Friday 03 September 2010
The expanded services give enterprises the option to outsource the management of mission-critical applications to Host.net without making a capital investment in their own servers, significantly reducing costs by sharing network resources. The new service, available immediately, utilizes existing Fairway Consulting Group infrastructure including best-of-breed virtualization technologies. Key Fairway executives have also joined Host.net, providing virtual computing expertise as well as paving the way for development of new joint services. Fairway has provided compute, storage and desktop virtualization services to the SMB and enterprise markets, including Fortune 500 clients, since 2004.
The demand for cloud computing is exploding because of the economics. We have been planning to expand our services to include virtualization for some time,” said Jeffrey Davis, co-founder and CEO of Host.net. “Acquiring Fairway Consulting Group enables us to ramp up quickly, leverage our 50-city footprint, and offer robust, cost-effective cloud computing capabilities that have been road-tested by some of the country’s most demanding companies. We were already using Host.net’s colocation services. It made sense to join forces,” said Jeffrey Slapp, co-founder, president and chief architect of Fairway Consulting Group and now Vice President of Virtualization Services of Host.net.
President Obama has called for slashing federal IT infrastructure costs by relying on cloud computing, a process where agencies pay for Internet access to shared hardware and software that is housed in an off-site data center. One of those sites could be NASA. Officials at the space agency and the Office of Management and Budget have “broached the idea of NASA becoming an IT service provider,” said Mike Hecker, NASA’s associate chief information officer for architecture and infrastructure. But, “NASA as an IT service provider takes us into a new realm. We’re still debating if that’s a good idea or not. NASA is developing a cloud computing model, called Nebula, to support some of its projects. For example, the agency uses Nebula to share NASA images and statistics with international partners and academic institutions. The system provides high-capacity computing, storage and network connectivity.
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, Obama’s top technology executive, is examining many alternatives for innovation in the cloud, including using Nebula as a centralized platform to service multiple agencies, OMB officials said. Chris Kemp, CIO at NASA’s Ames Research Center, who is spearheading the program, is working with the federal government’s cloud working group. The primary goal of concentrating IT operations is to improve IT security, Hecker said. Collaboration among employees and cost-cutting also are important objectives.
The expanded services give enterprises the option to outsource the management of mission-critical applications to Host.net without making a capital investment in their own servers, significantly reducing costs by sharing network resources. The new service, available immediately, utilizes existing Fairway Consulting Group infrastructure including best-of-breed virtualization technologies. Key Fairway executives have also joined Host.net, providing virtual computing expertise as well as paving the way for development of new joint services. Fairway has provided compute, storage and desktop virtualization services to the SMB and enterprise markets, including Fortune 500 clients, since 2004.
The demand for cloud computing is exploding because of the economics. We have been planning to expand our services to include virtualization for some time,” said Jeffrey Davis, co-founder and CEO of Host.net. “Acquiring Fairway Consulting Group enables us to ramp up quickly, leverage our 50-city footprint, and offer robust, cost-effective cloud computing capabilities that have been road-tested by some of the country’s most demanding companies. We were already using Host.net’s colocation services. It made sense to join forces,” said Jeffrey Slapp, co-founder, president and chief architect of Fairway Consulting Group and now Vice President of Virtualization Services of Host.net. “Integrating our infrastructures will give customers a single source for colocation, Metro Ethernet, 1Mbps to 10GB Internet access, multinational transport, managed security, managed VoIP, disaster recovery and virtual hosting services.
SpamTitan, a leading producer of email security solutions, today announces its exciting new cloud computing initiative with VMware to deliver on-demand email security virtual appliances in the cloud. This makes good business sense as Anti-Spam filtering has fast become a commodity application, and commodity applications are logical expenses to outsource versus managing within ones own IT infrastructure. Businesses small and large are embracing cloud computing for inbound email filtering such as handling Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus cleansing of high volumes of incoming mail.
It ensures customers have the opportunity to use email security and anti-spam solutions in the cloud, not in the SaaS model but as their own dedicated on demand application — benefiting from the redundancy, scalability and failover associated with virtualization and cloud computing.” SpamTitan’s unique approach in utilizing next-generation virtualization software eliminates the need for unwieldy hardware, giving customers unparalleled flexibility, versatility and capability but at an affordable price. Integrating best of breed technologies, SpamTitan provides an easy to install, easy to manage and highly secure email gateway. SpamTitan, a division of CopperFasten, is a global company with headquarters in Galway, Ireland. For further information visit, www.spamtitan.com.
SpamTitan for VMware is a complete operating system and virtual email security software suite designed to run on VMware that enables businesses to run SpamTitan on any server irrespective of the operating system. Users can simply click a link to automatically generate a SpamTitan virtual appliance in the cloud as well as having log on access to explore their own SpamTitan application.
