Category: News

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…

Grazed from SpendMatters. Author: Editorial Staff.

Mention cloud-computing in polite society and the chances are you’ll be met with raised eyebrows and even the slightly terrified shudder. The notion that your procurement data might be “out there” somewhere – you know, hosted, on some who-knows-what servers in some low-cost data center in Obscuristan— is enough to make you want to run for cover. But consider for a moment what data it is that you’re most concerned about. Is it the vast bulk of your transaction data? All that PO and AP data? Is that of real value to the opportunist or the industrial spy? Not in its raw form, I’ll wager.

What you really should be concerned about is the distillation of that raw data. The business intelligence analysis that becomes the management report. Those internal documents that inform and support your key strategic decisions. You don’t want those falling into the wrong hands, do you? So you’ve heavily invested in data security. You have hack-proof firewalls and biometrically-controlled access to the machine room. But those high-value gems of crystallized data don’t live in the data center…

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Joel York.

SaaS growth isn’t a goal; it’s an obsession. The good news is that SaaS growth can be very smooth and predictable, because of the SaaS recurring revenue subscription model. The bad news is that SaaS growth can also be predictably slow the bigger you get. After a few years of rapid SaaS startup growth, it’s easy to find yourself on the short end of the hockey stick if you don’t know the right levers to push.

The Three Levers to Break Through the SaaS Growth Ceiling

At any given time, you can calculate the SaaS growth ceiling for your SaaS business with a simple formula: customer acquisition rate divided by percentage churn rate. For example, if you acquire 200 new customers each year and your percentage annual churn rate is 20%, then at 1,000 customers ( 200 / 20% ) your growth will slow to zero, because customer churn will equal new customer acquisition of 200 customers per year. New customers come in the front door, while old customers leave out the back…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

RiverMeadow Software  Inc., developer of the world’s only automated server migration solution developed specifically for carrier and service provider clouds, has been named a Gartner "Cool Vendor" in Cloud Management for 2013(1). Gartner’s annual Cool Vendors report recognizes emerging vendors who are delivering solutions into the marketplace to challenge long-held assumptions and significant investments in traditional IT. These companies are transforming the way businesses operate and consumers engage with technology.

Enterprise IT leaders and cloud architects are facing new opportunities to leverage a growing set of offerings from emerging cloud management technology vendors. In this report, Gartner analysts examined vendors providing cloud management platform and/or cloud migration capabilities, and according to the report’s key findings, "as enterprises seek to implement public, private and hybrid cloud computing, they increasingly desire cloud management technologies to assist with management, governance and migration."…