Archive for June, 2010

Tilera to Double Processor Cores Every Two Years

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Well DUH.  Don’t we double what we can do in the computing world every two years anyways? Tilera’s TILEPro64(TM) processor was selected by Quanta Computer Inc. to create the world’s best performance-per-watt cloud server, packing 512 cores in a 2U server under 400 watts. Next year, Tilera will bring to market the TILE-Gx family with 100 cores in 40 nm process technology, and in 2013, Tilera will offer its 200-core processor, codenamed Stratton, in 28 nm. These products will enable customers to provide 20,000 cores per-rack in 2011 and 40,000 cores per-rack by 2013.

“Providing multiples of performance density and power efficiency in a standard environment is a significant breakthrough that will take cloud computing to the next level,” said Mark J. Barrenechea, SGI CEO. “SGI has been a pioneer in disruptive datacenters technologies. We are working with Tilera to bring this compelling technology to our customers across HPC, cloud, and government market segments.”

“Yesterday’s solutions of bigger and higher frequency cores have become today’s power and density problems. Tilera is providing the new thinking that solves these fundamental issues and allows cloud computing to grow unbounded,” said Omid Tahernia, President and CEO, Tilera Corporation. “Tilera’s technology integrates hundreds of general purpose cores on the same chip, with cache coherence, virtualization, and high speed I/O. Our products are providing breakthrough density today and we will double that with every generation.”

Tilera will be demonstrating its newly-announced S2Q server, developed by Quanta Computer Inc., on June 22-24 at Velocity 2010 in Santa Clara, Calif., and on June 23-24 at Structure 2010 in San Francisco.

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Access Northeast buys RezZiliant Hosting

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Access Northeast, a provider of data center and managed services, said in a statement that it has acquired the hosting division of RezZiliant Inc.  Financial details of the transaction are not being disclosed.

“The additional Connecticut Data Centers will assist Access Northeast with the expansion of their Parthenon Cloud footprint for customer replication and disaster recovery services,” the company said in a press release.

“The additional Connecticut Data Centers will assist Access Northeast with the expansion of their Parthenon Cloud footprint for customer replication and disaster recovery services,” (press release)  In a statement included in the release, RezZiliant’s president and chief executive Mark Golino said that selling RezZiliant’s hosting division will enable the RezZiliant to concentrate on its “rapidly growing health-care software offering for hospitals and medical providers.”

Golino has “signed a long-term contract to remain as both a consultant and a customer of Access Northeast,” Access Northeast’s press release said.  This should help with their cloud hosting.

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Zuora With Billing Service For Cloud Providers

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Today, Zuora is announcing a subscription billing model for cloud computing, called Z-Commerce for the Cloud.  Zuora, a SaaS startup company that offers online services to manage and automate customer subscriptions and payments, and its impressive backing that are pretty cool if you ask me. The startup signed over $1 billion in contracted subscription revenue in the first quarter of its new fiscal year that ended late April.

Z-Commerce  for  the Cloud

The Zuora cloud billing platform aims to alleviate the need for online businesses to develop their own billing systems, especially to handle recurring payments like those associated with subscriptions.

Z-Billing and Z-Payments products make it fast and easy to launch new products, scale operations, and automate recurring billing and subscription payments in one solution.  Here are a couple functions:

  • Offers robust functionality to meter, price, and bill for customer usage
  • Is offered in four editions to suit every cloud business model
  • Manages the subscription lifecycle, including purchases, renewals, upgrades, and cancellations
  • Provides an interface that can be used by your sales and service reps, or self-service by your customers
  • Can be used to transact directly with your customers or offered as an “in-a-box” solution for your partners
  • Includes a Blueprint for the Cloud of best practice considerations when launching your cloud business.

Meter
With a multitude of pre-built cloud units of measure and integration with leading infrastructure vendors, Zuora meters and rates usage of any computing resource, tracking and charging for precisely what your customers use.
Price
With over 20 new cloud pricing models and the ability to configure pricing and packaging rapidly, Zuora supports every cloud business model—from reservation and location-based pricing to free trials, upgrades, and sophisticated product bundles.
Bill
Z-Commerce for the Cloud automates the creation of detailed, line-item invoices for your customers as well as the processing of payments against them. Zuora also includes cloud-based metrics and reports, optimizing your business decision making.

Zuora will automatically create itemized invoices for your customers on a scheduled, recurring basis. In addition, Zuora tracks payments against those invoices, handling the complexities of credit balances, overpayments, failed payments, refunds, and chargebacks.

Interested in accelerating your path to the cloud? Download Zuora's  Blueprint for the Cloud >>

Four Editions
Z-Commerce for the Cloud is offered in four editions, tailored to address the four business models in the cloud:

Service  Provider - Offers service providers the fastest way to get to market,  with the flexibility to implement any number of usage-based pricing  models Embedded - Allows any service provider to offer Zuora as an  "in-a-box" service to any ISV or reseller partners who need  their own cloud commerce solution Marketplace - Allows cloud vendors to connect buyers and sellers of  cloud-based services in an "App Store"-like environment,  sharing in the revenues with the app providers Private Cloud - Provides an offering for enterprises standing up  private clouds, needing a solution to implement chargebacks for  transparency and cost allocation

For More Info Visit The Official Site of Zuora

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