Archive for June, 2010

The Army’s Cloud Computing Strategy

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

The CIO of the Army has imposed a moratorium on server purchases across all Army operations. This move is aimed at stopping buying single-purpose servers as they begin consolidating Army data centers and creating compute clouds in select Army data centers.

A memo announcing the moratorium was issued last month by Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, the Army’s CIO. “We want to review all server purchases” before they’re made, said Michael Krieger, deputy CIO of the Army, in an interview with InformationWeek.

The Army has around 1.4 million users and an IT budget of approximately $10 billion.  This would make the Army one of the largest IT user organizations in the world. The clamp down on server purchases comes amid a resurgence of server sales to businesses, with server shipments jumping 23% in the first quarter, compared to the same period a year earlier, according to IDC.

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Cloud Platform FlexiScale Version 2 Released

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Flexiant has completed the re-write of its public cloud platform with the launch of FlexiScale 2.0, which lets users grow their installations from one server to a thousand servers in just seconds. “Our existing FlexiScale customers are very important to us and we know they will love the improvements and new features of FlexiScale 2.0 that the Extility technology suite has enabled,” Flexiant founder Tony Lucas said in a statement.

FlexiScale 2.0 gives start-ups and small and medium-sized businesses the flexibility to manage streaming video, social networking, Software as a Service, and a wealth of other applications.

According to the Whir “Supporting Windows Server and all common versions of Linux, FlexiScale 2.0 lets customers run as many virtual dedicated servers as they want on a pay-as-you-go basis, and they can be based upon either an OS or appliance images from Flexiant’s own library, a custom image, or a clone of an existing customer server. Flexiant’s advanced storage system eliminates the long OS installation cycle — servers are available in seconds no matter how it is built. Servers in the virtual data center can be built either through Flexiant’s web-based user interface or via an API that gives users flexibility in how they can control servers.”

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iomart Group Profits from the Cloud

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

iomart Group announced its full-year results earlier today, reporting revenue growth, a strong balance sheet, significant adoption of cloud hosting services and the securing of a £10M acquisition.

The Group has today revealed an adjusted* EBITDA profit of £3.1M (loss of £0.3M 2009) on increased revenues of £18.3M (£11.8M 2009) in its final results to March 31 2010.

“I am personally delighted to be able to present such a strong set of financial results, especially in the face of particularly demanding economic conditions. We have excellent forward visibility of our revenues and we can look forward with excitement to delivering another year of growth and enhanced profitability.”

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