AUTOMIC, the leader in Business Automation, today announced the availability of the AUTOMIC Docker Action Pack within the AUTOMIC Plugin Marketplace.

Enterprises are looking to reduce the complexity of continuous delivery of enterprise applications by utilizing the benefits of container technology. AUTOMIC’s Docker Action Pack can now rollout and orchestrate their Docker container environments as a part of their enterprise continuous delivery pipeline. Adding yet another open source technology, such as containers, can potentially increase the speed of delivery of distributed applications … yet adds a new level of management to already overloaded IT teams.

The AUTOMIC Docker Action Pack can be found on the AUTOMIC Plug-in Marketplace – a one-stop shop where customers, partners and independent consultants can browse, buy, download or contribute plugins to drive automation across their enterprises. The addition of the new action pack for Docker allows developers and IT operations teams to take advantage of Docker container benefits with little fear of the new additional administrative overhead it creates and adds to your already busy teams. Pre-built Docker containers can be selected from the open-source AUTOMIC Marketplace and dropped seamlessly into the AUTOMIC Release Automation product for immediate deployment to production status.

Akanda, the major contributor and supporter of the recently launched OpenStack Project Astara, today announced partnerships with Aptira and Cumulus Networks to provide OpenStack customers with innovative networking solutions that bring better consistency, performance, and flexibility to OpenStack clouds.  Together, Akanda, Aptira and Cumulus will help customers rapidly deploy the most comprehensive and supp

NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable company, expanded its Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) portfolio to layer in a comprehensive suite of managed services, all designed to accelerate adoption of cloud desktops and simplify the associated deployment and management. The Managed DaaS Services portfolio includes:

Virtacore’s partnership with Veeam

Virtacore has been a proud partner with Veeam Software, innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center. They have leveraged Veeam technology, including Veeam Cloud Connect, to offer backup and disaster recovery services, including cost effective off-site backups that incorporate advanced networking principles to help organizations satisfy the 3-2-1 backup rule.

TechNet Europe 2015 is the first European Geoinformation Symposium and Exposition, which is jointly hosted by AFCEA Europe, the Bundeswehr Geoinformation Centre (BGIC) and the AFCEA Bonn Chapter.

"We’re looking forward to attending another European AFCEA event and engaging with military and government IT professionals to discuss their IT management needs regardless of organisation size or budget," said David Kimball, group vice president, federal and national government, SolarWinds. "Cybersecurity sources and obstacles to threat prevention are top of mind for our IT pros and we’re excited to be presenting on ‘How to fight cybersecurity threats on multiple fronts,’ and looking forward to addressing how insider threats bring a new set of challenges for IT pros."

KEMP Technologies has been previewing its new SDN Adaptive QoE – Quality of Experience – technology at this week’s SDN & OpenFlow World Congress event in Dusseldorf. With growing momentum behind SDN (Software Defined Networking), KEMP’s innovative SDN Adaptive QoE allows IT and network managers to provide guaranteed service level agreements (SLAs) and deliver reliable service quality for end users.

Enhanced application performance and QoE are strategic drivers for adoption of SDN and network virtualization, aligned to OPEX and CAPEX returns. Integration with the SDN fabric allows application traffic of high importance to be prioritized and optimized end-to-end through the network, so that sensitive services including video, voice and conferencing, will not experience disruptive latency and breakup problems.

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Pivot3, a pioneer and innovator in the development of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions, today released findings of a survey seeking to better understand the major data center challenges faced by IT decision makers in Europe.

According to the research, infrastructure complexity and exponential growth in data storage needs are top concerns for IT decision makers in the UK and Germany. More than 65 percent of survey respondents agree that they are extremely frustrated over the levels of complexity of their data centers, and more than one in three (37.60 percent) respondents say that data protection and security are major challenges.

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Investments in start-ups have always been one of the key growth strategies of salesforce.com, Inc. (CRM – Analyst Report). In this regard, the company’s investment arm, Salesforce Ventures, recently announced its decision to invest $100 million specifically in European start-ups.

Over the past few years, Salesforce has invested in several start-ups, be it through acquisitions or partnerships. However, these were mainly focused on the U.S. According to a report by Tech Crunch, since 2009, Salesforce Ventures has invested about $500 million in over 150 enterprise start-ups. However, only 17 of these were based in Europe, while the rest were from the U.S…

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It seems barely a day goes by without news of a large organisation suffering a data breach as a result of criminal activity. Be it Hilton Hotels, the Office of Personnel Management or Ashley Madison, hackers have been able to break into their networks and steal the private information stored inside.

There has long been an argument over whether data stored in the cloud is more or less secure that that maintained behind the firewalls of the organisation. Cloud vendors unsurprisingly vouch for their services, but CIOs have expressed concerns that cloud computing is reducing their organisation’s control over IT and creating long-term security risks…

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Intel comfortably beat Wall Street estimates on revenue and earnings per share in its third quarter report yesterday, with growth of cloud computing. However profit at $3.1 billion was down 6 per cent from $3.3 billion a year ago. CEO Brian Krzanich said he saw the slumping market for personal computers ”beginning to stabilize” even as the growing needs of the infrastructure that powered the smart and connected world continued to add to Intel’s bottom line.

The chip giant faced challenges in several areas, with a weak market for PCs adding to economic woes in China, a major market, but had balanced that downtrend with growth in sales of chips to data centers, in the Internet of Things business and in memory chip sales.

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