NRE Alliance Sponsors Live CEO Panel on Private/Hybrid Cloud

RALEIGH, NC, November 03, 2010 (Press-News.org) newScale, rPath, Eucalyptus Systems and MomentumSI, members of The NRE Alliance (NRE), a coalition focused on bringing self-service private and hybrid clouds to the enterprise, are sponsoring an interactive online panel discussion in which CEOs of the four companies will exchange views on present-day enterprise cloud computing. The panel will be moderated by James Staten, vice president, principal analyst at Forrester Research, Inc.

Today's enterprise IT organizations are under pressure to transform from bottleneck to business enabler. The rise of public cloud services like Rackspace and Amazon have provided—if not the vehicle—the context for this transformation. IT leadership recognizes that they must become self-service, automated and elastic to meet the cost and speed expectations of modern IT. For many, self-service private/hybrid cloud is the path to this destination.

Join this timely online panel discussion to hear from technical leadership of a newly formed "coalition of independents" (NRE) focused on combining best-in-class automation as the foundation for self-service private/hybrid clouds.

What: NRE CEO Panel: "Toward Self-Service Private/Hybrid Cloud: An Expert Discussion on the Journey from IT Bottleneck to IT-as-a-Service"

Who: James Staten, vice president, principal analyst, Forrester Research, Inc.
Scott Hammond, CEO, newScale
Marten Mickos, CEO, Eucalyptus Systems
Jeff Schneider, CEO, MomentumSI
Mike Torto, CEO, rPath

When: Tuesday, November 2, 2010; 2:00 p.m. Eastern time (11:00 a.m. Pacific time)

How: Register for this free event at http://www.rpath.com/corp/sspc-journey.

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 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 http://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 http://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. For more information, visit http://www.NREcloud.com, and to view The NRE Alliance cartoon, visit http://bit.ly/king-of-no.