San Diego, CA – January 5, 2011 -- HPC in the Cloud, the only portal dedicated to covering Technical Cloud computing in science, industry and the data center today announced that it has named Isaac Lopez as its Associate Publisher.

"I am pleased to be able to strengthen our HPC in the Cloud team of experts with the addition of Isaac Lopez as Associate Publisher," said Tom Tabor, Publisher of HPC in the Cloud and CEO of Tabor Communications. "Isaac possesses a unique combination of marketing and technical knowledge across both high performance and cloud computing environments that would be challenging to find outside Tabor Communications. His addition to the management team further enables us to accelerate our customer's ability to achieve the full potential available to them from the emerging cloud market."

In his new role, Lopez will focus his efforts on building the business development and global sales strategies, increasing the array of HPC in the Cloud product and service offerings to its customers, and continuing to grow the publications' subscriber base globally.

"I'm not only excited, I'm honored to be offered a leadership role in a publication that enables our customers to take advantage of the massive number of opportunities available in the cloud computing market," said Lopez. "I look forward to working with the executive management team to further expand our product portfolio and audience, in addition to establishing HPC in the Cloud as the leading online global resource for accessing news and information on the cloud computing industry."

A public relations and marketing professional, Lopez' career spans over 10 years in the high technology industry. Lopez originally joined Tabor Communications in 2007 as a Marketing and Brand Manager and was promoted to Director of Marketing in 2008. In part due to his expertise marketing a technology publication, the company was able to expand their portfolio in April of 2010 with the introduction of HPC in the Cloud, a sister publication to HPCwire, designed to address the unique needs of the technical cloud computing industry within the high performance computing community.

Before joining Tabor Communications, Lopez worked as a public relations and marketing account executive with Noblemen Communications, providing strategic and tactical marketing support to companies such as Intel, Compaq, Sharp, Motorola, Etnus (now TotalView Technologies), Portland Group, WatchGuard Technologies and InterSect360 Research. Other areas of his marketing expertise include campaign design and development, new product introductions, editorial review programs, media tours, and more. Mr. Lopez graduated in 1999 from the University of Idaho with a Bachelor Degree of Arts in Public Relations.


About HPC in the Cloud
HPC in the Cloud is the only portal dedicated to covering Technical Cloud computing in science, industry and the data center. The publication is written to provide technology decision-makers and stakeholders in the High Performance Computing industry (spanning government, industry and academia) with the most accurate and current information on developments happening in the point where Cloud Computing and HPC intersect. HPC in the Cloud can be found online at http://www.hpcinthecloud.com.


About Tabor Communications, Inc.
For over 20 years, Tabor Communications has been a partner to the global HPC and Cloud Computing communities, providing them with the pertinent information they need in order to make the best-informed decisions on purchasing and strategic direction. Building on the foundation that we’ve laid with our current and former publications - HPCwire, GRIDtoday, and On-Demand Enterprise - HPC in the Cloud is the exclusive information source for tens of thousands of buying IT professionals with specific interest in following the developments of cloud computing in the HPC space. More information on Tabor Communications can be found at http://www.taborcommunications.com.


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Source: Tabor Communications, Inc.