ReliaCloud and enStratus have teamed up to discuss how businesses moving into the cloud can understand the security issues in public cloud computing and how to best configure your cloud environment. Hear from Jason Baker with ReliaCloud and George Reese from enStratus on how you can take advantage of the security features ReliaCloud and enStratus provide.
ReliaCloud Servers are deployed within a robust and resilient virtualization environment and architected to maximize uptime and performance. enStratus operates outside of the ReliaCloud cloud, watching over its operations, and keeping your authentication and encryption credentials safe outside the cloud while encrypting the data inside the cloud both in transit and at rest.
Highlights include:
- Review of cloud computing and ReliaCloud
- Security, reliability and business continuity considerations
- Enforcing your IT policies and compliance in the cloud
- User management issues
- enStratus and ReliaCloud solution
- Evaluating potential applications for the cloud
The webinar will be held on April 7th, 2010 at 12:00pm CST. Registration for the webinar is now open.
For those of you that are new to CloudCamp — CloudCamp is an unconference where attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies.
CloudCamp Minneapolis will be the second CloudCamp for Minnesota. Last year’s event was sold out and brought together local cloud experts along with representatives from many of the national cloud players.
Who should attend? Anyone wishing to further cloud computing or just learn what all the fuss is about!
The general agenda for this year will be:
5:30-6:30 Networking
6:30-7:00 Lightning Talks
7:00-7:30 Lightning Panel
7:30-8:30 Breakout Session #1
8:30-9:30 Breakout Session #2
Registration is now open! You’ll want to act fast as the free event is expected to sell-out soon.
Please join ReliaCloud on February 23rd for a webinar in conjunction with the Open Health IT Exchange and 7 Medical Systems entitled “Collaborative Health IT ‘CHIT CHAT’”.
Topics covered include:
- Cloud computing delivery models (SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS)
- How on-demand solutions offer faster ROI compared to traditional, capital-intensive approaches
- How on-demand service providers are driving adoption of EMR, HIS, RIS, PACS, and teleradiology
- Safety, security, and reliability in the cloud
- Ways to evaluate a “cloud” vendor or service provider
Registration and more information can be found at http://www.ohitx.org/news/index.html.
I’m excited to announce that ReliaCloud has been selected to present at MinneDemo. What is MinneDemo? MinneDemo is one of Minnesota’s most popular tech events. A couple hundred technology and design folks will gather to show off new software applications that they’ve created. Each of the ten individuals selected to present with have 7 minutes to show off their stuff. There is only one rule — no PowerPoint allowed!
The MinneDemo event sold out within days. But, there is still room at the MinneDemo Annex for those that were unable to get tickets. And there is one more option, you can stay home and watch the demos live by tuning into Tech.MN at 6:30pm on February 5th.
Thanks to all who attended yesterday’s breakfast seminar with ReliaCloud and enStratus entitled “Security and Reliability in the Cloud”. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive!
Topics covered include:
- Cloud security challenges
- Perceptions and gracefully losing control
- How to address security concerns
- How to retain data control
- ReliaCloud’s Partner Channel
Don’t forget that ReliaCloud still has some time left before our free beta period ends for Cloud Servers. It’s not too late to test-drive for free at https://order.reliacloud.com.
EnStratus is offering a 1:1 discussion with you to review the security and reliability for any applications you are considering moving into the cloud. Please contact George Hadjiyanis if you are interested (George.hadjiyanis@enstratus.com).
Click the images below to view the presentations.
P.S. Did you know that 75% of technology decision makers at small and large companies across the U.S. say cloud computing is a priority for their companies in 2010? For more information on cloud computing, a free white paper with nationwide survey results can be downloaded at www.reliacloud.com/cloudcomputingsurvey.
For the third year in a row, The Nerdery has issued a call to all web developers to help nonprofit organizations with their websites. For the third year in a row, ReliaCloud has answered that call by providing a year’s worth of free cloud hosting for each of the non-profits so they can focus their funds on what they do best.
Overnight Website Challenge
The “Overnight Website Challenge” is described perfectly by its name — a challenge in which teams of web developers spend 24 hours straight turning non-profit websites into works of art. The clock starts the morning of March 20th and goes straight through until the morning of the 21st when time runs out.
The deadline to apply is January 8th. Nonprofits apply for the Overnight Website Challenge by articulating their interactive needs and vision of how ten web pros could – in 24 hours – help make them work smarter online, further their mission, and better serve their community. Volunteers apply by creating teams of programmers, designers, and project managers to help get the job done.
Be on the lookout for further updates on the Overnight Website Challenge as we come closer to the date. If you have web skills you would like to offer, be sure to register to be part of a team.
After many months of eating and sleeping cloud computing, I’m pleased to announce that we’re ready! Ready for what? Prime time? No, not quite. We’ve been working hard to refine our solution, work out the bugs, and add a little spit and polish to our user interface. While I’m extremely pleased with what we’ve got, we need to take it to the next level of testing. This is where YOU come in!
I’m happy to announce the launch of our public beta program. Starting today, we welcome anyone to head over to the order page, sign up for an account, and start putting us through the paces. The sign up process only takes a few minutes and provisioning your first cloud server is even shorter.
Questions:
Q: Does it cost anything to join the beta program?
A: No. Customers will have the opportunity to try out the service absolutely free.
Q: Will I be able to deploy real applications that are publicly accessible or is this some kind of internal test?
A: This will all be live and publicly accessible. While we encourage everyone to test out their websites and web applications and provide us with feedback regarding your experience, please do remember that this is a beta period and customers running their production environment do so at their own risk.
Q: Will there be any limitations in the cloud during beta?
A: There will not be any limitation on functionality, but there will be limitations on scale as there will be limited compute resources during the initial launch of the beta period. Each customer will have access to provision up to 5 cloud servers.
Q: How long do you anticipate the beta period will last?
A: We are targeting a 1 month beta period and may extend or shorten it a week or two depending on the feedback we receive.
Q: What will happen to my cloud servers and my data when the beta period ends?
A: About 1 week prior to the end of the beta period we will be asking all customers to log into the ReliaCloud web portal and accept the new terms and conditions for launch. Those customers that accept the new terms and conditions will smoothly transition out of beta and into full production with no further action needed and billing will then begin. Those who do not accept the new terms and conditions will have their cloud servers and account removed from our system.
Q: How do I send you feedback or report bugs?
A: Please send any comments or feedback you have regarding your beta experience to betafeedback@reliacloud.com.
Q: Why do you ask for a credit card to sign up for the beta if this is a free beta?
A: In order to keep out those with nefarious intentions (can you say spammers?) we’re asking for a valid credit card to be provided. Having this check and balance in place helps us to provide the best user experience for you. Should you decide to stay on as client (which we hope you do) after the beta period has ended, standard charges will be billed to that credit card which you signed up with.
Thanks so much for your interest. We look forward to hearing from you!
After eight months of hard work we have finally arrived at the beta launch of the ReliaCloud platform. What started out as a simple conversation and whiteboard diagram is now reality due to a very talented group of developers, engineers, designers, support techs and marketers. Who is ReliaCloud? It’s the same people that make things tick at VISI, a privately held managed hosting and data center provider with more than 15 years of history.
When we started building ReliaCloud we focused on three core goals: reliability, elasticity, and affordability.
We wanted to build a cloud computing service that was more reliable than the commodity providers already in the market. We didn’t want our customers to have to re-architect their solutions just to work reliably in the cloud. And we knew customers needed enterprise-grade security and SAS70 certified data centers.
We wanted our customers to be able to scale from 10 servers to 100 servers – and back down again. And we wanted them to have the option of doing this programmatically via an API.
Finally, we wanted to price our cloud services competitively. Trying to figure out the cost of hosting in the cloud can be challenging. So we tried to make our service pricing as transparent as possible. What you get for the price is a slick web management portal, high availability, load balancing, 24×7 support, enterprise-grade security and a complete API.
Today is a day of rest but tomorrow we get back to work on a whole new set of features. We look at this release of ReliaCloud as a “foundational release.” It’s got all the basic features you would expect – and some advanced features you wouldn’t. In a few weeks I’ll tell you more about our development roadmap. I can’t wait to tell you what’s coming next!
