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In case you haven’t heard, the cloud is like pizza. You can have pizza four different ways – at home, via take and bake, delivery, or dining out at a restaurant. Similarly, there are three different services models when it comes to cloud computing – IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS – and three different cloud types – public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud.

With each different kind of pizza experience, the diner handles a certain fraction of the process, and a third party handles a certain fraction of the process. Going along with this comparison, the same can be said for the various combinations of service models and cloud types listed above. (Below is an image that makes a bit more sense of this)…

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Virtustream, the enterprise-class cloud company and a Dell Technologies Business, today announced its first customer and partner in Africa. BCX, Africa’s premier end-to-end digital solutions partner, providing advanced information and communications technology, will implement Virtustream xStream and Virtustream Viewtrust software to further orchestrate, automate and secure BCX’s cloud capabilities.

Virtustream xStream is an integrated cloud management platform that enables service providers such as BCX to deliver enterprise-class, IT-as-a-Service to their customers. BCX’s cloud capabilities are strengthened by the addition of Virtustream Viewtrust enterprise risk management and continuous compliance monitoring solution.

Nutanix today announced that Xiaomi, the world’s 5th largest smartphone maker, has addressed long-standing storage performance issues by replacing its legacy three-tier IT infrastructure with the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform.

Despite early adoption of virtualisation, the legacy three-tier infrastructure hosting Xiaomi’s business critical applications including Microsoft Exchange, MS SQL Server and SAP Business Suite, was struggling to cope with exponential growth in demand. The traditional SAN storage was quickly identified as the main bottleneck, even after upgrading to all-flash arrays. By switching to the highly scalable and robust Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform with distributed storage architecture, Xiaomi managed to remove the long-standing issues. As a result, the smartphone maker has dramatically improved the performance of business-critical workloads while delivering return on investment (ROI) and savings through Nutanix Prism, a single management pane for both compute and storage resources.

Dell EMC today announces Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, a new, turnkey, hybrid cloud platform that offers a simple and fast path for implementing and sustaining a hybrid cloud based on Microsoft Azure Stack. The new platform helps organizations standardizing on the Microsoft Azure ecosystem to accelerate their digital transformation with automated IT service delivery for traditional and cloud-native applications. As a result, organizations can better engage with their customers, reduce time to market for new services, and free-up resources to focus on adding business value.

"Cloud is an operating model, not a place, and adopting a hybrid model has become the clear choice," said Peter Cutts, senior vice president, Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Dell EMC. "Making hybrid cloud platforms simple and turnkey enables businesses to rapidly develop and deploy new applications, optimize resources, control costs and deliver the best possible customer experiences."

The new Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack combines Dell EMC’s leadership in worldwide cloud infrastructure with its long history of partnering with Microsoft, which includes shipping the industry’s first Microsoft-based hybrid cloud in October 2015. According to IDC, Dell EMC was No. 1 in the worldwide cloud infrastructure market for 2016 with $5.7 billion in revenue and 17.6% market share.

Ixia will be at The OpenStack Summit, which will be held in Boston, May 8-11, 2017, at the Hynes Convention Center.

Attendees at this year’s OpenStack Summit can meet Ixia subject matter experts at Stand B16 to learn how to maintain full control as their virtual data centers grow and change.

Achieve net higher performance with less risk by gaining visibility of data flowing between virtual machines (VMs) with Ixia solutions, including the newly enhanced CloudLens Private visibility solution.

Ixia’s CloudLens platform is the start of a complete transformation for visibility. It provides unprecedented visibility across all cloud environments – public, private, and hybrid clouds. The platform provides the framework to scale virtual taps and data filtering to meet the elastic demands cloud customers expect.

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Emphasising that Adobe Experience Cloud represents the largest opportunity for the company, Adobe President and CEO Shantanu Narayan says the tech giant has clearly established itself as a leader in helping companies roll out the digital transformation in India and globally with its cloud solutions.

The change in consumer expectations is the main factor that triggered innovation and growth for Adobe’s digital marketing business and brands across verticals are readily embracing its cloud solutions globally, he adds. “The massive tailwind across the world is that consumer expectations have changed and one of them is that consumers prefer to interact with any company digitally.  Mobile as a way to interfacing with businesses has become a de-facto standard. Digital is cheaper, faster and it delivers a better experience,” Narayen told IANS…

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Verizon is selling its private cloud and managed hosting services to IBM. George Fischer, senior vice president and group president of Verizon Enterprise Solutions, wrote in a blog Wednesday that the carrier will partner with IBM for “strategic initiatives" in cloud and networking. “This is a unique cooperation between two tech leaders to support global organizations as they look to fully realize the benefits of their cloud computing investments," Fischer said.

The companies have not disclosed the terms of the deal, but it is expected to close later this year. Fischer says Verizon Enterprise Solutions is set up to provide customers intelligent networking, business communications and managed IT services. “It is the latest development in an ongoing IT strategy aimed at allowing us to focus on helping our customers securely and reliably connect to their cloud resources and utilize cloud-enabled applications," he said…

1. It’s Affordable

When cloud hosting first appeared, it was an expensive solution.  However, like most things that get popular, the price has decreased making it affordable for most business owners.  Cloud hosting is now similar in price to traditional shared hosting, but offers many more benefits.  So, whether you are hosting a large business forum, or a casino affiliate WordPress theme, it should be within your budget.

Code42, the leader in cloud-based endpoint data protection and recovery, today announced a partnership with Okta to provide enterprise customers with added security and ease for their cloud adoption strategies. As the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, Okta’s single sign-on authentication works alongside Code42’s data security and visibility tools to continue connecting and protecting employees at many of the world’s largest enterprises.

"We are excited to announce this partnership with Okta. Our customers are deploying in the cloud at an increasing rate and to do that effectively they need the world’s leading cloud-based identity security technology," said Joe Payne, CEO and president at Code42. "Through a strong technology integration with Okta, Code42 can provide a holistic and secure cloud experience that simplifies SaaS adoption for our current and future customers."

It is interesting to see these new solutions creating a big impact on the market. They’re not only making the cloud a more secure environment but are also reshaping the industry like never before.

Microsoft’s Take on Cloud Security

The latest iteration of Microsoft Azure showed just how important security is as an element of cloud-based services. Microsoft revamped Azure’s security measures and introduce new features that many experts believe will be the standard of future implementations and solutions.