Ektron Brings Web Content Management and Social Software into the Cloud

eSync allows for bi-directional synchronization with the Cloud

NASHUA, NH July 7, 2009 – Ektron Inc., a technology and market leader in Web content management software, today announced that its Web content management platform, Ektron CMS400.NET, is deployed in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.

With the Cloud as a hosting option, Ektron customers can choose to run and manage their production, development and staging environments in the Cloud, locally, with an Ektron partner or use any combination of the three. Ektron’s eSync technology further enhances these efficiencies by allowing customers to bi-directionally synchronize their entire Web site, specific pages or even select pieces of content between their different environments, regardless of where they are hosted. Ektron developers and Partners also now have the ability to develop locally and sync up to the Cloud using eSync.

“With eSync, customers have the ultimate flexibility to choose what exists in the Cloud and what exists locally,” stated Bill Rogers, chief executive officer at Ektron. “Now that our customers can deploy their Ektron-driven Web sites in the Cloud they can leverage Amazon’s elastic computing resources along with eSync to ensure their Web sites can scale and deliver the community-driven experiences that customers expect.”

Ektron is delivering a set of free Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that will enable customers to deploy CMS400.NET with eSync on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a Web service that provides resizable computer capacity in the Cloud, to host their Ektron-driven Web sites. Using these Ektron-provided AMIs, new virtual machines can be provisioned with CMS400.NET and ready to use within minutes. Developers can take advantage of the provisioning and automated software deployment to rapidly launch a new site.

For more information on Amazon EC2 visit: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

About Ektron
Founded in 1998, Ektron is committed to providing revolutionary, scalable Web content management and authoring solutions. Ektron CMS400.NET empowers developers and non-technical business users alike: developers can take advantage of built-in Server Controls to deploy a Web site out of the box or customize the deployment using CMS400.NET’s well-documented API, and business users benefit from an intuitive user interface for managing their Web site’s content and messaging. From enterprise level deployments to single sites, CMS400.NET ships with a wide array of functionality, including social networking, Web 2.0, SEO and synchronization tools. Headquartered in Nashua, N.H., Ektron has more than 20,000 customer implementations worldwide, including LG, Sony, and Johnson & Johnson. For more information, visit: http://www.ektron.com.