Category: News

Grazed from CIO. Author: Byron Connolly.

IBM has launched a new local enterprise cloud computing service – hosted at its data centre in Baulkham Hills in Sydney – suitable for organisations wanting to deploy hybrid cloud models. The pay-by-the-month service – SmartCloud Enterprise+ – is being provided out of Big Blue’s seventh global cloud centre, which is also the first in the Asia Pacific region.

It builds on the existing “Amazon-like” public SmartCloud Enterprise service, which has about 47 customers in Australia. Around half of these customers are software vendors and the remainder are organisations that need computing power quickly. IBM hasn’t announced any customers yet for SmartCloud Enterprise+…

Grazed from BizTech2. Author: Editorial Staff.

Novell has announced the availability of Novell Dynamic File Services, allowing organisations to automatically and dynamically manage data down to an individual file basis, including the ability to archive data to cloud storage providers like Amazon S3, Box, CloudMe and Dropbox. With this announcement, Novell adds to its long standing status as the industry leader in enterprise level tools for file access and management and printing.

“The release of Novell Dynamic File Services is an answer to the rapidly growing concern of managing massive amounts of unstructured data being developed in the enterprise,” said Eric Varness, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Novell. “Businesses today continue to drive intelligence through stored files and with Novell, users can control what happens to those files based on the organisations’ most important business drivers. Novell Dynamic File Services complements existing infrastructures, and helps IT professionals ensure better use of its high-performance storage systems while ensuring users stay productive.”…

Grazed from CIO. Author: Rebecca Merritt.

Analysts have predicted a trend towards moving IT from on-premise to off-premise, new cloud applications and an increase in spending on cloud services next year. IDC head of research Matthew Oostveen said with cloud computing maturing this year, more organisations will start to move their IT infrastructure from on-premise to off-premise. “2012 was the year that we all got tired of cloud – there’s cloud fatigue. But with Australia being the country that rapidly takes up technology, I think we have reached a period of maturity with the way that we view cloud,” he said.

“What is certain is we are watching a migration taking place where on-premise computing is moving to off-premise computing. It may start incrementally where we see an up take of co-location services, and obviously the co-locations services are being supported by the influx of new data centres in the market place [provided by] NextDC and Macquarie Telecom, which has built new facilities as well.”…

Grazed from Arc Advisory Group. Author: Peter Reynolds.

Invensys Operations Management and Microsoft recently collaborated on a series of Executive "Eye Opener" seminars intended to promote the potential business benefits of applying cloud computing, virtualization, and analytics in manufacturing. ARC Advisory Group participated in these seminars, which were held last month in Seattle, Houston, Philadelphia, and Minneapolis. Over 100 companies registered for the seminars and attendees included a cross section of representatives from manufacturing IT, operations and maintenance management, and IT management.

The goal of the multi-city seminar was to provide greater understanding of the business benefits and applicability of Microsoft Azure Cloud Technology in industrial automation and how proven technologies like virtualization can offer a clear pathway to additional benefits…

Grazed from UCStrategies. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing is rapidly expanding. This means that large and smaller business is increasing their bandwidth consumption as they make the most of the many opportunities the cloud has to offer. Companies particularly enjoy the ability to purchase services that were once only accessible to enterprise-level businesses, such as data storage, security, billing support, and business voice.

Though no longer in its infancy, the age of cloud services is relatively young and it has to surmount a number of obstacles that are set to impede further growth. Here are the three main threats to cloud technology…

Ajubeo, a provider of high-performance, enterprise-class virtual private data centers and cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), today announced the addition of a three-tier, high-performance virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offering as part of their unified IaaS platform. Available immediately, Ajubeo’s customizable VDI offering accommodates business requirements from small deployments to thousands of desktops and features VMware View 5.1 Premier, NetApp SSD storage and carrier-grade networking technology from Brocade. Benefits include increased security and centralization of end-user data, universal access to desktops and applications from any device over any Internet connection, efficient workforce collaboration and file sharing, and improved productivity and mobility.

"Ajubeo VDI is a game-changer for businesses of any size," said Chuck Price, president and CEO at Ajubeo. "Ajubeo customers are now able to tailor VDI environments unique to their total workforce demand, customizing pools of desktop instances within their private virtual data centers to address end-user performance needs without over-provisioning. The prohibitive impact of network latency when working with very large data files across large geographic distances is completely eliminated with our new VDI solution. Our customers can now maintain far better data security with higher application performance across their entire workforce, improving their competitive advantage and turning workforce productivity into a multiplier on enterprise value."

Grazed from Business Insider. Author: Julie Bort.

Cloud computing is clearly changing the way the industry buys software, but it could also be tempting some SaaS companies to dupe investors.

The poster child for the situation could be SucessFactors, a cloud-based app company bought by SAP in February. The company was accused of misleading accounting procedures last year by a whistleblower who reported his misgivings to authorities, Francine McKenna of Forbes writes. This wasn’t the first time the red flag was raised over SuccessFactors’s accounting. ZDNet’s Dennis Howlett had also documented weirdness in how SuccessFactors reported revenue to investors via SEC filings…

Grazed from FatPipe.  Author: PR Announcement

For the second time in five months, some of Amazon’s data center services located in Northern Virginia failed. The failure began Monday morning, lasting for over 12 hours, affecting many companies that depend on its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) used in conjunction with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service to conduct business. Major sites including Foursquare, Flipboard, Instagram, and Netflix were taken down during the two outages, along with corresponding apps.

FatPipe Networks, the inventor and multiple patents holder of Wide Area Network (WAN) redundancy, security, and optimization products, specializes in providing solutions that transcend failures that affect WAN connectivity to maintain business continuity and provide alternate paths to backup sites when data centers fail.

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Jack Vaughn.

A variety of mostly consumer-driven forces challenge enterprise IT and application development today. Cloud computing, Web information, mobile devices and social media innovations are converging to dramatically change modern organizations and their central IT shops. Industry analyst group Gartner Inc. describes these forces as forming a nexus, a connected group of phenomena, which is highly disruptive.

As in earlier shifts to client-server computing and Web-based e-commerce, the mission of IT is likely to come under serious scrutiny. How IT should adjust was a prime topic at this week’s Gartner ITxpo conference held in Orlando, Fla…

Dome9 Security, the leading provider of cloud server security management for public and private clouds, as well as for dedicated and virtual private servers (VPS), today announced the release of Dome9 SecOps for AWS — a new service offering designed specifically for Amazon Web Services EC2 and VPC power users. In addition, Dome9 is also releasing new, across-the-board pricing plans to give customers greater pricing predictability for their cloud security.

Dome9 SecOps for AWS is an API-based (agentless) security management platform that gives large Amazon Web Services EC2 and VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) customers a powerful new security operations center with fine-grained security controls, auditing and reporting. The service provides multi-region and multi-account management centralization and automation for AWS Security Groups, with dynamic secure access leasing, rich auditing for compliance, and new tamper protection to prevent unauthorized changes to security policies that could put cloud servers at risk.