Category: News

Grazed from Network World. Author: Jon Gold.

Red Hat announced a large-scale restructuring of its OpenStack-based offerings today, bundling its Enterprise Linux software with the OpenStack platform, and creating a more comprehensive infrastructure product for private-cloud IaaS. The centerpiece of the company’s press conference — held today at the Red Hat Summit in Boston — were Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, both of which are essentially prepackaged combinations of the company’s existing products.

RHEL OpenStack Platform bundles RHEL Server with Red Hat OpenStack under a single subscription model. President of Products and Technologies Paul Cormier said that the idea is to provide a reliable user experience across all parts of a hybrid cloud environment…

Grazed from PRWeb. Author: PR Announcement.

After twelve months of preparation, AwesomeCloud Services is proud to announce its launch as a 100% White Label Cloud Services Provider, enabling Channel Partners and Cloud Resellers to offer to their clients white label cloud computing services that can be easily rebranded and resold. AwesomeCloud offers Cloud Infrastructure, Business Continuity, and Microsoft SPLA licensing.

As part of the Applied Innovations family, the AwesomeCloud team has been serving the online computing space since 1999 and was the first company to deliver a managed Hyper-V cloud on top of Windows Server 2012, as well as one of the first of two companies to deliver a Hyper-V cloud…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Ed Scanell.

Betting on its belief that the future of cloud computing is both hybrid and open, Hewlett Packard debuted a collection of software and services it hopes will both encourage IT to implement their first private clouds and bolster its public cloud. The company rolled out software and a number of services under the OpenStack-based Cloud OS umbrella at its annual HP Discover conference here this week, which it believes better enables workload portability across hybrid clouds.

With the new Cloud OS, users can create compositional definitions for service provisioning, "sort of like a template where they can declare what they want in an infrastructure once and then provision it multiple times," according to Wendy Cartee, vice president of Converged Cloud with HP…

Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

What does it mean to have a cloud of one’s own? Most of us would probably be satisfied with just the basics: Automatic file syncing, easy sharing features and efficient, Web-based access to data. But ownCloud, the open source cloud infrastructure project with humble beginnings, now offers much more, as the slew of innovative features in the most recent release of its mobile Android and iOS apps shows.

By offering an open source platform that lets individuals and enterprises build file-syncing and sharing infrastructures on their own hardware or in a private cloud, ownCloud has always stood out in a competitive niche where most other products were proprietary or subscription-based. But in its early days—and even after the launch of a commercial entity, called ownCloud Inc., to provide services related to the open source ownCloud software—ownCloud’s feature set remained pretty basic…

Grazed from CXOToday. Author: Editorial Staff.

VMware Inc. today launched VMware vCenter Log Insight, a new log management and analytics product for the cloud era. The extension from analytics to logs will enable IT organizations to gain real-time insights from vast amounts of log data generated by applications, physical hardware and virtualized infrastructure.

The benefits of the solution according to VMware include automated log management through log aggregation, analytics and search for system monitoring, troubleshooting and root cause analysis. It supports streaming data and real-time queries, and features a just-in-time schema definition that adapts to any data format. Additionally, delivers the performance and scalability required by IT organizations for visualizing and analyzing multi-terabyte datasets…

Grazed from PR Newswire. Author: PR Announcement.

SUSE and WSO2 today announced a partnership to provide jointly certified and supported middleware and Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions for developing and deploying next-generation applications on-premise or in cloud environments. SUSE and WSO2 have certified WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware and the WSO2 Stratos PaaS foundation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and OpenStack-based private cloud platform SUSE Cloud.

The two companies are also delivering a reference architecture for deployment of WSO2 Stratos on SUSE Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Through a mutual support agreement both companies will ensure that organizations receive seamless support for their open source middleware and private cloud deployments. As a result, WSO2 recommends SUSE Cloud as the preferred IaaS for WSO2 Stratos deployments and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as its preferred operating system for WSO2 middleware deployments. And SUSE has chosen WSO2 as its preferred middleware/PaaS solution on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Cloud…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: David Meyer.

As a company these days, it’s way too easy to find your data spread across a wide variety of cloud services. And when it comes to tying that information together in a meaningful way, the result can be pretty confusing if you don’t have a data infrastructure team to join the dots.

That’s the problem that David Crawford is trying to fix with his cloud analytics startup MetricaDB, one of our Structure 2013 LaunchPad finalists. It’s a software-as-a-service (SaaS) tool for individual analysts who don’t care whether the data is held in a NoSQL database or behind a Salesforce or Google Analytics API – they just want to deal with it in one place…

Grazed from IT News Online. Author: PR Announcement.

CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced support for GlassFish v3 while also making Java EE 7 immediately available to developers. CloudBees is the first PaaS provider to offer the new Java distribution on its platform. Java EE 7 features higher productivity and HTML5 support in the form of WebSocket and JSON.

CloudBees is offering access to Java EE 7 through its support of GlassFish v4, the latest version of Oracle’s open-source application server project that serves as the Reference Implementation (RI) for Java EE 7. The RI provides a complete implementation of the new specification. Developers can now use it as a tool to explore new EE 7 features, to take advantage of them in new applications, and to understand how their existing applications are impacted…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Crystal Bedell.

While there’s a low barrier of entry to the public cloud — after all, you really just need a credit card — securely running an enterprise application in the cloud isn’t as simple. Organizations need to understand the division of responsibilities for security as well as the security requirements unique to a cloud deployment. A reasonable question, then, is do you handle cloud data security yourself or hire a third party? The answer: That depends.

For organizations that have always deployed applications in-house and are new to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), "there is some knowledge about how to use that service that will be new to those folks," said Thomas Trappler, a consultant and instructor who specializes in mitigating cloud computing risk…

Grazed from NIST.gov. Author: PR Announcement.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a draft document on security for cloud computing as used in the federal government. The public comment period runs through July 12, 2013. The NIST Cloud Computing Security Reference Architecture provides a security overlay to the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture published in 2011. In 2010, the Federal Chief Information Officer tapped NIST to play a major role in accelerating the adoption of cloud computing in the federal government.

Since then, NIST has held meetings, started working groups and developed the U.S. Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap and other related guidance. The 2011 NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture* provided a template and vocabulary for federal cloud adopters to follow for a consistent implementation of cloud-based applications across the government…