Skytap expects to put out bait next week at VMworld hoping to attract the enterprise to its cloud.It will introduce a virtual private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that can spin up pre-configured multi-VM Cloud Foundry environments reportedly in under a minute in the Skytap Cloud. It runs a secure VPN connection from the Skytap Cloud to on-premise infrastructure to create a secure self-contained network-isolated Cloud Foundry environment for experimentation, development and testing next-generatio...Sep. 16, 2013 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,154
AppDirect, the leading cloud service marketplace company, announced today that it has acquired Standing Cloud, a leading provider of cloud management services, such as automated software packaging and orchestration that enable fast, seamless application deployment and management. Together, AppDirect and Standing Cloud provide an unparalleled cloud marketplace and management solution that offers more features and functionalities than any other competitor, technology that can be used by almost any...
enStratus announced on Wednesday the introduction of automation capabilities for managing the deployment of VMware Cloud Foundry – an open platform as a service (PaaS) – into any of the 18 clouds and cloud computing platforms managed by the enStratus cloud infrastructure management system. Support for Cloud Foundry comes with the latest enStratus release and builds on top of the enStratus service catalog functionality which provides customers with pre-bundled service catalog items that can immed...
Although IBM has its own Platform-as-a-Service, Big Blue is going to integrate the Pivotal Initiative’s open source Cloud Foundry 2.0 PaaS into its Open Cloud architecture as a quick alternative for building, testing and ultimately moving applications to the cloud.Pivotal of course is the company started recently by EMC and VMware with GE taking a piece.
IBM is joining the Cloud Foundry community to ensure it has an open governance model. Pivotal is supposed to establish an advisory board of C...
Ceph is an open source distributed object store, network block device, and file system designed for reliability, performance, and scalability. With an advanced placement algorithm, active storage nodes, and peer-to-peer gossip protocols, Ceph scales from terabytes to exabytes with no single point of failure. Through native integrations with OpenStack and Apache CloudStack, Ceph provides a complete object and block storage solution for cloud data. Instead of using scale-up storage appliances, Cep...
For cloud providers, offering predictable storage performance backed by firm SLAs will become a competitive differentiator that drives greater customer affinity and a better application experience. Many providers feel that a Software Defined Storage (SDS) frameworks hold the key to delivering guaranteed performance, yet this “software abstraction layer” is only half of the solution. SDS frameworks are dependent on the virtualized resources presented to it, and without the granular abstraction of...
Is your IT organization being pushed to increase the tempo of your software release cycles? Do you currently automate application builds and the creation of staging environments? Do you always test thoroughly before pushing code out to production? Does your hair catch on fire every time you put out a new release? IT organizations large and small are turning to the set of processes, technologies, and organizational practices called DevOps as a way to deal with the need to release software more of...
Why are most Enterprise applications and trillions of dollars in Enterprise IT budgets staying out of the cloud?
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Nelson Nahum, CEO & CTO of Zadara Storage, will compare the requirements of enterprise applications with cloud offerings, from Amazon Web Services to OpenStack, and analyze the gaps that exist. We will then show how to make the cloud a much more inviting place for Enterprises.
Nelson Nahum is CEO & CTO of Zadara Storage. A thoug...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Aria Systems, powering recurring revenue for the enterprise, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Aria Systems powers recurring revenue for the enterprise enabling market expansion, improving customer relationships, and providing more revenue predictability. The Aria Cloud Billing platform is used by brand name companies such as Pitney Bow...
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Tarry Singh, Managing Partner, O&I; Services, to discuss how Big Data analytics help companies make better business decisions by enable them to analyze huge amounts of data.
Tarry Singh is Managing Partner, O&I; Services, a European Management & Technology Consulting firm based in Netherlands with offices in Germany. An experienced, entrepreneurial and well-rounded professional with 20+ years of experience in multiple industries, he has deep m...
Sporting events are periodic events that suddenly demand lots of information technology resources and a good example where cloud technology can be applied effectively.
At VMWorld, a marketing executive from a technology company asked me what kinds of workloads were inappropriate for the cloud with ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Portal Architects, creators of SkySync will exhibit at SYS-CON's 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SkySync enables businesses to easily Sync, Copy, or Migrate Files...
VMware vSphere 5.x includes automated server workload balancing in the vSphere Enterprise and Enterprise+ premium suites via two feature sets: Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Distributed Power Management (DPM). DRS and DPM together are intended to provide an automated method for balancing ...
Strong InfoSec strategies must answer the key questions of who is logging in, what is accessed, when was it changed and how is the IT landscape affected.
Enterprise security can be a labyrinthine, complex beast with many moving parts, dozen upon dozen of requirements, needs, implications, options a...
IBM shared a security related infographic via Twitter recently and in looking through the statistics (most of which are attributed to 2011 research, by the way) I happened to catch a statement claiming "The average company is attacked 60,000 times a day."
IBM notes that "average" is average for the...
In this business, we talk quite a lot about the importance of disaster recovery plans and strategies. Today’s organizations face a multitude of choices when it comes to building a disaster recovery (DR) plan to protect their data and provide business continuity in the case of outages and other disas...
Securing your data used to be simpler (if not necessarily easy). You had IT infrastructure in your data center. You adopted security controls at all levels – from physical security, controlling who could enter the facility, up through the network and system, and application layers. IT security looke...
According to Erin McCann, Associate Editor of Healthcare IT News, “Meaningful use will bring about the most significant improvements in the health information technology arena, say health IT executives, who are working tirelessly to meet industry deadlines. However, a new survey finds it’s still a t...
Congratulations to Virident for being bought today for $645 Million USD by Western Digital (WD). Virident a nand flash PCIe card startup vendor has been around for several years and in the last year or two has gain more industry awareness as a competitor to FusionIO among others.
There is a nand fl...
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