Monthly Archives: October 2014

2nd Watch, New Relic Partner for Performance Monitoring on AWS Enterprise Apps

Managed services provider and AWS Premier Consulting Partner 2nd Watch is now using New Relic application performance data as part of its managed services offering for workloads running on Amazon’s public cloud. Continue reading

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Data Can Stay in Canada – Even in the Cloud

It’s no secret that Canadian businesses took a close look at their customer data privacy following the Snowden revelations more than a year ago. In fact, a full one third (33 percent) planned to move data outside of the US this year over concerns around the NSA, according to research from Peer 1 Hosting. Continue reading

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Bracket Computing Raises $85M for Cloud Infrastructure Service

Bracket Computing announced on Wednesday that it has launched its enterprise cloud infrastructure service, Bracket Computing Cell. The company, which was founded in Sunnyvale, Calif. in 2011, has raised more than $85 million to develop its service, which brings security, storage, compute and networking together in an encrypted software system. Continue reading

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Canadian Web Hosting Targets Enterprise Public Cloud Market with OpenStack Offering

Canadian Web Hosting announced the pre-production release on Tuesday of a new Enterprise Public Cloud service running on OpenStack Icehouse called AURO. The company is aiming to pit AURO against the big public cloud providers for Canadian enterprise customers, and claims it offers better rates. Continue reading

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ProfitBricks Reduces Cloud Infrastructure Prices by 30 Percent

ProfitBricks has slashed its infrastructure prices by 30 percent, improving the price and performance proposition of its “unbound cloud” model, the company announced Wednesday. The price drop is double that of the industry leader AWS by percentage, according to ProfitBricks. Continue reading

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