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.

ITnews.com.au has covered today’s enStratus – Cloud Central partnership announcement, including a video taken live during Cloud Camp Sydney!

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.

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.

We are pleased to announce that we are sponsoring Cloud Camp Sydney, which is being held on Thursday the 4th of March 2010.

Event details can be found at http://cloudcamp.org/sydney/2010-03-04 - entries are still open for the event and all are welcome to attend.

We look forward to connecting with everyone at the event!

We’ve been lucky enough to have some great coverage both within Australia and overseas recently:

• CloudBuzz – Cloud Central: Australian for Cloud
• ITNews.com.au – Canberra Startup Launches Public Compute Cloud
• CloudAve – Cloud Central Answering the Geo Issue
• Cloudscaling.com: How Clouds Enable Global Reach
• Tier1Research: Cloud Central launches Australian cloud infrastructure service

If anyone knows of any other articles out there that are not in the list, please let us know!