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 Monterey heralds the advent of Enterprise Class Cloud Computing on Wall Street |
Key industry initiative unveiled at High Performance on Wall Street
Cloudsoft Corporation, a leading cloud software company, today announced the launch of Monterey. Monterey is an Enterprise Class Cloud Platform that, working with adjacent technologies in the stack, provides native support for Cloudsoft® Distributed Mediation (CDM), an application delivery platform that simplifies the development and deployment of complex transactional applications in the Cloud. CDM’s patented technology automatically eliminates network and processing bottlenecks; and CDM optimizes resource management and implements policies such as follow-the-sun to minimize latency and follow-the-moon to compress costs.
“Essentially Monterey lets you use CDM to rapidly develop mission critical applications; then deploy and run these applications on an enterprise class cloud infrastructure. CDM delivers optimal performance with true LAN/WAN application mobility,” explained Duncan Johnston-Watt, Founder and CEO, Cloudsoft Corporation. “The ‘M’ in Monterey is ‘M’ for middleware. CDM proves that only a middleware platform can ultimately bridge the gap between enterprise and the cloud and between cloud services providers. That’s why we chose the Bixby Bridge in Big Sur, California as our symbol!”
In order to prove this concept Cloudsoft has teamed up with pioneering managed cloud services provider PrimaCloud and built a prototype platform with the help of Citrix Systems, Intel Corporation and Super Micro Computer; as well as PrimaCloud’s strategic partners Enigmatec Corporation and Xsigo Systems.”
We share Cloudsoft’s vision that ‘bringing business to the cloud’ is not simply a tag line but is fundamentally about creating a production environment that offers the hallmarks of a purpose-built enterprise class infrastructure at significantly reduced total cost of operations,“ commented Dave Durkee, Founder and CEO, PrimaCloud. “Central to this is our adoption of run book automation to orchestrate the provisioning and management of complex application environments which will provide Monterey’s customers with managed computing services on a utility basis that are highly available, scalable, and cost effective.”
Cloudsoft has developed a benchmark, EzBrokerage, which showcases the ease with which critical business applications, in this case an electronic brokerage service, can be developed and deployed using CDM. EzBrokerage can be configured to test Monterey under a wide range of simulated market scenarios.
“Monterey is a great complement to the recently announced Xen Cloud Platform initiative, which will deliver open source virtual infrastructure platform technology that enables cloud providers to offer rich, enterprise-class infrastructure services that work seamlessly with the virtualized application workloads customers are already running in their internal datacenters and private clouds,” said Gordon Mangione, VP of Emerging Products, Datacenter and Cloud Division, Citrix Systems. “Monterey and the EzBrokerage application will further help the Xen community achieve its goal to empower providers and catalyze cloud adoption by the enterprise.”
Monterey also supports a hybrid cloud model where an enterprise may want to span multiple clouds for resilience; create a bridge or burst between their existing infrastructure and managed cloud services; or even dynamically migrate critical functionality in order to collocate this with other business critical services.
“We are delighted that Monterey has selected our quad core Xeon 5570 series processors to provide the underlying compute power,” observed Nigel Woodward, Global Director, Financial Services, Intel. “We believe that the design of cloud infrastructure is in its early stages and will require the type of architectural design discipline – covering performance, security, latency and above all application mobility – that the Monterey initiative promises.”
“Monterey recognizes the need to optimize the entire cloud stack in order to deliver enterprise class performance and reliability,” added Don Clegg, VP Marketing & Business Development, Super Micro Computer. “Our mission is to deliver application-optimized, high performance server solutions and it is very exciting to see our latest 2U Twin2 server in action providing the foundation for PrimaCloud.”
For more on Monterey visit http://www.montereyplatform.com
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About Cloudsoft Corporation
Cloudsoft Corporation (http://www.cloudsoftcorp.com) is a venture-backed independent software vendor whose mission is to ensure that enterprises reap the benefits of dramatically lower costs, reduced time to market, enhanced performance and improved agility promised by Cloud Computing by developing software and services to enable them to run their business in the Cloud. Cloudsoft’s first product is Cloudsoft Distributed Mediation (CDM). Cloudsoft Distributed Mediation (CDM) is a Cloud application delivery platform that simplifies the development and deployment of elastic applications in the Cloud. A key feature of CDM is the automatic re-routing of transactions whenever processing is dynamically migrated within the Cloud.
About PrimaCloud
PrimaCloud (http://www.primacloud.com) is a premium managed cloud service from Enki purpose-built to offer enterprises a cost-effective alternative to building and operating their own custom datacenter. PrimaCloud delivers five-nines reliability, unmatched performance, and IT workflow automation by integrating the latest high-performance technology in datacenters selected for bandwidth quality, systems redundancy, and security. PrimaCloud's further enables its customers to focus on their core competencies by offering full management of their cloud deployments, available on demand or in all-inclusive packages.
About Citrix Systems, Inc.
Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) is a leading provider of virtualization, networking and software-as-a-service (SaaS) technologies for more than 230,000 organizations worldwide. Its Citrix Delivery Center™, Citrix Cloud Center™ (C3) and Citrix Online Services product families radically simplify computing for millions of users, delivering applications as an on-demand service to any user, in any location on any device. Citrix customers include the world’s largest Internet companies, 99 percent of Fortune Global 500 enterprises, and hundreds of thousands of small businesses and prosumers worldwide. Citrix partners with over 10,000 companies worldwide in more than 100 countries. Founded in 1989, annual revenue in 2008 was $1.6 billion. For more information on Citrix visit http://www.citrix.com
About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at http://www.intel.com/pressroom and http://blogs.intel.com.
About Super Micro Computer
Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) emphasizes superior product design and uncompromising quality control to produce industry-leading serverboards, chassis, servers, workstations and blade systems. These application-optimized Server Building Block Solutions provide benefits across many environments, including datacenter deployment, high-performance computing, high-end workstations, storage networks and standalone server installations. For more information on Supermicro’s complete line of advanced motherboards, SuperServers and optimized chassis, visit http://www.supermicro.com, email marketing@supermicro.com or call +1 408-503-8000.
About Bixby Bridge
Bixby Creek Arch Bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixby_Bridge) is a reinforced concrete open-spandrel arch bridge in Big Sur, California. It is located 120 miles (190 km) south of San Francisco and 13 miles (21 km) south of Carmel in Monterey County along California Highway One.
Bixby Creek Bridge is important historically because it introduced automobile travel to Big Sur, connecting the remote coastal towns to each other. Before the bridge was opened on November 27, 1932, coastal travelers endured rough wagon roads over precipitous ridges and valleys. The 30-mile (48 km) journey from Monterey to the Big Sur River valley could take three days round trip.
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