Don’t miss the No.1 business technology event of 2012. CloudCentral would like to invite you attend the CeBIT Sydney 2012 Exhibition on May 22 – 24 2012. Please come by and visit us at stand M15.

Use this promotional code cloubqj51 to claim your complimentary business pass and save $99. Register for your free event pass at http://is.gd/cccebit2012 now to reserve your place.

Check out the event details here – http://www.devopsdownunder.org/

We’ll be attending the event, so please come and say hello if you’re there!

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 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 #2 is being held on the 21st of July 2011 at SMSA Sydney, full event details can be found online at http://www.cloudcamp.org/sydney/2011-07-21

We look forward to meeting our customers, competitors, industry analysts, and everyone else at the event

I recommend checking out Joe’s blog post the blog post http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/a-big-step-forward-for-openstack

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!

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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.