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|By Jeremy Geelan
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|October 29, 2009 11:45 PM EDT
Cloud Expo Early Bird Savings
A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing. Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony, if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the "Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing.
Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web sites cited. As ever we encourage software engineers, developers, IT operations managers, and new/growing companies in every case to "suck it and see" by downloading or otherwise sampling the offering in question for themselves.
(Omissions to this Top 150 list should be sent to cloud (at) sys-con.com, and we will endeavor to include them in any future revision of this expanded round-up.)
Cloud Expo New York will draw more than 5,000 delegates on April 9-21, 2010 at te Jacob Javits Convention Center
3Leaf Systems - Describes itself as a provider of "next-generation server solutions to enable cloud computing."
Specifically, 3Leaf offers to help companies "achieve a terabyte of DRAM at dramatically low cost" based on low-cost commodity servers by providing virtualization of CPU and memory for an entire server farm.
3PAR - Recently announced its "Cloud-Agile" program, a new partnership initiative "to promote the adoption of cloud computing and cloud-based services offered by leading providers with infrastructures powered by 3PAR Utility Storage."
3Tera - Offering what it calls "Cloud Computing Without Compromise," 3Tera enables the provision and deployment of "scalable clustered applications in minutes from anywhere in the world." The company currently has partners and is running in datacenters in seven countries (United States, Japan, Singapore, Argentina, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Serbia) on four continents (North America, South America, Asia, and Europe), with additional resources in South America and Australia soon to be available as well.
10Gen - Co-founded by Dwight Merriman, who also co-founded DoubleClick and served as its CTO for ten years, 10gen is a commercial entity offering "innovative platform technology" around the Mongo database - an open source document-oriented database "which makes data storage for web (and other) applications fast and easy."
Adaptivity - Adaptivity provides integrated solutions that automate IT Delivery optimization across enterprise computing environments. Those behind the company built the largest private cloud while at Wachovia and are today building clouds with Unisys. Adaptivity sees the Cloud Computing opportunity from a much broader perspective. "IaaS type resources managed externally from the enterprise do provide value; however, the larger opportunity is enabling enterprises to change how they deliver and consume IT resources," says CEO Tony Bishop in a Q&A with Cloud Computing Journal.
Agathon Group - A dedicated grid environment that allows charitable and non-profit campaigns to scale on demand.
Akamai - Akamai claims to have been optimizing the cloud for over ten years, building a global computing platform "that helps make cloud computing a reality." Services for cloud optimization are now a vital part of the company's total offering, and go well beyond Content Delivery Network (CDN) cache-based technologies - marking Akamai's transition from CDN to full-fledged Cloud Computing player.
Amazon EC2 - When Amazon introduced its virtual computing environment, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2, "to enable you to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, not hours or days," it single-handedly brought Cloud Computing to the very forefront of public awareness by using Web services to provide what it called "resizeable compute capacity in the cloud." EC2 runs within Amazon's proven network infrastructure and datacenters and allows customers to pay only for what they use. See also S3.
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Appirio - Offers services and products to accelerate the adoption of on-demand solutions, and recently secured $5.6 million of financing in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital.
Appistry - As a company that positions itself boldly "At the convergence of Grid Computing, Virtualization and SOA" Appistry offers a grid-based application platform that makes it very easy to scale-out CPU- and data-intensive applications across a virtualized grid of commodity servers. Unlike traditional grid products based on legacy scheduler technology, the company's robust "fabric" architecture has no single point of failure and "is well suited for extreme transaction processing (XTP), software-as-a-service (SaaS), cloud computing, and other data- and CPU-intensive applications."
Apprenda - The true power of software-based computing was realized when software developers could stop focusing on interfacing directly with hardware, and instead focus on the ingenuity of their software, say the founders of Apprenda - the company behind SaaSGrid, an operating system for building and deploying Software as a Service applications, and a platform for conducting Software as a Service business.
Appzero - Pioneer of virtual application appliances (VAA) which decouple an application from the operating system (OS) and its underlying infrastructure." The resultant virtual application appliance contains an application with its dependencies, but with zero operating system (zeOS) component," says the company. The aim of VAAs is to enable enterprises to provision server based applications to any machine in the data center in a matter of seconds or move an application from the data center to the cloud (D2C).
Aptana - Aptana has recently beta-released Aptana Cloud, which it says "is architected to complement Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon, Google, Joyent and others." Targeted at rapid development, in particular web applications that need to scale rapidly (think Facebook applications etc.), Aptana cloud plugs into the Aptana IDE.
Arjuna - Describing its Agility offering as an "on-ramp to the Cloud [that] allows the IT department to begin to experiment with cloud computing in a gradual, incremental way, without any need for disruption to existing service," Arjuna is positioned to help IT towards a world in which internal IT infrastructure can over time be increasingly subsumed into the cloud.
Asankya - Asankya describes itsefl as "the cloud acceleration company" and specializes in the high speed delivery of Internet-based applications. Asankya provides an Application Delivery Network (ADN) service for leading SaaS companies, cloud storage providers, internal enterprise cloud users and key government entities.
AT&T - AT&T broke into the cloud business in August 2008 with the global launch of what it calls AT&T Synaptic Hosting - described as "a next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses."
Azure - see Microsoft
Bluewolf - A leading provider of on-demand software deployment services, Bluewolf offers remote database management and recently announced its "Arcade" cloud storage offering that allows users to economically store a virtually unlimited number of files of all sizes through the Salesforce interface.
Boomi - Creator of AtomSphere, which the company calls "the industry's first integration platform-as-a-service." It is a pure SaaS integration platform that does not require software or appliances.
Booz Allen Hamilton - Management consultancies are also now part of the Cloud ecosystem by dint of their wide range of offerings aimed at all aspects of the phenomenon, and Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) in particular has positioned itself in the forefront the federal government's Cloud Computing initiative. According to its special Cloud Computing website. "Booz Allen is prepared to support all elements of government defense and civilian missions and migration efforts to "the cloud." ... Booz Allen is also developing new economic analysis—addressing all cost categories for a variety of potential cloud uses—to help agencies "make the case" for migrating to the cloud."
CA - Bought the key assets - software assets and engineering team - of Cloud Computing player Cassatt in June 2009.
Callidus On-Demand SPM - see Callidus Software
Callidus Software - This leading provider of Sales Performance Management (SPM) solutions has launched Callidus On-Demand SPM, "a scalable, secure, subscriber-based model that does not require additional IT resources."
Cassatt - [UPDATE: Cassatt is no more. Its key assets were sold to CA in June 2009.] As early as 2004 Cassatt, led by visionary CEO Bill Coleman (the 'B' in BEA Systems), was outlining a roadmap to deliver on the promise of automating IT operations for on-demand computing. Its angle, Cloud Computing-wise: a focus not on public or external clouds but on 'Internal Clouds' since external cloud computing but may be ruled out due to lack of SLA control, security, and compliance, whereas Cassatt contends there is an alternative: an internal Utility Computing architecture yielding the same simplicity and economies-of-scale as an external PaaS cloud.
Cisco - By virtue of its recent acquisitions, most significantly WebEx and PostPath, Cisco is firmly on its way to joining the Cloud Crowd. "We are believers in the cloud-based delivery model for certain types of services in particular inter-company collaboration services, and that is why we got WebEx and now PostPath," Charles Carmel, Cisco's vice president of corporate development, told Red Herring in August 2008.
Citrix - Citrix Cloud Center (C3), aimed at Service Providers, is "an integrated portfolio of Citrix delivery infrastructure products packaged and marketed to the cloud service provider market."
Cloud9 Analytics - Offers what is calls "the industry's first truly on-demand analytics platform" - the brainchild of CTO Scott Weiner, who views the Cloud as the ultimate data warehouse in the sky.
CloudBerry Lab - Established in 2008 by a group of experienced IT professionals with the mission "to help organizations in adopting Cloud computing technologies by closing the gap between Cloud vendors propositions and consumer needs through development of innovative low-cost solutions" - flagship product: CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3.
Cloudera - Recently co-founded by former Googler Christophe Bisciglia and others, Cloudera help its customers install, configure and run Hadoop for large-scale data processing and analysis.
Cloudscale - Cloudscale's unique patent-pending cloud dataflow technology "automatically provides the parallelism and scalability required to handle anything from one-off personal analytics agents up to the most demanding live analytics applications required by the world's leading organizations in business, web, science and government."
Cloudswitch - Fast-growing cloud computing company backed by Matrix Partners, Atlas Venture and Commonwealth Capital Ventures, currently in stealth mode. CloudSwitch is developing what it describes as "an innovative software appliance that delivers the power of cloud computing seamlessly and securely so enterprises can dramatically reduce cost and improve responsiveness to the business."
Cloudworks - The goal of Cloudworks is to allow small and mid-market companies to outsource all of their computers, software, and data. Completely web-based, it works like Salesforce or Hotmail - a company's employees can log in through a web browser to access their desktop, server, software, files, email...everything.
Coghead - [Closed its doors February 2009.]
CohesiveFT - As the provider of what it calls 'Elastic Server On-Demand' - aimed at "enabling customers to build and manage applications for virtualized infrastructure and cloud computing," CohesiveFT's Elastic Server Platform allows users to assemble and deploy servers to Cloud Computing Platforms "in minutes." The company likes to think of Elastic Server as a Great Enabler, "allowing you to package your apps for prime time, and do it all by yourself."
Commensus - Cloud services from Commensus are "designed to help your business grow, while keeping you in control of your systems." Commensus, which specializes in supplying the virtual server hosting solutions, can help you maximize the benefits you receive from cloud computing.
Cordys - The Process Factory by Cordys is a simple, reliable and secure solution for anyone to create MashApps business processes from the Cloud - simply by mixing and matching standard business applications such as Google apps and commercially available services. MashApps can be made in minutes, without any coding. This tool has the capability to do for cloud application development environments what Visual Basic did for Windows - fast, easy, and efficient to develop and deploy bespoke applications.
Cumulux - Cumulux is a Cloud solution provider offering products and services that "help enterprises harness the benefits of the cloud." Cumulux' flagship product, Hybrid Axis "helps enterprises extend their current investments to the cloud by integrating traditional and cloud based applications." Cumulux also offers services like cloud assessments, "rapid prototyping to help enterprises take the right steps towards cloud adoption."
Dataline - Provides cloud computing advice and expertise to the larger FSIs (i.e. Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, etc) and bundles commercial cloud computing offerings in a way that meets Federal customer requirements. Although not a product vendor, the role this company fills as a mid-level Federal System Integrator is crucial to the adoption of these technologies by the public sector.
Desktoptwo - This "Cloud desktop" offering from Sun Global Partner Sapotek describes itself as "your home in the cloud" and already claims to have users in 120 countries and a vibrant community.
Elastic Compute Cloud - see Amazon EC2
Elastic Drive - see Enomaly
Elastra - Styling itself as a provider of "Elastic Computing," Elastra offers to "design, deploy & manage database and application infrastructure in the Cloud in minutes - all with the click of a button." Dedicated to providing companies building applications with a way to radically innovate the way they develop their products and deliver them on IT infrastructure, Elastra's aim is to help a company "unlock the value of cloud computing by using virtualized hardware environments with cloud-provisioned database and infrastructure software that are easily configurable and do not require scripting, respond elastically to changing load and are delivered in the cloud with meter-based pricing."
EMC - When creating a Cloud Computing division within the company in February 2008, EMC CEO Joe Tucci delared that 85 percent of data will be managed in what he called "big, safe information repositories in the Internet 'sky,' so to speak. We're [talking] cloud computing..."
Engine Yard - As a company dedicated to "furthering innovation in Ruby, Rails and cloud computing," Engine Yard offers Rails-focused 24/7 operations support on top of great infrastructure to companies in search of a smooth path from 100 users to 100,000 users. In July 2008 the company closed $15 million of Series B financing led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), which included participation from Amazon.com.
ENKI - The company aim is "to allow you to focus on delivering your application to your customers while we handle the operations side: providing computing as a reliable service."
Enomaly - see Enomalism
Enomalism - Founded in November 2005 by Enomaly Inc, Enomalism - a so-called "Elastic Computing" platform - focuses on "solving the cost and complexity for enterprises that run large technical server infrastructures." Enomalism's flavor of cloud computing simplifies IT management as well as increases efficiencies of system resources. "IT administrators no longer need to install software and manually set up all the systems, but may instead use management software do this. Resources are used more efficiently because computers can be consolidated to achieve more tasks. This ensures that underutilized systems do not sit idle."
eVapt - Claims to enable "usage based monetization (instant SaaS metering) for SaaS and Cloud Computing vendors."
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FlexiScale - The brainchild of CEO Tony Lucas, FlexiScale is a flexible, scalable, automated hosting platform ("Cloud Computing On-Demand").
Force.com - see Salesforce.com
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GigaSpaces - Founded in 2000, with offices in the US, Europe and Asia, GigaSpaces allows businesses and developers "to predictably scale on-line systems under any peak demand, guarantee real-time performance under any data processing load and seamlessly leverage the economies of scale offered by virtual computing environments such as clouds and grids."
GoGrid/ServPath - Launched in 2006 as ServePath's latest growth opportunity, GoGrid, claims the company, "delivers true 'Control in the Cloud' by combining many of the familiar features of dedicated server or managed hosting with the flexibility and scalability of cloud server hosting." In other words, with GoGrid customers can grow production servers in real time to meet demand without affecting their uptime. Provisioning and de-provisioning of servers is all done via the Internet.
Google - Without a doubt 'the elephant in the cloud' - According to this well-researched article, Google filed as long ago as February 2006 a provisional patent application with 91 different numbered claims that arguably makes it clear that Google has a multi-year lead in cloud computing.
gOS - Founded in early 2007, Good OS is an operating system software company based in Silicon Valley, California, USA and Taipei, Taiwan. Its mission is: "to enable cloud computing through software."
Grid Dynamics - Yechnology consultancy that helps 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."
Hadoop - See Apache Hadoop
Heroku - According to the San Francisco-based company's founders, "Heroku means never thinking about hosting or servers again." In May 2008 they raised a $3 million round of funding for their online deployment system for Ruby on Rails apps. Heroku is a Y! Combinator start-up.
HP - As long ago as 2009, HP announced its "HP Cloud Assure" offering, a SaaS offering designed "to help businesses safely and effectively adopt cloud-based services."
Hubspan - Seattle-based integration solution provider Hubspan is the company behind what it describes as the industry's "first secure and reliable single-instance, multi-tenant integration platform delivered as a managed service." The Cloud-based solution in question is called WebSpan aimed at helping integrate processes within and between enterprises.
Hyperic - Founded in 2004, Hyperic provides complete, easy-to-use monitoring and management software for all types of web applications, including hosting it in the cloud via its CloudStatus dashboard currently in beta.
IBM - IBM approaches cloud computing "from the inside out" as it describes it. This means that Big Blue's focus is on building the most secure, efficient and resilient infrastructure for today's organizations, and building the cloud experience as part of that infrastructure. With more than a dozen Blue Cloud Computing Centers worldwide, IBM provides cloud services, ready for use, designed to assist organizations in proving a cloud experience for their constituents. In addition, IBM is the premier company to help build an organization's private cloud, or leverage any of the many IT services that are today provided by IBM through cloud computing, like Capacity on Demand, or the IBM Information Protection Services.
IMOD - see Kaavo
Intel - Intel believes in Open Cloud Standards and one commentator believes there is a strong correlation between how fast cloud computing can proliferate and how well Intel plays its role to lead the open cloud solutions at IaaS and PaaS layers.
Interoute - Europe's largest and most advanced fibre optic network, the Interoute platform operates as effectively Europe's largest privately owned cloud.
Joyent - The Joyent platform, which "enables teams to effectively communicate and collaborate with email, calendaring, contacts, file sharing, and other shared applications," already serves billions of Web pages every month and helped LinkedIn scale to 1 billion page views per month. Self-described as an "On-Demand Computing" provider, Joyent has developed, built and scaled some of the earliest Ruby on Rails applications – and as a result, developed a world-class infrastructure, a methodology around how to deploy and scale (both up and down) Rails applications.
JumpBox - Describes itself as a supplier of "Instant Infrastructure." Specifically, it is a ready-to-deploy virtual computer that contains a pre-configured instance of an application.
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Kaavo - provides a platform for managing distributed applications in the clouds. Kaavo's core product, Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand (IMOD), "makes it easier for individuals and businesses to implement on-demand infrastructure and middleware and run secure and scalable web services and applications." The Kaavo philosophy is that taking a top down application-centric approach of managing infrastructure and middleware makes it easy to fully automate application lifecycle management.
Kadient -
Keynote Systems - Long a player in the SaaS space, in 2009 Keynote opened its cloud infrastructure and offered any Web team free access to KITE (Keynote Internet Testing Environment), its product for testing and analyzing the performance of Web applications across the Internet cloud. With a Web application's performance depending on a variety of clouds' infrastructures, ad servers and other third party content, potential pitfalls grow exponentially and Keynote contends understandably that "it's more important than ever for Internet companies to test and measure applications to ensure a superior end user experience." With KITE, companies have free access to Keynote's cloud infrastructure and a tool to test and monitor their applications from cities all over the world.
Layered Technologies - Offers virtualization and cloud computing systems.
LinkedIn - see Joyent
LongJump - The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that LongJump offers is described by the company as "an on-demand platform for creating and delivering business applications to manage data, streamline collaborative processes and provide actionable analysis." The company claims that the LongJump platform has "extensive features around security access, data analysis and visualization, and process automation – all on the web."
Meeza - Qatar-based, Meeza is currently the main Cloud Services Provider within Middle East North Africa region.
Mezeo Software - Houston-based, privately funded software solution provider that has created what it calls "the industry's first deployable, white label cloud storage platform, enabling service providers to quickly and efficiently enter the cloud storage market" (Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform).
Microsoft - According to this recent article - "Microsoft's Cloud Vision is Coming Together" - Redmond's Cloud Platform vision is coming together. "Look for more information at PDC2008!" writes Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelist John C. Stame.
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newScale - Adamant that self-service is essential for any public or private cloud, newScale provides a self-service IT storefront for the enterprise, "driving standards and service request automation – from the desktop to the data center, for physical, virtual, and cloud environments." As noted by newScale CTO and founder, Rodrigo Fernando Flores, "Amazon has redefined the expectations and pricing for data center services. Make no mistake, they are competition for enterprise IT. Internal IT departments must get ahead of this challenge, by defining their own Service Catalog, introducing self-service, and deploying their own on-premise cloud." In line with this viewpoint, newScale's own Service Catalog offers a menu of standardized service options, self-service ordering, and billing for cloud resources – thereby "enabling the operating model for a private, internal, or hybrid cloud."
Nirvanix - Provider of an enterprise cloud offering that offers companies with more than 5TBs of data a highly scalable storage and delivery platform, Nirvanix has already raised more than $18 million in funding from world-class investors including Intel Capital. The company's customers include Fortune 50, media and entertainment and innovative Web 2.0 customers.
Novell - The recently-announced Novell Cloud Security Service "enables cloud service providers and Software-as-a-Service vendors to ensure their offerings meet the strict security and compliance standards required by global businesses."
OpenNebula - OpenNebula is a widely used open-source tool for the efficient, dynamic and scalable management of VMs within datacenters (private clouds) involving a large amount of virtual and physical servers. It supports Xen, KVM and on-demand access to Amazon EC2. The tool is being used as core component in several cloud projects, such as RESERVOIR.
OpSource - Delivers a complete Web operations solution for software as a service and web companies. Its OpSource Cloud is currently in private beta, aimed at providing every user with a "Virtual Private Cloud" within the public cloud.
Oracle - The world's largest business software company believes that Private Clouds for the exclusive use of one enterprise can mitigate concerns about security, quality of service, integration, compliance, lock-in, and long term costs of public clouds by giving the enterprise greater control.
Parallels - Founded in 1999, Parallels optimizes computing by providing virtualization and automation software to businesses and service providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Parallels is working closely with a network of ISVs and service providers to enable them to build their cloud computing and software-as-a-service offerings, meeting the needs of end-user organizations of all size. Parallels technology is also used by large enterprises creating their own in-house clouds.
ParaScale - "Cloud storage" involves clustering tens to hundreds of servers together to act as one giant file repository with massive capacity and parallel throughput for a variety of applications. ParaScale's software "enables the enterprise or service provider to build enormous storage pools on commodity hardware at an affordable cost."
Penguin Computing - Penguin has launched an HPC cloud called Penguin on Demand (POD). Penguin is targeting researchers, scientists and engineers who need surge capacity for time-critical analyses or can't afford their own HPC cluster.
Platform Computing - Founded in 1992, Platform is a pioneer and global leader in HPC (high-performance computing) and takes the view that there is an intersection between grid computing and cloud computing in that both cloud and grid propose an architecture that masks the complexity of managing thousands of commodity servers from their users.
Quantivo - Claims to be "revolutionizing the Business Intelligence (BI) world by combining Cloud Computing with an innovative and patented 'Affinity Analytics' technology." Company recently won the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's prestigious Emerging Technology Award in the Cloud Computing category.
Rackspace - Market-leading specialist in hosting and cloud computing services, Rackspace Hosting is "changing the way businesses worldwide buy IT." Rackspace delivers computing-as-a-service, "integrating the industry's best technologies into a flexible service offering, making computing more reliable and affordable." Rackspace is distinguished by its award-winning "Fanatical Support," furthering the company's mission to be one of the world's greatest service companies. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best companies to work for in the US, ranking number 43 on the list. Rackspace's portfolio of hosted IT services includes Managed Hosting, Cloud Hosting, and Email and Apps.
Red Hat - RH believes that its consistent dedication to open source and open standards will further the success of a strong cloud ecosystem. "By bringing together thousands of Red Hat-certified applications, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization we aim to deliver the next generation of computing architectures, today," says a company spokesman.
Rhomobile - Rhomobile provides RhoHub, which is describes as "the world's first Development-as-a-Service for Mobile." RhoHub provides a cloud-based service for both smartphone app development and hosting of mobile applications.
RightScale - RightScale offers a fully automated cloud management platform that enables organizations "to easily deploy and manage business critical applications across multiple clouds with complete control and portability." The RightScale Cloud Management Platform is delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) and is available in a range of editions, froma free Developer Edition to Enterprise Editions.
rPath - Founded in 2005, rPath helps organizations "realize the promise and avoid the perils" of cloud computing, "rPath's Cloud Computing Adoption Model provides a pragmatic, actionable, step-by-step framework for achieving measurable benefits now, while laying the foundation for the strategic benefits of a cloud infrastructure over time."
SalesForce.com - has a toolkit for cloud computing development, Force.com.
Savvis - Provider of Savvis Cloud Compute, a "right-sized computing environment" launched in February 2009.
ServePath/GoGrid - Launched in 2006 as ServePath's latest growth opportunity, GoGrid, claims the company, "delivers true 'Control in the Cloud' by combining many of the familiar features of dedicated server or managed hosting with the flexibility and scalability of cloud server hosting." In other words, with GoGrid customers can grow production servers in real time to meet demand without affecting their uptime. Provisioning and de-provisioning of servers is all done via the Internet.
SIMtone - Durham, NC based SIMtone has developed and commercialized a 'Universal Cloud Computing Platform' that allows network operators and businesses "to host, manage and quickly provision any cloud-hosted services, and ubiquitously deliver them to zero-touch terminals that can be standalone, low cost hardware appliances, or software terminals usable via browsers or on PCs, thin clients and mobile devices."
Skytap - Seattle-based Skytap's goal is "to make serving up virtual machines over the internet as ubiquitous as delivering HTML to a browser." Its initial product offering, Skytap Virtual Lab, is a hosted, on-demand service for virtual lab automation and management.
[email protected] - [email protected]'s vision is "to create a business-ready service-oriented infrastructure that will empower the service economy in a flexible and dependable way."
SmugMug - Founded 5 years ago, SmuMug calls itself "the ultimate in photosharing" since it offers unlimited storage and stores backup copies of each photo in multiple datacenters. With more than 315,000 paying customers already, and 288,000,000 photos, SmugMug is a QED of cloud computing.
SOASTA - No one who heard SOASTA speak at AJAXWorld in 2007 about best practices in AJAX testing will be surprised to hear that Web testing is also at the heart of its CloudTest offering, a Cloud-based testing solution "built on the cloud to enable application testing in the cloud."
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Sun - In July 2008, David Douglas was named Senior Vice President of Network.com, Sun's offering based on the Sun Grid project. Douglas is now the head of Sun's overall cloud computing initiative and his group now reports directly to Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz. ""We continue to see huge potential in the cloud space," commented Douglas as the news of his appointment was announced.
Terremark - Offering 'Enterprise Cloud' services that "let you control a resource pool of processing, storage and networking and allow you to deploy server capacity on demand," Terremark as years of experience managing complex, mission critical infrastructures and applications for leading companies around the world.
The GridLayer - see Layered Technologies
ThinkGrid -
Unisys -The Unisys cloud computing strategy enables clients to choose the type of data center computing services that best meet their business objectives, from self-managed, automated IT infrastructures to Unisys-managed cloud services. Using Unisys services and technologies, organizations can create a private cloud within their data centers, a public cloud through secure Unisys-managed cloud solutions, or a hybrid cloud solution combining the best of both private and Unisys-managed cloud services.
Univa UD - Univa UD is a leader and innovator in software solutions for cloud enablement. The company's software suite includes infrastructure management and service governance for cloud and HPC environments and spans all 3 cloud scenarios: public, private and hybrid. "With Univa products, companies can build private internal compute clouds, create clusters in a public cloud, or span the two by cloudbursting from an internal to external environment on demand."
vCloud - see VMware
Vertica - Vertica Analytic Database for the Cloud is "an on-demand version of Vertica's blazingly fast, grid-enabled columnar database hosted on Amazon's EC2."
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VMware - A virtualization leader and pioneer, VMware has effectively delivered the technology that makes today's clouds possible. With the pervasive presence of VMware in many accounts, enterprises are leveraging their virtualization infrastructure to build internal clouds, and leverage technology like VMotion to flex resources for DR or test and development to external clouds, as needed. Its vCloud initiative, says the company, "offers users of all sizes this robust and reliable platform, support for any application on or off site, and choice from over 100 service providers worldwide who deliver the cloud on VMware."
WorkXpress - PaaS pioneer WorkXpress released v 2.0 of its flagship customizable software platform in April 2009. "WorkXpress 2.0 is the world's most functional PaaS (Platform as a Service)" claimed the Company in an accompanying statement.
Zetta - Provider of what it describes as "best-in-class NAS storage in the cloud." Zetta's founders are the team who commercialized the web as the leaders of Netscape.
Zimory - A spin-off of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Zimory "enables dynamic, on-demand movement of applications automatically between servers in one or many locations, as well as creating the world's first marketplace for computing capacity." Based in Berlin, the company develops a dynamic infrastructure solution for data centers to create a modern Adaptive Cloud Infrastructure - "improving flexibility and reducing operating costs."
Zuora - With its "Powering the Business Cloud" slogan, Zuora has planted its flag firmly atop the Cloud Billing mountain. The company describes its Z-Commerce Platform as "the first commerce platform for cloud developers."
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Nar-Anon is a safe place for family and friends of addicts. Addiction is not an individual problem, but a problem that affects entire families. Whether an drug addict is in treatment or not, or even recognizes or admits they have a problem, their addiction will have a profound effect on their families, friends, loved ones. And sometimes even co-workers or employees. Nar-Anon is a support group that exists to help provide both emotional support and guidance. Nar-Anon is for anyone who has a direct relationship with an addict. Regardless of whether they admit to being one or not.
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Many times, families can become unwitting allies in enabling their loved one's addiction. Rather than helping them to seek treatment for it. Here are some ways families often help their addicted loved one avoid facing their addiction.
Covering for the addict
When addicts use, they often miss important events, including work, important business trips, and family time. Families are often expected to call bosses, coworkers and other family members to make excuses for the addict.
Reinforcing their own denial
Addicts develop a very complicated system of denial and lies to keep themselves from having to face the truth of their addiction, which they expect their loved ones to participate in. Many times, the families of addicts will participate in reinforcing their own denial because they fear if they don't, the addict will leave them.
Financially supporting the addict
At some point in time, most addicts will no longer be able to support their addiction and still meet their other fiscal responsibilities. In many cases, they won't ask others to actually purchase the substance of their addiction, but will instead ask to borrow just a few dollars (which they will rarely pay back) or to cover other bills instead.
Find an Nar-Anon Meeting In Collomsville Pennsylvania
There are are thousands of addiction support groups that take place all across the country. Finding a meeting near me is as easy as using our list of meeting places in Collomsville. There you can find a wealth of information about both what the group is about and for finding a meeting near me. Living with an addict is something no one should have to endure alone. These groups can help make sure you don't have to. Click here to see, "What's It Like Attending Nar-Anon Meeting?".
Breaking The Cycle
Addiction also creates an addictive cycle, which can often be passed down from parents to their children. This is also why it is particularly important to address the issues surrounding having a drug addicted parent in the teen years, in order to break this cycle. Support groups are an important part of not just receiving emotional support but in breaking the cycle of addiction.
Nar-Anon And Children
Even when an addictis not abusive, children can grow up learning to tiptoe very cautiously around their addicted parent and often feel abandoned by them, even if they continue to live in the same house. For this reason, there is a special branch of Al-Anon, called Alateen, which deals very specifically with the issues that teenagers face when one or both of their parents is an addict.
These are just a few of the ways in which addicts build very complex and complicated relationships with their families and loved ones. Perhaps the hardest thing for the family and friends of addicts to understand is that they cannot change the addict, they can only change themselves. Support groups help the families and friends of addicts to coexist with the addict without becoming ensnared in the complexities of their addiction.
Living with an addict can be an exhausting and soul-draining experience, no matter how much you love them or depend on them. Some drug users do not even "use" constantly or can even be sober for years, but when they do use it can create absolute chaos and madness. Spouses and children of drug users are in a particularly vulnerable position because addicts can also be very controlling. In many cases, they will slowly encourage their spouse to become more and more dependent on them, sometimes over the course of years.
The addict may be very financially successful and spend years encouraging their spouse to quit working and cease more and more professional activities. This can make it hard for them to re-enter the job market if they decide to leave their loved one. Addicts can also often drive a wedge between their spouse and their family and friends, making them almost completely socially and emotionally dependent on the narcotic as well.
In other cases, the sober spouse may be the main breadwinner and might feel as if the drug user is helpless and incapable of taking care of themselves. This can engender deep feelings of guilt when they think about leaving. In many cases, the sober spouse grew up taking care of an addicted parent, so they are conditioned to feel it is their responsibility to care for the "helpless" abuser.
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Is it too late in the game to challenge Obama�s use of this sports metaphor to respond to Syria? The very real possibility that the Bashar al-Assad regime is about to use nerve agents to kill tens of thousands of people is not a �game.�
�Game-changer� -- which has made its way from sports to business to politics and now to diplomacy -- has replaced the �red line,� a term more easily understood by rogue regimes thinking of defying the United States. Game-change is a lazy reference, but that�s only part of the problem.
The term is one data point in the larger trend toward viewing government as a sporting contest, a series of games won and lost. In the perpetual battle to put a �W� in the column of the R�s (in the red jerseys) or the D�s (in blue), the sports talk helps the political class to forget that there are real human consequences to their games.
Obama and others in his administration have used the term in reference to food marketing standards (�truly a game-changer,� said the first lady), the JOBS Act (�a potential game-changer,� said the president), AmeriCorps, childhood-obesity prevention, Title IX, digital tutors, natural gas from shale, the Internet, the Independent Medicare Advisory Council, conversations about immigration, rail improvements, cyberspace research, and foreign-aid standards.
So, when the president warns Syria that chemical weapons are a �game-changer,� is Assad�s regime to assume he is using the term in the childhood-obesity sense or the Medicare sense?
�Game-changer� arrived in politics during the Bush administration, becoming a clich� in 2008 with John McCain�s �game-changing� nomination of Sarah Palin as his running mate, and was recounted in the book and movie �Game Change.� (A previous political book by one of the �Game Change� co-authors was titled �The Way to Win.�)
Now it is ubiquitous, applied by politicians and journalists to the NBA�s Jason Collins, Michael Jackson�s medical records, Sen. Marco Rubio, U.S. military presence in Asia, the Boston Marathon bombing, health care tax credits, over-the-counter birth control, AIDS research and just about everything else. Search in Nexis for uses of �game-changer� over the last month and you are told �This search has been interrupted because it will return more than 3,000 results.�
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For them, and for the people of Syria awaiting a sarin gas attack from the sky, what happens in Washington isn�t an athletic contest. Let�s level the playing field for them, and put a red line around the whole notion that governing is a game.
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Ultrasound is an imaging test that can be used for many different reasons. Ultrasound uses reflected sound waves instead of x-rays to create pictures of internal organs. This makes it a safer alternative for internal images during pregnancy.
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It is not necessary for every pregnant woman to have ultrasound. However, it is an excellent way to determine the age of the fetus if the dates of the last menstrual period are not known. The procedure is often used, along with a medical history and physical exams, to screen for problems or monitor a condition in you or your fetus. Ultrasound can help determine whether the fetus is growing properly. If there is an abnormality, your healthcare provider may be able to help you reduce risks to yourself and the growing fetus.
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To prepare for the exam, you should wear comfortable clothes. You may be asked to wear a hospital gown. If you are having a vaginal ultrasound, you will need to remove your clothes from the waist down and cover up with a sheet. Abdominal ultrasound exams may require a full bladder to help the clinician view the pelvic organs. If this is the case, you will be asked to drink several glasses of water before the exam and not urinate until the exam is over.
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Welcome to the Denver chapter homepage. Chapter leader is Steve Kosten.
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A big thank you to South Seas Corporation for sponsoring all catering for our 2013 monthly chapter meetings!! It is much appreciated!
Next Chapter Meeting: April 17th at CCA Lowery [ http://1304denverowasp.eventbrite.com/# RSVP Now!!! ]
Food and Chapter Business starting at 6, presentation starting at about 6:30.
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Topic: Security in the SDLC
This month we welcome Matt Shufeldt who will be presenting on security in the SDLC looking at different models and what has worked and not worked. Matt is the Director of Information Security at Sports Authority and we look forward to hearing of his lessons learned!
About the chapter: Chapter Meetings are held the 3rd Wednesday of designated months for the Denver Chapter, and the 3rd Thursday of designated months for the Boulder Chapter. If you have an idea for a topic or speaker or would like to present, please reach out to Steve Kosten, Denver OWASP Chapter Leader: steve 'dot' kosten 'at' owasp.org
Thanks to Community College Aurora for hosting us, South Seas Corporation for providing food for our meetings and thanks to Veracode for providing a speaker for this meeting...
Future meetings are planned for: stay tuned for 2013.
Chapter Board of Directors
Here's the team that's putting it all together:
- Chairman/Chapter Leader - Steve Kosten
- Director of Communications - Craig Klosterman
- Comm Vice-Director - Alan Darien
- Outreach & Education Chair - James Synovec
- Outreach & Education Vice Chair - Brad Carvalho
- FROC Chair - Micah Tapman
- FROC Chair Emeritus - Kathy Thaxton
NOTE: PLEASE CONSIDER FOLLOWING US AT @OWASP303 ON TWITTER AND/OR SUBSCRIBE TO THE MAILING LIST AND/OR join the OWASP Denver Linked In group.
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Questions, Comments
Questions can be directed to
- Steve Kosten, Denver OWASP: steve 'dot' kosten 'at' owasp.org
Chapter Meetings
Meetings are usually the 3rd Wednesday of the month. We are trying to have at least 2/quarter. If you can't make the Denver meeting, the Boulder meeting is usually the 3rd Thursday of the month.
Future Meetings
Meetings are planned for the 3rd Wednesdays of September and October. We may do a social event or two also...
Past Meetings
Matt Schufeldt: "Security in the SDLC"
Jim Manico: "Secure Coding Techniques"
Chris Roberts: "The Evolution of Hacking"
Dave Ferguson: "Building a Successful Application Security Program"
April 18th 2012: Tim Van Cleave "Intro to WebScarab and WebGoat"
February 15th 2012: Andy Lewis "Why OWASP? OWASP is the wheel. You don't need to reinvent it!
Denver January 2012 meeting January 18th, 2012| Greg Knaddison "How Does Drupal Security Stack up?"
September 14th 2011: Chris Schmidt "OWASP ESAPI"
March 17th 2011: Hands on "Hack a Thon"
September 22nd 2010: Eric Duprey: Application Vulnerability Shooting Gallery
August 18th 2010: Clint Pollock: Protecting Your Applications from Backdoors
June 2nd 2010: Front Range OWASP Conference
January 20th 2010: John Evans: Securing Webapps: An Illustrative Overview
November 18th 2009: Anton Rager: Advanced XSS
August 27th 2009: Jon Rose: Security in the Clouds
May 2009: Dr. Joseph McComb & and Daniel Weiske: Compliance and application security testing
March 2009: Front Range OWASP Conference (SnowFROC)
January 2009: David Campbell & Eric Duprey: Guided Tour: AppSec NYC '08 CTF
October 2008: Alex Smolen: The OWASP ASP .NET ESAPI
September 2008: John Dickson: Black Box vs. White Box: Different App Testing Strategies
August 2008: Dan Cornell: Static Analysis
July 2008: David Byrne & Eric Duprey: Grendel-Scan
June 2008: Front Range OWASP Conference: Jeremiah Grossman, Robert Hansen, and more!
May 2008: David Campbell & Eric Duprey: XSS Attacks & Defenses
April 2008: Ryan Barnett: Virtual Patching with ModSecurity
February 2008: Michael Sutton: SQL Injection Revisited
Local Organizations of Interest
Mailing List
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Twitter Feed @owasp303
Denver OWASP has created a Twitter feed @owasp303 to keep you in the loop. Whilst the mailing list is primarily intended to be low-traffic and only provide updates regarding the times, locations, and topics for chapter meetings, the Twitter feed will also provide noteworthy appsec updates.
@OWASP303 Twitter Feed (follow us on Twitter!) <twitter>55021150</twitter>
Denver OWASP Chapter Leaders
- Steve Kosten, Denver OWASP: steve.kosten 'at' owasp.org
Key OWASP Resources
- http://www.owasp.org/images/4/41/ASVS_One_Page_Handout.pdf
- http://www.owasp.org/images/3/31/ESAPI_One_Page_Handout.pdf
- http://www.owasp.org/images/a/a1/Legal_One_Page_Handout.pdf
- http://www.owasp.org/images/a/a3/How_ESAPI_Works.pdf
- http://www.owasp.org/images/a/ac/LAMP_Should_be_Spelled_LAMPE.pdf
- http://www.owasp.org/images/0/01/Getting_started_designing_for_a_level_of_assurance.pdf
- http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Agile_Software_Development:_Don%27t_Forget_EVIL_User_Stories
- http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Man_vs._Code
- http://www.owasp.org/images/4/4e/OWASP_ASVS_2009_Web_App_Std_Release.pdf
- http://www.owasp.org/images/c/cd/PHP-ESAPI_1.0a_install.pdf
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Facebook Inc. agreed to delete data collected from users within the European Union for its facial-recognition feature by Oct. 15, the Irish privacy regulator said.
The owner of the biggest social-networking site has faced several European reviews over concerns a facial-recognition program that automatically suggests people's names to tag in pictures breaches privacy rights.
Facebook Ireland "agreed to delete collected templates for EU users by Oct. 15" and to seek regulator consent "if it chooses to provide the feature to EU users again," the Irish Office of the Data Protection Commissioner said in the conclusions to a review today.
Data-protection regulators from the 27-nation EU have been looking into Facebook's facial-recognition feature. Norway's data-protection regulator said in August it was reviewing how the feature worked and what information Facebook was storing. Earlier this year, a group of regulators known as the EU's Article 29 Data-Protection Working Party, said people must consent to the use of their images.
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A Reading from Homer
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, English (born Netherlands), 1836 - 1912
Made in Great Britain, Europe
Oil on canvasDimensions:
36 1/8 inches × 6 feet 1/4 inches (91.8 × 183.5 cm) Framed: 51 inches × 7 feet 3 inches × 3 3/8 inches (129.5 × 221 × 8.6 cm)Curatorial Department:
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E1924-4-1Credit Line:
The George W. Elkins Collection, 1924
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Here, a young poet crowned with a laurel wreath reads from Homer to an audience dressed for a festival. The setting is probably Greece toward the end of the seventh century BCE. The Greek letters in the upper right indicate that the place is dedicated to the poet.
Through attention to details such as architecture and dress, Alma-Tadema evokes scenes of everyday life in ancient Greece and Rome. However, his pictures are rarely entirely archaeologically accurate. For example, while he accurately rendered the ancient musical instrument on the left, a cithara, he also included a type of rose that did not exist before the nineteenth century.
British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of ArtOn February 7, 1885, the correspondent for The Athenaeum described a picture on which Alma-Tadema was then at work, to be called "Plato." The setting was Sicily, in the forecourt of a temple on a cliff overlooking the sea, girt round with ilex and gray olive trees. Plato himself was shown seated between the shafts of two marble Doric columns expounding philosophy to an audience of a mother, a daughter, and a reclining brunette, with other figures listening. But when the Royal Academy opened three months later, Alma-Tadema was represented by A Reading from Homer "painted in little more than a month," according to the same critic for The Athenaeum May 2, 1885, who added that "the picture of Plato addressing his disciples, which we described some time ago, has given place for a season to that before us." Helen Zimmern ("L. Alma Tadema, Royal Academician: His Life and Work." The Art Annual for 1886. London, 1886. [suppl. monograph to The Art Journal, 1886]. p. 25) noted that A Reading from Homer had actually been painted in the space of two months (March-April 1885): "This actual canvas was completed in so short a space, [but] the preliminary studies, including an abandoned picture that was to have been called 'Plato,' occupied eight months of work." The origins of the picture, however, are much earlier. On March 2, 1882, Charles W. Deschamps (1848-1908), one of the European agents of the New York banker Henry Gurdon Marquand (1819-1902), who commissioned this painting, wrote to his employer: "I have just heard from Tadema: he is working at the 'Singer of Homer,' he says, and is getting on well with it." Deschamps remarked that Alma-Tadema "has left other work for it," but "does not know yet whom the picture is for, as I have not forwarded your letter to him."1 Thus the picture was under way at least by the early months of 1882. Almost three years pass before we hear again of the Homer/Plato picture, in a letter from Alma-Tadema to Henry Marquand dated September 29, 1884. The picture described by the artist here is clearly the aborted "Plato":
Your picture was in great progress when thoroughly dissatisfied with the results I have quite remodeled it. The marble seat is gone. The Rapsod[ist?] still sits in a marble seat & there is some sort of a seat left for two women instead of one besides I have added four more figures to the auditory [audience] which seems to me a great improvement. The ilex grove which showed above the seat is now much clearer & makes a beautiful background for the figures, especially that through the stems of the trees. I intend showing a bit of [unintelligible word] sea & sunny distance through the columns of temple & amongst the trees an altar & statue of a God appropriate to the place. Somehow the thing looks more natural & that is of course a great gain I am sure you will like it better."Alma-Tadema never got the picture right. He abandoned it and started afresh on the canvas that became A Reading from Homer. The composition of "Plato," now presumably destroyed, however, may have looked roughly like that of A Reading from Homer. Infrared photographs taken in 1965 reveal a number of pentimenti showing that Alma-Tadema had trouble resolving details even in this second attempt at the composition. Several of the alterations are slight, such as the change in the position of the cithara; but others, such as the discarded position of the right arm of the reader, which was flung out in an emphatic and declamatory gesture, perhaps are holdovers from the "Plato'' composition. Likewise, the round Doric columns visible in the infrared photograph at the left and center left background may reflect the positions of similar columns in the lost "Plato." The reasons for the abandonment of the "Plato" were largely technical, although the subject matter may also have had something to do with the difficulty Alma-Tadema had in completing it. In 1895 F. G. Stephens (1828-1907) explained that "Plato" was left unfinished because after eight months' work "the proportions of the figures and the background [were] out of harmony [and] the whole had lost that interest which an artist must feel if he is to proceed with a picture."2 But it is irresistible not to remark that Alma-Tadema's "Plato'' is definitely a Victorian, expounding his philosophy to that family audience of mother, daughter, and unidentified brunette: no sign here of the symposium, no hint of Alcibiades.3 And this is all the more pronounced as Alma-Tadema certainly knew one of the three versions (or the print after one of them) of a contemporary representation of the scene--the masterpiece of the German artist Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880), The Banquet of Plato (1889, oil on canvas, 116 x 235 3/8" {295 x 598 cm} Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle) or the second version, 1873, Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Nationalgalerie.4 Feuerbach's frank depiction of Plato greeting the sensuous Alcibiades and his revelers is a long way from Alma-Tadema's near-domestic genre scene. Still, Feuerbach's marble atrium, richly decorated with wall paintings and archaeologically correct tables, chairs, and lamps, his philosopher crowned with laurels greeting the garlanded guests, and the centralized marble columns in the background are elements one might find in any number of pictures by Alma-Tadema. But Feuerbach's long, low format and the large scale of his picture find no echoes in works by the Dutch-born artist before A Reading from Homer. The present painting is a splendid example, of Alma-Tadema's eclectic imagination at work "re-creating" everyday life in ancient times. If its close predecessor showed Plato, the setting, as Monkhouse (Cosmo Monkhouse. British Contemporary Artists. London, 1899) thought, must be Greek and the date toward the end of the seventh century B.C. But as Richard Jenkyns points out, it is itself revealing that although Alma-Tadema pretended to archaeological accuracy, one can rarely date his scenes even to the nearest century or two on the basis of the setting or props.5 The effect, therefore, is one of viewing masqueraders at a fancy-dress party; and indeed Alma-Tadema is known to have loved dressing up in costume and is said to have surprised Whistler by appearing before him in a toga, sandals, and spectacles. Perhaps it is significant that the one work on paper related to A Reading from Homer is Alma-Tadema's undated cover (presumably a lithograph) for a program for the Royal Academy's Student Dramatic Society (Girl and Boy Seated by a Cithera, lithograph? location unknown. Photograph: London, Witt Library). It shows the young girl who reclines on the marble exedra, her fingers entwined with those of the young man seated by the cithara. The rest of the audience in A Reading from Homer consists of two young men: one standing at the left, half cut off by the edge of the picture, and the other dressed in goat skins (and so perhaps intended for a shepherd) lying flat out on the marble, chin in hand, in what must be an extremely uncomfortable position. All are garlanded as for a festival and listen to a young poet crowned with laurels declaiming from Homer in a spot dedicated to the poet, as we can see from the Greek letters incised into the marble above his head. Helen Zimmern ("L. Alma Tadema, Royal Academician: His Life and Work." The Art Annual for 1886. London, 1886. [suppl. monograph to The Art Journal, 1886]. ) was the first to trot out the cliché that "these dead-and-gone folk were in all fundamental essentials like ourselves," but what she really meant was that they were like a small clique of Victorian aesthetes, led by Oscar Wilde and satirized in George du Maurier's (1834-1896) cartoons and in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience (1881). Zimmern unconsciously saw that the theme of the picture is that the Greeks were as greenery yallery as certain of Alma-Tadema's clients. This is aptly demonstrated in the notes to the picture in the Marquand sales catalogue of 1903, where the potential purchaser was informed that "The spirit of the old Greek life, its grace of living, & beautiful environment are revived," for in the spot dedicated to poetry, "hither he, who has some fine thought, & those who desire to 'hear some new thing,' can resort."6 The reviewers were all delighted with A Reading from Homer and praised the artist for working up "his accessories to a higher pitch of realism than ever he has obtained."7 The key word here is accessory. Thereafter they had little to do but list the amazing things Alma-Tadema could describe with his brush: the veined and semitransparent marble, the ''pure luminosity" and "fine fidelity of the flesh painting." Characteristically, Alma-Tadema went to enormous lengths to depict accurately an ancient cithara, but then included, in a lovely still life by the side of the tambourine, a type of rose that did not exist before the nineteenth century. Percy Standing (Percy Cross Standing. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A. London, Paris, New York, an Melbourne, 1905) suggested that A Reading from Homer was a companion picture to Alma-Tadema's Sappho and Alcaeus (Opus CCXXIII, 1881, 26 x 48", Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery) and, indeed, both pictures have as their theme a performance of a poet's works before an audience seated round an exedra. However, A Reading from Homer had no pendant, and the theme of the artist and his audience was one that Alma-Tadema returned to again and again throughout his career. As early as 1862 in Venantius Fortunatus Reading His Poems to Radagonda (Opus XV, 1862, 25 1/2 x 32 1/2 , Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum) he treated the subject in a Merovingian setting, but one could also point to Anacreon Reading His Poems at Lesbia's House (Opus LXXX, 1870, oil on panel, 15 1/2 x 19", England, private collection) or The Pyrrhic Dance (Opus LXIX, 1869, oil on panel, 16 x 32", London, Guildhall Art Gallery) as variations on the same theme. One may see this preoccupation with the theme of the performer and audience as part of a wider tendency in English painting in the latter half of the nineteenth century. One thinks of Edward Burne-Jones's Laus Veneris (1873-75, 47 x 71", Newcastle upon Tyne, Laing Art Gallery), Albert Moore's Musician (c. 1867, oil on canvas, 10 1/2 x 15", New Haven, Yale Center for British Art ), or, later, J. W. Waterhouse's (1847-1917) Saint Cecilia (1895, 48 1/2 x 78 1/2, London, Maas Gallery. The composition of this painting is indebted to, but does not directly depend upon, Greek vase paintings. One example that Alma-Tadema could have known was a kylix in the Berlin museum by the painter Douris, discovered in 1872, which depicts a reading from the Hermesian poet (Cup {kylix}, c. 490-485 B.C., by Douris, terra).8 A Reading from Homer was one of the first large pictures to have been completed in Alma-Tadema's new studio in St. John's Wood. The dome of this studio was covered in aluminum to give a cold, silvery light to the room and resulted in a cooler, whiter light in his pictures painted after 1884. The first owner of the picture was Henry Gurdon Marquand (1819-1902), whose entry in the Dictionary of American Biography identifies him simply as a capitalist. Marquand, to be more specific, was a banker and broker on Wall Street and made his fortune financing railroads, owning the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad from 1874 to 1882.9 Around 1881 Marquand began to retire from business to devote his time to philanthropy, particularly to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, whose second president he was from 1889 to his death. Marquand has been called "without a doubt the most discriminating collector and art patron of his time."10 He filled his red sandstone and brick mansion at Sixty-eighth Street and Madison Avenue, built for him in the French Renaissance style by Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895), with his collection of English and old master paintings, including works by Vermeer, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Hals, Ruisdael, Cuyp, Turner (1775-1851) and Gainsborough (1727-1788). The famous gray and gold music room housed part of Marquand's collection of Greek vases, terra-cottas, and Roman marbles. In 1884 Marquand commissioned furniture and decorations for this room, including wall hangings, from Alma-Tadema to be executed in the purest neo-Greco-Roman style. It was for this room that Alma-Tadema designed his famous piano, made of black ebony, inlaid with ivory, mother-of-pearl, box- and sandalwood, with raised scrollwork in ebony and ivory, and painted by Edward Poynter, an extravaganza the Furniture Gazette in 1887 called "one of the most superb specimens of elaborately artistic workmanship it has ever been our good fortune to see." The artist also designed a suite of matching furniture in the same materials.11 In this room, together with another small Alma-Tadema in his collection, Amo Te, Ama Me (Opus CCXXXI, 1881, oil on panel, 6 7/8 x 15", England, private collection),12 hung A Reading from Homer, a suitable subject for a room devoted to recitals and private concerts. To continue the theme of music in a classical setting, Marquand commissioned from the president of the Royal Academy, Sir Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), a mythological triptych illustrating the theme of music (the central panel showing the muses Mnemosyne, Melpomene, and Thalia; the right panel, Terpsichore, and the left panel, Erato, completed 1886).''13 The correspondence between Marquand and Alma-Tadema, and then with Leighton, survives. It shows that Alma-Tadema was in charge of the entire decorative scheme, and it was he who commissioned Leighton on Marquand's behalf. We have already quoted from a letter written by Marquand's agent Charles Deschamps of March 2, 1882, acknowledging the commission for A Reading from Homer and a letter of September 29, 1884, from Alma-Tadema to Marquand describing his progress on that commission. In a letter also of September 1884 Leighton thanked Alrna-Tadema for arranging the commission to decorate the music room with ceiling panels: "Your note...gives me great pleasure for it shows me that the friend [Marquand] who desires my work, and for whom I will do my very best is a true and devoted lover of art whose acquaintance I had the pleasure of making this summer." The next two letters from Leighton to Marquand concern the ceiling panels, not A Reading from Homer. One, dated May 17 [1886], reveals that Leighton himself was responsible for choosing the theme of the ceiling panels: "Let me briefly describe the subjects to you. I have thought that in a room dedicated to the performance of music the Muses were the perfect presiding spirits in as much as with the Greeks Music and Poetry always went hand in hand." Leighton stressed to Marquand that his panels ''are emphatically not pictures but decorations," and when Marquand wrote suggesting that the center panel be treated in the style of Leighton's large easel picture Cymon and Iphigenia (c. 1884, 64 x 129", New South Wales, National Museum), Leighton became much firmer with his patron, betraying the strength and clarity of his own notions about the kind of picture suitable for such a commission and not hesitating to "educate" Marquand:
I gather from what you say that you have formed a different idea from mine how that effect should be attained--you speak of a subject in the centre after the manner of my "Cymon & Iphigenia"--now this is eminently a picture and wholly unlike a Greek wall decoration--nor indeed would any class of decorative painting comport the introduction of a work of so pictorial, or, shall I say, picturesque a character, or in which subtle facial expression is a chief clement. My notion in this instance would be to design something which would have the decorative definiteness and aspect of a Greek Vase, plus the richness of colour in the figures would be more or less isolated and very firm in outline and would have no pictorial background--only instead of being black blots on a red ground or white on black--they should be of full rich tone on gold ground--the effect would be rather that of the old mosaics and I think very telling.--Of course therefore I should not select incidents for my subjects but rather symbolical figures bearing upon the various aspects of Music--grave or gay, pastoral or heroic.14Richard Dorment, from British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Century (1986), pp. 3-8. 1. Letters from Deschamps, Alma-Tadema, and Leighton addressed to Marquand and quoted in this entry are among the Marquand papers in the Archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
2. F. G. Stephens, ed. Laurence Alma Tadema, R.A.: A Sketch of His Life and Work. London, 1895. p. 17.
3. For a discussion of Plato and the Victorians, see Richard Jenkyns, The Victorians and Ancient Greece (Oxford, 1980).
4. Karlsruhe, Staatliehe Kunsthalle, Anselm Feuerbach, 1829-1880, Gemalde tmd Zeichnungen, June 5-August 15, 1976, cats. 53, 59, Z33. The first drawing for The Banquet of Plato is dated 1865 (cat. Z33). The picture was engraved by Otto Reim.
5. Richard Jenkyns, The Victorians and Ancient Greece (Oxford, 1980). p. 318.
6. New York, American Art Association, January 23-31, 1903, lot 88.
7. The Art Joumal, 1885, p. 190. The column "Fine Art Gossip," in The Athenaeum, May 23, 1885, noted that several pictures in the Royal Academy exhibition for that year had been damaged by being scratched with a sharp instrument. Among them was A Reading from Homer, scratched on the foot of the man lying on the floor.
8. J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1963), vol. 1, p. 431, no. 48. See also J. D. Beazley, "Hymn to Hermes," American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 52, no. 2 (1948), pp. 336-37.
9. Calvin Tomkins, Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitam Museum of Art (New York, 1970), pp. 73ff.
10. Ibid., p.73.
11. The piano and furniture were made by the firm of Johnstone, Norman and Co. in London. Sec the sales catalogue Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York (PB Eighty-Four), Victorian International VII, March 26, 1980, lots 535-39. The contemporary art press took a tremendous interest in Alma-Tadema's designs for the Marquand music room. See, for example, The Art Journal, 1885, p. 290.
12. Sold, Sotheby's Belgravia, April 18, 1978, lot 89.
13. Leoneé Ormond and Richard Ormond. p. 124. Lord Leighton. New Haven and London, 1975.
14. Leighton to Marquand, May 23, 1886, Archives, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. LITERATURE:
"Fine Art Gossip," The Athenaeum, February 7, 1885, p. 191; "Royal Academy (first Notice)," The Athenaeum, May 2, 1885, p.571; "The Royal Academy," The Art Journal, 1885, p. 190; Henry Blackburn, ed., Academy Notes 1885 (London, 1885), p. 9; Claude Phillipps, "Fine Art: The Royal Academy," The Academy, May 9,1885, pp. 335-36; Claude Phillipps, "Expositions de la Royal Academy et de la Grosvenor Gallery," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 27th year, 2nd ser., vol. 32 (1885), p. 94; Helen Zimmern. ''L. Alma Tadema, Royal Academician: His Life and Work." Art Annual for 1886 London, 1886. [suppl. monograph to Art Joumal 1886]. pp. 24-25; Georg Ebers. Lorenz Alma Tadema: His Life and Works. Translated by Mary J. Safford. New York, 1886. p. 90; C. Stuart Johnson, "Famous Artists and Their Work, XI: Lorenz Alma-Tadema," Munsey's Magazine, no. 3 (December 1892), repro. p. 258; F. G. Stephens, ed. Laurence Alma Tadema, R.A.: A Sketch of His Life and Work. London, 1895. pp. 14, 17, p. 7 pl. xv; M. H. Spielmann. "Laurence Alma-Tadema, R.A.: A Sketch." The Magazine of Art, vol. 20 (1896), pp. 49-50; Cosmo Monkhouse. British Contemporary Artists. London, 1899, p. 209; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Handbook No.6, Part 2: Loan Collections and Recent Gifts to the Museum, in the Old Eastern Gallery, [Gallery] x, November 1890-April 1891, no. 44 (and four subsequent editions of Handbook No. 6, Part 2 May-November 1891, no. 56, November 1891-April 1892, no. 20, May-October 1892, no. 53, [November 1892-April 1893], no. 53); Helen Zimmern. Sir Lawrence Alma Tadenta, R.A. London, 1902, pp. 57-58, 71, repro. opp. p. 16; Thomas E. Kirby, ed., lllustrated Catalogue of the Art and Literary Property Collected by the Late Henry G. Marquand (New York, American Art Association, January 23-31, 1903), p. 12, lot 88, repro. (introduction by Russell Sturgis, catalogue of paintings by Charles Coffin); Florence N. Levy, "Art in America," The Burlington Magazine, vol. 7, no. 29 (August 1905), p. 400; Percy Cross Standing. Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A. London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne, 1905. pp. 78-79; Rudolf Dircks. "The Later Works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, O.M., R.A., R.W.S." The Art Journal, 1910. [special Christmas issue], p. 31; John Collier. "The Art of Alma-Tadema." The Nineteenth Century and After, vol. 73 (1913), p. 603; Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings in the Elkins Gallery. Philadelphia, 1921, no. 1; Henry Clifford. "The George W. Elkins Collection." The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin, vol. 31, no. 16 (November 1935), p. 5; "Popular Favorites," The Philadelphia Museum Bulletin, vol. 41, no. 210 (May 1946), p. 83, repro. p. 89; A. Hyatt Mayor, "Collectors at Home," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 16, no. 3 (November 1957), repro. p. no; John Woodward, A Picture History: British Painting (London, 1962), repro. p. 137; Stuart Preston, "Current and forthcoming Exhibitions: New York," The Burlington Magazine, vol. 104, no. 711 (June 1962), p. 27; Mario Amaya. "The Roman World of Alma-Tadema." Apollo, n.s., vol. 76 (December 1962), pp. 773, 777 fig. 7; Allen Staley. "British Painting from Hogarth to Alma Tadema." Apollo, n.s., vol. 100 (July 1974), pp. 38, 39 fig. 8, nn. 13, 14, 15; Vern G. Swanson. Alma-Tadema: The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World. London and New York, 1977. pp. 26-27, 139, repro. p. 26; Rykk Borger, Drei Klassizisten: Alma Tadema, Ebers, Vosmaer, mis Einer Bibliographie De Werke Alma Tadema's (Leiden, 1978), p. 14; Beatrix Potter. The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1897 Transcribed from Her Code Writing by Leslie Linder. Rev. ed. London and NewYork, 1979, p. 143; Richard Jenkyns, The Victorians and Ancient Greece (Oxford, 1980), p. 318, repro. between pp. 178-79.
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the CollectionsWhen this picture was bought by one of the Museum's most generous donors, George W. Elkins, in 1903, it was one of the most expensive works of art ever sold. A taste for this type of "Victorians in Toga" painting did not last into the next generation, however, and by the 1920s Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's reputation, and market, had plummeted. But those things that had so pleased Elkins as well as Henry Marquand, who had commissioned this painting for his New York recital room, are now again a little more within our reach. The story told in the painting is a wonder of simplicity, just as the execution is a marvel in the rendering of materials and textures. In a marble palace far above the sea a handsome man, crowned with laurels, reads from a long scroll to a rapt if varied audience. As depicted by Alma-Tadema himself, a completely guileless and genuine storyteller and craftsman, such a far-off time does not seem so very inaccessible, and such seemingly noble people do not seem so very different from us. Joseph J. Rishel, from Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections (1995), p. 199.


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