Dedicated to Providing Insight Into the Enablement of Cloud Hosting Environments.

Cloud Hosting Journal

Subscribe to Cloud Hosting Journal: eMailAlertsEmail Alerts newslettersWeekly Newsletters
Get Cloud Hosting Journal: homepageHomepage mobileMobile rssRSS facebookFacebook twitterTwitter linkedinLinkedIn


Top Stories

Broadview Networks, a leading provider of hosted voice, data and cloud computing solutions, announced today that it has won the B2B Customer Strategy Award in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards. Broadview has been in the forefront of adopting cloud-based services to improve its customers’ operations, and as a leader in the cloud-based IP phone solutions market, has extended their expertise to cloud computing. Their suite of cloud computing services offers fully-managed enterprise-grade hosted business applications and infrastructure tailored to make it easy-to-use for the small- and medium-sized business. Broadview’s cloud-based services target the growing opportunity for Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Desktop as a Service (DaaS). Their cloud computing solutions allow companies to move software, applications, storage and server har... (more)

Who Is Using OpenStack?

Two years ago, Rackspace joined a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists to create an open source cloud computing platform that can be used with both private and public cloud formats. Now the code for the program, OpenStack, is freely available and is being used by a number of corporations, service providers, researchers, data centers, and others. Based on the growing numbers of companies turning to OpenStack, the original developers were obviously onto an idea that has proven popular. But why have companies turned to it? "We chose OpenStack becaus... (more)

Document Capture Technologies-DCMT IP Initiative for Scanning and Cloud Computing Security

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/17/12 -- Document Capture Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: DCMT), a global IP-driven leader in the design, development, manufacture and sale of advanced imaging technologies is pleased to announce significant additions to the company's Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio for the scanning industry and other data capture and device technologies. The IP addresses the critical emerging "Secure Scan to Cloud" market. In September of 2011 the company hired Mr. Martin Boliek as Chief Technology Officer to lead innovation. Mr. Boliek has an MS in Electrica... (more)

DDN Announces WOS Object Storage Support for Open Compute Project (OCP) Hardware to Enable Efficient and Connected Hyperscale Data Centers

CHATSWORTH, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/17/12 -- DataDirect Networks (DDN™), world leader in massively scalable storage, today announced support for DDN's Web Object Scaler (WOS™), its award-winning hyperscale object storage solution, on the recently announced Open Compute server and storage platforms in cooperation with the Open Compute Project (OCP). WOS software enables organizations to easily build and deploy their own storage clouds across geographically distributed sites that can scale to unprecedented levels, while still being managed as a single entity. Designed for perform... (more)

FireHost Named 2012 SIIA CODiE Award Winner for Best Cloud Infrastructure

DALLAS, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 05/17/12 -- FireHost, a secure cloud hosting company, has been named Best Cloud Infrastructure by SIIA for 2012 and received a CODiE Award. The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, announced FireHost's win after a peer review of 119 finalists. Now in its 27th year, the awards recognize greatness in industries that expect innovative thinking. "This recognition by a leading industry organization is very meaningful to us," said Chris Drake, CEO of FireHost. ... (more)