New VMTurbo Release Enables Intelligent Onboarding and Automated Control for Cloud Infrastructures
VMTurbo, the leading provider of intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments, today revealed VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.2. This new release addresses the growing demand for greater intelligence, agility and automation in onboarding application workloads to private, public and hybrid clouds, as well as providing holistic and granular control for distributed multi-site operations. The release also extends discovery and application-aware management to Java applications and Linux environments, and adds hypervisor support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0.
“IT organizations are moving beyond simple virtual machine provisioning. Our clients are now considering how to orchestrate the delivery of multi-tier applications and assure committed service levels,” said Alessandro Perilli, research director at Gartner. “Automated infrastructure optimization, through dynamic resource allocation and intelligent workload placement, is critical to enable service assurance and scale operations in large private or public cloud environments”.
Making Full Access to the Cloud Possible: Cloud Service Providers profit from HOB PPP Tunnel
For Cloud Service Providers (CSP) it is important that their customers have universal, 24/7 access to their resources stored in the cloud. Important characteristics of a cloud access solution are, in addition to security, definitely high availability, multi-tenant capability and an easy and flexible installation and administration. The secure remote access solution HOB RD VPN blue edition fulfills these requirements and more: the optional HOB PPP Tunnel ensures full access to the cloud network. A further advantage for Cloud Service Providers: Attractive licensing. Licenses can be additionally added or subtracted monthly – fully flexible as their demands require.
HOB RD VPN with HOB PPP Tunnel for Secure Full Access
Mission-Critical Applications in the Cloud: Are Agencies Ready for the Heavy Lift?
As Federal agencies are making cloud progress, the early-adopters that are moving their mission-critical applications to the cloud are realizing cost savings and improved access to IT, according to a new MeriTalk report, sponsored by EMC Corporation, VMware and Carahsoft. The report, “Mission-Critical Cloud: Ready for the Heavy Lift?” reveals that Feds could save approximately $16.6 billion annually if all agencies move just three mission-critical applications to the cloud. It tells us Feds spend more than half their IT budget on supporting mission-critical applications – and that private cloud is the platform of choice for mission-critical application transition. The study reveals how Federal IT executives view the barriers, current status, and future plans related to this shift.
Dell Helps XS Deliver Cloud Based Agricultural Application to Increase Farming Yields with End-to-End Enterprise Infrastructure
As a drought in the Midwest raises food prices, farming efficiency and getting the most from farm lands has become more essential than ever. XS, Inc. is known in the food and agriculture industry for its ability to provide internet-based applications to help its agricultural clients drive efficiency and business value within their own organizations. To keep those online applications up and running, XS, Inc. selected Dell Compellent storage arrays, PowerEdge servers, PowerVault disk storage, and Latitude laptops. Since XS, Inc. moved to Dell Compellent this year, the company has maintained 99.999 percent storage availability to support the company’s rapid growth and expects to realize an annual cost savings of $500 per deployed workstation and $2,000 per deployed server.
GE Working to Bring Air Traffic Management into “The Cloud”
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A global leader in avionics and software development, the General Electric Company (NYS: GE) has embarked on an 18-month project with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to help bring NextGen air traffic management (ATM) technology into "The Cloud." Cloud computing will enable airlines and air traffic controllers to perform their tasks by sharing not only real-time information but also data analysis and decision support tools to improve aircraft operations and airspace efficiency.
GE researchers are working with NASA to enable NextGen air traffic management to be operated through …
GE researchers are working with NASA to enable NextGen air traffic management to be operated through cloud computing to improve aircraft operations and airspace efficiency. The effort to bring cloud computing to air traffic management is part of GE’s efforts to build the Industrial Internet.
Emerson’s Trellis platform plays integral role in public and private clouds
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Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR) and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity, and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership with high-performance cloud infrastructure provider Joyent to transform and optimize how physical and logical data center resources are packaged and delivered for public and private clouds.
“We selected Emerson as our partner because the Trellis™ platform is the only DCIM solution available today that can provide holistic, real-time visibility from service processor to power grid and enable the dynamic optimization of data center physical resources,” said Jason Hoffman, founder and CTO of Joyent. “Our partnership will enable us to offer a unique, tightly integrated, modular, highly efficient solution that optimizes the entire infrastructure based on the energy consumption of application workloads.”…
The tipping point for cloud management is nigh
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Businesses typically don’t think too much about managing IT resources until they become too numerous and cumbersome to deal with on an ad hoc basis — a point many companies will soon hit in their adoption of cloud computing.
As enterprises continue to use IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) cloud services to solve pressing business problems, the number of cloud services used will continue to grow. Although dozens of services are relatively easy to track, many companies are quickly using hundreds or even thousands of services. This means they’re approaching a tipping point where the number of services used exceeds IT’s ability to manage them manually…
Cloud Computing: When archiving goes interactive
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The advent of cloud computing has come and gone, says NATHANIEL BORENSTEIN, chief scientist at Mimecast. But how can we harness this technology to fuel further innovation within the e-mail environment?
Not all too long ago, cloud computing was a foreign and distant concept. Although it promised to fundamentally alter the way in which we relate to and store information, it was little more than a notion or idea that was beginning to find its feet within the technological community…
Lenovo Makes First Software Buy to Expand in Cloud
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Lenovo Group Ltd., the world’s second-largest maker of personal computers, agreed to buy Stoneware Inc. of the U.S. to gain cloud-computing products in its first acquisition of a software vendor.
Stoneware produces software used mainly by governments and schools to synchronize data across multiple mobile devices, Mark Cohen, a Lenovo vice president, said in a telephone interview. The closely held, Indianapolis-based company has 60 employees, he said, without disclosing terms…
Microsoft boosts enterprise productivity with new cloud service
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Microsoft Corporation says it is contributing significantly to the development of Nigeria’s Small Medium Enterprise (SME) sector through the provision of cloud-based technologies specifically designed to enhance enterprise productivity and efficiency.
Industry analysts told Business Day at the launch of the solution in Lagos, weekend that Microsoft was finally stepping into the small-business cloud-computing segment with the company executives claiming downright that the internet is the one and only future for Microsoft. Branded as Office 365, the service costs $6 per user per month, and is Microsoft’s Web-based version of its franchise Office product…