Friday 03 September 2010
BTC Logic today announced the availability of its innovative “Consulting as a Service” (“CaaS”) offering comprised of highly scalable and agile teams of business, technology and creative professionals required to thrive on disruptions emanating from Cloud Computing and Web 3.0.
BTC Logic’s CaaS service is aimed at organizations that are emerging from recent cost reductions to now wanting to rapidly harness emerging growth opportunities or to quickly retool their offerings and go-to-market approaches. BTC Logic offers such firms the opportunity to scale up required resources immediately without a lengthy hiring process.
Johannes Hoech, a BTC Logic Partner and Co-Founder, said: “Information technology is being transformed by two major trends: Cloud Computing and Web 3.0. Emulating the on-demand availability of cloud services, we are pioneering ‘Consulting as a Service’ to help firms rapidly launch new products or drive new demand.” Charlton Barreto, BTC Logic’s Technology Strategist, added that by “taking an integrated view of Cloud Computing and Web 3.0, coupled with rigorous assessments of user needs, economic opportunities, and security and privacy issues, we help our clients create realistic opportunities to innovate.”
About Cloud Computing and Web 3.0 - Cloud computing is comprised of a set of strategies, approaches, and technologies related to innovative methods of more efficient infrastructure utilization. Web 3.0 refers to the next evolution of launching, using, and managing applications by enabling users to use rich media more effectively and by assembling mash-ups of applications that meet their individual needs. Together these two trends refer to a new era of interacting with end-users through small, fast applications that can easily be pieced together into larger services with highly customized functionality. Services that run on - and are distributed virally to - any device, and that access their data in the cloud anytime and anywhere.
About BTC Logic - BTC Logic employs proven methodologies to harness technology disruptions like Cloud Computing and Web 3.0. Inspired by the on-demand availability of cloud services, BTC Logic is pioneering “Consulting as a Service” by offering highly scalable, inter-disciplinary teams of the business, technology, and creative professionals required to drive growth. BTC Logic’s innovative offerings have been actively serving clients since mid-year, and are available effective immediately on a broader basis.
To learn more about BTC Logic, visit www.btclogic.com. For additional information contact Meghan O’Leary or visit http://www.btclogic.com/contact/main.cfm.
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BTC Logic is an inter-disciplinary team of business, technology, and creative professionals. We employ a unique and proven methodology to harness technology disruptions like Cloud Computing that enable an organization to scale for growth. Inspired by the flexibility and On Demand availability of Web 3.0 services, BTC Logic is pioneering Consulting as a Service by offering a virtual, highly scalable and mobile mash-up of the expert team members required to create growth. Our services are broad and include: Precision Segmentation, Demand Generation, Brand Refresh, and Cloud Strategy, among others. To learn more about BTC Logic, visit us at www.btclogic.com.
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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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MEEZA, the Qatar based provider of Managed IT Services and Solutions, is sponsoring the 1st Cloud Computing & SaaS Summit in the Middle East, as part of its commitment to supporting the development of world class IT infrastructure across the region.
Hosted in Dubai on November 17-19, the Cloud Computing and SaaS Summit, will provide valuable learning opportunities for IT professionals concerning the many benefits this emerging trend offers businesses across the region.
As a major regional gathering of IT thought leaders, the event will provide excellent knowledge sharing and networking opportunities for MEEZA’s executives, whilst building relationships with potential partners.
Dr. Jaouad Alkhaliki, Director of MEEZA Labs, is one of the key speakers at the event and will deliver a presentation entitled ‘Demystifying Cloud Computing’. The presentation will reveal how Cloud Computing was developed, introduce the benefits of Cloud Computing, and describe how businesses can get the most out of this new technology.
MEEZA has been recognized as one of the region’s leading providers of Cloud Services. The benefits for businesses include access to robust IT infrastructure and the latest applications without having to bear the high costs of ownership and maintenance.
“Cloud Computing offers real and practical IT solutions to new and existing businesses, especially to those in the region’s emerging SME sectors. With the Gulf region perfectly positioned to adopt new IT models, now is the ideal time to bring together IT professionals and thought leaders to talk about Cloud Computing and SaaS,” Dr. Jaouad said.
The participation of MEEZA in the event further enhances the company’s reputation as a provider of innovative and high quality IT services and solutions across the region. MEEZA has recently been expanding its outreach to regional markets by sponsoring a key IT banking industry event in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
MEEZA’s portfolio of high profile clients in Qatar currently include Masraf Al Rayan, Vodafone Qatar, DOHALAND, the Qatar Ministry of Environment and Sidra.
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The Rackspace® Cloud, the cloud computing division of Rackspace Hosting, today announced that Posterous, the popular blogging service, has chosen the company’s comprehensive portfolio of cloud services to support its rapidly growing computing power and storage requirements.
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Posterous gives users an easy way to create high quality blogs without the headache of manually maintaining it themselves. Members can simply update their page with text, pictures or video by sending it directly to an email address and Posterous does the rest. This automated approach to blogging has helped to drive the company’s growth since its launch last year.
“We built a dead simple application for everyone – from geeks to soccer moms – to share thoughts, pictures and videos, and we needed a cost effective hosting solution to run it,” said Sachin Agarwal, Co-Founder of Posterous. “We had turned to The Rackspace Cloud for affordability, the ability to spin up new servers in seconds, uptime and for Fanatical Support. We’ve been so happy with the service that we have now made the decision to switch to Rackspace Cloud Files, from Amazon’s S3, for our new storage needs.”
The Rackspace Cloud reduces IT infrastructure complexity and expense for Posterous by offering the ability to instantly expand compute power during times of high demand. As an example, when the new iPhone 3G S became available, Posterous saw a 400% increase in video uploads from their users. The Rackspace Cloud helped Posterous handle the load with ease, transcoding all the videos and rapidly preparing them for online viewing.
Posterous utilizes The Rackspace Cloud to power all their compute operations, starting with email processing. When a blog post is sent to Posterous in an email to post@posterous.com, virtual server instances handle the processing required to convert the content to the appropriate format and ship it to the database, which is also powered by Rackspace server instances. In addition, Posterous leverages The Rackspace Cloud as application servers for the frontend Ruby on Rails application that presents user content in a blog-style format for visitors.
The Rackspace Cloud helps developers and IT managers – from startups, like Posterous, to enterprises – minimize the hassles, upfront investments and high costs associated with dedicated hardware while offering the ability to easily scale hosting resources.
“Our commitment to remove the hassles, complexity and expense of IT infrastructure complements Posterous’ vision. They make blogging easy, and we make hosting easy,” said Emil Sayegh, general manager, The Rackspace Cloud. “Posterous, like other customers, are coming to The Rackspace Cloud because we make IT tasks simple through our technology and award winning Fanatical Support.”
Posterous continues to try to drive growth by offering new capabilities and content such as the recent launch of background themes for blogs. Later this year, Posterous reports that they intend to begin storing all new media sent to post@posterous.com, including photos, MP3s, documents and videos, on Cloud Files, the unlimited storage offering from The Rackspace Cloud.
About Posterous
Posterous, founded in 2008, is a blogging platform that helps users post content online fast and easy using email. The fast growing service supports any file type including video and speeds the blogging process by autoposting content in attractive galleries and formats.
About The Rackspace Cloud
The Rackspace Cloud provides on-demand scalable website, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support®. Through its suite of cloud solutions, Cloud Sites™, Cloud Files™ and Cloud Servers™, The Rackspace Cloud enables astute developers and IT managers to minimize the hassles, upfront investments and high costs associated with dedicated hardware while offering the ability to easily scale hosting resources. For more information about The Rackspace Cloud, visit www.rackspacecloud.com or call 1-877-934-0409.
About Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace Hosting is the world’s leader in hosting and cloud computing and is ranked #43 on FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to work for in the United States for 2009. Rackspace provides its customers with Fanatical Support ® in delivering their portfolio of hosted IT services, including Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing and Email and Apps. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
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A majority of executives polled by Deloitte
(60.9 percent) believe cloud computing will be a transformative technology in
the industry and can drive financial benefits, or at least be useful for
certain kinds of enterprise services. The executives were polled recently
during the Deloitte webcast, “Cloud Computing in the Enterprise: Not If, But
When and How?”
Cloud computing enthusiasm was somewhat tempered by executives’ concern over
security and privacy, as 34.6 percent cited these issues as the largest
considerations for adopting cloud computing in their organizations. In
addition, 22.1 percent of respondents identified data controls and ownership,
as well as audit and assurance, as key adoption issues.
“Adoption and demand for cloud services is growing as companies see a real
revolution happening on the business side. Expectations for agility and
flexibility in business operations have grown in response to the downturn, and
in preparation for what comes next,” said Mark White, principal, Deloitte
Consulting LLP and the webcast moderator.
White added, “Cloud services create the possibility of rapid business model
innovation, improved service levels and new ways of controlling costs.
Executives can also realize financial benefits, including reduced capital
expenditures. In addition, business leaders responding to the poll clearly
articulated security and data privacy issues as near-horizon hurdles to their
viable cloud adoption strategy.”
Other polling results included:
– Only 3.8 percent believed cloud computing would have no real
short-term
impact and that it is overhyped.
– Roughly a quarter of respondents (22.7 percent) believed information
technology (IT) servers and storage are the areas that offer the
greatest potential for optimization using cloud computing, followed by
IT outsourcing and technology services (17.9 percent) and enterprise
software/ERP (17.5 percent).
Chris Weitz, director, Deloitte Consulting LLP, also explained during the
webcast how cloud computing can offer opportunities for new business models in
the IT industry, including:
– Enterprise information technology (IT) services can become a commodity
resource, which can be resold from enterprises to third parties.
– Cloud-based consortiums can combine to present themselves as a larger
market presence
– Brokers and aggregators will offer “two-way” markets for cloud
computing
resources among enterprises.
“Cloud computing is emerging through the convergence of a variety of trends in
information technology — utility computing, virtualization and IT service
management model,” said John Hagel, co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the
Edge. “Today, it is generally viewed as an attractive new form of low cost IT
outsourcing that can also help to turn a fixed cost into a more scalable
variable cost. Looking ahead, though, our research indicates that the
evolution of cloud computing will generate four waves of expanding disruption.
These can be driven by a complex interplay of segments of customers with unmet
business needs, evolving cloud computing capabilities and new sets of
providers emerging to deliver these capabilities.”
Hagel also noted that because cloud computing has the potential to create
significant opportunity for new forms of strategic advantage, both on the
provider and subscriber side, it is critical for companies to engage early to
build capability and to aggressively pursue the disruptive potential.
To hear the webcast please, visit: www.deloitte.com/us/dbriefs/futurete.
About the Polling
The polling responses came from more than 750 technology executives ranging
from upper management to consultant across multiple industries responded to
the polling questions during Deloitte’s webcast on October 1.
About Deloitte
As used in this document, “Deloitte” means Deloitte Consulting LLP and
Deloitte Services LP, separate subsidiaries of Deloitte LLP. Please see
www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of
Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries.
John La Place Charles Zinkowski
Public Relations Hill & Knowlton
Deloitte +1 212 885 0630
+1 212 492 4267 charles.zinkowski@hillandknowlton.com
jlaplace@deloitte.com
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
* and more…
For more information visit
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3313de/cloud_computing_a
Research and Markets
Laura Wood, Senior Manager,
press@researchandmarkets.com
U.S. Fax: 646-607-1907
Fax (outside U.S.): +353-1-481-1716
Carpathia Hosting
Carpathia Hosting, the leading provider of enterprise managed hosting services for government agencies and businesses, announced today it will begin offering managed cloud solutions in its Phoenix Datacenter. The addition of cloud services bolsters Carpathia’s colocation, bandwidth and managed services already delivered in the Phoenix datacenter.
In the Phoenix facility, Carpathia Hosting will offer the first managed cloud designed for enterprises: Carpathia AlwaysOn/InstantOn™. This hybrid model, which is already available in Carpathia Hosting’s Blue Ridge Datacenter in Harrisonburg, Va., is the first of its kind, enabling customers to seamlessly augment their colocated or dedicated infrastructure with instantly available, shared-infrastructure, therefore improving IT performance and value. The hybrid approach of pairing Carpathia’s cloud platform with colocation and managed services allows customers to take advantage of the best attributes of each, without operationally separating those technology solutions as Carpathia Hosting’s competitors do.
“Enterprise customers in the Phoenix datacenter can now benefit from Carpathia’s cloud-based services without having to abandon their dedicated infrastructure. Our approach allows them to have both, thus ensuring they don’t have to worry about weakening security or lowering availability,” said Philip Hedlund, General Manager of Carpathia Hosting’s Phoenix datacenter.
Carpathia’s cloud platform is used to deliver a number of datacenter optimizations services, including cloud bursting, elastic computing and disaster recovery solutions. The Phoenix cloud deployment allows these and other services to be delivered with geographic diversity, enabling customers to be in production in any of Carpathia Hosting’s northern Virginia facilities, while utilizing Phoenix as a disaster recovery (DR) location or vice-versa.
“As a result of the success we’ve had with our managed approach to cloud in the Blue Ridge Datacenter, we are excited to be able to expand our unique cloud solutions into the Phoenix market,” said Jon Greaves, Chief Technology Officer at Carpathia Hosting.
For more information on Carpathia’s Phoenix cloud and to be among the first in Phoenix to benefit from it, visit http://carpathiahosting.com/cloud.
About Carpathia Hosting, Inc.
Carpathia Hosting is a leading provider of enterprise managed hosting services supporting a worldwide customer base including government agencies, large enterprises and small-to-medium businesses in nine datacenters across the United States and Canada. Founded in 2003, Carpathia Hosting is a growing, profitable business run by a seasoned management team with deep experience in managed services and colocation. Its suite of services is designed for organizations seeking scalable, secure, robust and enterprise-grade hosting solutions that can be quickly provisioned or tailored to meet unique requirements. As a datacenter-neutral company, Carpathia Hosting is quickly becoming the hosting company of choice for companies that demand security, quality and high performance. Contact Carpathia Hosting at 1.888.200.9494, or visit http://www.carpathiahosting.com for more information.
I would never go back to the [traditional] software model. Someone would have to make a very compelling argument for me to even consider it,” said Molly Fuller, president of Hands On Gourmet in San Francisco. Fuller said she struggled for a year with an on-premise software suite designed for catering companies before abandoning her investment in Caterease and switching to Salesforce.com’s hosted customer relationship management (CRM) products. Fuller said hosted services were attractive because they were available everywhere and because they were maintenance-free. She said she uses Salesforce.com to generate menus and logistics for the $1.5 million business, and the online interface allows Hands On Gourmet’s roving squads of chef-instructors, who host cooking classes for corporate events, to get instructions fairly easily. The on-demand pricing made it easy for Hands On Gourmet to switch to Salesforce.com, Fuller said. Although she wouldn’t go back, Fuller said, she didn’t regret her initial use of an in-house product. “I didn’t feel burned by it; I just chalked it up to a lesson.
Corefino’s entire business is in the cloud. CEO Karen Watts said her firm used IBM to host its servers. Corefino’s Web portal serves customers in China and employees in India and elsewhere. Watts said that vendors were as eager as her customers to slough off infrastructure costs to hosters and cloud providers. Market research firm IDC estimated that SaaS spending will jump more than $1.2 billion in 2009 and predicted that it would be close to $20 billion by 2012. Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC, said that spending on cloud technologies, primarily SaaS, was rising five times faster than any other IT spending by companies.
As time progresses, analyst firms foresee the cloud becoming more prevalent, absorbing functions traditionally done by IT. IDC predicts that worldwide IT spending on cloud services will grow almost threefold by 2012 to $42 billion. Gartner has even predicted that, for IT, cloud computing will become as influential as e-business has been. Any large-scale shift to cloud computing is a decade or more away, says Gartner analyst Ben Pring. “For now I look at software as a service [Saas] and cloud computing as an extension of the company’s network, not a replacement,” says Kim Terry, president of Terrosa Technologies, which helps software vendors make their wares available through the cloud. “In most organization, it’s likely to be five years before anyone is ready to change out a company’s financial systems
The cloud will create a few jobs, at first In the short term, cloud computing today may actually create some IT jobs, says James Staten, a principal analyst at Forrester Research. The reason: Today, cloud computing is mostly used for new applications. Some percentage of the jobs actually performing infrastructure services, monitoring, and datacenter operations in-house will shift to cloud service providers like Google, Amazon, and the telcos,” says Mark McDonald, Gartner’s group vice president of executive programs. But if you’re able to get one of these jobs, in many cases it’s a skill set that is less technical and more managerial and administrative, with days full of conference calls and putting out fires.
As dependency on cloud services grows, identity management becomes a greater challenge. If you use Constant Contact for email, Salesforce for CRM, someone else for accounting, etc. do you have to have different IDs for each? What about password policies? What about divergent security policies? Access to the infrastructure itself is often difficult using traditional ID management solutions. Host intrusion detection systems (HIDS) work fine on cloud infrastructure, but are hard to do at higher levels of the stack. Network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) are impossible to do at most providers. The traditional notion of “perimeter” is not necessarily available in the cloud.
Audit controls at the infrastructure layer are often weak. They don’t exist at all at the platform or service levels. There aren’t many options for write-once data stores. Getting PCI level 1 compliance requires combining the cloud service (like AWS) with a specific vendor who provides a PCI compliant service (like Aria). On the other hand, the cloud makes it possible to have a proven disaster recovery plan. Cloud computing can alter the dynamics of application availability and the ability to develop solid disaster recovery procedures. For example, you can do daily automated testing of your procedures and have a fully redundant capability at nearly zero cost.
