Category: News

Grazed from ITWorld.  Author: Howard Soloman.

The cloud is a place to store data, to buy processor power and to buy complete services.  Increasingly, it’s also a source of integration services that join the cloud and on-premise data and applications.  Tibco Software Inc. is the latest to join the movement by offering its Cloud Bus integration platform as a service (iPaas) for joining social media cloud applications – such as Salesforce – with data held behind the firewall.

“We recognize customers are not going to be 100 per cent in the cloud as there’s still a lot of on-premise data that is very interesting to them,” said Steve Lueng, Tibco’s director of product marketing for cloud computing.  “So to fulfill the need of integrating cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premise we’ve released Cloud Bus.”…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Dan Brinkmann.

Desktop virtualization can be difficult to implement and does not always save money, so get to know some of the virtualization challenges you’re facing before you dive in. The fairly simple methods in place today for image-based OS deployment, patching and personalization using Windows local profiles are well-known and have been fairly static. Desktop virtualization, on the other hand, has increased the complexity of delivering Windows desktops and applications. Fortunately, some advancements in the virtualization industry, such a virtualized graphics processing units (GPUs) and workspace management, can help IT overcome some of these challenges.

Complexity
Moving to a nonpersistent delivery model to reduce total cost of ownership increases virtual desktop complexity. For desktop virtualization to perform as intended, many technology layers have to work in harmony. Plus, the use of application virtualization in an effort to simplify application delivery can create its own problems, ranging from slow performance and app crashes to communication problems between virtualized and nonvirtualized applications…

Grazed from Economic Times. Author: Quentin Hardy.

If the Hatfields and McCoys lived in Silicon Valley, they’d be fighting with piles of cash and lines of software code instead of knives and shotguns. And the fight would be over who wins the most customers in the computer industry’s growing "cloud" of software services. That’s how it is for Aneel Bhusri and Zachary Nelson, whose companies are in contention over the next major shift in computing. In a way, the men are reliving history.

Two decades ago, their mentors feuded, and that time, too, the dispute took place against the backdrop of a major shift in corporate computing – when customers gave up their mainframes and moved to software that relied on personal computers closely connected to a server. Nelson, the chief executive of NetSuite, used to work for Lawrence J. Ellison, the billionaire chief executive of Oracle…

Grazed from YourIndustryNews.com. Author: Editorial Staff.

Canada-based infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) leader iWeb announces the launch of a fully-managed Cloud hosting service based on OpenStack®. The managed Cloud service is the first OpenStack public cloud deployment in Canada and the first in the industry to provide guaranteed disk speed as a standard, a key element of overall system performance. The other key components of this breakthrough service are worry-free system management, rapid deployment, Cloud elasticity, scalability and soon, a robust application-programming interface (API).

"This service would not have been technologically possible even 12 months ago," says Mike Gero, Director of Product Management. "When we looked at the market we couldn’t find a cloud that met all our customers’ needs. By engineering this cloud with the best vendors and technologies, we are delivering something I am sure customers will enjoy and competitors will envy. We truly believe this will meet our customer’s performance, availability and support requirements. Due to our use of SSD drives our standard disk performance is on average 2x that of other Cloud providers and the security of customer data is maintained with data replication and redundancy."…

Grazed from MuleSoft.  Author: Editorial Staff.

MuleSoft, provider of the world’s most widely used integration platform to connect the New Enterprise, found in a survey that 57 percent of enterprise IT professionals indicated the need to modernize legacy applications using APIs to make it easier for applications outside the firewall to access their data. While respondents agreed that mobile and SaaS are critical to their long term IT strategies, exposing their existing applications to be consumed by mobile and other external applications remains a primary obstacle.

"There is massive buzz around SaaS, mobile and Big Data, but the secret nobody talks about is that you can’t make it work without connectivity," said Ross Mason, founder and vice president of product strategy at MuleSoft. “This survey shows there is powerful market demand for integration solutions, driving a new era of hyperconnectivity. In 2012, 60 percent of MuleSoft’s new revenue involved SaaS and/or mobile integration – proof that we are making good on our mission to alleviate the $500 billion integration pain point.”…

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Doug Bonderud.

Although often misunderstood, cloud computing ultimately relies on the same technological underpinnings as traditional server and storage options. While software, platforms and even infrastructure are farmed out to third-party providers, their ability to operate efficiently is constrained by the same physical laws as those which govern local server stacks. IT professionals and service providers, therefore, both have a vested interest in making the best use of the physical hardware available – and that means thinking outside the power box.

Keeping Costs Down
One of the most-touted benefits of cloud computing is reduced cost. By offloading server management to a public or hybrid providers, admins can save themselves the price of hardware upgrades, and bypass the costs of local energy. This can result in a significant savings over time, but represents only a transfer of responsibilities, rather than a re-imagining – the price of running multiple servers still exists; it is simply split between multiple users…

Grazed from Web Host Review.  Author: Nicole Henderson.

Cloud infrastructure company Joyent announced on Thursday an expansion of its product line as well as reserved pricing plans.  As part of the announcement, Joyent has introduced 13 instance types that mimic Amazon’s most popular virtual server types, according to a report by Information Week. Joyent president and CEO Henry Wasik says that the idea is that as people abandon AWS, they will have an equivalent instance to move to.

The new instances and pricing options for Joyent IaaS come as Dell decided earlier this week to discontinue its in-house multi-tenant public cloud in favor of offering IaaS from partners including Joyent…

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Barb Darrow.

It’s not exactly shocking that Amazon cloud competitors are polishing up their PR talking points about the benefits of hybrid cloud. And turning up the volume on their pitches.

Here’s why: As Amazon Web Services keeps churning out services, support offerings and certifications to appeal to corporate and government users (the latest being FedRAMP accreditation), other cloud vendors need to show that they offer value above and beyond AWS. Hybrid cloud, which pairs local processing power with outside cloud resources as needed, is one area that they see as a weakness for Amazon…

Grazed from TechWorld.  Author:  Sophie Curtis.

Amid a slew of product announcements designed to enable “mobile workstyles,” Citrix is already looking ahead to the next phase of enterprise innovation, with a focus on cloud computing as a platform for new mobile services.  Speaking to Techworld at the Citrix Synergy conference in Los Angeles, Martin Duursma, VP of Citrix Labs and CTO Office Chair, described a project called “Crystal Palace,” which aims to break down barriers between operating systems that prevent devices from interacting in a seamless fashion.

Crystal Palace is a cloud service that all of the user’s devices are registered to – say for example an Android smartphone, an Apple iPad and a Windows laptop. An agent runs on each device, and can send instructions to the agents on the other devices via the cloud service…

Grazed from Technorati.  Author: Mary Dumon.

San Francisco-based Boundary is the first cloud-based IT operations management system and the company is leading the way in an evolving field.  This past week, Boundary CEO Gary Read discussed his company’s cloud-based innovation with San Francisco Business Times.  Read believes that his ops management software is on the cusp of a major disruption in the systems management market. 

Boundary is a unique SaaS offering that collects and analyzes data center monitoring information from a variety of data center environments.  The company’s analytics consolidates data from a number of “new stack” leaders including AppDynamics, Joyent, New Relic, Opscode, Plexxi, Puppet labs, Splunk, and others and processes this data in real time and delivers information in a single dashboard…