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Tuesday, 20 August 2013

CloudCamp to Hold First OpsCamp for Cloud Operations and Development Professionals

Austin, TX (PRWEB) January 19, 2010

CloudCamp, an organizer of local events to exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies, today announced the first OpsCamp for systems management and cloud development professionals. OpsCamp is an event aimed at bringing together IT professionals who are interested in the evolution of systems management and application deployment as it bridges physical and virtual infrastructure and especially cloud computing technologies. The event will be a participant driven unconference style event made popular by events like BarCamp, Bloggercon and Mashup Camp.

Event Details:

The event will be held in an unconference format starting with an Unpanel discussion about cloud computing followed by a self-organizing conference format where topics are proposed and then voted on by the attendees.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Spider House Cafe

2908 Fruth St.

Austin, TX 78705

While attendance is free, RSVP is required: http://www.opscamp.org/austin

Event Sponsors:

This free event is being made possible by the generous donations from the following sponsors:

Bitnami – Cloud Deployable Software Stacks
Reductive Labs – Open Source Data Center Automation
Zenoss – Unlegacy IT Management Emphasizing Virtualization and Cloud Management

Supporting Quotes:

Dave Nielsen, co-Founder CloudCamp

“With rapid change occurring in IT operations, we realized that a place is needed where operations personnel and sysadmins can meet to share their experiences, challenges and solutions. OpsCamp is organized as an unconference which encourages the open exchange of ideas around next generation technologies and strategies for IT Operations. End users, IT professionals and vendors are all encouraged to participate.”

John M. Willis, Author of Cloud Computing and Systems Management Blog, co-host IT Management Podcast and the Cloud Cafe

“While the cloud has lowered the barrier to entry for businesses to own a data center; it has not decreased the complexity of managing complex applications and data center operations. OpsCamp is about exploring the opportunity to intersect ideas like agile development, continuous deployment, and data center operations to promote the rise of a new movement that breaks down the traditional walls between development and operations (i.e., DevOps).”

Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, Zenoss

“Operations personnel and sysadmins are becoming programmers because of the virtualization/cloud and automation trend where everything is managed through an API. The line between application developers and IT operations is becoming blurred. Many of the principles that apply to Agile application development translate to operations. So if you are a developer with a interest for system administration, or a systems administrator interested in development, OpsCamp is the place to be.”

Michael Cot


CloudCamp to Hold First OpsCamp for Cloud Operations and Development Professionals

Saturday, 17 August 2013

"How Cloud, Private Cloud & Utility Infrastructure Are Different"; CapZero Offers up a New Article on Utility Infrastructure


Englewood, CO (Vocus) April 20, 2010

In the new article, “How Cloud, Private Cloud & Utility Infrastructure Are Different”, just written and released by CapZero, they say Companies that want the benefits of cloud services without the risks are looking to create cloud-like environments in their own data centers the private cloud is born. Enter the utility model; the future of enterprise IT is in private clouds. Elastic, pay-as-you-go data center infrastructure modeled after public cloud providers like Google and Amazon, but put together and managed from within for each independent business unit.

This CapZero article highlights how the HP Utility offering is a change in the data center environment; a ‘utilitized’ infrastructure is the financial packaging of resources, such as storage, computing, network and software as a metered service; analogous to a traditional public utility company (such as electricity, water, natural gas, or telephone network). The utility infrastructure has the benefit of the zero capital acquisition; in its place, hardware resources are in effect rented.

In this newly released article, heres how Bill Thomas, author, recently explained Utility to a colleague:

Buying gasoline at the local Texaco station is just like the utility infrastructure model you acquire only what you need when you need it, albeit at $ 2.76 a gallon for your 15 gallons your total cost of ownership [TCO] is $ 41.40. If you had to buy gas like IT had to purchase infrastructure for the data center; youd have to buy, with capital dollars, the oil field, the ship, the refinery, a truck and the gas station, notwithstanding the former, at $ 1.35 a gallon for your 15 million gallons your TCO would be north of 1 trillion dollars though. But, you saved $ 1.41 per gallon getting it this way.

The article explains this apples-to-oranges mis-comparison is common amongst all the hardware providers, its like chalk and cheese they just dont compare to one another. You cannot compare the $ 2.76/gal to the $ 1.35/gal, you must consider the current cost of capital, the actual utilization of your environment, the value of capital as compared to revenue generating projects that compete for capital, etc. To get to the net/net of it all, youll need to build a financial model that uncovers the true comparisons and business case.

The CapZero article explains to the IT manager that a storage array will typically have allocated LUNS based upon the needs of many projects and applications. Today, a storage manager buys and allocates centered on what a project needs in the future; typically these are projected data requirements 2 to 4 years from now. Thomas explains that storage that is allocated directly to a host is not accessible by other host servers; creating pockets of unavailable and therefore underutilized capacity across the enterprise organization. Experience and research show us that the average storage array that is 100% allocated, is usually only 20 to 30% utilized based upon the actual data stored the array is 100% allocated and therefore in order to add LUNS, a new array must be purchased.

The meat of this article revolves around these main concepts:


The utility model capitalizes on both thin and thin-like provisioning and can be metered down to the actual consumption level, not just the allocation level.
Utility is configured with base and buffer – and are charged for based upon actual usage today, not what is needed a year from now or even 4 years from now.
Businesses with unpredictable storage requirements, unplanned or out-of-cycle growth or even sudden peaks in demand can avoid the delays and capital expenses that result from physically acquiring and installing new hardware utility resolves the issues within our ever changing environment.
Utility infrastructure, sometimes known as on-demand IT, pay-per-use and, commonly, infrastructure-as-a-service, is new, agile and cloud-like. With utility infrastructure you get a cloud-like experience within a corporate environment under your corporate controls. Data centers are infamously underutilized, with resources such as storage arrays often only utilized at 20 to 30% of their data capacity, but yet 100% allocated. This is due to over-provisioning and over-allocation buying more hardware than is needed on average in order to handle what you need 3 to 4 years from now.

The conclusion of this article points out that today we are a part of a game-changing shift in information technology witness technologists and CFOs working in tandem to make decisions based upon business requirements and financial choices, not on technology opinions. This magnitude of change comes around only once a decade. The utility model opportunity is so substantial that it affects not only the current business model, it will additionally affect IT architecture and how we design, deploy, run and deliver infrastructure.

By Bill Thomas, General Manager at CapZero. CapZero, LLC is the leading Utility Advisor for HP IT solutions. CapZero improves how technology products and services are defined and delivered to businesses worldwide inside of the Utility Infrastructure program. CapZero, HPs designated expert in Utility Storage is equipped and organized to help you; representing not only Utility Infrastructure and the servers, storage and network that come with it but CapZero also offers other key services like Utilization and Allocation Discovery & Assessment, URI vs. Buy/Lease Financial Modeling, HP Utility Proof-of-Concept, Data Policy Development, ITIL Workshops, Shared Services and Charge-Back implementations. CapZero is based in Denver Colorado and does business world-wide. Learn more about CapZero on their website at http://www.CapZero.com. We blog at http://capzero.wordpress.com

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Friday, 16 August 2013

Amazon Consulting Unveils The Ecosystem of the Cloud, A Two-Part Series on the Channel Implication of Cloud Computing


Mountain View, Calif. (Vocus) May 18, 2010

What started as an ex-Oracle executive designing a simpler way to deliver customer relationship management software at Salesforce.com is now an IT revolution — Cloud Computing. Amazon Consulting, a leading partnering services firm dedicated to helping companies elevate the impact of partnering, just published two thought leadership briefs titled, ”The Ecosystem of the Cloud.” To access this two-part series analyzing the channel implications of cloud computing, go to http://www.amazonconsulting.com . On June 17th at 9am PST, Amazon Consulting will host a free webinar with cloud-savvy industry leaders to further discuss this cloud computing channel analysis.

After interviewing leading vendors and more than a dozen solution providers who are deeply invested in the success of this new technology delivery model, we packaged some thought provoking insights about the critical role of channel partners to share with the industry, said Amazon Consulting President and CEO Diane Krakora.

Driven by constrained budgets and the rise of virtualization, worldwide spending on cloud services is projected to grow almost threefold to US$ 42B by 2012. Despite the security and data integrity concerns of public cloud implementations, leading cloud and SaaS players are gaining customers and marketshare in all sectors. However, many have questioned the future role of indirect channels in advancing and implementing cloud-based services. ”The Ecosystem of the Cloud” discusses the implications of this trending technology into the role and business models of the IT channel.

We think its important to address the market fear, uncertainty and doubt around the role of indirect channel partners in the cloud space. Not only will ISVs, SIs and even some resellers not be disintermediated, but their roles in evangelizing cloud computing will be more important than ever, said Beth Vanni, Amazon Consultings Direct of Market Intelligence. Both the webinar and thought leadership briefs tackle such issues as, what are the emerging roles for cloud-savvy solution providers, what are the blended business models of successful cloud integrators, how are solution providers making money and what are the critical support requirements solution providers have of vendors, said Vanni.

Join us for ”The Ecosystem of the Cloud” discussion at our upcoming webinar on June 17th at 9 a.m. PST. You can register on our site at Cloud Webinar – Register.

PartnerG2

Amazon Consulting offers market research studies through a comprehensive annual market intelligence subscription program called PartnerG2. Fueling channel management professionals with valuable research, analysis, thought leadership tools and expert advice to guide partnering success, PartnerG2 offers unlimited users under a corporate subscription, quarterly studies based on industry hot topics, a complete library of thought leadership materials and 4-hours of complementary consulting services. Channel industry analyst and speaker Beth Vanni is the Director of Market Intelligence for Amazons Partner G2 program and can be followed at http://amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com/ or http://twitter.com/bvanni .

About Amazon Consulting

Amazon Consulting, LLC is a partnering development firm based in Silicon Valley, California, wholly dedicated to helping companies elevate the impact of partnering. We achieve this by effectively designing, implementing and automating channel and alliance models. We offer services ranging from channel models and program development plans to partnering operations and program execution. PartnerPath


Amazon Consulting Unveils The Ecosystem of the Cloud, A Two-Part Series on the Channel Implication of Cloud Computing

BitNami Releases AMIs for the Asia Pacific Region, Enables Businesses to Run Applications on the Amazon EC2 Cloud

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 20, 2010

BitNami, the project that simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud, has released Amazon Machine Images, or AMIs, for the new Asia Pacific region on Amazons EC2 cloud. The AMIs are ready-to-run images that contain all of the software required to run BitNami-packaged applications for CRM, business intelligence, content management, blogs, wikis and more. Users simply have to login to their Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, select their BitNami AMI of choice and launch it. In minutes, they can have a fully-configured application up and running.

BitNami AMIs are available free of charge for the US, Europe and Asia Pacific regions on AWS. AMIs are currently available for the following applications:


BitNami Releases AMIs for the Asia Pacific Region, Enables Businesses to Run Applications on the Amazon EC2 Cloud

Thursday, 15 August 2013

GigaOM Mobilize 2010: The Only Conference to Explore Where Mobile Meets the Cloud

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 15, 2010

GigaOM Networks, a leading business media company, today announced initial headline speakers and discussion topics for Mobilize 2010, the mobile industrys most influential conference. Technology and mobile industry leaders such as Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe; Thomas Keys, COO of MetroPCS Communications; and Nicholas Negroponte, technology visionary and Founder and Chairman of One Laptop per Child, will speak at Mobilize 2010, with more speakers soon to be announced.

Now in its third year, Mobilize has become the mobile industrys most influential conference, attracting top minds in infrastructure and apps, technology, internet, marketing, and venture capital who come together to discuss the latest trends in mobile communications, said Surj Patel, GigaOMs VP of events. Mobilize will explore the growing intersection between the mobile and cloud computing sectors, a unique convergence set to unleash a new wave of market growth.

Last year, Motorola Co-CEO Sanjay Jha officially announced the companys first Android phone, the Motorola CLIQ, at Mobilize 2009 and this years conference is set to be another highly newsworthy event. The speaker lineup at Mobilize 2010 is a virtual whos who of the mobile industry, and new speakers are being announced weekly for this years event expected to draw over 550 attendees on September 30th at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.

Confirmed speakers at Mobilize 2010 include, among many others:


GigaOM Mobilize 2010: The Only Conference to Explore Where Mobile Meets the Cloud

Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Open Source Community Embraces the GoGrid Cloud

San Francisco, CA (Vocus) August 4, 2010

GoGrid, a leading Cloud Infrastructure and Hybrid Hosting Provider, today announced the launch of its Open Source Software (OSS) Partner Program. In recent months, adoption of GoGrid as a core and fundamental technology platform for enabling leading open source solutions to the cloud has accelerated. By packaging on-demand versions of software and leveraging the GoGrid Exchange, a unique cloud solutions marketplace, open source partners and businesses alike are realizing increased deployments and usage of popular open source software offerings.

“GoGrid’s ease of use, robust feature set, and excellent customer service make it an ideal cloud platform for deploying web applications – open source or otherwise,” said Erica Brescia, CEO of BitNami. “We are proud to offer ready-to-deploy GoGrid Server Images of BitNami-packaged open source applications, such as Alfresco, Drupal, WordPress, and more, through the GoGrid Exchange. GoGrid’s seamless provisioning tools make it even easier for BitNami users to get open source applications up and running in the cloud.”

GoGrid is the industry leader in partnering with open source companies to enable their software in the cloud. By leveraging the GoGrid Exchange program, partners are able to share or sell a customized server image. Each image is available to the GoGrid community as a Partner GoGrid Server Image (PGSI), which includes the partner’s branding and technical information. GoGrid users can search by solution type (e.g. internet security, backup, monitoring, web apps, compliance, and application scaling,) and instantly provisionwith the click of a mouseeliminating a lengthy installation process.

Through the GoGrid platform, open source companies can deliver their offerings as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and realize unparalleled benefits, including:


Detailed user data
High visibility by a leading cloud provider
Co-Marketing support
Access to GoGrid’s large and growing customer base
Low risk no sign-up fees or long-term commitment
Access to customer information and usage metrics by platform even for open source distributions

GoGrid is also working closely with Olliance Group, the leading open source business consulting firm, to work with partners to develop and refine their approaches for delivering open source solutions to the cloud.

“All too frequently, SMBs and enterprises deploy expensive commercial software, not realizing that significant cost savings and flexibility can be realized through the use of industry-hardened open source solutions.” said Greg Olson, Senior Partner at the Olliance Group. “Packaged open source solutions coupled with near-instant deployment from the GoGrid Exchange will allow many more companies to realize the benefits of open source software.”

Notable open source GoGrid Partners include:

BitNami provider of multiple popular open source application stacks
SourceFire/Snort open source intrusion detection
OpenVPN offering open source security software technologies

“Many of our customers want to embrace open source technology,” said GoGrid CEO and Co-Founder, John Keagy. GoGrid provides both the open source software community and our customers with a fully integrated one-stop shop to build a complete cloud. GoGrid customers can provision complex IT infrastructure, scale their infrastructure with custom cloud server images (MyGSI), F5 load balancing, cloud storage, and launch open source software solutions all in one location and with the click of a mouse.”

For more information about the GoGrid Open Source Software Partner Program visit,

http://go.gogrid.com/oss_partner

To learn more about the GoGrid Exchange and uncover the power of cloud enabled solutions, visit

http://exchange.gogrid.com

About GoGrid

GoGrid is a Global Leader in Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure hosting. GoGrid enables sysadmins, developers, and IT professionals to create, deploy, and control free f5 load balanced cloud infrastructures and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access/administrative server control. GoGrid physical and virtual server instances maintain industry standard specifications with no requirement to learn proprietary standards. Deploying GoGrid infrastructure takes minutes via a web control panel or GoGrid’s API. GoGrid gives users the control of a familiar data center environment with the flexibility and immediate scalability of the cloud. For more information, please visit: GoGrid Cloud Infrastructure.

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Saturday, 10 August 2013

Cloud Status for iPhone App Now Free


Amsterdam, The Netherlands (PRWEB) November 23, 2010

WatchMouse, a global industry leader in self-service website and application performance monitoring, today announced the acquisition of the utility app, Cloud Status for iPhone created by Alasdair Allan, noted author, software programmer and expert iOS developer. WatchMouse also announced that it has made the app free to download in the Apple App Store, in conjunction with an updated version 4.4 release of the application including support for iOS4.

The Cloud Status iPhone application reports on the performance of popular cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine, Google Apps, Microsoft Windows Azure, and Rackspace Cloud. It allows developers and IT managers who utilize these services to quickly check the availability of all of these services and their components in real time using an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch device. Each of the supported cloud services has a separate page and details the status for the various services provided. A quick read indicator denotes the status for each service: the status for the service is good, there is a problem with the service, or the service is down. Clicking on each service component provides further information as to the current status of that component, and any problems it might be experiencing.

The Cloud Status for iPhone version 4.4 release includes the following features:


Cloud Status for iPhone App Now Free

Wednesday, 7 August 2013

BitNami Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation, Simplifies Deployment of Open Source Apps on the Amazon Cloud

Alameda, CA (PRWEB) March 3, 2011

BitNami, which simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud, released today free templates for popular open source applications for Amazons new CloudFormation service.

AWS CloudFormation simplifies the process of deploying applications on top of Amazon Web Services by allowing developers to describe a stack of cloud resources and bring them up and down as a single unit. A CloudFormation stack can include load balancers, databases, EBS volumes and EC2 instances, among other resources.

By providing all of the PHP and Ruby-on-Rails-based BitNami applications as CloudFormation templates, BitNami makes it easier to deploy and provision open source applications on the cloud. Applications available as CloudFormation templates include:


BitNami Adds Support for AWS CloudFormation, Simplifies Deployment of Open Source Apps on the Amazon Cloud

Monday, 29 July 2013

Green House Data and Standing Cloud Offer Efficiency and Sustainability in Cloud Apps and Infrastructure


Boulder, Colo., and Cheyenne, Wyo. (PRWEB) September 22, 2011

Standing Cloud, Inc. (http://www.standingcloud.com), a leader in the emerging Platform as a Service (PaaS) marketplace, and Green House Data (http://www.greenhousedata.com), the Rocky Mountain regions first 100% renewable energy powered data center, today announced a partnership that brings a vastly simplified method of deploying and managing application software to worldwide cloud users who are concerned about both carbon footprint and costs.

Green House Data, recently recognized by the EPA for sustainability contributions, continues its growth into enterprise-class cloud computing. Layering on Standing Clouds advanced PaaS solutions builds a flexible system that makes deployment, customization and management easier than ever.

Available immediately, Green House Data customers have access to “Standing Cloud powered by Green House Data” (http://www.standingcloud.com/poweredby/greenhousedata), which marries an application layer from Standing Cloud with Green Houses sustainable infrastructure-as-a-service offering. Customers can select from approximately 100 popular web applications including WordPress, SugarCRM, DotProject, OpenBravo, and others complete with built-in monitoring and management tools that ease system administration headaches. Developers can use PHP, Java, Ruby on Rails, and Python stacks, along with Jenkins, Bugzilla, and other supporting tools, to support rapid testing and live deployment.

Pricing bundles start at $ 97.95 per month. Green House Data customers and other interested parties are invited to a webinar at 10 a.m. MT on Wednesday, Sept. 28 to learn how deploying applications can take minutes, not hours, and how managing applications is handled by Standing Cloud powered by Green House Data no systems administration knowledge required. Click here to sign up: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/511896622

Both Standing Cloud and Green House Data are focused on creating efficiencies for customers. Standing Cloud saves time and money for business users, developers, and system administrators by making application management vastly easier. Green House Data helps firms and governments meet their carbon footprint goals while also saving money. Its a natural fit for us to work together, said David J. Jilk, CEO of Standing Cloud.

Our data centers run 40% more efficiently than traditional data centers, and we run it entirely with renewable energy. With this announcement, we bring the opportunity for such efficiencies to a broader market of users who need applications to be easy to deploy and manage, said Shawn Mills, president of Green House Data.

About Standing Cloud

Standing Cloud is the only platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that enables cloud users to deploy, manage, customize and/or develop applications on a variety of cloud services and with several programming languages. The service supports PHP, Java, Ruby, and Python, as well as 90+ complete open source and commercial applications, such as WordPress, SugarCRM, DotProject, and OpenBravo, that can be deployed by end users with a few clicks. Target customers include business users who want an easy way to automatically deploy and manage SaaS; developers who customize existing open source applications or develop their own from scratch; and IT professionals in search of a time-saving way to deploy applications and development environments for teams within their organization.

About Green House Data

Green House Data is an SSAE 16, Type II data center offering premium cloud hosting and colocation services without the high price tag.


Green House Data and Standing Cloud Offer Efficiency and Sustainability in Cloud Apps and Infrastructure

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Softaculous Webuzo Announces the Launch of Webuzo Cloud for AWS


(PRWEB) December 01, 2011

Softaculous Ltd., the developer of Webuzo Virtual Appliances that simplifies deployment of various Open Source Web Applications, today announced the launch of a new service – Webuzo Cloud for AWS. Webuzo Cloud simplifies the deployment of various Web Applications and Development Stacks on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Webuzo is a LAMP stack with Softaculous installed on a CentOS Machine.

“Its an exciting time for Webuzo. Two weeks ago we launched Webuzo 1.3 and now Webuzo Cloud is available” said Pulkit Gupta, COO of Softaculous Ltd. “Webuzo Cloud is great tool to deploy Webuzo on AWS. Webuzo is a LAMP stack with Nameserver Management, FTP Management, Python, PERL, 239 WEB Applications, etc. One can use Webuzo Cloud and deploy various types of apps like WordPress, Magento, ERPs like SugarCRM, Development tools like Zend Framework, CodeIgniter, jQuery, etc. Since Webuzo is a Single User software, the application is able to make optimum utilization of the Instances Resources.”

To address the needs of different Enterprises, SMB’s, and Web Developers, Softaculous Webuzo has 239 Applications. “Webuzo is especially beneficial to SMBs and Enterprises as they will not have to spend time installing Apache, MySQL, PHP, PERL, Python seperately and also they can install various collaboration tools, wikis, ERP software, etc. by the click of a button.” said Valerian Pereira, Webuzo Developer at Softaculous Ltd. Webuzo can enable an Enterprise to launch hundreds of instances, of say the PHP Zend Framework, within minutes.

The Softaculous Webuzo library already contains popular applications, including: WordPress, b2evolution, StatusNet, Drupal, Joomla, Concrete5, phpBB, MyBB, SMF, bbPress, Coppermine, Gallery, Mediawiki, DokuWiki, TikiWiki, Elgg, Dolphin, OpenX, SquirrelMail, LimeSurvey, Piwik, Mantis, SugarCRM, WHMCS, PrestaShop, Magento, CraftySyntax, osTicket, Moodle, Claroline, etc. Softaculous Auto Installer is used by millions of users in over 130 countries.

The Webuzo Cloud service is available for a minimal fee of $ 2.5/instance/month or a flat monthly fee of $ 25 for unlimited Webuzo Cloud Instances.

Were only beginning to scratch the surface of whats possible with the Cloud adds Divij Satra, Webuzo Developer at Softaculous Ltd. The AWS cloud infrastructure has been a great and easy hosting platform for tech-savvy companies. Webuzo Combined with the AWS cloud infrastructure will help businesses quickly take advantage of hosting Apps in the cloud.

The company also has a desktop software called AMPPS A Windows and MAC stack of Apache, MySQL, PHP, PERL, Python and Softaculous. Users, especially developers, can use this software stack to install any application on their Desktops. AMPPS also has two PHP binaries and users can switch between the latest PHP version and a legacy PHP version by the click of a button. AMPPS can help any user deploy Web Apps on their Desktops or in the Office. “You can deploy so many office related apps with the help of AMPPS e.g. a user may want to deploy MediaWiki or DokuWiki for internal documentation and AMPPS can help you do that without you having to install any server software.” said Chirag Nagda, a developer at Softaculous.

About Softaculous

Softaculous was founded in 2009 with the goal of helping users to deploy apps by the click of a button.

Softaculous is already being offered by leading Data Centers and Web hosting companies around the world.

It is very easy to find, deploy, manage, backup applications using Softaculous.

One can also deploy apps in the office using Softaculous Webuzo or Softaculous AMPPS.

For more information, visit http://www.softaculous.com/

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Softaculous Webuzo Announces the Launch of Webuzo Cloud for AWS

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

GNAX Brings Open Source Apps to the Cloud with BitNami


San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 14, 2012

BitNami, developer of the BitNami Application Library, and Global Net Access (GNAX), a leading technology infrastructure service provider, announced today that the BitNami library of applications is now available for one-click deployment to the GNAX Cloud.

The GNAX Cloud is an enterprise-grade multi-tenant cloud computing solution, powered by VMware vCloud


GNAX Brings Open Source Apps to the Cloud with BitNami

Sunday, 23 June 2013

BitNami and Red Hat Bring One-Click Web App Deployment to the Amazon Cloud


San Francisco, Ca (PRWEB) February 16, 2012

BitNami, developer of the BitNami library of easy to install web applications, and Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced today that they have collaborated to simplify the deployment of popular open source software to the Amazon Cloud as Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

The newly released AMIs combine BitNamis expertise in packaging and configuring web applications with Red Hats enterprise-class Linux operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, making the AMIs appealing for use in both development and production environments. Using the BitNami-Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMIs, developers and systems administrators can deploy applications such as WordPress, MediaWiki, Drupal, SugarCRM, and Moodle to the Amazon Cloud in one click. The first batch of applications focuses on PHP applications running on the native Red Hat Enterprise Linux stack, and JBoss-powered applications will follow.

BitNami has deep expertise in packaging open source software to make it easy to deploy, said Vijay Sarathy, Director, ISV Ecosystem Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat. Combining the BitNami-packaged applications with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMIs gives users a quick and reliable way to get their favorite open source applications up and running in the cloud.

The AMIs are available at the same hourly rates as the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMIs, so there is no additional cost to users to use the BitNami-Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMIs to run their favorite open source applications. As with the standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMIs, users will have access to AWS premium support with back-end support from Red Hat and access to repository updates from Red Hat to keep their cloud servers patched and up-to-date. The BitNami-Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMIs are available across all Amazon Cloud regions, enabling users to deploy them in the US, Europe, Asia, and South America.

Building BitNami AMIs integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides users with the ease of the BitNami deployment experience as well as the reliability and support that comes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, said Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, CTO of BitRock, the developer of BitNami. This combined offering benefits both BitNami and Red Hat Enterprise Linux users by making it easier to run open source apps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud.

To get started, visit: http://bitnami.org/redhat-cloud

About BitNami

BitNami simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud. BitNami Cloud Hosting provides a growing library of the most popular open source applications, ready to be launched with the click of a button. With BitNami Cloud Hosting, solution providers and businesses of all sizes can deploy and manage business applications such as Jasperserver, SugarCRM, Alfresco, Drupal and many more. BitNami is developed by BitRock, a leader in cross-platform application deployment.

Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, the Shadowman logo and JBoss are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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BitNami and Red Hat Bring One-Click Web App Deployment to the Amazon Cloud

Thursday, 20 June 2013

Beta Testing Begins on a New Cloud Web Hosting Platform

(PRWEB) November 17, 2010

Hybrid Logic Ltd, a United Kingdom-based company today announced the commencement of the first round of beta testing of their PaaS (platform-as-a-service) software product, Hybrid Web Cluster in partnership with CloudSigma AG of Zurich, Switzerland.

Hybrid Web Cluster is a cloud web hosting platform designed to run over any number of real physical servers, cloud server instances or a combination of the two. Due to recent advances in file system technology (ZFS) in combination with advances made by the software developers at Hybrid Logic Ltd; it is now possible to offer standard LAMP web hosting with a revolutionary level of redundancy, fault tolerance and scalability, at a price compatible with the commodity web hosting market.

ZFS is one of the key pieces of technology that enables Hybrid Web Cluster to offer near-instant data replication. This means that if any one of the nodes in your cluster goes down, some other nodes will always have a copy of every website hosted on the failed server no more than a few seconds old. The web cluster will automatically and instantly reorganise itself so that your websites never experience downtime a failed server results in a slightly slow page load for a few seconds rather than hours of downtime.

Because ZFS support is crucial to the implementation of Hybrid Web Cluster, a cloud infrastructure provider willing to support the latest version of FreeBSD was essential – ZFS support is also available in Linux and Solaris, but both options have significant drawbacks; Solaris is too far from Linux to feel comfortable for most users, and Linux’s ZFS support is currently too slow to be usable in a production environment. It was therefore essential to find a suitable cloud infrastructure provider who would support the latest version of FreeBSD The CloudSigma product with its support for FreeBSD 8.1 and ZFS provided the ideal infrastructure choice for Hybrid Web Cluster, and after talking to the friendly team at CloudSigma, a partnership agreement was reached which sees CloudSigma sponsoring the Hybrid Web Cluster beta testing programme.

Patrick Baillie CEO of CloudSigma commented Hybrid Web Cluster is an exciting product and use of our cloud. It provides the potential to generate an additional revenue stream from our existing infrastructure investment. We see this product expanding our customer base by offering a more managed approach from our core offering. The white label support and sophisticated integrated billing and accounting system gives us the flexibility we require.

Today the first round of beta testing began; 15 clusters have been provisioned and the first beta testers have each received login credentials for their very own test web cluster. Beta testers have full administrative control over their own cluster running on CloudSigma’s infrastructure – it is possible to set up real websites (including WordPress blogs), watch a live graphical visualisation of the load balancing and replication algorithms at work, pull the plug on a server and watch how the sites that are hosted on it stay live, it is also possible to generate load on individual websites and watch how the cluster’s load balancing algorithms respond. Beta testers can also explore our next-generation web hosting control panel which includes advanced ticketing and billing systems, automated domain registration, white label support and full internationalization.

If you would like to learn more about Hybrid Web Cluster, watch video demonstrations, or sign up for the next round of beta testing to try out your own web cluster, please visit hybrid-cluster.com.

About Hybrid Web Cluster

Hybrid Web Cluster is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) software product developed by Hybrid Logic Ltd, a company based in London, United Kingdom. The software provides commodity LAMP web hosting in a distributed and fault-tolerant manner across a cluster of servers. You can run a web cluster across multiple physical locations, using a mix of virtualised cloud infrastructure and physical hardware to build a true Hybrid Cloud.

About CloudSigma AG

CloudSigma AG, based in Z


Beta Testing Begins on a New Cloud Web Hosting Platform

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Leading PHP Hosting and Management Vendors Team with New Relic to Provide On-Demand Web Application Management in the Cloud or in the Datacenter


San Francisco, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) December 08, 2010

New Relic, Inc., the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performance management (APM) solutions, today announced that the leading PHP cloud platform and management vendors are bundling New Relic RPM, making it available to their customers as its solution for managing the performance of PHP web applications. The list of vendors includes Blue Box Group, cloudControl, Joyent, Morphlabs, Network Redux, and PHP Fog. The addition of New Relics PHP web application monitoring and tuning capabilities to these leading platforms creates an unparalleled set of solutions for deploying and maintaining superior-performing applications in the cloud or in the datacenter. Additionally, with shared visibility into customer application performance, these vendors support teams can use RPM to collaboratively troubleshoot and tune application performance.

New Relic RPM is an on-demand web application performance management solution that offers 24×7 visibility and code-level diagnostics for web applications deployed on traditional dedicated infrastructures, or in private and public clouds. RPM for PHP monitors overall application response time and throughput including memcache, database and external services. It provides deep visibility into individual web transactions and database calls to MySQL, PostgresSQL, and any PDO-supported database all the way down to SQL statements. This enables application teams to better ensure superior service for PHP applications and frameworks such as Drupal, WordPress, Zend as well as their proprietary web apps.

New Relic is grateful to the PHP community, including leading cloud platform and management vendors with whom we are partnering, for its enthusiastic response to our support for monitoring PHP web application performance, said Bill Lapcevic, New Relics vice president of business development. We look forward to working closely with these companies to help organizations build, deploy, and manage their business-critical PHP-based apps.

Teaming with Industry Leaders Provides Customer Value

New Relic has teamed with an impressive list of platform providers who will offer New Relic RPM to their customers as part of their own solutions, making it easier for organizations to deploy PHP web apps that meet high standards for performance and scalability. Customers of these leading solutions are encouraged to inquire about New Relic from their vendors account representatives. The list of PHP partners includes:

Blue Box Group, a leading provider of customized Ruby on Rails hosting solutions that serves over 600 international customers. With hosting solutions as unique as their customers, Blue Box Group is able to design and deploy infrastructure tailored to individual goals. Its focus is on the success of customer applications via its 24/7 support offering and a leading SLA, all without contract lock-in.

Blue Box Group is excited to team with New Relic as they release their PHP monitoring agent. As a company that provides maximum flexibility, we have Rails clients that use PHP and desire the same level of application visibility that they’ve become accustomed to in their Rails applications,said Jesse Proudman, Founder and CEO. This service will enable our PHP clients to have a full suite of application monitoring and will give our support team powerful capabilities for an even greater level of collaboration with Blue Box Group customers.

cloudControl, a cloud platform as a service provider. cloudControl provides a Platform-as-a-Service Solution with an optimized environment for the development and hosting of complex web applications such as e-commerce systems, content management systems or web based applications.

“Companies turn to cloudControl because they are looking for a robust hosting platform to support applications that must meet high standards for performance and availability, said Philipp Strube, founder and CEO of cloudControl. By partnering with New Relic to provide its proven application management capabilities, we can work even more closely with these organizations to help them achieve their goals.

Joyent, a leading cloud computing software and service provider. Joyent offers public cloud solutions directly to customers worldwide and through partnerships with leading service providers, and also licenses its solution to third parties allowing them to run their own private clouds. Joyent’s SmartTechnologies and partnerships with leading technology vendors combine to create a scalable, reliable, and secure solution for deploying business-critical services.

“Seventy percent of our customers support one or more PHP apps and one of the biggest frustrations they have is debugging slow performance or rogue processes,” said Jason Hoffman, Founder and Chief Scientist at Joyent. ” With New Relic’s RPM, we expect social and gaming app performance to increase by several factors, which in turn can reduce our infrastructure and support overhead with more proactive app management.”

Morphlabs, a cloud computing platform provider whose solutions enable enterprises and service providers to deploy automated and elastic cloud computing infrastructures. Morphlabs flagship product, mCloud Controller, converts commodity hardware into a cloud environment and builds on the best practices of Enterprise Cloud Architecture (ECA), a new approach, which companies to easily create their own private cloud infrastructure.

“The integration of New Relic’s RPM solution into Morphlabs enterprise cloud stack is an ideal fit for enterprises who want more granular application management information,” said Yoram Heller, VP of Corporate Development of Morphlabs. When combined with mCloud’s comprehensive cloud computing platform, New Relics deep, application-level visibility makes it even easier for our customers to deploy and manage their mission critical PHP web applications.

Network Redux, a web hosting and data service provider that develops, deploys and manages web-hosting environments for Internet projects both large and small, including virtual servers and complex enterprise platforms for clients worldwide. Its hosting services are premised on transparency, Open Source and Tier-1 infrastructure that it privately owns and manages.

As we build their custom cloud computing solutions, we work very closely with customer organizations to provide the tools they need to be successful, said Kris Watson, Director of Platform Development at Network Redux. New Relic RPM not only let customers see inside their PHP and Ruby apps 24×7, but also gives our support teams shared visibility into app performance, enabling closer collaboration as we work together to ensure application performance and availability.

PHP Fog, a provider of cloud computing platforms for PHP-based applications such as WordPress, Drupal, Shopify, Zend Framework and more. Customers need only to choose an application, server number and size. PHP Fog does the rest.

PHP Fog is committed to helping organizations take full advantage of cloud computing through the delivery of a comprehensive set of PHP-based applications and frameworks, said Lucas Carlson, PHP Fog founder. Teaming with New Relic to provide these organizations with production PHP application monitoring and troubleshooting makes perfect sense and we are please to offer it to our customers as a complement to our hosting solution.

About New Relic


Leading PHP Hosting and Management Vendors Team with New Relic to Provide On-Demand Web Application Management in the Cloud or in the Datacenter

Friday, 14 June 2013

New ControlByNet White Paper Discusses Leveraging the Cloud for Video Surveillance Solutions


Norcross, GA (PRWEB) March 30, 2011



(PRWEB) March 30, 2011 — ControlByNet, (CBN), a leader in cloud-based, hosted video security surveillance solutions, announced today a white paper “Leveraging the Cloud for Video Surveillance Solutions – From the Small Business to the Enterprise Organization.” The white paper outlines several IP video surveillance scenarios and how they may benefit an organization. ControlByNet also launched its blog “Cloud Security i-flash” (http://cloudsecurityiflash.wordpress.com/) to provide ongoing insights into the growing cloud-based video security surveillance market.

“Hosted video is one of the hottest trends in the video surveillance security market and when combined with recent advances in IP technology solutions, there is a great opportunity for cloud-based video surveillance security to experience rapid growth. However, there is still a learning gap with many installers who prefer to stick with analog systems versus making the jump to more advanced cloud-based solutions,” said Ryan Strange, CEO of ControlByNet. “The white paper provides a look at some of the current IP video surveillance systems, benefits and considerations to help businesses decide on the best solution for them.”

“Leveraging the Cloud for Video Surveillance Solutions – From the Small Business to the Enterprise Organization” provides insight into how an IP video security surveillance system can benefit organizations including homeowner’s associations, small to mid-size businesses and office complexes and facilities. The paper focuses on the following components of an IP video security surveillance solution:


New ControlByNet White Paper Discusses Leveraging the Cloud for Video Surveillance Solutions

Monday, 10 June 2013

Leading Cloud Accounting Software Company, Liquid Accounts Are Chasing The Storm With A Brand New Website


(PRWEB UK) 15 June 2011

After launching a brand new version of their award-winning online accounting software (including integrated payroll) and securing second-round funding at the end of the last tax year. The team at Liquid Accounts are pleased to celebrate with the announcement of a new website and trebled sales figures.

Liquid Accounts MD, Matt Holmes said: Were delighted that sales have taken off so dramatically since we launched version 7 of our software, even before weve launched our new website, which is designed to increase sales.”

Weve been around for 6 years now and so we felt it was time to update the look and feel of our software and combine that with some new functionality like payroll and one-click emailing of invoices.The new funding helped us do that. We listened to what our customers were saying about the sort of extra functionality they wanted and how we could make our software even easier for them to use and what weve done has obviously worked!

We also decided to roll out the new look to our newsletter, login, sign-up process and website as well which is what were launching now.

The new website is clean and simple with a very basic but effective design. You can instantly see what software looks like and can choose to:

login to a live demo company (known as a sandbox) there and then for a play around
sign up for a 30-day free trial
book a web demo
The site is built entirely on the WordPress blogging platform, so that the Liquid team can upload resources, industry expertise, details of events, thought leadership and partner information, keeping visitors more up to date with what is going on within the cloud computing and cloud accounting industry.

Matt said, As a company at the forefront of cloud computing in the UK, we want to make sure that we are making the best use of new online technologies ourselves. Im regularly asked to speak at cloud computing events in my capacity as Chair of the Cloud Computing Special Interest Group for BASDA (the Business Application Software Developers Association) and I always advise people to build their website on a blogging platform as its more cost effective, has content management built in (by its very nature), and is better for SEO.

Now were practising what we preach!

This year is being billed as the year of the cloud and cloud computing is predicted to become mainstream and give the UK economy a boost over the next 5 years. Were also seeing established players like Microsoft heavily promoting cloud as the way forward, and in our industry, companies like Sage and Access announcing cloud initiatives. Its definitely a very exciting time, and our figures show that were in the right place at the right time to make the most of these new developments.

Main features of the new design

Fresh, clean design
User friendly with easy navigation
New integrated payroll system
See the software and try it out for yourself instantly
Read testimonials and case studies from people who are already using the software.

About Liquid Accounts

Liquid Accounts is a market leader in online accounting software, and is seen as one of the top 4 companies in the country in this field. Liquid Accounts is based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire and also has an office in Exeter, Devon. Members of the sales team are based in Bolton, Lancashire and Alton, Hampshire.

Liquid Accounts offers a flexible, scalable and affordable accounting solution to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that works in conjunction with a free client manager module for their accountant or bookkeeper.

Liquid is the first company to be accredited by the new BASDA (Business Application Software Developers Association)

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Leading Cloud Accounting Software Company, Liquid Accounts Are Chasing The Storm With A Brand New Website

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

CloudSigma and Standing Cloud Deliver Easy-to-Use Cloud Applications

Boulder, CO and Zurich, Switzerland (PRWEB) August 29, 2011

Standing Cloud, Inc. (http://www.standingcloud.com), a leader in the emerging platform-as-a-service (PaaS) marketplace, and CloudSigma (http://www.cloudsigma.com), a leading provider of cloud servers and infrastructure, have announced a partnership that provides a vastly simplified method of deploying and managing cloud-hosted applications to cloud users around the globe.

Available immediately, CloudSigma customers have access to Standing Cloud powered by CloudSigma (http://www.standingcloud.com/cloudsigma), which marries an application layer from Standing Cloud with CloudSigmas innovative infrastructure-as-a-service offering. Customers can select from approximately 100 popular web applicationsincluding WordPress, SugarCRM, DotProject, OpenBravo, and otherscomplete with built-in monitoring and management tools that ease system administration headaches. Developers can use PHP, Java, Ruby on Rails, and Python stacks, along with Jenkins, Bugzilla, and other supporting tools, to support rapid testing and live deployment.

Standing Cloud powered by CloudSigma removes the mystery of the cloud for informal buyers who have struggled to make the cloud accessible and easy. Forrester Research defines this group to include application developers, innovative business users and service providers. The ability to shed generic application server management and concentrate on core infrastructure needs underscores Standing Cloud’s appeal to cloud power users.

Pricing bundles start at $ 33.95 per month. CloudSigma customers and other interested parties are invited to a webinar on September 7th to learn how deploying applications can take minutes, not hours, and how managing applications is handled by Standing Cloud powered by CloudSigma — no systems administration knowledge required. Click here to sign up: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/567185022.

Galasoluciones CTO David Mari is a CloudSigma customer whose firm has used Standing Cloud powered by CloudSigma to build Java and PHP applications, as well as deploy and manage open source applications such as Drupal and Joomla. Standing Cloud powered by CloudSigma enables us to develop for platforms we weren’t supporting yet and to spin up production servers within a few clicks, without quitting our CloudSigma account, all for a low price, he said.

We are thrilled to partner with CloudSigma and give their customers an easy-to-use way to manage applications in the cloud. Standing Cloud and CloudSigma share a vision of cloud computings future: where any user, regardless of technical abilities, can find and use highly reliable applications, without system administration burdens, said David J. Jilk, CEO of Standing Cloud.

Patrick Baillie, CEO of CloudSigma commented CloudSigma’s approach has always been focused on customer choice. The addition of Standing Cloud to our platform allows our customers to adjust in a fine grain way the parts of their infrastructure where they can add value as well as outsource those areas where a managed approach makes the most sense through Standing Cloud. Critically, our platform now allows customers to find an optimal position on this spectrum that suits their particularly needs in a dynamic, granular and fluid fashion.

About Standing Cloud

Standing Cloud is the only platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that enables cloud users to deploy, manage, customize and/or develop applications on a variety of cloud services and with several programming languages. The service supports PHP, Java, Ruby, and Python, as well as 90+ complete open source applications that can be deployed by end users with a few clicks. Target customers include business users who want an easy way to automatically deploy and manage SaaS; developers who customize existing open source applications or develop their own from scratch; and IT professionals in search of a time-saving way to deploy applications and development environments for teams within their organization.

Standing Cloud is backed by Foundry Group and Avalon Ventures, and was founded in 2009 by CEO David J. Jilk, former CEO of Xaffire, an online application monitoring company that was sold to Quest Software in 2005. Board members include Brad Feld of Foundry Group and Rich Levandov of Avalon.

About CloudSigma

CloudSigma AG, based in Z


CloudSigma and Standing Cloud Deliver Easy-to-Use Cloud Applications

Thursday, 30 May 2013

VPS.NET

Boulder, CO and Providence, UT (PRWEB) April 27, 2012

VPS.NET (http://vps.net/), a leading provider of public clouds, today announced the launch of its new cloud application marketplace.


VPS.NET

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Standing Cloud Launches Ready-Built Application Marketplace for Cloud Service Providers


Boulder, CO (PRWEB) May 01, 2012

Standing Cloud (http://www.standingcloud.com), a leading provider of cloud application management solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the Standing Cloud Marketplace, a ready-built application marketplace for cloud service providers.


Standing Cloud Launches Ready-Built Application Marketplace for Cloud Service Providers

GNAX 50% Off Promotion on Cloud Computing Ending


Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) May 01, 2012

Global Net Access (GNAX), a leading technology infrastructure service provider, announces that its 50% off GNAX Cloud service promotion is ending on May 17, 2012. The GNAX Cloud is an enterprise-grade, multi-tenant cloud computing solution, powered by VMware vCloud Director. It allows customers to manage an entire virtual infrastructure through a simple web interface, maximizing resource utilization while enhancing the security, reliability and flexibility of enterprise IT infrastructure. Learn more about the GNAX Cloud 50% off offer.

GNAX has been offering 50% off its GNAX Cloud service for almost an entire year. “Our list price is already extremely low, beating all of our competitors on most levels,” explains GNAX Vice President of Marketing, Matt Mong. “The extra 50% off makes it even more attractive. You get the latest enterprise-grade cloud service from VMware delivered on a Tier-4 electrical infrastructure from GNAX.”

The GNAX Cloud now comes with 27 popular open source application templates that users can deploy in two steps and just a couple of minutes. The application stacks include WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, SugarCRM, LAMPstack, phpBB and more. Learn more about these open source application templates in the cloud.

The GNAX Cloud also comes with the GNAX AppMonitor. This service pinpoints and solves performance issues in Ruby, Java, .NET and PHP applications. It combines real user monitoring, application monitoring, and availability monitoring in a single solution, changing the way developers and operations teams manage web application performance in real-time.

“There is no catch,” continues Mr. Mong. “The 50% discount is recurring every month for all the services you purchase. The vCloud platform from VMware is relatively new, and GNAX is one of the first service providers to offer it. We think this offer is helping customers see the real benefits in the GNAX Cloud and spurring further adoption.”

To take advantage of this cloud computing offer, interested parties must do so before May 17th. Readers can find out more about the GNAX Cloud and how to order cloud computing services for 50% off at http://gnax.net/services/cloud_services/50-off-gnax-cloud-coupon.html.

About GNAX

Global Net Access (GNAX) is a leading technology infrastructure service provider offering enterprises mission-critical datacenter colocation, managed hosting, storage and backup, as well as enterprise level VMware based cloud computing services. GNAX’s cloud solutions deliver secure, scalable and self-service public and private clouds that reduce expenses, improve application performance and increase organization agility. GNAX also serves many large healthcare clients and provides healthcare focused solutions. GNAX’s 70,000 square feet mission-critical datacenter in Atlanta is SSAE 16 Type II-certified with Tier-4 power and serves as its home base with an additional strategic facility located in Dallas, Texas. GNAX also offers dedicated servers through NetDepot. Learn more at http://www.gnax.net.








GNAX 50% Off Promotion on Cloud Computing Ending