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PEER 1 Hosting’s HPC Self Serve Cloud delivers a flexible and cost-effective high performance computing environment by fusing virtual and physical servers with a private net. The result is a seamless, self-serve solution that is fast, secure and available on-demand.

“In today’s competitive market, businesses with intense graphic processing requirements simply can’t wait months or years for improvements to their in-house IT infrastructure,” said Greg Rusu, General Manager of Zunicore, a division of PEER 1 Hosting. “With PEER 1 Hosting’s new HPC Self Serve Cloud, businesses will benefit from maximum performance on-demand – whenever they need it ­- while managing ever-tightening constraints on business resources and budgets.”

Customers of the new HPC Self Serve Cloud can enjoy maximum performance of up to 665 teraflops deployed in as little as fifteen minutes. The service is available on a pay-by-the-hour or monthly basis, without signing a long term contract.

“This is the cloud solution we have been waiting for,” said Dean Lester, CEO, Vizua. “The ability to access additional amounts of real-time, high performance computing on-demand is critical to delivering our service during peak traffic times. For our business, PEER 1 Hosting’s new HPC Self Serve Cloud is a game changer.”

Key features:
Ready to use in fifteen minutes
Hourly Billing
nVidia GPUs at full speed
Physical Servers

o Dual Xeon CPUs
o 32GB RAM min
o 400GB local storage
o 1Gb Public and Private network
o Easy 10Gb+ interconnect

Fully-secured network
Seamless Hybrid: VMs + Physical Servers
Up to 50 servers
Over 665 T-Flops

About PEER 1 Hosting
PEER 1 Hosting is one of the world’s leading IT hosting providers. The company is built on two obsessions: Ping & People. Ping, represents its commitment to best-in-breed technology, founded on a high performance 10Gbps FastFiber Network connected by 18 state-of-the-art datacenters, 22 points-of-presence and 10 colocation facilities throughout North America and Europe. People, represents its commitment to delivering outstanding customer service to its more than 10,000 customers worldwide, backed by a 100 percent uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 FirstCall PromiseTM. Info-Tech Research Group recently named PEER 1 Hosting as a “Champion” in its Canadian colocation and managed services Vendor Landscape report, recognizing the company’s strength in product offerings and enterprise strategy in the global IT marketplace. PEER 1 Hosting’s portfolio includes Managed Hosting, Dedicated Servers under the ServerBeach brand, Colocation and Cloud Services under the Zunicore brand. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with European operations headquartered in Southampton, UK. PEER 1 Hosting shares are traded on the TSX under the symbol PIX. For more information visit: www.peer1.com or www.peer1hosting.co.uk

Roubroo, the cloud orchestration company announced the general availability of its first of a kind Business Process Management (BPM) Suite.

Roubroo’s BPM suite is fully cloud based and helps organizations of all sizes to orchestrate system and human activities across all enterprise applications, whether those applications are on cloud or on-premise.

“Roubroo BPMN executes BPMN 2.0 natively. This means that there is no conversion from your process diagram notation to other notations that force you to design processes under constraints of execution. Roubroo allows you to design most complex process patterns with incredible ease and simplicity and execute the exact same process model as runtime application. A true What You Design Is What You Execute (WYDIWYE) engine,” said Vishal Saxena, founder and CEO of Roubroo.

Roubroo is founded by industry veteran Vishal Saxena who has spent the last 15 years designing and engineering process management products and standards. “Working with many BPM products we saw that there is still tremendous gap between what business wants and what IT can implement. We wanted to fill this gap with Roubroo,” said Vishal, further noting “Till now BPM products were only targeted towards large enterprises due to high costs and long implementation times. With Roubroo, we enable democratization of BPM and offer best in class product that addressed the needs of small and large enterprises.”

Roubroo BPM is available in the cloud and can also be deployed on-premise providing deployment choice to the customers. The full cloud version is available for free trial, requests can be sent to [email protected] .

Roubroo is hosting a webinar entitled “Roubroo – Orchestrate your business process on Cloud & Ground” on June 28th where attendees can learn about how Roubroo is changing the BPM forever. Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/62yg7/register/8879384669455507712

Vehera LTD , who trade as SMEStorage, today announced that over 50,000 users are now using their CloudDav feature, which adds WebDav over any storage Cloud, to edit documents on the iPad and iPhone from iWork and other WebDav ready document editing Apps.

CEO Ian Osborne said, “Many iOS Apps may not directly support Storage Clouds such DropBox, BaseCamp, Amazon S3, Google Drive, SkyDrive, RackSpace etc, but do provide support for WebDav access. Apple’s own iWork App which encompasses Pages, Numbers and Keynote is classic example of this.”

“This prevents users from directly opening, editing and saving their documents using these tools. What CloudDav does is add a WebDav protocol adaptor to these Clouds so users can directly edit and interact with them using Apps that provide support for WebDav, such as iWork.”

“Also, If users have many different cloud accounts, they don’t need to log into ten different servers, or create 10 different profiles, to access and manage or edit files, it can be done by simply switching directory when logging into the SME Cloud File System, which federates access to over 35 Storage Clouds.”

Osborne finished by saying, “CloudDav is just one of the protocol adaptors we support. We also add support for FTP and the Amazon S3 protocol above any Storage Clouds, whether it is natively supported or not. Also, due to the ability we have to federate Clouds, we can provide a nice capability for users to be able to nominate a backup cloud to a primary cloud for direct Cloud to Cloud backups. Our Cloud Appliance and Cloud File Server business users often take advantage of these features to back up in-house data Amazon S3, or even to make local storage appear to be Amazon S3 storage.”

The CloudDav feature is free to users who purchase the iSMEStorage iOS App from the Apple App Store, or it is a one time purchase of $5 from the SMEStorage website for users who open a free account that gives 5GB of free storage plus the ability to WebDav enable 3 other Clouds.

Cloud File Server or on-Premise Appliance hybrid cloud users also receive the CloudDav feature for free.

About SMEStorage:
SMEStorage provide a hybrid cloud file server that can be used on Cloud or on premise and that features sophisticated desktop and mobile clients, and Cloud Governance and data federation features.

More information: www.smestorage.com

Green House Data, announced that its Green House Data Cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director™. A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Green House Data provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

“We are excited to join the VMware vCloud Powered program and are committed to providing our clients with simplified management of all their IT needs,” shared Shawn Mills, President, Green House Data. “The Green House Data vCloud Powered service is just another way for our customers to manage and customize their infrastructure on-demand.”

“The VMware vCloud Powered program was developed to enable our service provider partners to differentiate themselves and help them bring their enterprise-class cloud services to market in this competitive landscape,” said Don Schleicher, vice president, service providers, VMware. “We look forward to supporting Green House Data further as it delivers on the agility and performance customers are looking for in the cloud computing landscape.”

Customers of Green House Data have the ability to move workloads from their VMware vSphere-based virtualized or private cloud environment to the Green House Data Cloud, a VMware vCloud Powered service, and back again. This application portability is a key differentiator allowing customers to achieve the flexibility and security they need while enabling increased IT agility.

Green House Data sought VMware vCloud Powered validation in order to confirm their commitment for providing their customers with simplified management and customized infrastructure, on-demand. As a validated provider, Green House Data can now provide users with enhanced responsiveness and agility, and reduced IT costs through increased consolidation, task automation and simplified management.

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. Their facilities are powered entirely by renewable wind energy and operate 40% more energy efficiently than traditional data centers. The company provides managed servers, managed storage, dedicated infrastructure, disaster recovery and offsite backup to customers around the region, nation and world. Green House Data is a participant in VMware’s Service Provider Program. Learn more at www.greenhousedata.com.

VMware, VMware vCloud, VMware vCloud Director and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The use of the word “ partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

Host1Plus London based international hosting services provider has proudly announced the new MetaTrader templates, which have been added to the Cloud VPSservice. With the help of those templates, the MetaTrader platform installation will be easy and available to beginner MetaTrader users.

“This is the fulfillment of our old promise to the forex traders. Those people need reliable service to trade stocks commodities and currency on the foreign exchange, therefore we have decided to pay more attention and resources to this market. It is highly profitable and has some characteristics of good gambling. Millions of people are working in the exchange online every day. We want them to be as happy as possible with our services,” Vincentas Grinius, the Host1Plus co-founder and CEO said.

MetaTrader is the online trading platform widely used by professional online retail foreign exchange (forex), futures, CFD (commodities), and Stocks. It has two different versions – MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and the newer one Metatrader 5 (MT5). The newer version is still not so popular even though it has some great features of trading Stocks. The both versions are very popular worldwide and require Cloud VPS hosting plan to work properly as lots of data is being processed 24/7. The MetaTrader templates are the special installation applications which allow installing MT4 and MT5 just within few minutes without deep knowledge of Linux OS.

“Forex market is booming. The applications for the fluent and reliable trading is becoming better and easier to use every day. The SaaS solutions are built every day, so they need Cloud VPS – the best hosting for an affordable price. The traders are sales people with great intuition and macroeconomics knowledge. They are not programmers or system administrators, therefore another task was to ease the installation of the most popular Forex solutions as much as possible. I think we are going the right way as those MT4 and MT5 templates are easy to install and set up for everyone, even salesmen.” – Mr. Grinius said about the new MetaTrader Template in Cloud VPS.

The metaTrader Template can be found among the other templates while ordering the new Cloud VPS service.

About Host1Plus
Host1Plus.com is an international cloud computing technologies empowered hosting company which provides shared hosting, Linux and windows VPS hosting, Dedicated Servers, domain name registrations, SSL certificates.

Together with web hosting that comes with unlimited bandwidth Host1Plus.com can boast about the main values which are essential to an international web hosting company – stability, reliability and superb support. Host1Plus is based in London, United Kingdom, some operations are directed from Kaunas, Lithuania And Frankfurt, Germany. It also provides free hosting solutions for small websites and enterprises Host1Free.com. Host1Plus has teamed with professional datacenters around the World located in USA, UK, Netherlands, Singapore, Germany and Lithuania.

Memset, an hosting company with private and public cloud infrastructure, has rolled out its own API for customers to be able to manage their entire cloud portfolio.

Memset’s API enables customers to perform many of the same operations they can currently perform with their web based control panel, but from their own applications, presenting customers with a new discipline with added security, visibility, integration and scale requirements.

The API works for a range of Memset products including Miniserver VM provisioning, DNS management, Performance Patrol cluster management, bandwidth management and, in the case of Memstore their cloud storage product, augments the existing OpenStack API.

This development represents a bold move by the company, extending API functionality well beyond the usual limited basic provisioning capabilities, and they have more in the pipeline including automated provisioning of whole dedicated servers.

“Providing a consistent, well designed and fully documented API is very important if we want to evolve our cloud computing services into a cloud computing platform where our customers can build and scale their products with complete confidence,” said Juan J. Martinez, Lead OpenStack Developer at Memset.

Memset has built the API using standard protocols making it as easy and simple to use as possible.

Memset provides two different access methods over HTTPS: a RESTful interface (using JSON) and an XML-RPC interface. In addition, an open source command line shell is also provided, making it very easy to explore the API and execute remote commands with no programming involved.

“The API is important because it changes the way our infrastructure is used: we provide all our existing services as building blocks that can be combined programmatically in ways that we haven’t thought about but may be very important to our customers,” said Martinez.

With OpenStack continuing to gain steam, there are plans to add a compatibility layer in the future. Memstore has proved the benefits of a vendor-agnostic API and Memset firmly believes that the OpenStack Cloud Compute API will prevail as the standard.

Forrester Research believes management of Cloud APIs presents a challenge and tremendous business opportunity that some are calling “the single biggest growth area for cloud computing.”

For further information and documentation, please see: http://www.memset.com/apidocs/

Open-Xchange, a supplier of business-class email and collaboration software, announced its partnership with The Endurance International Group, a leading provider of domains, Web hosting and online services. The agreement will bring cloud-based communications and collaboration to more than 2 million Endurance customers.

“We are ardent advocates of open platforms, and were very particular when selecting a new email platform for our clients,” said Hari Ravichandran, founder and CEO of The Endurance International Group. “With the switch to Open-Xchange, we’re giving our users outstanding email service, as well as options for collaboration that are on par with those of large enterprises. The efficiency and communications options Open-Xchange presents will give our customers a distinct competitive advantage. ”

With more than 42 million users at the end of last year, Open-Xchange is among the leading messaging and collaboration cloud suites, providing a seamless user experience across platforms and devices, as well as social and business networks.

Open-Xchange integrates email, calendar, contact and task management with advanced collaboration and cutting-edge social network integration. Personal contacts from social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn or Xing can be easily added to the Open-Xchange address book. By adding Open-Xchange mobility capabilities, users can push email and synchronize contacts, calendars and other information from their Open-Xchange accounts to their smartphones, including iPhone, Android-based devices, Nokia and Windows Phone.

“Endurance has one of the largest bases of online small-business customers in the world. This is a very significant strategic win for Open-Xchange,” said Philbert Shih, managing director and founder, Structure Research. “Endurance will greatly benefit from being able to offer its customers the next generation of Open-Xchange, which will include significant new changes to the user experience when introduced later this year. We continue to see email and collaboration as growth centers in the cloud services world and believe hosters have a unique opportunity to raise ARPU (average revenue per user) and enhance customer retention.”

“Open-Xchange is no stranger to helping clients thrive,“ said Rafael Laguna, CEO, Open-Xchange. “Endurance customers will find their email experience improve significantly with the ability to customize their email clients to fit their personal and business needs. Add-on and upgrade options will provide customers additional flexibility. All told, Endurance customers will have advanced communication capabilities that will help them grow their businesses.“

About Endurance International Group

A leading provider of web hosting and online services to small and medium-sized business, Endurance manages over 2 million unique accounts and more than 7.7 million domain names. The diversity of its brands has enabled the company to grow tremendously through both organic channels and strategic acquisitions. Over time, Endurance has maintained its focus on providing the combination of a superior customer experience with a commitment to offering reliable and affordable solutions.

About Open-Xchange

For more than a decade, Open-Xchange has been delivering innovative, cost-effective, open source collaboration alternatives for email, calendar, contacts and document management. The company is a pioneer in SaaS (software as a service) and now a leading email and collaboration cloud application, which provides integration with social and business networks, as well as mobile access. Open-Xchange is used by the largest web host providers in the world, as well as on-premises by some 3,500 businesses, governments and educational institutions. Open-Xchange AG is a privately-held company headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany with offices in Olpe, Germany and Tarrytown, N.Y. For more information, visit www.open-xchange.com

Box announced an all new suite of powerful tools for enterprise customers that simplifies the management of content in the cloud. Box has enhanced its admin console with intuitive controls to unlock deeper content insights, enhance security and streamline the entire Box content management experience. Today’s advancements provide IT admins with a single, centralized view of their enterprise content operations, powered by Box.

Box Cloud Storage

“Enterprises are realizing transformative gains by adopting the cloud, but there is a need for technology that provides deeper visibility, control and data security,” said Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box. “That’s what today’s news is all about: giving IT enterprise-wide visibility into the critical content that powers their businesses. Box will continue to build management features that all our customers — from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies — require to be successful.”

To date, Box has over 11 million users, including 120,000 businesses and 82% of the Fortune 500 sharing and managing business critical information. In the last quarter, Box has added new enterprise brands including Avaya, Lennar Corporation, MGM Resorts International, Netflix, Stanford University, and Webcor Builders to its growing customer base.

“Netflix is at the forefront of using the cloud for our streaming service and we believe it’s important to carry this strategy over to meet our internal business needs and build a technology infrastructure to revolutionize IT,” said Mike Kail, vice president of IT operations at Netflix. “Box is helping us make this vision a reality by combining mobility, the cloud, and security into a powerful platform for collaboration.”

New Box Enterprise Administrator Tools
Advanced Admin Console & Enterprise-wide Search: Available today as a public beta, Box Enterprise admins now have more granular controls and visibility regarding folder and file access from within a single command center in the Box admin console. Additionally, Box has built enterprise-wide search functionality that streamlines content discovery and improves collaboration. Administrators can now quickly search, view and manage files and folders across their entire organization to see how files are shared within and outside of the company, as well as having more security controls over business-critical content. In one simple step, admins can grant or adjust access to content for any user in their company.

Enhanced Mobile Security Settings: Smartphones and tablets are essential tools for today’s knowledge workers and securing the content on these mobile devices is critical. Box has introduced new, granular mobile security settings to ensure Box content is protected in today’s post-PC enterprise. Available today for Android and coming soon for iOS, IT admins can apply passcode locks and enhanced permissions for offline file access across Box’s mobile apps.

Multiple Email Domain Support: Many companies, especially large enterprises, have users with email addresses from more than one domain. Available today, admins can now provision Box accounts for more than one managed domain, saving an incredible amount of time during the account creation or removal process. Additionally, this feature gives admins the ability to see user activity and set security policies across the enterprise.

Activity Notification Archiving: Box is delivering new functionality for the archiving needs of regulated industries like finance and healthcare. As collaboration moves beyond email and onto cloud platforms like Box, enterprise admins can now log Box activities, such as comments, tasks and sharing files, with their existing monitoring systems. These new capabilities support business compliance and eDiscovery requirements.

“The centralized content view and enhanced search capabilities give us the ability to strengthen team collaboration and instantly locate business critical information,” said Bob Cohen, vice president of information technology at Cadence Pharmaceuticals. “These new features exemplify Box’s commitment to providing the layer of security necessary for our employees to collaborate in a safe and manageable way, while still maintaining an efficient and productive end user experience.”

New Box Enterprise Licensing Agreement
Box has also introduced a new Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) for new and existing customers deploying Box to their entire organization. Available today, the Box ELA offers organizations predictable pricing over the lifetime of a multi-year contract, saving businesses money and simplifying the management of account contracts.

Availability
The new Box enterprise admin features are available today as a beta for Box Enterprise Accounts. If you would like to join the beta program waitlist, please email [email protected]. For more information on today’s announcement, please visit the Box blog: http://blog.box.com/?p=11684

About Box
Founded in 2005, Box provides a secure content sharing platform that both users and IT love and adopt. Content on Box can be shared internally and externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone, Android and PlayBook applications, and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce. Headquartered in Los Altos, CA, Box is a privately held company and is backed by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, NEA, Scale Venture Partners, and U.S. Venture Partners, and strategic investors salesforce.com and SAP

Vaultize becomes the first data protection & sync vendor in the world to launch an enterprise-grade appliance for backup, sync and sharing. Cloud-in-a-box is an integrated platform with a combination of enterprise-grade hardware and Vaultize cloud software. All Cloud-in-a-box appliances come bundled with all ground-breaking Vaultize features: backup, sync, group sync, sharing, web access and mobile apps.

Vaultize provides flexible deployment options to its customers. It’s public cloud is hosted in Rackspace in the US. Additionally customers can choose to deploy Vaultize in their own private cloud, data center, virtual private cloud or go the hybrid way. With the launch of Cloud-in-a-box, businesses now get another deployment option for Vaultize.

The Cloud-in-a-box rack-mountable appliance series starts with 2TB de-duplicated and compressed storage capacity and extends up to 90TB. The entry level VZ series comprises of 3 models VZ4000NE (1U), VZ4000E (2U) and VZ8000E (3U) that provide 2TB, 4TB and 6TB backup storage capacity (with RAID1) respectively.

“As the adoption of cloud backup is increasing, there is always going to be certain type of data that can’t move to public cloud because of regulatory compliances for many business verticals. Our Cloud-in-a-box strategy complements our cloud offering by allowing our customers to manage all their data on a single platform,” said Anand Kekre, CEO and Co-founder of Vaultize. “Additionally, for customers who are on the fence for cloud adoption, Cloud-in-a-box can be their first step into the wonderful world of cloud. And with our cloud portability option, they would be able to move to public cloud or their own private cloud any time in future.”

“With Vaultize we finally have a solution that addresses our security and data loss risks. It is a versatile solution to our challenges around backing up, sharing and syncing of files as it is both easy to use and gives our people what they need to do their jobs efficiently,” said Arvind Laddha, CEO of Vantage Insurance Brokers and Risk Advisors. “Being in the financial services sector, we have certain data that can’t be moved to public cloud. Vaultize’s Cloud-in-a-box offering addresses that concern. Now we have all user data in Vaultize public cloud and compliance data in Cloud-in-a-box.”

While most other backup solutions perform encryption at the server, Vaultize encrypts data at source before it leaves the device. Vaultize is the first backup solution in the world to do both enterprise-grade encryption and de-duplication together at source. Now with Cloud-in-a-box, businesses can even backup roaming laptops and branch/remote offices without having to use VPN.

In addition to backup and sync between user devices, Vaultize’s “Group Sync” and “Sharing over Web” features – that provide Dropbox-like file sharing and synchronization across users with enterprise-grade security, control and centralized administration – are also available with Cloud-in-a-box with no extra cost.

About Vaultize:
Vaultize is an award-winning flagship product from Anoosmar Technologies – a privately held company with registered office in Pune (India). It is the first backup, sharing and sync solution in the world that is designed from the ground-up specifically for cloud using multi-tenant architecture and enterprise-class security, control and SLAs.

The co-founders Anand Kekre (CEO) and Ankur Panchbudhe (CTO) come with technology leadership and executive management experience working previously at IBM, VERITAS, Symantec, Reconnex and McAfee before starting this venture. They together hold 72 US patents.

Cirrus Tech Ltd., a Canadian web hosting company specializing in shared, VPS and cloud hosting services, announces the launch of its latest offering – Windows® Server Cloud Virtual Machine (VM) Hosting. Their VM plans are designed for users looking for a bare-metal hypervisor solution and offer all the benefits of running a dedicated server with the advantages of virtualization such as lower costs, scalability, and high-availability. Cirrus VM hosting services include guaranteed dedicated resources, a fully redundant infrastructure and the ability to manage, control and customize your environment.

Cirrus Microsoft® Windows VM hosting offers a greater amount of control and OS access than other options, allowing users to modify and update the OS as needed, whether installing patches or performing updates. Unlike other Virtuozzo based VM solutions, the Cirrus offering allows any Windows update to be installed by an administrator. The VMs are fully customizable with either full remote desktop access for Windows or SSH/Root Access for those on Linux. With the easy to use, award winning Parallels® Plesk® Control Panel deployed on every Cirrus VM hosting plan, management is intuitive and user friendly, allowing the automation of web hosting activities. All plans include an FTP server, mail server, web server, MySQL database, phpMyAdmin, firewall with GUI and more.

“Parallels virtualization technology enables partners such as Cirrus Tech to meet the growing SMB demand for cloud services in the easiest, most comprehensive way possible,” said John Zanni, Vice President, Service Provider Alliances and Marketing, Parallels. “This powerful combination of Parallels Plesk Panel with Parallels virtualization provides Cirrus Tech with the ability to deliver Windows Server virtual machines, with all of the features and functionality that SMBs are seeking. Cirrus Tech customers will now enjoy streamlined management and control of their virtual servers from anywhere and anytime, and with simplified, self-service management features such as back-ups, resource monitoring and upgrade capabilities.”

Cirrus Virtual Machine hosting plans come with a variety of options and features. Choose from Windows Server 2003 or 2008 Web, Standard and Enterprise Editions, enterprise Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and 2012 and a variety of other web and workgroup servers. Each VM plan offers guaranteed dedicated resources for RAM, HDD, CPU and bandwidth as well as a fully redundant infrastructure including redundant power supply, HDDs and storage. The redundant storage included in all Cirrus VM plans is unlike the default offerings of most cloud providers – two entirely separate copies of all data are kept on two storage units. VM hosting also offers full scalability, accommodating spikes in resource demand and allowing for easy upgrades. In addition to instant provisioning for the VM set-up, upgrades are also provisioned in just minutes from the time of the request.

“Almost anything you can think of doing with a dedicated server, you can also handle with a Virtual Machine,” shares Cirrus CEO Ehsan Mirdamadi. “We’ve built our VM hosting services from the ground up to offer a reliable, flexible and cost effective solution that can meet the hosting needs of any business, whether simple or complex.”

About Cirrus Hosting
Cirrus Tech Ltd. has been a leader in providing affordable, dependable VHS and VPS hosting services in Canada since 1999. They have hosted and supported hundreds of thousands of websites and applications for Canadian businesses and clients around the world. As a BBB member with an A+ rating, Cirrus Tech is a top-notch Canadian web hosting company with professional support, rigorous reliability and easily upgradable VPS solutions that grow right alongside your business. Their Canadian data center is at 151 Front Street in Toronto.

SMEStorage announced that the SMEStorage hybrid Cloud File Server is now available to be used with HP Cloud Services (http://hpcloud.com). SMEStorage has delivered its Cloud File Server product to be used by customers who have provisioned HP Cloud Services.

Customers can take advantage of the SME hybrid Cloud File Server solution combined with HP Cloud Object Storage. The Cloud File Server features a multi-tenant file server solution for teams with a rich web interface and native clients that include Mac, Windows, Linux and all mobile devices. Other features include User management, secure files sharing, access control lists, file locking, and e-compliance and event auditing options.

Ian Osborne, CEO, stated, “We are very excited at the potential of HP Cloud Services for businesses. We feel that HP Cloud Object Storage combined with our Cloud File Server product offering provides a tremendous solution for small to medium businesses who are seeking to embrace the cost savings, lowered cost of ownership, and ‘anytime / anywhere’ experience of Cloud Computing.”

The SMEStorage hybrid Cloud File Server differentiates HP Cloud Object Storage by providing a traditional file server overlay that includes a native Cloud Drive for Windows, Mac and Linux desktops, as well as powerful synchronization solutions. Clients also exist for iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Android and Windows Phone 7, with a rich HTML5 mobile clients available for other clients such as the HP Touchpad.

The solution features the ability to work with HP Cloud Object Storage data whilst still providing features such as file locking, user permissions and management, event auditing, and even integration with Active Directory domains for those businesses that need it.

The Cloud File Server solution is available now and further information can be found at http://smestorage.com/?p=static&page=HP_Cloud_Services.

ElasticHosts, announced the launch of two offerings which will provide customers with a broader range of cloud services. The two additions to the portfolio, Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers, mean the company will be able to meet the needs of all organisations; from micro businesses with no technical expertise right the way through to larger enterprises that want additional services such as cloud migration, server management, managed back-up and disaster recovery for their cloud based infrastructure.

ElasticHosts’ existing solutions provide flexible, pay-as-you-go, self-service cloud servers to organisations. With full admin access, customers log in, configure their software and adjust server capacity to match demand. By partnering with Hybrid Sites, ElasticHosts’s Cloud Sites provides scalable, redundant cloud web hosting for standard PHP/MySQL websites without the need for any server administration. Cloud Sites hosts files for the customer, giving them all the redundancy and scalability of the cloud without having to manage the underlying servers.

ElasticHosts has also partnered with Cloudways to launch Managed Cloud Servers. In addition to providing flexible, PAYG cloud servers, customers will be offered server management; cloud migration assistance; monitoring capabilities; and back-up / disaster recovery services. Managed Cloud Servers allows businesses to deploy a wide range of applications, including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento and Java Servlets. The Cloudways team will help plan, deploy and manage these or any other application on both Linux and Windows platforms.

Richard Davies, CEO at ElasticHosts, explained: “Although some organisations need full admin access and control, many simply want to host web pages in the cloud and don’t need or want their own cloud servers. Similarly, others need more substantial hosting but don’t have the time or resources to manage their servers. We are opening our doors to both sets of customers. Cloud Sites provides easy cloud hosting: customers don’t need to run their own server. They simply send us their web pages and we host them. With Managed Cloud Servers, we control the servers on behalf of our customers and offer management services on top of that. The aim is to make hosting something that happens seamlessly in the background: these new offerings are designed to make this happen.”

More and more, businesses are looking to move away from traditional managed hosting which locks them into inflexible contracts that don’t let them scale up or down easily. In an age where capacity requirements can change in a second, it’s important that all businesses are able to gain the elasticity and, ultimately, cost efficiency that cloud hosting offers. By expanding its portfolio, ElasticHosts ensures it has an offering to suit any business, no matter what its needs.

“Many ‘cloud hosting’ offerings are traditional hosting in disguise,” continued Richard Davies. “Customers find that the core benefits of cloud, flexibility and the PAYG model, are not there. The first rule of cloud is that it must be elastic and customisable to suit individual companies. In launching Cloud Sites and Managed Cloud Servers, we are ensuring that all businesses are catered for. It’s this kind of flexibility and choice that businesses sign up for with the cloud.”

To mark the launch of these new products, ElasticHosts is currently offering a free trial to businesses. Please visit http://www.elastichosts.com/cloud-hosting/cloud-sites for more information on Cloud Sites or http://www.elastichosts.com/cloud-hosting/managed for more information on Managed Cloud Servers.