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Grid Dynamics and Virtual Ark Move ISV Applications to the Cloud

IT architecture experts and managed application services provider collaborate to migrate on-premises software apps to SaaS, leveraging cloud services

Fremont, Calif., August 23, 2010 – Independent software vendors (ISVs) can now quickly convert on- premise software to software-as-a-service (SaaS) in cloud deployments through a new partnership between Grid Dynamics, the global authority on enterprise systems scalability and cloud enablement, and Virtual Ark, an international managed application services leader in next-generation SaaS for ISVs.

This best-of-breed partnership will help end users quickly and cost-efficiently take advantage of specialist software applications from leading ISVs in an on-demand, pay-as-you-go model to meet their specific needs.

Virtual Ark is an international managed application services provider that partners with ISVs to provide large enterprises with on-demand access to core business applications on public and/or private clouds, such as Amazon Web Services, in a unique next-generation SaaS model.

Grid Dynamics is well-known for its work helping Fortune 500 companies re-architect legacy enterprise applications for delivery in a SaaS model. The company is also recognized for architecting cloud deployments, highly scalable systems, and high performance computing (HPC) solutions.

Together, the two companies can provide all required resources to enable ISVs to move their applications to cloud-deployed SaaS and for end users to improve the availability of business-critical software resources in a very cost-efficient manner. Where required, Grid Dynamics will help convert the ISV applications to SaaS and help deploy them to customer requirements. Virtual Ark will provide the necessary ongoing SaaS services.

“Worldwide software as a service (SaaS) revenue within the enterprise application software market is forecast to surpass $8.5 billion in 2010, up 14.1 percent from 2009 revenue of $7.5 billion,” according to Gartner, Inc.

“By providing global access to software on demand, ISVs can help their customers significantly reduce costs, move more of the IT budget from fixed to variable costs and increase flexibility of IT resources to quickly respond to market demands,” explained Klaus Bartosch, executive vice president, Virtual Ark. “Grid Dynamics has extensive expertise in system infrastructure to help convert popular legacy ISV applications to SaaS and help organizations deploy them in their unique IT environments.”

“Migrating on-premises software to SaaS is a tough, but inevitable challenge ahead of many ISVs,” noted Boris Renski, executive vice president, Grid Dynamics. “However, the popularity of SaaS on public and private clouds is growing because of its high value to enterprises. Virtual Ark’s approach to delivering SaaS equips their ISV partners with a strategic advantage and will make our customers’ transition much easier.”

While some larger ISVs have already begun this transition, many mid-sized ISVs are at the beginning of this evolution. These are the companies that will most likely opt for third-party managed services in the manner that Virtual Ark provides, because it is a more efficient way to help their customers, and doesn’t divert them from their core business of specialty software development into application hosting infrastructure. Assistance from Grid Dynamics to re-architect applications will help convert applications quickly and seamlessly, with no impact on daily IT operations.

About Grid Dynamics

Grid Dynamics helps companies achieve better performance, higher availability, faster time-to-market and lower operational costs by scaling mission-critical systems. Using the latest advancements in grid and cloud computing technologies, the company helps customers turn monolithic applications into scalable services; and static, underutilized server clusters into virtualized compute clouds. www.griddynamics.com

About Virtual Ark

Virtual Ark is a global application managed services company that partners with ISVs to SaaS-enable and deliver applications in the cloud, providing on-demand/SaaS access to core business applications on a flexible, pay-as-you-go basis. Virtual Ark is a leading cloud expert, with offices in the US, UK, and Australia. www.virtualark.com

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Grid Dynamics and Burstorm Partner on Cloud Solutions

Combine expertise in cloud and enterprise scalability with IaaS knowledge to deliver complete solutions

FREMONT, Calif., July 30, 2010 – Grid Dynamics, the authority on cloud computing deployments and enterprise systems scalability, has signed a partnership agreement with Burstorm, which helps enterprises select best-of-breed Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud providers.

As the initial wave of concern about cloud security and instability passes, and private and public clouds are increasingly used to enable elasticity of enterprise systems, Grid Dynamics has seen an increasing number of projects that require careful selection of third party IaaS cloud providers.

Burstorm helps these companies evaluate and select the best providers, and negotiate long-term sourcing contracts with them. The company’s recent focus has on IaaS cloud services.

Burstorm customers frequently need expertise at the middleware or application level, in which Grid Dynamics has deep expertise. At the same time, Grid Dynamics customers are often looking for the best options in IaaS. Together, Grid Dynamics and Burstorm will help meet the needs of both companies’ customers and will refer customers to each other.

“Every day, you hear about a new IaaS provider entering the market or a new service being offered by one of the existing ones,” noted Boris Renski, EVP at Grid Dynamics. “Because the majority of our projects today involve building clouds or cloud-enabling existing enterprise applications, Burstorm’s expertise in helping enterprise customers manage the purchasing cycle of infrastructure cloud offerings will be extremely valuable to our cloud practice.”

Grid Dynamics clients today include the likes of Cisco, eBay, Agilent, and other industry leaders.

“We invest many resources to constantly monitor the IaaS provider market and help our clients get the best value,” explained Brandon Abbey, CEO of Burstorm. “However, our focus is primarily on the physical infrastructure. This partnership with Grid Dynamics compliments our infrastructure knowledge with middleware and application level expertise, enabling us to provide a complete end-to-end solution to our customers.”

Burstorm customers include PortsAmerica, Complete Genomics, Adaptec, JDA Software to name a few.

About Grid Dynamics

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Grid Dynamics Offers HEAT Guarantee for Summer

Special methodology speeds complex financial modeling on Excel

FREMONT, Calif., June 30, 2010 – Grid Dynamics, the authority on scaling mission-critical systems, is putting forward a unique offer for new customers in July and August. The company will guarantee that Excel applications using its HPC Excel Acceleration Toolkit (HEAT) will run at least 10 times faster. Otherwise, Grid Dynamics will manually adapt the Excel files for free.

HEAT helps companies break through performance barriers that are typical when running complex, compute-intensive financial models using Microsoft Office Excel. While Excel is the industry standard for financial modeling, it doesn’t have the computational power to process complex calculations quickly. Running these models on a Microsoft Windows HPC Server cluster, which can perform large and complex calculations in a fraction of the time, will boost performance. However, first the Excel models must be adapted for this parallel computing. HEAT includes a straightforward interface to enable financial analysts to define parallelization logic with little to no modification of the original workbook and only minimal training.

Grid Dynamics client Abacus Solutions, which provides risk management and portfolio management solutions for tier one energy companies like PSEG and Scottish Power, used HEAT to accelerate one of its energy trading models.

“Using frameworks like HEAT, Excel-based models for performing full simulation of market prices followed by full valuation can now complete execution many times faster than traditional solution methods,” said Dr. Salim Jabbour, president and CEO of Abacus.

Grid Dynamics customers are experiencing several business benefits from HEAT:

Highly paid analysts who work with Excel are more productive and spend less time on each project.
Critical business information is available much faster to decision-makers.
There is no need to invest in expensive upgrades to servers to run Excel faster.

Grid Dynamics will honor the guarantee to new customers in July and August, provided that the model logic in the customer’s Excel workbooks allows for parallelization.

HEAT is a set of tools integrated with Microsoft Excel and Windows HPC Server that includes:

Excel plug-in for defining parallel execution parameters and debugging
Components for visualizing parallelization logic
Server-side framework on top of Windows HPC Server that helps orchestrate parallel compute cycles

A demo of HEAT is available at www.excelhpc.com.

About Grid Dynamics

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Grid Dynamics Announces Strategic Relationship to Deliver HPC Solutions on Windows HPC Server

Grid Dynamics Now Certified to Deliver End-to-End HPC Solutions

FREMONT, Calif., May 24, 2010 – Grid Dynamics today announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft that makes Grid Dynamics a High Performance Computing (HPC) consultant and positions Grid Dynamics to continue building its Windows HPC Server practice with a strategic focus on delivering solutions for the financial services and semiconductor sectors.

While working toward this relationship, Grid Dynamics became a certified Microsoft consultant and is already delivering innovative, end-to-end solutions on the Windows HPC Server platform. This includes the HPC Excel Acceleration Tool Kit (HEAT), which is a set of simple interfaces that Grid Dynamics developed. HEAT allows customers to run complex Excel spreadsheets in distributed parallel execution environments on the Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 beta. The solution has been validated in real-world tests and can be delivered to customers by Grid Dynamics.

“As one of the world’s leading consultancies focused on application scalability and HPC, we have developed practices areas and expertise around a number of HPC technologies and products,” said Victoria Livschitz, founder of Grid Dynamics. “Microsoft’s technology stack has long been a strategic area of emphasis for us. We are participating in the technology adoption program for the Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 beta. Through this program we have gained unique insights and expertise. Today’s announcement will help us deliver even more robust and scalable solutions for our customers.”

Grid Dynamics customers are among the most respected companies in their respective industries. In financial services, Grid Dynamics works with the likes of Bank of America, GE Money and Sociйtй Gйnйrale. In the semiconductor industry, Grid Dynamics customers include Cadence Design Systems, KLA Tencor and Mentor Graphics.

“Grid Dynamics’ specialization in application scalability, HPC and Excel will help bring value to Windows HPC Server 2008 customers,” said Vince Mendillo, senior director, Microsoft High Performance Computing Group.”

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Grid Dynamics Helps Retailers Adapt Quickly to New Sales Channels

Rapid evolution of existing IT systems puts e-retailers on track for higher revenues

FREMONT, Calif., April 30, 2010 – Grid Dynamics has released Scale4Commerce, an architectural approach to improve retailers’ existing IT systems. The new solution helps e-retailers quickly adapt current IT operations to keep pace with constant changes in consumer buying behavior and rapid technology innovations that create new sales channel opportunities such as mobile and social media.

e-retailers must quickly modify their IT operations to accommodate these new opportunities. Scale4Commerce provides them with a competitive advantage by deploying a set of scalable business services that intelligently coordinate interactions with existing back-end systems behind the scenes and in real time.

“Retailers must have cross-channel, multi-touch point selling approaches that push relevant products, no matter if the shopping experience is enabled by a Website, mobile device, or a social media application,” noted Victoria Livschitz, CEO, Grid Dynamics. “Our solution employs a gradual approach, allowing companies to adapt operations in a modular, iterative fashion, unlike the “big bang” of SOA projects, which can be disruptive to business operations.”

Scale4Commerce provides:

Simplified back-end architecture with each deployment into a new sales channel
Decreased time-to-market on new applications and services
Capability to take advantage of distributed and/or outsourced development of front-end user applications
No investment requirement for new software licenses or hardware appliances

Engineering around the existing technology stack, Scale4Commerce extracts maximum utility out of current systems already in place. Implementation takes place in conjunction with a front-end user application or service, such as an iPhone app or integration with a social media portal or third-party reseller channel. The scope of initial deployment is limited to business services that are relevant to the particular app at hand. This provides enhanced back-end agility and unprecedented time-to-market in deployment of new front-end user experiences.

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Grid Dynamics CEO featured on TechnoGirlTalk

Victoria Livschitz, founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, was a featured guest in a podcast at TechnoGirlTalk.com on February 15. Victoria was interviewed along with another female CEO and the female owner of a technical consulting firm. The sponsors of the interview said "To say that our guests were breaking the mold would be such an understatement that we hesitate to even make a statement about them. Anyone who wants to know what it's like navigating one's way through the sometimes choppy waters of a career in tech will find something in this week's podcast." The podcast is available for listening or download here.

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Grid Dynamics CEO to Speak in Salt Lake City

Victoria Livschitz, Founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, will speak at the Association of Information Management (AIM) luncheon in Salt Lake City, March 11, 2010. Her topic will be "Cloud Computing: The Practitioner's Perspective." Registration information is available here.

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Grid Dynamics Completes Work on Mentor Graphics Center of Excellence, Transfers Management of Facility to Mentor Graphics

Knowledge Sharing, Best Practices Empower Mentor Graphics to Take Operations In-House, Accelerate Development of New Products and Technologies

Foster City, CA, December 10, 2009 -- Grid Dynamics (formerly known as Mirantis) today announced it has completed the transfer of Mentor Graphics’ (Nasdaq: MENT) Center of Excellence (CoE) to Mentor Graphics after Grid Dynamics built the CoE, operated it while preparing Mentor Graphics for the transfer, and integrated the CoE fully into Mentor Graphics’ day-to-day operations.

Mentor Graphics is a worldwide leader in electronic design automation (EDA) with over 70 offices around the world. The CoE, which was established to further the company’s work in photolithography, is located in Moscow, Russia. Grid Dynamics and Mentor Graphics worked jointly on the project for three years. The CoE was established and staffed by Grid Dynamics, which gradually transferred operational and technical expertise to Mentor Graphics. The project culminated with Mentor Graphics taking over full ownership and operation of the CoE.

“Mirantis (now Grid Dynamics) has been an exceptional partner throughout the process,” said Juan Rey, senior engineering director for Mentor Graphics’ Calibre Division. “Their engineers and project managers were extremely knowledgeable and professional, and they made it a priority to get us up to speed by sharing their domain expertise and best practices. It was true teamwork and we couldn’t be happier with the results. We now have a CoE that provides us with a significant advantage in a very competitive industry.”

This is the latest success for Grid Dynamics’ proven build-operate-transfer (BOT) process that is designed specifically to integrate highly skilled teams of engineers into the business operations of Fortune 1000 companies. The Mentor Graphics project follows the completion of a similar Center of Excellence that Grid Dynamics implemented for Cadence Design Systems. That CoE is one of the biggest development centers operated by Cadence.

“A key factor in our ability to deliver consistent results with our BOT process is our focus on close collaboration with our customers,” said Alex Freedland, former CEO of Mirantis. “Technical excellence is only one ingredient. We also help companies like Mentor Graphics integrate a CoE into the larger organizational structure, culture and business processes. When we hand off the operations of a CoE, we expect the facility to be a seamless part of the customer’s organization, and we expect it to be a significant addition to the customer’s R&D program.”

Grid Dynamics sets up, staffs and manages strategic Centers of Excellence for companies in financial services, life sciences, and the technology industry. Customers utilize Grid Dynamics services to shorten time to market for new products, improve the efficiency and predictability of operations, and increase the yield from their in-house personnel.

About Grid Dynamics

Grid Dynamics is the global leader in scaling mission-critical systems. The company helps customers architect, design and deliver business systems that handle peak loads, scale on demand and always stay up. Grid Dynamics offers thought leadership and technical know-how to deliver results from design practices and methodology to application roll-out. For more information about the company, please contact Christine Dinh-Tan, PR Manager, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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Grid Dynamics and Saratov State University Developing Curriculum Based on Sun Microsystems HPC Software

Grid Dynamics, the global leader in scaling mission-critical systems, today announced it is working with Sun Microsystems and Saratov State University (SSU), to develop a new course of study in high-performance computing (HPC) at SSU, which is one of Russia’s oldest and most respected universities.

Fremont, CA and Saratov, Russia, November 4, 2009 –- Grid Dynamics, the global leader in scaling mission-critical systems, today announced it is working with Sun Microsystems and Saratov State University (SSU), to develop a new course of study in high-performance computing (HPC) at SSU, which is one of Russia’s oldest and most respected universities.

SSU was founded in 1909 and currently has more than 28,000 students. SSU’s Department of Computer Science and Information Technologies recently collaborated with Grid Dynamics to establish the School of Programming Technology. Among the new courses being developed for this school is “Parallel and Distributed Computing.” The course will teach students how to use Sun HPC Software. This will be the first in a series of courses designed to provide students with practical knowledge for working in HPC environments.

Sun(TM) HPC Software, Developer Edition for OpenSolaris(TM), was created by Sun Microsystems to help developers rapidly build and optimize parallel applications. The software includes a full-featured development environment and a pre-configured grid with a virtual HPC cluster.

In today’s competitive global marketplace, institutions of higher education are teaching students more than just abstract theories and concepts. They are striving to provide students with the practical knowledge and expertise needed to add value for prospective employers immediately. The new course in Parallel and Distributed Computing is being developed to this end, and will help SSU students gain highly sought-after skills demanded by today’s employers.

Lectures for the course will begin in the second semester of the 2009-2010 school year. The course will focus on Sun(TM) Grid Engine (SGE), which is a component of Sun HPC Software. SGE is typically used in computer farms or HPC clusters, and manages the distributed work of large quantities of separate, parallel or interactive user tasks.

“The Department of Computer Science and Information Technologies is interested in working with leading IT companies to provide students with a hands-on learning experience that can prepare them for successful careers in their chosen fields,” said Antonina Fedorova, dean of SSU’s Department of Computer Science and Information Technologies, and a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences. “The Parallel and Distributed Computing course based on Sun HPC Software is a great first step. We hope to have a productive, long-term partnership with Sun and other leaders in the industry.”

About Grid Dynamics

Founded in 2006, Grid Dynamics is the global leader in scaling mission-critical systems. The company helps customers architect, design and deliver business systems that handle peak loads, scale on demand and always stay up. Grid Dynamics offers thought leadership and technical know-how to deliver results from design practices and methodology to application roll-out. Using the latest advancements in Grid and Cloud Computing technologies, our customers turn monolithic applications into scalable services; and static, underutilized server clusters into virtualized compute clouds. The results: Better performance, higher availability, faster time-to-market and lower operational costs. In 2009, Grid Dynamics merged with Mirantis, Inc.

About Mirantis, Inc.

Founded in 1998, Mirantis specializes in creating and managing long-term Centers of Excellence (CoE) for industry-leading companies. We help our clients solve strategic issues involving human capital by providing controllability and predictability of operations. Mirantis’ clients include leading Russian banks and top-tier western companies. Mirantis has offices in the USA, Moscow, Saratov, St. Petersburg, and Kharkov, Ukraine. In 2009 Mirantis merged with Grid Dynamics.

About SSU

Saratov University, one of the oldest Russian institutes of higher education, was founded in 1909. Over the past decade, SSU has become one of the largest institutes of higher education in Russia. Today the university provides courses at three levels of educational programs: mid-professional, higher professional, and post-graduate education. At the mid-professional level, courses are held for 22 disciplines, 88 disciplines at the higher professional level, three Master’s programs, eight Bachelor’s programs, and 10 programs of additional education. The university utilizes its widespread international contacts in order to implement in the region the most modern technology in the field of education as well as research for liberal arts and sciences.

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Grid Dynamics Named a Top Cloud Player by Cloud Computing Journal

The Cloud Computing Journal has named Grid Dynamics one of the top 150 players in the cloud computing market. Its list of the most active players of the cloud ecosystem, published August 28, 2009, is available online at http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/770174.

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Mirantis and Grid Dynamics Merge to Create Global Leader in High-End Technology Development Services

Mirantis, one of the leading operators of Russia-based offshore development center (ODC), and Grid Dynamics, a fast-growing expert in grid and cloud computing, have completed a merger, creating a leading provider of high-end technology development services with the focus on Semiconductor, Retail, Telecommunications and Financial Services industries.

Foster City, CA, August 18, 2009 -- Mirantis, one of the leading operators of Russia-based offshore development center (ODC), and Grid Dynamics, a fast-growing expert in grid and cloud computing, have completed a merger, creating a leading provider of high-end technology development services with the focus on Semiconductor, Retail, Telecommunications and Financial Services industries.

Both companies built their name and reputation on the ability to execute complex technology-driven development programs for Fortune 500 customers through combining Russian top engineering talent with Silicon Valley-caliber technology thought leadership. Mirantis brings to the table an unmatched operational maturity in managing large-scale technology development programs. Grid Dynamics – expertise and thought leadership in highly scalable mission-critical enterprise systems based on grid and cloud computing.
The company will operate through two business units:

Emerging Technology Practice (ETP), offering consulting and development services for complex business solutions driven by emerging technologies. Initial focus will be on enterprise grid, HPC and cloud computing.
Technology Lifecycle Practice (TLP) offering customized staffing services for large-scale development, implementation and support stages of technology-driven systems.

Victoria Livschitz, the founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, will assume a role of the President and CEO of the combined company, while Alex Freedland, the founder and CEO of Mirantis, will serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

“By combining technology thought leadership in emerging technologies provided by Grid Dynamics with access to the world’s top engineering talent wrapped into Mirantis’s unmatched operational excellence, the new company will be able to engage with clients at much earlier phase of their technology creation curve and compete for the larger share of major technology creators’ budgets”, said Alex Freedland, the founder of Mirantis.

“Our clients are looking at emerging markets for fresh ideas and new source of talent, but they also expect operational maturity that emerging markets usually lack,” said Victoria Livschitz, the founder of Grid Dynamics, “We provide a great answer. Russia has always been known for its outstanding education system and ability to breed world-leading scientific and engineering talent. Recent modernization of the society - with robust high-speed telecommunications infrastructure, newly constructed modern office space and continuously improving quality of life - position Russia as a region of choice for sophisticated technology development programs.”

About Mirantis:

Mirantis, headquartered in Foster City, California, U.S. is a leading player in the R&D/Product Development services market. Mirantis sets up, staffs and manages strategic Product Development Centers (PDCs) for technology, financial services and life science companies. For more information please contact Anastasia Kudina, PR (at) mirantis (dot) ru.

About Grid Dynamics:

Grid Dynamics is the global leader in scaling mission-critical systems. The company helps customers architect, design and deliver business systems that handle peak loads, scale on demand and always stay up. Grid Dynamics offers thought leadership and technical know-how to deliver results from design practices and methodology to application roll-out. For more information please contact Christine Dinh-Tan, cdinh-tan (at) griddynamics (dot) com.

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Mirantis and Grid Dynamics Merge to Create Global Leader in High-End Technology Development Services

Emerging Technology Practice (ETP), offering consulting and development services for complex business solutions driven by emerging technologies. Initial focus will be on enterprise grid, HPC and cloud computing.
Technology Lifecycle Practice (TLP) offering customized staffing services for large-scale development, implementation and support stages of technology-driven systems.

About Mirantis:

About Grid Dynamics:

Grid Dynamics is the global leader in scaling mission-critical systems. The company helps customers architect, design and deliver business systems that handle peak loads, scale on demand and always stay up. Grid Dynamics offers thought leadership and technical know-how to deliver results from design practices and methodology to application roll-out. For more information please contact Christine Dinh-Tan, cdinh-tan (at) griddynamics (dot) com.

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Grid Dynamics Named Microsoft Startup of the Day

On August 14, 2009, Grid Dynamics was featured on Microsoft Startups to Watch, an article including an interview with founder and CEO Victoria Livschitz. It was also named “Today’s Top Pick” on the Microsoft Subnet.

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Grid Dynamics and GoGrid Help Enterprises Adopt the Cloud with Cloud4QA™

New strategic partnership between Grid Dynamics and GoGrid aids companies looking to overcome testing and development hurdles.

Customers who are looking to move their test and development environment into the cloud will greatly benefit from Grid Dynamics' expertise, combined with GoGrid's market-leading cloud offerings and hosting infrastructure.

The Cloud4AQ™ solution offering gives the developers the ultimate luxury – practically unlimited hardware resources dedicated to them, available in any configuration for any period of time, at a price point that even the most budget-constrained organizations can afford. This is a game-changer for the software development industry

Fremont and San Francisco, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) July 28, 2009 –- Grid Dynamics, a leading expert in scalability of mission-critical systems, has announced the launch of its Cloud4QA™ services offering, in collaboration with its cloud infrastructure partner, GoGrid. Cloud4QA™ includes Grid Dynamics’ proprietary methodology and a set of tools designed to help enterprise customers quickly adopt a public cloud computing infrastructure for application testing and development.

Application testing is a recurring activity on every software development project. Test hardware is expensive to buy, configure and maintain, so most development projects use less hardware and test less frequently. Even when companies invest in testing labs, the precious resources end up being either over- or under-subscribed most of the time. In addition, frequent set-up and re-configuration of these environments between the test runs become significant cost factors and process bottlenecks. The result is a backlog accumulation of testing jobs with increased time-to-market, as well as sub-optimal software quality, hindered by the lack of adequate test hardware.

Offering benefits such as on-demand resource provisioning, reduction in cost of ownership and location independence, public clouds are the perfect solution for these common problems.

“The Cloud4AQ™ solution offering gives the developers the ultimate luxury–-practically unlimited hardware resources dedicated to them, available in any configuration for any period of time, at a price point that even the most budget-constrained organizations can afford. This is a game-changer for the software development industry” said Victoria Livschitz, CEO and Founder of Grid Dynamics.

The company has also announced that its cloud infrastructure partner, GoGrid, will complement the Cloud4QA™ solution with its hosted cloud offering.

"Customers who are looking to move their test and development environment into the cloud will greatly benefit from Grid Dynamics' expertise combined with GoGrid's market-leading cloud offerings and hosting infrastructure” said John Keagy, CEO and Co-Founder of GoGrid.

Grid Dynamics' Cloud4QA™ Resource Kit, which includes customer case studies, demo of relevant tools, industry whitepapers and an in-depth methodology description, is available free of charge at www.cloud4qa.com.

About Grid Dynamics:

Grid Dynamics is the global leader in scaling mission-critical systems. We help customers architect, design and deliver business systems that handle peak loads, scale on demand and always stay up. Using the latest advances in grid and cloud computing, our customers turn monolithic applications into scalable services and static, underutilized server clusters into virtualized compute clouds. The results: better performance, higher availability, faster time-to-market and lower operational costs.

For more information, please contact us or contact Christine Dinh-Tan, PR Manager, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 510-574-0872.

About GoGrid:

GoGrid is the leading Cloud Computing, hosted, Internet provider that delivers true "Control in the Cloud™" in the form of cloudcenters. GoGrid enables system administrators, developers, IT professionals and SaaS (Software as a Service) vendors to create, deploy, and control load balanced cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access and administrative server control. GoGrid server instances maintain the industry standard specifications with no requirement to learn and adapt to propriety standards. Bringing up servers and server networks takes minutes via a unique web control panel or GoGrid’s award winning API. GoGrid delivers portal controlled servers for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server, and ASP.NET. GoGrid hosts multiple open-source server operating systems including several Linux operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS) and supports application environments like Ruby on Rails. Free f5 hardware load balancing and other features are included to give users the control of a familiar datacenter environment with the flexibility and immediate scalability of the cloud, a "cloudcenter." GoGrid won the coveted 2008 LinuxWorld Expo’s Best of Show award.

For more information, please visit the GoGrid website or contact Michael Sheehan, Technology Evangelist., This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , 415-869-7446.

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Grid Dynamics to Keynote at Australian Cloud Conference, October 2009

Please join us for a two-day Cloud Computing conference and seminar at the upcoming "Cloud Computing - The Silver Lining" event, October 8-9, 2009, in Sydney, Australia.

Victoria Livschitz, Founder and CEO of Grid Dynamics, will be a keynote speaker at the conference. Victoria also will lead a special full day interactive Cloud Computing workshop with Eugene Steinberg, Grid Dynamics CTO, and Kirill Ishanov, Principal Engineer of Grid Dynamics' Cloud Computing Practice.

A preliminary agenda is available here.

For more information about the event: http://www.marcusevans.com/html/sponsor.asp?eventID=15759&SectorID=17&pageID=2

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Grid Dynamics and GoGrid partner to enable on-demand mission-critical applications on the Cloud

–   Partnership Brings Unique Set of Services to the Cloud Computing Industry   –

Fremont, CA and San Francisco, CA – April 14, 2009 – Grid Dynamics, Inc., a leading provider of scalable mission-critical solutions, announced its partnership today with premier cloud computing infrastructure provider, GoGrid, a division of ServePath. The partnership addresses customers’ demands for developing, migrating and running applications in the cloud in a secure environment.

The strategic partnership between GoGrid and Grid Dynamics brings solutions utilizing Grid Dynamics’ industry best practices and GoGrid's hybrid model of dedicated servers and cloud servers. These customer focused offerings are for those companies who are looking to:
1)   Eliminate capital expense and increase adoption of pay-per-use model
2)   Ability to run applications that are hosted off-premise

"We have been very impressed with Grid Dynamics’ reputation for innovation, and selected them as our strategic partner for application design & migration services," said John Keagy, CEO of GoGrid. "Customers who are looking to move their mission-critical applications in the cloud will greatly benefit from the combination of Grid Dynamics’ expertise combined with GoGrid’s market-leading cloud offerings and hosting infrastructure.”

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Terracotta and Grid Dynamics partner to simplify scale-out of mission-critical applications

Partnership addresses growing demand for solutions built on Terracotta platform

Fremont, CA and San Francisco, CA – [April 21, 2009] –Grid Dynamics, the global leader in scaling mission-critical systems, today announced its partnership with Terracotta, Inc., a recognized leader in infrastructure software for enterprise Java scalability. The strategic partnership matches Grid Dynamics’ leading consulting practices and expertise with Terracotta's leading open source software to meet customer demand for architecting, developing and deploying mission-critical applications on affordable and scalable Java infrastructures.