Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Darryl K. Taft.

 IBM’s strategic initiative led the way in 2015, with cloud now a $10 billion business and security a $2 billion unit. Systems and analytics also grew.  Despite another quarterly revenue slide, IBM sees a silver lining in its strategic imperatives as these key focus areas—cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security—show significant growth and indicate Big Blue is committed to succeeding in its transformation.

In the fourth quarter of 2015, IBM saw its revenue decline 9 percent to $22.1 billion; however the company’s strategic imperatives revenue grew 26 percent (adjusting for currency and the System x divestiture) to $28.9 billion and now represents 35 percent of the company’s overall revenue…

Grazed from ScientificComputing.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Adaptive Computing, provider of workload and resource orchestration software, announced it has set a new record in high throughput computing (HTC) in collaboration with Supermicro, a provider of high performance green computing solutions. Supermicro SuperServers, custom optimized for Nitro, the new high throughput resource manager from Adaptive Computing, were able to launch up to 530 tasks per second per core on Supermicro based low latency UP (SYS-5018D-MTF) SuperServer and over 17,600 tasks per second on its 4-Way based (SYS-8028B-C0R3FT) SuperServer.

This record-breaking throughput can accelerate EDA regression tests, life sciences research, financial risk analysis and other data analysis-driven projects. It can expedite the process of gaining critical insights, thereby delivering products and services to market faster…

Grazed from ITBusinessEdge.  Author: Arthor Cole.

 At this point, it doesn’t make much sense to talk about whether IT infrastructure will change in the cloud, or even how it will change, but how data and business processes will change to suit the new reality.  Infrastructure, after all, is merely a means to an end, so the real measure of the cloud is how it will alter the things we do, not the resources we use to do them.

"Our integration with Arista empowers joint customers to guarantee application Quality of Service on any cloud," said Endre Sara, VP, Advanced Solutions at VMTurbo. "At enterprise scale, deciding what workloads to run where and when is complex beyond human control. Our solution not only improves workload mobility but enables customers to guarantee performance in their private data center and the public cloud."

The new tool will be available within the RightScale product suite, as well as accessible via http://cloudcomparison.rightscale.com.

"We have partnered with Hive-IO because the utility fabric enables us to deliver high performance and scalable desktops and infrastructure that is world class.   This is the same technology used by large financial institutions and H.A. Services can now deliver this same level of performance to its customers of all sizes." — John Gallagher, Director of Business Development, H.A. Services

Qubole will use this funding to expand the availability of Qubole Data Service (QDS), a self-service platform for big data analytics, and to integrate new data engines so customers can choose the right tool for their data analytics needs. Qubole has seen great traction in a number of industries, with customers including Datalogix (Oracle), BloomReach, Pinterest, TubeMogul and Fanatics. The company plans to target several new verticals, including Internet of Things (IoT), life sciences and retail. Additionally, the company will target larger enterprises that are accelerating their usage of the cloud. It will also expand its customer acquisition efforts in the APAC and EU regions.

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: Robert McMillan.

The recent market selloff is pummeling the business-technology sector, but it may come with a silver lining for its top players: an opportunity to buy cash-poor upstarts that have been eating away at their business. Enterprise-technology giants like International Business Machines Corp. IBM, +1.16% , Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, +1.92% and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. HPE, +5.00% have all seen their market value shrink by at least 9% in the past month — underperforming the S&P 500 index, which fell 7% over the same period.

Some younger firms have fared much worse. Box Inc. BOX, +5.49% a seller of Internet-based data storage, has dropped by 26%. Workday Inc. WDAY, +2.38% which sells online access to accounting and human resources software, lost 13%. The market capitalization of Hortonworks HDP, +8.54% , which makes data-analytics software, has plummeted by half…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Kristin Knapp.

Hoping to reap benefits such as greater flexibility, cost-efficiency and scale, organizations of all sizes are migrating applications to the cloud – but many times, they can’t go at it alone. Fortunately, there are a range of cloud provider and third-party tools designed to help organizations migrate applications to the cloud, and then manage and optimize those apps post-migration. In some cases, these tools also help organizations track their cloud computing resources, costs and performance.

For many IT pros, cloud migration tools are a saving grace – and it seems more organizations are choosing to adopt them. According to research group IDC, the worldwide cloud systems management software market is expected to exceed $8 billion by 2019. Tools for cloud performance and event management — including those that provide monitoring and resource optimization capabilities — represent the fastest-growing segment of that market…

Read more from the source @ http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/feature/Decisions-decisions-Choosing-a-cloud-migration-tool

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Barclay Ballard.

Despite being launched more than five years ago and being supported by high-profile businesses of the likes of IBM, Intel, Yahoo, CERN, Disney, and hundreds of others, OpenStack is not particularly well known in business circles. This is largely because OpenStack is a cloud operating system that works behind the scenes delivering the infrastructure that organisations need to work effectively.

Speed and simplicity are its two main attributes, and since launching the OpenStack project has created thousands of jobs and benefitted countless organisations. With cloud computing continuing to grow in popularity all over the world, it’s vitally important that businesses have a strong understanding of what OpenStack can deliver…

Read more from the source @ http://www.itproportal.com/2016/01/21/openstack-what-businesses-need-to-know/#ixzz3xv4C0SFL