin

Accurate hourly billing model enhances server management and performance. Machine capacity of up to 99 cloud servers possible in one contract and Server Management and Monitoring is available with 1&1 Mobile Apps.

Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) March 05, 2012

1&1 Dynamic Cloud Server (DCS) offers users a virtual server environment with full root access. The innovative aspect of this model is found in the adaptability of each machines basic settings that can be changed to suit users own needs over time. It is also possible to switch between either a Linux or Windows operating system. 1&1 Dynamic Cloud Server can be a sophisticated alternative for companies whose resource requirements change frequently or for start-ups that cannot accurately estimate how much computing power they will need for their online project.

If a company using a traditional dedicated server requires an increase in computing power, significant time and resources are needed to change configurations over to a new machine. 1&1 Dynamic Cloud Server eliminates such a time consuming process by enhancing usability and accessibility. If, for example a promotional campaign or one-time project attracts more website visitors than usual, this cloud server would allow the performance parameters to be increased with the help of an intuitive slider for expanding computing power up to 6 cores, 24 GB RAM and 800 GB of hard disk space. An upgrade or downgrade to a server would be complete in less than five minutes.

For users whose online projects exploit the capacity of a single cloud server completely, 1&1 offers a multi-function virtual infrastructure. That means that up to 99 virtual machines can be added to an existing contract and ordered conveniently via the users 1&1 Control Panel. After setup, users can configure each Dynamic Cloud Server as usual, with individual capabilities to start, stop, reset or delete them.

Managing and monitoring the server on-the-go is also not a problem. 1&1 provides you with mobile apps for the DCS that can be downloaded for free via the following links:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/1-1-mobile-monitoring/id409369112

[http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/cloud-server-management/id392277406?mt=8

[https://market.android.com/details?id=com.oneandone.mobile.monitoring.server

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.unitedinternet.cloudserver

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“Cloud storage served from an array would cost $2 a gigabyte”

March 6, 2012 | Author: admin

New Australian cloud storage operator Haylix says building a cloud on storage arrays would mean prices of $2 a gigabyte, rather than the 12 cents it has been able to achieve by building a cloud out of servers.

Arrays are great for active servers with high I/O, said Michael Richardson, a Manager at Halyix. But the company has instead cooked up a cloud from lots and lots of Dell servers and OpenStack, a combination it says is more affordable and flexible than even dedicated cloud arrays like EMC's Atmos.

Richardson also feels his homebrew cloud allows Haylix to differentiate in ways that would not be possible if it used off-the-shelf cloud kit. It won't be enough just to say we are Australian, he said. We are an engineering company at heart. It was not enough for us to re-badge a service.

One example of that engineering-led differentiation is deep integration with Akamai, thanks to tweaks to OpenStack. The result is a feature Richardson hopes will make the new service attractive to customers beyond Australia by reducing latency.

Another differentiation is a user interface which, in a demonstration to The Register, appeared rather more user-friendly than that officered by Amazon Web Services.

Richardson would not disclose just which Dell servers Haylix will employ or even which form factor his machines possess, but did confirm the company's VIA Nano-powered servers did not make his shopping list. He did confirm that Haylix has many terabytes of live storage and many more terabytes in stock but not yet online.

The company also intends to introduce a cloud computing product later in 2012.

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SingleHop Introduces the Hosting Industry's First Customer Bill of Rights

March 6, 2012 | Author: admin

CHICAGO, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SingleHop, Inc., a leading dedicated server and cloud hosting provider, announced the launch of its Customer Bill of Rights, a new type of Service Level Agreement (SLA). The company created the program by publicly posting its rigid internal timing standards on everything from hardware replacements to server deployment. Strict internal SLAs have always been a part of SingleHop's infrastructure and are now the foundation of the Customer Bill of Rights, a unique program that offers clear and simple financial benefits to its customers.

"We know that setting the right expectations, and keeping our promises, are two of the major factors that drive customer satisfaction. With the Bill of Rights our customers always know exactly what to expect, how long it will take, and what happens if we under-deliver," said Dan Ushman, Chief Marketing Officer.

Sample Features of the Customer Bill of Rights:

Service

Their Guarantee

Credit Received

First Response to a Support Ticket

1 Hour

5%

Updated Ticket Frequency

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Online Education Innovator Gives Virtual Internet Cloud Services an A+

March 3, 2012 | Author: admin

Virtual Internet delivers high availability cloud hosting solution to rapidly expanding Grade Results

Providence, Utah (PRWEB) March 01, 2012

Grade Results provides one-to-one online tutoring and interactive, multimedia courseware that is completely customized for each student. The company approached Virtual Internet looking for a high-availability hosting environment that would be able to support their online learning platform and allow the flexibility to scale in tandem with the rapid growth that Grade Results is currently undergoing.

Prior to Virtual Internet, we had dedicated servers with another hosting provider but we outgrew the solution, and purchasing additional dedicated servers would have made for an unnecessarily complex infrastructure, said Grade Results founder and COO, Craig Ullman.

Virtual Internet worked to understand Grade Results existing infrastructure set up and current and future business goals, then proposed a cloud hosting solution that would deliver the flexibility to scale the service as and when needed.

Grade Results is an online service and our students are logging on 24/7 from across the United States to access our courses, said Ullman, so it was crucial that our hosting provider be able to deliver a high availability platform. Grade Results evaluated several other cloud service providers, but selected Virtual Internet because of its enterprise-class, always up hosting environment, technical support and very competitive pricing. Virtual Internet offered the best bang for the buck; it ended up being an easy choice.

Choosing an Infrastructure-as-a-Service model for their hosting requirements has eliminated the necessity to employ infrastructure technicians in house. Instead, Grade Results has a team of software developers and designers that focus on innovating and driving the Grade Results business offerings forward.

Having fast and reliable technical support from Virtual Internet has been invaluable to us. With Virtual Internet, we have the confidence that we can keep growing our business without running into any limits with our supporting IT infrastructure, said Ullman. With the Virtual Internet cloud hosting solution in place, we can grow to support massive numbers of users.

Grade Results serves clients throughout the Southeast and Mid-South regions of the United States, and recently opened new offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Madison, Wisconsin.

"Grade Results is a great example of how Virtual Internet can provide a valuable service to a busy customer to which high-availability is paramount" commented Patrick McCarthy, Managing Director, Virtual Internet. "Because we provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service, business IT leaders can concentrate on driving their organization forward, rather than having the constant worry of whether they have the agile and reliable IT infrastructure in place to support business demand."

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