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“GoGrid was not just the best choice for us—it was the only real choice... None of the other major cloud providers or smaller local providers could give us everything we needed. In the end, the main issue was security. Germany has very tough data security laws, and GoGrid offered an architecture that let us easily employ security best practices."

— Hans Teske, CTO for Condé Nast Digital Germany

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Hospitals migrate to cloud for scalable, adaptable networks
May 15, 2013
Category: Public Cloud

The healthcare sector is finally undergoing similar technological changes as the rest of the business world due to the advent of mobility and cloud computing.

Increased mobile presence drives cloud infrastructure needs
May 15, 2013
Category: Iaas

The presence of mobile devices in the workplace has changed how employees operate, driving the death of the PC era and supporting the dawn of cloud computing.

SDN transforms enterprise data centers
May 10, 2013

The emergence of virtualization, cloud computing and software defined networking (SDN) is changing the enterprise data center into a smarter, more collaborative environment.

The right approach to cloud governance
May 6, 2013
Category: Cloud Security

As the business world increases its use of cloud computing, organizations that are considering making the transition need to be alert and aware of the prospective change and how the adoption of hosted services will impact current operations.

Cloud market growth relies on understanding
May 6, 2013
Category: Public Cloud

Although cloud computing evangelists forecast the technology to grow exponentially in the coming years, this will only happen if the business world comes to grips with what the hosted services actually are.

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GoGrid and IBM Team up to Deliver Big Data in the Cloud
Thursday, August 2, 2012

GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company and IBM (NYSE: IBM) Business Partner, today announced that GoGrid Server Images with IBM's BigInsightsTM and StreamsTM are now available to solve the Big Data requirements of independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs).

GoGrid Named Cloud Vendor "Champion" in Info-Tech Research Group's Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service Vendor Landscape Report
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced that for the second successive year, it has been named "Champion" in Info-Tech Research Group's "Vendor Landscape: Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service" report.

Brilig Chooses GoGrid to Provide High-Performance Cloud Infrastructure for its Big Data Architecture
Thursday, June 14, 2012

GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced that Brilig relies on hybrid infrastructure in the cloud from GoGrid for its Big Data architecture. Since turning to GoGrid, Brilig has decreased its infrastructure costs and increased the performance of its Big Data solution.

GoGrid Joins Cloudera Connect Partner Program
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced it has teamed with Cloudera, the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software and services, as a member of its Cloudera Connect Partner Program.

GoGrid Private Cloud Now Available in Amsterdam
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced the availability of its Private Cloud service in the company's newest data center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Gluster Links With GoGrid On Storage

Storage software developer Gluster has partnered with cloud infrastructure provider GoGrid to make its open-source storage solution available on the GoGrid platform. The link with GoGrid means Gluster's software can be packaged with GoGrid Server Image, letting enterprises embed shared storage into GoGrid cloud infrastructure deployments. GoGrid customers can deploy scale-out NAS cloud storage to petabytes of capacity, according to Gluster.

25 Cloud Vendors to Watch Out For

Forrester Research projected that by 2020, the cloud computing business will be worth $241 billion dollars! There are at least 25 cloud vendors who are brawling for the big chunk of the market share, that SaaS and the cloud has created, and which continues to grow tremendously. GoGrid offers their customers a secure and scalable platform where they can easily move and manage their applications and work projects.

Top 4 Cloud Providers on CloudWiz

While many commodity cloud providers price their cloud services at very low on-demand rates, GoGrid offers the best value for money by providing enterprise class services at close-to-commodity prices. GoGrid started off as a commodity cloud provider but is soon emerging as a strong competitor among enterprise cloud providers.

It's Not About Shared vs. Dedicated. It's About the Application

Users have different reasons and preferences for deciding between shared and dedicated resources in the cloud. But most shouldn't be making those decisions based on the infrastructure, but based on the application that they're trying to run, according to executives from GoGrid, Nimbula and Softlayer at GigaOM's Structure conference on Thursday.

GoGrid Talks IPv6 and Hosted Private Cloud Offering with TMCnet

Leading cloud infrastructure leader GoGrid had some news to spread at Cloud Expo East 2011 last week, including the fact that Compuware (News - Alert) Corporation is using its cloud infrastructure to run the industry's first free IPv6 Website Performance Comparison Test. At the Cloud Computing Expo, GoGrid was not only spreading the word about its IPv6 infrastructure, but Executive Chairman and Founder John Keagy was also holding a session on the economics of cloud computing. Keagy told TMCnet at Cloud Expo that his session explored what drives the economics of the cloud and what people assume drives the cloud that does not.

On IPv6 Day, Survey Shows Lack of Preparedness for IP Address Switch

Compuware, a provider of application performance management (APM) software, is offering a free IPv6 Web site Performance Comparison Test... Compuware will be running the performance test on the cloud infrastructure-as-a-service network of GoGrid. The company provisions blocks of IP addresses on its IaaS platform for interoperability with IPv6, said Mark Worsey, chief information officer of GoGrid.

GoGrid Says Huge Growth to Blame for New CEO

Earlier this week, cloud provider GoGrid announced that founder and original CEO John Keagy is leaving that post and transitioning into a new role, a decision Keagy told me Friday morning is the result of the company growing too quickly. Keagy, now executive chairman, will now focus on the latter two responsibilities - leaving the day-to-day management to new CEO Warren Heffelfinger.

Can cloud performance tests determine real-world results?

IT shops interested in moving workloads to the cloud should check out the performance rankings of cloud providers by CloudSleuth, a cloud monitoring service owned by Compuware Inc. Google App Engine came in first, followed by Microsoft Azure, then GoGrid. The rankings measures the response time to a test application that all providers in the study agreed to run in their cloud. The tests are run from 125 end-user U.S. locations in all 50 states and from 75 international locations in 30 countries and are conducted every 15 minutes.

Do Cheap Power and Massive Data Centers Really Matter?

GoGrid CEO John Keagy wrote on his blog Thursday that when it comes to cloud computing, there are a couple of things that have been overrated in the industry, like cheap hydroelectric power and massive-scale data centers. What Keagy says does matter for making cloud computing financially compelling to both providers and users are things like pay-per-use pricing, automation, shared platforms and commodity hardware.

The Structure 50: The Top 50 Cloud Innovators

GoGrid is among the first true public cloud providers, and now offers a variety of cloud hosting option out of multiple global data centers ... the company has been quietly leading cloud innovation for years.

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