Dome9 Security, the leading provider of cloud server security management for public and private clouds, as well as for dedicated and virtual private servers (VPS), today announced that it has expanded its Dome9 solution availability to the Rackspace open cloud. The Dome9 solution is available for purchase for Rackspace first generation Cloud Servers and Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack through the enhanced Cloud Tools Marketplace from Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing. This marketplace will serve as a gateway to an open ecosystem of cloud solutions, which will give customers access to a broad range of tools that support Rackspace open cloud.

"We’re pleased to make our solutions available through the Rackspace Cloud Tools Marketplace, to bring to market an innovative new approach to cloud security," said Zohar Alon, Co-Founder & CEO of Dome9 Security. "Dome9’s cloud security makes security elastic, stopping zero-day attacks, securing remote access, and automating policy management to make cloud servers invisible to hackers."

Today several OpenStack community members announced their collaboration to build the first ARM® technology-powered OpenStack cloud as a zone in TryStack, the free sandbox for exploring and testing OpenStack. Solutions based on the ARM architecture show great promise for cloud computing due to their ability to deploy and manage scale-out workloads efficiently, reducing power consumption and cost.

OpenStack has attracted engineering expertise from leading innovators in the ARM ecosystem to add support for ARM processors, relying on the OpenStack pluggable architecture, which provides users the flexibility to build clouds tailored to their unique use cases. This means OpenStack can be deployed across diverse architectures, including widely available virtualization technologies, different storage back ends, and now CPU architectures like ARM.

"The explosion of cloud apps is creating new problems in datacenters, and OpenStack is attracting the brightest minds in the industry looking for new ways to solve those problems as the old approach of ‘bigger iron and expensive software’ runs out of steam," said Mark Collier, VP of Marketing and Business Development for OpenStack at Rackspace. "ARM-powered OpenStack clouds attack these problems in a fundamental way, by combining a radically more efficient chip architecture with the flexible OpenStack cloud operating system designed to manage them at scale."

Certes Networks, an innovative developer of scalable network and cloud encryption solutions, today announced that its Virtual Certes Enforcement Point (vCEP) for cloud security has achieved VMware Ready™ status. This designation indicates that the vCEP has undergone detailed test procedures and is supported on VMware vSphere® 5 for production environments.

“By using Virtual Certes Enforcement Point (vCEP) with VMware vSphere® 5, enterprises can easily secure and cryptographically isolate sensitive data and works flows,” said Thomas Gill, CEO of Certes Networks. “In conjunction with our industry recognized Policy and Key Management system our customers are able to securely adopt cloud services and protect their data within both public and shared multi-tenant cloud infrastructures. The solution also allows our customers to maintain ownership and control of their own security policies and keys.”

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that VMworld 2012 US makes its return to San Francisco August 26th through August 30th at Moscone Center. VMworld 2012 Europe will be held October 9th through October 11th at Gran Via Barcelona in Barcelona. With more than 21,000 attendees expected worldwide, VMworld 2012 will spotlight VMware and the industry’s commitment to Business transformation through IT transformation.

This year’s VMworld theme, “Right Here, Right Now” focuses on how attendees will gain the tools and training needed to master the new cloud landscape, with the speed, security and control they’ve come to expect.

Unitrends, Inc., the #1 all-in-one backup, archiving, instant recovery and disaster recovery solution and ExaGrid Systems, Inc., the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced a partnership that will enable mid-sized enterprises to address today’s heterogeneous IT environments and the sprawl associated with data growth. The seamless integration of Unitrends’ new software-only product, Unitrends Enterprise Backup, and ExaGrid’s purpose-built disk-based backup appliance offers the industry’s best long-term and cost-effective solution to these scalability and complexity problems.

Heterogeneous IT environments combine physical and virtual architectures, multiple operating systems, and platforms. Given these multi-infrastructure environments and data growth rates averaging 30% or more annually, IT organizations are challenged to address scalability and complexity in cost-effective ways. Technologies that reduce the amount of storage needed for backup and also provide an all-in-one solution are required to reduce the burden on already-stressed IT organizations.

ScaleXtreme, a leading provider of cloud and server monitoring and management products, today announced that it has expanded its solution availability to the Rackspace open cloud. ScaleXtreme is available for purchase for Rackspace first generation Cloud Servers and Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack through the enhanced Cloud Tools Marketplace from Rackspace Hosting, the service leader in cloud computing. This marketplace will serve as a gateway to an open ecosystem of cloud solutions, which will give customers access to a broad range of tools that support Rackspace open cloud.

“Rackspace is redefining great service for the cloud computing era and the Cloud Tools Marketplace is going to be a big win for customers,” said ScaleXtreme CEO Nand Mulchandani. “We’re pleased to be featured in the Marketplace, which will make it easier for Rackspace customers to quickly scale up their deployments, monitor their Rackspace machines right next to their on-premise servers, run scripts across both environments, and automate patch management and other critical tasks with ScaleXtreme. It’s a great way to get even more from your Rackspace instances.”

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Penguin Computing today announced partnerships with multiple universities to enable easy, quick and unbureaucratic on-demand access to scalable HPC compute resources for academic researchers.

"Penguin Computing has traditionally been very successful with HPC deployments in academic environments with widely varying workloads, many departments competing for resources and very limited budgets for capital expenses, a cloud based model for compute resources makes perfect sense," says Tom Coull, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Software and Services at Penguin Computing. "The new partnerships help academic institutions with a flexible cloud based resource allocation for their researchers. At the same time, they present an opportunity for IT departments to create an ongoing revenue stream by offering researchers from other schools access to their cloud."…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Emma Joseph.

We have gone through the massive cloud computing crazy rather unharmed by everything. Cloud computing is the rage when it comes to just about every aspect of business. From the personal level cloud computing has been more of just giant storage for your typical at home user. To help change this view and to expend into everyone’s living room around the globe and they have been doing this by merging cloud computing with Social media. Today’s new buzz word fraise, social cloud networking. Oracle has really jumped in feet first in this new approach to cloud computing.

Eating them up

Last week, Oracle just bought into and acquired Involver. Involver creates front end applications that let users control or have more control of their branding pages over social networks. Oracle has now bought and taken over three cloud computing or cloud computing related companies and they move deeper and deeper into the fray of cloud computing. Back in June Oracle bought Collective intellect which is on the marketing end of cloud computing. Collective Intellect helps companies respond to customers on social media websites. (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) All the way back into October of 2011 Oracle jumped on the bargain priced Rightnow Technologies for 1.5 billion. Rightnow Technologies markets services to cloud customers and deals with support applications. These bold moves by Oracle are pushing them closer to the top of the cloud computing food chain…

Grazed from Data Center Knowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.

Several years ago, engineers were tasked with knowing and understanding specific technologies which they were tasked with administrating. These small groups would be asked to collaborate within themselves. Rarely would they deviate and involve other groups. Manager and project leaders were the ones communicating with higher-ups and transferring data on an as-needed basis. With the introduction of cloud computing, distributed data center environments and new technologies, IT professionals are being asked for more. This doesn’t only mean knowing more technologies, but the personality demands have shifted as well.

In working with numerous organizations and hiring firms, it’s clear that the ideal data center or IT professional is someone who diverse, creative and oftentimes most importantly – personable. In this ‘Part 1’ post, we examine career paths for novice and experienced IT professionals by looking at some of the new demands and requirements being placed on the IT industry…

Grazed from Korea Times. Author: Cho Mu-hyun.

Mobile carrier LG Uplus unveiled its cloud computing based game platform called C-games, Wednesday.

Subscribers of various network services can purchase games from the C-games website that can then be played on any device with Web connectivity.

“We have a top level network with more competitiveness than other mobile carriers or broadcasters,” said Chun Byung-wook, senior vice president of LG Uplus’ service platform division. “Cloud games are a central service to LG Uplus’ LTE (long-term evolution) strategy and will once again revolutionize the market.”…