Category: News

Grazed from CloudComputingNews. Author: Tim Jennings.

Oracle’s September 2013 customer event was notable for a series of announcements designed to help the company’s customers improve the speed and agility of their information systems. The flagship news revolved around Oracle’s core competence of database technology, with forthcoming releases of an in-memory option for Oracle Database 12c that promises to significantly speed up analytic queries, and of an enterprise-grade Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering, part of the Oracle Public Cloud. The latter is reaching a new level of maturity, assisted by the acquisition earlier in 2013 of cloud infrastructure specialist Nimbula.

One of the dominant themes of the conference was machine-to-machine (M2M) technology and the Internet of Things (IoT), and here Oracle is positioning its Java technology as an end-to-end platform for solution development. It also announced an upcoming new version of its Java as a Service offering, which again provides enterprise-grade development capabilities in the Oracle Public Cloud. These headlines were further supported by new engineered systems for in-memory computing and for database backup, and by good progress across many areas of the product portfolio…

Grazed from FloridaNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Quandis, Inc., a leading provider of default management technology solutions, announced that it has become a technology partner of Amazon’s Web Services Partner Network (APN). Joining APN underscores the investment and commitment that Quandis has made to utilize Amazon Web Services (AWS) for cloud computing.

“We’ve been using AWS cloud-based storage services for quite some time to cost effectively and efficiently support our enterprise-level client base,” said Eric Patrick, CTO of Quandis. “By joining AWS Partner Network we are able to take advantage of a number of different services that benefit us, it allows us to further scale our technology, and it provides us with additional expertise in managing data that resides in the cloud.”…

Grazed from Datamation. Author: Rob Enderle.

I’m at EMC’s analyst event in Boston this week and it’s an interesting event. One of the compelling stats that they shared: approximately 18% of large companies are choosing to build their own public cloud because they feel they can do it better and cheaper than services like Amazon Web Services can. EMC is moving on this opportunity with a solution called “Project Nile” and I think the trend is very interesting. Let me explain.

Private vs. Public Cloud

Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the IT space you likely know this: private cloud efforts have advantages that include compliance, security, and IT oversight. Disadvantages include cost, inflexibility, and bureaucratic red tape. These services are supplied and managed by IT, using technology generally purchased through third parties…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.

Salesforce.com (CRM) is taking its Salesforce AppExchange to another level by offering a private version to businesses looking to customize their own app store for employees. Salesforce Private AppExchange, generally available on Friday, will enable businesses to build a private, customized app store that lets them manage and distribute custom, mobile, Internet and desktop apps, Salesforce said.

AppExchange Director of Marketing Sara Varni spoke with Talkin’ Cloud on the enterprise issues that her company’s Private AppExchange is designed to fix. "There was no one central place you could go to find all the apps being used in your company," she said, "and the process was painful," pointing out that employees would have to log a ticket and wait for IT to respond…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.

A statement from Terremark, which is providing the backend service for the Healthcare.gov site, gives us a bit of insight into just one of those problems. Despite all the talk about the government adopting cloud computing, it appears that Healthcare.gov isn’t actually using the cloud. Instead, it sounds like it’s running in an old-school hosted environment.

“Since HHS asked us to provide additional compute and storage capacity, our engineers have worked 24/7 to trouble-shoot issues with the site. At the request of HHS’s deputy CIO, we are now undertaking infrastructure maintenance, which should be complete overnight. We anticipate the strengthened infrastructure will help eliminate application downtimes,” Verizon, Terremark’s owner, said in the statement it issued late on Tuesday…

Grazed from EconomicTimes. Author: Editorial Staff.

Rackspace Hosting today announced the launch of what it said is Asia’s first hybrid cloud powered by OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform. "The new public cloud joins Rackspace’s existing portfolio of private cloud and dedicated solutions to complete the open cloud- company’s hybrid cloud offering to businesses throughout the Asia-Pacific region," the company said in a release.

"Rackspace identifies India as a robust and upcoming market, seen in their decision to launch the first hybrid cloud in Asia powered by Openstack," it added…

Read more from the source @ http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/rackspace-launces-asias-first-hybrid-cloud/articleshow/25010281.cms

Grazed from GlobalNewswire. Author: PR Announcement.

As cloud computing goes mainstream, businesses of all sizes are looking for a fast, intuitive and easy way to leverage the incredible power of the platform.

To meet this demand, BMC Software today launched two new programs aimed at making it easier for customers to get from "zero-to-cloud" in as little as 30 days. BMC ZipKit and BMC Express Cloud are designed as a solution bundle that delivers a cost-effective starter cloud to enterprises with a 30-day implementation time, giving the customer a quick cloud project win while providing the foundation of a scalable, long-term enterprise cloud…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

Nebula, which produces hardware loaded with a preconfigured version of OpenStack, and GigaSpaces, which supplies an application deployment system, have teamed up to ease the strain of migrating enterprise applications onto a private cloud.

Nebula is the OpenStack company that was co-founded by Chris Kemp, former CIO of NASA Ames Research Center and former CTO of NASA. He was instrumental, along with a team from Rackspace, in founding the OpenStack project. Nebula announced Thursday that it is offering its Nebula One hardware/software systems with both OpenStack and GigaSpaces’ Cloudify system…

Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Eric Blattberg.

A high-profile legal battle over a $600 million spy agency contract has finally come to an end. IBM has withdrawn the injunctive action it filed after Amazon received a favorable ruling regarding its $600 million cloud computing contract with the CIA.

“In light of the government’s recent submissions emphasizing its need to move forward on the contract, IBM has withdrawn its motion,” reads a statement provided to VentureBeat by an IBM representative. “IBM maintains its position that the [Government Accountability Office’s] findings were appropriate.”…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Jason Cumberland.

Migrating a traditional application to the cloud isn’t always as complex as it appears. Here are three of the most common misconceptions about moving from a dedicated server deployment to a cloud environment.

Myth 1: The cloud won’t support networking for multi-tier applications.

While software-defined networking (SDN) is undoubtedly white-hot in IT, the reality is that it’s still a developing and unproven technology among enterprise buyers. One hurdle is the unforeseen risks associated with new concepts, such as security groups that are usurping traditional enterprise security rules and firewall designs. For companies delivering SaaS or other enterprise applications, clients are likely to be uncomfortable with the security delivered through these designs. Case in point, this August Amazon Web Services’ security group policies resulted in virtual machine connectivity losses, among other glitches. For end-users in industries such as banking, financial services and healthcare, this kind of concept and security risk can be a deal-breaker…