
Livingston, Uk (PRWEB) November 21, 2011
Angela Constance MSP, Fergus Ewing (Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism) and Alyn Smith (MEP) will go to Flexiant, leading United kingdom cloud software package experts on Monday 21 November 2011.
The ministers will tour Flexiant?s headquarters and recently finished datacentre in Livingston. They will also listen to a lot more about Flexiant?s essential position in a few EU jobs, valued in whole at twenty million euros.
The assignments are element of the EU?s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research and technological development. FP7 bundles collectively all research-associated EU initiatives and performs a crucial function in accomplishing the targets of growth, competitiveness and employment.
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Flexiant launched Europe?s 1st cloud computing platform in 2007 and remains Europe?s longest standing cloud company today. Flexiant?s floor breaking technological innovation, Extility, allows services providers and data centre operators to provide cloud computing providers to their own customers.
Appointed in 2010, following arduous variety procedures, Flexiant?s reducing edge cloud platform Extility is being used as a test mattress by three pan-European FP7 assignments, supplying a strong proving floor for every of the tasks to display the tools formulated are capable to run in a genuine public or private cloud setting. Flexiant is functioning in near partnership with Europe?s foremost authorities in cloud computing introduced collectively to supply these large profile jobs which includes ATOS Origin, SAP, British Telecom, Telefonica and Orange.
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4CAAST, the very first project will allow the transition of cell apps to the cloud. A 2nd project, Cumulo Nimbo, will produce a pan-European cloud platform to give companies through the EU a aggressive edge, enabling them to complete globally. The ultimate challenge, Optimis, aims to produce a toolkit that will break down boundaries amongst cloud platforms and allow organizations to move cloud primarily based companies very easily in between cloud platforms.
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Alex Bligh, Flexiant? s CEO states: ?Right now, cloud computing is important to the evolution of the internet and the way companies are delivered. We are delighted that our software is becoming utilized to aid create the instruments essential for a new generation of cloud platforms. It is a privilege to operate with the EU at this stage beside Europe?s info technology leaders.?
Cloud computing refers to personal computers and programs that run remotely and are accessed more than the web. Organizations can use the internet to accessibility virtual IT infrastructures working in large knowledge centres to exchange physical PCs and companies. By aggregating the computing needs of numerous end users with a single centre, internet hosting companies allow considerable advantages to their customers, such as less complicated set up and upkeep, a reduction in richesse expenditure, lower running expenditures, infinite scalability and a greener carbon footprint.
Enterprise Minister Fergus Ewing explained:
“I am always delighted to have the possibility to see the results of an modern Scottish company like Flexiant. This organization is clearly producing its mark across Europe, broadening their attain and interacting with an amazing array of multinational partners.
?Their outward focussed approach to business is an outstanding case in point of the sort of innovation and creativity we want to inspire in companies through Scotland. It matches completely with the Scottish Government?s perception that ambitious organizations have a important part to play in securing our potential economic good results and in marketing Scottish talent across the world.”
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Alyn Smith, MEP remarks: ?It really is great to see a Scottish business seizing some of the opportunities that Europe has to offer. Flexiant has shown the entrepreneurial drive and ingenuity that will help firms to succeed in present day marketplace and I’m delighted to be able to congratulate them on securing FP7 funding for three assignments.
“I am going to confess that the degree of technological innovation on screen in companies like this leaves me struggling to maintain up at times but the confidence of the business and the belief in their likely convinces me that this is a business with a excellent long term. The software package getting produced the following is amongst the finest in the globe and Flexiant ought to be congratulated on their successful function.
“The FP7 programme is funding virtually 8000 tasks like this throughout the European Union, and as we now search ahead to the up coming EU research programme in 2013 it is encouraging to see the programme delivering so productively. I would encourage each and every go-in advance Scottish company to start off looking at what assist there is offered from Europe to assist them expand and build.?
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According to Angela Constance MSP: ?Flexiant has turn out to be a actual local achievement story and I am delighted to have the chance to visit the firm?s Livingston base with Fergus Ewing MSP, the Minister for Vitality, Enterprise and Tourism, and Alyn Smith MEP, to see at initial hand the revolutionary and thrilling cutting edge new technologies and computer software growth work that the company is involved in.
?Flexiant is endeavor ground breaking function at the two country wide and international degree and has attracted European funding for three EU assignments that it participates in. The organization?s achievements and items location it at the forefront of new technologies developments. I wish it every single success for the potential.?
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