Articles in Cloud
EvoSwitch wins three year contract extension with Codemasters
EvoSwitch, the CO2-neutral data center in Amsterdam, has announced a three-year extension to its contract with Codemasters, which will see the video game developer and publisher continue to use EvoSwitch data center and services until 2014. As part of the contract, EvoSwitch will continue to provide high-performance, high-availability internet connectivity and data center housing for Codemasters. Codemasters is one of the world’s ... Read More
Rackspace Launches Critical Sites in Europe
Rackspace Strengthens Enterprise Services for EMEA Customers With Launch of Critical Sites for Extreme Mission-Critical Deployments Rackspace, the service leader in the cloud, today announces the European launch of its Critical Sites service. Designed to serve customers whose online presence is ‘extremely mission-critical’, Critical Sites delivers enterprise-level web hosting solutions and customer-facing applications and web ... Read More
Internet is Double Edged Sword in Customer Service – UKFast Debate Pre-empts Industry Report
The world wide web may have given businesses easy access to a huge audience and the opportunity to remedy customer complaints in public but it’s also increased pressure on firms to react quickly without losing the personal touch. B2B firms are faring badly when it comes to developing an effective strategy that tracks customer feedback and identifies problems with their customer communications. A round table debate held by hosting ... Read More
Cloud computing company iomart is finalist for top UK business award
iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM), the leading managed hosting and cloud computing services company, has been shortlisted for one of the UK’s most prestigious business awards. The company is a finalist for the National Business Awards 2011 in partnership with Orange. iomart has been shortlisted in the Santander Small to Medium sized Business of the Year category. Stephen Dury, Santander Corporate Banking’s Director of Strategy and Market ... Read More
CloudFuzion Cloud Clusters From Axceleon Inc
Axceleon™ brings the power of the cloud to Siggraph 2011. CloudFuzion integrates internal render farm rendering nodes with cloud based render nodes and automatically forms an expanded cluster of internal and cloud based rendering resources. This enables studios to engage “on-demand” pay-as-you-go cloud based services like Amazon EC2 or Microsoft Azure to complement their internal infrastructure as needed. CloudFuzion also supports ... Read More
DataChambers Announces Cloud Hosting Service
DataChambers is introducing a new Cloud Hosting service that will enable companies to replace or extend their existing server network without making a costly capital investment. A secure, high-performance computing infrastructure will be accessible over the Internet – hosted, maintained and managed by DataChambers. Companies using the service can use Cloud Hosting to replace their existing servers, to augment their existing computing ... Read More
KBC Banking & Insurance opens two energy efficient data centres in Central Europe
Data centre supplier Minkels is now the standard for the whole of KBC Veghel, the Netherlands, 25 July 2011 – KBC Banking & Insurance, an originally Belgian financial group whose operations include retail banking, private banking, insurance, and the provision of services to both SMEs and major companies, has just opened two entirely new data centres in Hungary, built in partnership with data centre supplier Minkels and system ... Read More
UKFast Announces CloudApps Service
Developed with clients’ growing interest in mobile computing and remote working in mind, CloudApps uses Remote Desktop Services (RDS) to allow users to access programs remotely while making them appear as if they are running locally. CloudApps presents a brand new way to manage documents, deploy services and connect remote workers on premises, in the cloud or via a blend of both. CloudApps responds to feedback from UKFast’s ... Read More
Cloud Services Drive Growth for UKFast
Manchester-based hosting specialist UKFast announces a record breaking first half to the year growing 38 per cent on the same period last year. The results are bolstered by a significant increase in large customers and the growing trend for firms to outsource to the cloud. UKFast figures also show a retention rate of 99 per cent. Managing Director, Lawrence Jones is keen to emphasise that while virtual data centre solutions are on the ... Read More
Leading ITC suppliers Westcoastcloud and Forensic Software partner to offer complete e-safety solution for schools
Two of the UK’s leading suppliers of e-safety, Westcoastcloud and Forensic Software, have partnered up to offer the most comprehensive online child protection solution yet to the education sector. The all-in-one cloud service ‘Netintelligence powered by Forensic Software,’ offers schools and local authorities a truly integrated e-safety solution that includes real time monitoring, web filtering, blocking and policy enforcement which ... Read More
Linode Introduce NodeBalancer
NodeBalancer is a managed load-balancer-as-a-service (lbaas), built upon a high-available cloud cluster architecture. Placing a NodeBalancer in front of your Linode cloud servers allows you to scale your applications and service horizontally and also adds conveniences like being able to perform rolling upgrades across your fleet without affecting existing sessions. By distributing incoming traffic over one or more Linode backends, ... Read More
GearHost Cloud Hosting Renews SmarterTools Partnership
GearHost Inc., a cloud web hosting provider specializing in managed Microsoft Windows solutions, is pleased to announce it has renewed its long standing partnership with information technology management company SmarterTools Inc. GearHost will package the SmarterTools suite of products into its CloudServer offering. The software bundle includes the professional editions of the SmarterMail mail server, an Exchange-level Windows mail ... Read More
Ensim Launches Unify Cloud Manager
Ensim Corporation, announced the release of Ensim Unify Cloud Manager, which enables service providers to leverage all of the functionality of the leading carrier-grade Ensim Unify platform to empower resellers and organizations to efficiently and securely offer a wide variety of cloud services including desktop, server, and application. Ensim Unify Cloud Manager is a complete, centralized platform that manages the creation, activation, ... Read More
Citrix Acquires Cloud Infrastructure Provider Cloud.com
Citrix Systems today announced it has completed the acquisition of Cloud.com, a market leading provider of software infrastructure platforms for cloud providers. The company’s innovative CloudStack™ product line helps providers of all types deploy and manage simple, cost-effective cloud services that are scalable, secure, and open by design. This acquisition further establishes Citrix as a leader in infrastructure for the rapidly ... Read More
PacificHost partners with StopTheHacker to offer 1-Click Website Security
PacificHost, a leading provider of Linux-based cPanel hosting solutions for video and social media websites, announced on Monday it has partnered with website security services provider, StopTheHacker. The partnership integrates PacificHost services with services offered by StopTheHacker to protect the online reputation of websites and e-businesses. With StopTheHacker, clients will have the ability to easily enable features that will ... Read More
