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Tier1 Reserach - May 8, 2012: Analysts Jason Verge and Daniel Beazer of Tier1 Research/451 Group, took an in-depth look at Standing Cloud's recently launched Application Marketplace for IaaS providers. In a proprietary research brief, they noted that the marketplace "borrows the best of both SaaS and image library worlds; makes it easy to deploy and manage like SaaS, while giving the flexibility of managing application images without the complications of configuring and deploying via the do-it-yourself route." READ MORE

OSTATIC - May 2, 2012: Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced that it was diving into the software rental business in the cloud. Now, Standing Cloud, which specializes the deployment and management of cloud applications, has launched the Standing Cloud Marketplace, which gives cloud providers a way to instantly offer more than 100 pre-configured applications with automated deployment and lifecycle management features. It's a turnkey way for cloud providers to get in the application game. READ MORE

Structure Research - April 23, 2012 : Standing Cloud's recent support for OpenStack is all about maintaining an agnostic approach and supporting as many cloud platforms as possible in order to extend its reach. Supporting OpenStack is a logical choice given that it powers a growing numbers of clouds, such as those from HP, Internap and Rackspace. That number will continue to grow and Standing Cloud is working with providers that are set to roll out OpenStack-based clouds.

Network World - April 20, 2012: Standing Cloud CEO Dave Jilk clears up the confusion around competing cloud orchestration layer standards in this wide-ranging conversation with respected industry pundit Alan Shimmel in his Network World blog and podcast Open Source Fact and Fiction. Click here to listen to the full 16-minute interview.

Admin Network and Security - Feb 29, 2012: The march of infrastructure and provisioning toward the user is exactly where Standing Cloud is taking us. Instead of the tedious provision of instances via the IT department or through the person who owns the AWS account, the end user with almost no technical knowledge can fire up an instance and get to work within minutes.

Structure Research - Jan 30, 2012: PEER1’s new cloud division Zunicore partnered with Standing Cloud to help make it easier to adopt cloud infrastructure and deploy commonly used applications. In this report, analyst Phil Shih notes that PEER1's target for Zunicore is “professional cloud users” -- tech-savvy users who put a high value on user-friendly tools that enable them to focus on core business functions. Standing Cloud is designed to facilitate exactly that, and the ease of use and simplicity is the value that PEER1 is trying to tap into.

Denver Post - Jan 18th, 2012: Standing Cloud is one of a number leading technology companies in Colorado and around the nation that have come together to oppose pending legislation in the House and Senate that threatens Internet innovation. Commenting on SOPA and PIPA, Standing Cloud CEO Dave Jilk noted "these bills are hundreds if not thousands of pages. It has only become clear recently in terms of the awareness of what's in it," adding "It was presented as this common-sense and innocuous thing, but if you read about what it does ... it's scary."

TalkinCloud - Nov 11th, 2011: Standing Cloud has announced the close of a $3 million round of funding. The way Standing Cloud works is simple: The service provider deploys it on its public cloud, and instantly gets the ability to offer a catalogue of 100 open source and commercial apps, pre-configured and ready to run.

Denver Post - Nov 10th, 2011: Boulder-based Standing Cloud, one of a growing number of Colorado startups specializing in cloud computing, has raised $3 million in new financing, bringing its total funding to $8 million.

Venture Beat - Nov 10th, 2011: Standing Cloud has added Will Herman to its board of directors...Herman said in a statement. “Cloud service providers know that they need to offer an application layer for their customers, but have no effective way to build or maintain it. Standing Cloud delivers a solution to that problem today.”

Gigaom - Nov 10th, 2011: Boulder, CO-based Standing Cloud was able to raise another $3 million, it announced on Thursday...Standing Cloud isn’t so much about automation and scalability as it is about choice...it’s very functional and probably very approachable for a large number of small businesses.

Cloud Report - Sept 27th, 2011 : Cloud infrastructure software vendor Nimbula has released an upgrade of its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform...Nimbula also announced it has expanded its partner ecosystem with the addition of Atalanta Systems, Electric Cloud and Standing Cloud to its roster.

Channel Insider - Sept 9th, 2011: Silicon Valley cloud firm Nimbula updated its Infrastructure as a Service Platform (IaaS) platform today and....has been working on a number of key partnerships to extend support for more use cases. New partnerships with Atlanta Systems, Electric Cloud and Standing Cloud...offer a more robust platform for developers to build and deploy applications.

Cloudshoring IT - Sept 2nd, 2011: "This is an interesting event in the emerging European Cloud computing landscape and I believe it offers interesting possibilities for European ISVs, SMEs and MSPs. ... ISVs including web2.0 and eBusiness startups across Europe are looking for ways to enable their on-premise software on a SaaS model or develop a new stack on a SaaS model to extend their market reach and business. CloudSigma IaaS Stack and Standing Cloud’s PaaS stack offers a potent combination to realize such initiatives."

Boulder County Business Report - Sept 2nd, 2011: "Standing Cloud is developing what it describes as the only "platform-as-a-service" that allows cloud users to work with or develop applications on a variety of cloud services using several different programming languages."

TMCnet - Aug 30th, 2011: "Offering a vastly simplified method of deploying and managing cloud-hosted applications to cloud users around the globe, Standing Cloud has partnered with CloudSigma, a provider of cloud servers and infrastructure. ... For 'informal buyers' who have struggled to make the cloud accessible and easy, Standing Cloud powered by CloudSigma removes the mystery of the cloud."

CloudPlumbing - Aug 8th, 2011: In this podcast, host Ryan Parsley tries Standing Cloud's test-drive function and says, "I had a Drupal instance up in three minutes." Dave Jilk adds, "It's interesting how many problems that solves with infrastructure as a service. The most problematic time is when you spin up a new server. ... By buffering essentially the servers we deploy, we make them much more likely to succeed and it's a lot faster." Listen Here.

TalkinCloud - June 16th, 2011: "Standing Cloud powered by OpSource is likely a response to Forrester Research’s prediction that “informal buyers,” — application developers and service providers — will drive cloud development. These informal buyers are looking for integrated, full stack solutions, and that’s exactly what OpSource and Standing Cloud are delivering with Standing Cloud powered by OpSource."

Network Computing - June 15th, 2011: "Responding to the demand for business cloud services and Web enablement of applications, Nexaweb has launched a new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that is designed to help businesses move legacy applications into the cloud while still providing the familiarity of client/server-type solutions... David J. Jilk, CEO at Standing Cloud, a Nexaweb partner, says, 'Standing Cloud is excited to be providing the cloud and platform layer for Nexaweb's groundbreaking application modernization capabilities.'"

The 451 Group - June 14th, 2011: "Standing Cloud's support for multiple languages, frameworks and, particularly, many IaaS options make it an attractive option to PaaS users of all sizes."

Ben Kepes blog - June 13th, 2011: "At the moment with IaaS being quite immature in terms of the amount of heavy lifting it does for its users, a third party that offers a managed platform is an attractive proposition."

SD Times - June 8th, 2011: "Software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service are not distinct pieces, but rather a continuum that can be viewed as the cloud application layer, according to Dave Jilk, CEO of PaaS provider Standing Cloud."

Daily Camera - May 30th, 2011: "What is 'the cloud?' 'The cloud' refers to the idea that the Internet is not just a communication medium; it also is a way that computing and storage can be performed remotely rather than locally. It's powerful because it means your work is not tied to a particular computing device, and companies are not tied to a particular physical data center."

Boulder County Business Report - May 13th, 2011 : "Despite the buzz, the emergence of cloud computing does not feel like a fad. 'This does not feel like a trend that is going to go away. It adds too much value,' Jilk said."

TechRockies - May 3rd, 2011: "For end users and developers, Standing Cloud is a solution that makes it easier to use infrastructure-as-a-service providers.'"

Datamation - April 26th, 2011: "Here, we have highlighted 15 promising cloud computing vendors that are carving out a niche for themselves in this emerging arena... Standing Cloud offers enterprises a simple proposition: 'We do the sys admin so you don't have to. Sure, you could handle Web application management. But why?'"

FeldThoughts - April 25th, 2011 : "Amazon is not infallible, and the cloud is not magic," writes CEO Dave Jilk in this guest post, adding that "cloud portability is one of the things Standing Cloud enables for the applications it manages. If you build/deploy/manage an application using our system, it will be able to run on many different cloud providers, and you can move it easily and quickly."

Ostatic - April 20th, 2011: "Standing Cloud increases developer productivity, because for many developers, doing system administration is unpleasant, time-consuming, and error prone. We automate system administration and turn devops into something developers can do with a few clicks, instead of using Google to figure out Linux command options and then hoping for the best."

Forrester blog (James Staten) - Jan 24th, 2011: "Both are welcome improvements to the IaaS cloud computing market and achieve this stated goal of making IaaS more widely appealing."

Techworld - Jan 21st, 2011: "Online application management company, Standing Cloud is set to work with UK hosting company Tagadab, to offer British users more options when it comes to deploying cloud-hosted applications."

Boulder County Business Report - Jan 21st, 2011: "Fourteen companies in Boulder and Broomfield counties received $72.2 million in venture capital during the fourth quarter of 2010... Standing Cloud Inc. in Boulder got $3 million."

CRN - Jan 7th, 2011: "The recent cash infusions for Skytap, Symplified and Cloudpic follow a booming December where companies like Standing Cloud, an SMB service to install and use open-source cloud applications, and Factual, a cloud data-aggregation player, raked in $3 million in funding and $25 million in funding, respectively."

Network World - Jan 5th, 2011: "One of our taglines is 'Hosting, Reimagined.' We thought about the idea of shared hosting and how it works and what we could add value to the people who have traditionally used shared hosting by using the cloud as our base technology. We found there's a lot of ways we could do that and what's exciting about it is that it serves the same role that hosting has, but it's a new way to do it that provides benefits to the users."

TMCnet - Dec 20th, 2010 : "The demand for Standing Cloud appears to be substantial given the fact that deploying apps on most cloud providers continues to be extremely complicated. ... [T]he Standing Cloud Partner Program ... provides free hosting for one stance of a single application for one year. The program also provides volume pricing and a listing of services in the Standing Cloud Application Network."

AOL DailyFinance - Dec 3rd, 2010: "The company earlier this week announced a new $3 million Series B funding round led by Avalon Ventures, which joined with earlier investors Foundry Group to bring the company's total VC haul to $5 million. Standing Cloud's model is likely a harbinger of the direction in which cloud computing will evolve over the next few years, with a focus on making this relatively new computing development more accessible, more affordable and easier to manage."

Boulder County Business Report - Dec 1st, 2010: "The Boulder-based company will use the money to continue to develop and market its "cloud" platform software, including its new Standing Cloud Application Network, according to a press statement. Boulder-based venture firm Foundry Group also invested in the latest financing round."

Denver Business Journal - Dec 1st, 2010: "Standing Cloud will use the money to develop and market its technology, which helps software makers host and manage "cloud"-based software applications."

Daily Camera (Boulder) - Dec 1st, 2010: "The 13-employee Standing Cloud plans to use the money to further development and marketing efforts of its application management technology and its soon-to-be-launched Standing Cloud Application Network."

Vator.tv - Dec 1st, 2010: "Cloud application management platform Standing Cloud announced Wednesday that it has closed a $3 million Series B round of funding led by Avalon Ventures with participation from previous backer Foundry Group."

TechCrunch - Nov 30th, 2010: "Now Standing Cloud is back with a new, much more attractive logo that should appease all you font critics, and it has some big news in tow: it just closed a $3 million Series B funding round led by Avalon Ventures, with participation from existing investor Foundry Group. This brings Standing Cloud's total funding to $5 million since it was founded in 2009."

Inc.com - Nov 9th, 2010: "Jilk says that getting employees to think more closely about a matter that they normally wouldn't develop can really motivate them. It not only nourishes innovative thought processes, but gives them hope that their projects will bring value to the company in the future."

The Cloud Computing Show - Nov 3rd, 2010: "One of the things we're trying to do is make all this stuff consistent. We're not trying to produce standards, but we are trying to make it so that things can move around for the users and that's really what the users want — to be able to not be stuck and to have some control over what's going on if they need it."

Portfolio.com - Oct 20th, 2010: "Veteran technologist Dave Jilk has created Standing Cloud, with an eye toward becoming the ConEd of small business cloud computing. ... 'We make it easy to scale the number of users of an application, and to deploy the add-ons that have been created for many applications such as WordPress. And if one cloud of servers goes down, we can move all your applications to another cloud within one minute.'"

IT World - Oct 4th, 2010: "Says Standing Cloud CEO David J. Jilk, 'Ultimately, developing in the cloud may require "devops," either including sysadmins in the development process to design the infrastructure, or for developers to learn these system deployment and management skills.'"

IT World - Oct 4th, 2010: "Explains Standing Cloud CEO David J. Jilk, 'Developing applications in the cloud is a little like visiting Canada from America. Most everything is the same, but there are small differences that you notice and need to accommodate.'"

Sramana Mitra on Strategy - Sept 29th, 2010: "Initially, the company intended to offer both development and deployment tools in an integrated platform, but within a few months it became clear that the deployment and management components were both a bigger opportunity and easier to address."

This Week in Cloud Computing: An interview with CEO Dave Jilk. "What we're trying to make possible is for end users to do a lot of this stuff quickly and simply without having to worry about the back-end."

ShortForm Blog - Aug 9th, 2010: "For some reason, we held out on upgrading the hosting. Actually, we know the reason. It's because dry wit and big numbers are skills that don't translate to typing dry, obscure commands in an SSH terminal ...we got the site up thanks to Standing Cloud's killer service. Who knew we could do it?"

w3w3 - July 19th, 2010: A podcast with CEO David J. Jilk. "We’re creating a stable platform for applications even though the technology is changing quickly. So for Standing Cloud the idea is you wouldn't need to continue using that server and next time it gets out of date, you don't need to buy one!"

TechCrunch - July 8th, 2010: "Generally speaking, installing an open-sourced application to your server involves some fairly advanced configuration [...] Standing Cloud offers a solution to this problem."