CloudFloor Launches CloudControl Solutions at Structure LaunchPad 2011

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CloudFloor™, a cloud management and optimization start-up, today announced the private beta of its CloudControl™ solution at GigaOM Structure LaunchPad 2011. Details and applications are available at http://www.cloudfloor.com/cloudfloor-join-early-adopter.php.

CloudFloor's CloudControl solution enables users to visualize and control cloud infrastructures through their key business metrics. CloudControl captures all of the relevant cloud infrastructure and business metrics on a single dashboard, providing unprecedented visibility into cloud operations. From the same dashboard users can adjust and manage operational tradeoffs (e.g., redundancy vs. resource cost) to ensure desired business results. CloudControl is the first solution to place cloud operational information into a common language and presentation that both IT and line-of-business executives can understand and use to manage cloud resources.

CloudControl will help businesses minimize cloud adoption anxiety, and ensure that the dramatic cost and business efficiencies promised by cloud computing are realized.

Current cloud management solutions are singularly focused on providing metrics for either the initial build or the deployment phase of cloud applications.  CloudControl is designed to provide visibility and control of cloud applications once they have been deployed on one or more clouds, or across multiple zones within them, in terms both IT and business managers understand.

"Our market research with early adopters of the cloud highlighted a growing gulf between IT and business managers as to the value of new cloud implementations," said Jaime Ellertson, CloudFloor's Chief Executive Officer. "All of the IT and line-of-business executives we spoke to were eager to gain greater control of their cloud applications and to realize their economic benefits. But most of all, they wanted to manage those operations using the metrics they live by on a daily basis. Our CloudControl solutions will enable them to trade off cost, redundancy, security, and regulatory restrictions, to meet the business objectives they are accountable for."

CloudControl™ Provides Unique Benefits

The key benefits of the CloudControl solution are:

• Providing unprecedented visibility into how cloud operational environments affect business results. CloudControl captures cloud infrastructure metrics such as CPU utilization and application traffic, and business metrics like web site analytics and cost data, and integrates them into a single dashboard. This enables users to gain new insights into the overall cloud operational environment.
• Enables real-time analysis of trade offs between cost, cloud resources, resiliency and regulatory restrictions for each cloud application – enabling users to identify the "sweet spot" for maximum business benefit.
• Proactive manual or automatic real-time control of traffic routing and cloud resources based on these tradeoffs for all cloud deployments, to maximize efficiency and resiliency.

The CloudControl solution is delivered as a service. There is no hardware, software, coding or appliance necessary to use it. Set-up is fast, typically less than an hour.

Private Beta Available Now

Beginning today, the company is accepting applications at its website from companies to with business-critical cloud applications that would like additional visibility and control to become private beta participants. General availability of CloudControl is scheduled for the Fall of 2011.

For further information on CloudFloor's CloudControl features or to apply for the private beta visit the company's website at www.cloudfloor.com.

To view the GigaOM Structure LaunchPad 2011 presentation visit http://bit.ly/jH3Pu8

About GigaOM

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About CloudFloor

Founded in 2010, CloudFloor is a Massachusetts-based high-technology start-up that provides solutions that manage and optimize cloud operations based on business metrics. The company recently raised $3.1 million in Series-A financing from London based Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and New York based Dolphin Equity.  For further information, please visit our web site at www.cloudfloor.com.

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