Archive for the ‘ServePath’ Category
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 by Michael Sheehan
Interested in “Cloud Testing for Real World Performance?” SOASTA is poised to become the leading provider of cloud testing of web applications. Their new CloudTest On-Demand service helps customers and businesses ensure optimal performance and end-user experience.

Today, SOASTA issued a Press Release covering this new Certification Program which allows companies to certify that their applications and websites “have been tested and meet or exceed industry benchmarks for performance at peak levels of user traffic.” GoGrid is proud to be among the industry leaders supporting this certification program.
The full release is available at the SOASTA site as well as below:
SOASTA Announces Cloud-based Performance Certification Program for Websites and Applications
Diverse group of companies support the creation of a certification process to build confidence in website performance and reliability
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Tags: Certification, cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud infrastructure, CloudTest, GoGrid, performance, SOASTA
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 by Michael Sheehan
Today, Novell issued a Press Release which discusses how Cloud Providers, like GoGrid, will enable customized security environments within their infrastructure using Novell technology. GoGrid is excited to be one of the participants in the initiative.

The full Press Release is located on the Novell site and is posted below:
Novell to Demonstrate Cloud Security Service at Burton Group Catalyst Conference
WALTHAM, Mass.
21 Jul 2009
Leveraging extensive cloud-related patent portfolio, Novell will enable cloud providers to offer customized security to their enterprise customers
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Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud infrastructure, GoGrid, Hosting, Novell, Security
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 by Michael Sheehan
Today we had some very exciting news. GoGrid has been positioned in Gartner’s Visionaries Quadrant for Web Hosting and Hosted Cloud System Infrastructure Services (On Demand) in the Magic Quadrant.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted July 2009 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
For a limited time, the full Gartner Magic Quadrant study is available on the GoGrid home page. Simply look for this graphic and click through for the full report:

The report is only available until October 7th, 2009 so get it now!
The press release is available online and the full text is provided below:
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Tags: Analyst, cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud infrastructure, Gartner, GoGrid, Hosting, Magic Quadrant, Report, Study, Visionary
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 by Michael Sheehan
It’s with great pleasure that we announce the guest speaker for the StartUp SF (version 2.1) event coming on June 4th, 2009. (StartUp SF is a San Francisco Technology Meetup co-hosted by GoGrid/ServePath and Microsoft BizSpark.)
Loic Le Meur, Founder and CEO of Seesmic, has graciously agreed to do a presentation titled “How to Launch a Product with your Community.” Learn first hand how to use various community building techniques to build your product, service or brand from the ground up.
You may have seen Loic and Seesmic Desktop mentioned in the New York Times site.
Seesmic is Loic’s 5th business so he definitely has lots of experience under his belt. Some more information about Loic:
Loic is the Seesmic CEO. He founded the company in 2007 with the goal of turning online video into a powerful medium for threaded, interactive video conversations.
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Tags: event, GoGrid, Loic Le Meur, Meetup, Microsoft BizSpark, Presentation, Seesmic, ServePath, StartUp SF
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 by Michael Sheehan
Jon Brodkin of Network World pulled together a list of 10 Cloud Computing companies that they deemed important enough to watch this year. Brodkin’s list is a solid one, with each company profile containing:
- Name
- Founded Date
- Location
- Cloud Offering
- Why we’re watching it
- CEO
- How the company got into cloud computing
- Who uses the service

The 10 Cloud Computing Companies that they list (in order of appearance in the article) are:
- Amazon
- AT&T
- Enomaly
- Google
- GoGrid
- Microsoft
- NetSuite
- Rackspace
- RightScale
- Salesforce.com
The GoGrid listing is as follows:
Company name: GoGrid (a division of ServePath)
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Tags: cloud, Cloud Computing, Network World, Press
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