Category: News

Grazed from Investors.com. Author: Reinhardt Krause.

Cloud computing services providers backing the OpenStack software standard aim to build momentum with the upcoming release of Havana, an upgrade aimed at speeding up OpenStack adoption by the biggest companies.

Due this month, Havana is expected to iron out some of the technical issues uncovered by enterprises that have been testing OpenStack in data centers. Cloud services providers rent servers and storage to enterprise customers via the Internet cloud. Open-source software licensed freely, OpenStack connects data centers to cloud services…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Datadog, the SaaS-based monitoring and data analytics platform that provides a unified view of IT infrastructure, announced today monitoring for auto-scaling Amazon Web Services (AWS), HP Cloud and OpenStack cloud environments. Modern cloud infrastructures adjust to application demand by auto-scaling. It guarantees IT resource capacity, for applications, but has also created difficulties for legacy monitoring tools which require system administrators to continuously update these systems manually.

Additionally, legacy tools have not been built to monitor collections of servers working together as a single unit. The modern cloud environment requires aggregated data analysis and automated monitoring adjustments that instantly reflects the infrastructure that is being monitored…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Carol Sliwa.

Open source, software-based OpenStack Block Storage, also known by the code name Cinder, takes a different approach from the traditional block storage products that enterprise IT shops are intimately familiar with. Ashish Nadkarni, a research director in the storage systems practice at Framingham, Mass.-based International Data Corp., likened OpenStack Block Storage to storage virtualization from vendors such as Hitachi Data Systems and IBM in its ability to provide an abstraction layer to integrate third-party arrays and pool storage resources, but in an open source format.

In this interview, Nadkarni also explained the provisioning model, hardware options and the role OpenStack Block Storage plays as part of the open source OpenStack cloud computing and management platform…

Grazed from BusinessWeek. Author: Aaron Ricadela and Dina Bass.

Microsoft Corp. (MSFT:US) unveiled price cuts for Web services, seeking to catch up to market-leader Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN:US) in cloud computing. Starting Nov. 1, Microsoft will offer discounts for its Windows Azure cloud service, as well as annual payment plans for customers signing long-term contracts, said Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise chief who has been named as a possible replacement for retiring Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.

The world’s largest software maker has pledged to match its rival’s prices for public-cloud products that let customers store and run applications via the Internet. Amazon, whose Web Services unit was the early entrant, is more than five times bigger than rival providers combined, when measured by cloud-computing capacity usage, according to researcher Gartner Inc…

Grazed from Replicon. Author: Vivek Gopalpuria.

SaaS is a modern business model for application software. A vendor who is invested in on-premise, hosted, and SaaS models cannot commit to providing all the benefits of a true SaaS model due to conflicting revenue models. Their resources are going to be spread thin supporting multiple versions rather than driving innovation.

Additionally, if the vendor makes the majority of their revenue selling on-premise software, it will be very difficult for them to fully commit to a true SaaS solution since the majority of their resources will be allocated to supporting the on-premise software. Even if they do support multi-tenancy, their SaaS customers may have to wait several years for a new version if the hosted solution is constrained by the release schedule of the vendor’s on-premise product…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe Weinman.

Cloud computing products and services from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Rackspace as well as companies ranging from AT&T to Zuora are clearly gaining traction, growing at a 36% CAGR, according to one recent forecast. As cloud computing becomes pervasive, customers will need to determine how various cloud components from various companies will work together to meet business objectives.

The IEEE—”the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology,” and the one that standardized Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) and Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11)—has brought together industry and academia to help develop Intercloud standards as part of its Cloud Computing Initiative and today announced an effort intended to test those standards under real-world conditions.(Disclosure: I am the chairman of the IEEE Intercloud Testbed executive committee)…

Grazed from NewsFactor. Author: Jennifer LeClaire.

Redmond is going deeper into the enterprise cloud Relevant Products/Services. Microsoft Relevant Products/Services on Monday announced its next wave of enterprise products and services aimed at helping companies tap into cloud computing opportunities and overcome IT challenges.

Part of the company’s stated goal is to drive enterprise cloud adoption. The new products complement Office 365 and other Microsoft cloud services and include hybrid infrastructure Relevant Products/Services Relevant Products/Services and modern applications…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: John Rath.

Seeking to optimize for speed and performance, Verizon will use AMD SeaMicro SM15000 servers to link hundreds of cores together in a single system to power its new Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud platform and cloud-based object storage service. Verizon and AMD co-developed additional hardware and software technology on the SM15000 server that provides unprecedented performance and best-in-class reliability backed by enterprise-level service level agreements (SLAs).

“Verizon created the enterprise cloud, now we’re recreating it,” said John Stratton, president of Verizon Enterprise Solutions. “This is the revolution in cloud services that enterprises have been calling for. We took feedback from our enterprise clients across the globe and built a new cloud platform from the bottom up to deliver the attributes they require.”…

Grazed from HighCloud Security. Author: PR Announcement.

Cloud Security, a leader in cloud encryption and key management software, today announced new capabilities that enable enterprises to securely migrate data to and from the public cloud. This technology also lets customers leverage public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in new ways, including secure cloud backup and disaster recovery for virtual machines (VMs).

IaaS offerings are built on highly virtualized server infrastructures, creating unique security challenges. VMs are highly dynamic, and can be moved, replicated or suspended by a service provider typically without the knowledge of the data owner. As cloud adoption grows, organizations struggle to ensure the privacy of sensitive or regulated data while it is in flight to the cloud, as well as at rest…

Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Rene Millman.

BlackBerry has previewed its new cloud-based service for managing multiple mobile devices, including Android, iOS and BlackBerry smartphones. The as-yet unnamed service was announced at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando. The enterprise mobility management SaaS product is undergoing closed beta testing, but should be generally available by the end of November on an ongoing monthly subscription.

It said the service would allow customers to secure and manage corporate and personal devices through the cloud, and offers mobile device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM), security standards, and self-service capabilities for the end user…