Elastra Enterprise Cloud Server Named One of “100 Coolest Cloud Computing Products” by Everything Channel’s CRN
SAN FRANCISCO – February 2, 2010 - Elastra Corporation, the leading provider of application infrastructure automation software, today announced that Everything Channel's CRN has named its Enterprise Cloud Server (ECS) as one of the “100 Coolest Cloud Computing Products” of the year, and part of the top “20 Coolest Cloud Infrastructure Vendors.” The Top 100 Cloud Computing products include 20 storage vendors, 20 security vendors, 20 productivity vendors, 20 infrastructure vendors and 20 platform vendors.
Elastra ECS brings an unprecedented level of automation to IT organization seeking to leverage cloud computing to address the fundamental challenges they face today. ECS increases IT agility by cutting lead times through automatically generating deployment plans and provisioning of systems. ECS also helps reduce IT costs by minimizing human intervention in systems management while allowing IT organizations to maintain operations control by integrating with their existing tools and technologies.
“It's an honor to be recognized by the editors of CRN. The demand for IT efficiency is on the rise and it’s important to create products to meet those requirements,” said Peter Chiu, Director of Product Management, Elastra. “ECS seamlessly fits into existing data centers and addresses IT’s perennial challenge of getting more done with fewer resources, delivering faster results and reducing IT operational costs.”
The “100 Coolest Cloud Computing Products” list was based on nominations from Solution Providers rating technology, channel influence, effectiveness and visibility along with business and sales impact. The final selections were made by a panel of Everything Channel Editors.
Winners were announced online at www.channelweb.com and featured in the January 25 issue of CRN.
About Elastra
Elastra develops software that enables enterprises to automate modeling, deployment and policy enforcement of their application infrastructure. Our products work in conjunction with provisioning and virtualization solutions to orchestrate the intelligent delivery of IT infrastructure required to run complex applications. Elastra solutions enable enterprise IT organizations to accelerate the delivery of new applications, effectively utilizing internal and virtualized IT resources to help enterprise IT groups deploy applications faster, increase resource utilization, and improve IT governance effectiveness.
About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)
Everything Channel, headquartered in Framingham, MA, is a technology marketing and sales solutions company. Through its "Complete Technology Channel Solution," Everything Channel offers the right business tools to accelerate technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to the sellers of technology to achieve measurable and significant results.
About United Business Media Limited
UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities -- from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists -- with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com
