Terremark and EMC Align To Globally Accelerate Customers Journey to Cloud Computing
Terremark, a Verizon Company, and EMC Corporation EMC +4.28% today announced a strategic initiative under which both companies will work to identify, build and offer tailored, cloud-based solutions built on Terremark’s global service capabilities and EMC’s best-of-breed, cloud-optimized information infrastructure technologies. Through this strategic initiative, EMC will provide the advanced technology infrastructure for Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud Private Edition offering as well as public and hybrid deployments. Helping drive innovation, the companies will expand the range of options for IT organizations seeking to improve business agility, gain greater efficiency, and control costs as they accelerate their journey to cloud computing…
Adaptive Computing Granted Fifteenth Cloud Computing Patent
Adaptive Computing, managers of the world’s largest private cloud and technical computing systems, today announced that it has been granted its fifteenth cloud computing patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Patent No. 8,179,490. This patent is the most recent in a long line of core cloud computing patents issued to David Jackson, Adaptive Computing’s CTO and founder.
The growing Adaptive Computing patent portfolio covers key cloud computing concepts such as elastic computing, cloudbursting, dynamic provisioning, multi-tenancy, compute resource guarantees, usage billing and more. These patented techniques have formed the basis of Adaptive’s products and are now widely used in the industry. Enterprises today are increasingly moving their computing workloads to public and private clouds, taking advantage of cloud computing’s lower costs and higher service levels. Adaptive Computing’s innovations have made these advantages possible…
Cloud Predicted To Become Primary Operating Model for Enterprise IT in 2014
Axway (nyse euronext:AXW.PA), the Business Interaction Networks company, today details the steps IT departments must take to ensure seamless cloud adoption. Cloud computing continues to gain acceptance within the enterprise segment and in turn, software vendors are working in order to meet the need. Specifically enterprise IT has addressed the challenges concerning security, integration with internal applications, and performance and reliability relating to the cloud. With the combination of maturing platforms, generational and cultural shifts, and compelling economics, cloud-based solutions become the undeniable choice for nearly all future non-core technology purchases. Once adopted, the cloud is inherently scalable and can be online within hours, designed specifically on the organizational needs.
From research and customer insights, Axway predicts that by 2014 the cloud will be the primary operating model for enterprise IT organizations, bringing unprecedented change to IT and competitive advantage to early adopters, ultimately redefining the role of enterprise IT itself…
NetApp Creates a Federation for the Channel in the Cloud
One of the more frustrating aspects of being a solution provider is the number of channel programs you have to participate in, even when there are two or more vendors that are selling something that they are mutually dependent upon to deliver. With the rise of cloud computing that’s becoming a whole lot more common because most cloud services generally have to integrate with something that is already running on premise.
NetApp has become one of the first vendors to recognize that with the launch today of a GetSuccessful Cloud Services Program that allows NetApp partners selling cloud services to offer those services for resale via the NetApp channel…
Public Cloud Computing: Which vendor is your best bet?
When people think of Cloud Computing, the service that most readily comes to mind is Infrastructure. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) refers to the infrastructure, storage and network services that are available from most cloud vendors.
IaaS is a completely separate offering and market from the other services provided by cloud vendors such as Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) or any of the many other XaaS offerings and is often confused with datacenter outsourcing or a hosting solution. And though vendors appear to offer very similar offerings, all cloud vendors are not created equally.
So, with so many vendors out there from Amazon to Virtacore Systems, how will you know which is the best for you?…
BitNami Brings One-Click App Deployment to Windows Azure
In conjunction with Microsoft Corp’s announcement of its new Virtual Machine Image Gallery for Windows Azure, BitNami has announced that it is making two of its popular open source application bundles available free of charge for Windows Azure. The BitNami application bundles, called stacks, allow developers to get their favorite web applications and development environments up and running on Windows Azure in minutes.
“We are excited to be working with BitNami to support their open source web applications and development frameworks on Windows Azure,” says Helene Love Snell, director of Marketing, Microsoft Server and Tools Business. “BitNami’s solution allows developers to get their favorite web applications up and running quickly and easily.”
PrivateCore Secures $2.25 Million in Seed Funding Led by Foundation Capital
PrivateCore, an early-stage private computing company, today announced that it has raised $2.25 million in seed funding from Foundation Capital. Building software solutions that address the privacy concerns surrounding public cloud computing infrastructure, PrivateCore will use the new funds to expand its core development team with top virtualization and security engineering talent.
"Our vision for PrivateCore is based on a different cloud computing model – one where cloud infrastructure can be leveraged without the need to delegate control over physical safeguards to service providers," said Oded Horovitz, CEO at PrivateCore. "Our technology solves the Infrastructure-as-a-Service privacy problem and will ultimately lead to the ‘Death of the Server Cage’. It is a very exciting time for us as we begin building out our development team with the best virtualization and security experts interested in this kind of challenging engineering opportunity."
Red Hat Delivers Cloud Flexibility and Agility to Enterprises with Innovative Infrastructure-as-a-Service Platform
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the next step in its delivery of open hybrid cloud solutions to enterprises with the general availability of Red Hat CloudForms. CloudForms is an open hybrid cloud management platform built to enable enterprises to create and manage Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) hybrid clouds with the ability to make self-service computing resources available to users in a managed, governed and secure way.
“The role of enterprise IT is evolving. There’s no doubt that end users want to help themselves to cloud-like compute resources, but the IT department still needs to centralize deployment, management and integration,” said Rachel Chalmers, vice president, Research, Infrastructure Management at 451 Research, a division of leading global analyst and data company The 451 Group. “A platform like CloudForms makes it possible for organizations to build clouds that span their in-place infrastructure and expose it to a new generation of developers and end users, all without relinquishing control.”
Green Cloud Technologies Closes on $2,750,000 of Additional Financing
Green Cloud Technologies, a Cloud-based technology solutions provider headquartered in Greenville, SC, has concluded a $2,750,000 round of financing that is a mix of Series B Preferred Units and three-year Convertible Notes. The bulk of the financing comes from Millry Corporation, a 70-year-old Incumbent Local Telephone Carrier serving southwestern Alabama. The additional financing will be used for market expansion and the build-out of the company’s second data center facility in Nashville, TN. Green Cloud previously secured $1,250,000 through the sale of Series A units in 2011.
"This is another vote of confidence for Green Cloud’s strategy from a very savvy and experienced investor group," said Shaler P. Houser, CEO of Green Cloud. "This financing further enables Green Cloud to help businesses transition to our secure, reliable, and robust Cloud-based infrastructure and increase the efficiency and performance of their businesses."
HP Discover: Big data and cloud computing innovations key to recovery claims Meg Whitman
Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Alastair Stevenson.
The acquisitions of Autonomy and Vertica will help deliver new product innovations that will be central to HP’s road to recovery, according to chief executive Meg Whitman, speaking during her Discover 2012 keynote.
Whitman highlighted new developments in big data management, security and cloud as key growth areas that will allow HP to reverse its ailing financial fortunes.
"The tectonic plates of the technology industry are moving," said Whitman. "Today the forces of cloud, social, mobile and big data are changing the model […] information is exploding."…