HP have joined the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market and released
their HP Cloud service in public beta. Here’s the announcement press
release. The services on offer are:
Available Now as Public Beta
Compute – on-demand server instances. Cloud Object Storage – object-based
storage using RESTful APIs. Content Delivery Network – local distribution
of web content.
Still in Private Beta
Cloud Block Storage – persistent data for compute images Relational
Database for MySQL – managed cloud databases
There’s also the HP Identity Service for managing key & token access
management to HP Cloud services. If you want to try any of the public beta
products out then unfortunately you have to pay (currently with a 50%
discount) using a standard usage model. All of the standard features you
would expect are available – REST API and CLI access; token-based security
acce... (more)
AppFog, the leading cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS), today announced
two additional third-party service providers to its growing add-on program,
Searchify and Xeround. With this most recent addition, the budding add-on
program will grow to 10 partners offering their services to bolster AppFog
capabilities, including ClearDB, CloudMailin, Blitz.io, Iron.io, New Relic,
MongoLab, MailGun, and MongoHQ.
“As we continue to grow our ecosystem, it’s great to bring on new
partners like Searchify and Xeround, which helps us further our goal of
delivering the best, most comprehens... (more)
Xeround, the Cloud Database Company, on Tuesday announced the availability of
their database-as-a-service for MySQL applications as an add-on for the
AppHarbor .Net platform and for AppFog's PHP Fog PHP platform.
Xeround's add-on provides .NET and PHP developers using these platforms with
a zero-management, highly available and scalable cloud database solution in
just one click.
Xeround's add-on on AppHarbor and AppFog platforms provides simple one-click
integration between the applications hosted on these platforms and Xeround's
Database-as-a-Service. From the users' perspective... (more)
DALLAS, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 05/17/12 -- Oryon Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB:
ORYN) (PINKSHEETS: ORYN) ("Oryon" or the "Company") is a developer and
manufacturer of an innovative and revolutionary next-generation flexible,
crushable, water resistant and wearable lighting technology known as
Elastolite®.
The Elastolite® brand is based on electroluminescent ("EL") lamp technology.
While EL technology in itself isn't new, Elastolite® is the result of an
eight year and multi-million dollar development program that overcame
restrictive barriers that had previously limited the growth of ... (more)
McAfee has announced the availability of a free open source audit plug-in for
MySQL database users to capture complete detailed activity audits from their
databases. The free-of-charge plug-in was created and developed by McAfee as
part of a new set of features for its award-winning database security
solution. The new plug-in helps small and medium-sized businesses as well as
larger enterprises satisfy audit requirements.
“McAfee developed the free database audit plug-in to give the community of
MySQL users a means of building enterprise-level database security around
their data... (more)