Category: News

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

OpTier, a pioneer in analytics-driven, SaaS-based Application Performance Management (APM) and transaction-based Big Data Analytics, announced today it has secured $8 million in additional funding from a group of venture capitalists to support its flourishing portfolio of innovative application monitoring solutions. This round of financing was led by Pitango Venture Capital and also included Viola Group and Gemini Israeli Funds.

The new funding will fuel OpTier’s continued growth in the application monitoring and data analytics space, where the company has already solidified a healthy market position and posted strong financial results for the current year, achieving a record-breaking second quarter with more than 400% quarter-over-quarter growth…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added new features to the company’s management platform CloudFormation that aim to improve performance and simplify updates. As companies get more used to running applications in the cloud, they are putting together more complex systems. That in turn puts higher demands on management platforms, which have to allow users to take better advantage of the programmability and scalability of the cloud.

CloudFormation aims to give developers and systems administrators a way to create and manage a collection of related resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion. The latest additions to the platform are parallel stack processing and nested stack updates…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Oracle introduced its first converged infrastructure system Tuesday – a one-rack integrated solution that includes servers, networking and storage, virtualized on Oracle VM. This is a major step for Oracle, whose hardware play to date has been focused on "engineered systems," or appliances the company designs specifically to support its software solutions. The converged-infrastructure market is a busy one, with major players like HP, Cisco, Dell, EMC, NetApp and Microsoft, among others, fighting tooth-and-nail for raised-floor space in enterprise and provider data centers.

The centerpiece of the solution, called Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, is the company’s new software creation called Virtual Appliance Controller. It interacts with the Oracle VM Manager and the intra-rack interconnect technology to automate VM provisioning and configuration of the network that ties resources in the rack together…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

Skyhigh Networks is looking to close the gap between the three pillars of cloud data protection. In its new Skyhigh Secure offering for the protection of data in the cloud, the company provides discovery, analysis and encryption capabilities—something its co-founder and CEO noted is a first in the industry.

Skyhigh Secure was designed to enable organizations and channel partners in addressing critical cloud data protection requirements. The offering provides contextual access control, application auditing, data loss prevention (DLP) and cloud-to-cloud access control. The value, according to Ravij Gupta, Skyhigh’s co-founder and CEO, is in providing this as a one-stop shop for customers and the company’s growing number of channel partners…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

Nextpoint, Inc., the leader in cloud-based technology for the legal industry, has been awarded U.S. Patent number 8,447,731. The company’s groundbreaking, proprietary technology is built on a cloud computing architecture, and delivered as software-as-a-service. (Read the full patent here) The patent awards Nextpoint exclusive rights to the use of virtualized computing resources for storing, processing and accessing electronic data in support of litigation processes. This award solidifies Nextpoint’s position as the premier provider of cloud-based collection, eDiscovery, and trial practice technology.

The invention described in this patent recognizes the company’s research and development efforts to leverage virtualized compute resources, also referred to as ‘cloud computing,’ to support data across the entire litigation lifecycle. It is the first in a series of pending patents related to this platform. This technology is the foundation for Nextpoint’s suite of integrated software-as-a-service, Cloud Preservation™, Discovery Cloud™, and Trial Cloud™…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeffrey Burt.

Andrew Feldman, corporate vice president and general manager of Advanced Micro Devices’ Server Business Unit, likes to show a couple of photos to illustrate how rapid and widespread the adoption of mobile devices and cloud computing has been.

The first photo shows the crowd at the papal inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. Except for the random cell phone here and there, there is essentially no evidence of a mobile device in the crowd. Fast forward to 2013 and the inauguration of Pope Francis and practically every person is holding up a smartphone or tablet, the bright bluish-white of the screens decorating the top of the crowd. All those mobile devices are pulling down data and running apps that are housed in servers and accessed via the cloud, putting tremendous pressure on data center infrastructures…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Jo Maitland.

It’s well-known that cloud computing is a disruptive force bearing down on enterprise IT — but not in the same way for everyone. In fact, the latest GigaOM research survey shows that those in senior IT management often have a very different take on cloud computing than that of the people working for them.

This report looks at the June survey of 302 IT decision makers at companies with over 500 employees. We partnered with venture capital firm North Bridge to examine cloud adoption trends across a broader spectrum of cloud users. Those results are found here…

Grazed from StreamingMedia. Author: Claudia Kienzle.

The media marketplace is changing rapidly, with many content creators streaming media to a growing spectrum of online, social media, and mobile outlets. There’s a wide variance in video quality, file sizes, and compression codecs; the sheer volume of media assets are simply exploding, leaving media professionals struggling to maintain a competitive edge. As these pressures collide with other technology trends — such as widespread internet connectivity, ever-increasing bandwidth, and powerful data centers — the thunderclap has given way to the cooling rains of video cloud computing services.

By moving their video workload to the cloud, media entrepreneurs can hit the ground running and pay as they go for processing-intensive services such as encoding, transcoding, asset management, and storage. End users might pay per transaction, monthly subscription, or an annual fee. With a solid internet connection and web browser, the workplace can be the nearest cafe or virtually anywhere in the world with colleagues collaborating via the cloud…

Grazed from PC Advisor. Author: Phoebe Magdirila.

Cloud computing, that much touted game-changing technology for the enterprise, has been the focus of many IT forums and seminars in recent years. And interest in it continues to grow as a number of companies are now claiming that it has helped them improve their efficiency while allowing them to save on costs. But despite the hype that surrounds it — which has made cloud computing the biggest buzz word in the tech arena today — there are issues that have yet to be settled and clarified with regards its true worth.

Having a nose for the next big technology or killer app is, of course, a requirement for CIOs and IT managers wishing to go up the competitive ladder. And while cloud computing is being hyped as one of those technologies that can do wonders for a business, many are still reluctant to jump on the bandwagon…

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.

Being first mover has its advantages. Among public cloud services, Amazon still boasts the vast majority of IaaS customers and the richest array of features (see InfoWorld’s public cloud megaguide for details).  But is Amazon the place for production enterprise workloads? The idea of putting the family jewels in the public cloud tends to make enterprise IT managers squirm. Generally speaking, those workloads stay in the data center.

VMware thinks it can change that with a hybrid cloud strategy, where on-premises VMware infrastructure melds with public IaaS to yield one seamless cloud. Bill Fathers, senior vice president and general manager for hybrid cloud, sketched out this approach to InfoWorld last week…