Category: News

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

6WIND, the gold standard for data plane processing in software-defined networks, today announced that it is a founding member of the CloudNFV™ initiative. CloudNFV is a group of vendors dedicated to creating a technical framework and demonstration platform for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) based on cloud computing and Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies in a multi-vendor environment. Tom Nolle, CIMI Corporation President, is the architect and facilitator of CloudNFV and, in addition to 6WIND, the other founding members include Dell, EnterpriseWeb, Overture and Qosmos. These six companies each bring unique technologies and expertise to complete the framework needed to demonstrate the multi-vendor CloudNFV vision.

NFV has emerged as a key approach to maximize network resource utilization by virtualizing functions traditionally implemented in dedicated hardware, thereby minimizing both CAPEX and OPEX. Service providers are increasingly exploring SDN-based network architectures in order to improve network manageability and accelerate the deployment of new services…

Grazed from ChannelNomics. Author: Chris Gonsalves.

Global investors are feeling more confident about the U.S. economy and are poised to start shoveling money into select technology investments, according to new research from Deloitte LLP and the National Venture Capital Association.

The 9th annual Global Venture Capital Confidence Survey, released today, indicates global investors are increasingly enthusiastic about technology investments in mobile, cloud, enterprise software and health care IT, all areas of significant focus for technology channel partners…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Today, Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider (http://www.us.logicalis.com) – and a company named “Best Cloud Consultant” at the Cloudcor UP 2012 Cloud Computing Conference – announced a new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud resource, the Logicalis On-Demand Cloud.

The Logicalis On-Demand Cloud is a self-managed, multi-tenant public cloud infrastructure that provides the flexible compute resources, memory and storage necessary to complete projects such as test and development, proof of concept, training, bursting or other short-term needs. This new service is a pay-as-you-go offering with the benefit of not requiring customers to invest in building and managing their own on-premises infrastructure…

Grazed from ServInt. Author: PR Announcement.

ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed cloud hosting for businesses worldwide, today announced the availability of version 1.9.2 of its auto-scaling Jelastic cloud service. Jelastic is the only zero-code-change cloud hosting platform for Java and PHP applications. The new version 1.9.2 includes many new features, advancements and visible changes.

“Jelastic has been a core component of the ServInt product catalog since 2011 because it is one of the most powerful, innovative and easy-to-use PaaS products on the market,” said ServInt CTO Matt Loschert. “Now, with 1.9.2, it’s even better. The list of new features that users will be getting is simply extraordinary.”…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Xactly® founder, president and CEO Christopher W. Cabrera will share strategies for leveraging big data and the cloud to drive business results at the Oppenheimer 16th Annual Technology, Internet & Communications Conference. Cabrera’s panel, “Leveraging Big Data and the Cloud to Drive Business Results,” will take place on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at 1:05 p.m. ET at the Four Seasons Hotel, Boston and via live webcast.

• What: Leveraging Big Data and the Cloud to Drive Business Results
• When: Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 1:05 p.m. ET
• Where: Four Seasons Hotel, Boston and via streaming webcast: http://ow.ly/nTZy4

Grazed from Datamation. Author: Jeff Vance.

The cloud may not have quite reached maturity yet, but it’s getting there. Plenty of businesses rely on the cloud for mission-critical applications, and cloud adoption is steady enough in the U.S. that offshore public cloud providers fear they’ll never catch up to Amazon, Google, Rackspace and other cloud providers in the U.S.

From outsourcing to automation

"The initial resistance to public cloud has begun to subside and customers are beginning to realize its efficiencies as the solutions mature," said Ian Marriott, research vice president at Gartner. According to Gartner, spending on public cloud services is expected to grow 18 percent in 2013 to $131 billion. By 2015, Gartner believes the public cloud services market will exceed $180 billion…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.

The cloud offers easy resource provisioning and flexible pricing, but there are several cloud computing costs beyond the instance price lists to consider before deploying workloads there. Beyond the initial server instance, cloud computing pricing usually includes storage, networking, load balancing, security, redundancy, backup, application services and operating system licenses. Certain cloud computing costs — resource contention, storage, bandwidth and redundancy — can come as a surprise.

Server instance performance and provisioning costs

So-called noisy neighbors — server instances from other tenants in the cloud that share the same hardware and cause resource contention — are a common problem. "In a public-cloud world, you tend to have to have more capacity because of noisy neighbors consuming more resources than you’d expect on that shared host, the fact that certain hosts will become unresponsive, or the fact that you have to replace hosts frequently," said Jim O’Neill, CIO of the hosted marketing software provider HubSpot Inc., based in Cambridge, Mass. "We tend to see extra investment in additional capacity just to keep performance at a known state."…

Grazed from CMSWire. Author: David Roe.

There is further evidence this morning that cloud computing is getting specialized with reports that Microsoft may be in the process of developing one or more versions of its cloud operating system customized for government users.

Microsoft Government Cloud OS?

The report that Microsoft is in the process of doing this surfaced in a report by ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley who, citing unnamed sources, says that a new specialized version of Microsoft Cloud OS’s platform is currently under development. While this probably won’t be confirmed until the final product is ready for release, it does correspond with an emerging trend that we saw last week with ClearData where verticals that are managing sensitive data, and who want to move to the cloud, are looking for specialized, secure products…

Grazed from UBM Tech.  Author: Event Announcement.

Cloud platforms are shifting today’s business models by enabling companies to quickly build, deploy and manage applications. The unlimited resource of the cloud is driving a breakneck pace of innovation and unprecedented value for companies prepared to take full advantage.

Cloud Connect Chicago, to be held on October 21-23, 2013, is the only venue where you will learn how to leverage the cloud ecosystem to develop new services, new revenue streams and new business models.  Cloud Connect offers three days of in-depth boot camps, panel discussions and access to a host of industry experts, all designed to help you weigh your cloud options and drive transformation. This year’s Sessions and Boot Camps include all the major cloud stack players including OpenStack, CloudStack, and AWS & Eucalyptus. Plus, don’t miss the Cloud Security Summit hosted by Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) or the CompTIA Cloud Essential Training…