Category: News

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle Exadata Database Machine have been selected for CISDI INFO’s cloud computing platform, a cost effective information system, which allows enterprises to demonstrate and manage their design results on the design service platform.

Oracle will enable CISDI INFO to offer complete solutions for customers, and achieve its strategic objective to become the "International Engineered Technology Company and the Engineered Technology Service Provider- the first choice of steel companies"…

DocuSign today announced its DocuSign Cloud Partner Program to bring together leaders in cloud computing who are standardizing on DocuSign for eSignature to make it easier, faster, and more secure for companies of all sizes to manage online transactions and signatures in the cloud.

“Electronic signature has gone from a ‘nice to have’ to a ‘must have’ as companies look for innovative ways to increase speed to results, reduce costs, and delight customers,” said Keith Krach, chairman and CEO of DocuSign. “We continue to see more industries, businesses, and individual professionals embrace DocuSign to sign everything, everywhere in the cloud – driven in part by partners integrating with DocuSign for their eSignature platform.”…

‘Cloud Computing’ are the words on everyone’s lips – it’s the latest technology, the way forward and has many benefits – but how safe is it? Is it reliable? How secure will your information be? Just what are the risks associated with Cloud Computing?

‘Cloud Computing: Assessing the Risks’, the latest book from ITGP answers these questions and many more, using jargon-free language and relevant examples, analogies and diagrams. Up-to-date, clear and comprehensive it truly is a guide to the security, governance, risk, and compliance elements of Cloud Computing. Find out more here: www.itgovernance.co.uk/products/3820…

VMTurbo, the leading provider of intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments, today announced the release of VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.1. This new release extends product integration to include the application delivery controller (ADC) infrastructure and CloudStack, the open source cloud computing platform. The addition of ADC support in the product automates the control and real-time resource allocation decisions for multi-tiered applications front-ended by acceleration and load balancing appliances.

Adding to the product’s existing support for VMware vCloud Director, the new support for CloudStack provides enterprises and cloud service providers with choice and delivers service assurance and improved utilization for the rapidly growing cloud infrastructure build-out…

Riverbed Technology, the performance company, today announced a continued partnership with VMware, which was developed to help enterprises accelerate their journey to the cloud, enabling businesses to increase efficiency and improve productivity while reducing costs. With the latest collaboration, Riverbed(R) wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions accelerate virtual machines (VMs) moving between clouds — private, public and hybrid — with VMware vCloud(R) Connector. The combination of Riverbed and VMware solutions can enable cloud service providers to maximize their cloud computing offerings by empowering their customers to utilize their existing IT investments…

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is becoming increasingly popular for high-performance computing. It’s now capable of running many of the applications that previously required building out a large HPC cluster or renting time from a supercomputing center. But as you might expect, Amazon EC2 can’t do everything a traditional supercomputer can.

Scientific applications that require super-fast interconnects are still the reserve of the IBM Blue Genes and Cray supercomputers of the world. However, Amazon’s adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections in its high-end cluster compute instances have expanded the usefulness of EC2.

As we’ve reported before, clusters of 30,000 cores, even 50,000 cores have been run on Amazon’s cloud for real-world scientific applications. A caveat is that these tend to be “embarrassingly parallel” applications, in which the interconnect speed isn’t important because each calculation runs independently of all the others…

Let’s set the stage with a couple of assertions:

• There will be a proliferation of cloud solutions within an enterprise – recall the days of client/server computing, where each line of business (LOB) or department went out to purchase its own solution, outside the control of IT.
• Recognizing the previous assertion, enlightened IT leaders have already started working proactively with their peers within the LOBs, sourcing, and with the financial controllers, to “educate” them about cloud, and ensure that they and IT are invited to the party!

Within this context, and before delving into enterprise architecture, let’s consider for the moment different aspects of a system…

Advances in virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile technology have created a perfect storm for a new era in end-user computing, one in which users can revel in their own personal cloud, connecting to all their apps and data, anyplace and anytime from any device, be it a Wyse thin client at work, a company-issued Android phone on the road, a personal iPad at the airport, or a Windows XP machine at home.

Although the trend means greater productivity for users, it can be a pain for IT admins charged with the unenviable task of ensuring that those disparate services, apps, and data are delivered consistently and securely, regardless of device or platform. With the the unveiling of an enterprise-grade Dropbox-like file sharing solution called Project Octopus, VMware aims to make the personal cloud a practical reality for businesses…

Arista Networks will be demonstrating Software Defined Networks (SDN) with key partners, built on Arista EOS (Extensible Operating System), the world’s most advanced network operating system. The programmability inherent in EOS is being demonstrated in conjunction with strategic partners at Interop in Arista booth #1539.

Arista EOS is widely deployed in major cloud providers and is SDN ready, allowing network designers and administrators to deploy a data center architecture that addresses their real-time cloud computing, multi-tenant mobility, and virtual machine migration requirements. The extensibility and openness of Arista EOS provides the resilient foundation and flexibility necessary for SDN architectures, while avoiding proprietary vendor lock in.

The partner integration demonstrations at Interop 2012 and Interopnet in Las Vegas are: VMware auto provisioning with VMware SDN controller, OpenStack Nova integration with Nebula, and Big Switch Network’s OpenFlow controller…