Pathway Communications Selects Cloud.com to Power its CloudPath Service

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloud.com, a leader in open source cloud computing software, today announced that Pathway Communications, a leading provider of integrated Internet solutions to businesses and residential customers, is using the company’s flagship product CloudStack™ for its latest public cloud offering, CloudPath™. Launched this month and hosted in Canada’s only Tier III-certified data center, CloudPath provides a highly reliable and secure location for clients to house important data. CloudPath is supplemented by a range of services such as server management, network security, application support, Internet and branch connectivity and telephony. These services let clients enjoy the convenience of a single, qualified and experienced supplier for all their IT and Internet needs.

“We are thrilled to be working with Pathway Communication on their CloudPath service. CloudStack was designed to be cost-effective, service-oriented and viable for the long term”

“As a company dedicated to providing true value to our customers, we designed our cloud services to help clients with rising infrastructure costs. For CloudPath to succeed, we needed a cloud partner who offered flexibility and easy integration with a variety of existing infrastructure technologies at a low cost. Cloud.com was able to deliver exactly that,” said Ashok Kalle, CEO and founder of Pathway Communications. “CloudStack’s ability to integrate with our existing environment was a huge plus for us. It has helped us decrease time-to-market and increase overall cost savings. By enabling us to manage all of our layers on one platform we have been able to save on manual effort and costs, such as those related to deployment of servers and SAN storage.”

Pathway’s service offerings are designed to be different from those of other cloud providers. Its CloudPath service is intended for companies which need a long-term partner who will host and manage their IT infrastructure and attend to their ongoing technology support needs - from server management to Internet service. Pathway chose the Cloud.com cloud platform because it integrates seamlessly into Pathway’s existing infrastructure. This includes Citrix Xen, VMware, Cisco, KVM, Dell multi core servers, Linux and Windows 2003/2008. Using CloudStack, Pathway has enjoyed considerable cost savings by consolidating its Internet and managed services infrastructures into a separate, but unified, high-availability management platform. Savings arise from the reduction in manual effort as well as reduced energy requirements and idle equipment capacity. The ability to auto-provision and instantly deploy, report and manage server and network assets, using the cloud platform has produced substantial productivity gains.

“We are thrilled to be working with Pathway Communication on their CloudPath service. CloudStack was designed to be cost-effective, service-oriented and viable for the long term,” said Sheng Liang, co-founder and CEO of Cloud.com. “By using CloudStack, Pathway has been able to immediately deliver the benefits of the cloud computing operational model and deliver other benefits such as reduced energy costs and improved utilization of data center hardware. We look forward to helping the company grow and are excited for the future success of Pathway’s cloud service business.”

Recognizing that organizations currently face a daunting task when trying to build their own IaaS cloud environment, Cloud.com provides customers with the fastest path to owning their own cloud. It offers the latest and the most advanced software platform for building highly scalable, reliable cloud computing environments. Cloud.com currently enables over 50 large-scale clouds in production which have been built on its market-leading open source cloud computing solution. These include Zynga, Edmunds.com, KT, Nokia Research Center, Tata Communications, GreenQloud and Logicworks. Cloud.com technologies can be deployed on-premise or as hosted cloud services.

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About Cloud.com

Open source software provider Cloud.com simplifies and accelerates the deployment, management and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant private and public cloud services. Cloud.com’s CloudStack software is being used to provide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in production environments at leading enterprises and service providers, providing them with exceptional stability, and is unrivaled in both feature breadth and scalability. Founded in 2008 by leaders in open source, virtualization and infrastructure development, Cloud.com is backed by leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms. For more information, go to www.cloud.com.

About Pathway Communications

Pathway Communications is a Canadian company and is part of the Pathway Group of Companies. Established in 1995, it was the first Canadian company to offer a unified portfolio of Internet, Network Integration and software development services from a single source. The Pathway Group consists of Pathway Communications, CiteNet Internet, NetPulse Services and Teliuvo. Together, these companies offer a broad range of high-quality Managed Internet Services (DSL, Fibre based Solutions, Wireless and DSL based), Server Colocation, Web Hosting, VoIP and Long Distance Services. In addition, the group offers Business Process and Information Technology Outsourcing solutions to customers across North America. For more information, please visit, www.pathcom.com.

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