With the March 2010 GoGrid newsletter, we welcome and introduce a new name to our communications, that of Maria Gallegos who has joined us as a Product Marketing Coordinator for GoGrid. Maria comes from a marketing background (from financial services to non-profits) and will be producing the GoGrid newsletter as well as managing other customer experience programs. One of her first tasks has been the March 2010 Customer Update Newsletter.
For those who are not current GoGrid users, we provide the full newsletter on our blog, just so that you can see what you are missing out on! If any of the items that are mentioned here interest you, or if you want to get started on GoGrid right away (remember, we provide a full range of hosted infrastructure solutions ranging from Cloud Servers to Dedicated Servers to Cloud Storage, all within a Load Balanced network), I encourage you to speak with a GoGrid Sales Representative. They can provide you with answers to many of your infrastructure hosting questions. Just tell them that I sent you!
Here is the full March 2010 GoGrid Customer Update newsletter:
Hello,
As 2010 continues to progress, so does GoGrid. From system enhancements to new partners, you’ll find this edition of the newsletter full of information to better help you manage your cloud hosting infrastructure. Specific topics include: (more…)
On Wednesday February 24, 2010, GoGrid hosted a webinar for new and existing GoGrid users designed to discuss the recent February 2010 Feature updates to GoGrid. There is a blog post that details all of the new features included in the release as well as a screencast which walks through these features and important changes. The webinar covered the following information:
What is our view of Cloud Computing
What is GoGrid
New feature: GoGrid Dedicated Servers
What is Hybrid Infrastructure
A GoGrid Portal Demo
Deploying a GoGrid Dedicated Server
The new GoGrid List View
Walk-through of other Interface Enhancements & Links
Question & Answer Session
The entire Webinar is below and is broken into two parts:
Part One – Overview presentation, discussion of Cloud & GoGrid, demonstration of the GoGrid Portal & GoGrid Dedicated Server Deployments (30 minutes in length)
Part Two – Question & Answer session from the audience and Additional Information (19 minutes in length)
Also included later on in this post is the stand-alone presentation (without audio, demo walk-through or question and answers).
On Friday, February 26, one of our GoGrid Partners, ANX eBusiness will be hosting a webinar titled “Disaster Recovery in the Cloud“.
The description of the Webinar is as follows:
With the increasing importance of information technology for the continuation of business critical functions, combined with a transition to an around-the-clock economy, the importance of protecting an organization’s data and IT infrastructure in the event of a disruptive situation has become an increasing and more visible business priority in recent years. It is estimated that most large companies spend between 2% and 4% of their IT budget on disaster recovery planning. Recent technological advancements, primarily with cloud computing, allow more companies to afford and be better prepared for the day disaster strikes. This webinar demonstrates new approaches for implementing a powerful yet cost effective disaster recovery program in the cloud.
Webinar details:
DATE: Friday, February 26, 2010 TIME: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST (11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST) HOST: ANX eBusiness REGISTRATION: To register, please visit this page
A couple of weeks ago we released a new version of GoGrid which included a variety of exciting enhancements and features. Most notable are:
GoGrid Dedicated Servers
List View of GoGrid Objects
Edit F5 Load Balancers via the API
New Login Page
Self Service Support Links
More details about these features can be found on the following GoGrid blog post. For a quick overview of the new features in the form of a screencast, please watch the video below. I quickly cover many of the items listed above including:
As mentioned within the GoGrid Customer Update Video for February 2010, we have put together a webinar where we will cover a variety of subjects related to the new features and functionality found in this new GoGrid Release. If you are new to GoGrid or simply would like to hear about the new features that were included in the February 2010 Release, we encourage you to register now. The event details are as follows:
HOSTS: Rob Larson (Product Marketing Manager – GoGrid) & Michael Sheehan (Technology Evangelist – GoGrid)
Be sure to bring any and all questions you may have to this webinar and we will do our best to answer them. If you have questions ahead of time, feel free to leave a comment on this article.
A few weeks ago, we did a webinar about GoGrid’s new Content Delivery Network which is now available for all GoGrid users. Some of the important features that the GoGrid CDN includes are:
Website Acceleration—faster page load times for your website
Large Object Download Service—for software, videos, games, music, podcasts and movies—the best way to provide delivery of downloads
On-Demand Video Streaming—Flash and Windows
Live Video Streaming—Flash and Windows
Security—all of the important security features needed for online business including SSL delivery and Token-based Authentication
Cname support—disguise the GoGrid CDN URL with a customized URL
Reporting—the most comprehensive reporting and analytics suite in the industry—view bandwidth consumption, breakdowns of downloads by media type, geography, file type and popularity
Advanced Reporting—over 60 reports to help improve and optimize website performance
The presentation from the GoGrid CDN webinar is now available on SlideShare as well as below:
GigaSpaces and GoGrid have been strategic partners for quite a while. This week, we jointly announced a new technology partnership aimed at offering Java and .NET as a PaaS solution. To further explain our combined solution, there is a webinar slotted for October 14th where Guy Nirpaz (EVP of R&D at GigaSpaces) and Paul Lancaster (Business Development Manager at GoGrid). The webinar will specifically address integration between GigaSpaces XAP and GoGrid.
Webinar Date: October 14, 2009 Time: 9:00AM PDT Registration: Online
The following press release was sent out today which goes into some detail about this new exciting offering:
GoGrid & GigaSpaces Join Forces to Create an Enterprise-grade PaaS Offering for Java and .NET
Tomorrow, strategic partner Stratonomic and GoGrid will be hosting a webinar where you can learn how you can enable the lowest cost Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions in the cloud (specifically the GoGrid cloud). Disaster Recovery is often either ignored because of high-cost concerns or the complicated nature of it. Doing it yourself can be extremely time consuming, difficult and frequently, customers don’t even know where to begin.
I particularly like how Stratonomic phrases it on their site:
(COST) EFFECTIVE FAULT TOLERANCE: Can your disaster recovery (DR) site handle all of your traffic, securely and reliably? Do you even have a DR site? Setting up and maintaining DR site in the cloud is not only extremely cheap, but it will let you sleep soundly at night. How cheap? Save 75% in your OPEX, and over 90% in CAPEX compared to building out and hosting your own DR site. We like to call it DR on a dime.
Luckily, the Cloud offers a great solution for DR, and Stratonomic has created many various Disaster Recovery solutions within the GoGrid cloud that will fit most IT organization’s needs, all starting as low as $349 per month.
It’s been a great 1.5 years since we originally launched the GoGrid cloud back in March of 2008. We had several market firsts during that time including:
Award-winning Graphical User Interface via any standard, modern web browser
Windows Server 2003 in the Cloud
Windows Server 2008 in the Cloud
API under a Creative Commons Share Alike license to help drive standards in the Cloud
$100 credits during the beta period
Hybrid Cloud/Dedicated Server Networks via Cloud Connect
Microsoft SQL Server Express, Workgroup & Standard as GoGrid images
Out of Beta
During our beta period, we had several thousand customers instantiate a variety of infrastructures within the GoGrid cloud, ranging from simple 1 server implementations to complex hybrid multi-server, load-balance network infrastructures. We also have customers ranging from startups/bootstrappers to SMBs to Education to Government to Enterprise. It is truly astounding to see they different types of complex infrastructures or business solutions that people are coming up with using the GoGrid cloud.
So today, we officially announced that the core GoGrid infrastructure is out of beta. As a side note, we have always fully honored our Service Level Agreement (SLA) despite the fact that it explicitly says that it does not apply to anything under the “beta” tag. We believed it to be important to our customers to provide as much professional support and peace of mind as possible. We understand that not everybody is used to diving in head first into not only a IT technology shift (of cloud computing) but also putting faith in new products (like GoGrid or EC2 or any other cloud providers). However, the market has validated what we are doing as thought-leaders in cloud computing and we have been receiving great analyst coverage (Gartner Cool Vendor and “Visionary” Magic Quadrant placement).
Our “What’s New” page on the GoGrid site outlines a few of the key features and enhancements that were part of the catalyst for removing the beta label including: (more…)
Tomorrow, July 23rd, GoGrid and partner Grid Dynamics will offer a webinar titled “Application Testing on Public Clouds“. If you are an IT Director, CIO, QA Manager, Project or Program Manager, or Test Environment Manager, or simply are interested understanding how to use Cloud Computing within your organization for application testing, you are encouraged to register and attend this free webinar.
Date & Time:
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 from 11:00 am until 11:30 am PDT
Details:
Cloud computing is one of the loudest buzzwords in the IT industry today. This disruptive phenomenon marks the latest paradigm shift in IT. Offering benefits such as reduction in cost of ownership and location independence, cloud computing is dramatically affecting every aspect of the modern enterprise. Gartner is predicting that 80% of Fortune 1000 companies will be using cloud computing services by 2012.
