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Today, ServePath released the following press release related to our selection by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor” in the April 2009 “Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing Systems and Application Infrastructure, 2009″ report. The report covers ServePath’s Cloud Computing product, GoGrid, as well as discusses other Cloud Computing key findings. The press release is as follows:

ServePath Named “Cool Vendor” by Leading Analyst Firm

Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor report” are innovative, impactful and intriguing

San Francisco, CA April 27, 2009 — ServePath, LLC has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the April 2009 “Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing Systems and Application Infrastructure, 2009” report by Gartner, Inc.

The “Cool Vendor” report by Gartner, Inc. showcases key findings and recommendations to consider when evaluating Cloud server infrastructure services and companies. As defined by Gartner, Cloud services are divided into two general categories: infrastructure and applications. ServePath’s Cloud Computing division, GoGrid, represents excellence within both cloud categories as is evidenced through the Gartner “Cool Vendor” selection of ServePath. The report is available on the Gartner website for a limited time.

“We believe the recognition we have received by Gartner’s selection of ServePath for the ‘Cool Vendor’ Report further affirms our pioneering position within the Cloud Computing Infrastructure marketplace,” said John Keagy, CEO and Co-Founder of GoGrid and parent company, ServePath. “As innovators in the hosting industry, we firmly believe that Cloud Computing with a GoGrid cloudcenter exemplifies Cloud technology at its finest.”

GoGrid is the only Cloud Infrastructure vendor that supports the automated instantiation of Windows Server 2003 and 2008, CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Cloud servers through a user friendly GUI or the GoGrid API. Customers can instantly deploy servers and quickly and easily create cloudcenters (datacenters-in-the-sky) using a variety of tools and features that are included in GoGrid, including free hardware-based F5 load balancing, Cloud servers, Cloud Storage, public and private networks and Cloud Connect, which enables Cloud infrastructures to be connected to dedicated or colocated backend environments via private, dedicated gigabit connections.

Cloud Connect handles database servers, transcoding and statistical analysis environments on custom, managed hardware with the power and I/O to perform well. Entire cloudcenters on GoGrid are easily controlled and managed by an industry-recognized web interface or programmatically via a REST-like API.

GoGrid offers customers including startups, small/medium businesses, government and enterprises, the ability to provision, scale and manage complex and robust server networks and infrastructures quickly and easily in the Cloud.

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

The full press release can be viewed here.

This week we rolled out a new graphic on the ServePath homepage that when I thought about it, really shows a change in mindset. ServePath has been doing managed, dedicated hosting for over 9 years and will continue to do so in the years to come. However, what has changed is the mainstream adoption of Cloud Computing and Cloud Hosting. Our Cloud division, GoGrid, has been providing Cloud infrastructure for well over a year now and has seen tremendous adoption by the likes of Web 2.0-ers, SMBs, Government Agencies and the Enterprise.

One feature that we were first to market with, is Cloud Connect. Other terms that we have been using is “Hybrid Hosting” or “Hybrid Networks”. Essentially, it enables you to combine the dynamic scalability of a Cloud-based front-end (on GoGrid) with a traditional managed backend of dedicated high-performance servers (with ServePath). The two hosting environments are combined via secure, gigabit private networks, thus enabling best-of-breed solutions to meet any infrastructure requirements.

As always, a picture is worth a thousand words…

If you have any questions about these new hosting strategies and infrastructure possibilities, I encourage you to contact a ServePath Sales Representative. There are many scenarios and opportunities available with this incredible flexibility of hosting, but we want you to surprise us with your ideas and designs. You shouldn’t wait to start planning out your Hybrid hosting solutions, we can get you there now!