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ScaleXtreme Named Finalist for 2012 Cloud Awards ProgramSAN MATEO, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- ScaleXtreme, a cloud-based server management company, has been recognized as a finalist in the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards Program in the Best Cloud Infrastructure category. The Cloud Awards recognize and celebrate industry leaders and pioneers in the field of cloud computing around the world. ScaleXtreme provides a single, unified view to provision and manage servers throughout the entire lifecycle of the machine. ScaleXtreme alleviates the complexity of operating successful server management systems by providing unified management of an organization's servers - whether local or hosted, in public or private clouds - all through a single web-based service. "We are extremely pleased," said Nand Mulchandani, CEO of ScaleXtreme. "There is a lot of confusion in how to effectively manage servers in the cloud and we provide customers a simple, flexible platform that meets their needs. We're flattered that the Cloud Awards would come to the same conclusion as so many of our customers already have-being effective in the cloud means careful management." "We have seen a remarkable calibre of organizations enter the program and the Cloud Awards team is truly honored to judge them. The organizations which have taken part in the 2012 Clod Awards program demonstrate exactly what cloud computing has to give," said Larry Johnson, Cloud Awards organizer. "We've seen world-leading organizations spring up literally overnight to offer faster, more capable and cost-effective solutions than previously imagined. We've seen markets become so disrupted they're unrecognizable. And we've seen all of this when the cloud computing industry is still in its infancy." Award categories include B2B Customer Strategy, Best Cloud Infrastructure, Data Innovation of the Year, Developer of the Year, Most Promising Start-Up, Best Platform as a Service, Security Innovation, Best Software as a Service and Web Services Excellence. The list of finalists for each category is below. Final winners will be announced on Tuesday, January 10, 2012. Full shortlist B2B Customer strategy: Apprenda, Mendix, Broadview Networks (News - Alert) Cloud infrastructure: ScaleXtreme, Cloud Sigma, Softlayer Technology, StrikeIron Data innovation of the year: Birst, Broadview Networks, StrikeIron Developer of the year: Igor Sysoev - NGINX, Dermot Doherty - iSpaces IT Most promising start-up: iSpaces IT, Zerto, Skydox Best platform as a service: LiveOps, Mulesoft, Apprenda, Mendix Security innovation of the year: Gemalto, Callidus Software (News - Alert) Best software as a service: Callidus Software, Birst, Broadview Networks Web services excellence: StrikeIron, Skydox ScaleXtreme is a trademark of ScaleXtreme, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. About the Cloud Awards The Cloud Awards is a premier international cloud computing awards program which recognizes and honours industry leaders, innovators and organizational transformation in the field of cloud computing. The inaugural awards, launched in June 2011, opened to large, small, established and start-up organizations, to find and celebrate the pioneers that will shape the future of the industry as we move into 2012 and beyond. Finalists were selected by a panel of international industry experts. For more information about the Cloud Awards please visit http://www.cloud-awards.com/. About ScaleXtreme ScaleXtreme provides powerful server management products delivered as a cloud service. Built from the ground up to be simple, scalable, and social, ScaleXtreme's product transforms the way IT administrators build and control their servers in the enterprise and public cloud. www.ScaleXtreme.com |
