In the News

	Fujitsu, ServiceMesh Expand Cloud Offerings 27-January-2012 “Other cloud-enablement vendors may want to take note of what ServiceMesh is trying to achieve with its partnership with Fujitsu.” Read more.
	Cloud Platform ServiceMesh Gives Customers Access to Fujitsu Global Cloud 26-January-2012 “Cloud platform provider ServiceMesh announced that it now supports Fujitsu‘s Global Cloud Platform so customers can gain access to Fujitsu’s global cloud computing footprint.” Read more.
	Appreciating the Complexities of Cloud Computing 18-January-2012 “Too many IT organizations are rushing to embrace cloud computing without putting much thought into governance. As IT organizations move from cloud computing theory to practice they need to think through as many policy issues as possible beforehand.” Read more.
	ServiceMesh: Don’t Let Next Year PaaS You By – Enterprise Cloud Trends for 2012 8-December-2011 “Derick Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, discusses five enterprise cloud trends that will deliver broad enterprise business value in 2012″ Read more.
	Cloud Expo Takeaways: Cloud Policy and Governance is the Missing Link 22-November-2011 “Enterprises are rapidly coming to the conclusion that without a strong policy and governance solution, self-service IT either can’t happen or will be so restrictive as to be useless.” Read more.
	ServiceMesh: Making the Cloud Ready for the Big-Time 17-November-2011 “ServiceMesh’s technology is called the Agility Platform. Essentially, it helps IT departments handle things like security, governance, auditing, identity management and policy controls.” Read more.
	ServiceMesh Delivers Advanced SLA Management for Dynamic Enterprise Clouds 26-October-2011 “New Agility Platform 7.3 provides advanced cloud governance and management for business critical workloads.” Read more.
	ServiceMesh creates “everything as a service” environments 26-October-2011 “ServiceMesh hopes to change the way Enterprise IT acquires and delivers services to become demand-driven, governed, automated, transparent, and financially geared to maximize the benefit of variable cost infrastructure.” Read more.
	Managing Apps in the Hybrid Cloud 25-October-2011 “ServiceMesh is a self-funded startup that has a monitoring platform for measuring and monitoring a hybrid infrastructure.” Read more.
	Diversity Limited 25-October-2011 “Today, ServiceMesh is announcing the release of the latest version of its cloud governance and management offering, dubbed Agility Platform 7.3. “ Read more.
	Dynamic Cloud Security: Test Driving the Benefits 20-October-2011 “Many organizations are surprised to learn that adopting cloud operating models with appropriate governance and security controls can actually reduce the level of risk relative to their current IT environments” Read more.
	Overcoming the Internal Politics of Cloud Computing Adoption 4-October-2011 “One of the things that IT organizations don’t take into account when pondering the move to cloud computing is how cultural factors within their own organization will impact the speed at which they can adopt this new style of enterprise computing” Read more.
	ServiceMesh to Deliver Policy-Driven Cloud Computing Security 4-October-2011 “The addition of Juniper’s vGW product expands the Agility Platform’s industry-leading ecosystem of security vendors and products.” Read more.
	OpenStack Update Spurs Commercial Versions 27-September-2011 “ServiceMesh, a cloud unification and governance platform company, announced in late September that it had begun to support its platform on OpenStack.” Read more.
	Lack of Cloud Governance: A Potentially Fatal Flaw in Enterprise Cloud Adoption 20-September-2011 “Many enterprises realize that successful cloud implementations require the adoption of new IT capabilities, such as automated workload management, self-service provisioning, and cloud security.” Read more.
	ServiceMesh the Latest to Support OpenStack 14-September-2011 “ServiceMesh has extended its Agility platform to support OpenStack, the open-source cloud OS initiative first kicked off by Rackspace and NASA, along with several others.” Read more.
	For Your To-Do List: Extending Governance to the Cloud 3-August-2011 “With software as a service, IT might finally have a chance to match governance with adoption.” Read more.
	Time to think about cloud governance 2-August-2011 “Lack of a proper governance strategy when adopting cloud applications and platforms is leading to poor data consistency and inadequate policy management and oversight.” Read more.
	ServiceMesh’s Agility Platform Brings Enterprise Cloud Management to the Next Level 25-July-2011 “Unlike other offerings available today, the ServiceMesh Agility Platform provides a holistic solution that addresses broad aspects of an organization’s IT operating model to achieve strategic benefits.” Read more.
	Focus on Architecture First Before Moving to the Cloud 12-July-2011 “The point of enterprise architecture is to look beyond the silos and create a blueprint for the business’ big-picture strategy.” Read more.
	7 Self-Inflicted Wounds Of Cloud Computing 6-July-2011 “ServiceMesh assembled a comprehensive list of the common holes in companies’ approach to cloud computing and presented them at Cloud Expo in New York City.” Read more.
	The Seven Most Common Self-inflicted Wounds in the Cloud 29-June-2011 “The folks at ServiceMesh have come up with a list of the seven most common mistakes that many IT organizations make when first moving to embrace cloud computing.” Read more.
	Does Your IT Disaster Recovery Plan Miss the Mark? 21-June-2011 “When it comes to disaster recovery, many IT groups have a formal, written plan, but many of these plans miss critical issues.” Read more.
	Enterprise IT Risk Mitigation – Is Cloud ‘Friend or Foe’ 3-June-2011 “Today there is a range of proven technologies that can deliver consistent, automated security for portable cloud workloads.” Read more.
	Cloud Scar Tissue’ on Display at Cloud Expo 3-June-2011 “Learn about Enterprise Cloud pioneers and the business results they were able to achieve.” Read more.
	How to: Consolidate Data Centers 3-June-2011 “Getting your data center ducks in a row before you set forth the physical consolidation is critical to ensuring the overall success of the project.” Read more.
	Big Banks Want Tailored Cloud Services 25-May-2011 “Enterprises are willing to pay for value. The key to knowing value is understanding what is important to a specific business customer.” Read more.
	Clouds Need More Than SLAs 10-May-2011 “Mark Thiele of ServiceMesh talks about why service-level agreements aren’t enough to cover all the bases and why Amazon’s cloud doesn’t fit all.” Read more.
	Highlights from CloudSlam 2011 28-April-2011 “The most innovative demonstrations and interesting presentations from a variety of cloud players (including ServiceMesh).” Read more.
	Cloud Control March-2011 “The cloud can make the jobs of IT employees easier, but it requires a unique approach to in-house IT operations to ensure its benefits are delivered as intended.”Read more.
	Engineering Labs: An Efficiency Opportunity 28-February-2011 “People have woken up and seen the lab as a strategic part of the company.”Read more.
	Commissioning A Data Center 11-February-2011 “It is important to understand how the commissioning process will be performed and the specific design aspects that will be tested.”Read more.
	TM Forum delivers Enterprise-Grade External Compute IaaS Requirements 26-January-2011 “TM Forum’s ECLC brings together enterprise cloud consumers to define the requirements that will drive the implementation of best practices and standards for cloud services.” Read more.
	The Next Big Wave is Cloud 5-December-2010 “Companies like ServiceMesh are building state-of-the-art solutions utilizing multiple cloud offerings.” Read more.
	Changing the Psychology of IT in the Era of the Cloud 5-August-2010 “Cloud computing allows an IT organization to think like a general contractor of IT services. That can be both scary and liberating.” Read more.
	The Next Big Shift: Harnessing Services-Based IT 3-August-2010 “The CEO, CFO and CIO must work together to drive greater efficiencies by consuming everything as service.” Read more.
	Breaking the Sales Model in the Cloud 28-July-2010 “Wall Street firms are looking to cloud computing to reduce data center and infrastructure spending, freeing resources for more innovative pursuits.” Read more.
	The Challenge of Cloud Security 12-July-2010 “Rethinking identity management often is the starting point for enterprises assessing cloud security.” Read more.
	Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Moving from Tactical to Strategic IT 11-July-2010 “The CEO, CFO and CIO now work together to develop a transformation program. This includes the role IT plays to distinguish the organization and make it competitive.” Read more.
	Network Automation Update: From FIRE to Forrester 20-May-2010 “Increasingly complex networks managed by scripts, configurations and spreadsheets will not keep up with servers and desktops created by mouse clicks.” Read more.
	This Week in Cloud Computing #14 19-May-2010 This podcast features ServiceMesh’s Mark Thiele.
	An Enterprise Cloud Migration Factory 03-Apr-2010 “What is afoot is nothing less than a complete economic business model, and cultural shift in service delivery innovation.” Read more.
	Enabling Cloud Computing for Enterprises, ServiceMesh’s Way 31-Mar-2010 “ServiceMesh makes it easy for enterprises to use the right service provider for each application, subject to the specific SLA, security, and accountability requirements.” Read more.
	Cloud Buyers Unite 24-Mar-2010 “The Enterprise Cloud Buyers Council is dedicated to representing the interests of corporate entities using cloud computing services.” Read more.
	Network Crunch Could Stymie Cloud Computing 09-Dec-2009 “Having enterprise input up front will grease the skids for the creation of cloud-computing offerings that can earn enterprise confidence.” Read more.
	A Tale of Two Clouds 11-May-2009 “A user can bring up a cloud-based server in 2-3 minutes, while a large enterprise may take 6-7 weeks. More importantly, the cloud-based server can be released in a single minute, but an enterprise may never release it.” Read more.

Customers in the News

	Australia’s IT industry giants lay their cloud cards on the table 15-December-2010 “IT has to be managed for value – we have to get out of infrastructure and deliver on value. The opportunity for cloud computing is that you free up infrastructure costs.” Read more.
	Inside CBA’s Database-as-a-Service initiative 30-September-2010 “Most business users found that the pay-as-you-go model saved money as their business unit didn’t have to pay for resources during low utilisation periods. It also alerted business managers to areas of IT waste.” Read more.
	Wall Street not bullish on cloud computing 27-September-2010 “Deutsche Bank AG has been using a hybrid private-public cloud computing infrastructure for testing and development for 18 months or so.” Read more.
	Wall Street eyes cloud computing cautiously 21-September-2010 “When Deutsche Bank first began implementing cloud computing technology, deployment was expected to be the most difficult task for IT workers. Instead, deployment was the easiest part of the project.” Read more.
	Commonweath Bank CIO talks cloud computing 21-July-2010 “We are making a shift away from spending half of our budget on maintaining lights-on infrastructure, and instead get more of that money into creating really high value, highly responsive services.” Read more.
	Pfizer Adds New Type of Tablet to Sales Calls 15-Dec-2009 Pfizer is rolling out portable PC systems designed to ensure salespeople comply with regulations. Read more.