Ruxit, a division of Digital Performance software company Dynatrace, today announced findings from a new survey titled: The State of Containers and the Docker Ecosystem 2015. The report identifies key issues facing organizations using containers, including in-production application performance monitoring to achieve even more successful container deployments. Download the complete survey report and infographic here.

The report, conducted by O’Reilly Media in collaboration with Ruxit, provides insights into adoption, use, and challenges of container technologies like Docker. Survey participants represent 138 companies across a wide range of industries, including software, consulting, publishing and media, education, cloud services, hardware, retail, government and others.

CloudBerry Lab, a vendor of backup and management solutions for cloud storage services, today announced the immediate availability of CloudBerry Backup for Oracle Database: http://www.cloudberrylab.com/oracle. This backup solution is so easy-to-use that customers can simply set and forget – their databases will be automatically protected — with backups stored in the Oracle Database Backup Cloud and a data restore capability that is both simple to use and free.

The solution is based on Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) and the RMAN cloud backup module which provides backup and recovery capabilities to Oracle Cloud, and includes all the features customers expect from a CloudBerry Backup solution, including easy scheduling setup, 256-bit AES encryption, compression and email notifications.

ACE is an enterprise mobility management (EMM)-neutral community focused on providing education and best practices around native operating system capabilities to drive a more consistent, open and simple way to configure and secure mobile apps and drive mobile adoption in business. AirWatch is one of the founding companies of ACE.

Oracle Mobile Cloud Service is an enterprise-quality Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), and provides easy to use tools for business professionals to analyze and mine data about usage of the MBaaS. It simplifies and secures the process of connecting mobile applications to enterprise systems and other cloud services.

Cavium Product Highlights and Demonstrations (Booth T31)

Cavium’s LiquidIO II Intelligent Server adapters fully support and seamlessly integrate OpenStack software. This functionality includes:

"Much like the recently unveiled OpenStack Liberty release, our new MEM technology delivers on the industry’s requests of a diverse community of OpenStack and container users," said Dan Dumitriu, CEO of Midokura. "There’s a clear pent-up demand for automation as infrastructure density increases and our new technology release squarely addresses this."

"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:…

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