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Voting now open on the Uhuru Lifetime Hosting contest!

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Create your own site to nominate.

Voting is now open on nominees for the Uhuru Lifetime Hosting contest. We will provide lifetime free premium hosting to the 5 nominated web sites that receive the most votes from the community.…

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Uhuru and eFactor team up to help entrepreneurs

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Uhuru is proud to become one of the preferred resources offered to the eFactor community. With well over a million members eFactor is one of the most useful entrepreneurial communities around. This vibrant community provides one of the best places to share experiences and get help with business.…

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Welcome to the Core

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Uhuru is proud to be a founding member of VMware, Inc.’s Cloud Foundry™ Core initiative, featuring hosted services that are compatible with the Cloud Foundry framework and APIs. It is a remarkable achievement to have a whole ecosystem of hosting services, from different companies, which are completely compatible with one another.…

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Uhuru on FreeAir podcast

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Michael had a great time talking with Seyi Ogunyemi and Ikenna Okpala on the FreeAir podcast show about the evolving cloud. It was particularly interesting to discuss all the amazing things happening in emerging markets. There are a lot of entrepreneurs taking advantage of cloud services like Uhuru to make their ideas a reality.…

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Improved reliability and security for Uhuru Cloud Admin tool

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On Wednesday, August 29th, we released a new version of the Cloud Admin tool. This Windows application now features encrypted tunnels for improved security when uploading or downloading data on the databases or file service. We have also made a lot of improvements to the reliability and performance in the tunnels.…

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2000 Uhuru AppCloud Users since June 25th!

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The Uhuru AppCloud beta just passed 2000 registered users today (August 16th)! All these people have signed up since we made the AppCloud beta public on June 25th.

That’s amazing! Even more incredible, the Uhuru AppCloud is now hosting over 1000 web sites!…

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If the French like Uhuru, it must be good

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Another user, from France, posted a blog article talking about his experience with the Uhuru AppCloud beta.

In the blog’s words: “But given the youth of the service, it is already a great PAAS to try, especially for .NET developers who look for a handy platform to test out their applications (use case, load tests, validation, etc…) in no time.”

There are a lot of great suggestions for our engineers to look over here.…

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The Heroku for .NET

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Read Chin Wye Jin’s take on the Uhuru AppCloud. In his words, “It is a “Heroku” for .Net Guys like me”.

It is also great to hear Chin’s feedback of things he would like to see improved. This is still a beta after all, and we can use all the suggestions our users have to offer.…

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Uhuru’s on the Cloudcast show

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Check out Michael’s interview about PaaSes and Uhuru on the Cloudcast podcast show.

www.thecloudcast.net/2012/06/cloudcast-eps44-bringing-freedom-to.html…

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New and Improved Uhuru Tools

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We just released updated versions of our Uhuru PaaS client tools.

These new versions address a number of reliability issues that resulted in the tools hanging on occasion as well as some usability enhancements. You will also see that creating and using database management tunnels with the Microsoft Management Console is much faster.…

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A Balanced Perspective of the Uhuru PaaS

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Sayak Saha, an software engineer, took the Uhuru PaaS for a test drive and wrote about his experience deploying a .NET app to the cloud. It was over-all positive, but he did make some useful suggestions for improvements.

Way to go Sayak!…

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It’s alive!

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It’s been many weeks of late nights (and all-nighters), but we finally shipped our very first software release! And to think that as recently as 4 months ago not a single piece of Uhuru code existed… It just goes to show how much a small dedicated team can accomplish in a short time frame.…

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Connect the dot .NET hosting for the rest of us

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Check out our new how-to-video by Uhuru engineer architect Vlad Iovanov. With Vlad’s step-by-step instructions any developer or IT administrator can discover how easy it is to deploy .NET applications themselves with the Uhuru .NET Services for Cloud Foundry. We start at the beginning with configuring Cloud Foundry right through using Visual Studio and the Microsoft Management Console to deploy your .NET applications.…

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Uhuru LinkedIn community just passed 1000 members!

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This must be some kind of record. In just 6 weeks our Uhuru LinkedIn group has went from 10 to 1000 members! If you haven’t seen our group yet, check it out. There are lots of great discussions around Cloud Computing and .NET.…

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Cloud Computing Best Practices Blog just wrote about Uhuru.

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Check out the blog post about Uhuru at Cloud Computing Best Practices.

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Uhuru will be in Palo Alto for Cloud Foundry meetup on January 17th

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Avi Cavale, our director of product development, will be popping into the Cloud Foundry meetup taking place on January 17th in Palo Alto. If you are in the Bay Area don’t miss the chance to hear more about Uhuru and share your ideas for improvements.…

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