ActiveState, CloudSigma Announce Stackato Reseller Agreement

VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwire - Mar 21, 2012) - ActiveState, whose software enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, announced today that CloudSigma, the only international, customer-centric, pure cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, has signed on to resell Stackato as part of its cloud service offerings.

"Stackato provides an excellent value-added Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that we can now offer to our customers," commented CloudSigma CEO Patrick Baillie. "As Stackato enables our customers to code in the language that is right for their company, it fits in nicely with our strategy of eliminating the one-size-fits-all approach to the cloud and creating a customizable offering that can be tailored for specific businesses. We have always been committed to driving innovation in the IaaS space and adding ActiveState's Stackato platform will help further that goal."

ActiveState CEO Bart Copeland concurs, "CloudSigma delivers cloud infrastructure solutions that are practical, affordable, flexible and truly innovative. Stackato private-PaaS technology complements CloudSigma's IaaS offering, adding a secure middleware layer for CloudSigma customers looking to move from code to cloud quickly, efficiently and safely."

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, CloudSigma provides highly available, flexible public cloud infrastructure in both Europe and North America. Known for its customizable, customer-centric design, CloudSigma delivers on the promise of the cloud to be flexible, scalable, reliable and cost-effective.

Stackato -- now generally available -- is the application platform for creating a private PaaS using any language, on any stack, on any cloud. From the desktop to the datacenter, Stackato makes it easy to develop, deploy, migrate, scale, manage and monitor applications in any cloud environment.

About CloudSigma
CloudSigma is a pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider that offers highly-available, flexible, enterprise-class cloud servers and cloud hosting solutions, both in Europe and the U.S. CloudSigma is the most customizable cloud provider on the market, giving customers full control over their cloud and eliminating restrictions on how users deploy their computing resources. With CloudSigma, customers can provision processing, storage, networks and other fundamental computing resources as they please, as well as easily deploy any operating system or application with full root/administrative access. The result is the highest-performing cloud at the most efficient price possible.

About ActiveState
ActiveState empowers innovation from code to cloud smarter, safer, and faster. ActiveState's cutting-edge solutions give developers and enterprises the power and flexibility to develop in Java, Ruby, Python, Perl, Node.js, PHP, Tcl, and more. Stackato is ActiveState's groundbreaking application platform for creating a private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and is the cost-effective, secure, and portable way to develop and deploy apps to the cloud. ActiveState is proven for the enterprise: More than two million developers and 97% of Fortune-1000 companies use ActiveState's end-to-end solutions to develop, distribute, and manage their software applications. Global customers like Cisco, CA, HP, Bank of America, Siemens, and Lockheed Martin look to ActiveState to save time, save money, minimize risk, ensure compliance, and reduce time to market.