Author: David

March 21, 2012 Off

VMware Worried About Rackspace, OpenStack Cloud Gains?

By David
Grazed from The Var Guy.  Author: Editorial Staff.

VMware vs. OpenStack: Plenty of pundits are debating the merits of each platform for cloud computing. Now for a twist: Within the cloud storage market, the recent hot rumor involves VMware (VMW) potentially buying Rackspace (RAX) in order to disrupt potential competition from OpenStack, the open source cloud platform. Here’s a reality check from The VAR Guy.

Over time, some pundits believe, OpenStack could potentially upend VMware’s core virtualization business — which is the underlying platform for many public and private cloud initiatives. The big question: Would VMware really consider buying out Rackspace (promoter of OpenStack) just to gain control of OpenStack?…

March 21, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing Boom Could Be Bigger than Dot-Com Boom

By David
Grazed from TechZone360.  Author: Erin Harrison.

After years of speculation and forecasts by industry analysts, the cloud computing era has arrived, according to the National Inflation Association, which predicts that by 2013, the cloud computing boom could surpass the dot-com boom of the early 2000s.

Cloud computing, which has started to become widely adopted worldwide, is currently a $74 billion industry that accounts for 3 percent of global IT spending, but in 2013 cloud computing is expected to become a $150 billion market, according to the NIA…

March 21, 2012 Off

Microsoft, Cisco Cloud & Server Partnership Shows Progress

By David
Grazed from The Var Guy.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Microsoft (MSFT) and Cisco Systems (CSCO) continue to work more closely on cloud computing, data center and application optimization — even as the two technology giants continue to compete on some fronts. The latest Cisco-Microsoft synergies include a data center channel initiative with NetApp and Avnet, plus a joint focus on the upcoming Microsoft Management Summit 2012. Here’s the back story, from The VAR Guy.

As you may recall, Cisco Systems’ Unified Computing System integrates network, computing and virtualization resources under one roof. But for Cisco to maximize UCS’s success, the networking giant needs to work closely with application partners. Plus, Cisco is striving to maintain an open approach in the data center, working with such companies as EMC, VMware and NetApp to optimize customer performance…

March 21, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: HP Reportedly Reorgs Big-Time

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Proving again that it leaks like a sieve press reports have Hewlett-Packard folding its printer division, whose ink used to be the source of all of the company’s profits, into its margins-cramped PC division and putting the combined operation under PC chief Todd Bradley, who wanted to run the PC unit if it was spun out.

Bradley will now get to run what will be HP’s singularly largest business, since the units last year represented $65 billion in sales or 51% of the company’s overall sales returning $6.3 billion to its bottom line…

March 21, 2012 Off

Australia, Italy and Denmark Lead Government Cloud Adoption

By David
Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Editorial Staff.

How are governments around the world planning for and adopting cloud computing, and how much progress have they made?

A recent study by Forbes Insights, in conjunction with KPMG International, “Exploring the Cloud: A Global Study of Governments’ Adoption of Cloud,” examines those questions. The study surveyed 429 government executives in 10 countries—Australia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the U.K. and the U.S.— about their cloud strategies. Responses from the global business survey of 808 executives (“Clarity in the Cloud: A Global Study of the Business Adoption of Cloud“) were referenced for context and to provide public- versus private-sector comparisons…

March 21, 2012 Off

Oracle Is Doing Battle With the Cloud

By David
Grazed from NBC.  Author: Sajid Farooq.

The Bay Area’s richest resident might have reason to worry about his fortune.  While there is little threat that Larry Ellison’s estimated $28 billion value will go up in smoke, the cloud is offering a challenge to the future expansion of that pile of gold.

Cloud-computing companies, such as Salesforce, are beginning to erode Oracle’s market share, according to reports.  More and more customers, such as Zynga, Hewlett-Packard, NBC and Bayer AG, are turning to the cloud for their needs…

 
March 20, 2012 Off

Flexiant Cloud Orchestration To Support Parallels Virtuozzo Containers

By David
Grazed from Flexiant.  Author: PR Announcement.
 

Flexiant today announced a partnership with CloudWork and Parallels to integrate Flexiant’s cloud orchestration software for on-demand, fully automated provisioning of cloud services with Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, the market leading virtualization solution for hosting and cloud service providers. CloudWork, a Netherlands based provider of cloud solutions hardware and software, and existing partner of both Flexiant and Parallels, will perform the integration of Flexiant’s software into Parallels Virtuozzo Containers.

Customers require agile provisioning of cloud services from their suppliers to stay competitive while controlling costs. Flexiant solves this challenge for service providers by providing a unique cloud orchestration platform to immediately control, build and monitor cloud services. By extending their platform to include virtualization based on Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Flexiant will meet existing and future customer requirements for both capability and cost-effectiveness.

 

 

March 20, 2012 Off

Ping Identity Launches PingOne – First Cloud Identity Switch

By David
Grazed from Ping Identity.  Author: PR Announcement.
 

Ping Identity, the cloud identity security leader, today unveiled PingOne, the world’s first multiplexed identity switch in the Cloud. One connection to PingOne provides businesses the convenience of tier 1 Single Sign-On (SSO) access to all of their cloud applications and gives IT one place to centralise control and automate identity management. One connection to PingOne equips cloud application providers to offer tier 1 SSO to all of their customers. For security conscious businesses, tier 1 requires exclusively standards-based, federated SSO protocols such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID with zero tolerance for storing passwords or managing duplicate end-user accounts in the cloud.

PingOne is the only on-demand cloud identity management service to equip application providers as well as end users with complete tier 1 SSO and multiplexed (one-to-many) capabilities. With one connection, PingOne allows IT to securely manage access to all cloud applications in a central user directory, such as Microsoft Active Directory. This eliminates all but one secure set of employee credentials. Similarly, application providers can use one simple REST API process to enable secure, standards-based SSO in less than 30 minutes.

"Enterprises asked us for a better way to connect their workforce to the cloud," said Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity. "PingOne is the answer. It can be set up in hours and is completely self-service. The service doesn’t replicate Active Directory and it doesn’t store passwords. It’s 100 percent based on open standards, which is the most secure way to do identity in the cloud."

March 20, 2012 Off

GreenPages Technology Solutions Brings independenceIT’s Proven Cloud Computing Solutions to its Customers

By David
Grazed from GreenPages.  Author: PR Announcement.
 

independenceIT (iIT), provider of the complete cloud workspace, today announced that GreenPages Technology Solutions, a national cloud, virtualization consulting and integration firm, has partnered with iIT to provide the company’s Total Freedom Workspace and Instant Freedom Workspace cloud solutions to its small and mid-sized business (SMB) customers.

The solutions will be made available as part of GreenPages’ Virtualization & Cloud Computing and Managed Services offerings. iIT’s cloud computing solutions will give GreenPages’ customers the ability to quickly and easily access all of their business applications and data in the cloud, from any device, at any time.

“independenceIT brings unique capabilities to the table,” said Michael Halperin, VP of Managed Services for GreenPages. “We are proud of our heritage of strength in virtualization and we see iIT’s services as a great add to our portfolio. We are excited to be bringing this capability to our customers.”

March 20, 2012 Off

Gale Technologies Completes Acquisition of Virtiv Technology and Intellectual Property

By David
Grazed from Gale Technologies.  Author: PR Announcement.
 

Gale Technologies, a leading provider of innovative software solutions that power IT as a Service for the lab, data center, and cloud, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of technology and intellectual property (IP) from Virtiv Corporation, to accelerate the development of easy to use automation solutions for virtualized environments. Customers of Gale Technologies will benefit from being able to have centralized command and control for automated provisioning of virtual environments including vSphere, Hyper-V, Xen and KVM. Gale Technologies previously appointed Virtiv co-founder James Thomason as Chief Technology Officer in 2011. A 16-year technology executive specializing in early-stage start-ups, Thomason is driving the company’s vision in developing the latest cloud computing technologies. The most recent example of Thomason’s vision can be seen at http://www.CloudScheduler.com.

“Acquiring the Virtiv code delivers sought-after features to our customers and gives them the benefit of being able to have centralized command and control for automated provisioning of virtual environments,” said Nariman Teymourian, chief executive officer of Gale Technologies. “This acquisition comes on the heels of a highly successful 2011, and provided us with a recognized technologist who has been instrumental in driving the development of our GaleForce platform and helping us achieve the next level of growth and success. James is indispensable on our executive team.”