Category: News

February 1, 2012 Off

VMTurbo Enhances Platform to Assure Application Performance Across Cloud and Virtualized Environments

By David

Grazed from VMTurbo.  Author:  PR Announcement.

VMTurbo, the leading provider of intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments, today announced version 3.0 of its award-winning platform. VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 delivers cloud-scale management for the largest service provider and enterprise virtual infrastructures, expands heterogeneous hypervisor support to include Citrix XenServer and adds new application performance assurance capabilities. The product delivers this all from a single virtual appliance that installs in minutes and immediately provides actionable and automatable recommendations that improve performance across the virtual environment.

“As the number of virtualized and cloud computing environments continues to skyrocket, management technologies are becoming increasingly important,” said Bernd Harzog, lead analyst at The Virtualization Practice. "With their 3.0 release, VMTurbo’s Operations Manager is the only solution that can automatically adjust how the resources in the environment are allocated to workloads and applications to ensure performance on the basis of priorities – simplifying the management of complex virtual environments for IT operators."

February 1, 2012 Off

Zenoss Doubles New Sales in Q4 and Posts Record Revenue for 2011

By David

Grazed from Zenoss.com.  Author: PR Announcement

Zenoss, a leading provider of management software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT, today announced that the company achieved 196% new sales growth in Q4, nearly doubling its growth from the same quarter last year, and ended 2011 with record revenues. The key driver of growth was large organizations looking for a new platform and approach to IT operations, as virtualization and cloud computing play an increasing role in their overall IT strategies.

“To get the full benefit of a modern IT environment that is increasingly virtual and cloud-based, organizations are moving to new platforms and approaches for IT operations management,” said Bill Karpovich, CEO of Zenoss, Inc. “Enterprises and service providers are realizing that managing today’s IT with yesterday’s tools just doesn’t work.” 

 
February 1, 2012 Off

Cortado Cloud Desktop Turns Amazon’s Kindle Fire Into Portable Personal Business Device

By David

Grazed from Cortado.  Author: PR Announcement

Cortado, a leading innovator of the business class of cloud desktop services, announces today that its business app, Cortado Workplace, is now available on the Amazon Appstore for the newly released Kindle Fire*. Cortado Workplace is a free app that provides users with round-the-clock access to files and documents and true cloud printing, allowing them to fully utilize the Kindle’s local capabilities and work on the go just as they would with a desktop PC.

With the Cortado Workplace app, managing files and cloud printing are easier than traditional cloud services as no additional running applications or a running computer are needed, delivering a unique approach to cloud desktop devices.

January 31, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: Analysts show that Apple Unseats HP in Client PCs

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

Apple was the leading worldwide client PC vendor in Q4, pushing HP off its perch, according to Canalys, which unlike Gartner and IDC, doesn’t hesitate to lump tablets in with desktops, netbooks and notebooks.

It says that since Apple shipped over 15 million iPads and five million Macs last quarter it did 17% of the total 120 million client PCs shipped globally, up 6% year-over-year.  Canalys also figures that if tablets are thrown in, the total client PC market grew 16% year-on-year. If they aren’t, the client PC market declined 0.4%.  Canalys predicts that "HP will struggle to compete with Apple following the end of its Touchpad" given doubts about how Windows 8 will do on HP tablets once it’s out…

January 31, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: Jon Rubinstein, Father of webOS, Leaves HP

By David
Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Maureen O’Gara.

HP has dispensed with the services of former Palm CEO and pivotal Apple graduate Jon Rubinstein, according to AllThingsDigital.

Rubinstein has been like a man without a country since HP, after spending billions on the stuff decided it couldn’t go toe to toe with Apple and Google, and up and dumped Palm’s webOS-based phones and TouchPad last August then announced that by September it would open source the operating system on which Rubinstein spent four-and-a-half years of his life…

January 31, 2012 Off

Cloud Security, Costs Concern Federal IT Pros

By David
Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: J. Nicholas Hoover.

Federal IT managers are working to adopt cloud computing technologies and comply with White House cloud computing initiatives, but aren’t yet sold on cloud computing’s cost savings or security, according to a recent survey.

According to the survey by research group the Ponemon Institute, 91% of federal IT workers are either somewhat or very familiar with the Office of Management and Budget’s Cloud First initiative, but 69% believe that the initiative’s requirement to move three services to the cloud over 18 months is too fast. In fact, 71% of respondents said that pressure to move to the cloud creates security risks for their organizations…

January 31, 2012 Off

Wyse Delivers Desktop Virtualization for Public & Private Sectors With CAPEX and OPEX Savings and Superior Performance

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced the availability of Wyse WSM(TM) 4.0 desktop virtualization solution. WSM transforms the concept of PC virtualization and management and elevates virtual PC computing to its ultimate level of performance, security, and manageability by eliminating the PC’s local hard disk drive in favor of a more effective way of delivering and managing PC software over the network. This simple yet powerful concept works for a few or many thousand diskless PCs, making them "virtualized cloud PCs."

For years IT departments in companies large and small have struggled with "the PC problem" — the constant, tedious resource, expense, and time drag imposed by the proliferation of individually configured, managed, and maintained PCs sitting on every employee’s desk. With WSM, Wyse has solved the PC management problem with the ultimate solution — delivering exactly the right software to the PC from the network instead of a local hard disk, in real-time, creating the high-powered PC that’s not a PC…

January 31, 2012 Off

MicroStrategy Cloud, Social And Mobile Bets Pay Off

By David
Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Cindi Howson.

MicroStrategy touted its social, cloud-computing and mobile business intelligence initiatives at its user conference last week and has since added proof that those bets are paying off.

MicroStrategy Cloud was released in mid-2011, and over the last six months it has been refining that strategy and building out its infrastructure. I was surprised when the company decided to establish its own data centers, in contrast to other SaaS vendors that use public cloud services such as Amazon’s. MicroStrategy claims that owning the infrastructure enables it to better control performance.

Steve Stone, senior vice president of MicroStrategy Cloud, reported that some of its cloud deployments boast better performance than on-premises installs. Stone knows all about customer performance expectations; he’s the former CIO and a 19-year veteran of Lowes, which has some 14,000 MicroStrategy users…

January 31, 2012 Off

LiveVox Earns Cloud Computing Excellence Award

By David
Grazed from MarketWatch.  Author: PR Announcement.

LiveVox Inc., the provider of cloud contact center applications, today announced it received a 2011 Cloud Computing Excellence Award from Cloud Computing Magazine, a new publication from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), a global, integrated media company focused on call center technology.

This follows LiveVox’s recognition earlier this month as Product of the Year from Customer Interaction Solutions, a leading contact center technology publication.

"LiveVox is pleased that its cloud contact center platform has been honored for excellence by a top call center technology thought leader organization," said Louis Summe, Chief Executive Officer, LiveVox. "Cloud deployment offers numerous ways to increase productivity and flexibility for contact centers, but vendors must prove how they can improve security and reliability for contact centers, while simplifying compliance management. We are proud to have been recognized for our efforts in accomplishing this."…

January 31, 2012 Off

Cloud Computing: Sumo Logic drops cloak, picks up cash to take on Splunk

By David
Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Barb Darrow.

Sumo Logic emerged from the shadows Tuesday with $15 million in Series B funding from Sutter Hill Ventures, Greylock Partners and Shlomo Kramer bringing its total to $20.5 million since its founding in April, 2010. Greylock and Kramer also participated in the Series A round.

The company, founded by Arcsight veterans Kumar Saurabh and Christian Beedgen, aims to bring log monitoring and analytics to cloud computing environments via a software-as-a-service model. In that arena, Sumo Logic is bound to face off against Splunk, which filed for a $125 million IPO two weeks ago, as well as Loggly, a company that spun out of Splunk (see disclosure.)…