Engine Yard Platform-as-a-Service Offering Leverages Reliability, Scalability, and Security of Terremark’s Leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service Solution
MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced that Engine Yard has selected Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud for Engine Yard customers who require a private cloud service. Engine Yard is the leading provider of Ruby on Rails automation and management technologies delivering both private and public cloud offerings. With more than 800 customers, the Engine Yard Cloud Platform runs some of the world’s largest Rails-based applications.
Terremark Enterprise Cloud was the ideal Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for Engine Yard Private Cloud based on its proven track record of providing enterprise and Federal government customers industry-leading reliability, scalability and security. As Engine Yard continues to build its private cloud customer base, the Enterprise Cloud supports the Engine Yard mission to deliver the most reliable and secure Ruby on Rails platform available.
“Developers can take full advantage of Rails when they’re not losing cycles to the complexities of application deployment and maintenance. Over the last year, we’ve seen rapid adoption of our public cloud offering, and we anticipate this partnership with Terremark will drive equal adoption in our private cloud offering,” said John Dillon, Engine Yard CEO. “Engine Yard cloud offerings help developers stop worrying about scalability, security and uptime so they can focus on the art of building great applications”
The Terremark Enterprise Cloud allows customers the ability to provision, configure, deploy and manage computing resources for mission-critical applications in minutes, giving control over a flexible pool of computing resources with a web-based console for deploying server capacity on demand. The platform provides proven superior scalability and flexibility, as well as a suite of managed security services that includes comprehensive vulnerability assessments, log aggregation and event correlation, network session flow analysis, attack replay, and application firewall management.
“This exciting new partnership with Engine Yard will be greatly beneficial to the many Rails application developers and web development firms that are looking for a reliable, cost-effective solution to their business-critical IT infrastructure needs,” said Manuel D. Medina, Terremark’s Chairman and CEO. “Becoming the infrastructure provider for the Engine Yard private cloud offering presents a unique opportunity for our two companies to deliver the true power of cloud computing to customers developing the latest and most sophisticated Rails-based applications.”
“Engine Yard’s selection of Terremark Enterprise Cloud for its private cloud offering presents a strong proof-point for the benefits of VMware vCloud services,” said Dan Chu, Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure and Services, VMware. “By working with Terremark, Engine Yard is able to leverage the VMware platform to enable the flexibility, scalability and security enterprise customers require.”
About Terremark Worldwide, Inc.
Terremark Worldwide (NASDAQ:TMRK) is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry’s most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers in the United States, Europe and Latin America with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, Terremark delivers government and enterprise customers a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery, security, data storage and cloud computing services. Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud computing architecture delivers the agility, scale and economic benefits of cloud computing to mission-critical enterprise and Web 2.0 applications and its DigitalOps® service platform combines end-to-end systems management workflow with a comprehensive customer portal. More information about Terremark Worldwide can be found at http://www.terremark.com.
About Engine Yard
Engine Yard provides automation technologies and services for Ruby on Rails, including Engine Yard Cloud, an Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for web developers and web teams. It provides easy-to-use, automated Rails application deployment and management, with a design philosophy that allows easy migration of existing applications. Engine Yard employs top industry experts and sponsors or contributes to many Open Source projects and efforts such as Ruby on Rails (www.rubyonrails.org), JRuby (www.jruby.org) and Rubinius (www.rubini.us). Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., Engine Yard is backed by Benchmark Capital, New Enterprise Associates, and Amazon.com. Visit www.engineyard.com.
Statements contained in this press release may constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Terremark’s actual results may differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements due to a number of risks, including its ability to cross-sell across an acquired customer base, ability to increase revenue yields within facilities, ability to refinance existing debt, uncertainties and other factors, as discussed in Terremark’s filings with the SEC. These factors include, without limitation, Terremark’s ability to obtain funding for its business plans, uncertainty in the demand for Terremark’s services or products, Terremark’s ability to manage its growth, and the successful integration of operations of acquired companies. Terremark does not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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