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:

August 23, 2018 Off

Zerto Debuts Disruptive Backup Technology at VMworld

By David
Grazed from Zerto

Zerto, an industry leader for IT resilience, today announced it will be showcasing how it is replacing cumbersome legacy and periodic backup solutions with best-in-breed continuous data protection (CDP) at this year’s VMworld in Las Vegas. Presenting a preview of the Zerto 7 IT Resilience Platform at booth #1148, Zerto will demonstrate how its recently announced platform, built on CDP, is disrupting the market by converging backup, disaster recovery (DR) and cloud mobility solutions into a single, scalable platform. Attendees will be able to sign up for early access to Zerto 7 and test their IT resilience maturity level via a new benchmarking tool developed from research gathered by Zerto and IDC.

August 23, 2018 Off

ClearSky Data Announces Native, Cloud-Based Backup for VMware Cloud on AWS

By David
Grazed from ClearSky Data

ClearSky Data, provider of on-demand backup and DR as a service, today announced its support for VMware Cloud on AWS, which delivers a highly scalable, secure and resilient service that allows organizations to seamlessly migrate and extend their on-premises VMware vSphere-based environments to the AWS Cloud running on next-generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) bare metal infrastructure. As one of the first partners to provide backup with native VMware Cloud on AWS integration, ClearSky Data lets VMware Cloud on AWS customers protect all their data in the cloud exactly as they do on-premises – without replication or egress fees, and with on-demand access from anywhere.

VMware Cloud on AWS provides connectivity to the ClearSky Data fully managed service for cost-effective, enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery (DR) in the cloud. Customers achieve better backup with predictable costs, limitless capacity and access anywhere, while reducing their total cost of ownership (TCO) by more than 50 percent.

August 23, 2018 Off

Threat Stack Announces Containerized Agent to Enable Container Deployment at Scale

By David
Grazed from Threat Stack

Threat Stack, the leader in cloud infrastructure security, today announced streamlined deployment of the Threat Stack Cloud Security Platform designed to provide organizations with the ability to automate the deployment of Threat Stack’s agent as a separate container. With a new containerized version of its Cloud Security Platform agent, Threat Stack customers will be able to maintain security visibility as they continue to scale their container infrastructure without slowing down DevOps processes.

With the new deployment model, Threat Stack customers can leverage Kubernetes DaemonSets to automatically deploy Threat Stack’s agent alongside new container deployments, streamlining the install and management process. While the agent is deployed as its own container, it will provide the same in-depth host and container visibility as Threat Stack’s current agent installed directly on the host.

August 22, 2018 Off

Industry Veterans from Nimble Storage, DSSD and HPE Join WekaIO Advisory Board

By David
Grazed from WekaIO

WekaIO, the innovation leader in high-performance, scalable file storage for data intensive applications, today announced that seasoned storage professional Suresh Vasudevan, the CEO of open source container vendor Sysdig and former CEO of Nimble Storage, has joined its newly established advisory board. Joining Vasudevan on the advisory board is Bill Moore, former founder and CEO of rack-scale flash array startup DSSD which was acquired by EMC in 2014, and Randy Seidl, founder of Revenue Acceleration and formerly of EMC and Hewlett Packard.

The appointment of seasoned executives who have led companies to high growth will help accelerate WekaIO’s ability to scale revenue and customer acquisition. As CEO of Nimble Storage, from 2011-2017, Vasudevan led the company from an early-stage startup through a successful IPO, and to a customer-base some 10,000-strong coupled with almost $500 million in annual revenue, before its acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Prior to that Vasudevan was CEO of Omneon, Inc., and before that spent nearly a decade at NetApp, where he held various senior executive positions.