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It's easy being green

When it comes to running WordPress in the cloud, it's easy being green - thanks to GreenQloud powered by Standing Cloud.

GreenQloud is the world's first Truly Green™ public cloud; Standing Cloud is the leading cloud application marketplace and management solution. Together GreenQloud powered by Standing Cloud makes it easy to run applications and web sites on GreenQloud's clean, green cloud.

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1 on 1 with Standing Cloud CEO Dave Jilk

Standing Cloud CEO Dave Jilk recently sat down for a quick Q&A with the up-and-coming industry news site Daily Host News, and he had some interesting thoughts on vision, hard work and IT singularity, among things. We've pulled some highlights below; you can read the entire interview over at Daily Host News.

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What hosted apps and Homer Simpson have in common

(This guest post comes to us courtesy of Dan Ushman and our friends at SingleHop, one of the industry's leading cloud and hosting providers, and our newest partner. You can read the orignal post here.)

Anyone who has been anywhere near a television over the past 20 years has probably at one time or another seen the hapless cartoon character Homer Simpson: “D’oh!”

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SingleHop Debuts Hosted Cloud Apps Marketplace

Big props (or should I say "hops") to our newest partner, SingleHop, who today finally took the wraps off of their new Hosted Cloud Apps offering.

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(This Guest Post comes to us courtesy of Luke Dieker of our partner ownCloud. Together, Standing Cloud and ownCloud recently launched Hosted ownCloud for Teams.

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Like an automobile, a web application needs occasional maintenance and management over its life cycle. Although it doesn't need oil changes, it will probably need version upgrades. There may not be manufacturer recalls, but sometimes servers fail or hang. An application doesn't need to be washed and detailed, but it does need to be backed up. And both cars and applications need occasional performance tuning.

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(This post comes to us courtesy of industry analyst Phil Shih, principal of Structure Research, a leading independent research and consulting firm with a specific focus on the hosting and cloud segments within the Internet infrastructure market.

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We're only a few weeks into 2013, and already things have been fast and furious at Standing Cloud. ICYMI, we've had a flurry of activity and announcements with an exciting group of new ISV partners. While each implementation is different, and customized to meet the needs of our partners, what they all share is the choice, flexibility and easy point-and-click deployment and management enabled by the Standing Cloud platform, delivering software, hosting, provisioning, deployment and management to their customers at a simple monthly bundled price.

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We're excited about this week's launch of Liferay powered by Standing Cloud, making one-click hosting, test-drives and deployment of Liferay Portal instantly available on more than 15 public clouds through Standing Cloud.

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(This Guest Post comes to us courtesy of our friends Sean Schroeder and Malcolm O'Keefe at Blue River Interactive, developers the popular open-source CFML content management system Mura CMS.)

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