The NRE Alliance to Guide Atlanta to Enterprise Cloud

The NRE Alliance, a coalition of newScale, rPath, Eucalyptus Systems and MomentumSI focused on bringing self-service private and hybrid clouds to the enterprise, today announced it will be presenting a best practices seminar, “Entry Points and Guideposts: Journey to the Enterprise Cloud.” The free conference, to be held in Atlanta, will present the latest in enterprise cloud computing strategy to IT practitioners and executives on Thursday, January 27, 2011.

A morning of strategic cloud insight and direction, the seminar will help attendees understand the entry points and guideposts for their journey to the enterprise cloud. High-profile cloud luminaries will draw on their experience with large-scale cloud and application architecture projects to help attendees assess their readiness, and leverage emerging practices and patterns to initiate and scale their enterprise cloud projects.

Attendees will learn:

• What is required to deliver IT services on demand
• How to automate for speed, scale and self-service provisioning
• Public, private and hybrid clouds—making sense of the options
• Organizational and culture issues and building the business case
• Entry points for getting started and guideposts for staying on track

About Eucalyptus Systems, Inc.

Eucalyptus Systems develops enterprise-grade technology solutions built on the open source Eucalyptus software for private and hybrid cloud computing. Originally developed as part of an NSF-funded academic research project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Eucalyptus is quickly becoming the standard for on-premise cloud computing, delivering the cost efficiencies and scalability of a cloud architecture with the security and control of deploying on an organization’s own IT infrastructure. Eucalyptus is available in two editions: the open source Eucalyptus and the Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EE), commercial, enterprise-grade infrastructure software designed for large scale-deployments. For more information about Eucalyptus, please visit http://www.eucalyptus.com.

About MomentumSI

MomentumSI is a leading IT services consultancy that helps large enterprises transform IT processes and infrastructures into strategic advantage. Its consultants help clients align business needs with IT processes so they can more rapidly deploy new business innovations. Using leading-edge practices and proven methodologies, MomentumSI provides application development and systems implementations that incorporate disruptive technologies, including cloud computing, continuous delivery, business process management and service-oriented architecture. Founded in 1997, MomentumSI is a privately held company that operates globally with headquarters in Austin, Texas and offices in San Francisco, Washington D.C., New York and Sydney. To learn more, visit www.MomentumSI.com or call 512-236-1517.

About newScale, Inc.

newScale is the leading provider of self-service, service catalog, and lifecycle management software for enterprise IT and private/hybrid cloud computing. With more than two million users worldwide, newScale helps IT organizations and service providers offer a self-service storefront for both desktop and data center services—across physical, virtual and cloud environments. newScale customers—including 20 percent of the Fortune 50—benefit from greater IT agility, increased user satisfaction, and tens of millions of dollars in savings. For more information, visit www.newscale.com.

About rPath, Inc.

rPath automates system deployment and maintenance across physical, virtual and cloud environments. rPath’s innovative release automation platform is based on the industry’s only commercial version control repository for managing deployed software systems. The result is an easy-to-deploy and cost-effective automation solution for rapid, low-risk and low-overhead deployment and maintenance of complex software systems. rPath dramatically improves responsiveness to business lines, reduces compliance risks, and allows resource-constrained IT organizations to significantly reduce operating costs and “do more with less.” Headquartered in Raleigh, NC, rPath customers include many of the world’s largest enterprises and ISVs. Visit http://www.rpath.com/.

About The NRE Alliance

The NRE Alliance is a coalition of newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus Systems focused on bringing self-service private and hybrid cloud to the enterprise. The three vendors have combined the best in self-service, automation and elasticity to deliver a complete enterprise cloud solution that will help IT departments transform into internally managed versions of a public cloud service like Rackspace or Amazon EC2. The solution is being delivered by MomentumSI.

rPath is a registered trademark of rPath. Eucalyptus and Eucalyptus Systems are pending trademarks in the U.S. All newScale brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of newScale Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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