Category: News

January 30, 2018 Off

Moonwalk Universal Announces Certification for Cloudian HyperStore

By David
Grazed from Moonwalk Universal

Moonwalk Universal, a specialist in large-scale data management solutions, today announced certification for Cloudian HyperStore.

Cloudian HyperStore lets users grow to hundreds of petabytes on-premises simply by adding nodes and leveraging the proven interoperability of the industry’s only 100% native S3 API. Whether for on-premises storage, hybrid cloud, or multi-cloud storage services, Cloudian HyperStore saves time, saves cost, and puts users in control.

With the latest release, Moonwalk version 12.3 brings file control and automation to enterprise storage infrastructure and intelligently moves file content to the appropriate location – on-premise object stores, offsite storage or cloud services.

January 30, 2018 Off

Zoho Launches Cloud App Integration Platform, Zoho Flow

By David
Grazed from Zoho

Zoho today launched Zoho Flow, a drag-and-drop integration platform that allows users to create flexible workflows between cloud applications. By automating information exchange across apps, Zoho Flow helps users save the time and effort spent on manual tasks in their business processes.

Users can create integration workflows, called Flows, without having to write any code. For more common needs, they can also install pre-built Flows from the Flow gallery.

"Most companies depend on multiple apps to manage their business functions. But the integrations needed to coordinate these functions efficiently are often too complicated for them to build by themselves," said Raju Vegesna, Chief Evangelist, Zoho Corp. "With Zoho Flow, we’re enabling businesses build seamless integrations without having to depend on technical help."

January 30, 2018 Off

Kaminario Enters Cloud Service Provider Market with Launch of Software-Defined Composable Data Platform

By David
Grazed from Kaminario

Kaminario, a leading cloud storage software company, today announced it is entering the cloud service provider market with the availability of Kaminario Cloud Fabric, a new software-defined storage offering. Cloud Fabric leverages the same composable data platform behind Kaminario’s all-flash storage appliance, the Kaminario K2. Kaminario’s composable data platform incorporates the VisionOS software operating platform and the Clarity analytics suite. Cloud Fabric delivers software-defined agility with the proven technology capability and enterprise-class features that earned Kaminario K2 the highest ranking in three out of five use cases compared to 19 all-flash arrays evaluated in Gartner’s 2017 Critical Capabilities Report.

The software-defined datacenter (SDDC) is a key enabler to delivering next-generation cloud services.  While a small group of hyper scale service providers have pioneered the SDDC concept with their own proprietary engineering efforts, the level of technology investment required is not practical for the vast majority of enterprise or cloud service provider IT organizations.  Kaminario Cloud Fabric provides a path for cloud service providers to embrace the SDDC paradigm without developing their own proprietary data management software stack.

 
January 30, 2018 Off

BMC Integrates AWS Service Catalog with BMC Digital Workplace for Simplified Access to Cloud Services

By David
Grazed from BMC

BMC, a global leader in IT solutions for the digital enterprise, today announced it has integrated AWS Service Catalog into the BMC service catalog, part of the BMC Digital Workplace solution, delivering one-click self-service to the products and services employees need to be productive. The collaboration builds on BMC’s existing efforts to help customers move enterprise workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS) faster in a secure, low-risk, and cost-effective way. The BMC Digital Workplace solution becomes the single interface for customers to provision AWS as well as industry-leading multi-cloud management and IT service management solutions from BMC. 

"A key focus of our multi-cloud management strategy is to empower our customers to migrate and utilize cloud services easier and more confidently," said Bill Berutti, President, Enterprise Solutions at BMC. "Integrating AWS Service Catalog into our service catalog, alongside BMC’s industry-leading solutions, reduces complexity and enables one-stop shopping for enterprise cloud service provisioning and management. We’re excited about this significant step in our relationship with AWS, and to showcase this integrated service catalog at AWS Sales Kickoff 2018."

January 29, 2018 Off

Duco Announces $28M Growth Investment for Data Engineering in the Cloud

By David
Grazed from Duco

Duco, the data engineering technology company, today announced the completion of a $28m investment round by Insight Venture Partners, NEX Opportunities and Eight Roads Ventures. The round also includes an investment by lifetime entrepreneur and former CEO of SunGard, Cristóbal Conde.

Duco provides technology that enables banks, brokers, asset managers and exchanges to normalise, validate and reconcile any type of data in Duco’s cloud, providing firms with on-demand data integrity and insight. The company has seen rapid and global growth as the industry re-platforms, adopting advances in leading technology to eliminate operational risk and cost and making actionable data more immediately available across the enterprise. Duco will use the investment to expand its global footprint, with headcount growth in Europe and the US, the launch of an Asia office and an expansion of its award-winning product set.

January 29, 2018 Off

Turbonomic Showcases Workload Automation for Hybrid Cloud at Cisco Live Europe

By David
Grazed from Turbonomic

Turbonomic, which delivers workload automation for hybrid cloud, announced details of its platinum-level sponsorship of Cisco Live at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona. Experts from Turbonomic will demonstrate the latest technologies for automating and optimizing today’s complex hybrid cloud infrastructures at booth P1. 

By 2020, 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud (LogicMonitor,‘Cloud Vision 2020: The Future of the Cloud Study’). This transformation introduces an ever-increasing set of complex tradeoffs for IT staff, such as whether to place workloads on-premises or public cloud, when and how to scale up or scale out workloads, and what resources to allocate without overprovisioning. To de-risk this transformation, IT organizations are turning to self-managing and real-time workloads. Ben Nye, CEO at Turbonomic, will explain how to use workload automation to optimize hybrid cloud estates at the C-Max Theatre on Thursday 1st February at 14:30 CET. In this session, Nye will also discuss how Turbonomic and Cisco are working together to assure application performance at the lowest cost, while maintaining compliance policies across hybrid cloud estates. 

 
January 29, 2018 Off

UKCloud Promotion Offers Cloud Storage and Disaster Recovery for Three Months for Free

By David
Grazed from UKCloud

UKCloud, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave assured cloud services company announces that it is offering its public sector and healthcare customers Cloud Storage or Disaster Recovery to the Cloud services completely free for three months. Open to both existing and new customers, the promotion applies to all orders for new workloads placed by 31 March 2018.

"With many of our customers facing budgetary challenges over the remainder of this financial year, we wanted to do all that we could to assist their transition to the cloud," said Simon Hansford, CEO of UKCloud. "Not only does this promotion offer excellent value, but our multi-cloud platform with flexible contractual arrangements means that public sector organisations can migrate to the cloud quickly and realise the tremendous costs savings of cloud computing without fear of lock-in."

January 29, 2018 Off

ZeroStack Debuts New Operational Features for Its Self-Driving Cloud

By David
Grazed from ZeroStack

ZeroStack, Inc., creators of a self-driving on-premises cloud, today announced a host of new features that further streamline operations for IT administrators and DevOps Workbench end users. Already renowned for its point-and-click self-provisioning and operational simplicity, ZeroStack’s self-driving cloud now sports new, advanced capabilities that further reduce IT overhead while giving end users greater flexibility.

The features include:

January 29, 2018 Off

Alibaba Cloud Launches Malaysia City Brain to Enhance City Management

By David
Grazed from Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, today announced the launch of its Malaysia City Brain initiative in collaboration with the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), the country’s digital economy development agency, and Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL), the city council in the capital, at a ceremony in Kuala Lumpur.

The Malaysia City Brain initiative is a significant milestone because it’s the first time for the City Brain solution to be adopted overseas. It is developed on Alibaba Cloud’s robust cloud computing infrastructure and will support Malaysia’s digital transformation with cloud technology and artificial intelligence.

Powered by Alibaba Cloud’s large-scale computing engine Apsara, Malaysia City Brain offers a comprehensive suite of acquisition, integration, and analysis of big and heterogeneous data generated by a diversity of sources in urban spaces through video and image recognition, data mining and machine learning technology. The power and functionality of the City Brain will enable Malaysian urban planners and city officials to upgrade their city governance and decision-making to turn the city into an intelligent one.

January 29, 2018 Off

How to Become a Better Entrepreneur

By David
Being an entrepreneur is definitely not an easy job; you have a lot of responsibility in your hands, you need to manage a team and figure out how to launch a startup. Not everyone is born an expert in this field, but there are a few tips that might help you become that mean and powerful entrepreneur that you’ve always wanted to be. Some of the main factors that might help you, in this case, include perseverance, hard work and a positive attitude.

If you want to enhance your productivity, boost your creativity and maintain your positive attitude, you need to keep motivated and remember your aims. Since you’re just starting out, you should be able to accept criticism regardless who it comes from. Try to learn from your mistakes and try to become a better individual each day. As your business grows and the cash flow comes in you could even get help from other people. Don’t let tasks that are too difficult take over your life and ruin your business.

Be Passionate