Grazed from CIO. Author: Editorial Staff.

On May 21, VMware announced the launch of its own public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)—the vCloud Hybrid Service. Since then, we’ve had hundreds of conversations with our customers and partners, who have made it even clearer there is a need for —and much enthusiasm about—a true hybrid cloud service.

For more details, watch this short video with Bill Fathers, VMware Senior Vice President and General Manager, Hybrid Cloud BU, discusses VMware’s move to IaaS. A common theme in our conversations about hybrid cloud was the (healthy) tension between:

• business teams striving to launch new products and services, move into new markets, and generally drive growth, and
• overloaded IT organizations that are rewarded for avoiding outages and cutting costs…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Druva today announced a new deployment option for its inSync endpoint data protection platform that is designed to help large enterprises solve the scalability challenges of backup and file sharing across hundreds of thousands of users without moving to a public cloud. Built on the OpenStack open source cloud computing platform, the new option allows inSync to be deployed in a private cloud environment utilizing OpenStack Swift object storage to achieve an out-of-the-box scaleout architecture without the server expense or management overhead of block storage.

OpenStack’s object storage allows enterprises to deploy inSync on commodity hardware, easily scale data storage both vertically and horizontally, and automatically write files to multiple disk drives as well as replicate them to new locations in the cluster for high availability and faster disaster recovery in the event of a server or hard drive failure. Druva is the first endpoint backup and IT-managed file sharing provider to offer these capabilities…

Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

EarthLink, Inc., a leading IT and communications provider, today announced that Ron Penna, one of EarthLink’s top Cloud thought leaders, will participate in ITEXPO Las Vegas, the world’s largest and best-attended communications and technology trade show. Penna will speak during two panel sessions, entitled "Do Your Customers Trust Your Cloud?" and "Business Value of Mobile Cloud." ITEXPO Las Vegas is held August 27-29 at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"I am pleased to play a role in this year’s ITEXPO, joining other industry thought leaders who are helping to drive innovation in the communications and technology markets," said Ron Penna, EarthLink. "The event promises to stimulate discussions about issues of trust and security in the Cloud and how the integration of cloud-based collaborative technologies is driving today’s successful business operations, which hinges on mobility to decrease dependence on any physical location and support remote workers."…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: David Clements.

Enterprise adoption of cloud computing is at an interesting juncture.Egg-McMuffin On one hand, cloud computing has unleashed a new degree of innovation, enabling line-of-business users to become incredibly nimble. Gartner last year famously predicted that CMOs would spend more on IT than CIOs within the next five years. We see that happening already in organizations such as Vail Resorts, where the CIO and CMO are collaborating to make consumer-facing apps that drive their business forward.

On the other hand, central IT departments face growing pressures to manage costs, security, and other aspects of governance that are critical to the overall success of their organizations. Robert Grazioli, CIO of SAP Cloud, recently wrote a great primer on tackling cloud fears…

Grazed from FierceEnterpriseCommunications. Author: David Weldon.

Avaya has launched two new cloud computing and unified communications consulting services, aimed at cloud service providers and enterprise customers. The first service is called Cloud Transformation Services and is a set of services to help customers transition their Avaya communications services to the cloud, according to a report on CRN.

With Cloud Transformation Services, Avaya is offering cloud service providers end-to-end guidance for deploying a hosting strategy, according to CRN. This ranges from architectural designs to the testing stage. For the enterprise, Avaya is offering a suite of services, including cost-benefit analysis of various cloud models, financial modeling, collaboration technology evaluation and architectural design for cloud-based communications…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Gary Mason.

When choosing a cloud-computing provider, the data center is one of the most important factors when making a decision. The data center in the place where your information will be stored, and the point from which it will be accessed in the future. It is imperative to research the data center used by your service provider. Below we have listed the most important things you should know about data centers.

Location

Is the data center close to your service provider? Are they able to freely access the building if a problem were to arise? Data centers need to be staffed at all times in order for constant monitoring and maintenance. Does the location of the site pose risks? Can it still function in extreme weather conditions such as snow and rain?…

Grazed from BitCloud. Author: PR Announcement.

The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), a Government-funded high-end computing service hosted by The Australian National University, has added a cloud computing facility for researchers, supplied by Dell under a $2 million contract. However, this is no ordinary cloud. It’s quite different from the technologies that power commercial cloud computing services like those provided by BitCloud.

According to NCI Cloud Services Manager, Dr Joseph Antony, “The distinguishing and innovative characteristics of the NCI facility are the use of floating-point optimised Intel CPUs, high performance Intel SSDs for demanding high-IOPS science workloads and a fat-tree 56Gbps Mellanox Ethernet interconnect – all of which are not the main stay of commercial or academic cloud offerings.”…

Grazed from SBWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Verticomm.com offers secure and dexterous cloud-based workspace for businesses for better communication and effectiveness. With their efficient and Secure Cloud computing, everything is stored in the cloud and IT administrators just have to analyze and determine the average usage of their organization and acquire only the licenses, their business needs.

Verticomm.com is one proficient Cloud Computing Vendor for business of all sizes, whether there are just 10 employees or 1000 employees. Their Cisco cloud computing services can be adjusted as per the requirement and delivers unmatched customer service for better business efficiency and profitability…

Grazed from CRN. Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

Ravello Systems, a startup whose founders created the KVM open source hypervisor, launched a SaaS offering Wednesday that lets enterprises tap into the virtually unlimited capacity of the public cloud to test their on-premise apps. This is important because enterprises are under pressure to build apps faster to keep pace with business needs. Many are using Agile development methods, and they need to test their apps in a replica of their own environment to make sure bugs aren’t getting through to the final product.

But, testing apps requires a lot of free capacity, more than most enterprises have available in their data centers. Public clouds from Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) Web Services, Rackspace, HP (NYSE:HPQ) and others have plenty of capacity, but the public cloud is very different from the enterprise data center, which means apps have to undergo major changes in order to run on it…

Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: DH Kass.

Distributor Tech Data (TECD) last week added Ontario, Canada-based AirVM, a white-label infrastructure provider and VMware (VMW) cloud specialist, to its supplier lineup to help channel partners capitalize on cloud services sales without significant capital expenditure for infrastructure.

Under terms of the agreement, Tech Data’s channel partners will gain access through the TDCloud portal to AirVM’s Cloud Delivery and Commercialization Platform—built on VMware’s virtualization infrastructure—for services housed under the hosted AirSembly brand. The AirVM-backed AirSembly white-label infrastructure enables channel partners to brand, sell, and manage their own customized catalog of cloud services and hold down infrastructure-associated costs…