“Our continued relationship with Red Hat demonstrates collaboration focused on providing on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud solutions for our existing and future customers”

Red Hat Cloud Access is a capability that enables Red Hat customers to move their subscriptions between traditional on-premise servers and off-premise clouds hosted by Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Providers, such as Amazon Web Services. Red Hat initially extended its Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions into the cloud with Red Hat Cloud Access in April 2010. Today, the company adds Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid subscriptions as the second product able to take advantage of the Red Hat Cloud Access program. This results in improved deployment portability, easier subscription management and cost advantages for deploying in the cloud.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG incorporates Messaging, Realtime and Grid functionality that offers improved performance, response time and compute grid management. Enterprise MRG’s Grid technology provides a highly scalable and manageable platform for High Throughput Computing (HTC) and High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, and includes the ability to schedule to local grids, remote grids, virtual machines and rented cloud infrastructure. At its launch in 2008, Enterprise MRG was the first HPC product that could integrate with private virtualization and public clouds.

Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid was recently extended to Amazon Web Services via DevPay, allowing customers to build hybrid clouds or use Enterprise MRG in the cloud for managing traffic and on-demand HPC capabilities. Now, with Cloud Access, customers can use their Red Hat subscription for Enterprise MRG in Amazon Web Services deployments. As a Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider, Amazon Web Services allows customers to use the same images both on-premise and in-cloud, through an in-cloud update service provided by Red Hat. Errata and updates are made available through the in-cloud service, so customers on a Red Hat Certified Public Cloud that are Cloud Access-enabled have confidence that they have up-to-date images. With this, users can manage and update thousands of servers with ease. A primary benefit of Red Hat’s approach to cloud computing is that it is built on standardized open source technology, providing a consistent application platform across physical, virtualized and cloud environments. This gives customers the flexibility to adapt to new computing models as their business needs dictate, simply and cost effectively, while also eliminating the vendor lock-in associated with other cloud computing solutions.

“Red Hat Cloud Access allows our customers to benefit from the valuable support they receive directly from Red Hat experts through their Red Hat subscription, while also allowing them to take advantage of the benefits of deploying in a certified public cloud,” said Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager, Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat. “This level of flexibility gives enterprises the ability to bring their infrastructure to the cloud more easily and now encompasses both our Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid technologies, offering more choice for public clouds.”

“Our continued relationship with Red Hat demonstrates collaboration focused on providing on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud solutions for our existing and future customers,” said Terry Wise, director of Business Development at Amazon Web Services. “We started with support for Red Hat Cloud Access capabilities with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and are excited that our customers can now take advantage of Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid via Cloud Access.”

“The combination of Redapt and Rackspace enables a customer to have a fully packaged private cloud off the shelf and operationally managed/supported by OpenStack experts – anywhere they choose.”

With a click of the mouse, Redapt will deliver the fully configured, powered by OpenStack hardware that can easily plug-in to the customer’s data center of choice. Prior to delivery, Redapt will do integration, testing and configuration at Redapt MergeCenters(™) in North America and Europe. The hardware will arrive at a customer’s data center of choice in as few as 14 days after ordering, needing only power and network connectivity. On top of Redapt providing the Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition hardware, Rackspace will provide 24x7x365 support and operations assistance from Rackspace Cloud and OpenStack experts helping customers maximize the technology in their data center.

“Other companies and coalitions have solutions that lock in customers, but our complete infrastructure and support solution is open in every way possible making it easier for companies to grow and change their IT needs,” said Jim Curry, general manager of Rackspace Cloud Builders. “The combination of Redapt and Rackspace enables a customer to have a fully packaged private cloud off the shelf and operationally managed/supported by OpenStack experts – anywhere they choose.”

Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition allows companies to have many of the benefits of public clouds but on their terms, anywhere – operated, managed and Fanatically supported by Rackspace.

Business leaders agree that the payoff for diligent performance load testing is huge. Every day the likes of major retailers, iconic technology brands and multi-national airlines experience websites failures. When these websites crash, their businesses are at least partially closed. As more and more businesses move to the cloud, it’s imperative that these businesses keep a close watch on quality and continually test, monitor and validate application performance to consider: What is the potential cost of poor performance of my cloud application? Is there a bottleneck that could hamper performance or worse, cause the site to crash? What is the load limit? Are applications fine-tuned for maximum success?

 “The explosion of web applications and websites moving to the cloud has caused a significant amount of problems with regards to load capacity, application performance and overall reliability. Tuning and scaling systems and being ready for extreme traffic spikes is critical for any successful company doing business online and in the cloud. Our new Apica LoadTest portal squarely addresses this and simplifies continuous load testing and also supports DevOps-based lifecycle testing, helping companies to best optimize their systems and succeed with new application release rollouts”, said Sven Hammar, CEO for Apica.

Apica uses diligently defined and controlled environments for its load tests, consisting of the highest quality test centers with normalized load servers and closely supervised environments and servers. Apica has more than 40 different points of presence across the US and Europe and can generate total load tests of more than 1 million concurrent users to a website.

The key new features of the upcoming major release of the Apica LoadTest portal include:

Tight integration with the popular Selenium testing freeware technology

• Simplified load testing set up and reporting
• Expanded load testing clusters for additional geographical testing
• Index matching with common CMS/Cloud components

Canopy will provide a market-leading one-stop shop for cloud services, enabling organizations to easily, securely and cost effectively accelerate their move to the cloud.  As part of the strategic alliance and in addition to providing the advanced technologies upon which the new Atos cloud solutions and services will be delivered, EMC and VMware also intend to invest alongside Atos to help drive innovation and the successful adoption of Canopy’s solutions in the marketplace.

“Cloud computing is altering forever the way in which IT is designed and consumed across data centers, applications and end user access points. EMC looks forward to working even more closely with Atos, accelerating this shared vision and making the benefits of cloud computing a reality for enterprise customers in key targeted industries.” Joe Tucci, Chairman And Cheif Executive Officer at EMC.

The new strategic cloud offerings will be based on open standards so clients can always choose their preferred technology, whether to run the solution off- or on-premise and how to mix private, public and hybrid cloud solutions to best meet their business needs. They will be targeted at selected vertical markets and include:

• An Enterprise Application Store – powered by EMC and VMware technologies- will enable clients anywhere in the world to choose, access and download applications they require under the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The store will include horizontal (cross-industries) and industry-specific business applications.
• An Enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) – powered by EMC and VMware technologies, and managed by Atos, will provide a secure enterprise Java development environment, incorporating a standard development framework where Canopy and its clients can design, create and test new cloud applications.
• A Private Cloud – powered by EMC and VMware technologies – will provide clients with a pre-configured, standardized, enterprise-grade cloud stack for on-premise and off-premise deployments, enabling clients to speed up their cloud readiness.
• Cloud strategy & transformation Journey Design – these consulting services will range from building customized cloud strategy to shaping a cloud transformation journey so that customers can grasp the benefits while moving to the cloud securely and at the speed that is right for them.

The strategic alliance will leverage the common channels of Atos and EMC to bring to the market this portfolio of end-to-end cloud services.

With cloud computing currently accounting for 10% of the IT market and set to quadruple by 2020, Atos, EMC and VMware share the same vision and strategy regarding ongoing IT/Cloud transformation and the Cloud solutions and services required in the marketplace.

Canopy will enable the transformation of the application landscape of customers and help them capture the value delivered by the cloud. Canopy customers will benefit from the highest levels of integrity, security and confidentiality of data in the cloud as well as secure operations with high level of availability leveraging the broad portfolio of solutions and services from its partners.

Thus, Canopy customers will fully benefit from the cutting-edge EMC and VMware technologies, orchestrated, carefully integrated, industrialized and delivered through the Atos worldwide datacenter network and proven know-how in cloud services.  For organizations, the benefits are huge – in IT costs reduction through flexible pricing models plus access to innovative, flexible, agile technology that ensures rapid implementation and faster time to market for products and services.

Headquartered in Europe, Canopy will propose Cloud offerings from dedicated infrastructures in order to ensure its customers’ data protection and security, complying with all relevant regulations. Canopy CEO will be appointed by Atos, its principal shareholder.

The approval of this merger is a critical policy issue that must be addressed immediately. CRA is an important regulation that provides critical lending needs to low income communities and communities of color by increasing access to small business loans, affordable housing development, and basic bank services. The Federal Reserve has interpreted the Community Reinvestment Act so that banks only need to reinvest profits in communities where the bank has branches. This flies directly in the face of the original intent of CRA—to promote reinvestment where banking occurs. The Federal Reserve and Capital One are hiding behind the fact that the CRA branch requirement is a vestige from when the law was written in 1977- when banks did all of their business through branches.  The banking industry has changed dramatically since 1977, as more customers conduct their banking online and more banks are deciding to shut down branches (especially in low income communities). By refusing to interpret CRA more broadly, the Fed is providing banks with an excuse to ignore the critical needs of California’s communities.

“The Federal Reserve missed an important opportunity to impose meaningful requirements on this merger that would benefit California and other communities across the country,” said Alan Fisher, Executive Director of the California Reinvestment Coalition.  “The Federal Reserve should immediately take steps to modernize CRA so that this type of weak regulation does not happen again in the future.” Hearings were held on the topic of CRA modernization in August 2010, and the Federal Reserve has yet to make any progress on instituting changes to the regulation.

In its notice of the approval, the Federal Reserve claims that ING Direct’s two California-based “cafes” (inSan Francisco and Los Angeles), will begin to accept deposits and therefore will be considered branches that are subject to CRA evaluation. The Federal Reserve should ensure that the bank does not consider its predatory credit card, small business credit card, and auto lending practices as “community benefits.”

Capital One is built on a predominately high-rate, fee-heavy credit card business that exploits consumers. The bank collects finance charges and other customer fees equal to 42% of profits. It even admits that if borrowers begin “avoiding late fees, over the limit fees, finance charges and other fees [it] could have an adverse impact on our revenues.”   Capital One’s products strip wealth from California small businesses and households that need affordable housing and banking services.

The California Reinvestment Coalition, along with our members and allies in the state and across the nation, raised a number of these concerns about this acquisition last fall. The Federal Reserve held three hearings on the merger in October 2011, in San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington DC. After months of closed sessions and comment periods, the Federal Reserve announced their final decision today.

The California Reinvestment Coalition is a membership organization of 300 nonprofits that advocates for fair and equal access to banking and other financial services for California’s low income communities and communities of color.

Eucalyptus Cloud Test Lab is a complete cloud-ready data center solution with fast and easy setup. The solution, which includes hosting, hardware and Eucalyptus open source cloud software, enables customers to configure virtual cloud resources, experience full elastic-compute resource management, and demo their applications on private cloud software. To reduce the business and technical risks often associated with cloud adoption, enterprises can purchase the exact cloud environment used during the testing phase. Eucalyptus’ Cloud Test Lab will operate on innovative Dell infrastructure provided by Dasher Technologies.

“CoreSite is pleased to provide the data center infrastructure to support Eucalyptus’ new Cloud Test Lab offering,” said Brian Warren, VP of Product Management at CoreSite. “This offering provides our enterprise data center customers with a secure, risk-managed testing environment for their cloud migration strategies. The Eucalyptus Cloud Test Lab demonstrates CoreSite’s commitment to developing Cloud computing ecosystems for our customers.”

“By validating the technical and business benefits of specific use cases prior to migration, enterprises can deploy hosted private and hybrid clouds with a new level of confidence,” said David Butler, SVP of Marketing at Eucalyptus. “As part of Cloud Test Lab, customers can leverage the Eucalyptus partner ecosystem to evaluate a complete cloud solution, and benefit from a customer-focused, best-of-breed systems management approach.”

Cloud Test Lab Demonstrations at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara, CA

Eucalyptus Cloud Test Lab demonstrations and pre-launch sign-ups will be available at the CoreSite/Interxion Cloud Connect booth (#314) from February 14-15, 2012.

Cloud Test Lab Registration

Enterprises interested in accessing the Eucalyptus Cloud Test Lab may submit a trial request atwww.CoreSite.com/Cloud-Test-Lab.php.

About Eucalyptus Systems

Eucalyptus Systems provides IT organizations in enterprises, government agencies and Web and mobile businesses with the most widely deployed cloud software platform for on-premise Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). To date, over 25,000 Eucalyptus clouds have been started all over the world, including more than 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies. Eucalyptus is specifically designed for enterprise cloud use, and the software platform is uniquely suited for private cloud or hybrid cloud computing. Built as an open source cloud product, Eucalyptus supports the industry-standard Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud APIs, as well as all major virtualization platforms including Xen, KVM and VMware vSphere, ESX and ESXi. The company has an active and growing ecosystem of customers, partners, developers and researchers that benefit from Eucalyptus’ open, fast and standards-compliant path to cloud computing. For more information about Eucalyptus, please visit www.eucalyptus.com.

About CoreSite

CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE: COR) is a national provider of powerful, network-rich data centers, efficient interconnection services, and global peering opportunities. More than 700 customers such as Global 1000 enterprises, communications providers, cloud and content companies, financial firms, media and entertainment, healthcare, and Government agencies trust CoreSite to power, cool, connect, and secure their mission-critical IT assets. CoreSite data centers are catalysts for network growth, featuring established industry ecosystems with access to 200+ carriers and service providers resulting in more than 12,000 interconnections under management. The company tailors its data center product to unique customer requirements by way of a flexible offering that includes cage-to-cabinet colocation, private data centers and suites, and a responsive customer service and support infrastructure. CoreSite’s portfolio comprises more than two million square feet, including space held for redevelopment and development, across 12 data centers in seven key U.S. economic centers. For more information, visit www.CoreSite.com.

Concur Expense is a cloud-based web and mobile solution that streamlines and automates the expense reporting process. Employees can save significant time by easily creating accurate, in-policy expense reports. Managers can review, approve and process expense reports – providing them with control and visibility into T&E spend. Along with two unique features for the Japanese market, IC card data integration and public transportation information integration, Concur Expense significantly enhances the process of expense preparation. The new edition also corresponds to all Japanese regulations and taxation practices. The localized service also provides consultation for installation and operational support in Japan.

Concur Expense Japanese Features

Data integration with IC cards (Suica, PASMO, etc.)

By using Concur Expense with a FeliCa™-compatible commercial IC card reader, transportation data – including dates, times, stations and fare information – are automatically uploaded to Concur’s expense reporting solution from IC Cards including Suica, PASMO and ICOCA. Users do not need to type in this data manually, helping to minimize the tedious job of reporting multiple journeys. Additionally, the solution helps to prevent duplication or modification of expense claims, thereby promoting more accurate and transparent expense processing.

Integration of Jorudan’s “Route Search”

Jorudan Co., Ltd.’s “Route Search” is integrated seamlessly for quick access. By selecting the boarding and destination stations and route, the user can automatically find and record fare information. The feature eliminates the need to switch back and forth between separate applications for finding train routes and recording expenses to create expense reports. It also transfers the evaluation of the chosen route to Concur and a “Cheapest,” “Fastest” or “Easiest” icon shows up on the Concur screen. Additionally, if the user’s commuter pass information is registered, Concur Expense automatically calculates fares beyond the pass area.

Consultation and Customer Support Service in Japanese

With the launch of the Japanese service, Concur has expanded its consulting and supporting structure to provide fast, comprehensive service in-country by Japanese personnel.

“Concur is the standard application for employee spend management, used by more than half of the Fortune 500 companies. Many European and U.S. offices of Japanese corporations use the Concur expense solution, as do many foreign companies with offices in Japan,” explained Masamune Mimura, CEO and representative director of Concur Japan. “Now that the Japanese edition is officially released and available in Japan, I believe its rapid adoption by Japanese companies will change the employee spend management environment in this country. In response to the rising demand for optimized global operations, including more transparent and efficient employee spend management processes, Concur offices around the world look forward to supporting the global enhancement of Japanese companies.”

About Concur Japan

Concur is a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions. Concur’s easy-to-use Web-based and mobile solutions help companies and their employees control costs and save time. Concur Connect is the platform that enables the entire travel and expense ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and developers to access and extend Concur’s T&E cloud. Concur’s systems adapt to individual employee preferences and scale to meet the needs of companies from small to large.  Concur Japan was established in February 2011 as a joint venture between Concur, as the majority shareholder, SunBridge Corporation, the firm responsible for the salesforce.com Japan joint venture, and Marc Benioff, acting as a minority direct investor. For more about Concur Japan, visit www.concur.co.jp. For more information about Concur, visit www.concur.com.

“FeliCa” is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation. “Suica” is a registered trademark of East Japan Railway Company. “PASMO” is a registered trademark of Pasmo Co. Ltd. “ICOCA” is a registered trademark of West Japan Railway Company.

As it built a cloud-based solution for enterprise services, KPN wanted an application delivery controller (ADC) solution that would deliver isolated environments and dedicated resources for each customer to meet its customer service level agreements (SLA) along with the agility needed to provide cloud services in a changing environment. With Radware’s ADC-VX, KPN found a unique solution that allowed it to offer such an environment to each customer by assigning a private, dedicated virtual ADC instance per customer.

Using Radware’s ADC-VX on its Alteon(R) 5412 application delivery switch, KPN is able to host 28 different customers on one platform with complete isolation between the customers. This industry-leading density of virtual ADC instances on a single appliance enables the economics and the operational simplicity that a cloud provider requires. Radware’s ADC-VX solution will enable KPN to easily add more dedicated, isolated instances with each new customer, all without the need — or cost — for additional hardware.

Additionally, the centralized management system of Radware ADC-VX and its dashboards provide a real-time view of the virtual ADC instances’ health and resource utilization, resulting in a scalable solution that is simple to operate and manage that further reduces the operational costs involved in offering ADC services for cloud service providers.

“Providing KPN with a new ADC virtualization solution is a natural fit to its virtual and cloud data center design because it enables them to offer ADC services with a desired cost per customer thanks to our industry-leading density of virtual ADC instances on our devices,” said Andre van Buiten, Sales Manager Netherlands, Radware. “Moreover, the ADC-VX solution benefits from Radware’s OnDemand strategy, which will allow KPN to host additional customers just by upgrading the software license on the ADC-VX devices and without a forklift upgrade of the hardware. Enterprises of all sizes are increasingly looking for ways to leverage hosting and cloud services, and Radware’s ability to meet this market need by offering a cost-effective, future-proof solution is a strength that truly sets us apart from the competition.”

Powered by Radware’s OnDemand Switch(R) platform, Radware ADC-VX delivers performance superiority that ensures the best quality of experience possible for KPN customers including faster response times for hosted applications and network availability.

Radware’s ADC-VX is a key component of Radware’s Virtual Application Delivery Infrastructure – (VADI(TM)) strategy, which brings the efficiency and agility of virtualization to application delivery solutions. VADI is an architecture that transforms computing resources as well as application delivery and virtualization services into one integrated, agile and scalable on-demand application delivery infrastructure

“The Open Networking Summit 2012 will emphasize actual deployments of OpenFlow-based and SDN technologies, and will focus on how SDN helps network operators and owners”

“The Open Networking Summit 2012 will emphasize actual deployments of OpenFlow-based and SDN technologies, and will focus on how SDN helps network operators and owners,” said Guru Parulkar, executive director of the Stanford University Clean Slate Research Program and chairman of the 2012 Summit. “With only 19 exhibitor booths available, we are seeking applicants that can showcase their latest implementation of OpenFlow and SDN, and who can highlight the success of their technology, product or service.”

To be considered, vendors and academic institutions will need to submit a two-page demonstration proposal, describing what OpenFlow and SDN technology, product, or service the company will showcase. Selected exhibitors will receive an 8×10 booth space in the main exhibition hall. Table top demonstrations will be held in the foyer, exclusively available for academic institutions.

To submit your demonstration for the Open Networking Summit 2012, please send your proposals to ons-demo@openflow.stanford.edu before February 24, 2012. Selected exhibitors will be notified by March 7, 2012.

There is a $5,000 cost for participation from enterprise applicants and a $500 charge for academic demonstrations. In addition, sponsorship packages are available, which include a complimentary exhibition booth space. To learn more about availability and benefits of participation, please visit http://opennetsummit.org/exhibitors.html or contact ons-demo@openflow.stanford.edu. For additional information on the event registration, sponsorship, and speaker line-up, visit http://opennetsummit.org. Early bird registration ends on February 24, 2012.

About Open Networking Summits, Inc.:
Founded in 2011, Open Networking Summits, Inc. produces events that attract participants from around the world. Attendees share their reasons for a change in networking; showcase technologies; and introduce products and services built using the SDN approach. Find the Open Networking Summit at www.opennetsummit.org.

Lew Tucker, VP and CTO of Cloud Computing, Cisco, will discuss the possibilities for virtual data centers in the cloud through Quantum – a new, open source, network service project for the OpenStack cloud platform during a keynote session on Day 1. Other keynote highlights of Day 1 will feature case studies such as Bill Gillis, Director of eHealth Technologies, Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center speaking to the lessons learned from the initial challenges of creating a secure environment for delivering an EHR application to geographically dispersed physicians in the northeast. LinkedIn Data Scientists, Mathieu Bastian and Sal Uryasev will discuss the challenges of building a large scale visualization product in the cloud. The role of the cloud value chain, and the emergence of the “cloud ecosystem partner” will feature in a session led by Jan Jackman, VP, Global Cloud Services, IBM Global Technology Services. The “Top 5 Governance and Assurance Questions to ask your Cloud Provider over protection of your data” will also be addressed in the final session led by Becky Swain, Co-Founder, Cloud Security Alliance.

Chris Kemp, CEO, Nebula and Co-Founder, OpenStack will open Day 2 keynote sessions, and focus on the Emergence of the Private Enterprise Cloud. The principle of Why PaaS is Faster than Your Machines (a.k.a “Pipelining and APIs”) will be led by Peter S Magnusson, Engineering Director, Google. Patrick Lightbody, Sr. Director, Webmetrics Product Development, Neustar will look at tips and tricks on building an automated engine for launching and controlling 10K+ CPU cores from public clouds in as little as ten minutes, all for the purpose of massive scale performance testing. A study of the Legal and Regulatory frameworks related to Cloud Computing as well as a discussion on how American Airlines has turbo charged flight status in its Windows Phone App complete Day 2’s keynote sessions.

With many exhibitors choosing to showcase new products or make announcements at this year’s event, this should be a compelling week for the Cloud Computing world. For a complete schedule of all sessions, keynote addresses and participating exhibitors, visit http://www.cloudconnectevent.com.