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June 11, 2015 by Ted Leave a Comment

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June 9, 2015 by Ted Leave a Comment

Jelastic Trinity Release 3.3: Seamless Union of Hybrid Cloud with Public and Private Cloud Options

Malaga, Spain (PRWEB) June 09, 2015

Jelastic, Inc., the cloud company that provides a platform for container orchestration with entire freedom of choice from technology to vendor and an advanced level of DevOps workload mobility, today launched the new 3.3 version of the platform, aptly named “Trinity” to represent the union of three cloud options supported from this release. With multi-region support within different data centers and clouds, the company now officially offers a Hybrid Cloud solution alongside Public and Private. The intended outcome is the ability to distribute various companies’ workloads in a variety of regions, within one Hybrid Cloud.

In response to the words of Trinity from The Matrix: “The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to.” Ruslan Synytsky, Jelastic CEO, said, “We consider each of our customers to be the Chosen One, and provide them with answers to the issues they face while developing applications, offering cloud services and building businesses. And in this release, our clients and partners found the answer on how to use multiple data centers within just one multi-cloud platform. The hardware equipment as well as cloud resources may differ in parameters, or belong to another data center, located in another country, and that opens the doors to new markets and more business opportunities.”

Hybrid Cloud with Multiple Regions

The basic premise of the multi-region feature is in the provided ability to use various types of hardware, any IaaS or cloud services, either due to variety of parameters or distant geographical location. It produces the biggest benefits for hosting service providers, systems integrators and enterprises by allowing them to:

-Conquer a new market or cooperate with various hosting providers from different countries by creating a region in a remote location

-Significantly improve the response time for users closer to the data center, providing geo distribution of applications/data

-Keep sensitive data on a more expensive private cloud and insensitive data/apps can be stored on a lower-priced public cloud

-Use additional regions from external clouds in case of temporary burst, with no need to invest in hardware for variable loads

-Reach lower TCO and higher ROI by providing a combination of regions with hardware of different capacity - critical workloads can be hosted on stable, security-enhanced and as a result, more expensive clouds. Non critical workloads can be hosted on cheaper inferior clouds

-Gain disaster recovery and high availability across multiple data centers

-Implement complex access policies and manage hardware usage permissions, for example, providing separate regions for particular team groups like coders, QA, ops that are involved in DevOps workflows, as well as creating dedicated regions for important customers

-Provide the ability to add cloud resources from public clouds like Microsoft Azure, IBM SoftLayer, Google Cloud and AWS

Simultaneously, end users and developers will be able to benefit from the following possibilities:

-Choose between higher quality or more cost affordable hardware

-Easily relocate the projects to the superior hardware with the help of environment migration

-Host applications in a trusted local data center of the preferable hosting service provider

-Achieve higher availability through geo-distribution by locating the applications on several data centers around the world

Today, Jelastic is available as a public cloud solution via 36 public cloud hosting service providers across the world. A seamless Hybrid Cloud integration with the help of the multi-region feature is advantageous for these partners who have their own data centers, but who want to offer cloud services from several locations for their customers. It is also ideal if they have customers with temporary needs for a large burst during the load spikes and they do not want to invest in extra hardware.

“Jelastic Trinity is a milestone release, pulling the two public and private cloud threads of Jelastic's offering together, forming that important third platform capability - hybrid cloud. Opening new markets and exciting collaboration opportunities for Layershift as the UK's leading Jelastic partner,” said Damien Ransome, Service Director at Layershift. “I'm expecting to see greater collaboration between Jelastic hosting partners and also between hosting partners and ISVs. Jelastic Trinity will unlock the potential of each partner's individual success story - through strengthening the value proposition of collaborating hosting partners, whilst ensuring that end users benefit from the increased flexibility and reduced lock-in uniquely offered by the Jelastic ecosystem.”

In addition, the multi-region feature doubles efficiency by positively affecting systems integrators and enterprises who actively use private clouds and can now reach more workload mobility, by adding new regions in different clouds. This allows them to further expand the variety of existing possibilities and achieve even more high-availability for their applications.

"We are very happy that Jelastic has released a hybrid cloud option with support for multiple regions," said Miguel Hormigo, South Regional Manager at GMV. "GMV is currently using Jelastic private cloud for our internal development and testing processes and as an offering to our customers who are looking for a secure and cost efficient alternative. The biggest benefit that we foresee from the Trinity release is the ability to provide our clients with a hybrid cloud solution, gaining more control over portability of their applications and data."

Such a Hybrid Cloud represents an advanced extension to the private cloud-in-a-box solution actively offered by Jelastic to enterprise customers. As a result, they can seamlessly combine the hardware of Dell, IBM, HP and other vendors within one cloud platform, using each region for specific demands of their business.

“Jelastic’s unique private cloud-in-a-box solution, based on Dell’s PowerEdge VRTX, enables rapid application development and deployment through the cloud,” said Juergen Domnik, service provider director, Dell EMEA. “We’ve seen, and been surprised, by the different ways customers are getting value from the Dell PowerEdge VRTX. Its versatility means that small to medium businesses or franchises can optimise office IT environments, or in this instance serve as an ideal platform for DevOps. We’re delighted to provide this solution to Jelastic to better enable their customers.”

Jelastic in a Hybrid Cloud with Azure

As the first practical step in providing Hybrid Cloud, Jelastic has already integrated with Azure for ISVs, hosting providers or enterprise customers enabling them to allocate extra regions using Azure Marketplace. As a result, Jelastic Hybrid Cloud will be available for enterprises and existing Jelastic hosting providers with the following benefits:

-Expand hosting business to more countries by selling resources from many data centers (19 compute regions of Azure)

-Burst to Azure in case of temporary applications’ load spikes or in the case additional computing power is needed

-Disaster recovery using Azure

-Backup to Azure

“We’re excited to be working closely with Jelastic to deliver their Hybrid Cloud to our customers,” said Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management at Microsoft Azure. “As strong hybrid cloud offerings are the cornerstone for Microsoft’s cloud differentiation, we are thrilled to bring additional cloud infrastructure options and offerings to our customers through Jelastic’s inclusion in the Azure marketplace.”

About Jelastic

Jelastic, Inc. is one of the first companies that introduced a new degree of freedom in the cloud with containerization for DevOps. Jelastic provides a turnkey Private, Public and Hybrid cloud platform that brings together enterprise PaaS and container-based IaaS. The platform provides certified containers for Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python and .NET and the ability to upload custom containers. Jelastic offers agile deployment models, flexible scaling for stateless and stateful applications, collaboration and access control tools, billing and business analytics tools, while driving down TCO with high density and hardware utilization. Jelastic is a software company that enables cloud hosting service providers, systems integrators and enterprises to unleash the full potential of the cloud to generate superior ROI and efficiencies.

For more information visit us at http://www.jelastic.com, or follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Jelastic, and Like Us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/jelastic

June 8, 2015 by Ted Leave a Comment

U.S. Inflation Rate Four Times Higher Than Government Data. (Six Dirty Secrets You’ve Never Been Told about Inflation)

Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) May 14, 2011

The government pretends that Americans won't be facing dangerous inflation by 2012. The facts show otherwise.

This morning the U.S. government reported that April wholesale prices jumped up .8%. This equates to 9.6% annual wholesale inflation in the pipeline to you!

Prices are rising much faster than wages by any standard. In March the wholesale Producer Price Index (PPI) increased 0.7%, the fastest pace since 2008. This is official government data, almost universally disputed as reflecting true cost of living increases.

Can official government statistics be trusted? Not according to John Williams at Shadowstats.com, whose alternative inflation index shows costs rising four times higher than "official" rates.

Since 1980, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has changed the way it calculates the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in order to account for the substitution of products, improvements in quality and other things. Recalculating the data without the methodological changes BLS began in 1990 reveals inflation to be at a 5.5 percent rate and getting worse, according to Shadowstats.com.

“Near-term circumstances generally have continued to deteriorate,” says Williams. “Though not yet commonly recognized, there is both an intensifying double-dip recession and a rapidly escalating inflation problem."

"Until such time as financial-market expectations catch up with underlying reality, reporting generally will continue to show higher-than-expected inflation and weaker-than-expected economic results in the month and months ahead.”

Following the Great Depression Economic Playbook?

“The reality is that we are following virtually the same economic playbook as we did 80 years ago in dealing with the Great Depression, which resulted in a false recovery, followed by the most painful contraction in U.S. history with a 25% unemployment rate,” says Smith, author of Crashing the Dollar: How to Survive a Global Currency Collapse.

“In 1929 we decided to borrow, print and spend money that we did not have in order to prompt a 'recovery.' It didn't work then and it will not work now. In my opinion it is going to take not only a credit downgrade, but the potential loss of the U.S. Dollar's Global Reserve Currency status before the proper decisions are made to address the underlying problems."

"Get ready to have the value of your time, labor and dollar assets also headed for a major downgrade!” says Smith.

What this means to consumers is scary indeed. Inflation data last month confirms that the cost of living is rising much faster than wages. We are on a trajectory to crush the middle class within five years unless urgent, decisive action is taken now. The traditional safety net of home equity today no longer exists.

To help Americans grasp the urgency and gravity of our present situation Mr. Smith has written a new easy-to-read White Paper and is now offering YOU a free copy to read before it is too late.

Government's Sneaky Uses of Inflation Exposed

Most of us have been deceived into thinking that high inflation is the inadvertent by-product of misguided or unlucky government policies.

As Mr. Smith's new White Paper will show you, inflation IS the government policy. The approaching tidal wave has been deliberately set in motion. This investigation will show you how and why.

Rising commodity prices are just the warning signs of hidden forces driving the fast-approaching inflation tsunami.

Beneath the surface, inflation is being used as a government tool for: 1) helping political friends and harming enemies, 2) advancing an ideology, 3) secret taxation, here and abroad, 4) social engineering, 5) wealth redistribution, and ultimately 6) absolute power.

THE USES OF INFLATION: Monetary Policy and Governance in the 21st Century explains why inflation is much more than higher prices, and what steps you and your family can take to survive, thrive and even prosper during the hard economic times in America's immediate future.

Call 800-289-2646 and Swiss America will make sure this 40-page report is emailed or mailed to you today. Register now for a FREE copy of "USES OF INFLATION: Monetary Policy and Governance in the 21st Century" White Paper!

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June 7, 2015 by Ted Leave a Comment

Eight More Years For President Barack Obama

New York, New York (PRWEB) September 09, 2012

There is a new kind of voter in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Citizen’s United.

Fri 9/7/12 The New American Brian Koenig quotes Tony Shalhoub speaking at the DNC in Charlotte NC regarding Citizen's United, "It's dollars over the actual voice of the people". Dahlia Lithwich Jan 21, 2010 "The Pinocchio Project" said of Justice John Paul Stevens as he read a partial dissent, "you can plainly see the weariness in Steven's eyes and hear it in his voice today as he is forced to contend with a legal fiction that has come to life today, a sort of Constitutional Frankenstein moment when corporate speech becomes even more compelling than the 'voices of the real people' who will be drowned out". Back Barack LLC's opinion is that "the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Corporations and their aggregate wealth to finance political campaigns is great for a plutocracy but an affront to democracy and a direct attack to the people’s voice in this election". They feel although they may not have the millions and billions of the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Foster Freiss, or Wall Street to name a few, they do have a vote and a voice. Unabashed and unapologetic, their message, “8 More Years”.

This is the first official statement of Back Barack LLC as they launch a new website and original "Rock Your Barack Vote" gear. They further opine that "repairing the state of the economy the President inherited requires time. 'Witness President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was elected to 4 terms during an economic depression and World War II'. 'The fragility of the current economy demands stability.' 'The path to economic recovery that was started with President Barack Obama in 2009 must continue."

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