Grazed from Reuters. Author: Editorial Staff.

China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world’s No.2 telecom equipment maker, said on Monday it expects a compound growth rate of 10 per cent in annual sales over the next five years, lifted by cloud computing and smartphone sales. Rotating Chief Executive Officer Guo Ping was speaking at the company’s headquarters in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen where he confirmed a 32 per cent rise in Huawei’s 2012 net profit to 15.4 billion yuan.

Revenue rose 8 per cent to 220.2 billion yuan. Unaudited figures were released in January. Huawei and its crosstown rival ZTE Corp have been expanding their footprint in the global telecom equipment and mobile phone sectors over the past few years…

Grazed from Bloomberg. Author: Editorial Staff.

Huawei Technologies Co. said it doesn’t pose a U.S. security threat as China’s largest maker of telecommunications equipment defends itself against foreign governments’ concerns that it aids intelligence agencies.

The Shenzhen-based company “never sold key equipment into U.S. networks,” Deputy Chairman Guo Ping said today after the company released its annual report. Huawei became one “of the world’s top three smartphone makers” in the fourth quarter and expects the proportion of sales from networking equipment, the area that has drawn foreign scrutiny, will decline…

Grazed from WindowsITPro. Author: Michael Otay.

Back in November of 2012, I looked at some of the multiple hypervisor solutions that were available from Microsoft and VMware, as well as a few third party products. A lot has been happening in this area since then. More organizations are continuing to adopt multiple hypervisor platforms, plus there’s been continued uptake in cloud services, especially in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings like you see in Amazon’s EC2. A couple of notable new products in this space include VMware’s Multi-Hypervisor Manager 1.0 for vSphere and HotLink’s Hybrid Express cloud and virtualization management product.

VMware Multi-Hypervisor Manager

VMware’s Multi-Hypervisor Manager is a part of vSphere 5.1 (and higher) Standard edition. Multi-Hypervisor Manager essentially replaces the older VMware vCenter XVP Manager and Converter. Multi-Hypervisor Manager enables the management of Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 Hyper-V from VMware’s Infrastructure Client. Notably, this first release doesn’t support the new vSphere Web Client, Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, or Citrix’s XenServer virtualization…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

Use of infrastructure as service is growing, but do users know what they’re doing in the cloud? Two critical analyses would suggest that they don’t. Cloudyn is one of several usage assessment and optimization firms that have been started to serve cloud customers. These new companies often make a basic online service available for free, upping the ante with monthly charges once users discover how much they can learn from the monitoring and diagnostic services.

Cloudyn and another such firm, Cloudability, for example, charge $49 a month for usage analysis and reporting. The two paired up at Cloud Connect 2013, a UBM Tech event in Santa Clara, Calif., to offer snapshots of their customers’ cloud practices and how those practices could be improved…

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Jane McCallion.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider Rackspace has reignited its battle against alleged patent trolls, who it claims are stifling cloud innovation. The company is suing a patent assertion entity (PAE) named Parallel Iron that it claims is one America’s "most notorious patent trolls". During the last week of March, Parallel Iron sued Rackspace and 11 other defendants in a Delaware court for allegedly infringing three patents the PAE claims cover the use of the open source Hadoop Distributed File System.

In a blog post, Alan Schoenbaum, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Rackspace, said: “Parallel Iron is the latest in a string of shell companies created to do nothing more than assert patent-infringement claims as part of a typical patent troll scheme of pressuring companies to pay up or else face crippling litigation costs.”…

Grazed from SavvisDirect. Author: Editorial Staff.

It’s a good question if you really think about it. Software-as-a-Service or SaaS basically takes your traditional desktop software applications and moves them to a cloud computing platform, which is accessible via the public Internet. These applications are managed by third-party cloud providers. You access these applications generally via a website with a login.

Difference Between Standard Apps and Cloud Apps
With standard software applications, you need to purchase a software license or multiple ones. You generally have to renew these licenses on a yearly basis, and you must upgrade the software each time that a new version is released.

With SaaS, you buy a subscription from a third-party provider like savvisdirect. Subscriptions vary based on needs. For example, for one customer, the price is determined by the number of users while another customer’s price may be based on how much storage that they need. The point, however, is that you only pay for what you need, and the company is responsible for paying for the software upgrades. Because of this arrangement, you often see significant savings using SaaS as opposed to traditional apps…

Grazed from The Register. Author: Phil Muncaster.

Japanese ICT giant Fujitsu has announced plans to build out its cloud business with the acquisition of little-known French PaaS vendor RunMyProcess (RMP) and the development of a new Global Software Center in Silicon Valley. RunMyProcess, a member of the Cloud Alliance for Google Apps, essentially allows customers to build and deploy workflow apps in the cloud using simple drag and drop functionality.

A major selling point of the firm, which Fujitsu describes as providing “integration Platform as a Service” (iPaaS), is in allowing customers to integrate their processes with a range of both SaaS and on-premise apps, thanks to over 1,000 so-called “connectors”…

GigaSpaces Technologies has developed infrastructure solutions for more than a decade and in recent years has been enabling Big Data solutions as well. The company’s latest platform release – XAP 9.5 – helps organizations that need to process Big Data fast. XAP harnesses the power of in-memory computing to enable enterprise applications to function better, whether in terms of speed, reliability, scalability or other business-critical requirements. With the new version of XAP, increased focus has been placed on real-time processing of big data streams, through improved data grid performance, better manageability and end-user visibility, and integration with other parts of your Big Data stack – in this version, integration with Cassandra.

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Barb Darrow.

Amazon and Google trade price cuts. Again

The incumbent public cloud champ and its wanna-be rival took turns cutting prices again last week.  Amazon Web Services sliced the price on Windows on-demand EC2 instances by 26  percent – although as the price still depends on region. That move came within hours of Google cutting prices of most of its GCE instances by an average of 4 percent — that little tidbit was buried in larger news that Google is opening up access to Google Compute Engine to any customer willing to pay $400 a month for Google Gold Support.

But because the AWS price cuts were for Windows, that move may have been directed at Microsoft Windows Azure more than Google, but why quibble? NetworkWorld has more as does the Motley Fool.   ProfitBricks, another cloud contender, extended its scale up vs. scale out cloud pitch last week as well, making its biggest instance bigger. The new super-duper instance weighs in at 62 cores and 240GB of RAM up from 48 cores and 196GB of RAM…

Grazed from CorrelSense.  Author: PR Announcement.

Correlsense, an application management and IT monitoring software provider, today announced it is partnering with Red Hat to focus on collaboration around Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, OpenShift. This partnership allows OpenShift customers and community access to SharePath, a leading application performance management solution. By using the OpenShift platform and SharePath together, both developers and IT operations professionals will have the ability to manage applications from development, through testing, deployment and in production.

Since its launch, developers have leveraged OpenShift for deploying PaaS-based applications in a streamlined and efficient manner. Users can upload their Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl, Python or Node.js code and leave the configuration, management and scaling headaches behind. With the application monitoring capabilities of SharePath, IT operations and development can use one tool to manage the performance of their applications after deployment. SharePath traces 100% of user transactions across multiple tiers and stacks, auto-detects interdependencies, and correlates the performance data on a single dashboard in real time…