Interxion Launches Eucalyptus-Based Cloud Test Lab
INTERXION HOLDING NV, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data center services, announced today at Cloud Expo East that it is launching a new Cloud Test Lab based on Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus Systems provides the most widely deployed, on-premise cloud computing platform for web 2.0 businesses, enterprises, and government organizations. This Test Lab is developed for enterprises and systems integrators looking to deploy private and hybrid cloud environments, a topic that Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos and Interxion Director Cloud Segment Vincent in’t Veld will discuss during the Cloud Expo East session "The World According to Cloud" on Tuesday, June 12 at 1:35 p.m.
The Eucalyptus-based Cloud Test Lab is located at Interxion’s Frankfurt Data Center Campus and provides a free, turnkey, proof-of-concept environment combining industry-leading software, connectivity, systems and colocation capabilities. Test Lab users will be able to create Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environments to rapidly build, develop and trial cloud services with best-in-class performance guarantees…
Wipro unveils India’s first major cloud computing platform
It’s finally here – the first major global Cloud-based platform rolled out by an Indian IT services major.
Wipro Technologies, the fourth largest Indian IT services provider, announced it was expanding its Cloud platform by offering a global-level Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) product.
IaaS is the basic level of Cloud offering. On top of IaaS is built higher levels of Cloud products such as Platform-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service and Business-Process-as-a-Service (PaaS, SaaS and BPaaS.)…
Risk management for cloud computing deployments
When you consider the recent trends and studies on cloud computing, it’s clear that after the Internet, it’s the turn of cloud computing to shape the future of computing. The question is no longer “To cloud or not to cloud”, but more of “when will the shift happen” and “what processes will shift to the cloud”. In this series of articles, we will endeavor to perform a complete cloud risk management exercise.
As part of a risk management exercise for cloud computing, it’s important to rank the positive information security benefits from utilizing cloud infrastructure. Since the largest risks lie on public cloud fronts (unless mentioned otherwise), all references are only to public cloud infrastructure…
Former Apple chief urges firms to adapt to cloud computing era or face extinction
Businesses must adapt to the huge growth of cloud computing services in order to ensure they do not fall by the wayside, according to the former chief executive of Apple, John Sculley.
Speaking at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London, Sculley, who oversaw Apple for 10 years between 1983 and 1993, said the huge growth of cloud computing is causing technological innovations on an exponential scale, far beyond the predictable Moore’s law of innovations.
"Businesses have to adapt to changing environments in order to survive. There are many examples of corporations that were great in one era but not in another. Kodak was a great firm in one era, but now it’s bankrupt," he said…
How to define and design cloud APIs, step by step
Most cloud computing services are not consumed using visual interfaces; instead, they’re consumed through nonvisual interfaces, or APIs. These APIs are typically RESTful services that provide access to fine- or coarse-grained features of the cloud — for example, infrastructure services such as storage or provisioning, or business services such as updating a purchase order.
Let’s say you’re building a cloud computing system for an enterprise, and you need to define, design, and implement the services. What are the steps?…
Milliman Launches MG-ALFA in the Cloud
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Milliman, Inc., the international firm of consultants and actuaries, today announced that MG-ALFA is capable of utilizing Windows Azure for on-demand processing. This represents a major step forward and a valuable feature as insurers look to expand computing capacity while controlling costs.
MG-ALFA Compute for Windows Azure, a proprietary computing component developed by Milliman in collaboration with Microsoft Corp., lets clients take advantage of a variable cost structure and gives them on-demand access to data centers with massive computing capacity. Running MG-ALFA on Windows Azure helps relieve insurers of the planning, management and fixed costs associated with building and maintaining on-site computing resources. Infrastructure, support, maintenance, and monitoring of the grid are all provided by Milliman…
Cloupia Continues to Strengthen Converged Infrastructure Orchestration Offerings With New Solution Announcements
Cloupia, a leading data center orchestration and cloud management software provider, today announced expanded converged infrastructure management offerings to help enterprises and service providers transition to next generation dynamic data centers. Cloupia’s announcement is a major advancement in converged infrastructure management and orchestration. These new offerings will enable enterprises and service providers to easily transition to clouds with one integrated and comprehensive data center management platform across the entire IT stack — physical, virtual, cloud and converged infrastructure.
“Organizations are looking for flexible and integrated data center management platform to rapidly deploy converged infrastructure based solutions on demand,” said Raju Datla, CEO of Cloupia. “Cloupia unified converged infrastructure management offerings will accelerate the enterprise data center transformation towards fabric-based data centers with the necessary automation capabilities. As a leading converged infrastructure management provider, we will continue to work closely with major infrastructure vendors to provide our customers with best-in-class unified data center orchestration solutions.”
Transcend Announces TopStack Web Edition for Eucalyptus
Transcend Computing, an innovator in Amazon Compatible Environments (ACE) for public, private and hybrid cloud computing, today announced a partnership with Eucalyptus, creator of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform. As part of the agreement, Transcend TopStack Web Edition for Eucalyptus, a set of platform services that emulate the Amazon PaaS, is now available for the Eucalyptus on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution. Eucalyptus provides AWS-compatible services at the IaaS layer, while TopStack provides complementary AWS-compatible services at the PaaS layer. As part of this arrangement, Transcend will offer a pre-integrated software platform that bundles the two solutions and will act as a reseller of the new solution.
Jeff Schneider, Transcend Computing’s CEO commented, "Eucalyptus has done a great job of building out an AWS-compatible IaaS platform for on-premise IaaS clouds. Our TopStack PaaS offering is a natural fit for enterprise customers who want to avoid cloud lock-in for their applications."
Embotics Raises $8.4M for Cloud Management
Embotics Corporation, a virtualization and private cloud management, announced that it has closed $8.4 million in equity financing. Bringing Embotics’ total financing-to-date to $18 million, this latest round includes $2.5 million from VentureLink LP and $2.5 million from Covington Fund II Inc. (Covington), with the remainder of the funds coming from other private investors. Embotics will use the funding to accelerate global sales and marketing efforts, as well as to hire more software engineers.
This mix of pragmatic growth, strategic marketing and sales investments will build upon the momentum of the past year’s 300 percent growth in sales to further strengthen Embotics V-Commander’s leadership position in the private cloud management market.
Dell Drives Public and Hybrid Cloud Adoption with vCloud Trial, Global Expansion
To make it easy for customers to test and adopt secure, enterprise-class hybrid cloud solutions, Dell is expanding availability of its Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Services into Canada and Europe, and offering an introductory trial offer. The offer, which is currently available in the U.S. and Canada for $999, provides organizations of all sizes and industries an easy way to experience Dell’s hybrid and public cloud offerings, including full security, support and deployment from Dell Services.
While public clouds can offer on-demand computing capacity, more agility and lower entry-level costs than private clouds, some organizations may be hesitant to move to a public cloud due to concerns about security. A recent study by Dell, Intel and TechTarget found that adoption of hybrid and private clouds is outpacing public cloud adoption. Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Services addresses security concerns by offering some of the industry’s most robust security services, including active monitoring from SecureWorks, data encryption services from Trend Micro, and multiple layers of virtual and physical security in Dell data centers. All of these are now included in the current trial offer.