Category: News

Grazed from Reuters. Author: Editorial Staff.

Microsoft Corp unveiled its first new logo in 25 years on Thursday as it looks to unify its branding ahead of a clutch of new product releases this year.

The world’s largest software company is introducing a dash of color in its first logo redesign since 1987, using a new multi-colored square next to a plain rendering of its name, replacing its well-worn italic style logo.

Microsoft is rolling out its new Windows 8 operating system along with new Office and phone software this autumn, and is hoping the new logo unifies customers’ experience of the company, much like rival Apple Inc’s distinctive logo has for its consumers…

Grazed from The DataCenter Journal. Author: Greg Schulz.

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has announced and published more documents for data center customers of cloud usage. These new cloud usage models for to address customer demands for interoperability of various clouds and services before for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) among other topics which are now joined by the new Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and foundational document for cloud interoperability.

Unlike most industry trade groups or alliances that are vendor driven or centric, ODCA is consortium of global IT leaders (e.g. customers) that is vendor independent and comprises as 12 member steering committee from member companies (e.g. customers), learn more about ODCA here…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited (CITIC Telecom CPC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited (SEHK: 1883), today announces a partnership with EMC and Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD) to further enhance its SmartCLOUD cloud computing offerings. The new solutions give Asia Pacific enterprises a more secure cloud storage environment and increased application performance and reliability, while providing them with a trusted, internationally-complied and secured springboard to grow business in the region.

New SmartCLOUD offerings with industry-leading storage and traffic management capabilities

The enhanced offering includes the new traffic and application balancing solution SmartCLOUD TAB (Traffic and Application Balancer), as well as enhancements and expansion of the storage capabilities in the SmartCLOUD portfolio…

Grazed from TheServerSide. Author: Cameron McKenzie.

Will there will be no end to the media hype surrounding cloud computing? Every day a new press release touts the remarkable service provided by some previously unknown PaaS provider, or an article or research study comes out that trumpets the incredible benefits and cost savings we would all enjoy if we abolished our data centers and indoctrinated ourselves as patrons of the Church of IaaS or the Temple of SaaS.

But putting all of the hype aside, not to mention the fact that there are indeed real benefits to be realized by properly leveraging cloud based technologies, the question remains: how does this shift towards cloud computing impact the typical developer who is building enterprise Java applications?…

Grazed from Data Center Knowledge. Author: Bill Kleyman.

There is now a direct connection between facilities teams and those engineers tasked with designing a cloud solution. Too often, the first response from IT professionals regarding the cloud is that of unease. The primary reason for this type of reaction is oftentimes the result of a lack of understanding revolving around cloud computing.

Remember, when we’re working with any sort of cloud infrastructure, we are effectively only transferring data over the Wide Area Network. There are, of course, accelerators, monitoring tools, virtualization metrics and other components to a cloud solution. But in its simplest form – it is the transfer of data over the WAN…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Stacey Higginbotham.

Investors continue throwing money at infrastructure companies, especially if they have a product that helps accomodate and mitigate the complexities of virtualization and scaled out computing infrastructures. Nutanix aims to solve problems in both areas, and investors are rewarding it with $33 million.

Nutanix, a startup building an appliance to virtualize storage networks, has closed a $33 million Series C round of funding, which brings its total cash raised to $71.6 million. The latest round, which brought in new investors Battery Ventures and Goldman Sachs, also included existing backers Lightspeed Venture Partners, Blumberg Capital and Khosla Ventures…

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Rick Watson.

From the look of things, most individuals and businesses will have found solace in cloud computing, either due to personal pressure or public demand. In spite of the concerted efforts to outline the challenges and shortcomings of cloud computing, everyone knows that cloud computing is the ‘big bad wolf’ that’s going to swallow us all at one point. As a result, before you get in with both feet, it is advisable to appreciate the characteristics which indicate whether your vendor can deliver.

Changes in technology are bound to affect the ability of numerous vendors in the future, but the relativity of changes is of utmost important: if your vendor is not reliable as yet, they may never be!…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Joe Panettieri.

Roughly 700 enterprise customers and cloud services providers (CSPs) have embraced HP’s CloudSystem to build private, managed and public cloud environments. HP CEO Meg Whitman shared that stat and other cloud computing highlights during a Q3 2012 earnings call with Wall Street today.

Whitman said HP’s earnings were “decent” but Wall Street was unimpressed amid falling PC sales and mixed performance at Autonomy, the big software company HP acquired last year. HP shares are down nearly 5 percent in after-hours trading this evening…

Grazed from PRNewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Login VSI B.V., the vendor of Login VSI, the de-facto industry standard benchmarking tool for Server Based Computing (SBC) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI), announced today a strategic partnership with Spirent Communications. The partnership offers enterprises and network system developers the ability to conduct realistic user emulation to determine optimal performance of private or public cloud based VDI deployments.

The companies will jointly identify and develop VDI related testing opportunities in public and private cloud computing environments. Login VSI B.V. will be responsible for delivery, installation and support of the testing tool Login Virtual Session Indexer (Login VSI)…

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Brian Proffitt.

With the release of a third free OpenStack distribution this week, the heady early days of Linux when New Distros Roamed the Earth seem recreated. But has the past really come back again?

The latest release is from commercial vendor Piston Cloud Computing, which just announced the release of Airframe, the mini-me edition of Piston Cloud’s flagship product, Piston Enterprise OpenStack.

According to the company’s announcement, "Airframe is a bare-metal cloud management platform that installs in less than 10 minutes and delivers 100 percent of the core OpenStack services, including compute, storage, networking and cloud management."…