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InteliCloud Appoints Michael Greco as Vice President, Strategic Solutions

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 17, 2009 – InteliCloud, a developer and manufacturer of next-generation network and data center equipment, today announced that Michael Greco has been named vice president, strategic solutions.

In this newly created position, Greco will be responsible for identifying market opportunities and cultivating relationships with different channels and industry influencers that ultimately drive sales of the InteliCloud 360, a bladed server platform that can serve three times the number of customers for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) while using 60 percent less power and 60 percent less space than today’s market-leading blade and rack mount servers..

Greco brings more than 15 years of technology sales and management experience to InteliCloud. Most recently, he developed regional sales strategies and plans for software and services provider Compuware and its Southern California-based Fortune 100 clientele, including the Screen Actor’s Guild, Disney, Sony, Warner Brothers, Paramount and Fox. Previously, Greco served as vice president of sales for BIA Technology Consulting, working with clients to achieve business improvements through analyzing strengths, weaknesses and priorities as well as leveraging technology.

“Michael has demonstrated expertise in both selling and implementing IT and business solutions to high-profile clients in fast-paced, highly demanding business environments,” said Ken Hubbard, president and CEO of InteliCloud. “His relationships in the entertainment and media industries will be especially helpful in driving growth, market share and competitive advantage for our next-generation data center solution.”

Greco has also served as managing director at ESI Technology Consulting, overseeing all sales activities from strategic planning to client hand-off, serving clients such as 20th Century Fox and Sybron Dental Specialties.  He previously served as regional director of Alpha Soft Services Corporation where Greco built and led the Southern California branch with such high-profile clients as Disney Consumer Products and Fluor Corporation.

Greco is a member of several professional organizations, including the Global Society for Asset Management (G-SAM), the ECM Association and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).

“I was impressed early-on with InteliCloud’s management team and excited about its unprecedented, game-changing solution,” Greco said.  “I believe the company is poised for explosive growth, and I am committed to building and managing accelerated programs to help Intelicloud and its customers achieve their collective goals.”

About InteliCloud

Founded in 2007, InteliCloud Technology is a developer and manufacturer of next-generation Internet network equipment. The company’s cutting-edge network solutions provide a next-generation Internet network solution that supplies the infrastructure, speed and bandwidth customers are demanding from their Internet service, telecommunications, cable, satellite, online gaming, wireless and entertainment providers. These solutions deliver a dramatic leap in technology advancement, reducing integration and operating costs by more than 60 percent. InteliCloud’s engineering team created this disruptive technology by combining voice, video and data functionality into one single server chassis, utilizing six distinct spheres of Intellectual Property (IP) and several patentable technologies in the areas of energy savings, management systems and chassis design for increased throughput. More information is available at http://www.intelicloud.com.

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InteliCloud 360 Offers Multi-Faceted ‘Green’ Benefits for Data Centers

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec. 2, 2009 – InteliCloud, a developer and manufacturer of true next-generation data center (NGDC) equipment, today touted the substantial ‘green’ benefits, including a clear return-on-investment (ROI), for data centers with its InteliCloud 360 compared to traditional server solutions.

Announced earlier this year, the InteliCloud 360 re-imagines network infrastructure to tightly integrate off-the-shelf components with proprietary hardware and software into a single chassis, dramatically simplifying the operation, scalability and overall agility of the network.

According to Ken Hubbard, CEO of InteliCloud, “Most data center equipment providers today point to the power efficiencies of software virtualization and cooler-running processors as the focal point of their energy savings and green attributes.  Both solutions have issues that can actually increase overall power usage. ”

“The InteliCloud 360 goes substantially further by facilitating the stacking of services such as voice, video, data and games onto a single network, enabling dramatic reductions in both energy and real estate costs,” Hubbard said.  “Our green solution brings a tangible ROI for all types of Internet service providers, eliminating the ‘air-conditioned furnace’ that is most data centers.”

Designed from the ground up to deliver market-leading “green” benefits, the InteliCloud 360 architecture features a unique patent-pending blade frame input/output structure that removes the 1:1 relationship between services and hardware, enabling all the hardware in the network and/or data center to be available for all services. By virtualizing the network and storage interfaces, an application can move without interruption from blade to blade and chassis to chassis throughout the network.

The InteliCloud 360’s ability to remove the hardware bottleneck and enable SPx to stack multiple services saves more than 60 percent in hardware costs by eliminating idle redundant equipment.  This also results in a 60 percent reduction in power and space requirements and a three-fold increase in the number of customers served per square foot compared to today’s blade and rack mount servers.  The InteliCloud 360 also manages power consumption by turning off components that are not required and moving processes around to preserve efficiencies within the network.

According to the EPA, data center servers and related network infrastructure equipment represent 1.5 percent of all electricity used in the United States, a figure that has doubled from 2000-2005 and is expected to double again by 2011. Most of the electricity used is generated by coal-fired plants and other carbon-intensive methods that emit greenhouse gases connected to global warming.

In addition, due to the increasing energy demand, power failures and supply limitations will halt operations at some point in 90 percent of all data center operations, according to the EPA.  Roughly half of all data centers today have insufficient power supplies, the EPA has said. 

“These are stark numbers for SPx who wish to maintain uninterrupted service for their customers,” Hubbard said.  “That’s why it makes good business sense to maximize the performance of data center equipment as much as possible.  We believe the InteliCloud 360 can serve as a critical part of that solution.”

About InteliCloud

Founded in 2007, InteliCloud Technology is a developer and manufacturer of next-generation Internet network equipment. The company’s cutting-edge network solutions provide a next-generation Internet network solution that supplies the infrastructure, speed and bandwidth customers are demanding from their Internet service, telecommunications, cable, satellite, online gaming, wireless and entertainment providers. These solutions deliver a dramatic leap in technology advancement, reducing integration and operating costs by more than 60 percent. InteliCloud’s engineering team created this disruptive technology by combining voice, video and data functionality into one single server chassis, utilizing six distinct spheres of Intellectual Property (IP) and several patentable technologies in the areas of energy savings, management systems and chassis design for increased throughput. More information is available at http://www.intelicloud.com.

 

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InteliCloud Welcomes Gil Amelio to Advisory Board

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Former Apple, National Semiconductor Executive Sees Great Potential in the InteliCloud 360 Next-Gen Data Center

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Nov. 18, 2009InteliCloud, developer and manufacturer of next-generation Internet network equipment, today announced that tech industry legend Gil Amelio has joined its board of advisors.

Amelio is the former CEO of National Semiconductor (1991-1996) and Apple Inc. (1994-1997) and is currently a senior partner at Sienna Ventures since 2001. As an advisory board member, Amelio will offer his expertise to InteliCloud management on taking the company’s next-generation data center, the InteliCloud 360, to market.

The InteliCloud 360 is a bladed server platform with large-scale storage and distributed load-balancing capabilities that virtualizes network, storage and computing functions.  By tightly integrating off-the-shelf components with proprietary hardware and software into a single chassis, the InteliCloud 360 can serve three times the customers while using 60 percent less power and 60 percent less space than today’s market-leading blade and rack mount servers. The converged, Ethernet-based infrastructure is capable of carrying a multitude of traditional services, such as voice, video and data, and next-generation Web 2.0 services, on a single network.

“I have reviewed the InteliCloud 360 unit and believe it is a major technological leap forward in the data center industry,” Amelio said.  “It arrives at a time when Internet Service Providers are looking for a simpler data center solution that cuts energy usage while increasing performance and scalability to meet demand. InteliCloud built the system from the ground up with these requirements in mind and has done a wonderful job achieving them.”

Amelio earned a Ph.D. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology before beginning his career at Bell Laboratories in 1968. He has accumulated over 30 years of high technology and business leadership experience, managed businesses in semiconductors, telecommunications, and computers, and achieved a great number of businesses, scientific, and technological successes, including orchestrating the turnaround of a Fortune 500 company.

Prior to serving as the CEO and chairman of Apple Computer and the president, CEO and chairman of National Semiconductor, he served as president of Rockwell Communication Systems, a unit of Rockwell International.

Amelio is an IEEE Fellow and has been awarded 16 patents. He has received numerous awards, including the Albert Einstein Award for lifetime achievement in the technology industry, the FIU Entrepreneur of the Year Award, the Masara Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award, and was named “Silicon Valley CEO of the Year” in 1993.

“Gil is a true legend in the technology industry and I am honored to have access to his experience and expertise,” said InteliCloud CEO Ken Hubbard. “When we started InteliCloud, we felt we were on to something new and important, and Gil’s support validates our early thinking about the significance of what we were trying to accomplish.”

About InteliCloud
Founded in 2007, InteliCloud Technology is a developer and manufacturer of next-generation Internet network equipment. The company’s cutting-edge network solutions provide a next-generation Internet network solution that supplies the infrastructure, speed and bandwidth customers are demanding from their Internet service, telecommunications, cable, satellite, online gaming, wireless and entertainment providers. These solutions deliver a dramatic leap in technology advancement, reducing integration and operating costs by more than 60 percent. InteliCloud’s engineering team created this disruptive technology by combining voice, video and data functionality into one single server chassis, utilizing six distinct spheres of Intellectual Property (IP) and several patentable technologies in the areas of energy savings, management systems and chassis design for increased throughput. More information is available at http://www.intelicloud.com.

Difficult Dilbert Conversations over Data Center Convergence

Friday, September 11th, 2009

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After the popular comic strip “Dilbert” recently poked fun at data center convergence, IT Business Edge blogger Mike Vizard delved into what this current trend really means for the data center landscape, examining the offerings of the many companies claiming to offer true next-generation data centers. Among the competitors discussed, Vizard lauded the InteliCloud 360 as one of the leading examples of “a new class of integrated servers that leverage virtualization to combine processor, networking and storage technologies into a common platform.”

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Defining ‘unified computing systems’

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

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In seeking to nail down what constitutes a unified computing system, how it varies from prior IT architectures and who is best suited to benefit from the innovation, Mark Fontecchio of SearchDataCenter.com turned to InteliCloud and its client Vircas for their takes on this hot industry trend. Vircas CEO Vincent Hirth said the InteliCloud 360 “allows us to stream better. The better management you have, the faster you can deliver the video. You don’t struggle with load balancing.”

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Alternatives to Cisco’s Unified Computing System: HP BladeSystem Matrix and InteliCloud 360

Monday, July 13th, 2009

The Cisco Unified Computing System is not the only unified integrated computing, network and storage option, Marc Staimer notes in this SearchStorage piece. His in-depth review of the InteliCloud 360 notes that the next-generation data center “has considerably more innovation than Cisco’s Unified Computing System and more flexibility than the HP BladeSystem Matrix. The innovation comes from clever packaging, hardware and software.”

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Inside Cisco Systems’ Unified Computing System

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Marc Staimer discusses InteliCloud as an alternative to the Cisco Unified Computing System, or UCS, noting the InteliCloud 360’s “innovative chassis design, a proactive approach to cooling and flexible server blades.” Staimer also notes that InteliCloud is the only competitor also offering optional CNAs at this time.”

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Global Next Generation Network (NGN) Equipment Market 2008-2012

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

InteliCloud is listed as a major industry development in the recent TechNavio Insights report on the state of the next-generation network (NGN) equipment market. The report forecasts the size of the market during 2008-2012, segmenting the market by technology and geography. Also discussed are the key market trends, drivers and challenges of the NGN equipment market.”

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Novel Server Architecture Boosts Network Agility

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

“The InteliCloud 360 is billed as a new approach to network infrastructure that dramatically simplifies the operation, scalability and overall agility of a network,” according to the staff of What’s New In Mobile. They note its benefits for Internet service providers (ISPs) as including a more than 60% reduction in power and space requirements, as well as a three-fold increase in the number of customers served per square foot compared with leading blade and rack-mount servers.

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What’s Hot Now

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

In his “Masked Intentions” blog, Mike Vizard praised InteliCloud as being one of two energy-savvy companies that are “driving visions for the next generation of data centers.”

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