Jeff Schneider, Transcend Computing’s CEO commented, “Eucalyptus has done a great job of building out an AWS-compatible IaaS platform for on-premise IaaS clouds. Our TopStack PaaS offering is a natural fit for enterprise customers who want to avoid cloud lock-in for their applications.”

Marten Mickos, CEO for Eucalyptus said, “Today, the customer wins. TopStack with Eucalyptus reduces the risk and cost to deliver a comprehensive AWS-compatible application platform for enterprises.”

TopStack Web Edition provides a set of as-a-service offerings that are interoperable with Amazon Web Services (AWS) PaaS and can be deployed in a customer’s data center. This interoperability enables organizations to more easily migrate applications between private and public clouds. The offering includes:

• TopStack Container Service – enables auto-scaling and recovery of Java/PHP applications and is compatible with Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk
• TopStack Caching Service – provides an in-memory caching array to increase performance and is compatible with Amazon’s ElastiCache
• TopStack Relational Data Service - offers self-service provisioning of databases and is compatible with Amazon’s Relational Database Services
• TopStack Load Balancer – distributes incoming application traffic across servers and is compatible with Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancer

Eucalyptus delivers an enterprise-grade, open source IaaS software platform for businesses that require feature-rich and highly available private and hybrid clouds. It uses existing heterogeneous infrastructure to create a scalable, secure web services layer that abstracts compute, network and storage to create IaaS cloud services. Eucalyptus web services are uniquely designed for hybrid clouds and are compatible with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) API. The benefits are highly efficient scalability, increased trust and control for IT as a Service.

Available today, TopStack Web Edition is available in both enterprise and service provider licensing models. http://www.transcendcomputing.com/topstack/

About Transcend Computing

Transcend Computing is an innovator in Amazon Compatible Environments (ACE) for public, private and hybrid cloud computing. Transcend offerings include StackStudio, a visual online development environment for assembling multi-tier application topologies using the Amazon CloudFormation format; and TopStack, an Amazon Compatible PaaS solution for deployment in private clouds. Transcend Computing is based in Austin, Texas. Learn more about Transcend at www.transcendcomputing.com

About Eucalyptus Systems

Eucalyptus Systems provides IT organizations and technology businesses with the most widely deployed cloud software platform for on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Eucalyptus is built as an open source cloud product and is uniquely suited for enterprise-class private cloud or hybrid cloud computing. As the architect of the on-premise cloud category, Eucalyptus is enabling 25,000 cloud starts each year, including instances at more than 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies. Eucalyptus customers are achieving the benefits of agility, elasticity, and scale for highly demanding development and test, scalable web services, and big data applications. The platform supports industry-standard Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud APIs, and all major virtualization platforms. The company has an active and growing ecosystem of customers, partners, developers, and researchers that benefit from Eucalyptus’ open, fast, and standards-compliant path to cloud computing. For more information about Eucalyptus, please visit www.eucalyptus.com.

Jeff Schneider, CEO of Transcend Computing commented, “Our customers have asked for a certified OpenStack solution for TopStack. Piston Cloud is a great fit; they’ve taken OpenStack to the next level by hardening the core and adding enterprise grade features like high-availability.”

Joshua McKenty, CEO and co-founder of Piston Cloud stated, “The integration of Piston Enterprise OS with TopStack is a powerful combination that extends the value of both solutions. Delivering a set of complementary platform services enables faster software releases, increased availability and decreased operational costs. We are excited to partner together and look forward to delivering enterprise-grade OpenStack capability to Transcend Computing’s customer base.”

TopStack Web Edition provides a set of as-a-service offerings that are interoperable with Amazon Web Services (AWS) PaaS and can be deployed in your data center. This interoperability enables organizations to more easily migrate applications between private and public clouds. The offering includes:

• TopStack Load Balancer – distributes incoming application traffic across servers and is compatible with Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancer.
• TopStack Caching Service – provides an in-memory caching array to increase performance and is compatible with Amazon’s ElastiCache.
• TopStack Container Service – enables auto-scaling and recovery of Java/PHP applications and is compatible with Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk
• TopStack Relational Data Service - offers self-service provisioning of databases and is compatible with Amazon’s Relational Database Services.

Piston Enterprise OS software allows businesses to easily manage IT infrastructure as a single, flexible and dynamic cloud operating environment. Combining all of the features of OpenStack, a hardened Linux operating system optimized for security, and Piston Cloud’s unique Moxie HA™ high availability framework, Piston Enterprise OS seamlessly and dynamically allocates compute, storage and networking resources for a simpler way to deliver your organization’s business-critical applications.

Available today, TopStack Web Edition is available in both enterprise and service provider licensing models. http://www.transcendcomputing.com/topstack/

About Transcend Computing

Transcend Computing is an innovator in Amazon Compatible Environments (ACE) for public, private and hybrid cloud computing. Transcend offerings include StackStudio, a visual online development environment for assembling multi-tier application topologies using the Amazon CloudFormation format; and TopStack, an Amazon Compatible PaaS solution for deployment in private clouds. Transcend Computing is based in Austin, Texas. Learn more about Transcend at www.transcendcomputing.com

About Piston Cloud Computing

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. is the enterprise OpenStack™ company. Founded in early 2011 by technical team leads from NASA and Rackspace®, Piston Cloud’s technology is built on OpenStack, the fastest-growing, massively scalable open source cloud framework. The company’s core product, Piston Enterprise OS™ is the first cloud operating system built on OpenStack, and is specifically focused on security and the easy operation of enterprise private cloud environments. Piston Cloud is based in San Francisco and funded by Hummer Winblad, True Ventures and Divergent Ventures. Visit Piston Cloud online at http://www.pistoncloud.com or follow them on twitter at @pistoncloud.

AUSTIN, Texas – June 11^th, 2012 – Transcend Computing, an innovator in Amazon Compatible Environments (ACE) for public, private and hybrid cloud computing, today announced that it is releasing TopStack Web Edition, a set of platform services (PaaS) that emulate the Amazon Web Services (AWS) APIs. Transcend Computing was formed to help developers, enterprises and managed service providers to capitalize on the momentum of AWS.

TopStack Web Edition provides a set of as-a-service offerings that are interoperable with Amazon Web Services (AWS) PaaS and can be deployed in your data center. This interoperability enables organizations to more easily migrate applications between private and public clouds. The offering includes:

• TopStack Container Service - enables auto-scaling and recovery of Java/PHP applications and is compatible with Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk.
• TopStack Caching Service - provides an in-memory caching array to increase performance and is compatible with Amazon’s ElastiCache.
• TopStack Relational Data Service - offers self-service provisioning of databases and is compatible with Amazon’s Relational Database Services.
• TopStack Load Balancer – distributes incoming application traffic across servers and is compatible with Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancer.

These services can be launched in the safety of an organizations’ own data center or can be deployed at a preferred outsourced hosting location.

“We believe that Amazon Web Services has defined the de facto approach to cloud computing, which will endure as the industry standard for public, private and hybrid clouds,” said, Jeff Schneider, founder of Transcend Computing. “Until now, organizations have only been able to deliver AWS hybrid solutions up to the IaaS layer. TopStack Web Edition extends the reach of the AWS PaaS platform to your preferred data center or cloud provider.”

Amazon Compatible Environments (ACE) are public and private cloud platforms that embrace the Amazon APIs as the basis for application portability. Uniform APIs ensure that applications can move seamlessly across cloud platforms to enable true hybrid cloud use cases. This helps enterprises to drive down costs, achieve greater agility, and it enables a competitive ecosystem of cloud providers to deliver unique value through differentiated features and service levels.

Use cases for TopStack Web Edition include:

• Building PaaS based applications on private clouds and migrating to public clouds for production scale-out
• Joining public and private clouds to create uniform hybrid clouds that share the workload
• Avoiding ‘cloud disasters’ by making applications on PaaS available in multiple vendor clouds (active/passive) for business continuity

Available today, TopStack Web Edition is available in both enterprise and service provider licensing models. http://www.transcendcomputing.com/topstack/

About Transcend Computing

Transcend Computing is an innovator in Amazon Compatible Environments (ACE) for public, private and hybrid cloud computing. Transcend offerings include StackStudio, a visual online development environment for assembling multi-tier application topologies using the Amazon CloudFormation format; and TopStack, an Amazon Compatible PaaS solution for deployment in private clouds. Transcend Computing is based in Austin, Texas. Learn more about Transcend at www.transcendcomputing.com

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Startup Exits Stealth, Launches StackStudio and StackPlace, Making it Easy for Developers to Create and Share Amazon-compatible Application Architectures

AUSTIN, Texas – April 4^th, 2012 – Transcend Computing, an innovator in Amazon Compatible Environments (ACE) for public, private and hybrid cloud computing, today announced that it has exited stealth-mode with the beta launch of StackStudio and StackPlace, which are available now as a web-based service. Transcend Computing was formed to help developers, enterprises and managed service providers to capitalize on the momentum of Amazon Web Services.

StackStudio is a visual, drag-and-drop online development environment for assembling multi-tier application topologies using the Amazon CloudFormation format. Application stacks assembled with StackStudio are ready to run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and on other public and private ACE platforms.

These stacks can then be shared with other developers in StackPlace, which was also launched today as an open social architecture community sponsored by Transcend Computing. StackPlace allows developers to create, contribute, consume and collaborate on ACE-compatible application topologies.

“We believe that Amazon Web Services has defined the de facto approach to cloud computing, which will endure as the industry standard for public, private and hybrid clouds,” said, Jeff Schneider, founder of Transcend Computing. “At the heart of this standard is CloudFormation, which is a model-driven example for how complex application architectures should be described and managed.”

Amazon Compatible Environments (ACE) are public and private cloud platforms that embrace the Amazon APIs as the basis for application portability. Uniform APIs ensure that applications can move seamlessly across cloud platforms to enable true hybrid cloud use cases. This helps enterprises to drive down costs, achieve greater agility, and it enables a competitive ecosystem of cloud providers to deliver unique value through differentiated features and service levels.

According to Schneider: “Transcend can help catalyze adoption of the ACE environments by making it easy to create and share Amazon-compatible stacks. In doing so, the Amazon APIs become the lingua franca for application portability between public and private cloud environments, which helps both consumers and providers of public and private cloud services by creating a level playing field.”

Available today, StackStudio is offered in both free and paid editions. StackPlace is open and free of charge for both contributors and consumers of ACE stacks.

By Q312, Transcend Computing expects to launch other ACE offerings that enable managed service providers to implement their own ACE-compatible platforms to capitalize on the momentum of the CloudFormation format.

About Transcend Computing

Transcend Computing is an innovator in Amazon Compatible Environments (ACE) for public, private and hybrid cloud computing. Transcend offerings include StackStudio, a visual online development environment for assembling multi-tier application topologies using the Amazon CloudFormation format; and StackPlace, open social architecture community that allows developers to create, contribute, consume and collaborate on ACE-compatible application topologies. Based in Austin, Texas, Transcend Computing is a wholly owned subsidiary of MomentumSI. Learn more about Transcend at www.transcendcomputing.com

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