NextCloud computing center comes to Wallingford Connecticut
Q&A talks cloud computing with CEO Jonathan Reeves, CEO of NextCloud. The California-based company is using an investment from Connecticut Innovations to open operations in Wallingford.
Q: First of all, welcome to Connecticut. Please explain what NextCloud is. How long have you been in business?
A: NextCloud was founded in 2010, and is an innovative provider of enterprise-class cloud computing services. The company’s solutions are designed to augment, or replace, the need for organizations to have their own computer server rooms and datacenters. The rate of technology change continues to accelerate, which can be very challenging for companies to keep pace and continue to innovate. For example, the widespread use of mobile devices has introduced a new set of issues and challenges to the IT staff at businesses of all sizes. Similarly, the amount of data to be stored is doubling every year and computing capacity and network requirements continue to expand at an unprecedented rate. NextCloud’s approach is to provide an enterprise-class datacenter and IT infrastructure on a pay-as-you-go basis. Rather than having to own and operate a dedicated set of computer servers and information systems, it is possible to pay for these services on a monthly basis…
Cloud’s Tough Enemy: Chargeback Pushback
As cloud management tools and platforms evolve to better handle metering and chargeback, IT shops are still struggling with the practice–both from the standpoint of financial management challenges and ongoing pushback from business users.
Implementing chargeback has been a longstanding problem for IT, which traditionally has either avoided the practice or employed simple math to apportion costs based on headcount or some other broad metric. Yet in a cloud environment, where effective metering and chargeback are a core tenet of the service model, those types of stopgap measures are no longer viable…
Cloud Computing: Dell in talks to buy Quest Software
Dell Inc is in talks to buy Quest Software Inc, the network security software maker that had earlier agreed to be acquired by Insight Venture Partners for $2 billion, Bloomberg reported, quoting sources.
Shares of the company, which now has a market value of $2.12 billion, gained more than a third of their value after Insight Venture’s offer.
Quest said earlier this month it had received multiple alternative proposals during its go-shop period following the offer from the private investment firm…
Brief Overview On Cloud Computing Model IaaS Cloud
Grazed from HostReview. Author: Eric Jones.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service or IaaS is a groundwork through which organizations can implement equipment in the form of components, serves, storage place area space etc at pay-per-use support.
Moreover, IaaS is a department of thinking handling that has gathered attention among the entrepreneurs mostly with the fantastic purpose to make their organization circumstances more arranged and in connect with the ongoing efficient activities of organizations…
Networking as the Next Great Opportunity for the Channel in the Cloud
The history of computing can be defined by the movement of bottleneck around the data center. Every time a bottleneck appears a massive opportunity emerges for the channel. The next great bottleneck is going to be the networking layer in the cloud.
A recent survey of 1,300 IT professionals conducted by Cisco finds that the one of biggest inhibitors to cloud computing adoption is the readiness of the network According to Inbar Lasser-Raab, senior marketing director for the Cisco Services Routing Technology Group, a majority of organizations that intend to make use of cloud computing on any serious level are probably going to wind up upgrading their networks, which given the number of IT professionals that said they would be making more significant use of the cloud in 2012 may be happening sooner than later…
WAN Virtualization’s benefits “beyond the WAN” for security, cloud computing
Last time, we covered the network benefits of WAN Virtualization. Here, we look at how WAN Virtualization delivers benefits “beyond the WAN” to the security and computing sides of the enterprise IT shop.
While the benefits of WAN Virtualization for the Enterprise WAN itself – far greater bandwidth, far lower monthly costs, greater reliability and application performance predictability, sacrifice-free centralization of network complexity and reduced troubleshooting costs – are quite substantial on their own, and in the shorter term alone justify its deployment, when combined with colocation and the other key technologies of the Next-generation Enterprise WAN (NEW) architecture, the benefits for security and computing are ultimately potentially even greater, if for no other reason than that most every enterprise IT shop spends far more on computing plus security than it does on the network itself…
Cloud Computing: EMC Buys Syncplicity
EMC has bought cloud storage start-up Syncplicity, which, as one might suspect from its name, does one-click file syncing and sharing as well as real-time backup.
Users are supposed to be able to access, manage and share files across PCs, Macs, mobile platforms and file servers like SharePoint, corporate networks and cloud applications like Google Docs and SalesForce without moving a file.
The enterprise can delete files from user accounts or revoke access, offering a way for companies to deal with the BYOD wave.
EMC means to develop an enterprise version of the stuff tied to Documentum and other repositories like SharePoint spiffed up with corporate governance. It also means to retain Syncplicity’s free and Dropbox-like consumer model and aim it at units inside the enterprise and SMBs…
StraTech to Present “Perceptions and Directions in Cloud Computing” at CIO Forum 2012 in Charlotte, NC
StraTech, a brand of Midas Medici Group Holdings, Inc. and a national provider of data center services, IT consulting, infrastructure, and support services, announced that StraTech CTO Steve Bulmer and Senior Solutions Architect David Lando will present an interactive workshop, “Perceptions and Directions in Cloud Computing” at CIO Forum and Executive IT Summit May 30-31 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“Cloud computing is presenting opportunities for many businesses to optimize key services,” said StraTech CTO Steve Bulmer. “However, there are many perceived barriers to adopting cloud technologies — from security and manageability to availability and resilience. This forum will facilitate the opportunity for practicing IT professionals to discuss how far we’ve come in the last year to address these challenges and where we’re headed.”…
RiverMeadow Named Premier Partner for Cloud Slam’12 Cloud Computing Conference and Expo
Cloudcor announces RiverMeadow Software, technology leader in virtualization and cloud onboarding software, as a Premier Partner for the fourth Annual Cloud Slam’12 Conference and expo, taking place Wednesday May 30 – June 1, 2012 in San Francisco and broadcast virtually globally.
RiverMeadow will showcase enCloud — a virtualization and onboarding software, which is the key to cloud self-service onboarding, enabling the migration of enterprise servers and live workloads, as is, from physical, virtual and cloud environments to-and-between clouds.
The enCloud software, delivered via licensed software or SaaS model, provides a platform for rapid customer onboarding to the cloud and dramatically reduces the cost and complexity associated with traditional cloud migrations. In support of hybrid public-private clouds, enCloud supports round-trip moves back to any cloud stack…
Nutanix touts SAN-free cloud computing performance boost
Datacentre infrastructure firm Nutanix has set up a European presence to bring its SAN-less datacentre platform to enterprise customers across Europe, promising to provide better performance in cloud computing and virtualised environments at a reduced cost.
The Nutanix Complete Cluster platform is based around the notion of simplifying storage by using direct attached storage (DAS) connected to each server node in a datacentre, rather than connecting servers to a centralised pool via a storage area network (SAN).
The company is relatively new, coming out of stealth mode only last year, but has now gained a European presence, plus pan-European distribution via SDG, and Kelway as an enterprise reseller in the UK…