Archive for August, 2010

Hostway to Present to the Professional Association for SQL Servers

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Hostway just announced it will be holding a presentation for the Chicago chapter of the “Professional Association for SQL Server,” on Aug. 12th, 2010

Hostway is a huge cloud hosting provider, providing more than 1.4 million websites and 600,000 customers hosting worldwide.  Having them speak at an event like the Professional Association for SQL Servers would be a great boost to the industry.  Their presentation, entitled “Cloud Computing: DBA Friend or Foe?” will be delivered by Stratavia, the organization that Hostway has partnered with to deliver NetDBAs. The key points will center on database administration in the cloud. It

“Cloud Computing: DBA Friend or Foe?”  will showcase NetDBAs as an innovative enterprise-class database automation solution that simplifies the management of corporate databases and can be consumed cost effectively as a service.

As a bonus to all those that attend the presentation: A 30-day free trial of the NetDBAs product will be offered to all attendees.

“We are excited to be a part of the Chicago chapter of the Professional Association for SQL Server. This is a great opportunity for chapter members to explore the value of cloud computing applications to enhance database administration” said Todd Benjamin, vice president of enterprise hosting. “We will be demonstrating NetDBA; a value added solution that automates and simplifies the most time consuming and repetitive tasks typically performed by SQL Server database administrators. NetDBAs harnesses highend enterprise-class automation technology, and is deployed in the cloud to be cost effective and versatile.”

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Arjuna Cloud Hosting

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Agility is a Cloud Management product developed by Arjuna Technologies which enables the flexible sharing of IT resources http://www.cloudcamp.com/wp-content/themes/wicketpixie/images/arjuna_logo.gifand services within an organization, and beyond.  Arjuna is offering as an “on-ramp to the Cloud [that] allows the IT department to begin to experiment with cloud computing in a gradual, incremental way, without any need for disruption to existing service,” Arjuna is positioned to help IT towards a world in which internal IT infrastructure can over time be increasingly subsumed into the cloud.

Arjuna has an international reputation for delivering scalable, fault tolerant software products to global organizations and have built our consultancy skills through ‘hands-on’ technical excellence. We are proud of our ability to develop innovative software products and uniquely positioned to help clients profit from the most compelling business and technical proposition in IT – Cloud Computing.

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Appistry Cloud Computing

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Appistry is reinventing the enterprise application platform for private, public and hybrid clouds.  Their CloudIQ Platform enables a new generation of highly scalable, extremely reliable, data-centric applications to be delivered at a fraction of the time, cost and complexity of traditional approaches.

Their highly distinguished customers include; FedEx, State Street Bank, Northrop Grumman and multiple U.S. Government agencies. They are a huge player in the cloud server space, but not many people have heard of them.  I hadn’t heard of them till earlier today.  Dang…  Here is a little more about Appistry Cloud Computing.

The Appistry platform includes:

  • CloudIQ Manager: Extensible Application Deployment and Management Software
  • CloudIQ Engine: A Cloud Application Server Built From the Ground up for High Performance and Elastic Scalability
  • CloudIQ Storage: A highly Cost-effective Distributed File Storage System

The Appistry CloudIQ Platform products may be used individually to address particular enterprise needs, but together they form the most complete, advanced, and proven platform for delivering enterprise cloud applications.

Learn more about CloudIQ Manager, CloudIQ Engine, or CloudIQ Storage.

Appistry customers report a wide variety of benefits, including a 60% reduction in the time to deliver applications, a 20x increase in management efficiency, and an 80% reduction in CapEx and OpEx for mission-critical applications, all while improving enterprise agility and achieving enhanced application scalability, reliability and performance.

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