iWeb recently announced that Executive Vice-President of Resources, Marc Guindon‘s role within the organization will move from an operational one to a more strategic involvement, notably as a member of the board of directors, as well as coaching the other members of management.

“Marc has played a very important role in iWeb’s maturing process, since the IPO in 2004” says Eric Chouinard, CEO and cofounder of the company that now hosts 12,500 dedicated servers in its Montreal Data centers. “This is a great example of successful knowledge transfer and mentoring.”

Mr. Guindon, who previously served as Chief Financial Officer, will remain active on iWeb’s board of directors, where he has been serving since March of 2009, in addition to being a member of the Audit Committee. He will also be involved as a consultant for various special projects, including eventual acquisition plans.

“It would be very hard to find a better coach” said Philip Tousignant, who became iWeb’s Chief Financial Officer in 2008. “We are very pleased to be able to count on Marc’s expertise on our board of directors.”

Regarding his career transition, Mr. Guindon said: “Being involved with a company that plays such a pivotal role in Quebec’s IT development has been an extraordinary experience. iWeb is in very good hands at this point, for the benefit of our customers and shareholders. All the better if I have contributed to its success.” he concludes, with his typical straightforwardness.

Marc Guindon was a member of the Order of Chartered Accountants of Québec and Ontario. He joined iWeb in 2004 as Chief Financial Officer, shortly before the company’s initial public offering (IPO), to eventually become Executive Vice-President, Resources, in October 2008. Having spent the early stages of his career at Ernst &Young, Mr. Guindon then joined the SNC Group as Vice-President of Finance, later filling the same position with Treco, a division of the Canam-Manac Group. Following the creation of two groups of industrial companies, he sold his interests and retired (for the first time) in 1996, before joining iWeb.

As of June 1st 2010, iWeb’s senior management will consist of:
• Eric Chouinard, President, CEO and cofounder
• Martin Leclair, President, Products and Technology, cofounder
• Philip Tousignant, Chief Financial Officer
• Cyril Mertès, Chief Technology Officer

ReliaCloud, a national cloud computing infrastructure company, has launched a full channel program centered on their enterprise-class infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing offering.

The five year growth outlook for IT cloud services revenue from 2009 to 2013 remains strong, with an annual growth rate of 26% – over six times the rate of traditional IT offerings (IDC, September 2009).

Enterprise and small business IT spending is moving more and more to the cloud due to its easier set up, scalability, flexibility, built-in maintenance and support, and reduced costs for hardware and software maintenance.

ReliaCloud will make the reseller process as easy as possible, by providing a suite of tools that supports their resale process. ReliaCloud has developed a series of programs that maximize the use of their Cloud Storage and Cloud Servers for each of their customer profiles.

Value Added Resellers (VARs) have the ability to bundle ReliaCloud with their existing technical offerings to deliver a combined solution. ReliaCloud partners receive best in class sales and marketing support including marketing collateral, video tutorials and cooperative marketing funds.

While there are similar programs in the market today, the major point of differentiation for ReliaCloud is the customer service aspect. Many partners have suggested that some of the more well know cloud providers don’t demonstrate that they understand the support needs of SMB partners. ReliaCloud gives each partner direct access to an assigned channel manager.

“We are excited to launch a program that allows managed service providers the opportunity to expand their business by offering cloud services,” says Brian Stevenson, Vice President of Sales for ReliaCloud. “We expect IT consulting firms and managed service providers to be the driving force of cloud adoption.”
ReliaCloud has 15 years of experience in the data center and hosting business, with an established and diversified client base. Its cloud services are production-ready, with low-cost bandwidth and high-level data security.

Hosting.com has recently launched Cloud Private, adding to its Cloud Hosting portfolio. Cloud Private is a single-tenant, VMware-enabled compute infrastructure that includes licensing, monitoring and management of cloud servers in one or more Hosting.com Cloud Super Sites.

Cloud Private provides customers the highest levels of cloud server security and compliancy with fully managed, flexible, dedicated hardware. Regulatory and compliance demands for single-tenant environments for HIPAA, PCI, SOX and more are addressed with a Cloud Private solution.

Cloud Private customers are ensured their privacy is protected while gaining access to the features inherent to a cloud solution – including self-service management and provisioning via a secure web portal, intelligent load management, automated failover functionality, and the ability to connect to Hosting.com’s public cloud solutions for additional and instant compute resources.

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Hybrid Hosting provides businesses of all sizes with technology and cost benefits formerly reserved for large enterprises with their own datacenters. Hosting.com customers can connect their Cloud Private solution to their internal infrastructure or to Hosting.com’s public clouds to flex their infrastructure during a new project, seasonal spike, or for multi-site disaster recovery.

Craig McLellan, Hosting.com Chief Technology Officer, added, “Our engineering teams work vigorously to deliver multiple cloud hosting solutions to the marketplace for one reason – customer demand. Cloud Private is the fourth addition to our Cloud Portfolio and it is the most significant because it meets existing customer demands such as – datacenter redundancy in multiple Cloud Super Sites, on-demand resource availability in a private, managed cloud, and federation of internal clouds.”

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