Rackspace offers free clouds to startup-incubators

IT hosting and cloud computing provider, New York Stock Exchange listed Rackspace Hosting, has brought to Australia and New Zealand its zero cost Rackspace Startup Program that provides free cloud hosting and support services to local incubators that want to encourage their startup companies to use the cloud computing model of IT service delivery, and has named Sydney-based Pollenizer as its first customer.

Mark Randall, country manager for Rackspace Australia & New Zealand: "An individual can now start a company without the pain of high capital expenditure costs upfront whether they are located in Perth or Sydney. Business dollars can instead be directed towards important business tasks and technology and development projects."

Sydney-based web business investor

Pollenizer is a Sydney-based web business investor and builder. It claims to "undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of each potential new startup and at the time make a decision as to whether they are suitable for induction into the program."

It boasts a team of 80 "web-loving entrepreneurs" covering "all aspects of a web business [that] tightly integrates customer and product development to build fast and focused results."

Imperva, a pioneer and leader of a new category of data security solutions for high-value business data in the data center, announced today the availability of SecureSphere for SharePoint, its new data security solution to help businesses protect sensitive data stored in Microsoft SharePoint. As part of Imperva's cornerstone data security suite, SecureSphere for SharePoint addresses the unequalled security requirements of SharePoint's file, web and database infrastructure, giving businesses visibility and analysis of data access and safeguarding that only users with a legitimate business need have access to data.

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