Trilio Data, the creators of the first Data Protection-as-a-Service specification for the OpenStack community, Raksha, and Talligent, providers of cost and capacity management solutions for production-ready OpenStack clouds, have entered into a partnership. Organizations who use both Trilio Data’s solutions and Talligent’s solutions will have both comprehensive data protection and capabilities to report and bill departments and divisions for their use of data protection services. 

"There’s a common misconception that OpenStack does not need comprehensive data protection," said Sanjay Mishra, founder and CEO, Talligent. "In truth, the inherent features in OpenStack warrant a completely new thinking around data protection services. TrilioVault from Trilio Data delivers full capabilities to backup, migrate and restore their OpenStack applications, data and files."

Mirantis, the pure-play OpenStack company, and Supermicro, the leading innovator in high-performance, high-efficiency server, storage, and green computing total solutions for advanced IT/hyper-converged infrastructure, are partnering to deliver the Supermicro Mirantis Unlocked Appliance for Cloud Native Applications — a turnkey, rack-based appliance featuring Mirantis OpenStack, giving Supermicro customers an immediate onramp to agile development of cloud-native applications and container-based services in production.

The Supermicro Unlocked Appliance integrates Mirantis OpenStack with TwinPro SuperServers, NVMe SuperStorage servers, and Arista 10GbE top-of-rack switches into Supermicro 42U SuperRack enclosures delivering a preconfigured, fully validated, ready-to-deploy total solution. Supermicro will install and certify the appliance onsite ensuring it is ready to operate at scale.

"The launch of Saviynt on AWS Marketplace accelerates the speed at which organizations can deploy Saviynt to gain visibility into risks in AWS configuration and protect critical workloads. This is in response to the massive uptake in the use of cloud based infrastructure, and the need for continuous monitoring and preventive controls to thwart cyber-attacks," says Sachin Nayyar, CEO of Saviynt. He added, "Managing security and access for cloud infrastructure is incredibly complex and it’s not only important to get compliant, but also to stay compliant." 

vArmour, the data center and cloud security company and leader in application-aware micro-segmentation with advanced security analytics, today announced "Project Ice Cream," the release of its twelve-months-in-the-making new security architecture built for the requirements of cloud for simplicity, massive scale and economics. Built from core functionality of its flagship product, vArmour Distributed Security System (DSS), vArmour is delivering a new architecture based on of the vision it outlined late last year with "Multi-Cloud Security Architecture" to transform data center and cloud security.

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The European Commission has presented its first plans for digitising industry, as part of the Digital Single Market project. The first initiative to start this year is the creation of a European cloud platform for the scientific community, aimed at sharing research data and making the EU a world leader in high performance computing.

In 2016, a European Open Science Cloud will be set up for European researchers and their global scientific collaborators by integrating and consolidating e-infrastructure platforms, federating existing scientific clouds and research infrastructures, and supporting the development of cloud-based services. Next year, all scientific data produced by projects under the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and development programme will be made available by default on the cloud platform, to ensure that the scientific community can re-use the enormous amount of data they generate…

Grazed from BelfastTelegraph. Author: Colin Hamill.

Over the past couple of years, the cloud market has matured. On-demand applications and services have been adopted by businesses, and that rate of adoption is set to grow exponentially over the next few years. Companies in Northern Ireland have developed a new understanding of what the cloud is, in terms of how it can fit with their business and objectives, as well as the benefits it can bring – from cost savings and the ability to scale at speed as required, through to access to the latest applications, without the capital outlay for hardware and software, and ongoing management.

But while the concept of the cloud is simple, experience teaches us that nothing in life – especially in IT – is ever that simple. A tangle of different cloud services can tie up a business’s network resources, frustrate employees and pose potential risks. A better answer is to wrap all your multiple clouds into one single cloud that you can manage and maximise. It’s an approach that BT calls the ‘Cloud of Clouds’…

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Ever since the Office of Management and Budget’s cloud-first mandate in 2011, there’s been a gold rush of sorts. Like the 49ers of yesteryear, agencies and vendors alike saw the potential in this sparkling new, game-changing substance. But after that initial rush, agency chief information officers and cloud service providers saw there was a lot more work to strike it rich with the cloud than just a few apps like email or storage.

Now five years later, the cloud is everywhere. As of September 2014, the last time the GAO reported on cloud usage across government, agencies said they were using 101 instances of cloud and spending rising to more than $529 million. In 2016, the number of cloud instances and the amount of money spent on platform, infrastructure and software-as-a-service undoubtedly is ever-increasing…

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Telstra has bolstered its cloud computing offering, aimed at helping businesses navigate software online more easily. The teleco on Tuesday launched Cloud Gateway, targeted at businesses that need to "simply and securely connect to multiple cloud environments". It says Cloud Gateway, which will be available from June, will provide private and secure connectivity directly into multiple public cloud platforms.

The telco has also added Amazon Web Services to its cloud product offering. Cloud computing has turned into big business for tech companies, including US-heavyweights IBM and Microsoft and Germany’s SAP. "Telstra is very well positioned to help customers with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, as we bring the cloud and the network together," said Philip Jones, Telstra’s executive director of global products and solutions.

Read more from the source @ http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/04/19/telstra-beefs-cloud-computing-offering

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IBM delivered a quarterly performance that shows the steady headway it is making in new businesses led by cloud computing and data-analysis software, like its Watson artificial intelligence technology. But the company’s transformation remains very much a work in progress. The erosion of some of its hardware and software products continues to be a drag on growth and profits, overshadowing the gains in the new fields.

IBM on Monday reported a 21 percent decline in net profit from continuing operations, to $2.3 billion in the first quarter that ended March 31. Its operating earnings per share fell 19 percent, to $2.35 a share, though that was above the average estimate of Wall Street analysts of $2.09 a share, as complied by Thomson Reuters…