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CloudCentral Launches Second Australian Availability Zone in Sydney

Kristoffer Sheather — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:06:08 +0000

CloudCentral is proud to announce that we are expanding our cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) to the new Equinix SY3 International Business Exchange™ (IBX) data centre in Sydney. CloudCentral will commence offering services from the Equinix SY3 data centre on the 1st of August 2011. It will continue to provide services from its existing Canberra availability zone located in the TransACT data centre.

CloudCentral’s multiple availability zones enable customers to deploy highly available solutions across locations. Having a presence in Canberra and Sydney will also provide CloudCentral customers flexibility to locate latency-sensitive websites as close to their target customers as possible.

The new alliance and cloud computing location differentiates CloudCentral from its competitors, especially those without an Australian data centre presence. CloudCentral’s dual site offering is in stark contrast to existing competitive offerings. It is important to us that our availability zones are located in secure, reliable and network-rich data centres and operating two data centres is an integral part of our business continuity strategy.

From August 1, CloudCentral will be the only provider of true pay-as-you-grow, on-demand cloud infrastructure services from multiple Australian eastern seaboard data centres that are on the whole-of-government Data Centre Facilities Panel with a guarantee that all data will be retained within Australia.

CloudCentral will offer customers connectivity into the Sydney availability zone at speeds of up to 10 gigabits/second via agreements with several leading Australian Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

CloudCentral Announced Winner of 2011 AIIA iAwards for ACT Startup Category

Kristoffer Sheather — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:24:00 +0000

CloudCentral has been announced as the ACT state winner of the start-up company category in the AIIA 2011 iAwards, jointly hosted by the Australian Computing Society (ACS) and Australian Internet Industry Association (AIIA).

CloudCentral received its award at the iAwards luncheon held in Canberra yesterday. Selection was based on the inspiring nature of the nomination and fulfilling various criteria.

“The 2011 iAwards field has been very strong in ACT,” said AIIA CEO Ian Birks. “There has been a trend of continual improvement in the field of iAwards contenders over the past few years, and we are now seeing world class technology innovators such as CloudCentral consistently emerging at the local level.”

Unlike other cloud computing players, CloudCentral is 100% focused on providing superior cloud solutions to customers. As a pure play “Infrastructure as a Service” provider, CloudCentral’s business has been built from the ground up with the sole intention of delivering the best cloud computing in Australia.

Over 17 years, the iAwards has become the premier technology awards platform in Australia delivering the most comprehensive awards program in the technology industry today. The iAwards are judged by industry, for industry and provide achievements with public recognition that extends across the ICT sector to government, community and beyond.

Please visit www.iawards.com.au for more information.

CloudCamp Sydney 2011 Open Cloud Standards Presentation & OpenStack Compute API Support Announcement

Kristoffer Sheather — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:36:00 +0000

Today I delivered a presentation about open cloud standards, what they are, and why they matter.

Please take a look at our slide deck and feel free to send us any questions, comments and other feedback you might have.

We have also announced that we are launching our OpenStack Compute API for our cloud compute service. This makes Cloud Central the first provider in Australia to implement an open cloud standard, and also the first OpenStack API compatible cloud in Australia!

Check out the sides here:

Cloud Central Open Cloud Standards Presentation for CloudCamp Sydney 2011

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Longhaus rank Cloud Central Ranked in Top 5 Australian Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Providers in Cloud Study

Kristoffer Sheather — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:08:50 +0000

Reputable Australian IT analyst research firm Longhaus announced today that Cloud Central is ranked in the top 5 Austrralian Cloud Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers.

Longhaus also awarded Cloud Central with the Longhaus Cloud Pulse Rated Vendor award! Longhaus indepdent validation of Cloud Central’s cloud infrastructure service validates our market leading service that we launched to the Australian marketplace in December 2009.

Take a look at the news articles for more information:
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/248506,ibm-fujitsu-beat-local-players-in-cloud-pulse.aspx
http://www.zdnet.com.au/longhaus-stacks-up-local-cloud-providers-339309297.htm

Please contact us for more information or to discuss the findings of the Longhaus Cloud Pulse market study.

Cloud Central Sponsors Cloud Camp Sydney 2011, Feb 25, 2011

Kristoffer Sheather — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:44:19 +0000

Cloud Central are pleased to announce our gold sponsorship of the upcoming Sydney CloudCamp 2011, being held on Friday the 25th of February 2011.

Attendees can register free at http://www.cloudcamp.org/sydney/2011-02-25

As part of our gold event sponsorship we will be delivering a provoking eye opening discussion about the fallacies of ‘enterprise cloud’ and the pending decline of traditional ‘enterprise’ IT. The basic premise is that you should and will be fired for building IT in house, don’t be a laggard, and don’t get fired!

There’s also rumour we are going to be giving out a bunch of very cool free stuff at the event!

See you there..

Cloud Central Sponsors Cloud Camp Canberra 2010

Kristoffer Sheather — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:41:53 +0000

We are pleased to announce our sponsorship of the upcoming CloudCamp Canberra 2010 event. As part of our lightning event sponsorship we will be delivering a lightning talk discussing our unique Australian centric approach to delivering cloud services. We truly look forward to meeting with other CloudCamp attendees to discuss and extend the discussion about the cloud in a meaningful way. See you at the event!

enStratus Expands Cloud Management To Australia with Cloud Central

Kristoffer Sheather — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:33:34 +0000

enStratus announced today that it has added support for Cloud Central. enStratus will officially support our v2.0 release which is due shortly. For the full news release, visit the enStatus website.

Cloud Central attending CloudCamp Sydney Aug 6, 2010

Kristoffer Sheather — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:54:25 +0000

Cloud Central will be attending CloudCamp Sydney, which is being held on the 6th of August 2010. Registrations are open at http://j.mp/cBOK61 we look forward to meeting you there!

Cloud Central Cloud Servers added to CloudHarmony.com speed test and availability monitoring site!

Kristoffer Sheather — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:44:18 +0000

Cloud Central Cloud Servers have been added into the list of public cloud providers on the Cloud Harmony’s comparison, speed testing and availability monitoring website.

Visit http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest to perform a speed test (select Cloud Servers, then Asia then Start Test to commence the test). Availability (uptime) monitoring statistics can be viewed at http://cloudharmony.com/status. We are proud to say that we have the best cloud performance in the Asian region for Australian customers, and that our uptime statistics are currently 100%

itnews.com.au – Canberra Cloud scraps beta tag

Kristoffer Sheather — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:47:07 +0000

More news coverage in the Australian IT press, take a look at http://www.itnews.com.au/News/168570,canberra-cloud-scraps-beta-tag.aspx for more info.