July 2, 2018 Off

Investing: What You Need To Know

By David
Investing: What You Need To Know

Pooling your money into places of investment can seem daunting, especially if you’re not able to gain a guarantee that your venture will be fruitful. This is often the very nature of investment, and you cannot always be sure. If you’re keen to continue ahead, then you will need to decide where you’re going to invest, and thoroughly research which areas are the safest. These areas include mutual funds, individual stocks and bonds, real estate and land, to name just a few. You can no longer just go by what your gut tells you when there are large sums of money at stake, so it’s imperative that you learn as much as you can on financial theories, active terminology, the risks, and good starting points.

July 2, 2018 Off

Datera Transforms Industry Approach to Data Services for High Performance Applications with 100% Software-Based Platform

By David
Grazed from Datera Inc.

Datera, Inc. announced the immediate availability of its Datera 3.2 Platform, enabling customers to intelligently automate their data operations and capitalize on the transition to server-based architectures to solve their data challenges. With this latest release, Datera further extends its market leadership in data automation and orchestration for tier one applications with heightened integration into container-based applications, new levels of performance through collaboration with flash and persistent memory technology leaders Intel and Samsung, and expanded global reach with active-active stretch clusters that transcend legacy data silos. As part of this release, Datera also expands the list of deployment configurations and certifications with the industry’s top three server providers (HPE, Dell and Cisco), making it easier for customers to attain the benefits of Datera with their hardware vendor of choice.

"The design of Datera’s Data Services Platform simplifies and automates IT storage architectures for tier one applications by creating a single, enterprise-ready design that spans workloads, locations and uses cases," said George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland. "With its expanded support for container-based workloads and expanded server-based deployment options in 3.2, Datera makes a strong case to organizations looking to cure the headaches associated with legacy data architectures."

July 2, 2018 Off

Juniper Networks Delivers EVPN-VXLAN Fabric to Connect Enterprise Data Center and Campus Networks

By David
Grazed from Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks, an industry leader in automated, scalable and secure networks, today announced the expansion of its campus portfolio, including extending EVPN-VXLAN fabric to the campus, enabling a common architecture for campus and data center fabrics by unifying disparate architectures. Through this unification, Juniper Networks is providing the building blocks for an enterprise-wide fabric, a key component in building a simple, secure and automated multicloud. Juniper also announced enhancements to its branch portfolio with new capabilities in its Contrail SD-WAN solution, utilizing NFX Series, SRX Series and vSRX Series WAN Edge devices combined with Contrail Service Orchestration. 

Most enterprises have separate campus and data center networks, leveraging entirely different architectures to provide connectivity across the two domains. This leads to divergent operations, which inhibits enterprises’ attempts to unify their infrastructure under a common operational umbrella. With Juniper’s new EVPN-VXLAN campus architecture, enterprises can build campus networks using the same protocols that are popular in the most stable and efficient data centers that exist today.

 
July 2, 2018 Off

The VMworld 2018 Content Catalog is Now Live!

By David
 

After months of submissions and voting, VMware has created the content catalog for the upcoming VMworld US 2018 event.

Are you attending the event this year?  If so, this is your chance to start planning.  The content catalog contains a complete listing of all the sessions, including abstracts, speaker information, and (when available) details on session times and locations.  There are 600+ breakout sessions, panels, labs, quick talks and group discussions, and this is your opportunity to map out your conference experience to maximize your learning!

June 29, 2018 Off

Cloud Daddy Launches First Complete AWS-Native Data Protection Solution on AWS Marketplace

By David
Grazed from Cloud Daddy

Cloud Daddy, the world’s most secure AWS-native data protection solution, announced today that its one-of-a-kind product offering is now available on the AWS Marketplace.

Cloud Daddy’s Secure Backup is the only solution that joins backup and disaster recovery, advanced security, and infrastructure management into one holistic offering for AWS users.

For Cloud Daddy, the move to a unified AWS-native solution reflects the changing IT landscape. "Not long ago, disaster recovery was built around the notion of natural disasters impacting an on-premises data center," said Cloud Daddy Founder and CEO Joe Merces. "In today’s world, cybercrime and cyber threats join natural disasters in making secure backup and recovery a constant concern."

June 29, 2018 Off

Webinar: Cloudistic’s Private Cloud with a Premium Experience

By David
 

 

A Private Cloud with a Premium Experience

The simplicity of the public cloud, on-premises with exceptional support and a marketplace of essential enterprise applications – all with a single click deployment.

Join this upcoming live Webinar and learn about Cloudistics’ Private Cloud with a Premium Experience.  Designed for the IT Generalist, and deployed with single-click.  You won’t want to miss it!

WHEN?  Tuesday, July 24th, 2018 @ 2:00pm EST

Register and attend for a chance to win 1 of 4 raffles!
  • Amazon $25 Amazon Gift Card
  • Amazon Echo Dot
  • Drone
  • Grand Prize Drawing – Big Echo

 

June 29, 2018 Off

Webinar: How to Deliver Exceptional End User Experience in Your Citrix Environment

By David
 

 

Citrix enables secure End User Computing services across multiple platforms and devices, enabling users to do more, using more devices from more locations. However, these End User Computing services encompass and support many different technologies that vary significantly from one organization to another. 

Users getting access to their desktops and applications is the first step, which is why monitoring the logon performance has become critical for Citrix-based IT services. That’s why eG Innovations recently announced a Free Logon Simulator for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. But that’s only a first impression. To make a lasting impact on user experience, the applications and desktops being delivered on top of the Citrix service must also perform, and these digital business services will be comprised of many different components from any number of suppliers.

 
June 28, 2018 Off

E8 Storage Awarded NVMe-oF Industry Standard Compliance Certification

By David
Written by David Marshall

Today, E8 Storage, achieved a certification of compliance with the NVMe-oF 1.0 specification. Through this certification, E8 Storage’s market reach is expanded to new customers relying on conformance to industry standards as part of their overall NVMe storage strategy. 

"E8 Storage has pioneered NVMe disaggregation for web scale customers to and is now proud to be one of the first and so far, the only certified NVMe-over-Fabrics solution in the market," said Zivan Ori, co-founder and CEO of E8 Storage.

E8 Storage continues to focus on software-defined storage which can be deployed on qualified NVMe enabled servers from leading vendors such as Western Digital, Dell, HP and Lenovo. 

 
June 28, 2018 Off

Kx Qualifies WekaIO to Run with its KDB+ Database in AWS EC2

By David
Grazed from Kx and WekaIO

WekaIO, the innovation leader in high-performance, scalable file storage for data intensive applications, today announced that Kx, creator of the world’s fastest time series database, has qualified WekaIO Matrix storage solution for use with kdb+ in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for machine learning applications. 

This qualification of Matrix comes after Kx conducted its own rigorous benchmark testing of storage solutions available in AWS EC2 as part of a process for determining their suitability for Kx customers looking to migrate their historical kdb+ database (HDB) to the cloud. 

June 28, 2018 Off

Compelling Benefits Of Mobile Cloud Computing

By David
 
Written by Kenneth Evans

Most individuals who are a bit tech-savvy have heard of the word "mobile cloud computing" at least once. But what really is mobile cloud computing? Many of us are aware that these tools which enable personal users and businesses access their files, images, documents and other data remotely by utilizing their mobile computing devices and the internet. This term incorporates a number of clouds and mobile computing application, though.

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) fuses the universal smartphone and the fast-growing cloud computing market. As one of the major present-day technologies, MCC has demonstrated itself to be of great benefits to both cloud-based service providers and mobile users.

User-friendly mobile apps are designed using this method and are hosted and powered by cloud computing technologies. The MCC approach has to assist app developers India to design applications, particularly to mobile owners, which can be utilized irrespective of the capacity of the device to store data or its operating system. Here, the role of data storage and data processing are carried out outside the mobile phones.