SMEStorage Provides Hybrid Cloud File Server Appliance Through Integration with Eucalyptus
SMEStorage today announced it has integrated Eucalyptus Walrus into its Cloud File Server, enabling organisations to use the solution as a hybrid Cloud File Server. Walrus provides a highly scalable redundant unstructured data store that is compatible with the Amazon S3 Storage API. SMEStorage provides a Cloud File Server appliance that enables companies to rapidly implement a hybrid on-premise Cloud File Server that provides support for all desktop and mobile devices. Together, the solution enables fast, ready-to-use cloud storage and can evolve into a complete cloud Infrastructure as a Service on-premise solution.
"We have seen increasing demand for Eucalyptus Walrus from small businesses who wish to leverage Walrus as a private cloud storage solution, to start ups, larger businesses, and ISP’s who wish to use Walrus AWS compatible S3 storage as a non-proprietary storage platform," said SMEStorage CEO Ian Osborne. "Customers can now use SMEStorage with Walrus to rapidly deploy a full data center solution, which includes native desktop drives with sophisticated synchronisation solutions for Windows, Mac and Linux. Businesses can also leverage the rapid growth in mobility to offer sophisticated mobile clients for iPhone/iPad, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile 7."
CloudZoom Launches Free Virtual Appliance Library
CloudZoom, Inc. announces the official release of it’s website today. The New Hampshire based startup has a vision of the future, and the future contains simple, fast, and convenient virtual appliance services. A multiyear plan for rolling out products and services is in the works.
With virtualization taking hold, businesses are beginning to realize the benefit of obtaining pre-configured or “ready to deploy” applications packaged for cloud infrastructures. These packages are known as virtual appliances, virtual applications, or cloud applications. Each virtual appliance consists of an operating system and applications installed, secured, patched, and even maintained.
"In today’s virtual appliance market, there are silos of unique, vendor specific catalogs. The advantage of using the Cloudzoom library is its unbiased approach of listing any virtual appliance, no matter the vendor, and making it easy to find," said the CloudZoom founders.
Attend the Only Cloud Computing Event for Telco Professionals – Telecom CloudServices Summit
You may have seen that there are quite a few events, conferences and exhibitions on Cloud Computing taking place around the globe. But this is a cloud computing event with a difference – this is the only Cloud Computing Summit dedicated to telco professionals!
The 3rd Annual Telecom CloudServices Summit takes place 23-25 April 2012, Scandic Hotel Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany.
The audience is made up of over 60% Operators, ensuring that you will not only hear the best speakers but also benefit from fantastic networking opportunities.
In the past three years, they’ve seen great growth in the Telecom Cloud Services Summit: The 2012 event is full of exciting innovations to spice up your journey into the Cloud!
Zynga readies ‘private cloud’ to run partners’ games
Zynga was once a big buyer of cloud computing services. Today, it’s becoming a seller.
In 2009, when FarmVille started taking off–it grew to 10 million daily active users in six weeks, 25 million in five months–the company began to lean heavily on rented resources to handle the load. Zynga used Amazon Web Services, and over time, shunted more and more of the day-to-day load of running its games to AWS. By January 2011, AWS was handling 80 percent of Zynga’s load. Only 20 percent was on servers that Zynga owned.
But at Zynga scale, using that infrastructure became inefficient, according to Zynga’s CTO of infrastructure, Allan Leinwand, who I spoke with earlier in February. And by inefficient, he means expensive..
Security In The Cloud: Logs, Audits, Encryption…
Considering a move to the cloud for one or several of your key services? If so, you are not alone. Cloud computing is growing exponentially as more and more vendors are starting to offer services, and as more businesses are beginning to see the potential for cost savings as well as the ability to offer new services that were beyond their capacity. When moving services to the cloud, you are moving critical parts of your IT infrastructure and corporate information assets to systems that you will not have direct administrative access to. You will be relying on your vendor to provide security, auditing, and change management for these components, and will be relying upon them to secure your data.
Security in the cloud is very good, and in many cases the economies of scale vendors have at their disposal along with the specialized staffing means it will be better than what you could reasonably accomplish on your own, but you do want to make sure you understand all aspects of security in the cloud…
New Evolve IP Website Provides Cloud Education, Services, and Support
Evolve IP, one of the country’s fastest-growing cloud-based technology providers, has reinvented its corporate website at www.EvolveIP.net . The new site is a comprehensive resource for organizations of all sizes that want to learn more about cloud computing technologies, uses, and benefits. The site also provides a broad array of training and support materials for Evolve IP’s growing portfolio of businesses that use its cloud-based technology services. And lastly, the site features everything a company needs to know about the vast opportunities available to channel partners interested in representing Evolve IP’s technology and services.
The new EvolveIP.net site is organized into six primary areas:
— Services defines the company’s three families of products that meet business technology needs: The Evolved Office, The Evolved Data Center, and The Evolved Network…
Phorum 2012 National Cloud Conference To Showcase Emerging Cloud Technologies For The Enterprise
The Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT), in partnership with Dell Inc. and Fairmount Partners, today announced the emerging growth companies that will be showcased in the Phorum 2012 National Cloud Conference Demo Pit. The diverse group of participating companies are all headquartered on the East Coast, near to the Philadelphia-based conference, and were selected for their innovation in the use of cloud computing technology to solve strategic business problems. They include:
AboutOne – contact management tool, aboutone.com
Adaptivity – enterprise cloud decision support provider, adaptivity.com…
CloudConfidence.com – comprehensive cloud monitoring service, cloudconfidence.net
CloudMine – mobile app development platform, cloudmine.com
cWyze – interactive video platform, cwyze.com
eMaint Enterprises – facility and property management system, emaint.com
Houdini – enterprise crowdsourcing platform, houdiniapi.com
metaLayer – data management and analysis platform, metalayer.com
Profitably – small business planning and analytics tool, profitably.com
Queue in the Cloud – IT service management platform, qinthecloud.com
ReadySetWork – employee scheduling and communication tool, readysetwork.com
Ridaroo – employee ride sharing tool, ridaroo.com
Target Info – data analytics and management platform, target-info.com
Updentity – enterprise contact management automation tool, updentity.com
UXFlip – mobile app development platform, uxflip.com
Intralinks offers firms secure file-sharing cloud computing service
Collaboration vendor Intralinks has upgraded its service aimed at giving organisations greater control over content sharing in line with corporate security and compliance restrictions, making it an enterprise alternative to services such as Dropbox.
Available now, Intralinks Connect is a cloud computing based service that provides authorised users with access to documents anywhere, at any time, but with role-based access to the information, with an audit trail and optionally backed by multi-factor authentication…
Joyent to Provide Real-Time Public Cloud Services in Japan and Southeast Asia to Meet Growing Customer Demand
Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today announced its plans to extend its real-time public cloud offering to Asia in the second quarter of 2012, starting with a public cloud in Tokyo and following with a Singapore-based operation catering to the greater Southeast Asia region.
The plan is in response to existing customers who plan to expand their businesses into the two regions, and from partners like Telefonica who are encountering heightening demands for bullet-proof, real-time infrastructure that can handle the increasing need for machine-to-machine and real-time mobile communications…
CERN to tap new Europe cloud computing project
A statement from CERN, the Geneva-based particle physics organization, said the platform — dubbed "Helix Nebula-the Science Cloud" — would be made available to government bodies and industry after a two-year pilot phase.
Also participating in the program are the European Space Agency (ESA) and the German-based European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), which like CERN are gathering vast volumes of information that cannot presently be processed…