Archive for June, 2010

Ingram Micro and Rackspace Partnership

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Rackspace has been a huge contributer in the cloud hosting world today announced a partnership with Ingram Micro Inc.  This will bring managed hosting and cloud computing offerings to the distributor’s growing base of North American channel partners through the new Seismic Cloud Conduit Program.

“As the world’s leading technology distributor, it was a natural progression for us to work with Rackspace, a world leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and bring to market a best-in-class solution for cloud computing,” said Justin Crotty, vice president, services, Ingram Micro North America. “By teaming with Rackspace, we are enabling our channel partners to take advantage of the new business opportunities cloud computing brings to the table and raise the bar when it comes to delivering affordable managed IT services.”

Rackspace is one of the first hosting providers to offer its services through a traditional distribution model allowing VARs, resellers and channel partners to embrace the shift in IT to cloud computing and realize new recurring revenue streams.

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HP, Intel, Enomaly Team-Up For Cloud Provider Platform

Monday, June 7th, 2010

HP, Intel, and Enomaly Team-Up For Cloud Provider Platform.   Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and cloud software maker Enomaly have partnered together to offer a  Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform for cloud service providers, marking the first time HP is going after the solution provider segment in the cloud.

This new cloud platform is targeted at hosting firms and Internet data center providers. The partnership gives service providers the ability to deliver timely, comprehensive services to customers leveraging products from each member, the companies said.

The combination of products gives service providers, whether they offer shared hosting, dedicated hosting, virtual and cloud hosting, or managed services, the ability to offer new services to customers, Cohen said.  The solution also enables cloud providers to lower the costs by increasing the density of sites per server; increase average revenue per user by offering more hosted services and/or up-sell additional services; increase predictability of capacity planning for the service and understand the relationship of capacity to service level performance; and automate the user experience and empower end users.

Cohen said the ultimate goal of the pairing is to give providers and partners new cloud-based revenue opportunities, as opposed to providers building cloud solutions themselves which can be an expensive, lengthy and arduous process.  “High costs and long ROIs don’t really sell well to service providers,” he said.

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Terremark Cloud Hosting in Latin America

Monday, June 7th, 2010

This is the first initiative of Terremarks initial deployment of its Enterprise Cloud in Latin America. Terremark’s wants to have a highly scalable cloud-based resources to be offered in Brasil in Sao Paolo. Terremark’s Brazilian cloud deployment is connected to its cloud infrastructure currently available at the company’s North American and European facilities.  Brazil cloud hosting is now possible.

Terremark has been at the forefront of the global shift to cloud computing, and a leading service provider in testing and deploying our breakthrough Unified Computing System platform,” said Soni Jiandani, vice president, Cisco’s Server Access and Virtualization Technology Group. “Cisco Unified Computing System innovations such as memory expansion and the Virtualized Network Interface Card, combined with the power of the Intel Xeon 5600 series processor, have created the highest performing system available to customers today. Cisco’s architectural innovations make the Unified Computing System the ideal platform for running today’s most important business applications.”

“The availability of Enterprise Cloud services to our customers in Latin America provides them with an innovative and powerful solution to their IT infrastructure needs,” said Rodolfo Garcia, President of Terremark’s Latin American Business Unit. “By purchasing a dedicated resource pool of processing, memory and storage, the Enterprise Cloud offers our customers more flexibility and agility over the traditional server-based model, allowing for a precise and dynamic allocation of computing resources as needed.”

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