HP Moves to the Cloud with Flexible Pricing Models

by Jeff Yoshimura, VP Marketing

Someone once said that the best indication of character is the friends you have; well we here at Zuora are pretty excited about what having HP as a friend says about us. HP is one of the biggest players in the technology industry, with products and services that impact customers of all stripes. To provide the billing solution to their Cloud offering is a huge honor.

On Thursday, HP Cloud Services completed a major milestone in their product life cycle.  After going into production last year with customers via "private beta by invitation", on Thursday these customers moved to “public beta.”

HP Cloud Services is billed monthly and is usage-based. You pay $.04 per hour for 1 GB of RAM and 30GB of local disk space and up to $1.28 per hour for 32 GB of RAM and 960 GB of local space. With HP Cloud Object Storage Pricing, you pay for the amount of storage you use each month (at $.12 for the first 0-50 TB and $.10 for the 950TB). Check out more of the pricing tiers here.

With Zuora, HP Cloud Services can offer all of these different pricing to their customers with a metering, pricing and billing platform that matches the business model of cloud computing with subscription and pay-as-you-go pricing models. Simply put, if you’re building shared resources in HP’s Cloud, now you’ve got the convenience and flexibility of Zuora for your billing. Pretty spiffy.

Congratulations to our friends at HP Cloud Services! 

Citrix Partners With Zuora to Grow its CloudPortal Services Manager

Jeff Yoshimura, VP Marketing 

 

Delivering and monetizing solutions in the Cloud just got a whole lot easier. Today, Zuora announced a partnership with Citrix Systems to extend the capabilities of CloudPortal Services Manager. Citrix’s Channel strategy is to aggressively grow its Citrix Service Provider (CSP) channel and Zuora will be an integral part of that, providing the billing solution for Citrix and its partners’ broad portfolio of Cloud offerings.

Not only is Citrix growing, but an entire industry of service providers are evolving to offer cloud-based solutions that meet a wide range of needs-- from line-of-business apps to legacy custom apps to core productivity apps. Every cloud provider must be able to streamline the front-end provisioning of their entire portfolio of services, and accurately meter and bill for those services on the backend.

Together, Zuora and Citrix empower today’s cloud providers with an integrated ability to build, deliver and monetize new cloud app and desktop services. That’s why this partnership is so potent: CloudPortal Services Manager is specifically designed to provide a platform for a broad portfolio of services and multiple tiers of delivery. Meanwhile, Zuora’s industry leading Z-Commerce for the Cloud solution will integrate seamlessly with CloudPortal Services Manager to provide a powerful billing and payment platform that allows cloud service providers to quickly monetize and grow their cloud services.

With the launch of Z-Commerce for the Cloud, Zuora set out to become the Cloud billing leader--- a solution for anyone who wants to build a public, private, hybrid Cloud. When we launched Z-Commerce for the Cloud two years ago, our goal was to ensure that every Cloud provider would have access to a billing system more versatile, flexible, and scalable than any on premise or homegrown system. Since that time, Zuora has become the commerce engine for HP, GoGrid, Dell, Tata Communications, IC&S, Zetta, and Ninefold.

With today's announcement, Zuora offers unparalleled options for Cloud providers to use their Cloud of choice. Whether you’re seeking to monetize, deliver, or scale your service in the Cloud, Zuora's Z-Commerce for the Cloud is the leading billing platform for service providers to capitalize on the unique opportunities of the Cloud.

“To be successful, cloud providers must be able to automatically and easily provision new accounts, empower customers with self-service, and then bill them for what they used," said Bill Burley, Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud App Delivery group at Citrix. "Service providers could struggle endlessly trying to build these capabilities on their own – or they could use Citrix CloudPortal with Zuora's Z-Commerce for the Cloud and leverage the integration developed via our partnership. Our Citrix Service Providers are always asking us to help them be more operationally efficient so they can improve their margins – partnering with Zuora is one of the ways we can accomplish that."

Zuora President, Shawn Price, will be presenting more about this partnership at an exclusive event for Citrix Service Providers attending the Citrix Summit on the morning of Tuesday, May 8th at the Westin San Francisco Market Street.

Congratulating BranchOut on Hitting 25 Million Users, Getting $25 Million in Funding

Jeff Yoshimura, VP Marketing 

 

The job board social media wars have heated up. Increasingly, prospective employees and employers have turned to sites like BranchOut for their human resources and employment needs. BranchOut is built on top of the Facebook platform and they’ve become not just the biggest challenger to job board juggernaut Linkedin, but a leader in their own right. 

BranchOut now has over 25 million users in 60 countries and 15 languages. And on April 19th, BranchOut announced that it had received an additional $25 million in funding, putting their total capital investment at around $49 million. Despite Facebook’s slowed growth, BranchOut is averaging a new registered user every three seconds.

We wanted to congratulate our customer BranchOut on its continued success. Zuora is only as successful as our customers, and BranchOut’s success is another sign that the Subscription Economy is here to stay.

We’re proud to be part of BranchOut’s continued growth. The latest round of funding indicates that not only will the customer base continually expand, but the company itself, as well. We firmly believe that the best is yet to come for BranchOut and hope for their continued success in the future.