Press

In an article about Collaborative Operations Management, Cameron Haight, Gartner, names fluidOps eCloudManager as the only tool currently incorporating collaborative technologies: “At least one company, fluidOps (see http://www.fluidops.com), is incorporating some of this technology in its eCloudManager product”. For more information please read full article or press release.

Semanticweb coverage featuring fluidOps’ Information Workbench as the underlying semantic technology in a project with the Hasso Plattner Institute called “GovWild”. Read full article here.

The article features the advantages of fluidOps eCloudManager™ for hosting providers as described by MvB Consulting. For more information please read full article.

In an article about Management Solutions for Cloud Ecosystems, NetApp blogger mentions fluidOps as a management vendor that is able to integrate with SMT architecture through APIs and provide management solutions for the infrastructure resources. Read full article here.

SAP is designing a landscape management solution to reduce capital investment and operational costs for SAP systems while improving business agility. The solution aims to simplify and automate the effort required to provision, deploy, monitor and manage SAP systems and landscapes focusing on virtualized and cloud infrastructures for on-premise SAP systems. fluid Operations delivers today Landscape as a Service™, enables customer to consume enterprise applications on demand, anywhere, anytime.

Describing how the eCloudManager can help companies deliver SAP enterprise applications to their end users as Landscape as a Service™, Chip Online features fluidOps in an article about private cloud management. Read full article here (in German).

In an interview by Computerwoche about EMC’s strategy to become a leading provider of cloud computing infrastructure, EMC COO Pat Gelsinger describes how the fluidOps eCloudManager, together with EMC storage solutions, can help mid-sized companies to bring their SAP enterprise applications to the cloud and deliver them to end users on demand. Read full article here (in German).

The German magazine “Computerwoche” features fluid Operations in an article on on-demand SAP enterprise application provisioning using the Vblock. Read full article here.

In an article about the challenges in dealing with SAP system introductions, upgrades, migrations and consolidations, SAP Consulting covers the Virtual Landscape Management solution offered by fluidOps, describing eCloudManager’s ability to clone complete SAP landscapes using a wizard-based interface and without the need to perform any post-cloning tasks, such as tedious SID or hostname changes. Read full article (in German).

In their just released report (3/31/2010) on the five coolest software innovators in the SAP ecosystem for 2010, Gartner analysts feature fluid Operations as one of the few to provide innovative tools to drive down running costs and extract more value from SAP. The eCloudManager’s ability to provision and administer entire SAP system landscapes and deliver them to end-users through self-service portals as Landscapes-as-a-Service (LaaS) is recognized as a unique offering: “The company is exploiting a niche in the marketplace where there is currently no other direct competition.”
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