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Awsome This Tuesday Should Be Awesome

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

If you are in the Atlanta area this Tuesday night (3/10/09) you might want to stop by and attend our Awsome meetup. We have two great presenters as follows:
7:00 Hadoop
Don Brown of TwitPay will be giving a presentation on Hadoop and Map Reduce. For those of you who missed Don’s presentation at Cloud Camp [...]

Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server 2.0 “Beta” Press Release

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

ELASTRA ENABLES ENTERPRISE IT TO ACCELERATE APPLICATION DELIVERY IN IT-CONTROLLED PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COMPUTE CLOUDS

Elastra Announces Policy-Based Enterprise Cloud Management Software;
Calls for Beta Participants for Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server 2.0

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., February 25, 2009 – Elastra Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise cloud management software, today unveiled plans for its flagship [...]

ELASTRA Delivers Support for Open Source Eucalyptus Platform

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

ELASTRA Delivers Cloud Portability With Support for Open Source Eucalyptus Platform

ELASTRA Closes $12 Million In Series B Financing

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Press Release
Amazon is one of the investors…
Financial Backing from Amazon.com, Bay Partners and Hummer Winblad Solidifies Elastra’s Position as a Leading Provider of Application Management Software for Public and Private Compute Clouds

Do we need a cloud standard or just one good old IT management standard?

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

It is my belief that what we today call the “cloud” will really just evolve into a complex IT infrastructure of the future, and in the end, will just be referred to as infrastructure. There is no doubt the traditional IT landscape of the last 20 years is going through a substantial transformation on [...]

Bridging The Clouds

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Hmmmm… is this true?
Armijo says that several small cloud-computing firms including Elastra and Rightscale are already on board with 3Tera’s standards group.
Bridging The Clouds

Is Everyone an aaS?

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

There has been a lot of name calling among cloud vendors and a lot of cloud vendors have been calling other vendors aaSs by defining them into three specific categories. They seem to be making an aaS of themselves in the process. In my opinion trying to fit all cloud vendors [...]

Elastra Founder & CEO To Present at SYS-CON’s “Cloud Computing Summit”

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Elastra Founder & CEO To Present at SYS-CON’s “Cloud Computing Summit”

AN INTRODUCTION TO ELASTIC COMPUTING

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

A must read for cloud enthusiasts from Elastra.
 AN INTRODUCTION TO ELASTIC COMPUTING

Elastra – Another Cloud Provider

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Elastra Cloud Server
I spoke to the founder of Elastra, Kirill Sheynkman, last week about his new cloud offering, “Elastra Cloud Server”. The Elastra Cloud Server is what I call a “Level 1 Cloud” that is designed to run on top of Amazon’s EC2. Due to their well-designed architecture, however, they have basically positioned themselves to [...]