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SecureCloud 2010 Announces Agenda for Inaugural Two Day Cloud Security Conference in Barcelona

Claude - THE CLOUD ARCHITECT — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:55:00 GMT

SecureCloud 2010 Announces Agenda for Inaugural Two Day Cloud Security Conference in Barcelona

The SecureCloud 2010 conference today announced it has published the agenda for its inaugural cloud security conference, which will be held from March 16 - 17 at the Majestic Hotel and Spa in Barcelona, Spain. SecureCloud 2010 is an educational and networking event designed to help IT professionals adopt and share best practices related to secure cloud computing. The conference will feature two keynote sessions: the first by Dr. Udo Helmbrecht, Executive Director of ENISA and the second by Pamela Jones Harbour, Commissioner of the US Federal Trade Commission. The event is free to attend but space is limited so participants are encouraged to register early to guarantee entry: http://securecloud2010.eventbrite.com/

"Cloud computing presents its own unique security risks and threats that we're still in the process of understanding," said Dr. Udo Helmbrecht, Executive Director of ENISA. "SecureCloud 2010 will provide a great opportunity for European IT practitioners to get out in front of these issues and understand how to best mitigate these risks. We're confident that this event will help our industry establish new protocols and identify best practices that will dramatically improve the future of cloud security."

The two-day, dual-track event is being hosted by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), the IEEE Standards Association, and ISACA, four of the leading organizations shaping the future of Cloud Computing Security. SecureCloud 2010 is the first European event to focus specifically on state-of-the-art practices designed to promote security, privacy, and trust within cloud computing environments.

CloudSecure 2010 workshops will include sessions and panels that tackle a broad array of immediate cloud security issues. For example, a special government plenary session will be convened that includes representatives from six major global agencies. On the second day of the conference, a second plenary session panel on "Cloud Providers" will feature experts from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Other tracks at the conference will explore such topics as:

Security and Data Protection in the Cloud
MobileCloud Security
Government Uses of Cloud Security
Fighting Fraud in the Cloud
Cloud Service Certification and Assurance

The complete conference agenda can be found at:
http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org/sc2010.html

About Cloud Security Alliance
The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. For further information, the Cloud Security Alliance Web site is www.cloudsecurityalliance.org.

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Locus And Overhoff To Offer Real Time Tritium Monitoring And Compliance Software At Nuclear Facilities

Claude - THE CLOUD ARCHITECT — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:45:00 GMT

Locus And Overhoff To Offer Real Time Tritium Monitoring And Compliance Software At Nuclear Facilities

Cloud Computing Solution for Tritium Transparency at Nuclear Power Plants

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 15 March 2010— [@PR2WEB] - Locus Technologies (Locus), the industry leader in web-based environmental compliance and information management software, and Overhoff Technology Corporation, the world’s leader in the design and manufacture of Tritium monitors and radiation monitoring systems, have partnered to offer a complete Tritium monitoring solution for the nuclear industry using Overhoff’s Tritium instrumentation and Locus’ award winning Cloud Computing software.

As the new Administration advocates expansion of America's nuclear power industry, pushing for billions of dollars in federal incentives and announcing plans to build the first nuclear plant in decades, new issues have arisen regarding leaking and possibly dangerous levels of Tritium, a radioactive byproduct of the nuclear process. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which oversees the inspection and licensing of nuclear facilities, says roughly 30 of the nation's 104 reactor units have experienced Tritium leaks. According to the NRC, none of the leaks have impacted public health or safety but, the unmonitored and unexpected releases have raised concerns within the industry and among watchdog groups nationwide.

Similar concerns regarding leaks at several plants in the mid 2000’s prompted the members of the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) to put forth a Ground Water Protection Initiative (NEI-07-07) in 2007. This Initiative identifies actions that utilities can take to improve their management and response to instances where the inadvertent release of radioactive substances may result in low but detectible levels of plant-related materials in subsurface soils and water, even when these are well below the NRC limits pertaining to the protection of public health and safety. One of the key actions that adoptees of the Initiative are expected to undertake is the establishment of an on-site groundwater monitoring program involving on site monitoring or regular sampling and analyses to ensure the timely detection of inadvertent radiological releases. The Tritium groundwater challenge was addressed in 2009 when Locus introduced the nuclear module for its flagship product EIM that is already deployed at several nuclear power plants.

According to the NRC, additional requirements pertaining to the monitoring of air releases of Tritium and Carbon-14 are likely to be promulgated in the future. To meet these requirements, new monitoring instruments and data management tools will have to be installed since many facilities are still using over 30-year old stack monitors and few, if any currently have H-3 or C-14 stack monitors in place.

For those nuclear facilities wanting to fulfill their responsibility under existing (e.g., 10CFR-51 and 10CFR-52) as well as likely forthcoming regulations, the Locus/TA Overhoff solution provides a complete system for Tritium monitoring. TA-Overhoff has been designing and manufacturing nuclear air and stack monitors since 1946. The company recently announced the new, state-of-the-art CAM-TC and CAM-TCI series monitors. The model CAM-TC is a full-service, state-of the-art, stack monitor that reads, analyzes and records Beta-Gamma Particulates, Iodine, Noble Gases, C-14, Tritium and optionally, Alpha Particulates. The data captured by the CAM-TC monitors is immediately passed to Locus’s EIM where it is managed and integrated with groundwater and other monitoring data. Within EIM, graphs can be plotted, reports generated, maps can be produced and statistical analyses performed.

“Nearly all of the activities associated with water and air protection at nuclear power plants, including the assessment of site characteristics, the ongoing monitoring of site conditions, and decommissioning of old plants or permitting of new plants, involve the collection and/or analysis of data. The tools and systems used to manage and store this information must satisfy strict NRC security and QA/QC requirements such as NQA-1 or ISO 9001:2008 to ensure that only the appropriate people can access the data, and that the quality of the data adheres to the highest NRC standards. It is also critical that these applications allow engineers and scientists to do their work in a cost-effective way, allowing them to focus less of their time on finding the data they need and formatting various outputs, and more on the evaluation and analysis of these data. In addition data must be transparent and verifiable to all stakeholders. All of these requirements are instantly met using Locus/Overhoff monitoring and data management solution. We are very pleased that Overhoff Technology has decided to join forces with Locus. The company’s outstanding reputation for having monitors that excel in performance will enhance Locus’ offering in the important nuclear monitoring market,” said Dr. Neno Duplan, President and CEO of Locus.

“We are very pleased to join with Locus to bring an integrated and elegant solution to address the nuclear industry’s Tritium monitoring needs. Our experience in producing hundreds of different types of monitors for different users, coupled with Locus’ market leader position in Cloud Computing-based environmental data management, will benefit our joint clients,” said Dr. Robert I. Goldstein, President and CEO of Overhoff.

ABOUT LOCUS TECHNOLOGIES

Locus provides business with the power to be green on demand. Locus pioneered cloud computing environmental software suites. Locus' software enables companies to organize and validate all key environmental information in a single system, which includes analytical data for water, air and soil, greenhouse gases, sustainability, compliance and environmental content. Locus software is delivered as an on-demand service (SaaS), so there is no hardware to procure, no large up-front license fee, and no complex set-ups.

For more information, visit http://www.locustec.com or email to: info@locustec.com.

ABOUT OVERHOFF

Founded in 1972, Overhoff Technology Corporation specializes in the design and manufacture of Tritium monitors. With the world’s largest selection of Tritium monitors, Overhoff can offer monitors ranging from simple hand held units to complex integrated digital radiation monitoring systems.

For more information, visit www.overhoff.com or email to: sales@overhoff.com

ABOUT TECHNICAL ASSOCIATES (TA)

TA is the world’s leading supplier of real-time Radiation monitors for Drinking Water and Groundwater. TA has been designing and manufacturing all types of radiation monitors since 1946. TA is the parent company for Overhoff Technologies.

For more information, visit www.tech-associates.com or email to: tagold@nwc.net.

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VolunteerACT Application Built on SaaSGrid to Debut at SXSW®

Claude - THE CLOUD ARCHITECT — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:24:00 GMT

VolunteerACT Application Built on SaaSGrid to Debut at SXSW®

CLIFTON PARK, NY – March 11, 2010 – [@PR2WEB] - VolunteerACT, a new application built on top of Apprenda’s SaaSGrid, the industry’s leading SaaS Application Server, will debut at SXSW Interactive tomorrow. The new SaaS application built by UVision Consulting creates a private workspace and outreach portal to help charitable organizations of all sizes, publicize their cause and organize volunteers, encouraging both collaboration and productivity.

VolunteerACT chose SaaSGrid to drastically reduce the anticipated time to market and handle the complex multi-tenant architecture needed to support the management needs of volunteer teams. SaaSGrid eliminates the difficulties of building and delivering software as a service by smashing significant technical hurdles like multi-tenancy and grid scalability, while at the same time providing out of the box application services like metering and monetization, billing and subscriber management, and much more.

“Evangelizing and communicating with volunteers to contribute their time, skills and effort to achieve a shared vision of common good is a great way to bring people together,” Omar Uddin, CEO of UVision Consulting, the development company behind VolunteerACT. “SaaSGrid let’s us do what we’re good at. We were able to direct our development efforts towards the functionality, design and features needed to support volunteer teams, while relying on SaaSGrid for all of the SaaS delivery specifics.”

Since 2004, UVision has inspired volunteer programs at local, state and national levels with its volunteer management web application called VolunteerNET. UVision has logged over 100,000 volunteer hours with national organizations like National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine Sanctuaries. Realizing the value of this solution for all organizations that rely on volunteer efforts, UVision created a web-hosted version called VolunteerACT. SaaSGrid let UVision focus on the innovations of the application, driving charitable organizations to be more successful in their philanthropic missions.

SaaSGrid enables VolunteerACT to handle the types of management associated with the collaboration of volunteer work. From one central portal, VolunteerACT enables and recruits volunteers, manages events, assigns tasks, records time and achieves charitable goals for volunteer organizations of all sizes. VolunteerACT accelerates volunteer registrations by eliminating physical sign up sheets or distributed emails. Benefits unique to VolunteerACT enable organizations to:

 Simplify social media engagement
 Motivate followers to spread the word or become volunteers
 Recruit, assess, reward volunteers
 Hire qualified people into your organization
 Increase grant awards and donations by reporting volunteer time contributions

About Apprenda

Apprenda is the creator of SaaSGrid, the industry’s leading SaaS Application Server. SaaSGrid solves the upfront and ongoing technical and business challenges of delivering software as a service. SaaSGrid provides software companies with zero-effort multi-tenancy and grid scalability in addition to “out of the box” application services like metering and monetization, billing and subscriber management, and much more.

For more information visit Apprenda's website at: http://www.apprenda.com.

About UVision

The VolunteerACT web application was designed and built by UVision Labs, an IT consulting, product research and development business unit of UVision Consulting. As well as rapid development of innovative web applications, UVision Labs builds complex enterprise applications. UVision Labs studied volunteerism problems & the needs of coordinators and volunteers to create VolunteerACT This ensures optimal usability and focuses on the end user experience & social media marketing to encourage greater participation and results, which is what the web is all about.

UVision Consulting is a collective of internet strategy and web technology experts focused on internet and interactive media technologies. As a recipient of a 2008 White House Award for partnership & support of public awareness campaigns for environmental causes, UVision Consulting and it’s founder, Omar Uddin, actively work with corporate and not-for-profit organizations to promote strategic alliances between the public and private sectors.

For more information and to request a VolunteerACT beta invitation, visit http://volunteeract.com

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Ping Identity Announces 2010 Cloud Identity Summit

Claude - THE CLOUD ARCHITECT — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:17:00 GMT

Ping Identity Announces 2010 Cloud Identity Summit

Join change leaders, security, cloud and identity experts in Keystone, Colorado to shape the new era of Identity-Aware Security & Cloud Computing

DENVER, Colo. — March 10, 2010 — Ping Identity today announced open registration and a full lineup of sessions and speakers for the 2010 Cloud Identity Summit. Change leaders, visionaries, architects and business owners will converge at Colorado’s Keystone Resort July 20-22, 2010, to forge a new era of cloud security via identity.

As the ecosystem develops in cloud computing, security emerges as the primary issue impeding widespread adoption. When companies evaluate the risks and opportunities, Internet identity surfaces as the central component for enabling secure access to services of the Cloud.  

At the Cloud Identity Summit, industry leaders will share their thoughts and plans for identity and security in the Cloud. No other event will provide more insight into the converging worlds of identity management and cloud security as the Cloud Identity Summit. Join other change leaders in three full days of workshops, vision, architecture and implementation presentations as well as hands-on demos showcasing the standards, trends and the role of identity in securing and harnessing the Cloud.

Cloud Identity and Security Visionary Speakers:

Cloud Security Alliance Executive Director Jim Reavis
Google Security Product Manager Eric Sachs
Microsoft Technology Fellow, Cloud Identity and Access, John Shewchuk
PayPal Senior Director of Identity Services Andrew Nash
SafeNet Chief Technology Officer Russell Dietz
SuccessFactors Vice President of Cloud Computing Tom Fisher

Pre-conference Technology Workshops:

Cloud Security 101 with Arctec Group Managing Principal Gunnar Peterson
Implementing SAML for SaaS Single Sign-On with Ping Identity Solutions Architect Ian Barnett
Implementing OpenID & OAuth for Consumer Identity with Google’s Open Web Advocate Chris Messina and Google’s Social Web Engineer Joseph Smarr
Implementing XAMCL & Authorization for Cloud Computing with Axiomatics Americas Division President Gerry Gebel

The Cloud Identity Summit is sponsored by Ping Identity and SafeNet. Visit www.cloudidentitysummit.com for more information and to register for the event.

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About Ping Identity Corporation
Ping Identity is the market leader in Internet Identity Security, delivering on-premise software and on-demand services for Internet Single Sign-On (SSO), Identity-Enabled Web Services and Internet User Account Management. More than 400 enterprises, government agencies, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors and online service providers worldwide rely on Ping Identity to streamline application access, reduce administrative costs, generate additional revenue and improve security. Visit www.pingidentity.com for additional information.

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CloudStorm format colocated at Cloud Expo New York provides free show access!

Claude - THE CLOUD ARCHITECT — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:00:00 GMT

CloudStorm format colocated at Cloud Expo New York provides free show access!

5 minute rapid fire presentations and panel debate aims to give end users and channel partners an insight into the growing range of cloud products, services and initiatives

London, England - March 10, 2010 – [@PR2WEB] - CloudStorm, a cloud computing event has announced that its next events will be in London, Köln, Antwerp, New York, Düsseldorf and Amsterdam.

At the show in New York, CloudStorm will be colocated at the Cloud Computing Expo New York April 19th-21st in the Javits Convention Center, New York City.

The not-for-profit event, funded equally by its participants, provides a showcase of cloud computing solutions covering a wide range of areas including application development and deployment, infrastructure, storage, BPM and SAAS from leading European technology vendors.

Participants, who have just 5 minutes each to present their cloud based offering to the audience, offer a mix of vision, technology and snapshots of actual Cloud Computing solutions. The presentations are followed by a panel debate with a question and answer session ahead of a mini expo and networking party allowing all participants to interact on a one-to-one basis over light drinks and refreshments.

Event organiser, Arvid Fossen from A-server explains the new format, "We took a lot of feedback from both presenters and guests from previous CloudStorm's in London, Paris and Brussels and the consensus was that we needed to stick to high level messages and avoid going into too much technical detail on stage and leave these types of discussions for the expo."

"Over the last few events, we have had over a thousand attendees in total and it's a great way to help build a real community of people interested in both delivering and using cloud services in a environment where both individuals can share and exchange ideas." Fossen adds.

Attendance to CloudStorm is entirely free but places are limited with complimentary tickets available from the www.CloudStorm.org

With each CloudStorm registration, CloudStorm provides you a full 3 day Gold pass to the Cloud Computing Expo show floor! website on a first come, first served basis.

CloudStorm has further events planned for later in 2010 in Stockholm, Texas and Silicon Valley.

Other upcoming CloudStorm Editions:

Still room for speakers at some of the future events!

15/03: CloudStorm London @ Cloud Computing Congress

confirmed: Rackspace, Zeus, Vubble, Quantix, A-Server, Amplidata, Racktivity, SymetriQ, Macarthur Stroud

18/03: CloudStorm Köln @ Web Hosting Day

confirmed: Flexiant, HP, Nimsoft, A-Server, Amplidata, Racktivity

24/03: CloudStorm Antwerp

confirmed: HP, Microsoft, Dutch Cloud, Interact, ContactOffice, Arago, CloudSphere, A-Server, Amplidata, Racktivity, Beemaster ICT, SUN

19/04: CloudStorm @ Cloud Computing Expo

confirmed: CloudStorm is confirmed to be just before the opening keynote, list of speakers being compiled this week

04/05: CloudStorm Düsseldorf

confirmed: Arago, ContactOffice, A-Server, Amplidata, Racktivity, CloudSphere, SUN

06/05: CloudStorm Amsterdam

confirmed: Dutch Cloud, ContactOffice, Arago, A-Server, Amplidata, Racktivity, Beemaster ICT

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Cordys workflow apps gain top ratings in new Google Apps Marketplace

Claude - THE CLOUD ARCHITECT — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:19:00 GMT

Cordys workflow apps gain top ratings in new Google Apps Marketplace

[@PR2WEB] - Cordys Process Factory and Mashapps bring business process management (BPM) capabilities to Google's suite of communication and collaboration tools. Google's 25 million users and 2 million businesses can now use Cordys to create and deploy situational and mashup applications in the cloud - in just minutes with no coding or IT involvement:

*For example download a Cordys change management, expense management or asset management Mashapp (or build your own), customize it using Cordys workflow capabilities, and even integrate it back into your enterprise systems and data; many more Mashapps will be made available from Cordys over the coming months

*Cordys Mashapps are available at no additional cost to Google Apps Marketplace users and can be experienced directly from within Google mail, docs and spreadsheet applications with integrated single-sign on capabilities

Cordys, founded by ERP innovator Jan Baan, is the only complete web-based platform for orchestrating this new breed of situation applications in the cloud. Cordys U.S. executives are available for comment this week. Thanks for your consideration.

Cordys apps in the Google online store:

http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/search?orderBy=rating&query=cordys&categoryId=

Cordys Google Apps Marketplace press release:

http://www.cordys.com/cordyscms_com/cordys_mashapps_now_available_through_the_google_apps_marketplace.php?year=2010&month=03

Google Apps Marketplace:

http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/home

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Nasuni adds Nirvanix as Cloud Storage Provider

Claude - THE CLOUD ARCHITECT — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:03:00 GMT

Nasuni adds Nirvanix as Cloud Storage Provider

Free Download Still Available

NATICK, Mass., March 10, 2010 – [@PR2WEB] - Nasuni™, the company that recently unveiled the industry’s first gateway to the cloud for primary storage, today announced that Nirvanix has been added to its list of cloud storage providers. Nirvanix, the premier enterprise cloud storage service provider, will provide Nasuni customers with unlimited cloud capacity, allowing companies to use and pay for only what they need, when they need it.

Nasuni partners with leading cloud storage providers to combine online storage for offsite file protection and backup with local caching, making Nasuni the only company to provide the performance to enable the cloud for primary storage. Users of the virtual Nasuni Filer can start implementing Nirvanix with a simple click of the mouse, and send an unlimited number of files to the Nirvanix cloud for scalable offsite long-term retention/archiving that is globally accessible.

“The Nasuni gateway is a technological milestone in the cloud storage industry that enables organizations to easily benefit from Nirvanix’s unique enterprise cloud storage offering,” said Jim Zierick, President and CEO of Nirvanix. “Our global network and market leading functionality are now accessible via Nasuni’s gateway, offered in a straight forward, easy to understand monthly fee at a fraction of the cost when compared to other cloud storage services and storage technologies. The combined solution provides customers with a revolutionary way to protect and manage their data globally while reducing their overall storage costs.”

“Offering Nirvanix cloud storage will enable our customers to select the right option for their needs based on pricing, service levels, and any other criteria they choose,” said CEO and co-founder Andres Rodriguez. “Storing data with trusted providers like Nirvanix gives users the assurance that their files are available and secure on a global basis. With its proven record of reliability, along with 24x7 support staff, we believe Nirvanix is an excellent choice for our users.”

According to Dave Hiechel, President/CEO, of EAGLE Software, Inc, “Cloud storage can make good business sense for our customers since it can reduce, or even eliminate in some cases, the need for new storage hardware and reduces capital expense and management time. With Nasuni’s cloud gateway and Nirvanix’s SDN combined we can now offer primary storage and not just archiving to the cloud. This approach stands to dramatically simplify file storage for our customers.”

The Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN) is a fully managed, highly secure cloud storage service developed for today's enterprises. The SDN intelligently stores, delivers and processes storage requests in the best network location, providing the optimal user experience. The SDN is comprised of standards-based access to integrated services, all powered by Nirvanix's patent-pending proprietary technology and infrastructure.

The Nasuni Filer is a virtual NAS file server that runs on VMware and leverages the resources of the cloud to simplify file storage and protection. Nasuni’s solution simplifies file access, storage and protection and eliminates the need for incremental storage hardware, and the resulting capital expense. The Nasuni Filer features automatic provisioning, high-performance caching, synchronous snapshots, deduplication, and encryption plus key management.

Now in beta, the Nasuni Filer can be downloaded at www.nasuni.com. There is no charge for cloud storage during the beta period to facilitate end-to-end evaluation. After the beta period customers will receive a single bill from Nasuni regardless of which vendor(s) they select.

Follow Nasuni on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nasuni and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nasuni/233631748168

About Nasuni
Nasuni was founded in 2009 by storage veterans to deliver a gateway to cloud storage that makes the cloud feasible for business users. The Nasuni Filer, now in beta, is a virtual NAS file server that runs on VMware and leverages the resources of the cloud to simplify file storage and protection. Targeting the mid-market, Nasuni’s solution eliminates the need for incremental storage hardware, and the resulting capital expense, to manage unstructured file growth. The company is backed by North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. To download the beta version of the Nasuni Filer, or for more information, visit www.nasuni.com.

About Nirvanix
Nirvanix's mission is to ease the burden of storage management for organizations while enabling secure and reliable access to data worldwide. Nirvanix provides the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN), a fully-managed, secure cloud storage service developed for today's enterprises. The SDN intelligently stores, delivers and processes storage requests in the best network location, providing the optimal user experience. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Nirvanix is privately held and has raised more than $23 million in funding from world-class investors including Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners, Mission Ventures, Windward Ventures, and the European Founders Fund. Nirvanix customers range from Internet startups to Fortune 10 organizations. For more information about the company and its services, visit www.nirvanix.com or follow them on twitter at www.twitter.com/nirvanix.
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Zoho Adds Business Apps to the Google Apps Marketplace

Claude - THE CLOUD ARCHITECT — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Zoho Adds Business Apps to the Google Apps Marketplace

Zoho Now Fully Integrates with Google Apps at Sign-on, Data and Application Levels

PLEASANTON, Calif. —March 9, 2010 — [@PR2WEB] - Zoho today announced it has added Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects to the Google Apps Marketplace™, Google’s recently launched online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. From a central location, millions of Google Apps users can now subscribe to and access Zoho business applications, which are tightly integrated with Google Apps. To learn more, visit zoho.com/googleapps .

“Zoho’s Business Apps complement Google Apps. We previously integrated our apps at the log-in level with single sign-on,” said Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist. “Now, we take our integrations deeper, thanks to the enhanced APIs for Google Apps. We are happy to be part of Google Apps Marketplace where we offer full-fledged integrations with Google Apps for Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects, with additional business apps to follow.”

The applications that Zoho has added to the Google Apps Marketplace represent some of the company’s most popular offerings, including:

Zoho CRM – Zoho’s on-demand solution for building, maintaining and strengthening customer relationships. With Zoho CRM, users gain a 360-degree view of their business and a central location for tracking sales and marketing activities as well as sharing customer emails.
Zoho Projects – the company’s online project collaboration and management application. Zoho Projects blends project collaboration and management features, so users can plan, track and collaborate on projects from a single application.

Users gain a variety of benefits from the integration of the Zoho applications with Google Apps. For all Zoho applications, the integration lets users automatically sign in to the Zoho applications with their existing Google Apps credentials. In addition, Zoho Business applications will be listed in Google’s universal navigation, and Zoho application gadgets can be embedded in relevant Google applications, such as Gmail™, iGoogle™ and Google Sites™. Other application-specific integration benefits include:

Zoho CRM – Users can view Gmail emails in Zoho CRM contextually, so all Gmail emails exchanged with a Zoho CRM contact can be viewed. Users can also import contacts from Google Apps to Zoho CRM, view Zoho CRM calendar events in Google Calendar, and more.
Zoho Projects – Users can view Zoho Project calendar events in Google Calendar and attach Google Docs™ files to Zoho Projects.

“We are very excited to have Zoho Business Apps in the Google Apps Marketplace,” adds Scott McMullan, Partner Lead for Google Apps. “Through the Google Apps Marketplace, ISVs like Zoho are helping us build a rich ecosystem of integrated apps that work seamlessly with Google Apps, allowing IT administrators to leverage the benefits of cloud computing and extend Google Apps to meet more of their business needs. We are happy to offer Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects to the millions of Google Apps users who have embraced the cloud.”

The Google Apps Marketplace makes it easy for more than two million Google Apps customers to discover, purchase and deploy integrated business applications and related professional services. By integrating with user account and application data stored in Google Apps, these cloud applications provide a simpler user experience, increase business efficiency, and reduce administrative overhead. To learn more, visit google.com/appsmarketplace .

A video tour of the Zoho CRM and Zoho Projects integrations is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK_D-Z4wy88 . For more information on Zoho, please visit www.zoho.com and watch “What is Zoho?” To get breaking Zoho news, visit and subscribe to the RSS feed at http://blogs.zoho.com , and follow the company on Twitter at @zoho .

About Zoho

Zoho is a comprehensive suite of award-winning online productivity, collaboration and business applications for small and medium-sized businesses, as well as consumers. Over two million users rely on Zoho for their Business , Productivity & Collaboration needs and actively connect via Forums and Blogs . To date, Zoho has launched 21 different applications which include several online office applications such as Writer , Sheet , Show , and Mail along with a host of business applications ranging from CRM Projects , Invoice and Meeting . These applications are offered directly via Zoho.com or through hundreds of partners in the Zoho Alliance Partner Program . Zoho has received numerous awards, including a 2009 Webware 100 Award and an InfoWorld 2009 Technology of the Year Award. For more information about Zoho, please visit http://www.zoho.com/. to

Zoho is a division of ZOHO Corp., a privately-held and profitable company, which also provides IT Management Software Network Management Suite (WebNMS). With headquarters in Pleasanton, CA and offices in Austin, New Jersey, London, Tokyo and Beijing, ZOHO Corp. serves the technology needs of more than 40,000 customers worldwide. For more information about ZOHO Corp., please visit http://www.zohocorp.com/. (ManageEngine) and a

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3PAR First To Deliver Autonomic Storage Tiering For High-end Arrays

Claude - THE CLOUD ARCHITECT — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:27:00 GMT

3PAR First To Deliver Autonomic Storage Tiering For High-end Arrays

3PAR Delivers Cost- and Performance-Optimized Storage for Up to 30% Less

Fremont, CA, March 8, 2010— [@PR2WEB] - 3PAR^® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage, announced today the introduction of 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software for autonomic, sub-volume storage tiering with 3PAR InServ ^® F-Class and T-Class Storage Servers. In addition, 3PAR announced support for the STEC MACH8IOPS Solid State Drive (SSD), a new class of cost- and power-efficient SSDs. With this announcement, 3PAR has become the first high-end storage array vendor to deliver autonomic storage tiering for enterprise and cloud datacenters. The combination of 3PAR Adaptive Optimization, 3PAR SSDs, and the massively parallel, highly virtualized InServ Storage Server allows 3PAR customers to meet service level targets for approximately 30% lower cost than with Fibre Channel drives alone.

Meet Service Level Targets at a Lower Cost

3PAR’s autonomic, fine-grained approach to service level optimization was designed to reduce enterprise and cloud datacenter costs by delivering the right Quality of Service (QoS) to the right data at the right time—non-disruptively and on an ongoing basis. Adaptive optimization takes place at the sub-volume level, so InServ arrays using SSDs require fewer of these premium drives to meet even the most stringent performance targets. With 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software, InServ arrays are able to achieve desired service levels by combining multiple storage tiers—using any combination of SSD, Fibre Channel, and Nearline (enterprise SATA) drives—within a single volume for a lower overall cost per gigabyte than Fibre Channel-only configurations.

“The efficiency of combining fine-grained data movement at the sub-volume level with the use of SSDs and Nearline is anticipated to help us meet our service level objectives within a smaller footprint and for a lower total cost,” said Nicholas Ferguson, Senior Infrastructure Architect at Nephila Capital. “In addition, we have calculated that incorporating SSDs into our InServ array results in operational savings, since power and cooling requirements with SSDs are far less than spinning media.”

The combination of 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software and SSDs uniquely capitalizes on several key features built into the highly virtualized 3PAR InSpire^® Architecture. These features include: a built-in, sub-volume data movement engine; a Mesh-Active cluster that works with wide striping to balance the high performance of SSD resources across all controllers, CPUs, and ports; a caching architecture for tiered storage that has been enhanced for SSDs; and extensive historical reporting capabilities.

"Solid State Drive technology has not only unlocked new levels of performance within a smaller carbon footprint, but it has created the opportunity for the industry to rethink existing tiered storage paradigms," said Scott Stetzer, Vice President of Technical Marketing, STEC. "By combining Adaptive Optimization with leading-edge STEC Solid State Drive technology on energy-efficient, 'green' storage arrays, 3PAR has taken a highly innovative approach to both performance and cost optimization for the enterprise."

Increase Agility with New Autonomic Management Capability

3PAR Adaptive Optimization was designed to help organizations achieve the most efficient distribution of data over the application lifecycle, without administrator intervention. The software intelligently monitors sub-volume level performance, then applies user-configurable policies that autonomically and non-disruptively rebalance a workload across tiers to continually and flexibly meet changing application demands. At the same time, Adaptive Optimization minimizes the risk of user-level impact through non-disruptive sub-volume data movement technology, which has been proven over years of use, coupled with administrator controls that incorporate additional policy override mechanisms.

3PAR Adaptive Optimization software also includes Quality of Service (QoS) gradients that can be used to bias data movement within a profile based on specific performance or cost objectives. A QoS gradient accelerates or decelerates data movement toward a particular class of resources so the user can better meet service level and cost objectives. For example, a performance gradient can be used for data with high service level demands, such as a seasonal order management application. As workloads begin to spike (such as when Black Friday or Cyber Monday approaches), the gradient will rapidly and autonomically move data to high performance resources and maintain it there until after the activity has declined.

“3PAR’s autonomic storage tiering gives users the freedom to apply policies flexibly, on a per-application basis, so that only applications with changing performance characteristics use Adaptive Optimization technology, while other more stable data is left in place,” said Laura DuBois, IDC Program Director, Storage Software. “This enables 3PAR customers to safely configure multiple storage tiering profiles on a single, highly virtualized InServ array for greater flexibility, increased consolidation, and fewer equipment purchases.”

“The combination of Adaptive Optimization with SSDs extends 3PAR’s leadership in autonomic storage management,” said David Scott, 3PAR President and CEO. “We believe that bringing autonomic storage tiering to enterprise and cloud datacenters promises to not only reduce costs and deliver additional green benefits, but to increase storage infrastructure agility and the ability to handle changing and unpredictable workloads in virtualized environments.”

3PAR Adaptive Optimization software is orderable immediately. SSDs for the 3PAR InServ will be orderable next quarter and are compatible with all InServ F-Class and T-Class arrays running the latest version of the 3PAR InForm^® Operating System. 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software is an optional product that starts at $1,400 and requires 3PAR System Reporter software, version 2.7 or newer. Pricing for SSDs starts at $22,400 per InServ array.

About 3PAR

3PAR^® (NYSE: PAR) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized and dynamically tiered storage arrays built for public and private cloud computing. Our virtualized storage platform was built from the ground up to be agile and efficient to address the limitations of traditional storage arrays for utility infrastructures. As a pioneer of thin provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, we design our products to reduce power consumption to help companies meet their green computing initiatives, and to cut storage total cost of ownership. 3PAR customers have used our self-managing, efficient, and adaptable utility storage systems to reduce administration time and provisioning complexity, to improve server and storage utilization, and to scale and adapt flexibly in response to continuous growth and changing business needs. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.

© 2010 3PAR Inc. All rights reserved. 3PAR, the 3PAR logo, Serving Information, InServ, InForm, InSpire, and Thin Built In are all trademarks or registered trademarks of 3PAR Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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