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DynamicOps, pioneer of the Operations Virtualization™ platform that enables unified cloud automation and management, today announced that three key solution providers and consulting firms in the United Kingdom and Asia Pacific have joined its fast- growing global partner program. The program, launched in November 2011, focuses on partners intent on capitalizing on the growing interest in private cloud computing and the award-winning DynamicOps Cloud Suite.

DynamicOps’ newest strategic partners all boast a strong market presence and a high level of technology expertise. They include: Excelian, a solutions provider that offers services and technologies for the capital markets and commodities space; Microland, a service provider specializing in cloud infrastructure services; and Logicent Solutions, a consulting partner with expertise in maximizing operational efficiencies and user experience through private cloud and virtualization.

“We’re seeing great demand around the world for solutions that allow enterprises to quickly and cost-effectively deploy and benefit from cloud computing,” said Randy Streu, Vice President of Business Development at DynamicOps. ”Excelian, Microland and Logicent are at the forefront of addressing private and public cloud computing needs. We’re pleased that they chose DynamicOps as their foundational cloud offering, and that such a prestigious firm as IDC validates the value we bring to the market.”

DynamicOps Cloud Solutions: Expanding Market Reach
DynamicOps’ new channel partners bring a broad-based expertise and extensive customer reach to the company.

• Excelian, a DynamicOps solution provider based in the United Kingdom, provides a complete range of services and technologies for the capital markets and commodities space, including service, expert advice, and rigorous planning and monitoring of results. With over 250 staff worldwide and an annual turnover in excess of £28 million (approximately $44 million U.S.), Excelian is one of the U.K.’s most successful privately-owned companies and was named “2012 Best Company to Work For” by Best Companies.
  “The banking sector is progressively embracing cloud solutions, and building private cloud can be a stepping stone towards leveraging large scale public clouds,” said Andre Nedelcoux, Head of Grid, HPC and Cloud Computing, Excelian Ltd. “Due to their integration capabilities with various cloud API’s and virtualization systems, DynamicOps is able to build hybrid clouds, thus bridging the gap between private environments and multi-tenant commoditized environments.”

• Microland, a DynamicOps consulting partner serving the U.S., U.K., India and Middle East, is a leading IT infrastructure and Cloud Infrastructure Lifecycle services provider, covering all areas of technology infrastructure setup, management and optimization. Through its SmartNow™ and SmartFuture™ services suite, Microland delivers value to enterprise IT operations today and over the years to come.
  “As a comprehensive Cloud Lifecycle solutions provider, we constantly see enterprises wanting to transform and adopt the new IT delivery paradigm, which is all about access to information anytime, anywhere on any client end point. This requires a change in the delivery enablement model, namely automating delivery, operational control and lifecycle management of physical, virtual and cloud-enabled server and desktop resources. These capabilities are exactly what DynamicOps provide,” said M.S. Rangaraj, Chief Innovation Officer at Microland. “We are excited to partner with DynamicOps, an acknowledged thought leader in the Operations Virtualization space. They are a natural fit for Microland’s “Now to Cloud” services and solutions.”

• Logicent Solutions, a DynamicOps consulting partner in the United Kingdom, helps customers streamline and maximize operational efficiency while providing the best user experience. It helps turn IT into a strategic tool for ensuring maximum availability, centralization and simplification of desktop management.
  “Logicent Solutions is delighted to partner with DynamicOps,” said Graham Bell, Director at Logicent Solutions. “As specialists in private cloud and virtualization, we are approached by many software vendors with their proposed solutions, but there are very few that we are happy to align with - DynamicOps is certainly one of these. Our value is making sure that the right solution is designed and implemented for each specific environment every time. We see DynamicOps as a key component in helping enterprise customers reduce operating expenses, empower the user and drive efficiency.”

The DynamicOps Partner Program is open to qualified partners with expertise in virtualization, private/public cloud and infrastructure solutions. As part of the program, partners have broad access to DynamicOps technical and training resources, sales incentives and marketing initiatives. For a data sheet that provides more details on the program, click here. Companies that are interested in partnering can contact DynamicOps here.

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PaperShare today launched its new social content network for business and technical professionals, using high-quality content to connect people to information, individuals and companies in the same industries. Users can access, share and discuss all types of professional content, including white papers, videos, applications and ROI calculators, leading to better, more educated technical and business decisions. Companies use PaperShare to make their content more engaging by adding social context and can centrally distribute their materials across the Internet.

PaperShare cuts through the noise of traditional content searches and provides a clear view of the topics, companies and materials that are relevant to an individual’s job. With built-in social mechanisms, such as the ability to see who else has read, shared or commented on a particular piece of content and direct links to Twitter and LinkedIn, PaperShare provides deep social context to each search. PaperShare has already signed up more than 20 charter customers who, along with cloud and virtualization professionals, have posted and shared more than 28,000 items, including content from industry leaders such as Amazon, Cisco, Citrix, Google, Microsoft and VMware. Support for additional technology topics including security, data and storage, as well as vertical industries, such as finance and healthcare, will be available in the first half of 2012.

“The social revolution has, up to now, passed over business and technical content in favor of pictures and videos of dancing babies and self-centered observations. PaperShare is here to bring business to social by matching high-quality professional content with people and companies in the same industries so they can make the best decisions for their business,” said David Greschler, CEO of PaperShare.

A Social Content Network that Increases Knowledge and the Bottom-Line

With PaperShare, a user or company can create a unique profile with background information and easily upload content to be shared with everyone (public) or select individuals (private). Users can follow individuals, companies or groups and receive notifications when new, relevant content has been shared.

Key features of PaperShare include:

• Intuitive user interface - A unique bookshelf layout makes for easy viewing and selection of business and technical information.

• Quick, easy content search - Information, people and companies are categorized by industry topics, making it easy for users to quickly narrow their search, access pertinent information and connect with like-minded people. It’s a one-stop-shop to find all the people, companies and content in an industry.

• Socialize technical and business content – Built-in social mechanisms contextualize technical and business information. Users can read reviews and engage in discussions; view suggestions for related information based on who uploaded and viewed the content; access direct links to related companies; and join affiliated groups and external news feeds. Additionally, users can seamlessly export PaperShare activity into Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts to prompt others to access content on PaperShare.

• Friends and groups – Create an unlimited number of private and public groups and ask other users and companies to engage in live discussions about business and technical topics. For example, Microsoft uses PaperShare groups to host live Q&A sessions with the next one occurring on November 22 about Windows Server virtualization and the private cloud. Visit the Microsoft blogto learn more about this event. The New England VMware User Group shares documents presented at its quarterly meetings through PaperShare. While Citrix XenClient is using PaperShare to keep its community up to date with its latest technical and business resources.

• Centralized content distribution – Using PaperShare’s distribution network, users and companies can centrally distribute and update their content and its social context across the Internet, including their website, partner sites, blogs and news sites.

• Security and privacy – PaperShare provides granular settings and security features that allow users to create public, private or approval-required settings.

Leading Industry Executives Realize the Benefits of Using PaperShare

“PaperShare fills a much needed online gap in the ability to search for highly-targeted technical content for specific vertical markets,” said Simon Crosby, CTO of Bromium. “I use PaperShare to get the latest authoritative content from vendors and tech leaders in the cloud and desktop virtualization industries.”

“With PaperShare, we are able to share useful content with IT professionals as soon as it’s available. The site’s collaboration helps get those resources to the people that need it most,” said Gene Bonacci, vice president channels and alliances, RES Software. “We can also quickly create private communities for our Business Partners to efficiently share content resources and engage in discussions with them to determine the effectiveness of these assets.”

“PaperShare provides a groundbreaking mechanism for sharing critical information with our customers, partners and team members. This tool gives us a simple, efficient way to create communities with customers and industry partners to engage in business discussions, as well as easily exchange and reference content and resources,” said Mike Strohl, CEO of Entisys, a leading cloud and virtualization integrator in California and founding member of M7 Global Partners.

DynamicOps, the provider of the Operations Virtualization^™ platform that enables unified cloud automation and management, today announced the DynamicOps Partner Program. The company is signing on leading solution providers and consulting partners who want to capitalize on the growing interest in private cloud and the award-winning DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center. These partners include Ahead, Gotham Technology Group, PAR 4 Technology Group, and Strickland Consulting in North America, and Stoneburn and Union Solutions in Europe.

“Demand for DynamicOps solutions has been growing at a remarkable pace - driven largely by enterprises who realize that DynamicOps provides them a level of agility, efficiency and speed-to-cloud value that is simply not available via other means and technologies,” said Carlos Delatorre, SVP Sales Worldwide, DynamicOps. “A critical component of our continued success will be to build an ecosystem of partners who have demonstrated expertise in helping their customers derive business value from cloud and virtualization. We’re very excited to launch this program and expand beyond our initial key partners who are already gaining traction and success with customers.”

“Private cloud is a major initiative for many of our clients, and they trust us to recommend and help deploy the best products. After evaluating cloud alternatives, it became clear that not only is DynamicOps taking an innovative approach to cloud computing, it is a proven, mature and comprehensive solution. This assessment has been borne out by our clients, who are responding very positively, and we expect to see significant adoption,” said Mitch Northcutt, VP of Consulting at Ahead, which was recognized as the Top Cloud Practice in CRN’s 2011 VAR500 list and ranked as the second fastest-growing value-added reseller on CRN’s 2011 Fast Growth 100 list.

“As a consultancy that’s 100 percent focused on cloud, we have a deep understanding of what businesses are looking for in private and hybrid clouds. DynamicOps is uniquely positioned to help us meet this need,” said Justin Brister, CTO, Stoneburn, a cloud solution specialist that ranks as the largest managed partner for Google Apps in the UK and a leading SI for Amazon in the UK. “We can rapidly deploy custom cloud solutions using DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center, extend private clouds by taking advantage of public clouds like Amazon and Google, and easily develop packaged cloud solutions using DynamicOp’s Cloud Development Kit.”

The DynamicOps Partner Program is open to qualified partners with expertise in virtualization, private/public cloud and infrastructure solutions:

• DynamicOps Solution Providers – offer services and sell licenses for DynamicOps solutions, and have established practices in managed services, managed hosting, systems integration or value-added reselling.

• DynamicOps Consulting Partners – offer design and implementation services for DynamicOps solutions and have practice areas in IT consultancy, business consultancy or managed services.

As part of the program, partners will have broad access to DynamicOps technical and training resources, sales incentives and marketing initiatives.

Scense, the fastest growing provider of Workspace Management software, plans to market its products in The Netherlands via a number of partners. To kick start this initiative, Scense organised last week a meeting for Consultative Selling Resellers, Consultancy companies and well-respected self-employed professionals. These partners will help to sell Scense’s vision to their customers and to advise and implement the Scense solutions. More than fifty people attended the session, which concluded with a lively discussion with many questions.

Marcel Mayer, Partner Sales Manager of Scense, says: “Partners are crucial for our sales strategy. They are very influential when companies are deciding about which solutions and products to use in a migration project and in Managed Workspace environments.“ Scense expects to accelerate the grow of its sales in the next two years, also thanks to the efforts of its partners. A large majority of companies, almost 90%, will migrate this or next year to Windows 7. The Scense Migration Toolkit for Windows 7, which eliminates many costly investments, was one of the key products demonstrated in the meeting.

Scense is the thought-leader in Next Generation Workspace Management by delivering dynamic applications in a personalized workspace to hundreds of thousands of satisfied users worldwide. Scense’s unique patented technology dynamically configures Windows applications and provision them in real-time with the necessary personal setting to physical and virtual personalized workspaces.

Press contact: Carina Rozendaal, carina@novoquest.com

Less than two weeks after announcing major updates to Windows Azure at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft Corp. again demonstrated the breadth of its vision for cloud computing today when it unveiled Hyper-V Cloud, a set of programs and offerings that makes it easier for businesses to build their own private cloud infrastructures using the Windows Server platform. Dell Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), HP, IBM Corp. and NEC Corp. have already signed on as Hyper-V Cloud partners, and will be working with Microsoft to deliver prevalidated infrastructure and services that enable organizations to implement private clouds with increased speed and reduced risk.

“Many of our customers have told us they want the benefits of cloud-computing — fast deployment, increased agility, lower costs — but with tight control over things like physical infrastructure and security policies,” said Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Management and Security Division. “Our new private cloud offerings fulfill that need at the infrastructure level, while providing a clear migration path to cloud services at the platform level.”

Building Private Clouds With Hyper-V Cloud and the Windows Server Platform

Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft’s server platform, already delivers comprehensive virtualization and management capabilities through Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. These technologies, along with Microsoft System Center, provide the components organizations need to implement private clouds. With the new Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program, Microsoft and its partners will deliver a broad choice of predefined, validated configurations for private cloud deployments, comprising compute, storage, networking resources, virtualization and management software. These programs and offerings help reduce the risk and increase the speed of private cloud deployments.

As part of the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program, HP and Microsoft have jointly developed HP Cloud Foundation for Hyper-V, a reference architecture that combines HP BladeSystem Matrix, Microsoft System Center and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V to provide customers with a proven foundation for running business applications within a private cloud computing environment. This solution helps reduce infrastructure deployment time, enables dynamic flexing of physical and virtual resource pools, and delivers comprehensive management of Hyper-V virtualized infrastructure and applications. HP also offers HP CloudStart for Hyper-V to deliver to clients a fully operational, private cloud environment within 30 days.

“Organizations are challenged with IT sprawl and siloed infrastructure, which complicate the deployment, maintenance and management of IT services,” said Mark Potter, senior vice president and general manager, Industry Standard Servers and Software, HP. “Private cloud environments based on HP Cloud Foundation for Hyper-V and delivered by HP Cloud consulting services address these challenges by enabling domain experts to configure IT resources once, and IT service owners to provision and reconfigure resources as needed.”

In addition, Microsoft announced other component of Hyper-V Cloud:

· Hyper-V Cloud Accelerate. To tie it all together, Microsoft is making significant investments to help customers and partners fund assessments, proofs of concept and production deployments. These services will be delivered by MCS and pre-qualified members of the Microsoft Partner Network.

More information on Hyper-V Cloud and additional details on how Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HDS, HP, IBM and NEC are participating in the program can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/privatecloud.

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DynamicOps, Inc., a provider of cloud automation solutions that enable provisioning and management of IT services across heterogeneous environments – VMware-based private and public clouds, physical infrastructures, multiple hypervisors and Amazon Web Services. Terms of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition is scheduled to close in Q3 2012 subject to customary closing conditions.

“As IT organizations evolve from builders to brokers of services many seek to provide access to diverse cloud resources in a controlled, managed fashion,” said Ramin Sayar, vice president and general manager, Virtualization and Cloud Management, VMware. “DynamicOps’ multi-cloud and multi-platform capabilities help to strengthen VMware’s position as the infrastructure and management vendor of choice for cloud computing.”

Read the full press release @ VMware

DynamicOps, pioneer of the Operations Virtualization(TM) platform that enables unified cloud automation and management, today announced that the DynamicOps Cloud Suite has been selected as a finalist in the MITX Innovation Awards \"Best Business Operations Simplifier\" category. Held annually by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, the MITX Innovation Awards celebrate innovations that are revolutionizing the way we work and play.  

\"With so many innovative New England companies vying for this honor, we're thrilled that MITX recognized DynamicOps' unique value. By helping global enterprises simplify operations through our patented self-service cloud computing solution, we're enabling businesses to be incredibly agile and much more competitive,\" said Rich Krueger, CEO of DynamicOps.

Read the full press release @ DynamicOps