Red Hat Buys ManageIQ, Gains Hybrid Cloud Tools
Red Hat will acquire virtualization environment manager ManageIQ for $104 million to beef up the capabilities of Red Hat Virtualization 3.1, its own virtualization management console.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization generates and manages virtual machines run by the KVM hypervisor found in the Linux kernel. ManageIQ was an early fosterer of management in the multi-hypervisor virtual environment. In this early, 2009 look at the company, ManageIQ CEO and co-founder Joe Fitzgerald talked about management problems in the more dynamic world of virtual machines…
Cloud computing: Dare to be boring
Cloud computing is one of the most exciting technologies to come along in a very long while. This is largely due to the race in the marketplace to provide the most innovative cloud features and functions. It’s a race to keep up with the hype; it’s also a race to stay or become relevant. However, could all that excitement be masking the true purpose of cloud computing?
Cloud computing should have the objective to provide a core foundation of infrastructure and business processes on demand, and we should use those resources to drive our business. If cloud computing works correctly, the storage and compute systems it provides, or the applications it serves up, should function like any other utility we use: It should just work, and eventually, we don’t even think much about it. In other words, it should become boring…
Cloudy Skies Ahead: 3 Cloud Computing Predictions for 2013
Cloud computing continues to be one of the most hyped topics in IT. Even Gartner suggests that cloud computing has moved beyond the peak of inflated expectations, with many achieving meaningful success.
I suspect nearly every business or individual uses a cloud application or service today. As consumers, every time we access Gmail or Facebook, we are buying into the cloud paradigm. Businesses have adopted SaaS applications for accounting, expense reporting, email and a “host” of other business applications.
So, it would seem as if cloud computing is fairly mainstream, right? Well, yes and no. Based on my predictions below, I anticipate an even broader adoption of cloud computing in 2013 as companies seek to leverage its inherent benefits…
Alfresco takes open source content management to the Amazon cloud
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Ted Samson.
Signaling Amazon Web Services’ steady rise toward enterprise acceptance, Alfresco today unveiled three versions of its open source ECM (enterprise content management) platform for AWS, ranging from fully hosted to a hybrid-cloud version. Alfresco joins the ranks of such companies as CloudStack, F5, Eucalyptus, and SAP that have released offerings and support for the Amazon cloud — despite high-profile outages AWS has suffered this past year. The more vendors that hop aboard the AWS wagon, the more difficult it will be for AWS rivals like Oracle, Rackspace, and Microsoft to gain traction.
Alfresco’s ECM, designed for secure collaboration and file-sharing, will be available in three AWS flavors. Customers can opt for the full SaaS application, which Alfresco described as a delivering "simple, business-class collaboration with mobile access and file sharing."…
Top five cloud computing news stories in 2012
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Fernanda Aspe.
If we’ve learned anything since the emergence of cloud computing, it’s that cloud is not going away. And news from 2012 is proof of that. Discussions sprung up around cloud computing, from how it’s transforming enterprise IT — both easing admin’s workloads and raising concerns about security and data privacy — to how cloud services are attracting the eyes of other industry sectors with money to spend.
The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend was hotly debated, and the future of cloud service providers such as OpenStack and Oracle was thoroughly scrutinized. This top-five list of cloud computing 2012 news stories features our most popular articles covering the cloud market in 2012, as chosen by our readers…
Cloud computing: A bird’s eye view
Grazed from Globe and Mail. Author: Jody White.
Companies set to profit from the growth of cloud computing. While the idea of access to software and services delivered via an online network has been around since the 1960s, it wasn’t until the launch of Salesforce.com in the late ninties that tech companies began to provide useful products via the cloud.
More recently, we have seen tremendous growth in cloud computing offerings – which allow people and organizations to store digital data offsite – from Internet giants such as Amazon, Google and Facebook. This has created a market for large-scale storage services to handle the vast amount of documents, social media posts and shared photos that are uploaded to the cloud millions of times per day…
Worried About the Cloud? Always Plan Ahead
Worried About the Cloud? Always Plan Ahead
I can certainly understand the concern – it’s a big wide world and it seems like it’s all out their control. Well, for the most part, it is.
Cloud computing feeds competitiveness among consumers and vendors
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Paul Korzeniowski.
When evaluating cloud computing, corporations are thinking more strategically and less tactically, according to an IDC survey of U.K.-based cloud managers. "Just about all corporations are now searching for ways to leverage cloud computing," said Juergen Urbanski, vice president of cloud architectures at Deutsche Telekom. In fact, the survey found that three quarters of corporations that responded view the cloud as a way to solve key business issues.
But the reasons why companies opt for cloud services are changing. Reducing IT costs is still a main driver, mentioned by about 40% of businesses. A few years ago, almost all respondents cited lower costs as the cloud’s No. 1 benefit. However, the focus is moving away from simply cost…
Oracle paying $871 million for cloud computing software firm Eloqua
Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) has agreed to buy Eloqua Inc. for about $871 million to further expand into cloud computing amid competition from SAP AG and Salesforce.com Inc. Oracle said Thursday that buying Eloqua will bolster its "cloud" technology for helping companies make decisions on their marketing, sales and customer support. Cloud computing refers to the concept of making software available for anyone with an Internet-connected device, rather than installing it on company computers.
The $23.50-per-share offer is more than twice Eloqua’s initial public offering price in August and 31 percent higher than the close Wednesday. The board of Eloqua, whose Internet-based software is used in marketing and revenue-performance management, approved the deal, according to a statement…
Two hours in the cloud: The year’s best cloud computing Q&As
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Caitlin White.
As past years have been more about whether cloud computing will infiltrate IT or not, 2012 has been rife with thoughtful analysis of the pros and cons of cloud services. Enterprise IT has been steadfast in its data security concerns, and IT administrators have worried about job security with the introduction of cloud. But many companies are finally seeing how cloud can innovate and advance their missions and business plans.
SearchCloudComputing.com had the opportunity in 2012 to speak with experts from all walks of cloud — CEOs, cloud security directors and open source pros, among others. These eight best cloud computing Q&As put industry authorities in the hot seat for their takes on the cloud market…