Archive for May, 2010

Large Fashion Retailer Harrods in the Cloud

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

Harrods, the large department store in London, has selected NaviSite for a PCI-compliant web cloud hosting solution.  Harrods, which some consider the world’s most famous department store, required a hosting solution that covered all its security needs for storing customer cardholder data. Especially with all the stringent requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS.)

“After a thorough evaluation process, we determined that the NaviSite solution best addressed our technical requirements and financial objectives,” said David Llamas, Chief Technology Officer, Harrods. “NaviSite’s adherence to best business processes made it easy to work together to develop and implement a hosting solution that maintained our existing PCI compliance at an extremely attractive price point. We were also impressed with NaviSite’s vision for enterprise-class cloud-enabled hosting.”

“NaviSite has extensive experience designing and managing enterprise hosting solutions that address key regulatory issues, such as PCI compliance,” said R. Brooks Borcherding, President, NaviSite. “We are excited that Harrods, a revered institution with a world famous reputation for style and quality, selected us to help with their hosting requirements.”

Full Harrods Cloud Hosting Story

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Tier1 Picks Up New Cloud Hosting Team

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Tier1 Picks Up New Cloud Hosting Team. Agatha Poon will now be the research manager for global cloud computing and Douglas Toombs as senior analyst of managed services and cloud computing.  Tier1’s parent company, The 451 Group, appointment of Sean Hackett as research director of its CloudScape Research Program.

For all of you that attended the Cloud Computing Expo a couple weeks ago, Agatha Poon was one of the main speakers on cloud servers.  She has a great deal of expertise in cloud computing and enterprise network migration strategies, these were some of her main points at Cloud Computing Expo. Prior to joining Tier1 she was with Yankee Group.


Agatha Poon, research manager for global cloud computing for Tier1  Research.

Agatha Poon, research manager for global cloud computing forTier1 Research.

Thanks to Tier1 for the photo.

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Rackspace Cloud Hosting Off Goldman Conviction List

Monday, May 10th, 2010

“While last week’s analyst day increased our confidence in RAX’s ability to grow its two businesses, we are still unclear as to how RAX can extend its customer intimacy/”fanatical support” discipline to its faster-growing cloud business” he writes. “Given RAX’s ability in penetrating the enterprise [is] unproven and critical to growing its differentiated managed hosting faster than our current estimates and with lower-margin Cloud [business] likely to increase in the revenue mix, we fear future margin compression.”

Goldman Sachs removed the stock from the Conviction List, while maintaining his Buy rating, “as performance has suffered and catalysts have passed.”  Despite everything that happened with the Conviction list Rackspace Cloud Hosting giant is up 69 cents, or 4.2%, to $17.15.

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