Posts Tagged ‘cloud computing’

OpSource Partner Ecosystem

Monday, July 19th, 2010

OpSource announced the OpSource Partner Ecosystem, a comprehensive new program designed to enable integrators, developers, ISVs, cloud platform companies and telecom providers to offer integrated solutions for their joint customers. OpSource’s unique offerings address the needs for high security, control, performance and ease of integration.

OpSource said in a statement that more than 50% of its revenue will come from the Partner Ecosystem channel.  The OpSource Partner Ecosystem will speed enterprise adoption of cloud hosting by reducing the burden of integration, shortening time to market for new services, and lowering the total cost of implementation and ownership for both partners and customers. This will help companies thinking of switching to cloud servers to switch faster, and get the best option available to them. Cloud hosting is going to be huge.

“For the enterprise cloud to realize mass adoption, companies must recognize the importance of the channel,” said Antonio Piraino, Vice President and Research Director, Tier1 Research. “The majority of hardware and software is delivered through the channel today as part of larger solutions, but until now very few in the hosting space have acknowledged this simple fact. Companies that recognize the power of the channel and build their businesses around it will gain significant business advantages.”

  • Consulting and Development: OpSource’s Consulting and Development Partners provide professional services, integration and software development services to their enterprise and SaaS ISV customers. Partners include Montclair Advisors, Scio and Surge.
  • Cloud Platform: OpSource’s Cloud Platform Partners provide software, hardware and Platform-as-a-Service solutions that enable end users to more effectively test, develop, integrate, monitor, manage, analyze and secure cloud infrastructure and cloud applications. Partners include Apprenda, AppZero and Zuora.
  • Infrastructure: OpSource’s Infrastructure Partners provide best-in-class solutions that power the OpSource Cloud and Managed Hosting Platforms. Partners include Gomez, Oracle and VMware.
  • Telecom: OpSource’s Telecom Partners provide voice, data, ICT and managed services solutions to enterprise customer. For our Telecom Partners, cloud hosting represents an important component to their overall solutions portfolio. These partners are typically involved at all stages of development and launch and resell OpSource solutions. Partners include NTT America and NTT Europe.
  • Distribution: OpSource’s Distribution Partners resell cloud or managed hosting services as part of their distribution, VAR, agent, systems integration and outsourced solutions. These partners resell OpSource solutions. Partners include Cloud 49 and Healthcare Practice IT.

“As cloud computing continues gaining traction with enterprise customers, cloud services and managed hosting providers like OpSource have quickly responded to customers’ needs for security, portability and web application performance management,” said Tom Meusel, Vice President of Worldwide Channels, Gomez, the Web Performance Division of Compuware. “As innovators in this rapidly growing marketplace, we’re helping to advance cloud performance for companies of all sizes.”

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Amazon.com’s High-End Computing

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Amazon.com’s Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large is a 64-bit platform with 23GB of memory, 1,690GB of instance storage, and 10Gbps of Ethernet I/O performance composed of 33.5 Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) compute units. The default usage limit for the Cluster Compute instance type is eight instances, or 64 cores, although customers can request more, the company says.

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Microsoft’s Azure Now in Rackspace

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Cloud Hosting  giant Rackspace could be among the first to deliver private versions of Microsoft’s Azure cloud, free of Redmond’s control.  Rackspace CTO  John Engates said: “I think it’s a great idea to allow private versions of Azure because realistically, Microsoft can’t run all the world’s IT in its own data centers.” He added: “If and when we get strong demand for Azure in our datacenter, we’ll certainly consider offering it.”

Microsoft earlier this week announced the Windows Azure Platform Appliance containing Windows Azure compute and SQL Azure storage. The service provider believes it’s got the experience in hosting and .NET to make Azure usable and to help ease customers concerns over the newness of the architecture – most, for example, won’t even know what SQL Azure is or be willing to commit at this stage.

We’ll see if the Microsoft Azure platform will end up in Rackspace data centers.  For now, it’s not in there.  I’m betting that in the next 3 months Microsoft Azure and Rackspace will be partners in this new venture. Lew Moorman, Rackspace’s president for cloud and chief strategy officer, said: “It’s like house hunting and buying the house and every single element in it. You can’t customize or do your own thing, and that’s a big commitment for people… In time we could host it, but people are nervous about giving everything to Microsoft.”

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