Strategies for SaaS, Cloud Computing, Governance and Sustainability

Wayne, Pa., August 26, 2010 – Cycle30, a subsidiary of GCI, Alaska’s largest telecommunications and cable provider (NASDAQ: GNCMA), has selected the enterprise-grade cloud platform from SunGard Availability Services to launch its billing services for telecom, cable and utility operators in North America. By working with SunGard, Cycle30 is able to simplify its overall IT [...]

Zenoss Inc., the corporate sponsor of Zenoss Core, today announced the general availability of Zenoss Core 3.0 under the GNU General Public License (V2). Fueled by the 85,000-member Zenoss community, the newest release features an updated user interface to improve usability giving users a complete view of all IT infrastructure — physical, virtual and cloud [...]

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise Edition from Convirture brings automation, high-availability and private cloud management to open source virtualization. SAN FRANCISCO, July 28, 2010 – Managing open source hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, became a lot easier today with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition from Convirture Corp. The open source version of ConVirt has been [...]

LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 6.0 also incorporates enhanced security and media management, an online knowledge base and provisioning support for Windows 7 and all new major versions of Linux® LinMin, maker of award-winning IT automation software LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning™, today unveiled Linux-based LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning Release 6.0 with Cloud, hosting and corporate data [...]

BoardSuite® Corp., the freemium on-demand board portal, has chosen Tenzing as its hosted Cloud environment to provide the most secure, scalable and redundant solution for its mission critical portal application for boards of directors. In partnership with Tenzing, a provider of enterprise hosting solutions for Software-as-a-Service (Saas) providers and ECommerce systems integrators, BoardSuite’s infrastructure and [...]

TransferBigFiles.com a free service that allows anyone to send large files without using e-mail attachments or FTP sites, announced today that it has expanded services to allow for larger file transfers, file receiving, tracking and storage. TransferBigFiles.com will now offer a premium service for only $5 per month that allows users to send files up [...]

Zenoss Inc., corporate sponsor of the award winning open source IT monitoring and management solution Zenoss Core, today announced the release of over 10 community-developed open source cloud monitoring and virtualization management software extensions (called ZenPacks). These extensions to Zenoss Core enable users to monitor popular cloud computing applications via Zenoss’ open source management software. [...]

Zenoss Inc., corporate sponsor of the award winning open source IT monitoring and management solution Zenoss Core, will be demonstrating how to monitor IT infrastructure with the company’s free and open source tools at the 11th Annual Linux and Grassroots Open Source Festival, Linuxfest Northwest (LFNW), on April 24th and 25th in Bellingham, Wash. As [...]

Telx®, the leading interconnection and co-location provider in strategic North American markets, today announced that it has been selected as a connectivity partner by SoftLayer, a global provider of on-demand data center, hosting, and cloud services. SoftLayer has established a Point-of-Presence (POP) within Telx’s secure, connection-rich co-location facilities in Atlanta and New York City, enabling [...]

January 15, 2010 – Five weeks after the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) began a test program to fast track certain “green” technology patent applications, most of the 3,000 positions are still available. Only about one third have been applied for. Businesses wishing to patent their proprietary green technologies are being given special [...]

Energy efficiency has become the new mantra in this greening economy. But who is the biggest culprit when it comes to energy consumption? In what seems like the blink of an eye, data centers are now among the leading energy guzzlers. We’re at a tipping point of unparalleled dimensions with respect to data center energy [...]