August 31, 2018 Off

Genomics & the Cloud: What’s Next?

By David
Article Written by Avery Phillips

Saving patient data to the cloud can mean using big data to improve medicine and discover problems that doctors might have missed. Uploading an entire gene sequence and studying the sequence – a branch of molecular biology known as genomics – could have an even bigger impact on medicine as a whole in the coming years. Let’s look at the good and bad of the future of genomics and the cloud.

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Personalized Gene Editing

One of the biggest advancements in recent years is CRISPR, a method of editing genes that has made editing individual genes much easier and cheaper than in the past. It can be used to fight world hunger by making plants produce more fruit or become more resistant to anything from weather, insects, or blight, and even edit a person’s genes. It’s not quite at the stage where it’s ready for humans, but it’s close. 

Now, combine an easy way to edit genes with big data. First, the patient’s gene sequence is uploaded to the cloud. This lets a computer comb through and identify what could be changed with CRISPR, to either reduce the chance for disease or eliminate it entirely could be in our near future. It seems like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it could very soon be a reality. Using big data to essentially crowdsource the solution to medical problems is not new, however.

August 30, 2018 Off

Smart Availability – The Key for Producing Business Value Through Digital Transformation

By David
Written By Don Boxley, CEO and Co-Founder, DH2i (www.dh2i.com)
One needn’t be a technology expert to realize that an outage or loss of service of any type or any length of time is unacceptable for today’s business organization (of course, nonprofits and government organizations are not very keen on downtime either). Even during the wee hours of the morning, “planned” system downtime is becoming less and less tolerable, especially given today’s global economy. While most are asleep in one geography, it is prime business hours in another.
Availability has become a chief priority for most IT professionals in today’s business organizations, whether your compute resources are located onsite, in the cloud, or spread across a hybrid environment. What IT professionals are beginning to realize, is that traditional options for high availability (HA) have limitations, and that continuous operational efficiency shouldn’t monopolize an organization’s financial or personnel resources with endless testing and retesting of availability.
August 29, 2018 Off

Using iCloud For Beginners

By David
If you own an Apple product, you may want to start making use of one of its greatest features, iCloud. If you want to set up an iCloud account and understand all of its features, read on to make the most of your phone, tablet, or MacBook.  
 
What is iCloud? 
iCloud is an Apple based service which covers a variety of cloud-based products and services, including contact, emails, and calendar syncing, location device settings, and music storage. The iCloud in general is used, like other cloud based services, to store and keep your information and memories safe. This means if something happens to your device and you have been backing up your data to the cloud, you can re-access and re-install all of your data back onto your device, or onto a new one. This is great for many reasons, including providing you with the ability to make more use of your devices storage, as iCloud storage is separate to how much your device can store. You can also access all your data, photos, and music from any other internet-connected phone, laptop or tablet. All you need to know is your Apple ID and password. 
 
August 24, 2018 Off

ScienceLogic Brings AIOps Technology to VMware Cloud on AWS Customers for Total Infrastructure Visibility

By David
Grazed from ScienceLogic

ScienceLogic announced that ScienceLogic SL1 is available to customers of VMware Cloud on AWS. Powered by algorithmic IT operations (AIOps), SL1 delivers real-time context to operational data for customers of VMware Cloud on AWS.

VMware Cloud on AWS delivers a seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud that extends on-premises vSphere environments to a VMware SDDC running on Amazon EC2 elastic, bare-metal infrastructure that is fully integrated as part of the AWS Cloud.

SL1 enables VMware Cloud on AWS customers to understand how mission-critical applications connect to their underlying IT infrastructure through consistent, controlled visibility and management. Multi-dimensional topology maps, known as PowerMap, enable real-time views into infrastructure, application, and service health so IT can proactively and responsively inform, analyze, and act. This context is driven by PowerSync, which allows businesses to combine data across multiple silos and generate insights that drive automated actions, regardless of whether a service runs on-premises or in the cloud. The result offers enterprises the opportunity to stay ahead of market competition by applying machine-speed to ongoing business growth.

August 24, 2018 Off

Liquidware Celebrates 10 Years of Desktop Virtualization Innovation at its 10th VMworld Show

By David
Grazed from Liquidware

Liquidware, the leading third-party provider of platform-agnostic end-user computing solutions, will be showcasing its products at VMworld in Las Vegas from August 26 – 30, 2018. This will be the tenth time in its decade-long existence that Liquidware has participated as a sponsor in what it describes as "a strategic show" for its brand. Consequently, it is sending its heavy hitters to field questions from VMworld’s technically-biased delegates at booth #2126.

"During the show, we will preview upcoming versions of all solutions in our workspace environment management suite including additional cloud native integration features in ProfileUnity and FlexApp and enhanced user experience reporting in Stratusphere UX," said Jason E. Smith, VP Product Marketing at Liquidware.

August 24, 2018 Off

SevOne Expands Industry Leading SD-WAN Monitoring Solution by Adding Support for VMware NSX SD-WAN

By David
Grazed from SevOne

SevOne announced that its SevOne SD-WAN Monitoring Solution will now support VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud. Based on the SevOne Data Platform, the SD-WAN Monitoring Solution, released earlier this year, increases operational agility of Managed Services Providers (MSPs) offering multiple, complex network services over their multi-tenant, multi-vendor networks.

The enhanced SevOne solution, scheduled for release in calendar Q4, will deliver the foundation of real-time and historical visibility into enterprise and service provider networks with customizable, persona-based dashboards for network operations/engineering, product owners and business executives. MSPs can easily extend the solution for visibility across their entire service delivery path including enterprise wi-fi from campus to branch, software defined datacenters and more. With the ability to create customized KPIs based on specific tenants, WAN paths and health indicators of their multi-vendor-based SD-WANs, MSP network operations and engineering teams now have greater insight into the network services running on them, helping ease MSPs transition from offering only MPLS-based services to new hybrid SD-WAN-based services.

August 24, 2018 Off

Webinar: All inclusive BC/DR plan with Vembu BDR Suite 4.0

By David
 

Register now for this upcoming live webinar to learn how you can run your critical servers with zero downtime and walk through the best practices in deploying a cost-effective backup solution to your heterogeneous IT environment.

Join and get an exclusive look into what’s in store with the upcoming release of Vembu BDR Suite v4.0!

WHEN?  Tuesday, September 4, 2018 @ 2PM ET, 11AM PT

Here’s what you can expect:

  • What’s under the hood with v4.0
  • New Features – How does it solve IT pain points?
  • Best Practices to achieve High Availability with v4.0

Also, grab an opportunity to win a $100 Amazon gift voucher by registering for this Webinar.

 

August 24, 2018 Off

How Is Cloud Computing Revolutionizing The Real Estate Industry?

By David

Article Written by Sally Perkins

In 2017, venture investors dedicated over $5 billion to real estate technology, over 150 times what they invested in 2010. The so-called ‘third phase’ of real estate technology also relies heavily on cloud computing and embraces "sensors and virtual reality to create smarter spaces, machine learning to standardize and draw insights from industry data and platforms to more efficiently manage transaction services as well as to design, manage and outfit physical spaces." Real estate firms are realizing that in order to keep updated on the very latest listings, coordinate customer service, and store information on properties (including images and text), reliance on old-style servers just won’t do the job. In steps cloud computing, to provide greater security, speed, and efficiency to a billion dollar industry.

 
August 23, 2018 Off

Nexenta Announces Enterprise File Services-based Software Defined Storage for Multi Cloud Environments

By David
Grazed from Nexenta

Nexenta announced enterprise support and availability of a virtual deployed storage appliance, enabling enterprises to expand their hyper-converged infrastructure, applications, and workload flexibility. In tandem with this comes the latest versions of their leading storage software solutions, adding functionality to further accelerate their support for today’s enterprises in private, public, hybrid, and multi clouds.

The newest version of Nexenta’s full-featured software-defined storage (SDS) for enterprise applications, NexentaStor 5.1.2, offers the ultimate flexibility. This virtual machine deployment model of the award-winning NexentaStor unified storage software provides secure enterprise file services for hyper-converged appliance users as well as VMware users with traditional block only storage arrays without any additional hardware purchase. The use of the virtual storage appliance augments the already industry-leading hardware compatibility list for bare metal installations of NexentaStor. 

August 23, 2018 Off

Morpheus Data Helps Enterprises Bridge the Agility Gap with End-to-End Orchestration of Hybrid IT on Virtually Any Cloud

By David
Grazed from Morpheus Data

Today, Morpheus Data announced major updates to its next generation cloud management platform (CMP) which will help IT Operations teams orchestrate software defined networks, multi-cloud high availability, and leading configuration management tools.

By bringing together over 75 third-party tools under a single out-of-the-box automation engine, Morpheus lets IT quickly provide self-service provisioning to developers and accelerate application deployments by 150x or more.

New integrations enable customers to: