Vision Net Brings Cutting-edge Cloud Technology to Northwest Region
Vision Net, a Montana-based communications technology solutions provider, announced today that it will begin offering customers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) based on Cisco’s CloudVerse cloud delivery framework. The move places Vision Net at the forefront of cloud computing service providers in the Northwest region.
Vision Net CEO Rob Ferris says there is significant demand for the technology. “As more companies seek out cloud computing to meet their data storage and other needs, we’re seeing an increased demand for faster, more user-friendly programs,” he says. “With IaaS businesses can go online and in a matter of minutes build the cloud experience that best meets their needs, while still having the full support and service of the Vision Net team and the testing of Cisco CloudVerse behind them.”
Convergence Taking Over the Data Center
Enterprises may have embraced cloud computing as a means to handle increasing data loads, but closer to home the name of the game continues to be streamlined, converged infrastructure.
How far this movement will go and how radically it will remake the data center remains to be seen. Convergence can take place on many levels, ranging from simple network or server consolidation to integrated compute clusters or even prefabbed, containerized data centers. One thing is certain, the days of discrete islands of hardware are quickly coming to an end.
Dell is the latest to broach the converged infrastructure movement. Earlier this month the company unveiled a new compute cluster built around its PowerEdge server and Force10 40 Gbps switch, as well as a new version of the EqualLogic storage blade. The entire kit is housed in a single blade chassis and is controlled by a single management software stack, making it easy for enterprises to deploy and configure in accordance with the rapid scalability needs of virtual and cloud environments…
The Role of Cloud Automation and IT-as-a-Service
Grazed from Wired. Author: Jason Liu.
As a software company CEO, I have the opportunity to meet regularly with IT leaders from some of the world’s largest brands and leading IT organization innovators. Based on these conversations, it has become clear that IT organizations continue to struggle with the centralization of company-wide computing needs in the journey toward providing IT-as-a-Service. It’s also clear that cloud is both part of the solution and part of the problem.
For the past 18 months or so, one of the recurring anecdotes that I’ve heard has been around line of business staff engaging the public cloud to run projects without first engaging IT…
Cloud Computing: Has Dell Lost Quest?
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Maureen O’Gara.
Quest Software says it’s going with a sweetened offer from Insight Venture Partners, which brought along Vector Capital, another private equity outfit, to get the $2.17 billion deal done.
They’ve offered $25.75 a share, 50 cents more than the mystery bidder believed to be Dell offered last week and 12% better than the $23 Insight offered in March.
For insurance the deal calls for a $25 million termination fee, four times more than the original fee. The cap on the bidders’ reimbursable expenses has also been raised from $7 million to $12 million…
Why CIOs are learning to stop worrying and love the cloud
The era of cloud computing has finally passed a long-running phase of hype and hysteria and has now become a simple reality of today’s business life.
That was the message from Joseph Coyle, the CTO of IT consultancy giant CapGemini, who was speaking at GigaOM’s Structure 2012 event in San Francisco.
Coyle said most CIOs are no longer asking whether they should embrace the cloud but are focusing on how to use it for cost-savings and on how and when to divest their IT operations.
While many companies are still questioning the safety and reliability of the cloud, Coyle says cloud operations are entirely secure. He notes that most cloud clients were not even aware of last week’s big outage in which a number of Amazon services went down…
HTML5, Cloud and Mobile Create ‘Perfect Storm’ for Major App Dev Shift
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Darryl K. Taft.
The advent of HTML5 along with the move to mobile and cloud computing are conspiring to cause a major shift in the application development landscape akin to when Java displaced C++ as the major enterprise programming language 15 years ago, according to a top Oracle development executive.
The application development landscape is in the midst of a major era shift based on the "perfect storm" provided by the emergence of cloud, mobile and HTML5 as dominant themes in modern systems, said a top Oracle development executive.
Indeed, the shift from hard-core object-oriented languages to more Web-oriented development platforms is, in effect, much like the way Java moved in on C++ more than 15 years ago, said Cameron Purdy, vice president of development for Oracle’s application server group…
Security still the ‘No. 1 obstacle’ to cloud adoption
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Bobbie Johnson.
International companies are still wary of cloud adoption because of concerns over data security and legal exposure, including worries about American government interference.
Speaking at GigaOM’s Structure 2012 conference in San Francisco, Juergen Urbanski of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Systems said that European customers, in particular, were wary of moving to the cloud because of their security fears.
“In Europe, security and compliance is a big issue,” he said. “In fact it is definitely the No. 1 obstacle to the faster adoption of cloud services.”…
99.9% Cloud Computing Uptime? That 0.1% Costs More Than You Would Think
Reliability has long been a supposedly stalwart benefit of cloud technology–the ability to offer always-on service for midsize and enterprise companies. But while 99.9-percent cloud computing uptime sounds like a great number, recent studies show that the costs associated with that 0.1 percent of downtime are far higher than many admins realize. Nonetheless, cloud adoption proceeds full steam ahead, with providers like Google making the case that shirking the cloud is bad for the environment. So what’s an admin to do, fight for the right up time, or be energy conscious?…
Atlantis Launches Groundbreaking New Storage Optimization Product for Storage-Intensive Virtualized Server and Cloud Apps
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
Today Atlantis Computing(TM), a leading provider of storage optimization software for virtual servers and desktops, will unveil Atlantis ILIO FlexCloud 1.0 onstage at GigaOM Structure, one of the most influential cloud computing conferences. The new software product makes it possible for enterprises and service providers to fundamentally change the performance and economics of storage-intensive virtualized server and cloud applications like databases, big data and custom enterprise applications.
"With our success in the desktop virtualization market, we are constantly asked by customers to bring to market solutions for virtual servers that optimize storage utilization like we do for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)," said Bernard Harguindeguy, CEO of Atlantis Computing. "With the introduction of Atlantis ILIO FlexCloud 1.0, we are demonstrating how our technology has the flexibility to deliver similar performance, cost and scalability benefits to server virtualization and the cloud."…
Visibility and Control Still an Issue With BYOD Policies
Grazed from Network Computing. Author: Ericka Chickowski
The Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) boom has introduced enough risk to the enterprise to keep IT managers up at night, but most businesses lack the visibility and control over mobile devices and applications to actually do anything about it. As a result, organizations are open to everything from users loading data unto unauthorized devices, to malicious applications wreaking havoc on the network.
"We have seen a number of mobile threats that act as bots, for example," said Oliver Friedrichs, senior vice president of the cloud technology group at Sourcefire, explaining one of many risky scenarios posed by unchecked BYOD policies. "So, mobile devices connect through your corporate network through command-and-control servers. When you have a compromised device on your internal network that’s already bypassed your firewall, you have all of the inherent problems that something can bounce through that device and use it as an entry point into the corporate network."…