Approximately 155 million workloads will move to public cloud data centers by 2019 according the Cisco Global Cloud Index, eclipsing those that will exist in private cloud data centers. Even bulge bracket banks are projected to migrate from little or no use of public cloud data centers today to having 30 percent of their data center capacity in the public cloud within three years, according to a note from Deutsche Bank.

Canonical and IBM will deliver solutions built on Canonical’s software and IBM servers through a deeper engineering, product and support collaboration.  This enables customers to leverage Canonical’s portfolio across the z Systems, LinuxONE, Power Systems and OpenPOWER platforms with automated OpenStack management.

IBM and Canonical have a long and innovative alliance and have announced the availability of Canonical’s Ubuntu OS, Ubuntu OpenStack and tooling on z Systems, LinuxONE, Power Systems and OpenPOWER. Ubuntu OpenStack is the most widely used private cloud platform among enterprises and service providers with over 55% of production OpenStack clouds, more than all other vendor solutions combined.

Grazed from IBTimes. Author: Avaneesh Pandey.

Larry Ellison, Oracle’s former chief executive and current executive chairman and chief technology officer, has an ambitious vision for his Redwood, California, company. In an over hour-long speech Sunday at the company’s annual customer conference in San Francisco, Ellison predicted Oracle would soon give Amazon stiff competition insofar as providing computing services through the cloud is concerned.

“We’re in the middle of a generational change — from on-premise computing — to super data centers called clouds,” Ellison reportedly said. “Amazon’s lead is over. Amazon’s going to have serious competition going forward.” Among the services unveiled Sunday is one called Cloud@Customer, which lets customers run servers identical to Oracle’s cloud infrastructure services within their own on-premise infrastructure…

Read more from the source @ http://www.ibtimes.com/cloud-computing-oracles-larry-ellison-unveils-new-cloud-infrastructure-says-amazons-2418233

Cloudways now provides fast, affordable, and scalable container cloud hosting. The cloud platform provisions Kyup containers that come with auto-scalability along with quick-to-scale RAM, robust SSD storage, and dedicated IP address.

Cloudways and Kyup container based hosting make a terrific duo where developers and designers can launch automatically scaling cloud servers within minutes.

Auto-scalability is a crucial element for modern web apps. It lets developers enjoy a stress-free scaling process without human intervention. Abrupt traffic spikes increase computing resources for efficient traffic handling. Additionally, manual scaling of the RAM, Storage, and CPU sizes completes within seconds right from the Cloudways Platform.

DSM Technology Consultants (DSM), a leading provider of fully managed private cloud and IT infrastructure services based in Florida, today announced the availability of managed cloud solutions for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) clients including HPE StoreOnce customers.

DSM Cloud lets businesses move their critical business applications to the DSM cloud. The DSM Cloud architecture provides a highly resilient and cost-effective environment to run business applications, while dramatically reducing downtime and the risk of service interruption due to natural disasters, accidents, and criminal damage.

"We are proud to be one of the first Service Providers to implement the HPE Helion CloudSystem as a cloud service provider.   We are extremely excited to partner with HPE to help our customers drive cloud adoption and allow them to focus on their business challenges." 
John "JT" Tomljanovic, DSM SVP of Solution Development and Cloud

Grazed from Computing. Author: Peter Sbarski.

There’s a new term that’s stirring up interest and passion in the IT community. Funnily enough, it might herald the future of cloud computing, at least going by the amount of attention that major cloud vendors? -? Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM ?- ?are giving it. ‘Serverless’ is the term that’s causing ruckus but the awareness and understanding of serverless technologies and architectures is growing day by day.

What is serverless?

Serverless technologies are managed services that developers can use to build systems. These services can execute code, store data or perform other useful operations such as authentication. A common thread among these services is that the developer doesn’t have access to the underlying infrastructure. There’s no way to change hardware or update the operating system. Everything is managed and looked after by a vendor such as Amazon or Microsoft…

Read more from the source @ http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/opinion/2470770/serverless-technologies-the-future-of-cloud

Grazed from CIOToday. Author: Jef Cozza.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) kicked off its Global Partner Conference in Boston yesterday, its first since the company split off from its printer and personal computer division. The event brings together the company’s strategic partners with member of HPE’s senior management, including CEO Meg Whitman, EVP and GM of the enterprise Relevant Products/Services group Antonio Neri, and chief sales officer Peter Ryan. While partner sales are often major sales channels for enterprise technology companies, that is particularly true for HPE, which generates the vast majority of its sales through strategic partners.

Expanding Flexible Capacity

At the event, HPE announced a number of changes to its existing partner program, including an expansion of its Flexible Capacity program that offers on-premise IT and cloud computing services through a utility sales model that can be scaled up or down depending on the end clients needs…

Read more from the source @ http://www.cio-today.com/article/index.php?story_id=03300129C7WF

Grazed from FedTech. Author: Phil Goldstein.

The Defense Department is going all-in on the cloud, according to DOD and service branch IT leaders, but how — and how quickly — the services and commands move applications to the cloud will depend on a variety of factors. The migrations will depend on their missions, how apps relate to each other, and the security requirements for the data, they say.

Speaking Wednesday morning at an AFCEA DC event in Arlington, Va., DOD officials argued that they are working to shift their agencies to a new cloud-based world, but acknowledged that it is a major cultural change for many IT workers. The event, moderated by Matt Goodrich, director of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), offered a deep dive into how the Army, Navy, Air Force and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) are approaching cloud migrations…

Read more from the source @ http://www.fedtechmagazine.com/article/2016/09/dod-service-branches-say-cloud-migrations-will-depend-missions-interoperability

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management for mass collaboration, today announced its newest massive open online course (MOOC) is available for registration. The course, LFS152x – Introduction to OpenStack, is offered through edX, the nonprofit online learning destination founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The course is free and will go live this October.

This is the third edX MOOC offered by The Linux Foundation. Its first course, Intro to Linux, has reached more than 600,000 students globally and continues to grow in registrations. The second, Intro to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies, became available in June.

"To keep current with their profession, sysadmins of all stripes must have at least basic knowledge of cloud technologies, especially OpenStack," said Linux Foundation General Manager for Training and Certification Clyde Seepersad. "We knew edX was an ideal partner to help increase the pool of talent qualified in OpenStack by providing a platform to make high-quality education easily accessible to people looking to build rewarding careers managing OpenStack clouds."