Cloud Home Energy Service Revenues to Increase 30 Times in Five Years

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) March 12, 2012

The strategy of moving home energy intelligence into the cloud is disrupting the Smart Home market and expanding opportunities for the Home Area Network, according to global technology research firm ON World.

IP based home automation services, a large web-centric developer community and accelerating Smart Grid initiatives are driving adoption for home energy management solutions. By the end of 2012, there will be over a million managed Smart Home systems installed in North America. For some service providers, 40 percent of customers are choosing energy management as part of their Smart Home service bundles.

Widespread home networks and the ubiquity of smart mobile devices are key drivers for home energy management services, says Mareca Hatler, ON Worlds research director. Smart home service providers are adding real-time energy monitoring and cloud-based energy services that consumers are increasingly likely to access and control using their smartphones and tablets.

Compared with ON Worlds last survey of early technology adopters in September 2010, almost two times as many of the respondents to the current survey, completed in January 2012, indicate that they would prefer to use their tablet or smartphone as their energy display or interface.

Another growing trend is the development of set-and-forget solutions that provide effortless energy savings. Over 70% of the recent survey respondents indicate that automated systems that require minimal time/effort are an important consideration for home energy management products and services.

In 2016, global home energy management (HEM) revenues will be $ 4.3 billion and cloud service revenues will increase 30 times from 2011. Home service providers and retail channels will make up 57% of the cloud-based energy services at this time.

Based on 900 phone interviews and surveys with consumers, utilities, home service providers and developers, ON Worlds recently published set of reports includes the following:

Smart Home Energy Systems and Cloud Services A market dynamics study of HEM products, services and go-to-market strategies that includes 5 year global forecasts by geography, distribution channel, system, product type, equipment, services and technology.

Home Energy Management: Early Adopter Views & Preferences– An in-depth survey on current usage trends, drivers and consumers’ preferences for HEM products and services.

Home Energy Management Ecosystem– An analysis of the HEM competitive landscape, value chain, business models, innovations and market opportunity.

More information and a free executive summary is available from: http://www.onworld.com/smartenergyhomes

About ON World:

ON World Inc. provides world class business intelligence on smart technology markets. Our market research and information services are sold to Fortune 1000 companies, service providers, venture capitalists, and startups worldwide. Website: http://www.onworld.com.

Contact:

Mary E. Purvis

p: 858-259-2397

e: purvis(at)onworld(dot)com

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C4L Named as One of Britain"s Fastest-Growing Technology Firms in the 2011 Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100

(PRWEB) September 20, 2011

C4L, a UK-based internet infrastructure solutions provider, today announced that it has been listed in The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 for the first time. C4L has been ranked alongside companies such as price comparison website Gocompare, and music recognition services provider Shazam.

It is a great achievement to be one of just five companies from the South West listed in the Tech Track 100, commented Matt Hawkins, managing director and founder of C4L. Internet infrastructure is becoming increasingly important as more and more organisations become heavily reliant on online services and connectivity in order to run their business. With the adoption of cloud computing increasing and more and more applications and services being delivered away from organsiations own premises, weve seen a huge growth in our customer base over the past three years. We will, of course, continue to provide the support, flexibility and range of services organisations require to successfully run their businesses.

Now in its eleventh year, The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 ranks Britains 100 fastest-growing private technology companies according to their sales growth over a three-year period. In order to qualify companies need to be unquoted, independent and registered in Britain. The league table adopts the London Stock Exchanges techMARK definition of what constitutes a technology company.

C4L is a data centre, internet and connectivity services provider. As well as owning a high speed fibre network, C4L has a presence in over 40 data centres across the UK and Europe. C4L provides its customers with an all encompassing solution, offering huge cost savings, greater innovation and peace of mind, with a minimum SLA of 99.95%.

For more information on The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100, visit http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack2002/home/home.htm

About C4L

C4L is an internet infrastructure solutions provider and deploys a full range of services in over 40 data centres, including colocation, IP transit, interconnects, data backup, data storage, virtualisation, telecoms, disaster recovery and leased lines, to name just a few. These are all provided with C4Ls commitment to maximum uptime and customer support; featuring a 24/7 network operations centre (NOC) which is manned by trained professionals with Microsoft and Cisco qualifications.

C4Ls industry leading data centre connected network, includes sites such as Bournemouth, Slough, BlueSquare Maidenhead, BlueSquare Milton Keynes, Telehouse Metro, Telehouse North, City Lifeline and InterXion. The company is now in its 11th trading year and with a track record of 100% growth every year its client base includes Government, FTSE 250, financial institutions and many of the UK’s network carriers. The business is committed to customer satisfaction and quality of service and has achieved certifications such as ISO9001 & 27001.

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EarthCam Celebrates Its 16th Anniversary with the Premiere of Exciting New Webcam Locations in Times Square

New York (PRWEB) August 30, 2012

Today marks EarthCam’s 16th anniversary and the milestone is being commemorated by the launch of fresh, interactive live streaming webcam locations in Times Square, New York. View the exciting new cameras at http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/.

This world famous location is visited by millions of tourists each year, and EarthCam’s webcams at the Crossroads of the World continue to be some of the most popular cameras in their network. Broadcasting everything from the usual every day activity, which includes appearances by Elmo and The Naked Cowboy, to the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade and New Year’s Eve festivities, EarthCam’s Times Square cameras have been a consistent go-to for virtual travelers since they initially debuted 12 years ago.

In honor of their 16th anniversary, EarthCam is proud to announce several new exciting camera locations, which will continue to deliver the most amazing and unique views from the heart of New York City for the world to enjoy. One of the new locations, at 44th Street and Broadway, will feature panoramic views from EarthCam’s revolutionary GigapixelCam system. The new GigapixelCam is the world’s first outdoor automated gigapixel camera and is capable of producing panoramas over one billion pixels. These impressive panoramas bring larger than life views of Times Square in a way never seen before.

In addition to 47th and Broadway, a new StreamCam HD camera system with audio will be located at 51st and Broadway, delivering the always popular street-level perspective. The street-level webcam previously located at 46th Street became an instant fan favorite since it first appeared on the scene over 10 years ago, always drawing a crowd of people visiting from around the world eager to wave home to family and friends. EarthCam knows visitors will enjoy the live streaming views from this new camera just as much.

EarthCam isn’t stopping here though, so be sure to stay tuned! The EarthCam Team plans to add even more new Times Square locations to their network, making good on their mission to deliver the most entertaining and interesting views of New York to people around the world.

The new Times Square cameras, and many more popular scenic webcams around the world, can be viewed on-the-go with EarthCam’s exclusive mobile device application. Users can even take a snapshot and share with their friends on Facebook and Twitter. To download the EarthCam mobile app, visit http://www.earthcam.com/mobile/applications/timessquare/.

ABOUT EARTHCAM

EarthCam is the global leader in delivering world class webcam content, technology and services. Founded in 1996, EarthCam provides time-lapse megapixel cameras, live streaming video, and complete managed services for corporate and government clients in more than 1,500 international cities. With numerous applications in the construction, transportation, entertainment and tourism industries, EarthCam’s revolutionary camera systems deliver superior HD clarity, monitoring, documenting, and archiving of the world’s most important projects and events.

The award winning company hosts the world’s most popular social media webcam network with over 75,000 Facebook fans. Some highly trafficked tourism cams are these popular locations: Times Square, the Abbey Road Crossing in London and the Las Vegas sign.

To experience more EarthCam, visit: http://www.earthcam.com.

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Three Times the Peace of Mind for SMBs

Sydney, NSW (PRWEB) October 15, 2012

Australias cloud services provider Ninefold has joined forces with disaster recovery specialist Triplebackup to offer an affordable, scalable online disk imaging and file backup solution for small to medium sized businesses. The service means a business can now have onsite and offsite data, disaster recovery and business continuity protection across its entire suite of physical, virtual and cloud computers with one solution. It makes near-zero downtime an affordable reality for Australian businesses.

Until now, SMBs have operated with sub-optimal disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. Often theres a need for manual input, such as tape or disk rotation. Many use file backup services like Mozy, or file storage and synchronisation services like Google Drive and AWS S3 that dont mirror the entire server. Others pay for expensive solutions, with multiple license and hardware capex costs. Even when post-disaster recovery is possible it can take days or weeks to rebuild.

Now, using Triplebackups Live Image with Virtual Failover service, a business facing a server loss can start using an exact clone in Ninefolds cloud in a matter of minutes. After a site disaster a server can be restored to the same or dissimilar hardware or to a virtual computer from the bare metal backup, in less than a day.

Its a scenario Dr Darryl Gauld, CEO & Principal, Macquarie Education Group Australia, knows only too well: We recently suffered over a week of downtime while we waited for one of our servers to be rebuilt from offsite file backup. This downtime severely hampered our ability to continue with our business. We were in mid-audit by inspectors from the Board of Studies and everything was inaccessible!

That experience was enough to convince Dr Gauld to move to Triplebackups new solution, which can backup base images up to 750 GB across an ADSL2+ internet connection. Bigger images are accommodated on faster connections it is expected to backup 15+ TB images on National Broadband Network connections. The solution works across a business entire suite of physical, virtual and cloud servers, laptops, tablets and workstations, with no need for a dedicated Internet line, additional hardware, software license or capex investment.

Vanessa Wilson, CEO of Triplebackup, says their service offers SMBs affordable protection that works seamlessly across their entire suite of computers: It combines onsite image backup for local protection, and next-generation online image & file backup, with virtual server failover for market-leading post-disaster recovery and optimum business continuity.

Ninefold ensures that all backed up data and virtual failover servers are kept securely in Australia, without the legal and compliance requirements that come with offshore storage. The low cost of Ninefolds cloud storage means the Triplebackup product can be offered at price-points that suit SMBs and Ninefolds large-scale virtual failover capacity protects businesses even if a major disaster hits an entire city.

Gartner has reported that by 2015, at least a quarter of large enterprises will have given up on conventional backup / recovery software and will employ snapshot and replication techniques instead. The same report (The Gartner Enterprise Backup and Recovery Magic Quadrant Report, 11 June 2012) found that “By 2016, one-third of organisations will change backup vendors due to frustration over cost complexity and/or capability.”

Vanessa Wilson says that the same issues face smaller businesses, but, until now, they didnt have the time or resources to commit to an effective solution. She says Triplebackups technology and user friendly interfaces, combined with Ninefolds hourly virtual server pricing and low cost cloud storage, have facilitated a change that will have a big impact on the SMB sector.

We have made it simple for the end user, who can self-recover their files from their image backup via their own web-dashboard. We provide our channel partners with a scalable, zero capex market-leading service that fits a serious market need. Partners can now rebuild client systems in hours, and offer business continuity within minutes. We will be introducing cloud NAS backup in the coming months, so that our Partners can provide all of their clients backup and disaster recovery needs, from a single web-portal, says Wilson.

About Ninefold

Ninefold is Australian public cloud computing and storage with locally stored data, free local support, self-service flexibility and low latency. This allows you to provision virtual dedicated servers and cloud online backup quickly – scaling up and down when needed and only paying for the resources you use.

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