November 16, 2016 Off

New Relic Continues to Advance Cloud Adoption With New Offering on AWS Marketplace

By David
Grazed from New Relic

Digital intelligence leader New Relic, Inc. announced today that its New Relic Infrastructure offering is now available on AWS Marketplace. Starting today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers will be able to purchase New Relic Infrastructure directly through AWS Marketplace, making it even easier for operations teams to adopt and monitor the cloud. With more than 100,000 active AWS customers using software from AWS Marketplace, these customers can obtain consolidated billing for all of their AWS services, software and now SaaS subscriptions such as New Relic.

According to a September 2016 report by Forrester, cloud platform revenues are projected to reach $64 billion by 2020, which is 45 percent higher than projected two years ago, as companies of all sizes continue to rapidly adopt and migrate to the cloud. As more of these workloads are in the cloud, businesses need greater visibility into their dynamic infrastructures. New Relic Infrastructure is a new monitoring product designed to provide deep, real-time visibility into a company’s dynamic cloud and hybrid infrastructure, enabling modern operations teams to move faster, scale and deploy with confidence.

November 16, 2016 Off

Rescale Brings New HPC and AI Capabilities to Market via the IBM Cloud

By David
Grazed from Rescale

Rescale, a global leader in cloud high performance computing (HPC), announced today that it has selected IBM Cloud as a preferred cloud computing provider, expanding its global HPC infrastructure network. By running Rescale’s simulation and deep learning platform on the IBM Cloud, engineers, data scientists, CIOs, and IT professionals gain greater global reach, flexibility, and performance for their data and graphics-intensive workloads.

Rescale’s platform provides a software library of over 180+ simulation and machine learning applications that tackle the world’s toughest big data and big compute IT challenges. Now companies can deploy Rescale’s turn-key SaaS platform in any IBM Cloud Data Center worldwide. This also includes running popular deep learning and AI software packages by providing unlimited, pay-as-you-go access to the latest GPUs, enabling organizations to stay on the cutting edge of R&D. Rescale on IBM Cloud enables seamless access and utilization of HPC resources in the cloud, enabling engineers and data scientists to increases efficiency and time to market and providing IT executives increased visibility and control over the full-stack environment.

November 16, 2016 Off

Dome9 Brings Pay-As-You-Scale Economics to Cloud Security for Its Customers on AWS Marketplace

By David
Grazed from Dome9

­Dome9 Security, a leader in cloud infrastructure security, today announced support for SaaS Subscriptions on AWS Marketplace. Customers that sign up for the Dome9 Arc SaaS service on AWS Marketplace will now pay for the service through their integrated AWS bill. With the Dome9 Flex for AWS billing model, customers reap the rewards of truly fractional consumption by paying for enterprise-class cloud infrastructure security and compliance only when instances and services are running in their AWS environment. 

"The Dome9 Flex for AWS offering from Dome9 will allow AWS Marketplace customers to buy and deploy the Dome9 Arc SaaS platform for end-to-end security and enjoy the benefits of integrated AWS billing," said Barry Russell, GM, global business development, AWS Marketplace and Catalog Services, AWS, Inc. "With businesses ramping up their use of the cloud for mission-critical workloads, security and compliance of cloud environments is a top priority. Dome9 Arc complements the powerful native capabilities of AWS with simplified security management."

November 16, 2016 Off

Severalnines sidesteps cloud “vendor lock-in

By David
Grazed from Severalnines

Severalnines, the provider of database infrastructure management software, today launched its new product, NinesControl. Built on the capabilities of Severalnines’ popular ClusterControl, NinesControl is a database management cloud service that enables developers to easily, uniformly and transparently deploy and manage polyglot databases on any cloud, with no need to install anything.

Today’s cloud infrastructure means there is a kind of new lock-in for IT professionals to overcome: services that are only available in a particular vendor’s cloud. This can be particularly problematic for databases, which are stateful by nature and inherently hard to move. NinesControl offers developers and admins the flexibility to deploy and operate their open source databases on any cloud. NinesControl also delivers maximum uptime to businesses because databases can now be deployed in both standalone and high availability cluster mode.

 
November 15, 2016 Off

Zadara Storage Offers Intel-based Flash Storage-as-a-Service at HDD Price Point

By David
Grazed from Zadara Storage

Zadara Storage, the award-winning provider of enterprise-class Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) today announced that their Zadara Storage Cloud will offer Intel-based, flash storage solutions providing industry-leading flash performance in a pure-OpEx-based model – however at prices that rival traditional hard disk drive configurations.

As the market continues to abandon traditional CapEx-based storage and move at an increasing rate toward OpEx-based Storage-as-a-Service, Zadara Storage has teamed with Intel to provide new industry-leading flash-enabled solutions to address the insatiable demand for high-performance storage. The new solutions combine Intel PCSD servers, Intel Xeon E5 v4 processors and Intel SSDs based on the new Intel 3D NAND technology with the Zadara Storage Cloud software architecture. The resulting solutions enable both service providers and enterprise customers to enjoy unprecedented flexibility, scalability and performance. In a move that will accelerate market momentum away from HDD-based offerings, Zadara is now offering new flash-based solutions at price-parity with existing HDD products.

November 15, 2016 Off

Kaseya AuthAnvil Safeguards Microsoft Office 365 Customers

By David
Grazed from Kaseya

Kaseya, the leading provider of complete IT management solutions for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and small to midsized businesses (SMBs), today announced the immediate availability of the latest release of Kaseya AuthAnvil on-demand. Delivering a new level of security all within a single identity and access management (IAM) solution, the technology now provides easy single sign on (SSO), multifactor authentication (MFA) and automated user provisioning for Microsoft Office 365.

Microsoft Office 365 commercial subscriptions have ballooned in 2016, up 40 percent from the previous year to 85 million subscribers. As companies around the world continue to embrace the shift to the cloud, millions of Microsoft Office 365 corporate users now have access to Kaseya AuthAnvil’s patented password management, MFA and SSO capabilities to further secure both employee and customer environments in the cloud.

November 15, 2016 Off

Avnet Introduces “Recon,” Its Innovative Managed Security Service Program

By David
Grazed from Avnet

Avnet, Inc., a leading global technology distributor, today launched a managed security service program, known as Recon, for partners in the U.S. and Canada. The new service provides partners with a way to easily offer their customers 24x7x365 security monitoring and management. Recon is designed to enhance partners’ practices and margins in the security and services markets. Partners can offer the service either as their own branded offering through a white-label approach or as an Avnet-branded service.

Security is a high-growth market for IT spending and presents a key opportunity for partners to solve one of their customers’ biggest challenges. According to the Ponemon Institute, the total cost of data breach has increased 29 percent since 2013, with the average data breach costing a company approximately $4 million.

November 15, 2016 Off

Zerto Announces General Availability of Virtual Replication Version 5.0 With New Enterprise Cloud Edition

By David
Article Written by David Marshall

Today Zerto announced the launch of the new Enterprise Cloud Edition with the general availability of Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 (ZVR).  Zerto states that ZVR is the industry’s only heterogeneous data and application protection, replication and mobility solution for building and managing a hybrid cloud platform, and with the 5.0 launch, is now available with Microsoft Azure support. The new Zerto Enterprise Cloud Edition that comes with the 5.0 general availability, is designed to enable organizations to implement a hybrid cloud strategy by simultaneously protecting and recovering any virtual machine (VM) in any environment, from on-premises data centers to public clouds, all with different SLAs and retention policies using One-To-Many replication. Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 will also be available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace starting November 15, 2016.

"Zerto Virtual Replication recently completed a successful alpha test phase, and we’re pleased to see it a step closer to becoming generally available as cloud-based and software-defined infrastructures become more pervasive in today’s IT-enabled businesses," said Dominic Anschutz, director, Global Cloud Team, Microsoft Corp. "Across industries we see our mutual customer base embracing the shift BC/DR software is driving for these cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure, and how they’re allowing business leaders to build and execute their cloud strategies using Zerto."

November 15, 2016 Off

World’s Largest Organizations Depend on AppDynamics Integrated With Microsoft’s Cloud Platform

By David
Grazed from AppDynamics

AppDynamics, a leading application intelligence company, announced today advanced support for monitoring digital businesses in real-time in hybrid cloud environments built using Microsoft Azure, which is available via AppDynamics Exchange. The world’s largest enterprises can accelerate their digital transformations by enhancing application and business monitoring with AppDynamics on Azure platforms.

As enterprises in every industry digitally transform their businesses to meet modern consumers’ demands, AppDynamics is bolstering its role as a digital accelerator in that process with the expanded Azure support. AppDynamics gives enterprises the confidence to deploy digital solutions for business-critical functions knowing that they have uninterrupted, end-to-end visibility across public, private and hybrid cloud environments. With AppDynamics Application Performance Management powered by the App iQ Platform, enterprises have flexibility to cost-effectively deploy and manage application workloads and the digital businesses built on them.

November 15, 2016 Off

CareCloud Completes $31.5 Million Series C Funding Round to Further Modernize Healthcare

By David
Grazed from CareCloud

CareCloud, the platform for high-growth medical groups, today announced an oversubscribed $31.5 million Series C funding round, including new investments by diversified financial services leader The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. and commerce technology giant First Data Corporation. Blue Cloud Ventures joined as a new investor and led the round. CareCloud will use the capital to rapidly scale its team and its clinical and financial platform as it transforms how physician practices modernize the patient experience and deliver value-based care.

“The healthcare sector is evolving quickly, especially with respect to patient engagement and consumerism,” said James G. Graham, Head of Treasury Management at PNC. “Our team brings to bear deep industry knowledge and sophisticated treasury management capabilities for our customers. Aligning with CareCloud will help both of us continue to lead the way with physicians’ practices and patients.”