Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced advancements to its award-winning, private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, OpenShift Enterprise. OpenShift Enterprise 1.2 is now available for deployment within on-premise datacenters or in private, public, or hybrid clouds with updated pluggable technology cartridges and other enhancements. The updates to OpenShift Enterprise 1.2 continue Red Hat’s commitment to enhance developer productivity and IT service delivery with PaaS offerings that enable developers to design and code applications without losing time on technology integration. With OpenShift Enterprise and the company’s recently announced, commercially available public PaaS offering, OpenShift Online, Red Hat is the only enterprise software company with public and private open source PaaS offerings. The strength and value of the OpenShift platform continues to be demonstrated through adoption by global systems integrators, leading edge start-ups, and large established enterprises.

OpenShift Enterprise is a versatile platform for application development, operations, and IT architecture as it provides users with access to a cloud-based application platform built on a trusted stack of open source Red Hat technologies, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, and OpenShift Origin, the upstream code that powers both OpenShift Enterprise and OpenShift Online. OpenShift Enterprise automates much of the provisioning and systems management of the application platform stack in a way that enables the IT team to more easily meet growing business demands for new application services. OpenShift Enterprise also provides an on-demand, elastic, scalable, and fully configured application development, testing and hosting environment for application developers so that they can focus on coding these new application services. With its unique Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) approach to handling secure multitenancy, OpenShift Enterprise also offers reliable security and multi-tenancy with the ability to subdivide the operating system instances for efficiency.

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Amazon Web Services (AMZN) has cut cloud pricing for the 27th time. Google App Engine (GOOG) and Microsoft Windows Azure (MSFT) are sure to respond with their own price cuts. But let’s not call this a cloud price war. And as an MSP or VAR, you shouldn’t panic about falling cloud services prices. Here’s why.

Instead of a price war, let’s call this the ongoing reality — the NORM: Public cloud pricing for IaaS will fall seemingly forever. Instead of fearing that reality, channel partners should embrace it. Aggresively. The vast majority of VARs and MSPs should never attempt to build their own clouds. That’s like building your own power plant when power is cheap and widely available from multiple service providers…

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Virtualization and cloud computing are pushing data center operators to think beyond their traditional network set up, according to a report released this week by Brocade. The network vendor, based on the results of its survey, said it believes a majority of the industry is yet to take up new networking technologies to cater for this demand.

It said 91% of respondents said their current IT infrastructure requires upgrades to meet new networking requirements and one third said they are already experiencing multiple network failures a week as a result of growing amounts of data…

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IBM is to buy Israel-based virtualisation management provider CSL International to expand its cloud offerings by adding management capabilities. The financial terms of the deal will not be disclosed, IBM said. The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter of 2013, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The IT assets from CSL will be integrated with IBM’s zEnterprise System portfolio. IBM says its System z products help enterprises integrate data with analytics and enables cloud delivery.

With the zEnterprise System tools, businesses can host the workloads of thousands of commodity servers on a single system for simplification and cost savings. CSL International’s software, CSL-WAVE, is used by enterprises to monitor and manage the virtual machine hypervisor z/VM and Linux on System z environments…

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Dell Cloud Client Computing today announced the release of version 6 of Dell Wyse WSM desktop and application virtualization software. This new release adds server streaming capability to help organizations harness the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing, while simplifying management and deployment processes and helping to reduce costs. By adding on-demand delivery of server OS images to Dell’s reliable and secure end-user computing portfolio, Dell Wyse WSM 6 offers another powerful computing alternative that helps organizations quickly stand up new servers where and when needed, and gives employees and students secured access to content regardless of location.

Dell Wyse WSM delivers operating systems and applications separately to stateless, diskless clients on demand, providing a manageable, reliable and scalable PC computing experience from the cloud. Unlike traditional VDI, Dell Wyse WSM enables the desktop OS and applications to execute locally on the client, giving that client the same look, performance, feel and function of a traditional desktop PC, but storing all OS, applications, and data in the datacenter. With no OS residing on the client, management, support and updates, including Windows XP and Windows 7 migrations, are done centrally and take considerably less time than with a traditional distributed environment…

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Cloud computing has opened up a world of opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This innovative new way of managing and accessing information over the Internet enables them to take advantage of business solutions that were once reserved for much larger enterprises. Today, SMBs are able to compete in a global market with more agility and more freedom, as cloud computing provides the necessary resources to respond to customer and industry demands from virtually anywhere, at any time, and from almost every type of mobile device.

SMBs are also reaping the benefits of cloud computing when it comes to ERP solutions. Once a costly investment that often proved too much for small and medium-sized companies, cloud offers affordable on demand ERP options without sacrificing the benefits companies expect from an on-site ERP software system, including increased productivity, efficient growth and greater return on investment…

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Splashtop Inc., the leader in remote desktop and application access, announced today the release of Splashtop Business, which enables IT, systems integrators, and service providers to deliver secure access to any business application on any mobile device. Now mobile workforces can use their iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, BlackBerry, or WinRT (Windows and MAC) mobile devices for full access to all their critical business apps and data hosted on their PC or Mac computers. Splashtop Business is a SaaS solution for small to mid-sized businesses and follows on the success of Splashtop Enterprise and Splashtop Personal.

"The consumerization of IT and proliferation of BYOD solutions is leading to fast adoption of solutions like Splashtop remote desktop and application rendering," said Mark Lee, chief executive officer and co-founder of Splashtop, Inc. "With the introduction of Splashtop Business, SMBs can now experience the top performing solution that enables mobile workers to use all their critical business applications, files and data from any public or private cloud, with zero coding, zero training, and zero data leakage."…

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Today, organizations seek to improve software delivery performance and effectiveness through automation, governance, architecture, and team collaboration best practices. However, outdated infrastructure and processes, along with disjointed tooling often hinder application delivery practices. A new white paper from WSO2 examines how IT professionals can implement a cloud DevOps platform as a service (PaaS) to optimize application development and delivery by increasing project visibility, enhancing team agility, and introducing automated governance and best practices.

The new white paper, "DevOps meets ALM in the Cloud – Cloud DevOps PaaS," was developed by Chris Haddad, WSO2 vice president of technology evangelism. In it, Chris examines how IT organizations can deliver a consistent, automated, governed, and unified application development process using an open source cloud DevOps PaaS…

Grazed from CMSWire. Author: Amit Kumawat.

Cloud is a hot, but ambiguous buzzword in the IT industry. A Sofware Developer may describe the Cloud in a different way than a System Admin, while a Database Admin may have an altogether different definition. What constitutes the cloud is a rather complicated question. However, there is one common view that most IT people share …

Cloud is a kind of an Internet based Service offered on-demand to a User who doesn’t need to bother with implementation details or maintainence. Cloud refers to a range of scalable services that a user can access via an Internet connection, preferably one with a higher bandwidth and low latency. Many Providers like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others provide various cloud-based services for which users pay on the basis of service subscription and consumption…