Sunday 14 March 2010
Terremark
Terremark Worldwide, Inc., a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced it is the first service provider to offer hosting services for SAP® solutions on its cloud computing platform. Through its innovative Enterprise Cloud infrastructure, Terremark will be able to leverage its secure, top-tier data centers with access to massive and diverse network connectivity to provide customers a new, cost-effective model for hosting their SAP solutions in a live production environment.
“Terremark’s hosting services will offer several benefits to both small and large SAP customers,” said Michael Ressemann, global head of BPO Solution Delivery and Partner Enablement at SAP. “Our partnership with Terremark will provide customers the ability to experience significant cost savings, while not having to sacrifice the reliability of their hosted SAP applications.”
Powered by the VMware virtualization platform, the Enterprise Cloud allows customers to dynamically provision servers for their SAP solutions from a pre-allocated pool of dedicated computing resources. The Enterprise Cloud also provides a flexible “burst mode” that allows clients to access additional computing power as needed. Customers can also access Terremark’s managed security services, which protect the business-critical applications running in customer environments with a variety of highly sophisticated security measures, including comprehensive vulnerability assessments, log aggregation and event correlation, network session flow analysis, attack replay, and application firewall management.
“We are actively leveraging Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud to offer comprehensive solutions to users of SAP solutions,” said Dean Adamopoulos, CEO of Protera Technologies, one of the leading providers of hosting and consulting services in support of SAP solutions for Fortune 1000 clients worldwide. “As an SAP-certified provider of application management services, it was vital for us to find a cloud solution that met all of the requirements for reliability and security that our clients demand.”
At the center of Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud is an easy-to-use web application that allows customers to configure and provision servers in minutes, grouped and organized according to role, and dynamically extend their available resources according to utilization. A variety of preconfigured server roles are available across Microsoft Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris operating systems. Plug-and-play bandwidth on demand is available from more than 160 global carriers.
“As cloud computing continues to gain momentum in the marketplace, the ability to deliver business -critical applications like SAP solutions is key to helping customers fully leverage the cloud,” said Dan Chu, vice president, emerging products and markets, VMware. “Supporting an SAP solution landscape that anticipates peak demand can require significant compute resources, which may be underutilized during normal load periods. So we’re excited that Terremark, a VMware vCloud partner, is working with SAP to provide our joint customers cost-effective, secure on-demand access to SAP solutions, leveraging technology that dynamically expands computing power only as needed. This collaboration allows customers to reduce total cost of ownership and to shift their focus toward business innovation and driving faster solutions to their business problems, instead of managing infrastructures.”
“Our commitment to continuously adding more and more innovative capabilities to our platform helps to maintain the Enterprise Cloud’s leadership position in the cloud computing marketplace,” said Marvin Wheeler, Terremark’s COO and president of the U.S. Commercial Business Unit. “We’re excited about the additional opportunities we believe will arise from our unique ability to offer hosting of SAP solutions from the pre-eminent enterprise-class cloud computing platform.”
Database in the Cloud
Joyent, the leading vendor in Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing, announced today that it is taking the proven performance and reliability of Sun Microsystems’ MySQL database to a whole new level by offering optimizations to the Joyent Cloud for MySQL. Joyent and Sun’s database group have teamed up to create Virtual Appliance templates for MySQL.
Joyent’s Virtual Appliance for MySQL is configured to maximize the open source database’s performance on Joyent’s powerful, secure and stable virtualization technology. Performance benchmarks (http://www.joyent.com/mysql) demonstrate that Joyent’s Virtual Appliance for MySQL can deliver 3 times the number of Transactions per Second than comparable deployments of XEN-based clouds, such as Amazon’s EC2.
“Running Read-Only tests, our internal benchmarks show that a 1GB Virtual Appliance for MySQL in the Joyent cloud can perform 1,245 transactions per second with 8 threads,” said Jason Hoffman, Joyent CTO and Founder. “A more expensive 7.5 GB large instance on Amazon EC2 only manages 425 transactions per second with the same 8 threads.”
Joyent has made it easy to launch a Virtual Appliance for MySQL as a single instance or as part of a Web-scale architecture.
“MySQL is pre-installed and optimized on the Joyent Cloud,” said Hoffman. “From the minute you get your login credentials, you are ready to go: deployment could not be easier. Dual-Master or Master-Slave configurations will also soon be available as pre-defined architectures.”
The Joyent Virtual Appliance for MySQL is available based on a typical cloud model. Users can scale up and down when they need to — and pay for only the infrastructure they use. There are no contracts to lock-in users. Additionally, the Joyent Virtual Appliance for MySQL Enterprise is fully supported by the MySQL database experts at Sun.
“MySQL is the most-used database in today’s Cloud environments,” said Rich Nigro, MySQL Managed Hosting Business Manager, Sun Microsystems. “We are delighted to see that Joyent is making this dedicated MySQL offering available to users of the popular Joyent Cloud.”
The Joyent Cloud has many customers benefiting from MySQL, and there are several case studies of how the optimized implementation has driven application performance, operational stability and value.
“Context Optional provides scalable solutions for brand marketing across social networks like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter,” said Rafi Jacoby, Director of Engineering at Context Optional. “We’ve built and deployed viral applications for Kraft, Toyota, McDonald’s, MTV/Viacom, and many other Fortune 500 brands using MySQL running on the Joyent Cloud. We’ve been impressed with performance and uptime, with several databases having run more than a billion queries with no downtime.”
MySQL is the most popular open source database software in the world. Many of the world’s largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites, critical business systems, communications networks, and commercial software. At http://www.mysql.com, Sun provides corporate users with premium subscriptions and services, and actively supports the large MySQL open source developer community.
About Joyent, Inc.
Joyent is a vendor of ‘Infrastructure as a Service’ (IaaS), a.k.a Cloud Computing. Joyent provides a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to buying and running your own IT infrastructure, while still providing all the security, cost stability, and enterprise-grade performance of a dedicated private data center. The Joyent Cloud is built using the company’s unique networking and virtualization technology, the Joyent Accelerator. Joyent’s shared hosting, virtual appliances, free developer programs and Cloud Computing products leverage the Joyent Accelerator to provide our customers with unparalleled Cloud Computing performance and value.
Joyent was founded in 2004 with a seed investment from co-founder and CEO David Young and Pay Pal co-founder Peter Thiel. Since then, Joyent has grown organically and has been completely funded by revenue. Joyent’s customers include LinkedIn, Major League Baseball, Gilt.com, Facebook, and 20,000 other companies ranging from small development shops to large Fortune 500 enterprise users. Joyent powers 25% of the daily application traffic on Facebook. www.joyent.com
Autonomy Corporation
Autonomy Corporation plc, a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise, today announced a new solution designed to allow marketers to quickly and easily build and test website landing pages in a secure, hosted environment. The Autonomy Optimized Landing Page solution combines leading web content management and multivariable testing (MVT) capabilities in one easy-to-use interface, and leverages Autonomy’s strength as the premier provider of private cloud computing applications.
Marketers today demand solutions that allow them to move quickly to take advantage of immediate business opportunities, continually test and optimize their landing pages, and stay within budget. Businesses require easy-to-use tools in order to rapidly build landing pages that can maximize the impact of email campaigns, keyword purchases, online advertising, and SEO initiatives. Once the pages are created, marketers want to continually optimize their campaigns in order to make sure these leads convert. This process requires a single interface that empowers a marketer to quickly create compelling landing pages without IT.
The Autonomy Optimized Landing Page solution overcomes these challenges by delivering a solution that leverages Autonomy’s unique strengths. In April of this year, Autonomy Interwoven announced (http://www.autonomy.com/content/News/Releases/2009/0414a.en.html) the industry’s first solution to integrate online testing and web content management. Likewise, Autonomy is recognized as a leader in private cloud computing, with the world’s largest hosted data archive at over 10 petabytes. By combining these capabilities into one solution, marketers can move at the speed of now to cost-effectively launch and continuously improve online campaigns.
The Autonomy Optimized Landing Page solution leverages the following capabilities:
- Autonomy TeamSite and LiveSite - provide a graphical
drag-and-drop WYSIWYG authoring interface with reusable landing page
templates and page building blocks for campaign pages, registration
pages and confirmation pages. Marketers can quickly and easily build,
edit, and rollout landing pages and marketing campaigns without any
assistance from IT.
- Autonomy Optimost - empowers marketers to easily create A/B
and multivariable tests for the optimal combination of content, offers,
and layout to maximize SEO, SEM, conversion rates, and online results
- Integrated web analytics - easily incorporate web analytics
on any landing page regardless of analytics tool.
- Autonomy’s enterprise-class cloud computing technology -
provides marketers with scalable, secure, 24×7 monitored access to
hosted offering to build and create landing pages.
“The Autonomy Optimized Landing Page solution places an extremely powerful, yet easy-to-use solution in the hands of marketers,” said Anthony Bettencourt, CEO of Autonomy Interwoven. “Whether they are looking to rapidly launch multiple campaigns or generate a better return on their SEO initiatives, this solution can play a key role in helping businesses drive new revenue. Additionally, given Autonomy’s reputation as the leading provider of WCM and cloud computing technologies, organizations can be assured they are investing in a secure, scalable, and proven technology that can grow with their business. The initial interest from customers is very exciting and we are confident this will become an essential element in a marketer’s web solutions arsenal.”
The Autonomy Optimized Landing Page solution is available now. Please visit http://www.interwoven.com/landingpagesolution to learn more.
Meaning Based Marketing Capabilities from Autonomy Interwoven:
Autonomy Interwoven recently announced several new offerings which combine Autonomy IDOL’s unique ability to understand the meaning behind all forms of information with Interwoven’s market-leading solutions for optimizing online business performance:
- Automatically listen, understand, and act on social media
sentiment
- Automatically segment, optimize, and deliver targeted content to
customers
- Automatically retrieve, analyze, and process rich media content
- Automatically guide, recommend, and optimize ecommerce sites
- Automatically understand and optimize multichannel customer
interactions
- Automatically archive dynamic web content for compliance
About Autonomy Interwoven
Autonomy Interwoven, the leader in web content management, leverages its unique meaning-based technology to deliver the most comprehensive suite of marketing optimization and customer interaction solutions. Our flagship products, TeamSite and Optimost, enable marketers to increase results by automatically delivering the right combination of content and offers by understanding the intentions and profile of each customer. This Meaning Based Marketing approach produces the most engaging, timely and profitable customer experiences regardless of whether people interact with your organization by phone, Web, email, chat, or social networks. Unlike legacy approaches that analyze historical trends, Autonomy Interwoven does not require tagging, enabling marketing and IT people to work on higher value activities.
Autonomy Interwoven powers the world’s leading corporate websites, media and ecommerce sites with 9 of the top 10 global brands relying on Autonomy Interwoven to maximize their marketing and customer interactions. Autonomy’s customer base is comprised of more than 20,000 organizations, including Adidas, Allstate, the American Medical Association, AT&T, Avaya, Bank of America, BT, Channel 4, Delta Air Lines, Discovery Communications, FedEx, Ford, Konica Minolta, Lenovo, McAfee, Qantas Airways, Schneider Electric, Shutterfly, Tesco and Virgin Mobile. Please visit http://www.autonomy.com/interwoven to learn more.
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The Red Consultancy (US)
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