Archive for July, 2010

GoGrid Opens New East Coast Cloud Data Center

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

GoGrid announced the opening of a new GoGrid data center in Ashburn, Virginia. GoGrid has chosen Equinix, Inc, a leading provider of global data center services as its data center partner as it continues to expand operations.

“We’re pleased to announce that GoGrid cloud computing services are now available from within our Ashburn, Virginia campus,” said Vince DiMemmo, general manager of Cloud and IT Services at Equinix. “Infrastructure on-demand is something our customers expect to be able to buy as they architect and deploy their Web and IT applications with us, and we’re pleased to add GoGrid as a cloud computing partner supplier.”

“The decision to expand GoGrid was a direct response to our customers and the market,” said GoGrid CEO & Co-Founder, John Keagy. “We are successfully executing our expansion strategy and securing an East Coast presence is critical for us to scale and capture a significant piece of the fast growing cloud market. We are very excited to be partnering with a leader like Equinix and deployed within their customer-rich Ashburn campus to help fuel the continued growth of GoGrid.”

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Money Raining on Cloud Startups

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Not many people know about cloud hosting.  But the money flowing into the emerging sector is beginning to turn heads, with Eucalyptus Systems the latest beneficiary. Funding companies are poring a lot of money into companies with cloud hosting in their scopes.

The Calififornia startup has landed $20 million in a second round of funding led by New Enterprise Associates, one of the most venerable names in the venture capital business. NEA is joining existing investors Benchmark Capital and BV Capital, which also participated in the latest infusion–which brings the total committed to Eucalyptus so far to $25.5 million.

Not that it really needed more money at the moment, says Marten Mickos, a veteran software entrepreneur that helped elevate the profile of Eucalyptus by joining the company as CEO last March. “We have two thirds of our previous round still untouched,” he says. But interest among investors and potential customers in the cloud computing concept is strong at the moment, and the company realized that building a substantial company would eventually take more money.

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StormOnDemand Cloud Hosting Review

Thursday, July 1st, 2010
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  • Multiple Load Balancing Methods including: Round Robin, Least Connect & Historical Intelligence
  • Storm On Demand includes a powerful API that allows programmatic access to control and manage all aspects of your cloud servers.

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Reliability and Uptime:
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Customer Support:
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