Thursday 29 July 2010
New Relic, Inc., the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performance management solutions, and GoGrid, the Cloud Infrastructure Hosting service from ServePath Dedicated Hosting, today announced that New Relic RPM supports monitoring, troubleshooting and tuning of Java and Ruby web application deployed on GoGrid’s leading platform. Additionally, the companies announced that customers who select New Relic RPM to manage their GoGrid-hosted applications are eligible for preferential pricing.
With more than ten years of experience in enterprise-level data center hosting, GoGrid applies a unique understanding of uptime, security, and service level agreements to its public cloud offering. GoGrid goes beyond existing public cloud offerings by providing Hybrid hosting solutions that privately connect cloud front-ends with dedicated back-end infrastructures, as well as the ability to create and store customer images (MyGSIs). New Relic RPM is a leading on-demand application performance management that operates seamlessly in both cloud and dedicated server environments, making it uniquely suited to monitor, troubleshoot and tune web applications deployed on GoGrid’s cloud or hybrid infrastructures.
New Relic RPM is the only enterprise-class application management tool delivered as a service, and that automatically offers the same monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities for web applications deployed on both virtual and dedicated servers.
“Organizations taking advantage of GoGrid’s multi-tier cloud-computing platform have high expectations for performance and reliability,” said John Keagy, Co-Founder and CEO of GoGrid. “Working with New Relic to add application performance management as a complement to our robust infrastructure provides our customers with the very best combined solution for deploying and managing applications that successfully meet business needs.”
“As more and more companies deploy their applications with GoGrid, it’s especially important that they have a single performance management solution that they can use on-premise, in the cloud, and in hybrid environments,” said Bill Lapcevic, New Relic’s vice president of business development. “New Relic RPM is the only enterprise-class application management tool delivered as a service, and that automatically offers the same monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities for web applications deployed on both virtual and dedicated servers. Its a perfect fit for GoGrid’s customers.”
As part of the partnership between GoGrid and New Relic, GoGrid customers are eligible for a preferred partner discount on RPM pricing and a complementary trial of RPM Gold premium service. To take advantage of preferred pricing, GoGrid customers can visit New Relic’s GoGrid partner page, select a subscription level, then sign up for RPM. Discounts will be applied automatically.
About GoGrid
GoGrid is a leading Cloud Infrastructure Hosting provider that delivers true “Control in the Cloud™”. GoGrid enables sysadmins, developers, IT professionals and SaaS vendors to create, deploy, and control free f5 load balanced cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access and administrative server control which includes personal server images (known as MyGSIs). GoGrid server instances maintain the industry standard specifications with no requirement to learn and adapt to proprietary standards. Bringing up servers and server networks takes minutes via a unique, award winning web control panel or GoGrid’s API. GoGrid delivers portal controlled servers for Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, SQL Server, and ASP.NET, as well as multiple Linux server operating systems like RHEL and CentOS. GoGrid gives users the control of a familiar datacenter environment with the flexibility and immediate scalability of the cloud, a “cloudcenter.” To learn more, visit www.gogrid.com.
About New Relic RPM™
New Relic RPM is an on-demand performance management solution for web applications developed in Ruby, Java or JRuby. New Relic RPM is fully implemented in minutes and provides deep, 24×7 visibility and code-level diagnostics for web applications deployed on traditional, dedicated infrastructures, private and public clouds, or any combination thereof. RPM’s real-time metrics enable application owners, developers and operations teams to quickly and cost effectively monitor, troubleshoot, and tune application performance. To learn more about RPM and to subscribe, visit www.newrelic.com/get-RPM.html.
About New Relic®
New Relic, Inc. is the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performance management solutions that enable developers and operations teams to quickly and cost effectively monitor, troubleshoot, and tune application performance in real time. More than 3,200 organizations use New Relic RPM to monitor and optimize more than 35,000 production application instances, including customers 37signals, CSC, Getty Images, GitHub, Hot Topic Stores, Juniper Networks, Intuit, Linked In, Liz Claiborne, OurStage, Shopify, and Simon and Schuster; and partners Amazon AWS, Blue Box Group, Brightbox, Engine Yard, GoGrid, Heroku, Red Hat, RightScale, Stax Networks and VMware. New Relic is a private company headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA. To learn more about New Relic, visit www.newrelic.com/get-RPM.html”>www.newrelic.com.
NetApp
NetApp introduced new products and enhancements that uniquely complement VMware® vSphere™ 4 and VMware View™ to help customers optimise their desktop and cloud computing environments.
* Virtual Storage Console—Virtual Storage Console is a plug-in for VMware vCenter™ Server that enables IT administrators to manage and monitor NetApp® storage in VMware vSphere 4 environments, the industry-leading virtualization platform. Now customers can improve control of their cloud environments and centrally manage their server and storage infrastructure.
* SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure—SnapManager® for Virtual Infrastructure integrates with VMware environments and automates data protection polices for NetApp Snapshot™ and SnapMirror® features. Customers can now leverage an easy-to-use management tool for virtual machine backup and recovery and minimise backup time using NetApp Snapshot. Additionally, customers can instantly recover a datastore, virtual machine, virtual machine disk, or an individual file within a virtual guest.
* Rapid Cloning Utility—Rapid Cloning Utility, a vCenter plug-in, simplifies the way administrators clone VMware virtual machines and datastores, providing greater ease through automation. In conjunction with NetApp FlexClone®, a single image can be replicated hundreds of times in minutes while using almost no additional storage capacity. NetApp has also expanded support to Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN, giving customers greater choice in deploying the Rapid Cloning Utility across a range of storage environments and protocols.
Today’s announcement further highlights NetApp’s tight integration with the VMware platform, which already includes secure multi-tenancy with NetApp MultiStore® for secure partitioning of storage resources; NetApp Data Motion™, to move data non-disruptively across storage and server systems to enhance availability for both internal and external cloud customers; and NetApp MetroCluster, with new and unique capabilities for VMware High Availability (HA) to provide applications with continuous access to data.
NetApp Virtualization Quick Start Bundles Speed Virtualization Deployment
In addition to today’s product news, NetApp also introduced new Virtualization Quick Start Bundles to speed deployment with integrated storage, software, and networking components. The journey to a fully virtualized environment requires careful planning. With Virtualization Quick Start Bundles, NetApp has made it easier than ever before to rapidly deploy best-practice configurations for VMware vSphere 4 that include NetApp storage systems and software, Cisco Nexus network switches, and NetApp Professional Services to eliminate the guesswork when it comes to architecting the right solution. This POD-based design approach enables customers to easily scale incrementally to meet ever-changing business needs. Customers looking to deploy virtual desktops or virtualize Exchange, SQL® Server, SharePoint® , or any general-purpose application can get up and running quickly with confidence that they’ve made the right choice.
“VMware is at the forefront of helping customers simplify the management of data centres to enable cloud computing and the delivery of IT as a service, for which the provisioning, monitoring, and protection of storage are critical components,” said Parag Patel, vice president, Alliances, VMware. “Through integration with NetApp technologies and solutions, our joint customers can create flexible pools of compute, network, and storage resources that can be provisioned as needed to make IT as a service a reality.”
“Just as VMware vSphere 4 is the foundation for cloud computing, our customers are turning to NetApp as the storage platform of choice for building their cloud infrastructures,” said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions Marketing at NetApp. “NetApp uniquely complements VMware vSphere 4 and VMware View to enable customers to overcome the boundaries of conventional data centre architectures. Our long-standing partnership with VMware is helping customers maximise efficiency and improve data availability in their virtual environments. Our tight integration with VMware will continue to change the landscape of today’s data centres and provide our customers a path to cloud computing.”
Additional Resources
A joint NetApp and VMware vSphere Storage Best Practices technical report is now available documenting recommended implementation guidelines for VMware vSphere 4 and NetApp systems. In addition, a VMware white paper is available for Exchange Server deployment on VMware vSphere 4 and NetApp that provides performance results and recommended configurations.
For customers interested in NetApp MetroCluster and VMware HA, a new NetApp technical report is available that provides best practices for deploying jointly tested and supported highly available storage and server configurations for VMware vSphere 4 when business continuity is required. The technical report will be available in the NetApp library at http://www.netapp.com/us/library/technical-reports.html.
Further guidance on how to successfully design and architect a virtualized environment for Microsoft applications is now available at http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3785.pdf. This new Reference Architecture Design Guide illustrates how to virtualize Exchange, SQL Server, and Sharepoint on VMware vSphere 4, NetApp unified storage, and Cisco Nexus Unified Fabric.
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Cloud Computing division of ServePath, GoGrid
GoGrid, the Cloud Computing division of ServePath, today announced a strategic partnership with Stratonomic to offer Disaster Recovery (DR) in the cloud – Cloud Recovery™ - for hosted web applications. With Stratonomic and GoGrid, anyone can have an affordable, enterprise-level DR environment set up and available in the cloud.
The process of setting up a DR site is straight forward and easy. Stratonomic builds and maintains the DR environment in the GoGrid cloud. This includes configuring database replication, file system synchronization, and a monthly verification with an actual transaction that ensures the DR systems are fully operational and ready to take traffic. Stratonomic can also provide robust cloud hosting solutions that involve fully active secondary points of presence in the cloud utilizing global load balancing and hybrid cloud solutions, allowing companies to burst their peak traffic into the cloud sparing primary systems from being overloaded.
The GoGrid Cloud is an ideal on-ramp for companies looking to bolster their online presence, especially in conjunction with Stratonomic’s Disaster Recovery solution
Stratonomic’s DR solutions within GoGrid provide unparalleled and critical peace-of-mind for any CTO, IT Manager or SysAdmin, ensuring that sites are always available, even when the unthinkable happens.
Stratonomic is excited to partner with GoGrid a leader in cloud computing
GoGrid’s outstanding cloud server and network infrastructure coupled with Stratonomic’s unique Cloud Recovery solutions offer the best possible solution in Disaster Recovery.
Businesses typically agree that they want a Disaster Recovery solution but many are daunted by the high cost to setup and maintain a functioning DR site. In the past, DR implementation and management could cost nearly as much as your primary point of presence and can be a very expensive and time consuming an endeavor to create. The partnership between GoGrid and Stratonomic allows businesses to benefit from a DR solution that takes advantage of the elasticity of the GoGrid cloud. This means that businesses don’t have to manage additional server hardware resulting in substantial cost savings. Businesses only pay for what they use, making DR in the GoGrid cloud an effective and affordable DR solution.
“The GoGrid Cloud is an ideal on-ramp for companies looking to bolster their online presence, especially in conjunction with Stratonomic’s Disaster Recovery solution,” said John Keagy, CEO and Co-Founder of GoGrid. “Stratonomic’s DR solutions within GoGrid provide unparalleled and critical peace-of-mind for any CTO, IT Manager or SysAdmin, ensuring that sites are always available, even when the unthinkable happens.”
“Stratonomic is excited to partner with GoGrid a leader in cloud computing” said Ben Sharma, CEO and founder of Stratonomic. “GoGrid’s outstanding cloud server and network infrastructure coupled with Stratonomic’s unique Cloud Recovery solutions offer the best possible solution in Disaster Recovery.”
Cloud Recovery™ Plans start at only $349.99/month and, depending on the service, includes:
* Secondary data center location
* Database replication
* File system synchronization
* Dynamic DNS failover
* Global load balancing across primary and secondary sites
* Monthly verification test
* Monthly verification test report
* Verification server(s)
* 24 hour alert notification to your Web/IT team in the event of a disaster
* Primary site monitoring from 2 separate locations
For additional information about the partnership between GoGrid and Stratonomic, or to learn more about disaster recovery in the cloud please contact Michael Sheehan or visit us online at www.gogrid.com.
To learn more about Cloud Recovery™ on GoGrid, please join us on August 25, 2009 at 2:00pm ET for a Webinar on Cloud Disaster Recovery solutions, hosted by Stratonomic. To attend, please register at:
http://events.meetingbridge.com/Register/?EventCode=06123114570
About GoGrid – http://www.GoGrid.com
GoGrid is a leading Cloud Infrastructure Hosting provider that delivers true “Control in the Cloud™”. GoGrid enables system administrators, developers, IT professionals and SaaS (Software as a Service) vendors to create, deploy, and control load balanced cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access and administrative server control. GoGrid server instances maintain the industry standard specifications with no requirement to learn and adapt to proprietary standards. Bringing up servers and server networks takes minutes via a unique web control panel or GoGrid’s award winning API. GoGrid delivers portal controlled servers for Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, SQL Server, and ASP.NET. GoGrid also hosts multiple open-source server operating systems including several Linux operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS) and supports application environments like Ruby on Rails. Free f5 hardware load balancing and other features are included to give users the control of a familiar datacenter environment with the flexibility and immediate scalability of the cloud, a “cloudcenter.” GoGrid won LinuxWorld Expo’s 2008 Best of Show award.
About ServePath - http://www.servepath.com
ServePath, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is the leading managed and dedicated hosted server provider, delivering custom solutions and managed services to businesses that require powerful Internet hosting platforms for their production environments. Thousands of companies worldwide look to ServePath for its reliability, customization, and speed. ServePath has a Keynote-rated A+ network and guarantees uptime with a 10,000% guaranteed™ Service Level Agreement. The employee-owned company has been in business for nine years and operates its own San Francisco data center and is SAS70 Type II certified. ServePath uniquely delivers server infrastructures optimized for complex databases with cloud front-ends and application servers with Cloud Connect.
About Stratonomic and Cloud Recovery™ - http://www.stratonomic.com
Stratonomic is the leader in cloud reliability solutions including Cloud Recovery™ . Stratonomic was founded by folks who have dozens of years of experience in building out and operating very large scale web operations with 1000s of servers in very large scale datacenter environments. This experience spans the gamut from social applications to highly secure and regulated financial service applications. Over the past 2 years, as cloud computing has become more robust and feasible, this group of entrepreneurs has been deeply involved in beta test programs from various cloud providers in an effort to help early adopters harness this incredible potential to improve their costs and raise their service levels. Their hands on and insider experience with cloud computing vendors is unparalleled
GoGrid
Premier Cloud Infrastructure hosting provider, GoGrid, and Grid Dynamics, a leading expert in scalability of mission-critical systems, has announced a partnership designed to help enterprise customers quickly adopt cloud computing infrastructure for application testing and development, using Grid Dynamics’ Cloud4QA™ solution.
Customers who are looking to move their test and development environments into the cloud will greatly benefit from Grid Dynamics’ expertise combined with GoGrid’s market-leading cloud offerings and hosting infrastructure
This is a game-changer for the software development industry
The Cloud4AQ solution offering gives developers the ultimate luxury – practically unlimited hardware resources dedicated to them, available in any configuration for any period of time, at a price point that even the most budget-constrained organizations can afford.
Application testing is a recurring activity on every software development project. Test hardware is expensive to buy, configure and maintain so most development projects use less hardware and test less frequently. Even when companies invest in testing labs, the precious resources end up being either over- or under-subscribed most of the time. In addition, frequent set-up and re-configuration of these environments between the test runs become significant cost factors and process bottlenecks. The result is a backlog accumulation of testing jobs with increased time-to-market, as well as sub-optimal software quality, hindered by the lack of adequate test hardware.
Offering benefits such as on-demand resource provisioning, reduction in cost of ownership and location independence, public clouds, like GoGrid, are the perfect solution for these common problems. With the ability to instantiate servers and complex infrastructure in the Cloud in literally minutes, GoGrid is the perfect platform for enterprises to develop and test product and software solutions. With GoGrid cloud, in conjunction with Grid Dynamics’ Cloud4QA offering, businesses can now feel confident that their quality assurance environments meet the demands of IT professionals, sysadmins and the like.
“Customers who are looking to move their test and development environments into the cloud will greatly benefit from Grid Dynamics’ expertise combined with GoGrid’s market-leading cloud offerings and hosting infrastructure” said John Keagy, CEO and Co-Founder of GoGrid.
“This is a game-changer for the software development industry” said Victoria Livschitz, CEO and Founder of Grid Dynamics. “The Cloud4AQ solution offering gives developers the ultimate luxury – practically unlimited hardware resources dedicated to them, available in any configuration for any period of time, at a price point that even the most budget-constrained organizations can afford.”
Grid Dynamics Cloud4QA™ Resource Kit, which includes customer case studies, demo of relevant tools, industry whitepapers and an in-depth methodology description, is available free of charge at www.cloud4qa.com. Businesses and Enterprises interested in robust Cloud infrastructure solutions should contact a GoGrid Sales Professional at www.GoGrid.com.
About GoGrid - http://www.GoGrid.com
GoGrid is the leading Cloud Computing, hosted, Internet provider that delivers true “Control in the Cloud™” in the form of cloudcenters. GoGrid enables system administrators, developers, IT professionals and SaaS (Software as a Service) vendors to create, deploy, and control load balanced cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access and administrative server control. GoGrid server instances maintain the industry standard specifications with no requirement to learn and adapt to propriety standards. Bringing up servers and server networks takes minutes via a unique web control panel or GoGrid’s award winning API. GoGrid delivers portal controlled servers for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server, and ASP.NET. GoGrid hosts multiple open-source server operating systems including several Linux operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS) and supports application environments like Ruby on Rails. Free f5 hardware load balancing and other features are included to give users the control of a familiar datacenter environment with the flexibility and immediate scalability of the cloud, a “cloudcenter.” GoGrid won the coveted 2008 LinuxWorld Expo’s Best of Show award.
About Grid Dynamics - http://www.GridDynamics.com
Grid Dynamics is the global leader in scaling mission-critical systems. We help customers architect, design and deliver business systems that handle peak loads, scale on demand and always stay up. Using the latest advances in grid and cloud computing, our customers turn monolithic applications into scalable services and static, underutilized server clusters into virtualized compute clouds. The results: better performance, higher availability, faster time-to-market and lower operational costs.
Microsoft’s survey of more than 600 Small Business Specialist partners in the U.S., U.K., Canada, France and Brazil, found that these partners anticipate a 20 percentage point increase this year in the number of SMBs that use SaaS. Ross Brown, vice president of solution partners at Microsoft, says SaaS makes sense for SMBs in the current economy. “Most SMBs are cash-flow-financed instead of debt-financed, and the pay-as-you-go model lets them spend more money on service configuration than on capital costs,” Brown said. Brown says Microsoft is seeing “significant uptake” in its Business Productivity Online Services suite, which includes hosted versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications Server and LiveMeeting.
Microsoft partners are seeing ample services opportunities in migrating SMBs from legacy e-mail systems to hosted Exchange, according to Brown. But while SMBs are interested in SaaS, they still face certain obstacles in shifting their business operations to services. For example, many SMBs have line-of-business apps that are designed to run in client-server environments, such as those built on Access or SQL Server, said Dave Sobel, CEO of Evolve Technologies, a Fairfax, Va.-based Microsoft Gold partner. Virtualization and IT consolidation were identified by fully half of survey participants as the most effective for cutting operating costs. But for SMBs, the cost savings of virtualization aren’t just on the server, but also in application virtualization and streaming
If you’re tapped into cloud networks to offload–and scale–some of your computing needs, you probably think that you’re paying for only what you use. But just like your cell phone plan and attorney’s rate might charge you for a full increment of time when you roll over the billing period, you might save money by nibbling at cloud services on an hourly basis. SoftLayer’s CloudLayer is great for short bursts of cloud computing needs, scaling to about $.20 to $.80 per hour, depending on your storage and processor requirements. You can initially tap into a virtual server in about 5 minutes, and you can run typical cloud services, with support for SQL Server and access to storage from any platform.
If you’d rather be billed on a monthly plan–no long-term commitment needed–you can choose dedicated hardware instead of virtual machines. Visit the CloudLayer overview to see if its other specifications fit your needs. But if you only need cloud systems once in a while, savings could add up with hourly billing. Zack Stern is building a new business from San Francisco, where he frequently contributes to PC World.
Cloud Computing solutions provider GoGrid
GoGrid, the Cloud Computing division of ServePath Dedicated Hosting, today announced a strategic partnership with Zeus Technology, the only software-based application traffic management company. The partnership will enable GoGrid to offer Zeus’ ZXTM VA (Virtual Appliance) software as an integral part of its on-demand service offering to its customers, who are deploying their web infrastructure within a Cloud environment.
Without the worry of significant upfront hardware costs, Cloud Computing offers vast savings in bandwidth costs, provides total flexibility as well as energy efficiency and economies of scale. GoGrid’s customers can purchase Zeus’ secure, layer-7 load balancing and application acceleration solution on a flexible, pay-as-you-go licensing fee calculated on monthly usage. This will give them access to dedicated traffic management features, not available from hardware based competitors.
The combination of the great Cloud Computing infrastructure provided by GoGrid and the power of Zeus’ software solutions, enables existing and prospective GoGrid customers to have dedicated, enterprise-class traffic management solutions in GoGrid’s Cloud.
With the ability to handle massive volumes of web traffic and ensure consistent availability and uptime, ZXTM VA is much more than a load balancing solution. Additional features include bandwidth management, traffic shaping, traffic prioritization, content compression and service level monitoring, coupled with TrafficScript™, an intuitive traffic routing language. This will result in huge performance improvements for GoGrid’s customers.
Travis Reed, General Manager, Americas, Zeus Technology, explains: “As organizations review and upgrade their IT infrastructure and their business requirements change, we are seeing a shift to the Cloud. In doing so, customers are able to rapidly scale their IT infrastructure, also taking advantage of greater operational efficiency, better quality of service and commercial flexibility.
“The combination of the great Cloud Computing infrastructure provided by GoGrid and the power of Zeus’ software solutions, enables existing and prospective GoGrid customers to have dedicated, enterprise-class traffic management solutions in GoGrid’s Cloud.”
John Keagy, CEO, GoGrid, said: “It was a logical choice to partner with Zeus. Offering a pure software solution as a virtual appliance makes it ideally suited to a Cloud environment. Zeus fits our model of delivering scalable web hosting perfectly. By integrating Zeus’ unique SPLA program into our Cloud infrastructure, we can now offer a dedicated, instantly scalable and cost-effective traffic management solution to all our customers, on-demand and in a more agile manner. Our customers will find the ability to avoid the initial investment in proprietary hardware, while improving efficiency, managing traffic growth and enabling applications to scale and burst as they need to, to be hugely advantageous for them.”
Whilst GoGrid offers free load balancing via a physical f5 hardware appliance, Zeus’ ZXTM Virtual Appliance software allows you to further manage and control scalable web applications with robust traffic management features not available in the standard GoGrid out-of-the-box solution. Creating a full-featured “cloudcenter” using GoGrid with Windows and Linux cloud servers, load balancing and Cloud Storage has never been easier. Plus, you can now take your cloudcenter to the next management level with the addition of Zeus’ ZXTM VA software.
About GoGrid – http://www.gogrid.com:
GoGrid is the leading Cloud Computing, hosted, Internet provider that delivers true “Control in the Cloud™” in the form of cloudcenters. GoGrid enables system administrators, developers, IT professionals and SaaS (Software as a Service) vendors to create, deploy, and control load balanced cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access and administrative server control. GoGrid server instances maintain the industry standard specifications with no requirement to learn and adapt to propriety standards. Bringing up servers and server networks takes minutes via a unique web control panel or GoGrid’s award winning API. GoGrid delivers portal controlled servers for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server, and ASP.NET. GoGrid hosts multiple open-source server operating systems including several Linux operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS) and supports application environments like Ruby on Rails. Free load balancing and other features are included to give users the control of a familiar datacenter environment with the flexibility and immediate scalability of the cloud, a “cloudcenter.” GoGrid won the coveted 2008 LinuxWorld Expo’s Best of Show award.
About ServePath – http://www.servepath.com:
ServePath, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is the leading managed and dedicated hosted server provider, delivering custom solutions and managed services to businesses that require powerful Internet hosting platforms for their production environments. Thousands of companies worldwide look to ServePath for its reliability, customization, and speed. ServePath has a Keynote-rated A+ network and guarantees uptime with a 10,000% guaranteed™ Service Level Agreement. The employee-owned company has been in business for nine years and operates its own San Francisco data center and is SAS70 Type II certified. ServePath uniquely delivers server infrastructures optimized for complex databases with cloud front-ends and application servers with Cloud Connect.
About Zeus Technology – http://www.zeus.com:
Zeus software enables our customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services in Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments. Implementing a Zeus solution allows organizations to visualize and manipulate the flow of traffic to their web-enabled applications, thus ensuring a consistently robust web infrastructure. Coupled with the ability to deploy new online services very quickly, Zeus helps provide the competitive advantage businesses need, by making their online services faster, more reliable, more secure and easier to manage. Zeus software can be deployed on industry standard hardware, virtual machines and any Cloud platform, making it the right strategic choice for today and tomorrow. Zeus holds strategic partnerships with world-class companies such as Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Sun, Qualcomm and VMware. Zeus powers over one million website infrastructures across the world including, BT, Comic Relief, Domino’s Pizza, Gilt Groupe, ITV, PLAY.COM, STA Travel and Virgin Media. Zeus is in a unique position to assist any business looking to enhance their mission-critical Internet service infrastructure.
GoGrid, the Cloud Computing Division of ServePath
GoGrid, the Cloud Computing Division of ServePath, LLC, and AppZero, pioneer of server application virtualization today announced a technology partnership to make it easy for enterprises and independent software vendors (ISVs) to move their server-based Windows applications from the datacenter to the GoGrid cloud. The GoGrid and AppZero solution allows enterprises to instantly provision complex server-based applications to use the GoGrid cloud as a cost-effective approach for running applications. Many enterprises utilize cloud computing for provisioning and running development environments, as well as for low utilization applications and business continuity fail-over – most often in a hybrid (cloud/datacenter) model for spiky or burst- oriented applications. AppZero’s application mobility technology allows IT organizations and ISVs to move Windows server applications to the cloud risk-free and without violating Windows licensing requirements.
AppZero is first to market with technology that packages server applications as Virtual Application Appliances (VAAs) which are pre-installed, preconfigured applications that contain zero operating system components. AppZero is the only tool available for decoupling server-side applications from operating systems. The VAA approach permits applications to be easily moved between datacenter and cloud infrastructures and back, minimizing cloud lock-in.
GoGrid, the largest Windows server cloud hosting provider, is the pioneer of “cloudcenters,” an approach to cloud infrastructure based on traditional datacenters and their use of familiar components such as virtualized servers, network storage and hardware firewalls. GoGrid is a leading cloud provider with the flexibility to choose between Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003.
GoGrid and AppZero will host a free webinar, “Moving Windows Server Applications to the Cloud in Three Easy Steps,” May 28th at 2 p.m. EST. To register, visit: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/481983162.”; Interested users can also download a coupon good for $100 on the GoGrid cloud.
According to Paul Lancaster, Business Development Manager at GoGrid, “AppZero’s technology simplifies the packaging of applications running on our cloud servers and replicates them in a way that is painless. This approach takes a lot of the costs out of provisioning applications, whether on a physical or virtual server, in the datacenter or on an internal or external cloud. We think the combination of AppZero and GoGrid will be of interest to our heavier cloud computing users. Because these users tend to use a hybrid model, they need an easy way to provision applications between internal and public clouds. This combination will also appeal to enterprises that want to get started on the GoGrid cloud in a way that’s easy to use, without a lot of administration.”
Greg O’Connor, President and CEO of AppZero, adds “GoGrid is carving out a growing reputation for its ease of use in enabling customers to use familiar datacenter approaches and tools to quickly set up a cloud infrastructure — adding and deleting servers as the business requires. AppZero is a natural fit in this environment, permitting server applications to run without modification on any cloud. We make it easy for enterprises to take advantage of GoGrid’s scalable resources on a pay-per-use basis, without cloud lock-in.”
AppZero software creates, runs, and maintains VAAs in Linux, Solaris, and Windows environments. GoGrid customers can drag and drop AppZero VAAs from one cloud server to another, as well as from cloud to datacenter and back.
About GoGrid - http://www.GoGrid.com
GoGrid is the leading Cloud Computing, hosted, Internet provider that delivers true “Control in the Cloud™” in the form of cloudcenters. GoGrid enables system administrators, developers, IT professionals and SaaS (Software as a Service) vendors to create, deploy, and control load balanced cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access and administrative server control. GoGrid server instances maintain the industry standard specifications with no requirement to learn and adapt to propriety standards. Bringing up servers and server networks takes minutes via a unique web control panel or GoGrid’s award winning API. GoGrid delivers portal controlled servers for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server, and ASP.NET. GoGrid hosts multiple open-source server operating systems including several Linux operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS) and supports application environments like Ruby on Rails. Free f5 hardware load balancing and other features are included to give users the control of a familiar datacenter environment with the flexibility and immediate scalability of the cloud, a “cloudcenter.” GoGrid won the coveted 2008 LinuxWorld Expo’s Best of Show award.
About ServePath - http://www.ServePath.com
ServePath, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is the leading managed and dedicated hosted server provider, delivering custom solutions and managed services to businesses that require powerful Internet hosting platforms for their production environments. Thousands of companies worldwide look to ServePath for its reliability, customization, and speed. ServePath has a Keynote-rated A+ network and guarantees uptime with a 10,000% guaranteed™ Service Level Agreement. The employee-owned company has been in business for nine years and operates its own San Francisco data center and is SAS70 Type II certified. ServePath uniquely delivers server infrastructures optimized for complex databases with cloud front-ends and application servers with Cloud Connect.
About AppZero - http://www.AppZero.com
AppZero develops software for creating, controlling and maintaining Virtual Application Appliances (VAAs), server-side application appliances that make provisioning of applications as services almost instantaneous: across a network on any server (physical or virtual), in the datacenter, hosted, or in the cloud. For more information, visit www.AppZero.com.
