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Basho Technologies, the leader in distributed systems software, announced today the availability of Riak CS 1.4 and Riak CS 1.4 Enterprise. Riak CS 1.4 continues Basho’s commitment to provide cloud storage software that is simple to operate, highly available by design, and compatible with industry cloud standards. Riak CS is used by organizations worldwide to power their public and private clouds.

Riak CS 1.4 introduces formal integration with OpenStack, provides enhanced performance and manageability, includes community requests, and improves performance at scale. Riak CS 1.4 Enterprise significantly boosts the performance of multi-data center replication by allowing for concurrent channels, so the full capacity of the network and cluster size can scale the performance to available resources…

Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Rebecca Grant.

Tradescape has raised $43 million for its software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to help online businesses handle their finances. The $43 million sum is the first chunk of of a proposed $114 million round. Tradecape works with ad agencies, content publishers, and content creators to manage transactions that start in digital media marketplaces.

Its “financial clearing” technology automates financial reconciliation, clearing, billing, settlement, invoicing, reporting, and auditing. Buying and selling media is a complicated process. Tradescape’s tools helps brands, agencies, and marketers ensure that they stay on-budget without constantly needing to check in with their partners and track campaign performance…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Salman Ul Haq.

There’s a growing trend of abbreviating anything you put on the Cloud as (Anything) as a Service or XaaS paradigm and with the increasing deployment of the Cloud based platform in the practical domains, the issues of power consumption and dynamic power allocation have begun to surface. Power aware provisioning of virtual machines for real-time services is the need of the hour and there are many schemes under active R&D with the intention to minimize the power consumption within the Cloud based environments.

Power smart Clouds are not only cost effective but they also are of great utility for the enterprise level Cloud migrations where serviceability and power management is dedicated issue to address. Cloud based Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) schemes are in practice for the smart power aware Clouds. These schemes do not only make the Cloud performance optimized in the real time environments, it also makes it much easier to handle the power complexities of the Cloud…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.

Infrastructure as a Service providers continue to cut cloud pricing in an effort to lure new customers, but many corporate cloud customers see this race to the bottom as a marketing stunt — and they won’t take the bait. Amazon Web Services cut dedicated instance prices in mid-July, which was quickly followed by a Rackspace Inc. blog post that questioned whether AWS’ dedicated instances are truly dedicated at all, and claimed a price and performance advantage.

Into this fray then stepped another Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, Cambridge, Mass.-based ProfitBricks Inc., whose executives accused both AWS and Rackspace of being less than truthful about gross margins for cloud services. ProfitBricks also cut its own IaaS prices by 50%…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeffrey Burt.

Cisco Systems is offering an 802.11ac wireless access point that can be deployed and managed through the cloud, enabling organizations to address the growing number of mobile devices connecting to the network in a faster, more secure and more manageable environment. Cisco officials Aug. 13 unveiled the Meraki MR34, the networking company’s latest offering to support the new 802.11ac wireless standard, which offers three times the speed of the current 802.11n WiFi standard and twice the bandwidth.

"You can fit more devices on the air," Sanjit Biswas, vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Cloud Networking Group, told eWEEK. The 802.11ac standard is gaining momentum as market transitions such as cloud computing and high-bandwidth applications like video, IT mobility and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) are fueling demand for greater speed and bandwidth from wireless networks. In addition, broadband carriers continue to look to offload traffic onto WiFi networks where possible to reduce the skyrocketing demand on their networks…

Grazed from ITPRo. Author: Jane McCallion.

Microsoft has made a number of updates to its Windows Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that it claims will reduce mobile app development time and help deliver high availability. The first of these updates is the general availability of Windows Azure Notification Hubs, which have been in testing until now.

According to a blog post by Miranda Luna of the Windows Azure Mobile Services team at Microsoft, Windows Azure Notification Hubs held mobile app developers to rapidly deliver personalised push notifications to Android, iOS and Windows devices around the world…

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GreenQloud, the world’s first Truly Green™ cloud software company powered by renewable energy, today announced the launch of QloudSync, a new cloud storage syncing client at GROW, a conference that focuses on the future of innovation, growth and entrepreneurship by bringing together technology pioneers, influencers and investors who are passionate to finding solutions to solve the problems of today. GreenQloud is a proud sponsor of the GROW Conference and will be onsite for all conference activities.

QloudSync is the newest of GreenQloud’s Truly Green™ cloud computing services to run exclusively on renewable energy, enabling customers to safely and securely sync, store and share data such as photos, videos, e-books and documents without leaving a carbon footprint…

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OpTier, a pioneer in analytics-driven, SaaS-based Application Performance Management (APM) and transaction-based Big Data Analytics, announced today it has secured $8 million in additional funding from a group of venture capitalists to support its flourishing portfolio of innovative application monitoring solutions. This round of financing was led by Pitango Venture Capital and also included Viola Group and Gemini Israeli Funds.

The new funding will fuel OpTier’s continued growth in the application monitoring and data analytics space, where the company has already solidified a healthy market position and posted strong financial results for the current year, achieving a record-breaking second quarter with more than 400% quarter-over-quarter growth…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added new features to the company’s management platform CloudFormation that aim to improve performance and simplify updates. As companies get more used to running applications in the cloud, they are putting together more complex systems. That in turn puts higher demands on management platforms, which have to allow users to take better advantage of the programmability and scalability of the cloud.

CloudFormation aims to give developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion. The latest additions to the platform are parallel stack processing and nested stack updates…

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Oracle introduced its first converged infrastructure system Tuesday – a one-rack integrated solution that includes servers, networking and storage, virtualized on Oracle VM. This is a major step for Oracle, whose hardware play to date has been focused on "engineered systems," or appliances the company designs specifically to support its software solutions. The converged-infrastructure market is a busy one, with major players like HP, Cisco, Dell, EMC, NetApp and Microsoft, among others, fighting tooth-and-nail for raised-floor space in enterprise and provider data centers.

The centerpiece of the solution, called Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, is the company’s new software creation called Virtual Appliance Controller. It interacts with the Oracle VM Manager and the intra-rack interconnect technology to automate VM provisioning and configuration of the network that ties resources in the rack together…