April 12, 2016 Off

Datera Emerges From Stealth to Bring AWS-Like Elastic Block Storage to Enterprises and Service Providers

By David
Grazed from Datera

Datera emerged from stealth today and immediately launched its first product — Datera Elastic Data Fabric. Datera Elastic Data Fabric is the first storage solution for enterprise and service provider clouds that is designed with DevOps style operations in mind. Datera Elastic Data Fabric is scale-out storage software that turns standard, commodity hardware into a RESTful API-driven, policy-based storage fabric for large-scale clouds.

Datera Elastic Data Fabric makes Infrastructure as Code a reality for DevOps environments who have struggled for too long against the cumbersome operations requirements of legacy storage infrastructure. Now enterprise and service provider clouds can enjoy the operational efficiencies that have given the likes of AWS and Google their competitive edge.

April 11, 2016 Off

Nexenta and Canonical Extend Partnership to Develop, Deliver and Service Joint Software-Defined Storage Solution

By David
Grazed from Nexenta and Canonical

Nexenta, the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu and Ubuntu OpenStack, have today jointly announced an extension of their partnership, creating a joint solution which pairs Nexenta’s award-winning SDS solution with Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack platform.

At last year’s OpenStack Summit, the companies announced their strategic alliance to support enterprise OpenStack customers and accelerate mainstream adoption of both software-defined storage and OpenStack technologies. Today, more than half of the world’s OpenStack deployments are built on Ubuntu, and the company has selected Nexenta to help expand its enterprise storage portfolio. Canonical and Nexenta integrated NexentaEdge, which delivers high performance object and block storage services, with Juju, a high-level service model for automating the deployment and management of applications. The joint solution allows Ubuntu customers to leverage NexentaEdge as their choice in storage solutions and provides seamless integration with Canonical OpenStack clouds.

April 11, 2016 Off

PLUMgrid Partners With NocSys to Offer OpenStack SDN Solutions in China

By David
Grazed from PLUMgrid and NocSys

PLUMgrid, a leader of secure and scalable SDN and NFV solutions for OpenStack clouds, today entered a global reseller agreement with NocSys, a cloud solutions provider focused on serving enterprises and service providers in China. NocSys will deliver PLUMgrid’s SDN and NFV solutions, expanding the company’s presence into China’s market where its distributed data plane powered by IO Visor is crucial to customers deploying scalable OpenStack clouds. Together, the two firms help customers quickly and efficiently deploy applications and services within the cloud with the highest levels of security, scale, performance, operations monitoring and diagnostics.

April 11, 2016 Off

Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager made IT management faster and easier

By David
Grazed from Dell

Managing large numbers of virtualization hosts can take a lot of time and effort from a company’s IT staff. But the right tools can make the management process a whole lot easier.

Principled Technologies (PT) compared the time and number of steps it took to perform important infrastructure management tasks with two solutions for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. PT found that Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration required less time and fewer steps for essential datacenter functions than HP OneView did. Additionally, the templates and automation in the Dell solution could reduce human error, helping prevent hassles in the future.

April 10, 2016 Off

Blue Skies Or Dark Clouds Ahead?

By David

Grazed from BSM.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Enterprise computing projects are moving rapidly to cloud-based solutions, and companies around the world expect 80 percent of their IT budget will be dedicated to cloud computing services by the beginning of 2017. This shift towards a cloud-first approach to enterprise services is being driven not just by improved agility and cost savings, but also by increasing trust in all things cloud, with 77 percent of organizations saying they trust clouds more now than they did a year ago.
 
Blue Skies?
 
Cloud computing covers a wide range of services, from infrastructure to applications in private, hybrid, and public variants. Based on a survey of 1,200 IT professionals responsible for cloud security across eight countries, organizations are currently using just over 40 cloud services (that they know about), from a low of 29 in the United Kingdom to a high of 55 in Brazil…
April 9, 2016 Off

Workflow of the future: Time for distributors to move to Cloud ERP

By David

Grazed from MIS-Asia.  Author: Zakir Ahmed.

Distribution companies have no easy task when it comes to maintaining their daily operations. The need to control manufacturing and inventories, coupled with the requirement to track a huge range of products over widely dispersed distribution networks make it one massively complex operation to handle.  Many distributors are still relying on aging, on-premise systems to operate their businesses and supply chains.

Not only does this add the burden of cost and complexity to their day-to-day operations, but it also results in slower employee productivity and eventually dampens business sustainability in the long run.  With customers’ demands growing more personalised and diverse in today’s burgeoning e-commerce landscape, there is a critical need for companies to deliver everything ‘real-time’. Businesses are forced to think on their feet in order to stay above their growing number of competitors…
 

April 9, 2016 Off

Cloud Computing: Repealing Moore’s Law

By David

Grazed from Business Standard.  Author: Editorial Staff.

 Every segment of computing is likely to see a tectonic shift over the next few years. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, an advisory issued by experts from the global semiconductor industry, makes it clear that computer design and architecture must seek new paths. Processing power will not increase at the same exponential pace any more. Moore’s Law – the paradigm which underpinned research and development (R&D) for the last 50 years – is finally hitting physical limits.

In 1965, Gordon Moore, then Director of Research at Fairchild Semiconductors, observed that the numbers of transistors on integrated circuits doubled every year. This implied that processing power (the number of calculations per second) would also roughly double every year. He thought this rate of doubling would continue for a decade. Mr Moore proceeded to co-found chipmaker, Intel, in 1968. In 1975, Mr Moore "downgraded" projections, estimating that doubling would occur every two years…

April 9, 2016 Off

Cloud Computing: Rackspace Looks to Boost OpenStack Adoption

By David

Grazed from EnterpriseTech.  Author: George Leopold.

OpenStack pioneer Rackspace has moved to boost enterprise adoption of the cloud operating system with this week’s release of a managed private cloud service that can be installed in a variety of datacenter settings.  Also this week, the cloud provider along with OpenStack developers announced new servers, server specifications and the latest release of OpenStack deployment software.
 
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) said Thursday (April 7) the managed private cloud service integrates software, hardware and services for private clouds hosted in a customer’s datacenter, a third-party facility or a Rackspace datacenter. The managed service also includes computing, networking and storage…
April 8, 2016 Off

CliQr Named SIIA Business Technology CODiE Award Finalist for Best Cloud Management Solution

By David
Grazed from CliQr

CliQr, the leading enterprise cloud management platform provider, today announces that CliQr CloudCenter is a finalist for the 2016 SIIA CODiE Awards in the Best Cloud Management category. Finalists represent the information industry’s best products, technologies and services in the software, content and business technology.

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries and have been recognizing product excellence for over 30 years. The awards offer 91 categories that are organized by industry focus of education technology and business technology. CliQr CloudCenter is honored as one of 215 finalists across the 62 business technology categories.

April 8, 2016 Off

Velocity Helps Transform Innocor IT Ecosystem With Zoom Analytics, Hybrid Cloud, Unique Cloud Application Management Platfom

By David
Grazed from Velocity Technology Solutions

Velocity Technology Solutions, a global leader in enterprise application cloud managed services, announced that it will provide Innocor Inc. with hybrid cloud services for its information technology (IT) footprint across manufacturing and distribution centers throughout the U.S. Innocor, a manufacturer of innovative sleep products, will also employ sophisticated analytics and wide application management capabilities provided by the Velocity Cloud Application Management Platform™ (VCAMP™) to realize greater operational efficiencies and product fulfillment.