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AppNeta, the leading provider of SaaS solutions for exceptional performance of business-critical applications, was named the winner of the Best Cloud Management Solution category of the 2013 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Awards. AppNeta's SaaS-delivered performance management solutions continuously monitor and assure the performance and delivery of cloud and web-based applications.

The Best Cloud Management Solution category recognizes the solution that best ensures cloud computing resources are working optimally. This includes performance monitoring, application management, security and compliance, storage and disaster recovery. AppNeta's performance management solutions help customers optimize the performance of their business-critical applications including cloud and web-based services...

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Powering its market leadership in cloud computing, business continuity, and battle-tested data recovery solutions, Venyu today announced the company has secured two premier honors in the "2013 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards," sponsored by Network Products Guide (NPG). The industry's leading technology research and advisory guide is the world's premier IT honors recognizing achievements in every facet of the industry.

Driving the company to victory are Venyu's primary solutions which include cloud services, data center services and cloud backup. The VenyuCloud offering delivers leading cloud servers and data centers powered by VMware. Through its data center offerings, Venyu provides such critical services as managed hosting and collocation hosting. The company's RestartIT is a battle-tested cloud backup and recovery platform specifically designed to meet the needs of today's businesses...

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CohesiveFT has been shortlisted for the 6th Annual International Datacentres Award. CohesiveFT is nominated in the award category for Public Cloud Services & Infrastructure. "The need for business application-layer security remains universal, and largely unanswered by IaaS and cloud vendors," said CohesiveFT CEO Patrick Kerpan. "By combining VNS3 Overlay SDN with IaaS provider infrastructure security features, our customers are able to create and control a multidimensional security solution."

The International Datacentres Awards, called "the Oscars of the datacentre industry," focus on recognising excellence across the datacentre and cloud sector. "The quality of entry this year was among the highest ever at the 2012 event. This reflects both the growth and confidence of the datacentre sector across Europe," wrote chairman of the Judges Panel, Ashley Davies...

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ExtraHop Networks, the provider of real-time IT operational intelligence from wire data, today announced that its ExtraHop for AWS solution won the Cloud Computing and Virtualization category of the 2013 Best of Interop awards; other finalists included entries from Brocade and Riverbed. ExtraHop's flagship EH8000 appliance was also named a finalist in the Management and Monitoring category, distinguishing ExtraHop as the only company to be nominated in two Best of Interop categories.

Moving application workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduces yet another layer of abstraction that hinders visibility into the performance of business-critical applications. And while AWS provides basic availability and resource utilization metrics to customers, it still does not provide the critical insights needed to troubleshoot problems, answer important business questions, track security compliance, monitor end-user activity, or tune the infrastructure for performance and efficiency...

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Gravitant, the leader in cloud services brokerage and management, has been named a finalist in the Cloud Computing/SaaS category for the 2013 TechAmerica Foundation American Technology Awards (ATAs). The ATAs cross the technology industry recognizing products and services like cloudMatrix.

“Each year, the caliber of nominations for the American Technology Awards increases. This is a true testament to the technology industry and our power for transforming the world around us,” said Shawn Osborne, the TechAmerica Foundation Chairman. “We congratulate Gravitant for their outstanding work and thank them for their contribution to the growth and innovation of our vibrant industry.” The awards are awarded on the basis of a thorough evaluation by industry experts and technology leaders...

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CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, today announced that it has been named a Cool Vendor in the Cool Vendors in the European Cloud Computing Market, 2013 report, authored by Gartner Research Director Gregor Petri, Gartner Research Director Tiny Haynes and Gartner Research Director Hanns Koehler-Kruener.

According to Gartner's analysis, "Cloud computing in Europe is developing slower than in other parts of the world, especially North America, but this region is home to some bright spot vendors that warrant closer examination." Gartner names CloudSigma's IaaS offering as innovative, impactful and intriguing...

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AnyPresence, a leading enterprise mobile development platform, today announced it was named one of the Top 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors of 2013 by CRN Magazine, a leading IT channel publication. AnyPresence was honored along side Cloudera, Heroku, Nimbula and other cloud computing innovators.

In the recent edition of CRN Magazine, editors highlighted how AnyPresence’s cloud-based mobile platform for enterprises aims to cut costs and make it easier to develop and deploy mobile applications. The publication also acknowledges the key benefits of the AnyPresence solution, including the ability to generate customizable mobile backend servers (MBaaS), mobile SDKs, and user interface starter kits for native iOS, native Android, and HTML5 mobile apps, with a unique no platform lock-in guarantee...

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ActiveState(R), whose software enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, today announced it has been named a Gartner Research "Cool Vendor in PaaS" for 2013. In its "Cools Vendors in PaaS, 2013" report released yesterday, the global research firm profiles ActiveState and its flagship cloud middleware technology Stackato(R), the private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for the agile enterprise.

"It's great to be recognized as a cool vendor in PaaS," says ActiveState CEO Bart Copeland. "This acknowledgement validates our approach, and highlights just some of Stackato's innovative features. But what's really cool is how enterprise customers like ExactTarget, Mozilla, and HP use Stackato to transform cloud deployment to get products to market faster, manage applications more securely, and save money in the process."...

Based on its recent analysis of the cloud monitoring solutions market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes CopperEgg Corporation with the 2013 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation. Unlike competing solutions that mainly focus on monitoring a particular domain, CopperEgg's advanced comprehensive monitoring solution is unified across servers, applications and websites on a single SaaS platform, creating a huge draw among consumers. CopperEgg's monitoring solution's three main modules, server monitoring, website monitoring, and application metric monitoring, can be used in combination for a complete monitoring solution as well as in isolation for specific services.

CopperEgg server monitoring and website application monitoring track performance from inside the server and outside from the end user's perspective. CopperEgg also monitors custom metrics from Web servers, databases, and the client's own application performance metrics and displays the data in custom dashboards using a broad array of widgets delivered with the monitoring solution.

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AppZero, the fastest way to move enterprise server applications to the cloud, announced today that it has been named to CIO.com‘s “10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch” compiled by Startup 50 writer Jeff Vance. The 10 companies making the list were selected from a “top 25” list that was nominated to the Startup 50 blog. Factors in moving onto the final list were: the company’s standings following a vote, viability of product, competitive advantages and management team's pedigree.There will be a new round of voting to rank the companies on the top 10 list. Please vote for AppZero here.

According to Vance, AppZero made the list because, moving applications from traditional IT systems to the cloud isn't easy. AppZero encapsulates an application and its dependencies in a "virtual application appliance," without a virtual machine (VM). The result is an application that is flexible, "hypervisor-agnostic, cloud independent, and fast."...