ROSEVILLE, Calif. and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug., 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Cruiser, the leader in cloud cost management solutions and a member of the OpenStack(TM) community, today announced the general availability (GA) of the Cloud Cruiser cloud cost management solution for OpenStack. It features ongoing workflow tools that provide management and accounting capabilities for optimizing capex and opex costs in heterogeneous cloud computing environments.

"We are excited to have important tools needed for enterprise and service provider cloud deployments, like Cloud Cruiser's cost management solution built for OpenStack," said Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack Project Policy Board Chairman. "By adding support for OpenStack, the Cloud Cruiser cost management solution will be compatible with the growing number of public and private cloud deployments based on the emerging open cloud standard."

Cloud Cruiser will be demonstrating the OpenStack solution in the OpenStack Booth at LinuxCon North America 2011 taking place August 17-19 in Vancouver.

"OpenStack has gained tremendous industry traction and is poised to emerge as the Linux of cloud computing; the open sourced alternative to proprietary solutions," said Dave Zabrowski, Founder and CEO of Cloud Cruiser. "By offering the industry's first cost management solution for OpenStack, users will now have the capability to gain control of costs and visibility of their cloud-based computing environments with new tools to measure, manage and optimize capex and opex costs."

According to James Staten, Vice President & Principal Analyst at Forrester, "OpenStack might just have the more credible story enterprise infrastructure and operations professionals have been waiting on."

About Cloud Cruiser

Cloud Cruiser is the leader in cloud cost management solutions. Cloud Cruiser's cost management software is designed specifically for enterprises and server providers to gain transparency, accountability, chargeback and proactive controls of their IT costs across a heterogeneous environment of internal, private and public workloads. Cloud-centric businesses can now see, charge, control and own every workload to the end-user level. With Cloud Cruiser, the Federal Government, large providers such as Microsoft, HP, Dell, Amazon, Google, Savvis, Rackspace and Nimbula will be able to cost optimize their entire cloud-centric infrastructures. For more information visit: www.cloudcruiser.com.

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