Grazed from SemiEngineering. Author: Ernest Worthman.

If you’re anywhere in the high-tech biz, the two terms that are rocking your world are the Internet of Everything and the Cloud. Whether you are on the inside track of these, or on the sidelines, they are going to be two of the most disruptive technologies of the 21st century. The cloud is already here and gaining momentum.

Some people will argue that the cloud has been here since the inception of the Internet—or that it is the Internet. They define cloud computing as, simply, having access to data and programs via the Internet rather than going to your computer’s hard drive. While that has some element of accuracy, the original representation of the cloud can be traced back to early explanations and drawings of the Internet. It was a big, puffy, white cloud, interconnected to everything and existing above everything…

Grazed from SemiEngineering. Author: Ernest Worthman.

No one doubts the cloud will be an important part of the Internet of Everything, but the transition from local to off-site computing will never be completely seamless or risk-free. To begin with, there is the cost of storage and bandwidth. Running applications using on-site hardware with power delivered over a wire always will be faster and cheaper than remote access.

That’s especially true if the application is complex and requires a lot of I/O. In fact, one of the more difficult tradeoffs that mobile device makers are wrestling with today is whether to do computing locally or remotely, comparing the battery drain and performance for intensive I/O versus localized computing. That’s compounded by the issue of who controls access…

dinApp runs in the cloud on dinCloud’s secure servers and can be accessed by any physical or virtual desktop or mobile device (e.g. Chromebook, Mac, Android, or Windows device). Instead of virtualizing apps within an existing infrastructure, organizations now have an easy and flexible way to minimize security threats without continuous maintenance costs, saving both time and money.
 

Rancher Labs, a developer of Docker infrastructure software, and Redapt today announced the industry’s first hyper-converged infrastructure platform for containers, greatly simplifying and reducing the cost of building a private container service from scratch.

As the de-facto standard for cloud native workloads, Docker enables vendors like Rancher Labs and Redapt to create purpose-built infrastructure stacks for containerized workloads by defining an application packaging and runtime standard. The companies are working together to leverage containers, enabling the new hyper-converged infrastructure platform that is ideal for simplifying operations, and reducing the cost of running container and cloud workloads.

SingleHop today announced AI, a first-of-its-kind, free, SaaS platform for remotely monitoring, managing, and patching servers and operating systems no matter where they are hosted – any cloud and any provider. Using advanced automation and predictive intelligence technologies, AI aggregates data from disparate server environments into one, simple-to-use, unified portal and suggests next steps, enabling IT staff to take immediate action across their entire server ecosystem. This dramatically reduces time spent on routine and repetitive tasks and speeds completion of critical actions. Account registration is now open at http://try.ai.

With the execution of one line of code, SingleHop makes what is often a multi-month process of specifying and deploying expensive monitoring and management systems a less than 60-second process. The free solution is managing tens of thousands of servers at initial rollout and is designed to scale exponentially.

Akanda is the main contributor to the OpenStack project Astara, which they will be charming as part of the CPP. It is the leading open source network orchestration solution built by OpenStack operators for real OpenStack clouds. Astara eliminates the need for complex SDN controllers, overlays and multiple plugins for cloud networking by providing a simple integrated networking stack (routing, firewall, load balancing) for connecting and securing multi­tenant OpenStack environments.

Software analytics company New Relic, Inc. announced today new capabilities and features across the New Relic Software Analytics Cloud which have been designed to help companies build and run better software. These updates to the New Relic cloud-based platform and products (New Relic APM, New Relic Synthetics, and New Relic Mobile) aim to help developers and IT operations teams better understand the performance of their applications and underlying services, be more responsive to and anticipate issues, and be more agile to deliver new functionality.

“Software powers business, so we see it as critical for every company to have visibility and ask questions about the health of their business in real-time. These updates to New Relic expand the platform’s analytics capabilities and aim to remove the friction associated with advanced performance analysis. They also enhance the extensibility of the platform through open APIs,” said Jim Gochee, Chief Product Officer, New Relic. “We’re also thrilled to announce new capabilities for our APM, Synthetics, and Mobile products that we believe will help our customers be more effective building and operating their digital initiatives.”

Odin today announced it has launched a new portal for Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners, www.odin.cloud, enabling potential partners to access marketing information on a dedicated site. As part of the .cloud Pioneer Program, Odin is one of the first to market with the .cloud top level domain.

By using Odin Service Automation, partners have already delivered more than 1.8 million Office 365 and Exchange business class email seats. Odin Service Automation is one of the first platforms available for partners to automate the end-to-end service delivery, customer management, and billing across Microsoft Azure services, Office 365, the Enterprise Mobility Suite, together with hundreds of other complementary Odin-enabled services. Many service providers have already adopted Odin Service Automation to accelerate their time-to-market in the Microsoft CSP program.

Grazed from CloudWedge. Author: Editorial Staff.

We often hear a lot about Cloud Computing in the tech world, but Fog Computing is real trend that is starting to take hold. So what exactly is Fog Computing? Think about the way cloud computing has abstracted computing resources such as compute, storage and bandwidth. Fog Computing exists on the outer edges of the cloud and its main purpose is to interact with IoT devices.

When you explain Fog Computing as existing on the outer edges of the cloud, its important to realize that Fog Computing is part of the cloud itself; just a more streamlined version of a cloud resource that specifically exists to rapidly interact with other devices in the cloud. Think about the inevitable cloud connected, driverless cars of the future. How will those cars communicate with each other?…