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

MailChimp Simplifies the Boss Approval Process

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) October 19, 2011

MailChimp today announced the launch of the OnStage application, a collaborative email campaign editing solution. OnStage provides a single location for MailChimp subscribers to showcase email campaigns prior to sending. It streamlines the email campaign feedback process, allowing for quicker and closer collaboration between colleagues.

A common bottleneck in the creation of email campaigns is the review process. An email draft is carefully crafted, a test email is sent, but now it must be looked over by several sets of eyes, many of which will want to see some changes. The revisions are made, but this leads to another round of review. The flurry of emails back and forth can be cumbersome, and details can be overlooked in the noise. OnStage eliminates this email game of telephone tag.

OnStage lets email creators present an email draft to their boss and colleagues all at once. The email draft is pulled directly from the creator’s MailChimp Campaign, displaying it for all participants in the presentation. The audience can then converse about it in OnStage’s “Peanut Gallery,” proposing changes and giving real time critique with its chat function. The chat can be easily filtered, letting the creator focus on one or two voices in the conversation. OnStage also provides a simple, collaborative to-do list that saves key feedback points, and easily lays out requested changes. The to-do list is easily updated and augmented by the creator and users alike. Annotated changes can be added to the campaign when users click exactly on the part of the email campaign that needs fixing and writing in their thoughts or solutions. These points are then automatically added to the to-do list.

After the initial showcase, suggested changes are then made to the original email, after which its creator can head back to OnStage for another round of feedback. This process can be repeated as many times as needed until it’s given the go ahead for sending.

This is a nifty way to keep the conversation in one place, facilitating close, easy collaboration.

The service is completely free. All it takes is a MailChimp account, an email campaign, and someone(s) who likes to edit other people’s work.

To get started, head over to onstageapp.com. Once there, a user will log in with their MailChimp credentials. They can then pick a campaign to showcase and invite participants. After everyone arrives via a unique link, the collaborative process begins.

OnStage was developed by MailChimp Labs. MailChimp Labs has released a slew of innovative, at times irreverent, email apps and projects, including Chimpadeedee, Omnivore, the Email Genome Project, and LOLCode.

Links:

http://www.onstageapp.com/login

http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/onstage

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user — someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

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Quirky Seal of Approval Simplifies Braces-Friendly Lifestyle

Mesa, AZ (PRWEB) May 16, 2012

Metal Mouth Media, known for its comfort, care and cooking resources aimed at silver smiles, has stepped up its game for taking the bite out of braces. Whatever your style of braces metal, ceramic or removable the new Braces-Friendly Seal of Approval puts the spotlight on snacks, websites, health products and other choices that help you sparkle day and night.

Pamela Waterman, president of Metal Mouth Media, says, You dont want braces to slow you down. This Seal of Approval is the fast-pass for deciding what will make you feel good and simplify life when a smile is under construction. Waterman, a veteran of both teen and adult braces, first wrote the award-winning Braces Cookbook series to help braces-wearers of all ages prepare easy meals for tender teeth. Now her business has created the Braces-Friendly Seal of Approval as a way to quickly identify products that stand out as particularly suited for braces-wearers.

Whatever type of braces youre wearing, our Braces-Friendly Seal of Approval takes the guess-work out of choosing braces-friendly products, says Waterman. Were always on the lookout for creative comfort food, targeted health-care items and great sources of information, whether online or in books. Our new seal, a spin-off from the Metal Mouth Media logo, literally puts a stamp of approval on items put to every-day use by our advisory board.

To be awarded the seal, products must meet a check-list of braces-friendly factors such as taste, performance, ease-of-use or informative content. The Braces-Friendly Advisory Board, comprising braces-wearers from nine to 50 years old, just gave its thumbs-up to the first three Seal recipients:

Quirky Seal of Approval Simplifies Braces-Friendly Lifestyle

MailChimp Integration with RightSignature Simplifies Contract Management

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) April 11, 2012

MailChimp today announced its integration with RightSignature. RightSignature, an intuitive e-signature solution, allows users to quickly send, fill out, and sign documents online. This integration allows MailChimp users to sync their list subscribers directly to RightSignature for easy sending of any document that needs a signature.

RightSignature enables businesses and professionals to send and approve contracts, customer forms, releases, and other documents. Recipients can fill out and sign documents in any web browser, or on their smart phone or tablet. RightSignature can also capture hand-drawn signatures for powerful authentication. The service allows for reusable templates, multiple senders and signatories, unlimited document sending and storage, plus many other features.

It is simple for MailChimp and RightSignature users to take advantage of this integration. Once users link their MailChimp and RightSignature accounts, they will have access to their MailChimp contacts from within RightSignature. Users just type in the name of a MailChimp contact who needs to receive and sign a document, and the proper name and email address will automatically populate within RightSignature. Then, just write a short message, designate which parts of the document require approval, and click send.

This integration is easy to use and saves time for businesses that need to get contracts and agreements to their subscribers or list members. It cuts out the tedious step of switching between services and hunting through lists for the proper contact information.

Weve used MailChimp for years, and were huge fans, says Daryl Bernstein, CEO of RightSignature. Now were proud to bring the ease and efficiency of RightSignature online signatures to the millions of MailChimp users. Starting today, sending documents for legally-binding e-signature to your MailChimp list members is as easy as peeling a banana.

Links

http://connect.mailchimp.com/integrations/rightsignature–easy-online-document-signing

http://ub.rightsignature.com/mch1/

About MailChimp

MailChimp supports more than 1.6 million subscribers worldwide, sending 2.8 billion emails per month. MailChimp is designed for the do-it-yourself power user someone looking for all of the power of the enterprise application, but built for anyone to use. MailChimp integrates with many third party applications including Facebook, Twitter, Eventbrite, Salesforce, WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal and Google Analytics. And best of all, prices start at free.

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Virtacore Simplifies App Deployment in its VMware-Powered Cloud with BitNami

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 23, 2012

Virtacore Systems Inc., an industry leading cloud services provider, and BitNami, developer of the BitNami Application Library, have announced that select applications from the BitNami library will soon be available on the Virtacore public cloud platform.

Virtacore is a leading cloud services and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, offering public (pay-as-you-go) and private clouds to the middle market through the companys best-of-class VMware and Cisco-based platform. From their state-of-the art Equinix data center facilities, Virtacore enables customers to virtualize and migrate their IT infrastructure into the cloud, reducing capital costs and operating expenses, while improving data security, network availability, application performance and scalability.

Virtacores ability to allow users to move resources between public and private cloud servers is unique in the cloud space, said Erica Brescia, CEO of BitRock, the developer of BitNami. We are excited to bring our library of the top open source applications to Virtacore Cloud customers, who can now benefit from our one-click deployments and battle-tested server images across public and private cloud environments.

BitNami and Virtacore have selected over 20 popular open source applications that may be deployed in one-click to the Virtacore cloud platform, including SugarCRM, Drupal, WordPress, JasperSoft, Alfresco, Moodle and Redmine, among others. Several of these applications are immediately available on the Virtacore Cloud, with the remainder to be released over the coming weeks. The application images are available at no additional cost to Virtacore customers.

The new applications available on-demand allow our customers to run business services within their own cloud deployments at very little cost,” said George Mitsopoulos, VP, Cloud Products and Services at Virtacore. Customers can test, develop, and deploy without the hassle of installing and maintaining software on premise.

Bundling BitNami into our overall cloud offering is the start of the next wave of larger cloud offerings we are bringing to market, said George Naspo, CEO at Virtacore. Virtacore will also be exhibiting at VMworld (Booth #716) August 26th-29th, 2012 in San Francisco, CA. There we will be discussing our new cloud platform, orchestration engine, and white label cloud services. To learn more about the Virtacore Cloud and sign up for service, visit: virtacore.com

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. Learn more at http://bitnami.com.

About Virtacore Systems

Virtacore Systems is a leading provider of cloud services, offering VMware-based public and private cloud solutions to mid-market businesses and organizations worldwide. Virtacore offers seamless migration of data between public clouds, managed private clouds and internal private clouds, using VMware technology and a unified management portal. Virtacore also offers Google Apps and related application services and support for businesses and service providers. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of IKANO Communications, which is backed by Insight Venture Partners. Headquartered in Sterling, VA, Virtacore has offices in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Seattle. For more information, visit http://www.virtacore.com or http://twitter.com/virtacore.

Virtacore, VMWare, Cisco, vCloud, SugarCRM, Alfresco, BitRock, BitNami, and other trademarks are property of their respective owners. VMware and VMware vCloud are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions.

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