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

Thomson Reuters Releases Calais 2.0 with Support for WordPress, Drupal and Yahoo! Search"s New SearchMonkey Developer Platform : Teams with Publishers and Providers to Deliver Easy-to-Use Applications: - The Calais Tagaroo PlugIn for the WordPress Blogging Platform - Three Calais Modules for the Drupal Publishing Platform - The Calais Marmoset Toolkit for Yahoo! Search"s New SearchMonkey Developer Platform

SAN JOSE, Calif. (PRWEB) May 19, 2008

Found at OpenCalais.com (http://www.OpenCalais.com), Calais gives publishers and developers free, open access to automatic metatagging capabilities that increase the relevance and search accessibility of their content on the Web.

Calais version 2.0 features a dozen new semantic entity types, improving its utility for pop-culture publishers and bloggers covering media, music, entertainment and sports, as well as those covering pharmaceuticals, medicine and healthcare. It also adds code samples and libraries for accessing Calais, as well as two new output types the Simple Tags format and Microformats alongside the standard Resource Description Framework (RDF) option.

In addition, Calais 2.0 marks the debut of Thomson Reuters’ breakthrough Calais Marmoset toolkit. Calais Marmoset is a simple yet powerful tool that makes it easy for publishers to generate and embed metadata in their content in preparation for Yahoo! Search’s new open developer platform, SearchMonkey, as well as other metacrawlers and semantic applications. To learn more about the Calais Marmoset tool, go to OpenCalais.com/Tools (http://www.OpenCalais.com/Tools).

“We are humbled and gratified that more than 3,200 developers have joined the Calais community to work with the service, share ideas and help prioritize the development of our new features,” said Thomas Tague, Calais evangelist and project lead, Thomson Reuters. “We are also thrilled to provide bloggers and publishers of all sizes with new Calais plugins and modules that make it easy to kick-start metatagging and enter the era of the Semantic Web.”

Today, the company also debuted the Calais Tagaroo plugin (http://tagaroo.opencalais.com) for the WordPress Publishing platform found at http://Wordpress.org. The Calais Tagaroo plugin makes it easy for WordPress bloggers to tag the people, places, facts and events in their blog posts and add relevant photos from Flickr to increase their blogs’ visual appeal and accessibility on the Web. Tagaroo works in the background while bloggers write, automatically generating tags and finding related photos for selection, sizing and insertion via an easy-to-use interface.

In related news, Thomson Reuters teamed with Phase2Technology to create three Calais modules for integration with Drupal, an increasingly popular open source content management platform that supports a variety of Web sites, from blogs to large publishers and interactive communities (http://drupal.org/). The Calais modules for Drupal (at http://drupal.org/project/opencalais) make it easy for Drupal users to automatically tag their content, generating rich semantic metadata that can be shared via a simple key for integration into the larger content universe.

Finally, the Calais Web site at http://www.OpenCalais.com has been re-launched and redesigned to reflect the new Thomson Reuters brand architecture, and to support a dramatic upgrade in Calais community features. These include robust and interactive forum services, interest groups, advanced search and navigation as well as a host of other design and interaction features. Registered Calais users will not need to re-register for the site or Calais services.

About Calais

The Calais initiative supports the interoperability of content and advances Thomson Reuters’ mission to deliver pervasive intelligent information. It leverages the company’s substantial investment in semantic technologies and Natural Language Processing to offer free metadata generation services, developer tools and an open standard for the generation of semantic content. For more information or to get started with the Calais API, please visit OpenCalais.com (http://www.OpenCalais.com).

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.

Thomson Reuters Releases Calais 2.0 with Support for WordPress, Drupal and Yahoo! Search"s New SearchMonkey Developer Platform : Teams with Publishers and Providers to Deliver Easy-to-Use Applications: - The Calais Tagaroo PlugIn for the WordPress Blogging Platform - Three Calais Modules for the Drupal Publishing Platform - The Calais Marmoset Toolkit for Yahoo! Search"s New SearchMonkey Developer Platform

Thomson Reuters Debuts Calais Tagaroo : Easy-to-Use PlugIn Empowers WordPress Bloggers to Reach More Readers

SAN JOSE, Calif. (PRWEB) May 19, 2008

Found at http://tagaroo.opencalais.com, the Calais Tagaroo plugin makes it easy for WordPress bloggers to tag the people, places, facts and events in their blog posts and add relevant photos from Flickr to increase their visual appeal and search accessibility on the Web.

The Calais Tagaroo plug in works in the background while bloggers write to automatically generate tags and find related photos for selection, sizing and insertion via an easy-to-use interface. Bloggers are in control, and can add their own metatags along the way. They can also easily prioritize Tagaroo’s image search on Flickr to find the pictures that best illustrate their story.

“Calais Tagaroo brings automated metatagging and real-time photo search to the Web’s most popular blogging platform,” said Thomas Tague, Calais evangelist and project lead, Thomson Reuters. “We are extremely pleased to provide this free utility to WordPress bloggers, enabling them to increase their blogs’ search relevance and to benefit from new and emerging semantic services.”

The Calais Tagaroo plugin is easy to use. Here’s how it works:

1. Bloggers on WordPress 2.3 or above go to Tagaroo.OpenCalais.com (http://Tagaroo.OpenCalais.com) to download the plugin and get simple instructions.

2. They then go to OpenCalais.com (http://www.OpenCalais.com) to register for the Calais community and to get a Calais API key.

3. Finally, they use the WordPress settings page to paste a copy into their key space, and start drafting their next blog post.

Calais Tagaroo will start working immediately, suggesting tags for more than 100 types of things (people, companies, geographies, and organizations) and events (natural disasters, management changes, stock offerings, etc.). This vocabulary of facts and events will continue to grow every month to cover additional knowledge domains, such as sports and entertainment.

Calais Tagaroo is another component in the growing Calais toolkit. Calais delivers the power of the world’s leading semantic metadata generation service as a free and open Web service with a growing portfolio of plugins, modules and applications. To learn more about Calais Tagaroo, go to Tagaroo.OpenCalais.com (http://Tagaroo.OpenCalais.com).

About Calais

The Calais initiative supports the interoperability of content and advances Thomson Reuters’ mission to deliver pervasive intelligent information. It leverages the company’s substantial investment in semantic technologies and Natural Language Processing to offer free metadata generation services, developer tools and an open standard for the generation of semantic content. For more information or to get started with the Calais API, go to OpenCalais.com (http://www.OpenCalais.com).

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.

Thomson Reuters Debuts Calais Tagaroo : Easy-to-Use PlugIn Empowers WordPress Bloggers to Reach More Readers