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May 10, 2012
BitNami Brings App Library to HP Cloud Services

BitNami is working with HP to bring popular open source web applications and development frameworks to HP Cloud Services.

San Francisco, CA. May 10, 2012 - In conjunction with the public beta release of HP Cloud Services (http://hpcloud.com), BitNami has announced that it is bringing its library of web applications to this new public cloud platform from HP. The initial set of available BitNami-packaged images include Drupal, Joomla!, WordPress, Ruby on Rails, Django and other popular applications and frameworks. These images allow developers and systems administrators to bring up fully-functional servers in the cloud with a single click, simplifying the process of deploying applications for development, testing or production purposes.

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April 30, 2012
BitNami Adds Support for Latest Version of Ubuntu

BitNami has released updated virtual machine images and cloud templates for its library of ready-to-run web applications to include the latest Ubuntu release, version 12.04.

San Francisco, CA. April 30, 2012 - BitNami, developer of the popular BitNami Application Library, announced today that its library of ready-to-run web application packages has been released for last week's major Ubuntu release, version 12.04.

The BitNami Application Library is a collection of over 45 different packages of popular open source applications and development environments, such as SugarCRM, Alfresco, Drupal, Wordpress, Redmine, Ruby on Rails and LAMP. All of the BitNami packages are available free of charge as native installers, virtual machine images and Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for the Amazon Cloud. The packages are fully configured and contain all of the software required to run the target application, so they can be deployed in minutes to desktops, servers or cloud instances.

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April 19, 2012
BitNami Stacks Now Available on New AWS Marketplace

BitNami teams up with Amazon to make its popular web application library available on the AWS Marketplace.

San Francisco, CA. April 19, 2012 - BitNami, developer of the BitNami library of easy to deploy web applications, announced today the immediate availability of its popular library of open source web applications on the newly released Amazon Web Services Marketplace. Each one of the BitNami Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) includes a web application and the other software it requires, such as a web server, language runtime and database, all of which are pre-configured and ready-to-run. The BitNami AMIs are freely available and provide a simple and effective way to deploy a variety of applications and development frameworks on the AWS cloud. Packaged application stacks include Drupal, Joomla!, WordPress, Liferay, SugarCRM, Alfresco and dozens of others, which can be downloaded as native installers and virtual machines to provide local environments that can be easily deployed to the cloud later on. Supported operating systems include Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, providing industry-standard options for end-users adopting BitNami as their preferred cloud application platform.

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March 20, 2012
concrete5 and BitNami Simplify CMS Deployment Natively, Virtually and in the Cloud

BitNami and concrete5 have collaborated to create the BitNami concrete5 Stack, which provides one-click deployment of the concrete5 content management system across a wide range of platforms.

San Francisco, CA. March 20, 2012. -- concrete5, the content management system made for marketing but built for geeks, has joined forces with BitNami to simplify the installation of its software natively, virtually and in the cloud.

concrete5 powers hundreds of thousands of sites and has been designed with the needs of developers, designers and site owners in mind. It is licensed under the liberal MIT license and has attracted a diverse and robust community of users and contributors. BitNami provides 'stacks' of popular web applications and all of their required dependencies such as web servers, language runtimes and databases bundled in fully configured and ready-to-run packages. The stacks are cross-platform and are distributed as installers, virtual appliances and cloud images for the Amazon Web Services cloud. concrete5 is the latest addition to the BitNami library of applications and can be downloaded or launched to the cloud from http://bitnami.org/stack/concrete5

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February 16, 2012
BitNami and Red Hat Bring One-Click Web App Deployment to the Amazon Cloud

BitNami and Red Hat collaborate to enable one-click deployment of popular open source applications to the Amazon cloud, powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

San Francisco, CA. February 16, 2012. -- BitNami, developer of the BitNami library of easy to install web applications, and Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced today that they have collaborated to simplify the deployment of popular open source software to the Amazon Cloud as Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

The newly released AMIs combine BitNami's expertise in packaging and configuring web applications with Red Hat's enterprise-class Linux operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, making the AMIs appealing for use in both development and production environments. Using the BitNami-Red Hat Enterprise Linux AMIs, developers and systems administrators can deploy applications such as Wordpress, MediaWiki, Drupal, SugarCRM, and Moodle to the Amazon Cloud in one click. The first batch of applications focuses on PHP applications running on the native Red Hat Enterprise Linux stack, and JBoss-powered applications will follow.

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February 14, 2012
GNAX Brings Open Source Apps to the Cloud with BitNami

GNAX has selected BitNami to provide GNAX Cloud users with a tested, ready-to-run library of over 25 popular open source applications.

San Francisco, CA. February 14, 2012. -- BitNami, developer of the BitNami Application Library, and Global Net Access (GNAX), a leading technology infrastructure service provider, announced today that the BitNami library of applications is now available for one-click deployment to the GNAX Cloud.

The GNAX Cloud is an enterprise-grade multi-tenant cloud computing solution, powered by VMware vCloud® Director™. It allows customers to manage an entire virtual infrastructure through a simple web interface, maximizing resource utilization while enhancing the security, reliability and flexibility of enterprise IT infrastructure. The addition of the BitNami library of application images extends the platform to allow users to deploy popular open source applications to the cloud in one-click and provides GNAX with a significant competitive advantage in an increasingly crowded market.

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November 10, 2011
InstallBuilder 8 Released - Create Powerful Cross-Platform Installers and Auto-Updaters

The latest release of InstallBuilder includes a built-in debugger, downloadable component support, dynamic page generation and other features to simplify the process of building sophisticated cross-platform software installers and auto-updaters.

San Francisco, CA. November 10, 2011. - BitRock, a leading provider of cross-platform software deployment tools and services, announced today the release of version 8 of InstallBuilder, its cross-platform installer development tool. This new version enables developers to build more flexible

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July 21, 2011
Alfresco Team Moves To The Cloud With BitNami

Customers can now instantly deploy and manage Alfresco Team, the pro-tool for content collaboration, on Amazon EC2

San Francisco, CA and London, UK. - July 21, 2011. - Following on Alfresco's recent announcement of its new Alfresco Team subscription, BitNami today announced that Alfresco has chosen BitNami Cloud Hosting to provide one-click deployment and simplified management of Alfresco Team in the cloud.

Alfresco Team is a pro-tool for content collaboration. Put in the hands of

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June 14, 2011
Cloud Computing Survey Finds Scalability and Cost Savings Driving Cloud Adoption

Lack of training and security as key inhibitors for cloud adoption

Cupertino, Calif. - June 14, 2011. -- Cloud.com, a provider of open source cloud computing software, along with its partners Zenoss and BitNami, today announced the results of a comprehensive cloud computing survey conducted to determine the key IT objectives and inhibitors for cloud adoption. The survey was conducted by polling members of the communities that surround each company's popular open source projects (BitNami, CloudStack and Zenoss Core). A summary of the report is available for download here.

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May 4, 2011
BitNami Announces Support for the Red Hat OpenShift PaaS

The BitNami library of popular open source applications, including SugarCRM, Alfresco, Drupal, Wordpress and more, will be made available as ready-to- deploy cartridges on Red Hat's new OpenShift platform.

San Francisco, CA. May 4, 2011. -- BitNami, which simplifies the process of deploying web applications natively, virtually and in the cloud, announced that it will provide the BitNami library of popular open source applications as cartridges for Red Hat OpenShift, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering for developers who build on open source that was announced today at the Red

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