Archive for June, 2010

OpSource Recognized as a Top Ten Cloud Computing

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

OpSource announced that Datamation.com recently recognized the company as one of the top ten cloud computing “leaders to watch” in a list which also included IBM, AT&T, and Cisco. Leaders were chosen based on objective criteria, including customer traction, experience and market cap or financing, as well as subjective criteria, such as ability to innovate, ease of use, and how well cloud offerings integrate with the company’s broader portfolio. The top ten cloud providers doesn’t come easy.

OpSource has been helping several smaller businesses with their cloud servers and IaaS. “We believe that more than half of Infrastructure-as-a-Service will eventually be sold through channels and solution providers,” said Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource. “We are gratified that a leading publication like Datamation.com has confidence in our vision for this future, and we thank them for this recognition.”

They also have helped several larger customers such as Adobe, SAP, Taleo and Xactly, this also helped OpSource be recognized as a leader because of its unique position as the “go-to ‘cloud operations’ provider.”

In 2009, the company introduced OpSource Cloud, a cloud service for companies requiring pay-as-you-go flexibility and 100% availability as well as high security and control.

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Cloud Server Lawsuit

Monday, June 28th, 2010

This is one of the first cloud hosting lawsuits that I know about that has become very huge in the news.  We all know that cloud hosting is becoming important to all the companies around the world.  In the case of Salesforce.com and Microsoft… the battle is on.

Salesforce.com is using David Boies as counsel for its patent-infringement lawsuit against its the huge competitor. Salesforce’s lawsuit is seen by many as a response to Microsoft’s own intellectual property suit, filed in May, against the cloud-based software company. One analyst also sees the brewing legal battle as a fight for the future of the cloud, with Microsoft’s Azure on one side and Salesforce’s cloud-based productivity offerings on the other. Salesforce alleges that Microsoft violated five of its patents.

The five Salesforce patents at issue include, “Dynamic Multi-Level Cache Manager,” “Method and System for Handling Errors in a Distributed Computer System,” “Work Sharing and Communicating in a Web Site System,” “Java Object Cache Server for Databases,” and “Apparatus and Methods for Provisioning Services.” All were issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office between 2004 and 2007.

“Microsoft’s continuing acts of infringement have caused and are causing irreparable harm to Salesforce.com, for which Salesforce.com has no adequate remedy at law,” read the filing. “The hardships that would be imposed by an injunction are less than those faced by Salesforce.com should an injunction not issue.”

“The stakes are getting bigger and bigger,” Ray Wang, an analyst with the Altimeter Group, said in a June 28 interview with eWEEK. “In the battle for the cloud, the two leaders are going to be Salesforce and Microsoft. Microsoft’s Azure is the .NET side of the war, while Salesforce is the Java side. So you’re going to have drama.” Azure is Microsoft’s cloud-based development platform.

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Savvis Symphony Now Live

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Cloud infrastructure and hosting provider Savvis on Monday tuned its instruments for the launch of Savvis Symphony, a line of cloud services that kicks off with a suite of cloud offerings for public or private clouds.

First up is the Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC), a new public cloud offering that has been in beta since November 2009. Ken Owens, Savvis technical vice president, security and virtualization, said VPDC lets an enterprise build and deploy an entire virtual data center on Savvis’ cloud infrastructure in one fell swoop.

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