Cleo Communications Partners with Thru to Offer Best-in-Breed Solutions for Advanced Managed File Transfer with Full-Featured Ad Hoc Capabilities

Loves Park, IL and Irving TX (PRWEB) June 15, 2011

Cleo Communications, leading provider of secure enterprise managed file transfer (MFT) solutions and, Thru, Inc., the leading provider of globally networked enterprise cloud-based managed file transfer platform as a service (MFT PaaS), today announced their newly-formed partnership. With both parties driven to find market-leading feature sets to enhance their current file transfer offerings, the pairing of two best-in-breed solutions was an ideal way to offer their respective customers more. This joint effort is further supported by Gartner in a report entitled Predicts 2011: Application integration: A Nimble Veteran of IT, Nov. 23, 2010, which states that by 2015, 40% of integration projects involving application to application (A2A), B2B, MFT and cloud services will be implementing with one IT solution.

The Cleo-Thru partnership brings with it the most flexible options on the market for enterprises of all sizes looking to secure and manage their file transfers. Thru will offer Cleos best-in-breed managed file transfer solution, VLTrader as a hosted solution alongside their existing cloud-based offerings. In turn, Cleo will offer Thrus best-in-breed ad hoc capabilities as an add-on to both existing and new VLTrader customers with on-premise installations. This joint effort supports A2A and SOA, and gives enterprise customers the flexibility to choose the best infrastructure to support their changing business needs by leveraging the strengths of both partners experience.

What Gartner Says

Organizations who are consolidating file transfer solutions are looking for solutions that support a wide range of use scenarios, including A2A, SOA, B2B, cloud and ad hoc Managed File Transfer while also providing the same level of security, compliance, and functionality across all use scenarios, said Thomas Skybakmoen, Sr. Research Analyst Gartner.

What Cleo Says

This partnership gives us the opportunity to offer our customers more flexibility in VLTrader. And, not just more from anyone, but more from a tried and trusted, best-of-breed solution that is a natural addition to our current offering. As an AS2 Leader with a dominant history in secure EDI and B2B communications, Cleo brings to the table more than 30 years of expertise that is apparent in the power of the Cleo solutions. We pride ourselves on offering our customers the best secure and managed file transfer solutions on the market. Thrus ad hoc capabilities combined with those in VLTrader put us in an advantageous position to offer the most advanced, easy to use and full-featured enterprise MFT solution available. Todd Enneking, Vice President of Business Development, Cleo

For Cleo, this is another testament to the truly flexible, advanced managed file transfer capabilities of VLTrader and commitment to demand-driven enhancements. For Thru, this solidifies the position of a comprehensive, secure file transfer hosted solution. These combined market-leading solutions will make a powerful impact on the MFT market.

What Thru Says

Cleos steady-handed approach is without rival and we have long admired them as the unquestioned leader in premised-based B2B solutions, said Lee Harrison, CEO of Thru. As Thru proudly marks our 10 years of building what the analysts dub a best-of-breed platform as a service, this agreement gives us the ability to continue to offer our customers unequaled service offerings of both Cleo and Thru. Customers who require unobstructed visibility to all file transfers, A2A, B2B, ad hoc, cloud or premised- based will benefit from combined current and future joint offerings. Thrus accelerated global network is now available to Cleos VLTrader community for faster large load global communications projects. Thru and Cleo are truly a dynamic duo!

Best-in-breed solutions. Flexible offerings. Dedication to securing enterprise file transfers. Cleo and Thru allow enterprises to take control of various methods of file transfer, gain visibility to all sensitive, mission-critical and ad hoc files transfers and bring peace of mind to those responsible for information security and compliance.

About Cleo

Cleo Communications provides proven, secure, advanced software solutions to companies that have enterprise-wide managed file transfer needs. Powerful, easy-to-use software helps clients secure, manage and consolidate data while meeting the most comprehensive requirements of multiprotocol communications. VLTrader, Cleos flagship managed file transfer solution, helps businesses across numerous vertical industries save money, optimize IT resources, consolidate communications, streamline workflows, control ad hoc communications and meet both SLAs and regulatory compliance mandates. Comprehensive reporting keeps customers in the know. With over 30 years of EDI experience and the leader in AS2 communications, Cleo solutions are customer and partner-ready to help move businesses forward today. Find out more at http://www.cleo.com.

About Thru

Thru, Inc., the leading cloud-based enterprise Managed File Transfer Platform as a Service (MFTPaaS), moves extremely large files with no downtime. Files go rapidly and efficiently, whether across the street or around the globe and without the tremendous IT overhead of deploying and managing global server farms and high-bandwidth internet connections. Thru was named a ‘Cool Vendor’ by Gartner, Inc., in the Cool Vendors in Platforms as a Service 2011 report, April 7, 2011.

For more information, go to http://www.thruinc.com, call 1-(800) 871-9316 or (214) 496-0100, or email info(at)thruinc(dot)com, subscribe to the Thru blog at http://thrumft.wordpress.com/, follow Thru on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thru-Inc/179418792101092 and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ThruF=MFT.

Cleo Communications Partners with Thru to Offer Best-in-Breed Solutions for Advanced Managed File Transfer with Full-Featured Ad Hoc Capabilities

ZippyKid Changes the Managed WordPress Hosting Space - Again

San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) April 18, 2012

After analyzing more than 7,000 support requests, emails, and phone calls from the past year, it was clear that customers of WordPress hosts across the board needed a better way to manage their sites. The beta launch of MyZippyKid is up and ready to address those needs for agencies, developers, and small business owners.

MyZippyKids features span several previously unfulfilled needs, highlighted by the introduction of social sign-on. Social sign-on simplifies the traditional hosting sign up process, allowing users to start building WordPress sites with no more than their Facebook or Google account. With this, customers no longer need to pay for WordPress development environments. MyZippyKid allows customers to develop sites for free, with merely a Facebook or Google account, only seeking payment when theyre ready to take their site live.

Following in the steps of Github and other code repository sites, MyZippyKid allows multi-user collaboration as a way to accelerate website development and management. Collaboration through MyZippyKid provides the easiest way for programmers to work together on WordPress sites with the ease of an invite, side-stepping the hassle of hunting for FTP credentials and other technical jargon that programmers may request. Most importantly, for ZippyKid clients, this means never having to send sensitive information via email.

The introduction of ZippyClone provides a time saving alternative for clients who were forced to use the same base template to create multiple sites to suit specific verticals. ZippyClone allows customers to take any site on the ZippyKid system, tweak it, and launch as many copies as they want.

The WordPress community is driven by the ability to add complementary services and MyZippyKid takes that into consideration. With the click of a button, Add Ons in MyZippyKid make it simple to purchase, attach, and install complementary products such as SSL certificates, premium WordPress themes, domain names, and more.

The release of MyZippyKid comes on the heels of a new round of investment from prominent figures in the hosting community, who believe this will be the future of web hosting.

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Lightning Base Launches Version 2 of its Managed Wordpress Hosting Service

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) February 01, 2012

Lightning Base LLC, the managed WordPress hosting provider, announced today that it has launched a revamped version of its WordPress platform.

The new hosting system provides increased compatibility for diverse WordPress setups and makes it easier for users to self-manage their service, in addition to the managed services Lightning Base provides. The creation of lower priced service plans makes the offering more attractive for personal projects and small business customers.

“Lightning Base launched publicly not long ago. The response was encouraging, but website visitors made it clear there were some features they wanted – and that they were looking for lower prices” said Chris Piepho, founder of Lightning Base. “The company exists to serve WordPress users, and version 2 was designed with their requests in mind.”

Some of the new features at Lightning Base include:

A revamped web hosting stack, featuring the industry standard Apache webserver, and instantly compatible with the vast majority of WordPress configurations, options, and plugins.
The addition of Varnish cache to maintain website performance.
An advanced control panel, offering direct database, log, SFTP, and web-based file access, along with the ability to self-install new WordPress sites.
New pricing plans starting at less than $ 10 per month, bringing the service within reach nearly any WordPress user.

With this update, existing WordPress sites can be easily moved over to Lightning Base, without any changes required. The inclusion of SFTP and advanced control panel access provides website owners with all the control they are used to, while the standard setup allows the use of all plugins and special WordPress features such as multisite. This is combined with Lightning Base’s existing managed services, such as site transfer, automatic updates, backups, and experienced support.

Lightning Base Version 2 is now available on the Lightning Base website where first-week signups are receiving a lifetime service discount. For more information and to purchase Lightning Base Managed WordPress Hosting, please visit lightningbase.com.

About Lightning Base

Lightning Base is a managed WordPress hosting provider founded in 2011 and based in Minneapolis, MN. The company provides fast, reliable, and easy to use WordPress installations at servers based in Chicago, IL, combined with an included CDN for worldwide content distribution. Free managed services include site transfer or installation, caching setup, automatic updates, backups, and experienced WordPress support. For more information visit: lightningbase.com.

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GMO Cloud Offers Managed Services

Newport Beach California (PRWEB) September 28, 2012

GMO Internet Group subsidiary, GMO Cloud America Inc. today starts offering Managed Service options for highly acclaimed public cloud service, GMO Cloud Public.

GMO Cloud Publics low cost Managed Services are available as individual options allowing customers to select only the functions they need and avoid spending on unnecessary services. Managed service options include security management, monitoring, data restoration and setup.

We actively listen to our customers and constantly review our offerings to ensure that we always provide optimized service, and customers have clearly told us they want managed options for security and monitoring, says GMO Cloud CTO Minoru Karasawa, When you sign up for our managed services, you get access to a team of cloud experts to help you plan, deploy and run your website or application. Thousands of customers have trusted us with their cloud infrastructure so that they can focus more time on their business.

GMO Cloud Managed Services will include the following options.

Security Service Options

Firewall policy configuration, iptables/TCPWrapper base access control, DenyHosts configuration, SSL certificate installation, website compromise detection and reporting, and security updates.

Fee: $ 100 per month

Monitoring & Restoration Service Options

Live monitoring of virtual servers (ping), port monitoring (rebooted in case of failure), FTP, SSH, SMTP, DNS, HTTP, POP, HTTPS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, server reboot, and availability reporting.

Fee: $ 100 per month

Setup Service Options

Setup services* (data migration, consultation and virtual server initialization, and server architecture built to customer requirements), security pack, auto scale-up, auto scale-out, load balancer setup, modification of server configuration, log file deletion, mail queue deletion, free security assessment, firewall policy (consultation and configuration), access restriction settings for Iptables/TCPWrapper, SSL Installation (PLESK/HDE), SSL Installation (without management tool), SSL Relocation, security update support, WordPress installation, MovableType installation, and Perl/PHP module installation.

Fees: one-time fees ranging from $ 0 to $ 450 depending on needs – please inquire for quotation.

*Setup services are only available for CentOS templates (excluding Beta versions) in the Japan (Tokyo) location.

For more information on GMO Cloud Public Managed Services, please visit:

http://us.gmocloud.com/specifications/managed.html

Please inquire to infous(at)gmocloud(dot)com to discuss your specific requirements and receive a price quotation.

About GMO Cloud Public

GMO Cloud Public is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model public cloud solution that allows users to create virtual machines, and flexibly scale resources so that they pay only for the CPU cores, memory and storage space they use. GMO Cloud Public has been selected by serious business users since its launch due to its high performance, reliability and cost efficiency. In addition to zero setup cost and free data transfer, GMO Cloud Public offers highly efficient control over resource usage, resulting in greatly reduced ongoing running costs. It is one of the leading public cloud IaaS in Japan and has a growing presence in the US and Malaysia. For more information please visit: http://us.gmocloud.com/features/

About GMO Cloud America Inc.

GMO Cloud America Inc. is a full-service hosting and cloud computing solution provider and a subsidiary of GMO Cloud K.K., the number-one web hosting company in Japan. The company offers global data-centers, premium on-demand infrastructure, solid strategic partnerships and a competitive performance-based pricing model. GlobalSign, SSL global leader and GMO Internet Group company, secures the companys high-performance network. For more information please visit: http://us.gmocloud.com/company/

About GMO CLOUD K.K.

GMO Cloud K.K. is a full-service IT infrastructure provider focused on cloud solutions. Established as a hosting company in 1996, the company has managed servers for more than 130,000 businesses and now has 6,000 sales partners throughout Japan. In February of 2011, the company launched GMO Cloud to enhance its focus on cloud-based solutions. Since 2007, the company has also grown its GlobalSign SSL security brand through offices in Belgium, U.K., U.S., China and Singapore. (TSE Mothers: 3788) For more information please visit: http://ir.gmocloud.com/english/

About GMO Internet Group

GMO Internet Group is a comprehensive provider of industry-leading Internet solutions including domain name registration, cloud-based and traditional hosting, ecommerce, security, and payment processing services that each hold the top share of their respective markets in Japan. Other key business areas for the Group include online securities/FX trading, Internet advertising, search engine marketing and online research. In 2011 a new Social Media & Smartphone Platform segment was established bringing together group initiatives in social apps development, daily deals and Android app distribution. GMO Internet, Inc. (TSE: 9449) is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. For more information please visit: http://www.gmo.jp/en/

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