Category: News

Grazed from Data Center Knowledge. Author: John Rath.

Brocade  has rolled out new features for its VCS fabric and VDX switch portfolio, seeking to offer an end-to-end multitenancy blueprint for migration to the cloud. New wrinkles include new VCS fabric features that provide native multitenancy, storage-aware networking and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) performance. Last May the company rolled out its software-defined networking strategy, with software innovations coming from its acquisition of Vyatta.

“As cloud computing matures and is increasingly adopted in production environments, new requirements are emerging and deficiencies in legacy architectures are becoming more pronounced,” said Jason Nolet, vice president data center swtiching and routing at Brocade. “Our continued innovation in Brocade VCS Fabric technology addresses the most challenging data center requirements, including network multitenancy, network intelligence for exploding storage growth and the emerging adoption of 100 GbE for ever-increasing bandwidth consumption.”…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Jan Stafford.

Cloud and virtualization technologies offer new options for modernizing legacy applications today. They’re just in time, because many organizations’ existing applications can’t handle the mobile- and Web-based ways people want to deliver and access information, according to Matt Brasier, IT book author and head consultant for UK-based C2B2 Consulting.

In this interview, Brasier explains both why mobile computing is putting pressure on businesses to update older applications and recent changes in ways to do application modernization.

How does mobile computing impact legacy applications today?…

Grazed from BusinessWeek. Author: Sarah Frier.

How’s this for bleeding edge: The average member of IBM’s (IBM) senior executive leadership team started at the company in 1985, when the Internet was still a government project and Steve Jobs had just been fired from Apple (AAPL). Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty joined IBM in 1981, two years out of Northwestern University’s engineering school, and has been there ever since.

That’s a deep and experienced bench. The question is whether the tech giant has the right managerial perspective for what confronts it in 2013. IBM finds itself on the wrong side of a major technology shift. In the cloud era, corporate clients can rent server capacity and processing power for far less than IBM charges to hire its consultants or buy its hardware…

Grazed from Bluelock.

There’s a lot to consider when it comes to the cloud buying process. Security, compatibility and managed services are just a few important offerings cloud buyers have to consider. But, what matters most to cloud consumers?

In January 2013, cloud services provider Bluelock set out to better understand the consumers’ needs and desires for an infrastructure-as-a-service offering. More than 325 individuals took an 11-question survey over a period of three months. Individuals represented companies of all sizes, industries and job titles. Despite their demographic differences the consumers were united in many of their value rankings, sentiments and use-cases. The results draw a strong picture of what matters most to the IaaS consumer now, and what they expect to care about in the future. View the cloud infographic below to learn more!

Grazed from VMWare. Author: Jung Hwang.

Imagine you are a general contractor building a house for a family. Without meeting them, you decide it should have three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a two-car garage. When the family moves in, you have to begin renovating immediately—they have four teenage daughters and a baby on the way.

We all know that adding another bedroom, another bathroom, and doubling the garage is more costly and time consuming than it would have been to build the house to fit the family in the first place. So why do IT organizations so often make the same mistake when building out the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment?…

Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Mary Shacklett.

IT governance is linked to security and data protection standards—but it is more than that. Governance includes aligning IT with business strategies, optimizing operational and system workflows and processes, and the insertion of an IT control structure for IT assets that meets the needs of auditors and regulators.

As more companies move to cloud-based solutions like SaaS (software as a service), regulators and auditors are also sharpening their requirements. “What we are seeing is an increased number of our corporate clients asking us for our own IT audits, which they, in turn, insert into their enterprise audit papers that they show auditors and regulators,” said one SaaS manager…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Neil McEvoy.

The issue of deploying and managing a cloud across international borders is highlighted by the Edward Snowden incident, which revealed extensive government surveillance through the PRISM initiative — heightening paranoia that any data hosted in the cloud is increasingly at risk of this type of snooping.

However, is this paranoia valid? And if so, what are the best practices for securing your information in an age of cloud across borders? While the world is still in its early days of coping with cloud governance, what is more immediately clear is the role cloud providers and security technologies will play in meeting this evolving challenge…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Ubuntu Juju is making its debut on the Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Azure public cloud platform. According to an Azure blog post by Venkat Gattamneni, Azure is now fully supported by Juju as part of Microsoft’s efforts to commit to being an open and interoperable cloud platform.

That means Ubuntu users now can use Juju to design and deploy application infrastructure simply and easily onto Azure—something that should give Azure a leg up over (or at least bring it in line with) competing cloud platforms. For Ubuntu and the various developers and partners who deal within the open source Linux platform, this expands their footprint to the growing world of Azure, which is arguably in the second or third place in terms of cloud platforms (depending on who you ask or which research you read)…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.

Rackspace Vice President of Technology Nigel Beighton took the stage Thursday at Structure: Europe to talk about the five most important tools for any company deploying infrastructure in the cloud. Infrastructure-as-a-service is a great thing, he told the crowd, but it’s also full of potential land mines.

How good is the cloud? Well, Beighton explained that an online travel company he worked for during the dot-com boom used to spend about £100,000 every year to scale up for the post-Christmas travel-booking spike. Once that demanded subsided, his team put those extra servers to use playing Doom. Come the next year, they’d do the same thing…

Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO) today announced that the Fusion ION Data Accelerator all-flash shared storage solution now features integrated support for Oracle Enterprise Manager cloud computing management software and Oracle VM Server virtualization software. ION Data Accelerator software delivers powerful shared storage performance using industry standard server platforms and Fusion ioMemory to provide real-world acceleration for enterprise applications from leaders like Oracle, expediting business-critical information across cloud computing, virtualization, data warehousing, online transactions and business intelligence.

"At Oracle OpenWorld 2013, the focus is on simplifying IT to enable business transformation," said Jeff Treuhaft, Fusion-io Executive Vice President of Products. "As an easily integrated solution for sharing powerful all-flash performance across enterprise applications like those from Oracle, Fusion ION Data Accelerator is an ideal way for enterprises to improve business responsiveness with application performance that gets noticed. The integration of Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle VM support now makes it even more transparent for IT teams to manage the performance provided by ION Data Accelerator throughout an enterprise’s infrastructure."…