Category: News

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F5 Networks, Inc. has announced new solutions to make it easier for organisations to scale to the cloud, extend software defined networking (SDN) deployments, and add intelligence and programmability to IT environments. With a unified suite of physical and virtual products featuring F5’s innovative ScaleN architecture, organisations can seamlessly scale operations to realise the full value of virtualisation, cloud computing, and on-demand IT.

With this announcement, F5 is introducing BIG-IP v11.4 software, providing enhanced features including integration capabilities with SDN topologies based on VXLAN and NVGRE environments, increased programmability and control-plane extensibility with F5’s new iCall technology, providing the dynamic automation of event-driven policy decisions in the network and updated platform offerings, including the completion of the BIG-IP hardware refresh, on-demand licensing, and more powerful BIG-IP virtual editions with the industry’s broadest hypervisor support…

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MobileSmith, a leading provider of enterprise-class mobile solutions, announced the long-awaited release of iPad functionality in its popular mobile app development platform. Preempting the demands of the mobile app market driven largely by tablets, MobileSmith is now offering easy, coding-free tools to create sleek, native iPad apps.

"iPad tablets are now driving mobile app usage, and MobileSmith is one of the first SaaS app platforms to accommodate this trend," said Bob Dieterle, Senior VP and COO of MobileSmith. "If you are looking for a quick and cost-effective path from your mobile ideas to full-featured native iPhone, Android, and now iPad apps, MobileSmith is your solution. Enterprise users will find the new iPad functionality, along with the streamlined workflow and UI of MobileSmith 3.0, totally compelling!"…

Grazed from Purchasing Insight. Author: Pete Laughlin.

Earlier in the week we wrote about the brave transition that Basware made from old school to new school thinking on software sales. To many if not most who take an interest in enterprise software, whether that’s from an end user or buyer point of view or from a software supplier point of view, the case for SaaS ranges from attractive to compelling. But there seems to be a significant community that remains wedded to the old school way of thinking.

I sit on the end user/buyer side of the fence and, for the benefit of those old schoolers on the other side of the fence, I’d like to describe from personal experience, the contrast between the two models, not from a functional perspective but from from a commercial relationship perspective…

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Open-Xchange, a maker of Web-based communication, collaboration and office productivity open-source software, has received $20 million in funding from United Internet, former Deutsche Bank COO Hermann-Josef Lamberti and existing shareholders. Part of the proceeds will be used for a secondary transaction. This investment round is notable because it’s the first time Open-Xchange has announced new funding since 2008, when it raised a $9 million Series B.

The company has delivered Open-Xchange in the form as software-as-a-service (SaaS) for six years, making them pioneers in that area, and it’s now poised to take advantage of the shift toward cloud office systems, which Gartner estimates will rise from 50 million users today to 695 million by 2022. The company plans to use the funds to invest in software development, professional services and international business development, as well as marketing and sales…

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IT security teams should be on the lookout for business units that may be spinning up servers using a public cloud provider for big data analytics projects because it introduces a variety of security risks, according to a security auditor who frequently reviews the software and infrastructure supporting such projects.

It is fairly common for businesses to use Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) Elastic Compute Cloud, Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) Windows Azure or the myriad of other cloud infrastructure providers for big data analytics projects, which require the computing power to conduct large-scale data analysis. While they help capture, manage and analyze terabytes or more of structured and unstructured data, they introduce the potential for data loss, account or service hijacking, or abuse if systems aren’t protected and overseen with due diligence, said David Barton, principal and practice leader of the technology assurance group at Atlanta-based UHY Advisors, a business consulting firm…

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Cetrom Information Technology, Inc. (Cetrom), a cloud computing pioneer and leader in custom cloud management for global SMBs, announced it will exhibit its cloud computing services to association leaders during the Center for Association Leadership’s (ASAE) Annual Meeting & Expo Aug. 3-6, 2013, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. Cetrom’s staff of cloud experts will be available at booth 813 to discuss the benefits of its customizable Cloud Computing Solutions, highlighting the mobility, flexibility, security, uptime and cost effectiveness for associations.

The ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo showcases the latest in current trends, goals and solutions presented by leaders in the industry who help association professionals stay ahead of the competition and deliver better services to their members. Cetrom staff will be available throughout the event to discuss how the company’s Cloud Computing for associations can save money by reducing large capital expenses, eliminating software licensing and outsourcing day-to-day maintenance. Cetrom’s 99.9 percent uptime guarantee also ensures associations can deliver top service to their members no matter where they are in the world…

Dimension Data, the $5.8 billion global ICT solutions and services provider, today announced that independent testing carried out in May 2013 by The Tolly Group reveals that Dimension Data’s Public Compute-as-a-Service (CaaS) cloud servers showed consistently high performance across CPU, memory, storage and networking measures. The report shows dramatic differences between providers and highlights the importance of performance in determining the true cost of a cloud computing solution.

"Our blue chip customers require strong SLAs and backups and expect their systems to be up and running when they need them most," said Puneet Pandit, president and CEO of Glassbeam. "They generate large volumes of data and rely on scalability on demand. Dimension Data has provided us with the enterprise-class cloud performance our clients demand."

Puppet Labs, the leading provider of IT automation software for system administrators, today announced its acquisition of Cloudsmith, a provider of development tools for rapidly building and testing infrastructure automation. The acquisition of Cloudsmith accelerates Puppet Labs’ mission of making it easier to manage the flow of changes in complex IT environments.

According to technology research firm Gartner, automation is one of the top initiatives for enterprise IT in 2013. Cloudsmith provides tools for system administrators and developers that make it easier to automate management of IT resources through intuitive GUIs and SaaS applications. Combined with Puppet Labs’ flagship product, Puppet Enterprise, customers experience increased productivity and accelerated time to automation. Puppet Labs plans to tightly integrate Cloudsmith’s products with Puppet Enterprise to further build on these benefits.