IBM to Convert Its Software Portfolio into Cloud Computing Services

SoftLayer Inc is the biggest stack of IBM

SoftLayer, Inc is the biggest stack of IBM to shift its software application portfolios into cloud computing based services in near future.

GREATRESPONDER.COM – It was announced by the Big Blue this weekend that a wide range of its software portfolio is going to be shifted in the cloud to make then full-fledged cloud computing based services. This announcement came – as anticipated earlier by the industry experts – after huge investment from the IBM into the cloud computing business recently.

It was further informed that the company is aggressively working on moving multiple applications and software portfolio into SoftLayer Inc cloud computing based grids to make available to the customers as full solutions through the SoftLayer clouds, where these services would be available to be accessed under the umbrella of common open architecture.

In the official statement, it was further elaborated that the Big Blue will start a big cloud computing based marketplace, which will host more than 2000 different kinds of applications and other portfolios of IBM. This marketplace will offer a wide range of services and through APIs and other interfaces for different range of customers. This platform will allow the customers to search and implement their IBM applications of their choice. A substantial number of IBM partners’ software products will also be available in the marketplace that work in conjunction with the IBM main portfolio services. Some of such services of IBM are already in operation and can be accessed through SoftLayer clouds.

“We’re going to bring a lot of IBM middleware over into a cloud environment, so it will be consumable worldwide very soon,” said the CEO of SoftLayer Inc, Mr. Lance Crosby in his statement. He further added that “the migration will be very fast and will be completed in very short span of time.”

The first its kind project called BlueMix is going to be launched on Monday, Feb 24, 2014 at an annual conference in Las Vegas. This service will use all 40 data centers of IBM located across the globe to provide the efficient and high performance services.

It was further explained in the statement that the company will use open source Cloud Foundry framework for its cloud services. The company also plans to offer a developer environment that will use open-source GIT Repository. It will also have web IDE, Visual Studio and Eclipse plug-ins.

IBM to Convert Its Software Portfolio into Cloud Computing Services

iomart Web Hosting Company Reporting Good Profits

iomart web hosting

Greatresponder.com – 2011-06-02 - UK Web hosting company iomart announced on Wednesday that its profits are up 618 percent from previous year, which is awesome ratio.

 

The primary part of iomart business is based on providing of cloud hosting solutions.

Referring to the press release, the company’s financial results for the year ended March 31, 2011, and iomart’s profits before tax are $4.6 million.

iomart says its revenue has also increased, up 38 percent from last year at $41.5 million.

Also we were lucky to find short information on SoftLayer. Their revenue for the first quater of 2011 is $78 million.

Returning to iomart, the company says the majority of its growth came from its Web hosting services that generated around $30 millions. This number is an increase of 61 percent over 2010, according to the press release.

“Cloud computing has become something of a buzz word with many companies adding the ‘cloud’ tag to everything they do without backing it up with reliable delivery mechanisms,” Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart said in a statement. “At iomart we have built our technologies from the ground up specifically to be delivered via the cloud. As a result we are becoming recognized as an authority on the provision of cloud-hosting solutions and are well positioned to take advantage as the market evolves and people look for reliable vendors.”

MacSween says iomart has received 400 new orders over the year, many of which were additional orders from existing customers. Most orders include some aspect of cloud or virtual computing, MacSween says.

“With more and more businesses looking to the cloud for their data solutions we believe we have positioned ourselves well to take advantage of this market moving forward,” MacSween added. “We are in a market that is growing and that is here to stay and we fully expect to participate strongly in that growth.”

Iomart continue expanding. Month ago iomart acquired domain registrar and shared hosting provider Switch Media for $2 million. Last year, iomart bought Web hosting provider Titan Internet for nearly $7 million.

iomart Web Hosting Company Reporting Good Profits

Web Hosting Provider SoftLayer finalized SSAE 16

Greatresponder.com – 2011-07-14 - Two weeks after SoftLayer’s executive officer Lance Crosby won an entrepreneurial award from Ernst & Young, on Thursday to be precise, the web hosting company SoftLayer Technologies revealed that it has finally finalized all the SSAE 16 audit for its 11 data centers.

“We’re committed to operating our data centers and facilities at a level that meets or exceeds the highest industry and regulatory standards,” said Steve Kinman, vice president of customer relations for SoftLayer in a report. “We’re proud to be one of the first in the hosting industry to complete a SSAE 16 review, assuring our customers that they can count on us for best practices in all that we do.”

According to the press release, the independent auditing firm Weave and web hosting provider SoftLayer’s data center in a SOC 1 report performed the audit. According to Softlayer, it has established SAS 70 Type II evaluations since 2008. SSAE 16 will be replacing the old standard review for organization control processes, SAS 70 audit.

“Not only do we want to provide customers with superior assurance and confidence in our operations, we wanted to make it easy for them,” Kinman says. “Using the inclusive method streamlined the process. And we’ve created an easy-to-use tool in our customer portal so customers can e-sign the SSAE 16 non-disclosure agreement and immediately access the verification they need.”

According to the press release, the SOC 1 was created with the use of wide-ranging methods incorporating reviews of relative SoftLayer web hosting service associates. The evaluation incorporated a full assessment of operations and customer service, risk assessment supervising, development and information technology organization as well as human resource.

Web Hosting Provider SoftLayer finalized SSAE 16

Web Hosting Provider SoftLayer Opens New Datacenter in Europe

Greatresponder.com – 2011-10-16 – On Thursday, the web hosting providing giant SoftLayer made the announcement that it will now be opening it’s European headquarters in Amsterdam. The web hosting company’s first data center that will be located in Europe will be in Amsterdam as well.

According to the press release, the web hosting company SoftLayer has initially invested about $75 million in Holland and its European operations. Those opperations and new services includes new network PoPs in London and Frankfurt as well.

In addition to this statement, the web hosting company newly named Jonathan Wisler as the new general manager for the European Operations.

The company also claims to have recruited an additional further 25 people to staff the data center and support operations.

“Given the overall size of The Netherlands compared to the rest of Europe, this country is one of the most advanced in terms of Internet infrastructure and networking,” Wisler said in a statement. “We’re seeing a thriving community of both established digital entrepreneurs and start-ups here. There is a terrific buzz, particularly in Amsterdam, amongst digital professionals. It’s exciting, vibrant and it’s lively—the perfect environment from which to launch our European operations.”

SoftLayer has joined the Amsterdam Internet Exchange to drive its European presence.

“SoftLayer’s choice and business potential in Europe show a clear sign that regardless of the financial markets, our industry and the city of Amsterdam offer one of the best environments for companies, technology and engineering talent to thrive,” Job Witteman, AMS-IX chief executive officer said in a statement.

As stated in the press release, the company’s costumers in Europe will be able to pre-order services at the end of October.

As soon as the web hosting provider’s Amsterdam data center opens up in November, SoftLayer will have 13 data centers and 16 PoPs worldwide. The data center will have capacity for more than 15,000 servers.

Web Hosting Provider SoftLayer Opens New Datacenter in Europe

Web Hosting Provider SoftLayer Opens New Datacenter in Europe

Greatresponder.com – 2011-10-16 – On Thursday, the web hosting providing giant SoftLayer made the announcement that it will now be opening it’s European headquarters in Amsterdam. The web hosting company’s first data center that will be located in Europe will be in Amsterdam as well.

According to the press release, the web hosting company SoftLayer has initially invested about $75 million in Holland and its European operations. Those opperations and new services includes new network PoPs in London and Frankfurt as well.

In addition to this statement, the web hosting company newly named Jonathan Wisler as the new general manager for the European Operations.

The company also claims to have recruited an additional further 25 people to staff the data center and support operations.

“Given the overall size of The Netherlands compared to the rest of Europe, this country is one of the most advanced in terms of Internet infrastructure and networking,” Wisler said in a statement. “We’re seeing a thriving community of both established digital entrepreneurs and start-ups here. There is a terrific buzz, particularly in Amsterdam, amongst digital professionals. It’s exciting, vibrant and it’s lively—the perfect environment from which to launch our European operations.”

SoftLayer has joined the Amsterdam Internet Exchange to drive its European presence.

“SoftLayer’s choice and business potential in Europe show a clear sign that regardless of the financial markets, our industry and the city of Amsterdam offer one of the best environments for companies, technology and engineering talent to thrive,” Job Witteman, AMS-IX chief executive officer said in a statement.

As stated in the press release, the company’s costumers in Europe will be able to pre-order services at the end of October.

As soon as the web hosting provider’s Amsterdam data center opens up in November, SoftLayer will have 13 data centers and 16 PoPs worldwide. The data center will have capacity for more than 15,000 servers.

Web Hosting Provider SoftLayer Opens New Datacenter in Europe

Web Hosting SoftLayer Partners With SendGrid

Greatresponder.com – 2011-06-29 – Worldwide known web hosting provider and data center operator SoftLayer Technologies announced yesterday that it has partnered with SendGrid email solutions company to launch its SoftLayer unique Email Delivery Service.

Last month SendGrid company partnered with well known web hosting Rackspace for an email infrastructure ideal for huge amounts of email.

Available with almost any SoftLayer solution including dedicated or CloudLayer Computing environment, SoftLayer says its new email solution comes in four various packages, including a free one.

Referring to the SoftLayer web hosting company press release, the new email solution integrates into applications and services easily to allow clients to avoid the time, efforts and cost of developing a proprietary solution or licensing a third-party service.

“Practically almost every online application has email built into it in some fashion. So we wanted to provide an advanced email delivery service our customers can easily merge and manage with their entire SoftLayer environment,” Nathan Day, chief scientist for SoftLayer web hosting company said in a statement. “SendGrid’s platform was the ideal foundation for doing just that. Its extensive capabilities, performance, and features dovetail perfectly with our commitment to automation, reliability, and empowerment.”

The new SoftLayer Email Delivery solution is capable of scaling up to millions of email messages and provides complete real-time analytics.

“Application providers want to focus on pursuing their business objectives, not on creating and managing email delivery infrastructure,” Isaac Saldana, president and co-founder for SendGrid said in a statement. “We’re proud to partner with SoftLayer web hosting company to offer that benefit directly to their customer base. As SoftLayer customers ourselves, we know firsthand that being able to integrate and control your whole solution in one place provides enormous efficiency advantages.”

The packages are priced based on volume of emails and other features. The free package offers up to 25,000 emails per month while the enterprise solution allows up to 250,000 emails every month.

Small summary on SoftLayer web hosting company:

Founded in 2005 year, SoftLayer web hosting and data center operator provides global, on-demand data center and web hosting services from facilities across the U.S. SoftLayer delivery best-in-class connectivity and technology to innovate industry-leading, completely automated solutions that empower enterprises with complete access, advanced control and security, great scalability. With this insightful company strategy and talented technical execution, company gained great reputation worldwide.

Web Hosting SoftLayer Partners With SendGrid

Web Hosting Provider SoftLayer finalized SSAE 16

Greatresponder.com – 2011-07-14 - Two weeks after SoftLayer’s executive officer Lance Crosby won an entrepreneurial award from Ernst & Young, on Thursday to be precise, the web hosting company SoftLayer Technologies revealed that it has finally finalized all the SSAE 16 audit for its 11 data centers.

“We’re committed to operating our data centers and facilities at a level that meets or exceeds the highest industry and regulatory standards,” said Steve Kinman, vice president of customer relations for SoftLayer in a report. “We’re proud to be one of the first in the hosting industry to complete a SSAE 16 review, assuring our customers that they can count on us for best practices in all that we do.”

According to the press release, the independent auditing firm Weave and web hosting provider SoftLayer’s data center in a SOC 1 report performed the audit. According to Softlayer, it has established SAS 70 Type II evaluations since 2008. SSAE 16 will be replacing the old standard review for organization control processes, SAS 70 audit.

“Not only do we want to provide customers with superior assurance and confidence in our operations, we wanted to make it easy for them,” Kinman says. “Using the inclusive method streamlined the process. And we’ve created an easy-to-use tool in our customer portal so customers can e-sign the SSAE 16 non-disclosure agreement and immediately access the verification they need.”

According to the press release, the SOC 1 was created with the use of wide-ranging methods incorporating reviews of relative SoftLayer web hosting service associates. The evaluation incorporated a full assessment of operations and customer service, risk assessment supervising, development and information technology organization as well as human resource.

Web Hosting Provider SoftLayer finalized SSAE 16

iomart Web Hosting Company Reporting Good Profits

iomart web hosting

Greatresponder.com – 2011-06-02 - UK Web hosting company iomart announced on Wednesday that its profits are up 618 percent from previous year, which is awesome ratio.

 

The primary part of iomart business is based on providing of cloud hosting solutions.

Referring to the press release, the company’s financial results for the year ended March 31, 2011, and iomart’s profits before tax are $4.6 million.

iomart says its revenue has also increased, up 38 percent from last year at $41.5 million.

Also we were lucky to find short information on SoftLayer. Their revenue for the first quater of 2011 is $78 million.

Returning to iomart, the company says the majority of its growth came from its Web hosting services that generated around $30 millions. This number is an increase of 61 percent over 2010, according to the press release.

“Cloud computing has become something of a buzz word with many companies adding the ‘cloud’ tag to everything they do without backing it up with reliable delivery mechanisms,” Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart said in a statement. “At iomart we have built our technologies from the ground up specifically to be delivered via the cloud. As a result we are becoming recognized as an authority on the provision of cloud-hosting solutions and are well positioned to take advantage as the market evolves and people look for reliable vendors.”

MacSween says iomart has received 400 new orders over the year, many of which were additional orders from existing customers. Most orders include some aspect of cloud or virtual computing, MacSween says.

“With more and more businesses looking to the cloud for their data solutions we believe we have positioned ourselves well to take advantage of this market moving forward,” MacSween added. “We are in a market that is growing and that is here to stay and we fully expect to participate strongly in that growth.”

Iomart continue expanding. Month ago iomart acquired domain registrar and shared hosting provider Switch Media for $2 million. Last year, iomart bought Web hosting provider Titan Internet for nearly $7 million.

iomart Web Hosting Company Reporting Good Profits

Web Hosting Provider SoftLayer Opens New Datacenter in Europe

Greatresponder.com – 2011-10-16 – On Thursday, the web hosting providing giant SoftLayer made the announcement that it will now be opening it’s European headquarters in Amsterdam. The web hosting company’s first data center that will be located in Europe will be in Amsterdam as well.

According to the press release, the web hosting company SoftLayer has initially invested about $75 million in Holland and its European operations. Those opperations and new services includes new network PoPs in London and Frankfurt as well.

In addition to this statement, the web hosting company newly named Jonathan Wisler as the new general manager for the European Operations.

The company also claims to have recruited an additional further 25 people to staff the data center and support operations.

“Given the overall size of The Netherlands compared to the rest of Europe, this country is one of the most advanced in terms of Internet infrastructure and networking,” Wisler said in a statement. “We’re seeing a thriving community of both established digital entrepreneurs and start-ups here. There is a terrific buzz, particularly in Amsterdam, amongst digital professionals. It’s exciting, vibrant and it’s lively—the perfect environment from which to launch our European operations.”

SoftLayer has joined the Amsterdam Internet Exchange to drive its European presence.

“SoftLayer’s choice and business potential in Europe show a clear sign that regardless of the financial markets, our industry and the city of Amsterdam offer one of the best environments for companies, technology and engineering talent to thrive,” Job Witteman, AMS-IX chief executive officer said in a statement.

As stated in the press release, the company’s costumers in Europe will be able to pre-order services at the end of October.

As soon as the web hosting provider’s Amsterdam data center opens up in November, SoftLayer will have 13 data centers and 16 PoPs worldwide. The data center will have capacity for more than 15,000 servers.

Web Hosting Provider SoftLayer Opens New Datacenter in Europe

Web Hosting Provider SoftLayer Technologies Announced its New Dedicated Firewalls

Greatresponder.com – 2011-07-22 - On Tuesday, the web hosting provider SoftLayer Technologies has made the announcement of its new high-availability dedicated firewalls to its firewall security services. The web hosting provider previously and still does, offer to their costumer’s standard firewalls and dedicated hardware firewalls.

Softlayer’s spokesmen say that the firewalls were created to protect from malicious activity. Furthermore, the firewalls were also made with a secondary physical firewall for failover protection as well as an automatic fall back. Those firewalls are for when the primary firewall regains service.

This announcement was made barely a week after the web hosting company completed effectively its SSAE 16 audit. According to the announcement, the clients of SoftLayer now have a new option. This new option being is to add the new service to their current cloud, dedicated or virtual systems that share the same virtual local area network or a new one.

“High-Availability Dedicated Firewalls provide our customers with greater peace of mind,” says the vice president of systems development and technology at SoftLayer, Matt Chilek, in a statement. “Unfortunately, malicious network activity can happen to anyone, so we’re dedicated to providing our customers with the best protection possible so they can focus on their business and not worry about the security of their infrastructure.”

According to SoftLayer, their new firewalls stand between the entire VLAN and the Public Network. The new firewalls are meant to protect the servers according to analysis and filtering all network traffic. The web hosting company customers can organize firewall locations for the entire VLAN and for individual systems as well.

Web Hosting Provider SoftLayer Technologies Announced its New Dedicated Firewalls

Canadian Web Hosting hosting Syrian Gov. and Hezbollah Affiliated Websites ?

Greatresponder.com – 2011-11-18 - On Thursday, a report by Canadian researchers was release indicating that twenty-six Syrian government websites are being hosting by web hosting providers in Canada, the US, and Germany. According to the report, those operations raised legal questions as this may be violation on the Canadian and U.S. sanctions against Syria.

These sanctions against Syria have been put in place to put pressure on the government that has been, for the last eight months, using police and military forces to calm down the uprise of the population.

The report claims that 17 Syrian government sites have been held by Canadian web hosting companies, 7 are held by US web hosting companies and 2 by German web hosting companies. Those web hosting providers include a few big named companies like the web hosting giant, SoftLayer, and the Montreal-based we hosting provider, iWeb.

“There’s definitely a question. Cyberspace governance is immature and underdeveloped. Sanctions are designed around a world much less fluid and material than cyberspace is. I think if you are going to put named entities on a sanctions list that government needs to provide some guidance to the private sector about what that means,” said Ronald Deibert, the director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.

Deilbert also says that it is still unclear whether the web hosting providers violated any sanctions and is worried that the removal of those sides from the web hosting providers may be a treated as an infringement on freedom of speech and access to information.

The report also shows that Addounia TV, a Syrian state television station that was also sanctioned for inching violence against the Syrian citizens, is also hosted by a Canadian Web Hosting company.

According to the report released, the Hezbollah’s media arm website is also hosted by a Canadian and Us-baser web servers.

Canadian Web Hosting hosting Syrian Gov. and Hezbollah Affiliated Websites ?

iomart Web Hosting Company Reporting Good Profits

iomart web hosting

Greatresponder.com – 2011-06-02 - UK Web hosting company iomart announced on Wednesday that its profits are up 618 percent from previous year, which is awesome ratio.

 

The primary part of iomart business is based on providing of cloud hosting solutions.

Referring to the press release, the company’s financial results for the year ended March 31, 2011, and iomart’s profits before tax are $4.6 million.

iomart says its revenue has also increased, up 38 percent from last year at $41.5 million.

Also we were lucky to find short information on SoftLayer. Their revenue for the first quater of 2011 is $78 million.

Returning to iomart, the company says the majority of its growth came from its Web hosting services that generated around $30 millions. This number is an increase of 61 percent over 2010, according to the press release.

“Cloud computing has become something of a buzz word with many companies adding the ‘cloud’ tag to everything they do without backing it up with reliable delivery mechanisms,” Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart said in a statement. “At iomart we have built our technologies from the ground up specifically to be delivered via the cloud. As a result we are becoming recognized as an authority on the provision of cloud-hosting solutions and are well positioned to take advantage as the market evolves and people look for reliable vendors.”

MacSween says iomart has received 400 new orders over the year, many of which were additional orders from existing customers. Most orders include some aspect of cloud or virtual computing, MacSween says.

“With more and more businesses looking to the cloud for their data solutions we believe we have positioned ourselves well to take advantage of this market moving forward,” MacSween added. “We are in a market that is growing and that is here to stay and we fully expect to participate strongly in that growth.”

Iomart continue expanding. Month ago iomart acquired domain registrar and shared hosting provider Switch Media for $2 million. Last year, iomart bought Web hosting provider Titan Internet for nearly $7 million.

iomart Web Hosting Company Reporting Good Profits

SoftLayer Web Hosting Company Becomes A Sponsor Of StopBadWare

SoftLayer web hosting

Greatresponder.com – 2011-06-04 – SoftLayer web hosting company becomes a sponsor of non-profit and well known security organization StopBadware

 

Founded in 2006, StopBadware provides various tools and information that assist industry and policymakers in meeting their responsibility to protect users from badware.

Referring to the press release, StopBadware provides various reports and insights, community forum, useful guidelines and definitions, tips and tricks for users and website owners to stay on safe side.

Maxim Weinstein, executive director of StopBadware said: “SoftLayer recently demonstrated their commitment to combating badware by supporting our best practices for Web hosting providers. We’re excited they have elected to extend their support by becoming a StopBadware sponsor.”

According to SoftLayer press release, they said: “We are proud to sponsor StopBadware. More than 22 million websites are hosted on SoftLayer’s infrastructure, making us one of the largest providers in the world. With such a reach, we believe it is our duty to strengthen efforts to protect the Internet for everyone.”

Overall it seems that SoftLayer joins Google, Mozilla, PayPal and Verizon in supporting StopBadware. SoftLayer web hosting company known as one of the market leader. They have facilities in 5 US states.

SoftLayer Web Hosting Company Becomes A Sponsor Of StopBadWare