ESSENTIAL ISSUES, SUCH AS LICENSING AND BILLING, IN THE CLOUD WILL MAKE OR BREAK ISV SUCCESS

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:53:24 +0000

ESSENTIAL ISSUES, SUCH AS LICENSING AND BILLING, IN THE CLOUD WILL MAKE OR BREAK ISV SUCCESS

The new frontier of the Cloud hasn't been designed to accommodate software vendors who want their products to work in the cloud, says JNBridge's Wayne Citrin

WHO:  Wayne Citrin
          CTO
          JNBridge
          (www.jnbridge.com)

Citrin is Chief Technology Officer at JNBridge. He is the architect of JNBridge Pro, and has been devoted to Java and .NET interoperability issues since .NET's beta days, more than nine years ago. Prior to co-founding JNBridge, Citrin was a leading researcher in programming languages and compilers, and was on the Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a researcher at IBM's research lab in Zürich, Switzerland and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He has given presentations at JavaOne, Microsoft's TechEd and TechReady, and numerous academic and technical conferences.

WHAT: ISVs and the Cloud

If you ask most people how software vendors can move into the cloud, they will say that the vendor should take their traditional products, put them in the cloud, and offer them as services. But what about other software vendors who create components that other developers incorporate into their own programs? In most cases, offering the component as a service doesn't make sense.

The main challenge to running components in Cloud-based programs has to do with essential issues, like licensing and billing. Windows Azure has absolutely no provision for third-party licensing and billing. It's a chicken-and-egg problem. If Microsoft is serious about its software partners producing for Azure (and not just end-user customers creating custom applications), Microsoft will have to jump-start the market by offering their own billing mechanism.
One would think that barriers to entry wouldn't be there, and that Cloud providers would do all they could to encourage software vendors to help settle this new frontier. Without a robust partner community for both Azure and Amazon Web Services, Cloud adoption will be that much slower for everyone.

HOW: The industry needs interoperability solutions for IT organizations that need to integrate Java and Microsoft .NET applications running in the Cloud - especially as a high-performance alternative to existing Web services protocols. The vision of Cloud interoperability should be any object, on any platform, in any language, anywhere, and at any time. Solutions such as this are needed because existing web services protocols are too slow for IT organizations trying to meet demanding service level agreements frequently associated with Cloud computing, Citrin says.

To read Wayne Citrin's full blog post on this topic please visit: (http://www.jnbridge.com/jn/?p=277).

Contact: For more information or to set up an interview with Wayne Citrin, please contact:
             Christie Denniston
             Catapult PR-IR
             303-581-7760, ext. 13
             (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com)

DATAPIPE LAUNCHES DATAPIPE MANAGED CLOUD FOR AMAZON WEB SERVICES

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:18:58 +0000

DATAPIPE LAUNCHES DATAPIPE MANAGED CLOUD FOR AMAZON WEB SERVICES

Datapipe helps simplify the migration to and management of applications on Amazon Web Services for organizations looking for a fully managed IT cloud solution

JERSEY CITY, NJ, Nov. 17, 2010 - Datapipe, global leader of managed services and infrastructure for IT and cloud computing, today announced Datapipe Managed Cloud, a complete managed services offering designed for Amazon Web Services (AWS). With Datapipe Managed Cloud, organizations have a partner to plan, migrate and manage all of its mission-critical IT applications running on one of the most widely used cloud infrastructure web services platforms in the world.

Datapipe Managed Cloud allows business executives and IT managers to successfully deploy applications and services to AWS knowing it is fully supported and delivered through a delivery model based on world-class service, simple pricing and the ability to scale resources up and down based on need. Datapipe has designed a comprehensive managed services offering for AWS, as well as a suite of Datapipe Cloud Accelerators designed to help customers fully leverage the scalability, elasticity and pay as you go pricing model of AWS.

"As cloud computing adoption increases, many customers are looking for a comprehensive managed cloud service," said Robb Allen, CEO of Datapipe. "We are pleased to add Datapipe Managed Cloud to our portfolio of services and to provide customers with practical solutions that meet both advanced cloud computing and traditional hosted infrastructure environment needs."

Datapipe Managed Cloud is an all-inclusive suite of managed services featuring architecture and design, forklifting, 24x7x365 technician-based monitoring and management, patching and OS maintenance, and change management. Datapipe offers customers a simple billing model that eases the transition to and scaling of cloud computing programs. Datapipe Managed Cloud also includes a suite of Cloud Accelerators for enhanced cloud infrastructure design. The modules include a Server Access Manager for LDAP, an Email Relay, a Global Load Balancer for multi-site DNS based load balancing, and a Web Application Accelerator for dynamic content caching.

"By migrating to the Datapipe Managed Cloud, we were able to implement a hosting solution that offered tremendous value without sacrificing performance or security," explained Bob Gibson, CEO of VillasCaribe, a top-rated vacation rental company. "As a new Datapipe client, I must admit, it took me a bit to understand the dynamics of the cloud computing environment, but we could not be happier. Our migration was certainly complex, but with the support of Datapipe's team they were able to move us to our new environment seamlessly."

"We are pleased to be working with Datapipe to help more enterprises leverage the cloud with managed services," said Terry Wise, Director of Business Development, Amazon Web Services LLC. "Datapipe's managed services, along with the scalability, elasticity and pay as you go pricing of Amazon Web Services, are helping customers satisfy business demands for launching applications and IT infrastructure in the cloud."

Pricing and Availability
Datapipe Managed Cloud is available now and offers customers an all-inclusive price model for managed services. For more information, please visit http://www.datapipe.com/cloud, contact by email at dmc@datapipe.com or call Datapipe at (877) 773-3306 and ask for "Datapipe Managed Cloud."

About Datapipe
Datapipe is a global leader of managed services and infrastructure for IT and cloud computing, with facilities in New York metro area, San Jose, London, Hong Kong and Shanghai. As one of the originators of the Managed Services Provider model, clients trust Datapipe to manage and secure mission-critical services, including cloud computing, hosted servers and storage, data center services and colocation. For more information about Datapipe visit www.datapipe.com or call (888) 749-5821.

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ESSENTIAL ISSUES, SUCH AS LICENSING AND BILLING, IN THE CLOUD WILL MAKE OR BREAK ISV SUCCESS

DATAPIPE LAUNCHES DATAPIPE MANAGED CLOUD FOR AMAZON WEB SERVICES