Friday 03 September 2010
Amazon and danish ComArchive have entered into a unique partnership. The deal makes it easier, safer and cheaper than ever before for companies of all sizes to get a highly professional e-mail archiving solution. This is facilitated by combining the market’s best e-mail archiving software with Amazon Web Services’ groundbreaking Cloud Computing.
Amazon Web Services is the world’s leading provider of cloud computing, EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), - a solution seeing rocketing growth in these years. Cloud computing gives the customer processing power, bandwidth and data storage at Amazon on a needs basis, and you only pay for what you use.
Danish ComArchive in partnership with Amazon Web Services is now offering a turnkey answer to companies’ e-mail archiving needs. This will help companies all over the globe quickly retrieve their old e-mail correspondence and generally keep tabs on large volumes of business-critical e-mails.
Installed in just 10 minutes
”The smart thing is that you can log on to Amazon, create a server and have a comprehensive and safe archiving solution up and running in the space of 10 minutes,” says Svend Frandsen, CEO, ComArchive.
Amazon offers a vast array of server configurations with software that has already been defined and is ready for use. As a user, you just purchase access and from there on, it is very simple to start up a server using an image that you choose on the basis of your own needs.
ComArchive’s new solution consists of a total of six ready server images. Which of the six virtual servers you decide to start up at Amazon as a customer is determined by your need for security and computing power. A common feature of the six server images is that they contain fully operational version of ComArchive\’s e-mail archiving software which is identical to the solution you can download from www.ComArchive.com
Natural consequence of the virtualisation wave
The advantage of e-mail archiving on a virtual Amazon EC2 server is the installation speed, the security and the low price:
”Over the past few years, companies have opened their eyes to the fact that virtualisation holds great potential. We have been at the forefront of this trend, and we can now see that virtualisation is followed by a migration of servers to safer and less expensive providers - and Amazon\’s EC2 concept is second to none in this field,\” says Svend Frandsen. The CEO is pleased with the great interest in the concept, because the solution is already in use at several companies, including Balslev A/S.
”Security gets top priority at Amazon and with the help of ComArchive, we have added the Amazon server to our corporate network with high security and VPN accessibility\”, says CIO Michael Frendorff, Balslev A/S.
Great financial potential for everyone involved
”Balslev has obtained a server-based archiving solution which can be operated for less than a dollar per employee and month. If we compare this cost with the expenses of hosting your own e-mail archiving, it becomes clear that we’re looking at a highly competitive product,” says Svend Frandsen.
The potential inherent in the collaboration with Amazon is very great indeed for ComArchive, according to the company’s CEO. The market for e-mail archiving solutions is expected to reach USD 1 billion in 2011, and ComArchive\’s partnership with Amazon gives the company a considerable technological edge.
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Objectivity, Inc., the leading distributed database for cloud computing users, announced today that it has been selected by Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, as an AWS Solution Provider. With this distinction, Objectivity is recognized as an organization that helps customers to fully leverage the benefits of the AWS infrastructure.
Objectivity garnered attention from AWS after making a free 60-day evaluation of its flagship product, Objectivity/DB, available on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The launch made Objectivity/DB the first federated, distributed database product accessible in a cloud computing environment.
By aligning our capabilities with Amazon Web Services’ robust network of partners and solution providers, we will be gaining a significant strategic advantage
Pairing their extensive resources with our world-class solution, we can offer our distributed database platform to a wider range of customers, who will greatly benefit from the convenience and cost effectiveness that the cloud environment provides.
Objectivity began using Amazon EC2 as a way to execute highly parallel, distributed database demonstrations for customers, who wanted proof of Objectivity/DB’s flexible, scalable architecture without incurring capital expenditures. With the availability of the free evaluation on Amazon EC2, customers have a more advanced way to experience the benefits of Objectivity/DB.
“By aligning our capabilities with Amazon Web Services’ robust network of partners and solution providers, we will be gaining a significant strategic advantage,” said Jay Jarrell, Objectivity’s president and CEO. “Pairing their extensive resources with our world-class solution, we can offer our distributed database platform to a wider range of customers, who will greatly benefit from the convenience and cost effectiveness that the cloud environment provides.”
Objectivity/DB has always been a natural fit for cloud computing; the original architects avoided the single server design in traditional databases in order to focus on providing a distributed database that could scale nearly infinitely. Objectivity/DB was the first database to demonstrate the ability to run in batch and online modes required by the IBM grid compliant application model; cloud computing uses grid concepts to provide distributed service and storage resources across the Internet on demand.
Developers who want to try Objectivity/DB on Amazon EC2 can access the product via two Linux-based Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with bundled software for both 32 and 64 bit platforms. Both are based on the CentOS 5.2 operating system - a binary-compatible version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Free open source Objectivity/DB sample applications for data fusion, network management, and parallel processing are also available to try in a cloud environment.
About Objectivity, Inc.
Objectivity, Inc. provides distributed, real-time, cloud-ready database management solutions for mission-critical applications. The company’s flagship product, Objectivity/DB, has a fully scalable, distributed processing architecture that manages localized, centralized or distributed object databases by synthesizing large, complicated streams of data into a single logical view.
Objectivity works directly with clients in government, security, complex manufacturing, commercial services, science, and engineering organizations to build customized programs, find solutions to complicated challenges and seamlessly integrate technology across multiple platforms and languages.
Objectivity, Inc. is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Please contact us by visiting Objectivity.com or calling (408) 992-7100. A 60-day free trial of Objectivity/DB is available on the website, and Objectivity also provides free web-based Object Database Training Courses.
Cloud computing is a concept of integration and virtualization of heterogeneous IT resources. It is an implementation of distributed computing which comprises sharing and managing usage of resources. It reduces the complexity of the computing process and provides X (which can be software, platform, or infrastructure) as a service (XaaX) or SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) or PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) or IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service). For example, the demand for computing power will vary for a retail outlet who will rent out additional server space from clouds (such as Amazon Web Services) in shopping season
The report forecasts the market size of Global Cloud Computing Services Market over the period 2008-2011. It elaborates the key trends in the Global Cloud Computing Services Market, and segments the total market by cloud computing options. Further, the report also provides the segmentation of Cloud Computing by components and talks about Cloud Hosting segmentation. It also profiles some of the key vendors operating in the Global Cloud Computing Services Market.
TechNavio Insights is a set of reports based on TechNavio – a market intelligence platform for the IT industry. It builds on the intelligence available within TechNavio, and leverages on the custom research experience of the ‘Technology Navigators’. TechNavio is built on years of experience of Infiniti Research in deep dive custom research and consulting for over 30 Fortune 500 companies and numerous large and mid-sized companies.
1. Introduction
2. Market Size and forecast
3. Segmentation by Cloud Computing Options
4. Segmentation of Cloud Computing by Components
5. Cloud Hosting Segmentation
6. Market Trends
7. List of Some of the Vendors in Cloud Computing
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List of Exhibits
Exhibit 1.1: Global Cloud Computing Services market (2008-2011)
Exhibit 1.2: Global Cloud Computing Infrastructure market (2008-2011)
Exhibit 3.1: Segmentation by Cloud Computing Options (2008)
Exhibit 4.1: IT Cloud Spending Break-up for Different Components (2008)
Exhibit 5.1: IT Cloud Hosting Segmentation (in 2008)
Cloud Computing: An Assessment Report is now offered by Research and Markets
Cloud Computing: An assessment is a comprehensive international study from Coda
Research Consultancy. By drawing upon research and interviews with IT executives
and users, it looks at what IT buyers and users need from cloud services and
suppliers, what suppliers need to know about users and the emerging market, and
the future trajectories of cloud computing from 2011 through to 2020.
Key Topics Covered:
* Executive summary
* Introduction
* Definitions and drivers
* What users want and suppliers need to know
* Costs
* Security
* Vendor lock-in
* International law and regulation
* Formalised procedures
* Understanding employees
* In considering moving to cloud services, and cloud governance
* Contenders for cloud services
* The future
* Conclusion
Companies Mentioned:
* Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
* Amazon Simple Storage System
* Amazon Web Services
* BT Counterpane
* Citrix
* Diomede
* eBay
* Facebook
* Flickr
* Free Software Foundation
* General Electric
* Google Apps
* Google Docs
* Gmail
* GoToMyPC
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Infinite Group, Inc. today announced the launch of Cloud-Cast(TM), a new division focused on the growing market for cloud computing and virtualization services. In addition, the company named virtualization and cloud computing expert Jason Langone to the position of division President.
Targeting opportunities for cloud computing solutions in government and commercial markets, the Cloud-Cast division will offer a full range of cloud computing products and services. Cloud-Cast’s initial offering will be the Cloud-Cast Readiness Assessment(TM), to analyze the business case for proposed cloud computing implementations. Cloud-Cast’s complete service offering will include solutions for applications, desktops and servers, as well as migration and management services. Additionally, Cloud-Cast will develop proprietary software solutions, with an emphasis on dynamic allocation of cloud computing resources.
“Cloud computing is the wave of the future, and Jason Langone and our Cloud-Cast team are ready,” said Michael S. Smith, President and CEO of Infinite Group. “We are thrilled about the new Cloud-Cast division, and Jason’s guidance will enable the creation and delivery of an industry-leading range of product and service offerings.”
Cloud-Cast will combine industry-leading technologies and a world-class team to enable IT organizations to better secure and manage data, applications and resources and reduce overall cost. Cloud-Cast will provide the on-demand, energy-aware infrastructure that will make good on the promise of cloud computing — including the delivery of on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and measured service. Cloud-Cast’s partners include Amazon Web Services, Citrix, InstallFree, Microsoft and VMware.
“Our vision is to make cloud computing a more accessible technology,” commented Jason Langone, President of Infinite Group’s Cloud-Cast division. “Our focus will be on driving business value from cloud computing implementations, as well as to create unique offerings that address the rapidly-growing market for cloud-based services.”
About Infinite Group, Inc.
Infinite Group, Inc. (IGI) is a world-class IT services and solutions provider serving a range of government and commercial organizations. Headquartered in Pittsford, New York with offices in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and Colorado Springs, Colorado, IGI is focused on the following, interconnected practice areas: IT Infrastructure Services, Virtualization and Consolidation, Cloud Computing, Project and Program Management, and Business and Technology Integration. IGI is dedicated to the alignment of business and technology initiatives, and the delivery of superior results. Infinite Group is publicly traded under the symbol IMCI.OB, and more information about the company is available at www.IGIus.com.
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Red Hat announces Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program, designed to simplify and expand the adoption of cloud computing by enterprise customers. The program enables industry leaders in cloud computing to become certified to offer Red Hat technology solutions. Premier Cloud Provider Partners will collaborate with Red Hat on technical support, security updates, hardware certification, sales and marketing and business models. As part of the announcement today, cloud computing pioneer Amazon Web Services will extend its technology relationship with Red Hat to become the first Red Hat Premier Cloud Provider Partner.
The Red Hat Premier Cloud Provider Program has been established to address the increased interest in cloud computing from Red Hat customers, both in building virtualized internal infrastructure systems and extending their applications into the clouds. Red Hat customers seek the flexibility to transfer and use Red Hat subscriptions on premise and/or in cloud environments, with support and compatibility. Red Hat customers have also requested the ability to rent elastic computing by-the-hour with access to consistent, technical support, security updates and compatibility with existing IT resources. This program aims to provide more flexibility for Red Hat customers when developing and deploying their applications.
In addition to customers, Red Hat has witnessed growing ISV partner interest in providing cloud offerings based on their applications certified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or JBoss Enterprise Middleware. As part of its new program, Red Hat will work with customers to identify secure, optimized and supported cloud providers, and will work with ISVs to help enable delivery of cloud offerings with an on-ramp program that spans technology, business and support models.
“A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing,” said Mike Evans, vice president, Corporate Development at Red Hat. “We believe Red Hat’s consistent dedication to open source and open standards will further the success of a strong cloud ecosystem. By bringing together thousands of Red Hat-certified applications, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization we aim to deliver the next generation of computing architectures, today.”
Building on the experience of delivering the first supported operating system and first supported middleware offering for Amazon Web Services, Red Hat is now growing its relationship by choosing Amazon Web Services as the first member of the Premier Cloud Provider Program.
“As the demand for cloud based technology infrastructure services rapidly expands throughout larger enterprises, we are expecting that our expanded Red Hat relationship will help more customers take advantage of the scalable, reliable and on-demand resources provided by Amazon Web Services,” said Terry Wise, Director of Partner Relations for Amazon Web Services.
Test drive Red Hat’s cloud solutions on Amazon EC2 at the Red Hat Summit, September 1-4, 2009.
In addition, Red Hat will host the Open Source Cloud Computing Forum on July 22, 2009 to enable a broad industry discussion on the unique ways that open source can help to break down barriers to wider cloud computing adoption. For more information on the Forum, visit www.redhat.com/cloudcomputingforum/.
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About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world’s leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for five consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2
Many large enterprises today are extending their service-enabled, highly virtualized and highly automated environments to cloud infrastructure services.
To help customers meet this need, BMC Software today announced it is leveraging Amazon Web Services to optimize hybrid IT infrastructure deployments via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). BMC’s Business Service Management : (BSM) platform delivers a
unified approach to IT planning, control, compliance, automation and management for extending existing internal IT infrastructures to cloud environments.
“Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a comprehensive set of infrastructure services that meet the high demands of our customers,” said Terry Wise, director of Business Development for Amazon Web Services. “Together with BMC, we are providing mutual customers with a flexible and scalable way to extend and manage enterprise class solutions to the cloud.”
Tim Grieser, vice president for System Management Software at IDC, said.
“Enterprises want the flexibility to leverage existing internal resources and cloud resources as needed to meet changing business needs and reduce capital costs. To be effective, the cloud infrastructure must be managed and controlled in harmony with existing IT infrastructures.”
Working with BMC, IT organizations will be able to extend their internal datacenters to Amazon EC2 via a unified, integrated BSM management solution. Enterprise customers can request computing resources – either internal (physical or virtual) or external from Amazon EC2 – through an integrated self-service portal. Those requests are tracked through BMC’s robust ITIL®-compliant change management system and automatically provisioned and configured in minutes. This self-service interface also supports service de-provisioning and service change requests.
Asset association and tracking of Amazon EC2 resources are integrated with BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database : , and configuration compliance is enforced. The integrated solution supports both pre-existing Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) as well as dynamic AMI creation. BMC enables customers to holistically manage physical, virtual and cloud environments, further reducing cost and complexity through an integrated and unified set of management solutions.
“The need for a strong management focus is increasingly important as enterprise organizations leverage external cloud resources to augment their existing infrastructures,” said Kia Behnia : , chief technology officer for BMC’s Enterprise Service Management business unit. “Our BSM platform is designed to enable organizations to request, orchestrate and provision capacity across their existing internal IT resources and clouds in minutes.”
Grieser added: “BMC’s management solutions support IT process governance while at the same time addressing key cloud management requirements including unified physical and virtual management, provisioning and automation.”
For more information about how BMC is leveraging its BSM platform to manage cloud environments, read the press release titled, BMC Software Brings the Power of Business Service Management to Enterprise Cloud Computing : .
For more information about BMC’s cloud computing offerings, visit: www.bmc.com/cloud : .
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The most demanding IT organizations in the world rely on BMC Software across both distributed and mainframe environments. Recognized as the leader in Business Service Management,
BMC’s comprehensive approach and unified platform help IT organizations cut cost, reduce risk and drive business profit. For the four fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2009, BMC revenue was approximately $1.87 billion. Visit www.bmc.com : for more information.
Google’s Chrome operating system (OS) will operate on and allow immediate access to Web-based applications, which prominently includes the company’s cloud computing offerings. The OS will be designed to work originally with netbooks, providing what is being called an “Internet-based experience”, and will be expanded thereafter to laptops and desktops. CSC announced plans to resell Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) while providing all Level 1 and 2 support for the included products. They will also offer a mix of BPOS hosted by Microsoft, the version hosted in CSC’s “Trusted Cloud” and their already existing email management services as a multifaceted, cost-saving option.
After much speculation, it appears that the pricing of Microsoft Azure’s services could be up to 10% less than the cost of using Amazon Web Services. Industry sources have stated that Microsoft will “charge per 10 gigabyte database units, with other fees based on bandwidth and query activity.”
This guest post from Jonathan Sapir discusses the cloud computing revolution, including how the technology removes the boundaries previously enforced by IT and how the idea of users servicing themselves becomes more realistic with every day. t the HotCloud ‘09 conference in San Diego, CA, numerous groups made proposals in an effort to battle significant cloud computing issues. The IT Knowledge Exchange presents this free chapter excerpt from Power in the Cloud by Jonathan Sapir. The next step in IBM’s cloud computing strategy will be to offer business analytics tools as part of its services. Having these tools off-site will offer companies an opportunity to host and analyze large amounts of data elsewhere.
Interoperability is about a frictionless and reliable set of standards to allow users to write once/run anywhere so they can build applications and deploy them internally to Amazon.com, RackSpace or you get the picture. Interoperability is not automation, but it dramatically eases the automation process. Workload redistribution is about being able to move an existing process from one cloud to another in a seamless and relatively quick set of steps. It relies on interoperability, but it goes beyond that with a set of tools to enable users to move their workloads to the cloud environment that makes the most sense for financial, performance or other reasons. Tools are being developed to support this. Cloudkick is a Y Combinator-funded company with support for Amazon Web Services and Slicehost that is working on Cloudshift, a multicloud migration tool.
Another startup that may be working on something for workload management is CloudSwitch, which claims to move workloads back and forth within the enterprise, as opposed to the concept of a cloudburst, which implies a unidirectional flow. Monitoring and scaling automation for clouds is a bit more mature, with RightScale leading the pack. IBM and Hewlett-Packard are also adding cloud monitoring to their systems management suites. The cloud automation space is likely to be very interesting for the foreseeable future, and based on the comments of OSCON attendees, the demand is real.
In high tech as elsewhere, it’s often a matter of historical accident and political maneuvering that determines which approach wins out in a particular area of technology. And it can be a high-stakes game for the companies involved, with big players often seeking to position their approach as a “standard” even if it’s only standard in the sense of being ubiquitous (think Microsoft Windows) while the smaller guys tend to favor approaches blessed by standards bodies or at least industry corsortia. In cloud computing, we’re seeing almost all the forms of standards-making coming into play with the primary goal of promoting interoperability among different cloud service providers and between private and public clouds. On the de jure side, the most significant standards-making effort is taking place under the auspices of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), an established organization in the management standards space. AMD, Cisco, Citrix, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, Savvis, Sun Microsystems, and VMware announced in April 2009 (PDF) that they would comprise the board for an Open Cloud Standards Incubator within the DMTF.
And it’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) that has clearly emerged as the de facto standard for IaaS. The fact that Amazon is one of the first vendors that comes to mind in just about any discussion of public clouds is one indication. Another is the growing ecosystem of companies like RightScale that add additional features to AWS–not uniquely, but first and foremost. We now even have an open-source project and company, Eucalyptus, that lets organizations implement their own clouds that are compatible with many AWS services. This announcement doesn’t fundamentally change the landscape. However, it does give an already well-established IaaS vendor a point of clear differentiation from its biggest competitor.
