"The key enhancements in SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 are a result of SUSE listening closely to our customers and focusing on delivering the functionality they need to help their businesses thrive," said Michael Miller, SUSE vice president of global alliances and marketing. "They need a robust and stress-free cloud that drives innovation. Improved high availability, non-disruptive upgrades and the inclusion of Docker support directly address these concerns. As the OpenStack market continues its rapid growth, we’re staying focused on enterprise customers and meeting their business-critical requirements."

Organizations worldwide are increasingly adopting Oracle Cloud Applications to grow faster, differentiate from competitors and better serve their customers. A complete and fully integrated suite of cloud applications for every function in the enterprise, Oracle Cloud Applications enable organizations across all industries to quickly and easily adopt modern best practices, increase business agility, reduce complexity and costs, and succeed in a digital world.

To deliver the experiences customers expect, attract and retain the talent required to succeed, and achieve the performance that today’s digital economy demands, organizations across all industries need to transform their critical business functions and embrace modern best practices. This transformation requires complete, integrated and modern business applications that provide business users with quick and easy access to social, mobile and analytic capabilities.

Oracle today announced Oracle Management Cloud (OMC), a suite of next-generation integrated monitoring, management and analytics solutions for IT organizations. Part of the Oracle Cloud Platform, the new services enable a real-time, collaborative environment in which DevOps leaders, line-of-business managers and business analysts have a clear end-to-end view into the applications and technologies that support business services.

Oracle Management Cloud eliminates multiple information silos across end user and infrastructure data—silos that have traditionally limited visibility and created inefficiency. It renders unnecessary the complex manual application monitoring processes, multiple toolsets and dependence on large groups of IT staff that comprise troubleshooting and decision-making today and instead offers proactive management, rapid trouble-shooting and the ability to run IT like a business. It is designed for today’s heterogeneous environments running Oracle and non-Oracle software, across on-premises, Oracle Cloud and third-party cloud services. Built on a horizontally scalable platform with high throughput big data processing, it provides real-time analysis and deep insights across technical and business events.

Grazed from GlobalNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

As enterprises make the sweeping move from traditional data centers to cloud computing, a survey by 451 Research shows that some 90 percent of information technology (IT) database managers and executives say their selection of database technologies relates to the suppliers’ cloud strategy.

The report states that while the initial adoption of database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offerings from cloud providers, especially Amazon Web Services (AWS), have posed a challenge to the incumbent on-premises database vendors, the survey results indicate that those incumbent vendors are likely to maintain their dominance as adoption of DBaaS moves mainstream…

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Ben Kepes.

China is seen as a massive opportunity for cloud computing vendors, but with that massive opportunity comes huge difficulties. China is a protected market, cultural barriers are rife, and it has often been put in the basset labelled "awesome, but just too hard." Many cloud vendors have announced China operations, only to have the details of actual market success quietly disappear.

Given all this context, it is interesting to reflect on the announcement today that Mirantis, the high-flying OpenStack vendor, has partnered with UCloud, China’s largest independent public cloud provider, to push OpenStack-powered clouds into large Chinese organizations. To give an idea of the size of the market opportunity in China, here are some recent stats:…

Read more from the source @ http://www.networkworld.com/article/2996756/private-cloud/mirantis-looks-to-china-to-fuel-openstack-growth.html

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Robert McMillan.

Oracle Corp. is gearing up to battle its most successful rival supplying cloud computing services as it meets with customers and partners at its annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco this week. Cloud rival Amazon.com Inc. doesn’t yet encroach on the corporate data centers that are Oracle’s traditional stronghold, but the two companies are emerging as fierce competitors for cloud services and both agree that the $41.3 billion-a-year database market is moving to the cloud.

The question is whether Oracle can translate its database dominance to this new environment, or whether it will be upended by the surging cloud businesses of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corp’s Azure division. Last year, Oracle hired AWS alumnus Don Johnson to set up a Seattle engineering center in Amazon’s backyard. And it hired Peter Magnusson , a noted Google cloud engineer who had engineered computer systems at Snapchat Inc…

Read more from the source @ http://www.wsj.com/articles/oracle-gears-up-to-face-amazon-1445902444

NetScaler is used as core infrastructure for some of the largest cloud providers in the world, and this announcement brings the power of comprehensive networking infrastructure solutions to customers choosing to build their clouds on OpenStack. Earlier this year, Citrix joined the Open Stack Foundation with a view towards supporting industry and customer initiatives in building highly scalable public and private clouds. As customers drive towards building fully-integrated, “lights-out” datacenters with minimal manual configuration and intervention, this integration provides them with fully automated control over services through a single control point – the newly available NetScaler Control Center.

Trends such as big data growth, the increase in rich media and the app economy are driving the need for high-performance infrastructure across nearly every major industry. Organizations are increasingly encountering performance limitations and spiraling costs with commodity public cloud platforms, particularly as they scale out their application environments. Since 2012, companies with performance-reliant workloads – such as eXelate, Taptica, Distil Networks, CrowdStar and more – have been turning to Internap’s automated bare-metal service, AgileSERVER, to build global, scale-out application environments. AgileSERVER combines the dedicated processing power of bare metal with the agility of the cloud, allowing companies to achieve peak performance and scalability for mission critical workloads.

The roadmap for Cloudify orchestration software is taking users on a trip to some of the cloud’s most popular destinations, including OpenStack Liberty, Kubernetes container cluster management and out-of-the-box VMware integration.

Cloudify is the only pure-play open source orchestration software, built on the TOSCA standard. GigaSpaces, the corporate sponsor of Cloudify, is a provider of in-memory computing and cloud orchestration technologies, serving customers worldwide. Features now available and on the immediate Cloudify roadmap include: