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We use a consensus based Borda Count voting system where voters can make up to 5 choices per single vote in order of preference. The overall winner in each category is whoever gets the most total points in two rounds. Round 1 voting is open until November 23, 2012. Final round is scheduled on December 12, 2012 during UP 2012 conference.

Update: First round is used to select top 5 candidates to participate in the final and decisive round. Points collected in first round do not count towards final round. The entry that gets most votes in the final round will be the winner in category.

First round is over. See list of finalists at this link.
Please see below a Cloud Awards Daily Overview:
08:30am - 03:30pm - Registration in SSFCC Lobby.
08:30am - 04:00pm - Voting Stations Opened in Hyde Park Section of Exhibit Hall.
11:30am - 01:00pm - Elevator Pitch Fest in Hyde Park Section of Exhibit Hall.
04:00pm - 06:00pm - Voting Closed, Results Counted and Winners Announced in Baden Room.

Best Cloud Service Provider 2012

clearCi

15% (4697 points)

CloudSigma, Ikoula

13% (4154 points)

CloudAccess

10% (3248 points)

Rackspace

9% (2974 points)

DotCloud

3% (913 points)

CenterBeam, SunGuard Availability Service, redIT, Intelligence Limited, Cloud9 Real Time, Appointment-Plus

2% (636 points)

Nomadesk, Cloudwords, Inc., Appointment-Plus, Verio, RWK Design Inc. , 4Sync Inc., SHI Internation Corp, QR4, Fippex, Arsys

1% (371 points)

TeleSpace LLC, Xtium Inc., Ultra Serve Internet Pty Ltd, Xledger, icomplete, ManageIQ, Modria, PGi, Kio Networks

0% (301 points)

Total votes: 1002

Nominees

4sync, Inc.

4Sync beta has experienced astonishing growth this year and according to Alexa* is the fastest growing cloud storage website in 2012, adding 10 thousand new accounts per day. Officially launching out of beta at DEMO - 4Sync is a strong new challenger in the fast-growing cloud storage market.
Appointment-Plus

Appointment-Plus is a worldwide leader in online scheduling solutions for all size organizations, from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses. Over 5,000 clients in 16 countries rely on the service for streamlining, automating and improving the way they schedule and manage their customers' appointments. Since its launch in 2001, Appointment-Plus has scheduled almost 100 million appointments, with an average of 3 million booked through its system each month. Its CEO and founder, Bob La Loggia, was recently named Business Leader of the Year by the Arizona Technology Council and will be presented the award by Arizona governor Jan Brewer at the Governor's Celebration of the Innovation awards banquet Nov. 8 at the Phoenix Convention Center.
Arsys

Arsys presents its nomination for the category “Best Cloud Service Provider”, as it has been and still is continually innovating and leading its sector in Spain, in order to be able to offer to its clients the most advanced and effective technologies, adapting itself to the specific necessities of each client and drastically contributing to the improvement of its business productivity and competitiveness. Arsys has been a pioneer in the development of the first commercial cloud hosting platform in Europe, presented on April 2009, and from which the cloud hosting services of the company are rendered. This platform, which was developed internally in Arsys’s R+D department, has technological partners such as IBM, HP 3PAR y VMware. Furthermore, Arsys has invested since 2005 almost 35 million Euros on different technological projects. Its average annual investment on R+D+I amounts 12% of its turnover. Finally, Arsys has obtained several recognitions to its services and cloud hosting solutions, among which it is important to mention the “Premios EuroCloud España 2012- Best Cloud Computing Solution”, “European Business Awards 2012” as national representative, “Muy Computer - Best Hosting Award”, “III Premio Cloudbuilder - Best Hosting Solution”.
CenterBeam

Over a decade ago, CenterBeam became one of the very first “cloud services” providers when we built the first hosted Microsoft® Exchange environment in conjunction with Microsoft. Today, CenterBeam continues to build on this legacy of innovation by offering a hosted collaboration suite that retains 17 features of an on-premise Exchange solution and by enabling enterprises to “Bring Your Own Security” (BYOS) policies to the cloud. Its latest BYOS patent for single sign-on and identity management focuses on separating access rights from security, eliminating the need for enterprises to deploy Active Directory® Federation Services (ADFS 2.0). The result is cloud services that are as secure as an on-premise deployment. CenterBeam’s enterprise-class hosted collaboration suite, CenterBeam 365+, offers more than 30 differentiators over Microsoft Office 365, which is a consumer class solution. Plus, CenterBeam 365+ does not require enterprises to undertake costly software upgrades or purchase and maintain servers to retain certain functionalities. For example, CenterBeam 365+ continues to support PST files, so enterprises do not have to upgrade/implement SharePoint®, and it supports Microsoft Outlook® 2003, eliminating the requirement to upgrade to Outlook 2010. CenterBeam operates two geographically dispersed Network Operations Centers, and its infrastructure and service platforms are designed from the ground up with enterprise-class security in mind. CenterBeam’s infrastructure is SOC-2 certified and hosted in a Tier-3, Class A datacenter with triple redundancy built into every element of the systems (n+1). CenterBeam’s controls on security procedure and practice, IT policies, and infrastructure are audited annually to ensure compliance with the strictest standards and best practices. Additionally, virtualized client environments within the datacenter are completely isolated and controlled via Virtualized Routing and Forwarding (VRF) segmentation. This robustness of design delivers the security, reliability, efficiency, fault tolerance, manageability, adaptability and performance optimization that characterize all CenterBeam service offerings. CenterBeam combines technology and automation, as well as highly skilled personnel, to maximize reliability and remote manageability. To date, CenterBeam has invested over $60 million in sophisticated IT infrastructure, management tools and staff certifications (ITIL®, Microsoft®, Citrix® and VMware®). CenterBeam also takes on the R&D portion of IT for customers—researching new technologies, patches or how the next platform version might impact their business. CenterBeam takes a collaborative approach with its customers, identifying business priorities and aligning technology to meet all requirements. CenterBeam’s broad service portfolio enables customers to fill any IT gaps and deliver a consistent, integrated service regardless of where the bits and pieces of a customer’s infrastructure reside—in the cloud, on-premise or in a combination hybrid model. CenterBeam integrates solutions on behalf of its customers, providing a dedicated project manager, experienced technical team, and marketing communications support to ease the transition for new users. Every day, CenterBeam delivers more than 217,000 services to enterprises in 49 countries across six continents. Around-the-clock live phone support is included for each customer’s internal IT department, and, as an optional service, CenterBeam offers a 24x7 Helpdesk for users to simplify support for a mixed environment (smartphones, tablets, PC/Mac® computers and operating systems). CenterBeam’s 24x7 Helpdesk typically receives satisfaction ratings above 95% as measured through independent 3rd party surveys. In 2011, overall satisfaction with the company’s helpdesk and support services reached an all-time high at 97.4%.
clearCi

clearCi is an enterprise intelligence (SaaS) application that works as an automated CI informant to collect insightful data about competitors from the web and distribute it to decision makers across the enterprise. Started in Europe in 2010, by two young military business men, the patent-pending technology centralizes organization-wide thinking into an online portal that monitors any competitor webpage or data source related to products, industries, markets, customers, vendors and key partners. Users of the clearCi platform report to spend more time using actionable Internet data to plan, analyze and immediately respond to critical issues that directly impact their businesses. Each account is serviced by internal CI consultants who understand the tremendous challenges that come with today's Internet data explosion. These professionals perform ongoing technical configurations for each account so that the information automatically collected is more accurate, timely and complete to make confident business decisions. Today, some of the most recognized global brands use the technology to effectively monitor global markets, follow competitor strategic moves, watch emerging industries launch competitive products, and create differentiated sales offers, among many confidential uses. The company has a defined mission to change the way companies collect, analyze, manage, and share intelligence across the enterprise so they can effectively compete in today's digital era.
Cloud9 Real Time LLC

For the small to medium-sized business (SMB), there are generally two areas of relevance in the evolution of IT services to the cloud. The first is the application layer, commonly referred to as "Software as a Service" (SaaS). The second is the infrastructure layer, known as "Infrastructure as a Service" (IaaS). Cloud9 improves upon SaaS and IaaS. SaaS involves a single product from a single vendor. In contrast, Cloud9 consolidates all applications and puts everything in the Cloud so that clients have a singular "sign on" no matter how many applications are involved. Cloud9 also hosts the desktop version of programs like QuickBooks, so there is no learning curve and no new software to continually purchase. In addition, the Cloud9 solution comes with a built-in document management system (DMS) and a privately labeled portal featuring a friendly and functional user interface. All hosted applications run on redundant systems. As a cloud service provider, Cloud9 engages in load balancing to handle requests on multiple servers and maintains a reiable backup and recovery strategy that prioritizes security and uptime.
CloudAccess

CloudAccess provides a holistic security-as-a-service offering that comprises all the key security offerings that protect IT/IP assets, maintain complex compliance requirements and meet diverse business needs. There is no other true cloud developer/provider that incorporates all the pieces: SIEM, Log Management, Identity Management, Access Management, SaaS single sign on, web authentication as an integrated suite developed, deployed and managed from the cloud. Additionally, CloudAccess' security-as-a-service includes live analyst expertise to monitor, review and report threats and vulnerabilities 7/24/365.
CloudSigma

Many companies recognize the scalability, flexibility and availability that the cloud has to offer; not to mention, the cost benefits incurred by eliminating physical hardware in the data center. However, many of the large, incumbent IaaS providers today, such as Rackspace and Amazon, make it nearly impossible for companies to take advantage of the cloud’s full potential. Because many providers only allow for a small amount of flexibility, customers don’t have the freedom to deploy their preferred operating systems, applications or software, thereby deterring many companies from migrating to the cloud. When CloudSigma first built its platform from the ground up, it took many of these restrictions into consideration and choose to implement a complete open software layer that grants customers the freedom to deploy whatever they like, thereby filling a gap in the public cloud market. CloudSigma not only offers an open, customer-centric public cloud platform, giving businesses the individualized resources needed to build their perfect cloud according to price, utilization and performance, but also allows customers to deploy any operating system or application they choose within its cloud with full root/administrative access. What’s more, because customers can purchase resources in an unbundled, flexible fashion, they can avoid over- or under-provisioning and get the best price/performance as a result. CloudSigma’s open, customer-centric approach is an ideal match for companies looking to migrate to the cloud because it provides them with the individualized resources needed to build a tailored cloud infrastructure according to price, utilization and performance. What’s more, CloudSigma delivers completely open and flexible software and networking layers, allowing companies to transpose their existing infrastructure – including networking and security policies – to the public cloud. This, combined with eliminating the need to maintain physical hardware, inevitably saves both SMBs and enterprises alike precious time and resources. In this way, CloudSigma is moving the corporate data center to the cloud.
Cloudwords, Inc.

Cloudwords offers the world’s most comprehensive translation management solution. Cloudwords cloud-based translation management platform simplifies the process of simultaneously managing multiple localization projects. It addresses the four core needs of managing projects of any kind – Flexibility, Accountability, Communication and Efficiency, as well as the ability to leverage an open API. Cloudwords allows users to increase their project management efficiency, by enabling collaboration workspace they can share internally or with their vendors, leaving behind the times when they had to use email, spreadsheets and FTP sites to manage their projects. Cloudwords OneTM is the industry’s first unified translation memory management solution in the cloud. For the first time ever, customers can easily bring together all of their translation memory assets, combine all past and future language translations across all departments and audiences at the enterprise level and proactively edit it themselves to drive maximum consistency and quality for their translations.
dotCloud

dotCloud represents the next-generation of Platform as a Service Cloud Providers. Founded in 2008 by Solomon Hykes, dotCloud is the first application platform designed from the ground up for modern service-oriented development. It enables developers and IT organizations to deploy, manage and scale their applications with unprecedented ease and flexibility by assembling and customizing powerful pre-configured stacks and services. dotCloud is best-known as a platform innovator - with open source innovations like dotCloud JS, Socket.io, ZeroRPC and Hipache.
Fippex

Software should be simple to use and intuitive. Businesses do not want to invest in new technology if it makes interaction with their clients more difficult. Everything from contact information and company documents to multimedia should be in one central location. This is the important difference between Fippex and its competitors. Since 2009, Fippex has provided companies with a cloud-based software that enables its clients to store all of its content on one main portal. In addition to encouraging communication between a business and its clients, Fippex enables companies to see which marketing and communication efforts are the most successful with clients by tracking system activity, a characteristic that makes Fippex unique. The activity is logged, creating a history of the client relationship. Although Fippex originally marketed its product solely to the financial services sector, the company has found that other industries, such as marketing, media and event planning, have also benefitted from the product. The company has been successful since its founding, growing 300% in just three years and securing clients such as JP Morgan Chase, BNP Paribas, Anheuser Busch, GM and Sun Times Media.
icomplete.com

icomplete.com is an online service provider that offers a wide range of business services which are affordable and scalable that can be joined up all in one place. These services include: the World's Simplest CRM, Email and SMS marketing, VoIP, Mobile Sim Auto Receptionist - IVR Giving businesses easy-to-use, state of the art technology to easily manage and grow the business.
Ikoula

Founded in February 1998, Ikoula is a French webhosting provider. Today, Ikoula is recognized for its expertise, project management and the quality of services provided. With annual revenues of 6 million Euros in 2011, Ikoula hosts over 35,000 sites and holds more than 5000 servers. Ideal for punctual and momentary operations like events, marketing, web, games… Ikoula offers a unique on-demand Cloud solution: a VM (Virtual Machine) for only 1€ (offer also available in the UK). Totally flexible and scalable, this offer can be extended during the same period of time and reach a "standard" maturity size. During the MS Hosting Summit in March 2011, Microsoft distinguished the best hosting among 3,000 partners worldwide. Ikoula won the award for "Best Cloud Solution Hyper-V" with this VM for 1€ Cloud offer. This exceptional offer is a self-governing and 100% dynamic machine designed to bring our customers maximum flexibility and elasticity in the consumption of their resources based on Microsoft Hyper-V technology for full automation of the machine, and 5 indicators : RAM, CPU, Disk space, quantity of input/output data, and bandwidth. By default, the resources of your VM correspond to those of the fixed thresholds. If you exceed the thresholds, your VM adjusts automatically, it is completely autonomous. In all cases you cannot exceed 2GB RAM and 200GB of hard drive. The concept of this offer is a monthly participation of 1€ (£1 for the UK) that is invoiced for access to the infrastructure, including the fixed price service. Our customers then pay depending on how much of the machine is used. Other interesting functionalities of this offer include the availability of Windows OSs in the VMs, making the licenses free of charge for our customers, 24/7 technical support, and the regular access to the consumptions of the virtual machine directly available on the Extranet.
Intelligence Limited

Intelligence has been building and hosting cloud solutions for over 10 years. We help clients design the right cloud solution for their needs by combining private and public cloud offerings with their own current or expanded on-premise IT infrastructure. We are unique as a Cloud Service Provider because we employ a team of industry experts and specialised consultants to work very closely with clients to fully understand their individual business, strategy and vision and translate these into business value through our services and solutions. We have the technical expertise in-house along with highly qualified Cloud Consultants to provide our clients with a full all-round service. Our experience in Cloud Computing was recognised in May 2012 when Intelligence Limited was chosen by Microsoft USA as one of only 50 companies worldwide and one of four outside the US, to work alongside them in shaping Office 2013. Speaking from San Francisco during the launch Jason Spooner, Director of Technology for Intelligence, commented “This was a fantastic opportunity to take part in a programme that would have a direct influence on the development and feature set of probably the most widely used software suite in the world, and then be able to bring this back to benefit our own customers.” Intelligence Chief Operating office Chris Davies commented “Intelligence maintains a very active partnership with Microsoft both as an Office365 reseller and cloud services provider and the invitation to join this programme recognised the value add Intelligence brings to its customers.” We offer our Cloud Solution as “IT as a Service (ITaaS)” which is a combination of: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) • Virtual Servers • Customer applications • Website hosting • Online Backup Platform as a Service (PaaS) • Microsoft Exchange • Microsoft SharePoint • Microsoft Dynamics CRM • Windows Azure Software as a Service (SaaS) • Bespoke web applications • Website design & content management Hosted Unified Messaging • Hosted VoIP and conferencing • Microsoft Lync • IP softphones Endpoint Management and support • Anti-virus/spam protection • Software licensing • Hardware break/fix Services • 24x7 support line • Microsoft license advisor and provider • Hardware break/fix support – fixed and mobile location • Remote hands Cloud Lifecycle model • Cloud Evaluation & Strategy • Cloud Planning & Design • Cloud Implementation/Migration • Cloud Operation • Continual Cloud Service Improvement As you will see from the above, our team of experts walk our clients through our Cloud Lifecycle process every step of the way.
Kio Networks

Kio Networks is the safest Data Center around Latam and it is the only one could deliver cloud services for private and public sector with around Kloud(TM) solutions, including the first Latin American Public cloud provider based on OpenStack.
Modria

Modria is building a justice system for the internet, entirely based in the cloud. We are the world leader in online dispute resolution -- a spin-out from eBay/PayPal, where our tools resolve more that 60 million disputes a year. Now we're building a private, global civil resolution system that will eventually replace the courts, providing fair redress to millions of people around the world who currently lack access to justice..
Nomadesk

Nomadesk is a leading provider of file sharing, storage and synchronization software that enables users to share files online and provides unlimited virtual storage. Customers can access, share, synchronize and safeguard files from any location, whether online or offline. The company has achieved great progress in revenue growth, enterprise sales, and the addition of several new strategic partners. Nomadesk’s H1 revenues were 300% higher than the previous half and are on track for 3x YoY growth in 2012, and EBITDA results improved by 63% in the same period. With offices in Ghent, Belgium, Austin, Texas and Singapore, Nomadesk delivers a business class file sharing solution around the globe. Nomadesk offers a comprehensive partnership program for software sales firms, and provides exclusive collaboration services for some of the largest business consulting firms in the world.
PGi

Meetings are notoriously known as time- and productivity-killers. And, when those meetings include remote participants, the level of productivity is even more drastically reduced. This common business phenomenon provided the genesis for PGi’s new meeting solution, iMeet. iMeet is a simple and intuitive online meeting solution that brings to market the benefits of video conferencing, social networking, and media and file sharing – all in one place. With a few clicks, anyone can create their own meeting “room” in the cloud – that’s right, iMeet is a cloud-based service that has no downloads or software installations. And after two years of collaboration between designers, writers, Flash and HTML5 developers, software engineers, information architects, digital producers, PGi’s executive team and even cultural anthropologists, iMeet’s sleek, user-friendly interface was born, putting people (not technology) at the center of meetings. To combat our ever decreasing attention spans, iMeet developers included background movements like iMeet’s moving themed backgrounds of birds in parks or planes in the city that keep attendees focused and engaged throughout the meeting. Its sleek design was specifically built to be personal, intuitive and unobtrusive. Everyone in the meeting has a personal cube that rises when entering the room and glows when you talk. A simple click of the cube reveals contact information, photos, a bio and social network connections. Users can get to know the people they are meeting with in a more personal and complete way – fostering stronger human connections in an increasingly digital business landscape. iMeet’s elegant design, refreshing ease-of-use, and business-grade video/audio quality are a few of the most notable features that set iMeet apart from existing conferencing services. Additional features unique to iMeet include: • Built for business: iMeet accommodates up to 15 meeting participants with enterprise class audio and video quality. • iMeet calls you: no more dial-in numbers or passcodes. Meeting hosts can also dial out to colleagues anywhere in the world directly from the application. • Cloud-based meeting solution: iMeet gives each user their online meeting room which can be accessed by simply typing in a URL into any web browser. • More meaningful and personal ways to connect: integration with social platforms allows users to access and share information in LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote and Flickr. • Easy webcam access: users only need to plug in a webcam and select the video icon for live video. • Meetings from the Road: host and join video meetings from any mobile device – anytime, anywhere. • File sharing or screen share directly in the room: share photos, videos and presentations with the click of a mouse so everyone is up to date on the latest project iteration or personal updates from the weekend. Plus your file cabinet along with all your files goes wherever you go. • Always know who is talking: a participant’s cube is illuminated when they speak so users can connect the dots. • Sidebar conversations: meeting participants can chat messages to everyone or one-on-one during the meeting. • Easy to “add a guest”: iMeet remembers your frequent meeting guests and lets you send an email invite or dial-out to connect them to a meeting. • Simultaneous note-taking: iMeet allows all meeting attendees to participate in group note-taking, which can be emailed or shared via Evernote. Never miss an action item. Although iMeet is a natural fit for business applications, its use extends beyond the board room and into unexpected places. In fact, iiMeet hosted a meeting spanning all seven continents – the first meeting of its kind. A healing temple also uses iMeet to host weekly purification circles and energy healing seminars – all conducted online. iMeet was designed to rid the world of soul-sucking meetings – one user experience at a time. YouTube URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOReLlxdTmY
QR4

Mobile marketing solutions, QR codes services, utilities, information and tools.
Rackspace

The introduction of open cloud products marks the first time any company has deployed a large-scale open source public cloud powered by OpenStack. Customers can now select from private, public or hybrid offerings and have the flexibility to deploy their solutions in a Rackspace data center or another data center of their choice. Rackspace’s expansive open cloud portfolio includes Cloud Servers, Cloud Databases, Cloud Files object storage with a content delivery network, Cloud Sites platform as a service for .NET and PHP, load balancers, and Cloud Monitoring. Rackspace’s open cloud products also give application developers and IT organizations in businesses large and small the ability to build, test and deploy applications in the cloud for the first time without being locked-in.
redIT

At redIT, our cloud services were built on the idea that everything should be customized, trusted, and secure. Customized doesn’t just mean we have a bunch of cloud options to choose from. It means we sit down with our customers, evaluate their current environment, and develop a strategic and scalable plan that best fits the kind of applications they’re running and the tasks they’d like to be able to perform. Our process is much more hands on, allowing environments to be architected based on business objectives rather than technological expectations. Trusted means that companies rely on us to keep their businesses running. They focus resources on growing their business, with the peace of mind that comes with having a provider they can count on to manage their infrastructure. Across the board redundancies, efficient technologies, and a staff of IT experts—all reasons we were named one of San Diego’s Most Trusted Brands. Secure means just that—secure. While many companies have been constantly engaged in debates about public versus private, we've been hard at work crafting secure multi-tenant environments. Everything from the physical security on-site to the layered security in our cloud to the documented processes and procedures we follow to protect our customers. Our cloud was built from the ground up—from the data center floor all the way to the OS—with security in mind. It's this laser-focus on our customers and the things they care about most that allows us to provide cloud services that clearly set us apart from our competition.
RWK Design,Inc.

RWK Design has engineered hybrid cloud Wide Area Networks for the small-to-medium business market which are affordable, reliable and leverage low-cost broadband Internet access for clients connection to our Cloud. Creative solutions with Windows Distributed File System, 2008 r2 networking, VMWare virtualization and electronic backups – all for affordable, fixed fees bring many benefits to end-clients. Predictable costs for businesses, business continuity and disaster recovery, which was unreachable for SMB clients in the recent past bring Enterprise solutions to the day to day operations of this client profile market space. Having proved this with our own WAN systems, we now successfully service a fast-growing client base who is starving for solutions. Particularly when faced with an infrastructure refresh and large capital expenditures. Hybrid cloud solutions architected and delivered by RWK Design are extremely popular.
SHI Internation Corp

SHI offers high performance, high availability Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) via its multi-tenant Cloud Centers. The SHI Cloud allows for provisioning of virtual machines onto a customer’s network segment through a self-service portal, time-boxed burst computing, or disaster recovery service. The solution has been designed to support mission critical applications with the performance and security an enterprise would require in its own data center. For customers who must have their cloud hardware reside within their own data center, SHI's Managed Private Cloud come turnkey-ready with what they need to get started in the cloud. Available as a subscription service, SHI offers several different "starter" configurations of its vCore, sized to fit the number of VMs a customer may need(factoring in their potential growth rate). These preconfigured appliances - deployed in the customer data center - are remotely managed and supported by SHI.
SunGard Availability Services

SunGard Availability Services possesses a deep expertise in managing production and recovery of heterogeneous environments, including supporting hybrid infrastructures. SunGard has a broad portfolio of services and can integrate more tradition environments (i.e., hosted, dedicated, shared) with virtualized and cloud environments. In addition to the ability to interconnect existing infrastructure with Enterprise Cloud Services, SunGard can assist with cloud readiness, migration services and optimization. SunGard Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) deliver world-class IT infrastructure and operational support. ECS provides your applications with a managed virtualized private data center with all the necessary compute, storage, network, and backup they need. SunGard management of your cloud infrastructure can be combined with a range of managed services, including SAP Services, Citrix XenApp, Microsoft SQL Database, Microsoft Exchange Server and Blackberry Enterprise Server services. SunGard Enterprise Cloud Services is a fully managed offering – SunGard experts help size, manage provisioning, patch, monitor and perform trouble resolution on the cloud environment.
TeleSpace LLC

TeleSpace is one of a very few US based Cisco Hosted Cloud Solutions providers that is providing communications and collaboration services. Unlike other UC & communications providers that leverage these services to sell infrastructure services such as SIP trunking, WAN connections, etc. TeleSpace is focused on making these services simple to purchase, simple to deploy. From web portal based provisioning, customer service, innovative technology, and a very strong training component that is all included in their Vio offering, TeleSpace has positioned itself to be a major player in this space.
Ultra Serve Internet Pty Ltd

UltraServe prides itself on supporting our four hundred customers across a wide range of industries, including three of the top five online retailers in Australia. UltraServe offers Managed Hosting solutions leveraging our multi-homed Cisco core network, 24x7 manned $280M datacentre, and great customer service. UltraServe - 100% Australian owned and operated - Utilises only the best infrastructure available – Cisco Network, IBM Hardware and the highest quality facilities available - Owns and manages its multi-state IPv4 and IPv6 highly redundant network - Provides 24x7 onsite hands to allow the quickest response to faults - Has a proven ability to provide highly scalable and cost effective solutions to Australia’s leading online businesses - Investment in clients, such as Australia's largest online retailer, which started with five servers five years ago and now runs over 100 This is done by providing Private or Public Clouds, contracted or pay-as-you-go, or a Hybrid solution across them all. UltraServe Cloud Machines (CM) provides a highly scalable and elastic public cloud infrastructure allowing organisations to reduce capital and operational expenses. Small and mid-size organisations, in particular, can employ CMs to deliver reliable, cost-effective access to computing power and data. CMs are quick and easy to create, modify and destroy through an intuitive drag-and-drop web interface. CMs are billed based on a usage with plan based structure. UltraServe Virtual Machines (VM) provides a highly redundant multi-tenanted enterprise-class infrastructure platform segregated using our Virtual Data Centre architecture. UltraServe’s VM platform offers web based control. VMs are monitored 24×7, automatically backed up and delivered from local Australian data centres. Organisations can employ VMs to deliver reliable, cost-effective access to computing resources to deliver enterprise business applications. Dedicated Machines (DM) are delivered as a single tenant private cloud solution, delivering the guaranteed performance needed for your critical business applications. DMs can be provisioned with operating systems installed on hardware directly, or utilising a VMware virtualisation layer. Virtualised or single-tenant, a DM’s resources are always reserved for any unexpected spike or jump in traffic. All of these options are supported by the following services: Security Scalability / Load Balancing / Traffic Script Infrastructure Operating & Application Management Managed Firewall Fault Tolerance Fully Managed eg patching Intrusion Prevention Service (IPS) PCI DSS Compliance Advanced 24x7 Monitoring Private WAN/MPLS VMware Hypervisor Managed Backup Managed Disaster Recovery
Verio

Massive upfront capital expenses, the cost of ongoing maintenance, the depreciation of equipment and eventual replacements – all are reasons that more and more companies are moving to the Cloud, right? But some businesses, especially SMBs, are still daunted by the task of moving their infrastructure over to the cloud. Not anymore! Verio, an NTT Communications company, has taken the confusion and uncertainty of moving to the Cloud away with Verio's Cloudn, which provides customers with the tools and resources to help remove the cost of IT ownership and proactively take control of their IT. Verio's Cloudn integrates the Citrix CloudStack software platform with Verio's award-winning infrastructure to provide a highly reliable and flexible Cloud solution optimized for small-to-medium businesses. In addition to providing customers with the ability to pay only for the services that they use and quickly adjusting their Cloud environment to best meet their real-time needs, Verio's Cloudn also provides the following benefits:  The creation of multiple virtual machines (servers) that belong to a customer's own respective “Cloud” network.  A catalog of predefined, optimized VM images, or the flexibility to create custom images and update or copy them – seeing changes within minutes.  An easy-to-use portal providing one place to view and manage virtual machines and server configurations.  The ability to add and remove resources or create a snapshot of a current virtual machine in minutes – directly from an easy-to-use administration control panel.  Virtually unlimited computing power that can be used on-demand, and billed by actual usage.  The robust and efficient Cloudn infrastructure including NTT Communications global IP network can:  Simplify moving traditional on-premise services to the Cloud  Be used to create new bundled packages for a complete business solution  Eliminate up-front hardware costs  Rapid implementation to quickly engage clients and achieve ROI faster.  Delivery via Verio's global network infrastructure and state-of-the-art data centers and backed by a 99.99% uptime guarantee.  Free inbound and outbound bandwidth for a limited time. Verio has remained steadfast in our dedication to developing offerings that companies of all sizes leverage innovative IT services. Verio’s flexible, scalable Cloudn infrastructure gives customers the power to grow without being held down by high capital expenses and maintenance costs. It's the simplest way to match technology demands with increased business growth.
Xledger

Xledger = instant business insight. Our groundbreaking product, Xledger, is a comprehensive ONLINE Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution. We were online long before our major competitors, and Xledger is all based on cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). All parts of an business can be run efficiently with Xledger; from payroll and timesheet to invoicing to logistics to integrated, automatic bank to customer and supplier registry. There is no need for additional software or upgrades. With us, you have it all - and see your business` financial state on a day-to-day basis. Whether you are working, at home, or travelling; Xledger is where YOU are. Giving you instant business insight. Xledger uses the SaaS model, and runs in every major browser, so there is no need to buy and maintain hardware and software. As new versions are released, every customer uses the latest version of Xledger automatically.
Xtium, Inc.

Xtium is a leading enterprise software and solutions company innovating managed cloud hosting and virtual disaster recovery services. We help organizations remove the hassles of managing their IT infrastructure by providing a smart, secure and simple cloud experience. We ensure that critical business applications are up and running securely and we guarantee their performance across the network. Our technology combines enterprise-class virtualization, servers and storage systems with Tier-4 data center facilities. Based on VMware virtualization technology that makes applications more redundant, resilient and cost effective, Xtium saves organizations an average of 53% in IT infrastructure costs and improves the agility of IT and so companies can focus on growing their businesses. We operate under the core principles that it should not be complex to benefit from IT and that deployments should cause minimal business disruption. That’s why our team of seasoned technologists works with organizations to customize the cloud for their specific business needs and designs an enterprise-class service that gives customers the utmost flexibility and control. Satisfied customers: “Xtium’s team ensured a smooth transition from existing physical end-of-life equipment to our virtual private cloud.” – CIO, Greater Philadelphia Health Action “We selected Xtium’s virtual private cloud for flexibility, business agility and expertise to deliver guaranteed app performance to our global business.” – CIO, Keystone Foods, Inc.

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