http:// 2013-01-28T23:07:00Z 2013-01-28T23:07:00Z ninefold-s-new-team-helps-developers-build-the-cloud

Ninefold’s New Team Helps Developers Build the Cloud -In Multiple Availability Zones Including the U.S.-Sydney, January 29, 2013 - Ninefold®, the cloud computing company announced that it continues to hire leading developers and systems engineers to further strengthen its strategy of building a world class cloud platform and connecting deeply with the developer community. Key to Ninefold’s strategy is the appointment of Andrew Harvey, who brings a strong history as a developer building applications in the cloud. As Technical Community Manager he will liaise regularly with the developer community, providing feedback directly into the product design process, ensuring Ninefold continues to innovate and help its customers to get on with the business of making world class, highly available and scalable applications. Toby Hede joins the Ninefold team as Technical Lead/Software Engineer. A Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and agile development specialist, Toby brings years of experience to Ninefold’s frontend development team. Julian Valbuena, an experienced operations engineer strengthens Ninefold’s infrastructure team, building out our additional Availability Zones in Sydney and in Santa Clara, California. Jason Gellatly joins Ninefold’s Customer Support team, moving from What’s Cookin’, a Sydney based startup that used the Django framework to build a collaborative website, hosted on Ninefold. With experience across a breadth of technologies he is well placed to assist developers, ensuring they keep their projects on track. Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder, said “Ninefold’s exciting product roadmap enabled it to attract the best developers and engineers from Australia and around the world to work on the ongoing development of its leading cloud platform. We will continue to engage with the developer communities to better understand their needs in building and rapidly deploying their applications”. About Ninefold® Ninefold is a public cloud provider with Australian and U.S. Availability Zones, free 24/7 local support, self service flexibility and low latency. This allows you to provision virtual servers and cloud storage quickly – scaling up and down when needed – and only paying for the resources you use. Sign up in seconds. Start using in minutes. Benefit for years. @ninefold Ninefold® is a Registered Trademark. For more information, please contact: Dana Dobbie Progressiva Public Relations Tel: +61 416 072 625 dana@progressiva.com.au

2012-12-13T01:46:00Z ninefold-helps-travel-start-up-find-its-way

Sydney, December 13, 2012 – Ninefold®, the Australian public cloud computing company has helped many startups establish themselves this year. Many of these startups will challenge the established players in their respective markets. Travel company Arribaa is one such example.Arribaa is a community marketplace that connects independent travellers to passionate locals, who are keen to show the offbeat aspects of their home town. Founder Colette Grgic says it’s another example of how peer to peer communities are challenging the familiar unidirectional distribution channels of traditional retailing. The idea has taken off, with 160 percent growth for each of the last four months and 150 local experiences listed on the site, in more than 10 countries.To get the business off the ground, Grgic sought mentoring from the PushStart community. She credits the PushStart mentors with helping her overcome the obstacles she would face launching a double-sided marketplace in the crowded vertical of travel. As a sponsor of PushStart, Ninefold offers startups like Arribaa free cloud through the Ninefold Cloud Booster Program.“It’s expensive to acquire customers on both the supply and demand sides of the equation,” says Grgic, “so the fact that we get a break on our cloud hosting costs has really helped us out!”Arribaa is not unique. Ninefold has helped over 55 startups through its Cloud Booster Program this year, across sectors as diverse as ecommerce, geo based marketing, education, hospitality, healthcare and social media.Ninefold will extend its partnership with PushStart in 2013 enabling more startups to develop their businesses without having to worry about the costs associated with computing. “It’s an exciting program to be part of,” says Ninefold’s Peter James, Co-founder and Chairman. “One thing is clear. Aussies are never short of ideas and, with the help of the Ninefold’s Cloud Booster Program , next year will see many more of these concepts launched onto the world stage.”Kim Heras, a co-founder of PushStart, agrees that 2013 will bring new opportunities. “Start-up’s are full of energy and promise. The only thing they lack is cash and experience. By teaming up with Ninefold we have been able to help businesses along with advice, whilst reducing the major expense of cloud hosting.”Australian startups will be able to spread their wings further, too, next year, as Ninefold extends it’s cloud presence to the United States.About PushStartPushStart is a set of community-focused, mentor-driven activities to help Australian tech startups excel.Combining experienced startup mentors, seed funding and community events, we give local tech entrepreneurs help to start, grow & succeed.The PushStart community is now over 2000 founders strong and has been a conduit for many of Australia's most exciting early stage ventures as they've moved from idea through to traction and beyond. About Ninefold Ninefold is Australian cloud computing and storage providing Australian and U.S. Availability Zones, free Australian support, self service flexibility and low latency. This allows you to provision virtual servers and cloud storage quickly - scaling up and down when needed – and only paying for the resources you use.Sign up in seconds. Start using in minutes. Benefit for years.Ninefold.com @ninefoldNinefold is a registered trademark.For more information, please contact:Dana DobbieProgressiva Public RelationsTel: +61 416 072 625dana@progressiva.com.au

2012-11-11T22:41:00Z first-australian-public-cloud-provider-to-offer-multiple-availability-zones-across-australia-and-the-u-s-1

First Australian Public Cloud Provider to Offer Multiple Availability Zones Across Australia and the U.S. Ninefold expands overseas to support its Australian customers selling offshore Sydney, November 12, 2012 - Ninefold®, the Australian public cloud computing company, today announced the launch of its self-serve cloud offering in the U.S., with the opening of a U.S. Availability Zone in California. The expansion comes in response to demand from customers already utilising Ninefold’s virtual servers in Australia and wanting to extend the use for their clients operating in the U.S. The development means customers operating in the U.S. can now enjoy the same low levels of latency experienced in Australia. Peter James, Chairman and Co-founder at Ninefold, says this U.S. expansion is an exciting step forward and builds on the company’s recently announced third Availability Zone here in Australia. “Australia is home to many innovative ideas, but reaching international markets has typically meant choosing between a local or international cloud provider. Either way, you suffer latency impact at home or overseas. Now, we have bridged that problem as we make our first step into the international cloud space.” Ninefold customers will have the choice of locating their data in Ninefold’s Australian facilities or in Ninefold’s new U.S. based facility. James says this gives Ninefold’s customers a clear choice “If our customers require absolute certainty regarding the laws governing their data, there is only one way to achieve this: in an Australian based data facility, owned and operated by an Australian company. For customers who are less concerned about this issue and for whom latency is a key issue, then our new Californian facility is a great option.” Ninefold customer Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin, Founder of incubator BlueChilli, agrees: “Our businesses start with a global perspective, which is why Ninefold's U.S. based Availability Zone is very exciting for us as we can now deploy international instances of our applications to take advantage of the low latency of a geo-located server and ultimately provide a richer experience for our businesses' customers, all controlled from our single Sydney presence.” Ninefold customers will manage all their Australian and U.S. Availability Zones through the single Ninefold dashboard where they can manage virtual servers, load balancing and attached storage requirements. The cloud computing company points to significant pent-up demand from existing customers and the larger Australian cloud community, who are keen to extend their influence to international markets. James says the new presence will represent a seamless transition for these customers: “It will simply appear as an additional location option when creating a new server instance. Set-up and product support is the same, irrespective of where your virtual server is located.” Ninefold is the first Australian owned public self-service cloud company to offer presence in a U.S. time zone. The new Availability Zone will be selectively released in December, with full access early in 2013. About Ninefold® Ninefold is Australian cloud computing and storage providing Australian and U.S. Availability Zones, free Australian support, self service flexibility and low latency. This allows you to provision virtual servers and cloud storage quickly - scaling up and down when needed – and only paying for the resources you use. Sign up in seconds. Start using in minutes. Benefit for years. Ninefold.com @ninefold Ninefold® is a Registered Trademark. For more information, please contact: Dana Dobbie Progressiva Public Relations Tel: +61 416 072 625 dana@progressiva.com.au

2012-10-11T02:35:00Z untitled-release-178

Three times the peace of mind for SMBsNinefold and Triplebackup offer affordable protection with near-instant recoverySydney, October 11, 2012 – Australia’s cloud services provider Ninefold has joined forces with disaster recovery specialist Triplebackup to offer an affordable, scalable online disk imaging and file backup solution for small to medium sized businesses. The service means a business can now have onsite and offsite data, disaster recovery and business continuity protection across its entire suite of physical, virtual and cloud computers with one solution. It makes near-zero downtime an affordable reality for Australian businesses.Until now, SMBs have operated with sub-optimal disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. Often there’s a need for manual input, such as tape or disk rotation. Many use file backup services like Mozy, or file storage and synchronisation services like Google Drive and AWS S3 that don’t mirror the entire server. Others pay for expensive solutions, with multiple license and hardware capex costs. Even when post-disaster recovery is possible it can take days or weeks to rebuild.Now, using Triplebackup’s Live Image with Virtual Failover service, a business facing a server loss can start using an exact clone in Ninefold’s cloud in a matter of minutes. After a site disaster a server can be restored to the same or dissimilar hardware or to a virtual computer from the bare metal backup, in less than a day.It’s a scenario Dr Darryl Gauld, CEO & Principal, Macquarie Education Group Australia, knows only too well: “We recently suffered over a week of downtime while we waited for one of our servers to be rebuilt from offsite file backup. This downtime severely hampered our ability to continue with our business. We were in mid-audit by inspectors from the Board of Studies and everything was inaccessible!” That experience was enough to convince Dr Gauld to move to Triplebackup’s new solution, which can backup base images up to 750 GB across an ADSL2+ internet connection. Bigger images are accommodated on faster connections – it is expected to backup 15+ TB images on National Broadband Network connections. The solution works across a business’ entire suite of physical, virtual and cloud servers, laptops, tablets and workstations, with no need for a dedicated Internet line, additional hardware, software license or capex investment.Vanessa Wilson, CEO of Triplebackup, says their service offers SMBs affordable protection that works seamlessly across their entire suite of computers: “It combines onsite image backup for local protection, and next-generation online image & file backup, with virtual server failover for market-leading post-disaster recovery and optimum business continuity.”Ninefold ensures that all backed up data and virtual failover servers are kept securely in Australia, without the legal and compliance requirements that come with offshore storage. The low cost of Ninefold’s cloud storage means the Triplebackup product can be offered at price-points that suit SMBs and Ninefold’s large-scale virtual failover capacity protects businesses even if a major disaster hits an entire city.Gartner has reported that by 2015, at least a quarter of large enterprises will have given up on conventional backup / recovery software and will employ snapshot and replication techniques instead. The same report (The Gartner Enterprise Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant Report, 11 June 2012) found that "By 2016, one-third of organisations will change backup vendors due to frustration over cost complexity and/or capability."Vanessa Wilson says that the same issues face smaller businesses, but, until now, they didn’t have the time or resources to commit to an effective solution. She says Triplebackup’s technology and user friendly interfaces, combined with Ninefold’s hourly virtual server pricing and low cost cloud storage, have facilitated a change that will have a big impact on the SMB sector.“We have made it simple for the end user, who can self-recover their files from their image backup via their own web-dashboard. We provide our channel partners with a scalable, zero capex market-leading service that fits a serious market need. Partners can now rebuild client systems in hours, and offer business continuity within minutes. We will be introducing cloud NAS backup in the coming months, so that our Partners can provide all of their clients’ backup and disaster recovery needs, from a single web-portal,” says Wilson. About Ninefold Ninefold is Australian public cloud computing and storage with locally stored data, free local support, self-service flexibility and low latency. This allows you to provision virtual servers and cloud storage quickly - scaling up and down when needed – and only paying for the resources you use.Sign up in seconds. Start using in minutes. Benefit for years. Ninefold.com @ninefold Ninefold is a registered trademark. About TriplebackupTriplebackup is an Australian backup and disaster recovery service. It offers SMBs an online image (bare metal) backup service that works well over an existing Internet line. It reduces rebuild time to hours. It protects the entire computer and works across all of a business’ physical, virtual, and hosted computers. A business can instantly self-recover files from their image backup. Virtual Failover from the backup enables clients to bring up a clone of their computer in the Cloud within minutes. Local backup is included for on-premise protection. One fee for the entire suite of services reduces complexity and TCO for SMBs and Channel Partners. For more information please visit http://www.triplebackup.com.au For more information, please contact:Dana DobbieProgressiva Public RelationsTel: +61 416 072 625dana@progressiva.com.au

2012-10-02T23:53:00Z ninefold-offers-austalia-s-only-cloud-computing-third-availability-zone

Ninefold Offers Australia’s Only Cloud Computing Third Availability Zone ~ takes anchor tenancy in state-of-the-art Intellicentre 2 data centre ~ Sydney, October 3, 2012 – Ninefold, Australia’s Cloud, has today become the first cloud services provider in Australia to offer customers a third availability zone through its anchor tenancy in the new Macquarie Telecom Intellicentre 2 (IC2) $60m data centre. Ninefold’s significant investment supports customer demand for failsafe uptime and risk mitigation among cloud forward developers, start-ups and digital agencies; safe in the knowledge that their data is secure in Australian owned and based facilities. Ninefold’s customers value the benefits of a multiple zone strategy when deploying their applications into production. Ninefold’s IC2-based third Availability Zone provides customers with a simple, self-service solution that empowers them to architect their virtual infrastructures across multiple physical infrastructures and geographies for the purposes of high availability, disaster recovery or business continuity solutions. Ninefold engineers have commenced the build of the IC2-based facility which will be open for private beta mid-November with the full launch scheduled before Christmas. “It’s exciting to be the first cloud computing company to offer Australia’s only third availability zone. As part of our continued expansion, we continue to invest and offer cloud forward developers, start-ups and digital agencies the most advanced and flexible cloud computing technology available,” said Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder at Ninefold. “We’re delighted to take anchor tenancy in Macquarie Telecom’s state-of-the-art Intellicentre 2 data centre facility.” Unveiled by Prime Minister Julia Gillard in September, IC2 is Australia’s most advanced high security data centre. The 20,000 square metre facility is the solution to rising IT and power costs, and will offer Ninefold cloud computing customers resilience, high security and advanced green credentials. Ninefold’s third Availability Zone allows customers to architect with greater redundancy to ensure the best-possible availability of their website, application or service and provides an additional safeguard for customer data. Ninefold’s support teams can help set up and configure for maximum effectiveness across zones. Getting started in this multiple zone environment is simple and easy to provision in minutes, and Ninefold is offering a free consultation to those who would like to learn more. For more information or to book a free consultation, please visit http://ninefold.com/cloud-architecture/cloud-availability-zones/. About Ninefold Ninefold is Australian public cloud computing and storage with locally stored data, free local support, self-service flexibility and low latency. This allows you to provision virtual servers and cloud storage quickly - scaling up and down when needed – and only paying for the resources you use. Sign up in seconds. Start using in minutes. Benefit for years. Ninefold.com @ninefold Ninefold is a registered trademark. For more information, please contact: Dana Dobbie Progressiva Public Relations Tel: +61 416 072 625 dana@progressiva.com.au Images available on request.

2012-09-21T04:14:00Z ninefold-extends-cloud-to-the-creative-universe

​Ninefold Extends Cloud To The Creative Universe ~ adds national social innovation organisation to Cloud Booster Program ~Sydney, September 21, 2012 – Ninefold, Australia’s cloud, has added Creative Universe to the Cloud Booster Program, effectively immediately, to help recipients of its recent Innovation Scholarship reduce the barrier to business entry and get their ideas to market faster.Creative Universe produces creative leadership and innovation programs to boost teamwork, productivity and wellbeing for organisations. Its annual event, Creative Innovation Asia Pacific 2012 (Ci2012), takes place in Melbourne in November with the theme “Wicked Problems, Great Opportunities”.Ten Australians have won the opportunity to present their innovations to the world’s elite business thinkers and leaders this year at Creative Innovation Asia Pacific 2012 as recipients of the Ci2012 Innovation Leader Scholarship.Ninefold has offered all Creative Innovation Leader Scholarship winners up to $2,000 Ninefold credit per month for up to a year. The prize includes technical sales consultation for setup and opportunities for submitting guest blog posts on the Ninefold blog. A full list of ideas and winners can be found online. From a pool of more than 100 applications, ten emerging leaders were selected for their achievements in fulfilling a vision and leading innovation to a broader community or group. The ten scholarship winners each receive a place at this year’s Creative Innovation 2012 giving them the opportunity meet key industry leaders, share and discuss their ideas and issues and a present their innovation ideas to renowned event speakers and event attendees.“Fostering growth and encouraging the exchange of ideas is very much part of our community commitment here at Ninefold. Creative Innovation 2012 and its team projects that concept to a larger, globally credentialed network of talent. We’re delighted to support this initiative, and we commend the winners,” said Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder at Ninefold. “Our scholarship winners have embraced innovative thinking and creativity to bring their fresh ideas, leadership and courage to some of Australia’s challenging areas,” said Ms de Jong, Creative Universe CEO and founder of Creative Innovation Asia Pacific 2012.“Scholarship winners and attendees at Creative Innovation 2012 will rub shoulders with over 40 world-class speakers, innovators and thinkers in Melbourne in November, including Google’s Michael T Jones, Baroness Susan Greenfield, global futurist, Dr. Thomas Frey and many more,” she added.The Ninefold Cloud Booster Program also currently supports start-up hubs Pollenizer (Sydney), Blue Chilli (Sydney), Fishburners (Sydney) Startmate (Sydney), AngelCube (Melbourne), Innovation Bay (Sydney) The York Butter Factory (Melbourne), iLab (Brisbane) and Spacecubed (Perth). About Ninefold® Ninefold is Australian public cloud computing and storage with locally stored data, free local support, self service flexibility and low latency. This allows you to provision virtual servers and cloud storage quickly - scaling up and down when needed – and only paying for the resources you use. Sign up in seconds. Start using in minutes. Benefit for years.Ninefold.com @ninefoldNinefold is a registered trademark.About Creative UniverseCreative Universe produces creative leadership and innovation programs to boost teamwork, productivity and wellbeing for organisations. Its annual event, Creative Innovation Asia Pacific 2012 (Ci2012), takes place in Melbourne in November with the theme “Wicked Problems, Great Opportunities”.Creative Universe offers range of innovative leadership programs, speakers, performers and special events to inspire its people and deliver extraordinary leadership performance and productivity.http://creativeuniverse.com.au/ For more information, please contact:Jo BalfourProgressiva Public RelationsTel: +61 405 542 018jobalfour@progressiva.com.au @jobonekenobi

2012-09-04T02:27:00Z ninefold-appoints-new-service-delivery-head

Ninefold Appoints New Service Delivery Head ~ attracts Harvey Norman process, risk and project management expert ~Sydney, September 4, 2012 – Ninefold, Australia’s cloud, has welcomed Jeff Black to the newly created role of Service Delivery Manager to oversee technical and customer service delivery and performance.Mr Black holds responsibility for delivering Ninefold’s high quality self-managed cloud infrastructure services to customers, day-to-day management of its local support team across all channels (including telephone, email, Twitter, LiveChat) and communications with a range of stakeholders, including customers, third party service providers, carriers and vendor partners. He brings considerable project management and process control experience to Ninefold.He joins Ninefold from Harvey Norman IT where, as Service Improvement Manager, he was an integral part of the senior leadership team and managed a team of 20 customer service staff and engineers. He has 14 years’ experience in service delivery, vendor management, risk management and problem resolution gained at EDS Australia, IBM Global Services Australia, Fujitsu Australia and Computeraid (UK).Currently undertaking a MBA (Executive) postgraduate degree, Mr Black holds a Bachelor of Information Systems (Computing) from the Australian Catholic University (ACU).“We operate a nimble organisation and appoint strategically as required,” said Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder of Ninefold. “Team fit, business expertise and technical competence are critical to maintaining our strong brand so we’re delighted to welcome Jeff to the team.” About Ninefold® Ninefold is Australian public cloud computing and storage with locally stored data, free local support, self service flexibility and low latency. This allows you to provision virtual servers and cloud storage quickly - scaling up and down when needed – and only paying for the resources you use. Sign up in seconds. Start using in minutes. Benefit for years. Ninefold.com @ninefold Ninefold is a registered trademark.For more information, please contact:Jo BalfourProgressiva Public RelationsTel: +61 405 542 018jobalfour@progressiva.com.au @jobonekenobi

2012-08-14T00:31:00Z ninefold-goes-west-with-cloud-booster-program

Ninefold Goes West With Cloud Booster Program~ extends cloud computing and mentoring hand to startup and entrepreneurs in WA ~Sydney, August 14 2011 – Ninefold, Australia’s cloud, has extended the Ninefold Cloud Booster Program to Spacecubed, West Australia’s first’s startup, co-working, collaboration and innovation space based in Perth.Spacecubed is a not-for-profit set up by Brodie McCulloch, also Managing Director of Social Innovation in Western Australia, a network for social enterprise groups. Divided into three categories, social & environmental, technology & creative industries, and government & corporate projects, Spacecubed offers a collaborative working space for a thriving community of start-ups, advisors and investors, from emerging companies, Scitank and Meteorite Games, through to established brands, Pozible and GlassesOnline. Ninefold user, GlassesOnline, an online provider of affordable prescription eyewear since 2006, moved to take advantage of the Cloud Booster Program to power traffic surges on its popular site during marketing campaigns and end-of-year health fund claims. “We’ve based our business on Ninefold for the last six months and enjoyed the flexibility of a service that scales to suit peak traffic during end-of-year health fund claims and short-term marketing campaigns. We particularly like the self-service element as we know exactly what’s happening at any given point, and can provision it ourselves according to our needs,” said Kevin Reece, Managing Director of GlassesOnline. “We’re delighted to have Ninefold’s support for members at Spacecubed, there are amazing ideas within our network that are particularly unique to West Australia, due to the mining and resources boom, as well as our proximity to Asia,” said Brodie McCulloch, Founder of Spacecubed. “Watch this space for some amazing innovation coming from Spacecubed.” “We aim to foster entrepreneurial talent by removing as many of the technology barriers to innovation as possible, right across Australia,” said Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder of Ninefold. “West Australia enjoys a unique geographic position and vertical focus and we look forward to working with Brodie and the Spacecubed members.”The Ninefold Cloud Booster Program offers Spacecubed members free Ninefold cloud computing and storage credit for up to a year. They also get a technical sales consultation for setup, together with involvement in Ninefold’s marketing campaigns; such as guest blog posts and opportunities to reach the wider Ninefold community. The Ninefold Cloud Booster Program also currently supports start-up hubs Pollenizer (Sydney), Blue Chilli (Sydney), Fishburners (Sydney) Startmate (Sydney), AngelCube (Melbourne), Innovation Bay (Sydney) and the York Butter Factory (Melbourne), and iLab (Brisbane). About Ninefold Ninefold is Australian public cloud computing and storage with locally stored data, free local support, self service flexibility and low latency. This allows you to provision virtual servers and cloud storage quickly - scaling up and down when needed – and only paying for the resources you use. Sign up in seconds. Start using in minutes. Benefit for years. Ninefold.com @ninefold Ninefold is a registered trademark. About SpacecubedSpacecubed facilitates a community of entrepreneurs in a 550sqm co-working, collaboration and innovation space located in the middle of the Perth CBD. www.spacecubed.org About GlassesOnlineGlassesOnline provides high quality prescription glasses home delivered from $49. Buy online and get the same frames and lenses as the shops but at sensible prices. You can even claim from your health fund. www.glassesonline.com.au For more information, please contact:Jo BalfourProgressiva Public RelationsTel: +61 405 542 018jobalfour@progressiva.com.au @jobonekenobi

2012-08-06T22:12:00Z ninefold-launches-vmware-support-on-public-cloud

Sydney, August 7, 2012 – Ninefold has today launched a VMware-based platform on the Ninefold public cloud allowing customers greater choice and flexibility when selecting a cloud platform upon which to run their Ninefold cloud services.Ninefold’s public cloud service (credit card subscription, self-service, usage based competitive pricing & open API) now offers a VMware cloud platform that many enterprises and business already use to support their mission-critical applications – all located and supported from Australian data centres. This offer will afford Ninefold customers greater portability and further optimisation across a hybrid cloud model.Ninefold has purpose built a new VMware availability zone (based on VMware vSphere), aimed at customers who have already invested time and resource in selecting VMware as their chosen application platform, be it for an internal private cloud or hybrid cloud deployment. Ninefold aims to offer easy adoption and time savings for businesses with an existing investment in VMware who wish to leverage public cloud. Moving existing VMware virtual server images into Ninefold’s cloud is straightforward via the self-service “import” feature. Users can also export them back out of the cloud at any time for simple backup or to duplicate in another zone or cloud. Using Ninefold’s site-to-site VPN capability, customers can easily extend an existing VMware private cloud environment out to the public cloud. “We are pleased to be working with Ninefold to offer Australian organisations flexible cloud computing solutions,” said John Donovan, Partner Director, VMware Australia and New Zealand. “We look forward to supporting Ninefold further as it delivers on the agility and performance customers are looking for in the cloud computing landscape.”“We are the only public pay-as-you-go infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud provider in Australia to offer customers the choice of either VMware or open source underlying platforms, via the same self-service interface & API. We believe this will resonate with businesses who have invested time and resource in selecting one particular path over another,” said Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder at Ninefold. “Our product development strategy has always been to identify the best partners based on customer requirements.”For more information and to get a free consultation on setting up a VMware VM, please visit http://ninefold.com/virtual-servers/vmware/About Ninefold Ninefold is Australian public cloud computing and storage with locally stored data, free local support, self service flexibility and low latency. This allows you to provision virtual servers and cloud storage quickly - scaling up and down when needed – and only paying for the resources you use. Sign up in seconds. Start using in minutes. Benefit for years.Ninefold.com @ninefoldNinefold is a registered trademark.

2012-07-11T01:20:00Z ninefold-announces-multiple-zone-strategy

Ninefold Announces Multiple Zone Strategy ~ cloud computing leader announces multiple Availability Zone strategy& wins multi-zone health customer, HelloMedical, from AWS ~Sydney, July 11 2012 – Ninefold, Australia’s Cloud, has today launched its Zone 2 Availability Zone out of Beta for cloud customers looking to use multiple Zones in their cloud environments. Ninefold also announced today its commitment to launching a third zone in the last quarter of 2012. The multi-zone strategy announcement signals Ninefold’s continued significant product investment. This ongoing investment supports user demand for failsafe uptime and risk mitigation among developer, digital, cloud integrator and, increasingly international customers with local Australian operations. Getting started in this multiple zone environment is simple and easy to provision in minutes, and Ninefold is offering a free consultation to those who would like to learn more. Ninefold has also won its first multi-zone customer with HelloMedical the first to sign up. Previously an Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer for two years, HelloMedical fosters a global network of researchers, clinicians, academics and organisations who meet around the world at conferences and events, but have no centralised means to collaborate and share research efficiently afterwards. Set up by medics and technology specialists, HelloMedical needed low latency, high availability, local hosting and local support. “The local aspect of everything that Ninefold offers is critical to our switch from AWS: local data hosting, multiple zones, great speed and reliability and, most definitively local, live support,” said Brent Hall, CEO of HelloMedical. “Our business runs as a real-time collaborative environment for global health experts to exchange ideas and effect change, so we need our underlying technology to work guaranteed and give the community trust and confidence.” “We announced significant investment plans for the business earlier this year and today’s multiple Availability Zone announcement makes good on that commitment to our customers said Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder at Ninefold. “HelloMedical is a great example of a company that needs everything we offer and we’re delighted to be working with the team there. We’ll be sharing the exciting news of Zone 3 with its unique proposition in due course.” A second or third zone allows customers to architect with greater redundancy, recover from incidents faster or safeguard their data by replicating into another zone. Ninefold’s support teams can help set up and configure for maximum effectiveness across zones. Specifically, multiple Availability Zones provide: High Availability: the ability to load balance or cluster virtual servers across multiple Availability Zones, allowing true High Availability protection from a single Availability Zone failure. Disaster Recovery: multiple Availability Zones run hot, warm or cold disaster recovery environments to protect from a single Availability Zone failure – simply align the level of disaster recovery to a customer’s budget, only paying for what is used, in line with Ninefold’s transparent, pay-as-you-go pricing model. Features of Ninefold’s Availability Zones 1 & 2 All of the existing Ninefold self-service features available in Availability Zone 1 are available in Availability Zone 2 – via both the Ninefold portal and the API Snapshot and copy virtual servers from one Availability Zone to another Private inter-zone network connectivity to virtual servers (via multiple NICs), perfect for data replication or other inter-zone communication needs Separate IP address ranges available in each Availability Zone Physical firewall security protection available in both Availability Zones, with VPN options available Load Balance traffic to virtual servers residing in both Availability Zones (via Availability Zone 1) For more information or to book a free consultation, please visit http://ninefold.com/cloud-architecture/cloud-availability-zones/ About HelloMedicalFounded in 2010, HelloMedical connects medical professionals enabling them to stay in touch, find articles and share research. We help doctors, researchers and clinicians connect with one another to foster great progress within medicine. hellomedical.com @HelloMedical

2012-06-26T21:05:00Z ninefold-amp-founder-institute-foster-local-tech-talent

Sydney, June 27, 2012 – Ninefold, Australia’s largest public cloud provider, has welcomed inaugural graduates of the renowned US Founder Institute to the Cloud Booster Program, as part of a drive to promote technology innovation and talent in Australia. The Founder Institute, an early-stage startup accelerator and global launch network founded in Silicon Valley which has since gone global over the last three years, launched a Sydney Chapter, co-directed by Benjamin Ranck and Benjamin Chong, earlier this year. More than 100 candidates applied for the 15 week program in Sydney, hosted at Ninefold, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and technology incubator, Blue Chilli, with 34 accepted to the program. Nine individuals from seven companies graduated from the Founder Institute – Sydney Chapter in June and all received free cloud computing from Ninefold plus free workspace at Blue Chilli. This also included mentoring from a number of industry executives, including Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder of Ninefold. Globally, less than 40% of accepted Founders typically make it through. Through a part-time four month Founder Institute program, existing and prospective founders can launch their dream company with expert training, feedback, and support from experienced startup CEOs - while not being required to quit their day job. The Founder Institute’s unique Graduate Liquidity Pool also enables graduates and mentors to share in the equity upside of each class, creating local, teamwork-based ecosystems where great new businesses can flourish. “We congratulate all of those who applied, took part, and graduated in this year’s inaugural Sydney Chapter Founder Institute, the program is certainly not for the half-hearted,” said Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder at Ninefold. “It’s critical for Australia’s economic future and role within Asia Pacific that we retain and encourage our own innovative identity to preserve the local startup culture currently flourishing, and prevent this so-called “braindrain”. Aussie companies and entrepreneurs still have a lot to gain and a lot to give at home.” “I echo Peter’s comments that there’s great opportunity for startups in Australia, that’s why we launched a Sydney Chapter of the Founder Institute,” said Benjamin Ranck, Co-Director at the Founder Institute. “There’s currently debate about how Aussie startups can only succeed if they depart our shores for Silicon Valley – and while there’s certainly a lot to be learnt from established North American tech hubs there’s also great deal of support, financially and educationally here too, as shown by the likes of Ninefold, UTS, Blue Chilli and many more parties.” The Cloud Booster Program offers Founder Institute Graduates free Ninefold cloud computing and storage credit worth from $300 per month for up to a year. They also receive a technical sales consultation for setup, together with involvement in Ninefold’s marketing campaigns; such as guest blog posts and opportunities to reach the wider Ninefold developer, startup and partner community. To find out more about the Founder Institute and local graduates, please visit http://fi.co/.

2012-06-18T23:21:00Z ninefold-continues-to-hire-top-talent

Sydney, June 19 2012 – Ninefold, Australia’s largest public cloud provider, has appointed Sean Jarman and Shaun Domingo to support strong business growth in its commercial operations and development teams. As Commercial Manager, Sean Jarman brings strength in developing structure, innovation and operational efficiency at globally renowned brands including Diageo, Orange, BT, Shell, Ericsson, Thomson Reuters, and Vodafone. At Ninefold, he will develop and implement effective financial and commercial processes across Ninefold’s business portfolio. With almost 15 years’ experience working exclusively in blue-chip organisations, Mr Jarman brings a wide-range of commercial acumen to Ninefold, and joins most recently from Optus where he was Head of Commercial Marketing. In this role, he acted as a CFO and looked after marketing analysis, product marketing and development, contract management and Optus’ rewards program. Mr Jarman holds a Bachelor of Commerce, with Financial, Management Accounting and Economics Majors from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and is a qualified Chartered Accountant. Shaun Domingo joins Ninefold as Software Development Manager to review and manage the company’s cloud computing portal, and shape the strategy and direction of the customer interaction with the site. With ten years of significant development experience, he joins from Hyro, Australia's oldest digital services company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, where he was Technical Manager responsible for a number of portal systems projects. Before Hyro, Mr Domingo was Technology Lead at Optus Business Portal. Mr Domingo holds a Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (Network Management) First Class Honours from the University of Wollongong. “It’s very exciting to attract talent such as Sean and Shaun from known, listed companies Optus and Hyro as it shows how attractive the Ninefold brand is, and we welcome them warmly” said Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder at Ninefold. “The creation of these two new roles, and our recent appointment of Elisa Chan from Groupon reflect the growth we’re experiencing and the commitment to customer service and operational efficiency.”

2012-06-07T22:00:00Z ninefold-supports-government-amp-developer-competition

Ninefold Supports Government & Developer Competition ~ Australian cloud computing company gets behind Annual GovHack ~Sydney, June 8, 2012 – Ninefold, Australia’s Cloud, has congratulated all winners and participants of the largest GovHack 2012 competition yet in Australia, particularly the 10 of 22 winners using Ninefold virtual machines. Ninefold provided virtual machines and on-site mentoring both in Sydney and Canberra plus sponsorship funding towards the cash prizes. Contestants were supported by GovHack organisers with a range of tools and hosting options, including virtual machines from Ninefold, which will keep the VMs active for six months to allow participants to keep working on their projects.GovHack is a not for profit event that brings government, industry, academic and civil society together to create new mashups, data visualisations and apps from government data sets. GovHack 2012 included data sets from the National Archives, Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia, CSIRO, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian National Data Service, OSP, Australian Electoral Committee, Data.gov.au and ACT data sets. Run by volunteers from the Gov 2.0 Community, Rewired State and the eGovernment Technology Cluster, its aim is to see how Government data can be used to benefit the nation. GovHack attendees typically include web and application developers, open data & visualisation gurus, accessibility specialists, augmented reality-ists, mobile masters, user experience fanatics and anyone interested in open government. A full list of winners can be found at http://www.govhack.org/winners/, and example projects using the Ninefold platform included: Double rainbows - Photo Search by team Double Rainbows Best Benefit to the ACT (Special prize for common highly commended as per the Sydney judges Community Award) Hackeroos - Safe Route by team The Hackeroos Best use of Geoscience Australia data sets Null reference - WeatheredOak by team NullReference Best use of Bureau of Meteorology data sets (Best API development for government data sets on data.gov.au, Best Contribution to Open Data) The outsiders - A Day in the Life by team The Outsiders Best overall Digital Humanities Award Moving Forward- Is Your Polly Smarter Than a 5th Grader by team Best Data Analysis Laser Explosions - Time Capsule by team Laser Explosions Best Overall Science Award, Best Data Visualisation. “Hack days like GovHack are to a tech what a theme park is to a child. You meet great people, have a lot of fun and get to push the limits,” said Slava Barouline, team leader of The Hackeroos. “It gets incredibly competitive in there, so we chose to develop on a Ninefold virtual machine to ensure we got the best performance for our idea and give ourselves the best chance of winning. We won the award for Best use of Geoscience Australia data sets.” “We are particularly thankful to all the Government supporters who came on board, provided data sets, mentors, documentation and much more. They were each very engaged and demonstrate that government can engage with citizens in a constructive and mutually beneficial way. It’s vital that Government and industry continues to foster an environment in which technology enthusiasts can experiment and innovate,” said Pia Waugh, Lead Organiser of GovHack. “We’re grateful for Ninefold and all our sponsors for their funding and mentoring support.” “GovHack is an example of a productive and collaborative community project and it’s terrific to see Government departments and the technical and developer community working together for public gain,” said Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder at Ninefold. “We wholly support initiatives that show how technology supports openness among our technical community and government agencies.” About Ninefold Ninefold is Australian public cloud computing and storage with locally stored data, free local support, self service flexibility and low latency. This allows you to provision virtual servers and cloud storage quickly - scaling up and down when needed – and only paying for the resources you use. Sign up in seconds. Start using in minutes. Benefit for years. Ninefold.com @ninefoldNinefold is a registered trademark.For more information, please contact:Jo BalfourProgressiva Public RelationsTel: +61 405 542 018jobalfour@progressiva.com.au @jobonekenobi

2012-05-30T21:12:00Z ninefold-acquires-groupon-head

Ninefold Acquires Groupon Head~ entrepreneur and online specialist joins cloud computing leader to drive growth ~Sydney, May 31 2012 – Ninefold, Australia’s Cloud, has appointed Elisa Chan as Partner Engagement Manager to drive growth in vertical markets, as well as among its heartland of start-ups, developers, web-centric businesses, digital media, investors, incubators and affiliates.Ms. Chan will be responsible for cultivating contacts and relationships among Ninefold’s customer, partner, developer, advocate, affiliates and prospect ecosystem across Australia to drive leads and sign ups. She will also build awareness for Ninefold’s product offering, and recruit and manage Ninefold Community Advocates. Ms. Chan joins Ninefold most recently from Groupon Australia and New Zealand where she was Head of Marketing, Australia & New Zealand, with responsibility for driving its marketing strategy to improve relationships with Groupon merchants and to further engage consumers. As one of Groupon ANZ’s founding team members she substantially contributed to Groupon’s ANZ launch, assisting the company to attain market leadership position for December 2011[1], and increasing subscribers by 1800% in 12 months. Her role included marketing and data analysis to aid new business decisions and initiatives. Ms. Chan developed sales tools, programs and support materials for more effective selling and managed Groupon’s online display, SEM, SEO Social Media and affiliate marketing roadmap including strategies, processes, and tools. Due to company growth, she also held concurrent dual positions as Head of Business Intelligence and Strategy and VP of Groupon Getways. Ms. Chan started, commercialised and successfully exited EseaCruising.com, an online cruising reservation service between 2007 and 2011. As Founder and Director, Ms Chan built the company up from sole trader to a team of 18, and oversaw marketing, revenue management, human resources and customer service operations during that period. “As a lean, online business, the right combination of skillsets and personalities is critical to our success so we’re delighted to welcome Elisa to the Ninefold team,” said Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder at Ninefold. “With online, offline, start-up and established online business acumen in her experience and having built and sold a successful company, Elisa complements our team and indeed our ecosystem.”“I’m excited to join Ninefold as cloud computing is the exciting area in e-commerce and technology, and it gives me the opportunity to work with startups and entrepreneurs, a community that I’m very passionate about. It’s a new industry for me but the online concepts and skillsets readily translate,” said Elisa Chan, Partner Engagement Manager at Ninefold. About Ninefold Ninefold is Australian public cloud computing and storage with locally stored data, free local support, self service flexibility and low latency. This allows you to provision virtual servers and cloud storage quickly - scaling up and down when needed – and only paying for the resources you use. Sign up in seconds. Start using in minutes. Benefit for years. Ninefold.com @ninefoldNinefold is a registered trademark.For more information, please contact:Jo BalfourProgressiva Public RelationsTel: +61 405 542 018jobalfour@progressiva.com.au @jobonekenobi [1] http://www.telsyte.com.au/?p=1223

2012-05-17T00:33:00Z streethawk-chooses-ninefold-to-shake-up-retail

Sydney, May 17 2012 – StreetHawk, the new location-based mobile personal shopping service, has chosen to host its business on Ninefold, the Australian cloud computing and storage company. StreetHawk is a personal shopper ‘in your pocket’ that hunts for your favourite purchases 24x7. It performs your saved searches, alerting you when it has found what you’re looking for near to your current location, or at the places you frequently shop, together with special offers. It combines the power of 3G, smartphones/mobile devices, cloud computing, web apps and GPS to help retailers win and retain customers by connecting them to available products in their local vicinity. It chose Ninefold to host its unique Australian-developed RRR (Right place, Right time, Right person) platform. At launch, the app needed to support terabytes of real-time retail inventory from 50 retailers and 300+ shop locations to successfully connect traditional bricks and mortars retailers with smartphone shoppers in Sydney. Currently, StreetHawk is hosting its heavy computing services, including data collection and some API servers, on Ninefold’s cloud. The next step is to move the smartphone API, currently on linode, and the content delivery network (CDN), currently on Google AppEngine, onto Ninefold. StreetHawk captures and stores fast moving real-time data and needed storage space to scale rapidly without massive expenditure. It recognised that traditional hosting would be less efficient in handling the rapidly growing big data requirements of the new generation of mobile apps and web services. The growth in the mobile app market – expected to reach $35 billion by 2014 (according to research by IDC) – will also drive further growth in big data and cloud storage. StreetHawk has longer-term ambitions to develop the RRR engine as a mobile ad network to help generate revenue opportunities and better targeting for retailers by marrying brands with location and behavioural data gained through mobile device use patterns. StreetHawk will offer RRR to other vertical sectors to help retailers promote brands and deliver targeted offers right into consumers’ pockets in a way not currently possible with mobile. With an active customer use rate of 30%, StreetHawk helps drive footfall and more sales to retailers, while helping shoppers browse and locate products more efficiently. “We chose Ninefold because we needed to host big data sets and deliver real-time matching performance for our RRR Engine. We love Ninefold because of its elastic capability to increase size with demand and inventory, and elastic pricing model for cost control and efficient deployment” said Sri Panyam, Engineer 1 at StreetHawk. “Of most value for us is the extremely low latency for our mobile users who expect data in real-time. We have to deliver data as fast as possible to ensure ongoing user engagement, so speed is a clear benefit of the Ninefold service for us.” “Advertising in mobile at the moment is a bug-bear for advertisers and retailers who are keen to try out this powerful new channel but lack the tools to do so effectively. In fact, the state of mobile advertising in Australia and the world right now actually puts brands back in the dark ages with its lack of targeting visibility,” said Natasha Rawlings, Chief Hawkat StreetHawk. “By offering an in-pocket, speedy, free service to consumers, StreetHawk, based on Ninefold, is helping traditional retailers stay relevant and engaged with customers.” “Speed, latency and security are very important to mobile users, and we’re proud to see such innovation in retail, mobile and advertising in Australia on Ninefold. We’re also very excited to see where StreetHawk goes with its Right place, Right time, Right person engine as it looks set to be a game-changing mobile technology,” said Peter James, Chairman and Co-Founder at Ninefold. About StreetHawk StreetHawk is a new and revolutionary way of surfacing retailers’ vast inventory to shoppers while they are on-the-go through smartphones. StreetHawk uses its ‘RRR Technology’ to allow shoppers to search for the items they are looking for in the shops around them, or if they save their search StreetHawk will notify shoppers when they are around the item they want as they move around. StreetHawk has launched an aggregated app in fashion, but is also making its RRR technology available to retailers who want to drive footfall and engagement in their apps. www.streethawk.com.au