CLOUDOPS LAUNCHES NEW OPERATIONS SERVICE TO HELP ENTERPRISES & STARTUPS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ON-DEMAND COMPUTING

New offering helps companies capitalize on the promise of Cloud Computing.

MONTREAL—March 3, 2011—CloudOps, a new company focused on migrating, optimizing, and running cloud-based applications, today announced the general availability of its Cloud Migration Services. The fully independent cloud engineering and operations company, founded by a team of technology veterans with backgrounds in cloud computing, web performance, security, and IT operations, is already providing consulting and operations services for 40 customers.

“Enterprises have many IT options that simply didn’t exist five years ago,” said Ian Rae, CloudOps’ CEO. “As a result, they need to rebalance their IT decisions to take advantage of new tools and platforms that are available and to corral and manage existing cloud usage. Those who embrace cloud computing stand to gain a tremendous advantage; those who don’t risk being left behind. As a vendor-neutral organization, CloudOps is well positioned to help them.”

CloudOps offers a combination of consulting and operations services, specializing in so-called Hybrid Cloud architectures that blend private IT infrastructure with on-demand computing from companies like Amazon, Rackspace, Google, and Terremark. CloudOps will perform day-to-day operations, upgrades, monitoring, and optimization, letting customers focus on building applications and running their businesses.

“Cloud computing doesn’t eliminate IT. Rather, with new capabilities, there’s a new level of complexity and a new set of security challenges to tackle,” said Daniel Koffler, CloudOps’ CTO. “Things are changing so quickly in the IT industry, it sometimes means more work. That’s where CloudOps helps—not just running our customers’ infrastructure and applications, but also acting as an early-warning system for promising new tools and technologies.”

CloudOps has previously offered operations and consulting services as Syntenic, which last year merged with analyst firm Bitcurrent. “The combination of Bitcurrent’s industry expertise and CloudOps’ proven operational team is a great win for our customers,” said Alistair Croll, Principal Analyst at Bitcurrent and CloudOps’ VP of Product and Marketing. “We get our hands dirty with real-world applications. We run these applications 7×24, so we don’t simply give consulting advice or eat our own dogfood: we are the dog. This makes our research better; and at the same time, our customers can chart their IT strategy with the latest intel.”

About CloudOps

CloudOps helps enterprises, startups, and web businesses embrace the promise of cloud computing. Our customers rely on out combination of industry-leading analysis, no-nonsense operational experience, and proven technical depth. We have customers in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.