Author: David

October 17, 2012 Off

CA Technologies and Citrix Team to Simplify and Accelerate the Adoption of Cloud Services

By David
Grazed from CA.  Author: PR Announcement
 
Today at Citrix Synergy, the conference where mobile workstyles and cloud services meet, CA Technologies and Citrix announced that they are partnering to help enterprises and service providers increase agility and productivity by providing additional management and monitoring capabilities on top of Citrix cloud and desktop virtualization solutions.
 
Cloud Infrastructure

The first area of collaboration between the two companies focuses on leveraging CA Technologies management solutions to provide in-depth insight and control of public and private clouds built on Citrix Cloud Platform technologies. This focus will initially include the following:
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Leading Telecommunications Companies Choose Apache CloudStack to Power their Cloud Services

By David
Grazed from Citrix.  Author: PR Announcement
 
Citrix today announced that more than a half a dozen of the world’s leading telecommunications companies have chosen Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack, as the foundation for their next generation cloud computing offerings, including: BT, China Telecom, EVRY, IDCFrontier, KDDI, KT, NTT Communications and Slovak Telecom. These recent wins by Citrix in the global telecommunications market add to company’s already successful track record in helping the world’s largest providers build highly scalable and successful cloud computing businesses. 
 
The emergence of public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds in the last several years is changing the way that individuals, developers and businesses utilize computing power. Unpredictable demand, aggressive development schedules and cost savings are some of the reasons that end-users are signing up for cloud computing offerings and moving their applications to the cloud. With CloudPlatform, Citrix offers all of the necessary management software and infrastructure technology for global telecommunications providers to take advantage of this market demand and deliver cloud computing services that are custom tailored to their customers and market. 
 
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CENTERM to Showcase New Cloud Terminal at Citrix Synergy Barcelona 2012

By David
Grazed from CENTERM.  Author: PR Announcement
 
CENTERM, a leading integrated solution provider for cloud computing terminals, thin clients, payment POS and "desktop cloud" in the Asia Pacific region, will exhibit its new desktop cloud terminal B20 and mobile cloud terminal CT Pad2 at the Citrix Synergy Barcelona 2012 on October 17-19. This is a major step forward as the firm demonstrates its latest technological achievement in System-on-Chip (SoC) and Power-over-Ethernet (POE) after CENTERM made its first foray into the US and European markets when it announced the GM810 cloud terminal at Citrix Synergy San Francisco 2012 in May. The GM810 is certified as Citrix HDX Ready and ready to ship now. The GM810 is the most affordable Citrix HDX Ready cloud terminal on the market today.
 
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Cisco and Citrix Extend Partnership into Networking, Cloud and Mobility

By David
Grazed from Cisco.  Author: PR Announcement
 
Today at Citrix Synergy, the conference where mobile workstyles and cloud services meet, Cisco and Citrix announced a significant expansion of their successful desktop virtualization partnership into three strategic areas: cloud networking, cloud orchestration, and mobile workstyles. 
 
Cisco and Citrix believe the IT industry is on the verge of the next major architectural transition: the mobile-cloud era. To help enterprise and service provider customers capture the market transition and transform their business models, Cisco and Citrix will collaborate to unify best-of-breed technologies into innovative solutions for the mobile-cloud era. 
 
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Citrix Unveils Next Phase of Project Avalon at Synergy

By David
Grazed from Citrix.  Author: PR Announcement
 
Today at Citrix Synergy, the conference where mobile workstyles and cloud services meet, Citrix unveiled the next phase of Project Avalon, a new solution designed to deliver Windows for the mobile-cloud era. Project Avalon, first introduced and demonstrated at Citrix Synergy San Francisco, will enable enterprises and service providers to deliver Windows apps and desktops as a true cloud service to any device. At Synergy this week, Citrix laid out the path to Avalon, and announced tech previews of the Excalibur and Merlin releases that will make up the core of Avalon.
 
The vast majority of organizations around the world today run their businesses on Windows. Most existing Windows apps and desktops, however, were not designed with the mobile-cloud era in mind, making it difficult to embrace new consumer devices and cloud services. Citrix revealed today that Project Avalon, which is designed to simplify this transition, will be delivered in two major releases. The Excalibur release, available this quarter as a tech preview, will feature groundbreaking advancements in simplicity, scalability and rich multi-media services needed to deliver Windows apps and desktops to millions of new consumer style mobile devices. The Merlin release, available as a tech preview next year, will focus on Windows as a cloud service, simplifying and automating infrastructure deployment and management across virtual infrastructure, private clouds and public clouds, while enabling self-service subscription for users and departments.
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Citrix and NetApp Collaborate to Simplify Cloud Storage

By David
Grazed from Citrix.  Author: PR Announcement
 
Today at Citrix Synergy, the conference where mobile workstyles and cloud services meet, Citrix and NetApp announced an extension of their current collaboration aimed at accelerating the adoption of enterprise cloud deployments. Together, Citrix and NetApp will provide a fully integrated cloud orchestration and storage solution that will address storage automation, resource allocation, and virtual machine backup and recovery. The move greatly simplifies cloud storage deployment for the companies’ mutual customers and will result in faster transitions to private and hybrid clouds.
 
Over the past few years, cloud computing has evolved from a simple public compute utility model that addressed the needs of individual developers to one that has fundamentally shifted how enterprises deliver, manage, and consume IT services throughout their organizations.
 
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Cloud Computing: Penguin Computing Grabs Calxeda’s ARM for New System

By David

Grazed from Penguin Computing. Author: PR Announcement.

Penguin Computing today announced the immediate availability of its Ultimate Data X1 (UDX1) system. The UDX1 is the first server platform offered by a North American system vendor that is built on the ARM-based EnergyCore System on Chip (SoC) from Calxeda.

The UDX1 brings new levels of efficiency and scale to Internet datacenters. With a five Watt power envelope per server the UDX1 is ideal for I/O bound workloads including “Big Data” applications, scalable analytics and cloud storage. The UDX1 offers a drastic reduction of TCO for high-density, low power computing environments. Workloads that have been processed by racks of conventional systems can now be handled by a group of servers in a single physical unit. The UDX1 features a modular architecture that can be configured with up to 48 Calxeda EnergyCore server nodes, with four cores per node. The system includes an internal 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch fabric for node-to-node connectivity and provides up to 144TB of hard drive capacity…

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Understanding and Controlling Cloud Sprawl

By David

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.

Within the data center community, server sprawl was an issue many administrators had to face and address. Virtualization helped consolidate many of those systems to create a leaner infrastructure. After a little while VM sprawl became the new challenge. With improved management and controls, managers were able to regain some virtualization real estate by tackling the VM sprawl issue, although many will insist that this issue still persists.

Now, with more WAN utilization, better underlying hardware components and more organizations moving to some kind of a cloud model, the IT industry is experiencing a new type of challenge: Cloud Sprawl…

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Cloud Computing: Salesforce.com Positioned as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Social CRM

By David

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing (http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/) company, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Social CRM, 2012, published September 27th, 2012. Gartner defines Social CRM as, "a business strategy that generates opportunities for sales, marketing and customer service, while also benefiting online communities." Salesforce.com moved further into the leadership position of the quadrant than any vendor included.

According to the report, "Leaders in the social CRM Magic Quadrant will exhibit two characteristics. First, their software must benefit both company and community. Leaders show benefits to enterprises by demonstrating ROI and supporting key performance indicators (KPIs), and Leaders’ software convinces users that they will get something valuable by participating in a conversation or community. Second, Leaders’ offerings demonstrate support for multiple CRM processes, and have substantial revenue coming specifically from their social CRM offerings."…

October 17, 2012 Off

Bloomberg’s Vault Cloud Service Goes Local

By David

Grazed from WallStreeTech. Author: Greg MacSweeney.

While cloud computing has been around for a few years, many financial services organizations have been reluctant to move to the cloud because of security and compliance concerns.

On the regulatory front, financial services regulators are very concerned about where customer data resides. If a firm can’t identify where the data is being stored and used, regulators could take action. For instance, if data is being stored in a large cloud provider’s service, it may be difficult to identify where the data is or how it got there (did the data travel through another country on its way to the data center?)…