Grazed from Dell. Author: PR Announcement.

Today at VMworld 2013, Dell announced new cloud and virtualization solutions to help customers deliver increased performance, agility and efficiency. The new end-to-end offerings demonstrate the breadth of the Dell and VMware integrations and strength of the partnership.

"Customers are in the driver’s seat when it comes to procuring cloud and virtualization solutions and Dell is on target with its new offerings as the company is both innovating and partnering to give customers exactly the solutions that will best fit their business needs," said Wayne Pauley, Senior Analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). "Dell’s new offerings should help customers boost IT performance and better enable business agility. When you include VMware’s virtualization technology with Dell’s solutions, customers will want to take a close look at how they can further enhance and quickly optimize their businesses with these joint solutions."…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Lindsey Nelson.

Businesses have reached a tipping point. No longer is it a question of “if” they should turn to the cloud, rather the questions are now a matter of when and which areas of the business would you like to see impacted first. It’s more than just collaboration and anywhere, anytime access.

According to a recent survey administered by SAP and the Knowledge@Wharton group, 85% of respondents believe that cloud computing will not only transform their business, but their industry as well. Why? The survey discovered two main reasons why the adoption of cloud computing in businesses continues to grow globally…

Grazed from HP. Author: PR Announcement.

Hewlett-Packard has introduced a cloud service around SAP’s HANA in-memory database, targeting customers who want to analyse Big Data. Called HP As-a-Service Solution for SAP HANA, it will be available worldwide, but initial roll out is for Australia and New Zealand, HP has said.

The service runs in an HP managed cloud environment, as a managed virtual private cloud or a managed private cloud, within a regionalised, enterprise-class HP data centre facility, the company said. It is powered by HP AppSystem for SAP HANA which is SAP certified, and allows customers to benefit from in-memory computing technology and process large quantities of data in the main memory of the server to provide quicker results from analysis and transactions…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

DYXnet Group( http://www.dyxnet.com ), Greater China’s ICT (Information and Communication Technology) service provider, proudly won The Best Application Award of 2013 Asia Pacific Cloud Apps (APCA) Innovation Award, which is organized by Asia Pacific Cloud Apps Alliance, for its Cloud Dedicated Hosting (CDH) Service. DYXnet is one of the four winners in the Best Application category. The award event this year is named "Flying Cloud Cup", meaning "Cloud App Dragons fly in Asia".

"We are honored to be recognized by Asia Pacific Cloud Apps Alliance for our advancements in Cloud solutions, which also marks the second award for our Cloud service, following ‘CAPITAL Outstanding Green Excellence Awards’ organized by CAPITAL," said Mr. Lap Man, Founder & CEO of DYXnet Group. "We are delighted and encouraged with such recognition. The award further strengthens our belief in developing our Cloud service…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Lenovo today announced a comprehensive and validated architecture design to help small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) implement a private cloud environment. Lenovo supports EMC’s VSPEX(TM) program, which specifies EMC-validated technology — including Lenovo ThinkServers — to assemble a virtualization solution that’s pre-tested and proven to meet the IT challenges SMBs often face, such as mitigating costs associated with supporting IT infrastructure and accelerating IT service delivery.

"Lenovo ThinkServer as a core component of a validated VSPEX architecture, specifies leading virtualization, server, and network technology to create a complete virtualization solution that enables SMBs to spend less time and money on IT infrastructure and more time on their business," said Darrel Ward, vice president, Enterprise Product Group. "SMBs and channel providers will benefit from Lenovo’s VSPEX private cloud solutions, which are designed to scale and perform in a simple-to-deploy, single rack."…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Louis Columbus.

One of the most common questions I get from students is where they can find free cloud computing and enterprise software research. Few if any of my students work for companies who have subscriptions with the top analyst firms however. A small group of students are working on a start-up on the side and want to absorb as much market data as they can.

Many of my former students are also in IT management roles, and when they become interested in a specific cloud computing or enterprise topic over time, they write me and ask if I have any data on their subject of interest. I keep the following list updated from them too. To serve all these students I’ve been adding to the list shown below for a number of years…

Q&A Series: ProfitBricks.  Author: Hoofer.

ProfitBricks is a cloud computing company that provides high-end infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for companies and IT professionals.  They offer fast and stable virtual data centers that are based on high standard virtualization technology, which allows customers to easily scale their individual infrastructure to fit their specific needs at any time.  To find out more about this company, I spoke with Pete Johnson, the senior director of cloud platform evangelism.

Q: With so many players getting involved in public cloud, what are differentiators that make ProfitBricks stand out?

A: First generation public cloud providers did a great job creating the market, but like any initial offering 1.0 is never the endgame.  At ProfitBricks, we consider ourselves to be the price/performance leader in the public cloud space which we accomplish with our Cloud Computing 2.0 architecture. By that we mean a more flexible, easier to use public cloud with superior performance and at a better price…

Grazed from IT Jungle.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Long-time IBM i platform reseller and system integrator Key Information Systems is going into the data center co-location, connectivity, and cloud computing businesses after acquiring ISWest, a data center operator located in its neck of Southern California.

Key Info did not disclose the financial details of the acquisition, but Leif Morin, the company’s president, tells The Four Hundred that the opportunity to acquire the assets of ISWest and take on its team of data center operations experts was too good to pass up. Key has 55 employees and generates around $55 million per year from its reseller and consulting businesses, while ISWest has about 15 employees and generates around $15 million…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Editorial Staff.

In previous blog we introduced ‘Private PaaS‘ as a major segment that will drive overall Enterprise Cloud adoption. We touched on how Appscale enables a ‘Google in a Box’ for the PaaS segment, along with others like Apprenda and Cloudbees.

Openstack for the Enterprise

Another option is of course Openstack and despite the VMware CEO claiming it’s not for the enterprise, it’s more likely it will become extremely popular in this space.  Already Openstack is a vibrant vendor partner community, meaning that the core platform can be extended in many different ways, such as high availability, federation, and more, and so can be tailored for the many demanding requirements of large enterprise customers…

Grazed from New York Times.  Author: Quentin Hardy.

VMware is a 15-year-old tech company with a market capitalization of $36 billion. Next week, it will host 21,000 customers in San Francisco and will start to find out if that means it is young or old.  “It’s a statement of our success how quickly we’ve become mainstream,” said Pat Gelsinger, the company’s chief executive. Now, however, he says, “we’re at the crossroads.”

As what he calls “the last great company of the client-server generation,” VMware is going through much of the same transition to the world of cloud computing, big data, and mobility, that bedevils so many giants of the old tech world.  Uniquely, the company has a legitimate claim to have helped destroy the software world in which it started…