October 4, 2011
Laying the Right Foundation for the Cloud
Grazed from CTO Edge. Author: Michael Vizard.
A lot of IT organizations are moving in fits and starts toward building their own private clouds largely through ongoing efforts to virtualize their server environments. But as IT organizations continue down that path, many of them are discovering that they’ve put too much emphasis on the server aspects of cloud computing when it turns out that modern storage systems are going to be at the root of any successful cloud computing deployment…
Windstream Hosted Solutions, one of the nation’s premier providers of enterprise-class managed hosting solutions, today announced the launch of its second-generation cloud platform. Designed to meet the strong, continually growing demand for cloud computing services, the platform incorporates significant technology enhancements to Windstream Hosted Solutions’ existing cloud services offering, including solutions from industry leaders such as VMware, NetApp, EMC and more to provide a comprehensive solution that can serve businesses’ production and disaster recovery requirements…
energyOrbit, the leading cloud computing ( www.energy-orbit.com ) company in the Demand Side Management sector, today announced the successful implementation and roll out of energyOrbit at Dairyland Power Cooperative, a Midwest generation and transmission cooperative (G&T) providing wholesale power to 25 member cooperatives and 16 municipal utilities in four states…
Virtustream, Inc., a leading Cloud Solution Provider, today introduced Virtustream Advisor 2.0, a resource analytics and analysis engine that collects current, actual performance data on a client’s compute landscape and recommends a company’s ideal cloud computing environment. In addition to performance enhancements that deliver enterprise-class capacity and availability to support Virtustream Advisor 2.0 deployments, Virtustream also announced that its partners — global systems integrators, enterprise ISVs and value-added resellers — can now use Virtustream Advisor 2.0 to evaluate their clients’ needs…
Red Hat Inc. (RHT), a provider of open source software and services, agreed to acquire closely held Gluster Inc. for about $136 million in cash to expand in Internet-based computing.
In an effort to remain relevant as desktop computing gives ground to cloud computing, Adobe on Monday announced two acquisitions, a Creative Cloud to augment its Creative Suite software, and a handful of touch-based tablet apps…
ServiceMesh, provider of the market-leading enterprise cloud platform for Global 2000 companies, today announced that ServiceMesh’s Agility Platform has been integrated with Juniper Networks(R) vGW Virtual Gateway to deliver policy-driven security for cloud-based applications and data.