Grazed from CloudSigma. Author: PR Announcement.

CloudSigma launched CloudSigma 2.0, a next-generation public cloud that enables high-performance hybrid environments.

Direct private patch/hybrid cloud capability: CloudSigma 2.0’s industry-first transparent private patching capability allows customers to connect their own infrastructure directly to the vLANS within CloudSigma’s public cloud, all exposed via the same subnet, vastly improving data portability and security.

While other IaaS offerings place cumbersome restrictions on cloud deployments, CloudSigma 2.0’s private patching allows for a totally private IP-only solution at full line speed and with low latency, by avoiding the need for inefficient VPNs. Combined with CloudSigma’s open software and networking layers that allow any x86 operating system to run unmodified, customers can mirror on-premise infrastructure for cloud bursting or disaster recovery purposes…

Grazed from BroadwayWorld.com. Author: Editorial Staff.

Perfecto Mobile, provider of The MobileCloud Platform and integrated mobile application quality suite, today announced the availability of its new cloud-based, mobile web and native application monitoring product – MobileCloud Monitoring. This new solution is the first to reveal a complete view of mobile end-user experience using out-of-the-box smartphones, phablets and tablets operating on local carrier networks, enabling enterprises to proactively and continuously monitor business-critical transactions in real-world conditions.

This new offering completes Perfecto Mobile’s integrated SaaS product suite by addressing mobile application quality throughout the application lifecycle, from development through functional and performance testing, to production. MobileCloud Monitoring captures the impact of the "last mile" on the user experience by leveraging real devices running on various OS versions and operating on local cellular and Wi-Fi networks deployed worldwide to accurately measure response time across different platforms and networks during working hours, peak hours, weekends and holidays. The solution issues real-time alerts when a service is down or performance (i.e., response time) declines, dramatically reducing mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR)…

Grazed from Claritics. Author: PR Announcement.

Claritics, the leading UI (User Intelligence) solution for mobile, social, and enterprise SaaS applications, today announced the availability of Claritics 4.0 version. New capabilities in this release include packaged applications for OnTarget User Lists, Funnel Discovery, and a User Events Analyzer for discovery and exploration of insights.

“This latest version of Claritics’ User Intelligence platform lets customers quickly build segments of visitors who are showing higher levels of engagement in gamification campaigns. And, in just a few clicks, they can create rich remarketing lists to target those segments with follow-on campaigns to boost engagement and eventual monetization,” said Chris Duskin, VP of Products at Badgeville. “Anyone who is capturing activity across web, mobile or social channels will benefit from this release and the visitor insights it delivers.”…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud9 IDE, Inc., the leading cloud-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for web and mobile applications, has announced the availability of its IDE for http://redhat.com/ Openshift Online, Red Hat’s public Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering.. Openshift Online enables developers to quickly build, launch and host innovative applications in the public cloud. Yesterday, Red Hat announced the commercial availability of OpenShift Online.

The integration of the Cloud9 IDE with OpenShift Online offers developers the advantages of a comprehensive cloud-based development environment, paired with Openshift’s ease of use, scalability, and interoperability. Cloud9 IDE runs in any modern web browser and enables developers to run, debug and deploy applications from anywhere, at anytime. Integrating the IDE with Openshift Online allows developers to directly deploy applications and permanently host code on Openshift’s robust platform…

Grazed from BusinessWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Just as enterprises have achieved flexibility and innovation from implementing heterogeneous environments on-premises, they now seek to extend these benefits into the cloud. Today, WSO2 debuted its answer to this growing demand with the launch of WSO2 Stratos 2.0, the industry’s most complete, open enterprise-grade platform as a service (PaaS). WSO2 Stratos 2.0 features an all-new cartridge-based architecture, which combines support for heterogeneous applications and service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform runtimes with native, secure multi-tenancy.

WSO2 unveiled the latest release of WSO2 Stratos at GigaOm Structure, which runs June 19-20 in San Francisco. WSO2 Stratos 2.0 is now available and includes the WSO2 Stratos PaaS Foundation; all pre-integrated, cloud-ready, and fully multi-tenant WSO2 Carbon middleware products; and cartridges for PHP and MySQL. Developers and third-party vendors also can develop their own cartridges for WSO2 Stratos 2.0. Through the use of jclouds—an Apache incubator project—WSO2 Stratos 2.0 offers the ability to run on almost any infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud, including SUSE Cloud and other OpenStack-based offerings, VMware, Eucalyptus, and Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2)…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack™ company, today announced a technology partnership with Cumulus Networks™. Cumulus Linux™ was introduced today as the first true, full-featured Linux operating system for datacenter networking, and validated to run Piston Enterprise OpenStack™, a turnkey, bare-metal cloud operating system for deploying and managing a private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud environment. Piston Cloud and Cumulus Networks deliver innovation in cloud infrastructure and networking to help businesses realize the full potential of the software-defined datacenter.

"We share an open approach to the virtual datacenter," said Joshua McKenty, co-founder and CTO of Piston Cloud. "Cumulus Networks and Piston Cloud were founded on the fundamental belief that specialized software can run on a wide range of hardware to avoid vendor lock-in, decrease complexity, increase agility and reduce cost. By transforming the economics of infrastructure and networking, Cumulus Networks and Piston Cloud are removing the barriers to enterprise clouds, and making the software-defined datacenter a reality."…

Grazed from NIRIX. Author: PR Announcement.

NIRIX Inc., a Canadian cloud computing service provider, responds to customer feedback and market research to introduce oneBackup SMB, a cloud backup solution for small and medium business. Small business is agile business. Market research sources show that small business customers are statistically more likely to adopt cloud services, but few cloud services are designed with the small business in mind. While enterprise services are over-featured and out of the budget for many SMBs, consumer-quality services can’t offer the security or reliability they need. Even fewer services are available that are located entirely in Canada.

"Some of our competitors for the SMB backup market are trying to work upwards, and to engineer a compelling business product out of an existing consumer grade service," says Cameron Bayly, NIRIX Marketing Manager. "NIRIX’s small business service is hosted on the same infrastructure we use for big business, and we bring that quality and security to oneBackup SMB." Located in our fully Canadian, PIA, PCI-DSS and CSAE 3416 Type II compliant datacenter; NIRIX services are trusted by highly-regulated Canadian enterprises to comply with requirements common to healthcare operations, publicly traded companies, and the financial industry…

Grazed from Reuters. Author: Alistair Blair.

Concerns about security in the cloud are flaring anew after recent revelations about government data-mining, likely spurring new technology to protect corporate and consumer information, according to a panel of cloud experts. Reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) secretly gathers user data from nine big Internet companies, including Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Google Inc (GOOG.O), have dented confidence in cloud computing, especially among customers outside the United States.

The reports have triggered debate over how far the government can go in its quest to enhance national security, and also provoked outrage from many non-U.S. users depending on large American Internet corporations for everything from email to Internet storage to social networking, industry executives told the Reuters Global Technology Summit on Wednesday…

Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

Tier 3, an enterprise cloud hosting and management provider that works closely with channel partners, has introduced an object-storage service to protect data in the cloud. At the core of the service is a feature that copies cloud data on a per-file — or "object" — basis to a secondary data center. By backing up data at the object level, the company says, Tier 3 can provide a degree of redundancy that is both scalable and highly automatic, since no additional engineering work is required to back up or restore the objects in case of failure. Meanwhile, beyond the relative novelty of the object-based approach to cloud storage, Tier 3’s new service is notable for two other key reasons:

Geo-location: The service backs up data to secondary servers located in the same country as those hosting the primary cloud. Although the whole point of cloud computing, in one sense, is to nullify the significance of the physical location of data, that issue can actually matter a whole lot when it comes to auditory compliance or legal constraints. Ensuring that information is automatically backed up in the same jurisdiction may therefore simplify operations for some enterprises…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: James Niccolai.

Despite the promise of portability from service providers, the reality of the cloud for big customers is a similar type of lock-in as they experience with on-premise apps vendors such as Oracle and SAP, two CIOs said Tuesday. "You’re kind of locked in — it’s out with the old boss and in with the new," said Ralph Loura, CIO of The Clorox Company, in a discussion about "what keeps CIOs up at night" at the GigaOm Structure conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.

Companies that buy storage and compute services in small increments might not be tied to one provider, but most big companies sign big, multi-year contracts with cloud suppliers that effectively tie them to one platform, he said. They also train workers for that platform and build applications and interfaces in a "semi-bespoke model" that further ties them down. "I think we’re all trying not to get fooled again with this model, and that’s one of the things that keeps me up at night," he said…