Category: News

Ixia will be at The OpenStack Summit, which will be held in Boston, May 8-11, 2017, at the Hynes Convention Center.

Attendees at this year’s OpenStack Summit can meet Ixia subject matter experts at Stand B16 to learn how to maintain full control as their virtual data centers grow and change.

Achieve net higher performance with less risk by gaining visibility of data flowing between virtual machines (VMs) with Ixia solutions, including the newly enhanced CloudLens Private visibility solution.

Ixia’s CloudLens platform is the start of a complete transformation for visibility. It provides unprecedented visibility across all cloud environments – public, private, and hybrid clouds. The platform provides the framework to scale virtual taps and data filtering to meet the elastic demands cloud customers expect.

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Emphasising that Adobe Experience Cloud represents the largest opportunity for the company, Adobe President and CEO Shantanu Narayan says the tech giant has clearly established itself as a leader in helping companies roll out the digital transformation in India and globally with its cloud solutions.

The change in consumer expectations is the main factor that triggered innovation and growth for Adobe’s digital marketing business and brands across verticals are readily embracing its cloud solutions globally, he adds. “The massive tailwind across the world is that consumer expectations have changed and one of them is that consumers prefer to interact with any company digitally.  Mobile as a way to interfacing with businesses has become a de-facto standard. Digital is cheaper, faster and it delivers a better experience,” Narayen told IANS…

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Verizon is selling its private cloud and managed hosting services to IBM. George Fischer, senior vice president and group president of Verizon Enterprise Solutions, wrote in a blog Wednesday that the carrier will partner with IBM for “strategic initiatives" in cloud and networking. “This is a unique cooperation between two tech leaders to support global organizations as they look to fully realize the benefits of their cloud computing investments," Fischer said.

The companies have not disclosed the terms of the deal, but it is expected to close later this year. Fischer says Verizon Enterprise Solutions is set up to provide customers intelligent networking, business communications and managed IT services. “It is the latest development in an ongoing IT strategy aimed at allowing us to focus on helping our customers securely and reliably connect to their cloud resources and utilize cloud-enabled applications," he said…

1. It’s Affordable

When cloud hosting first appeared, it was an expensive solution.  However, like most things that get popular, the price has decreased making it affordable for most business owners.  Cloud hosting is now similar in price to traditional shared hosting, but offers many more benefits.  So, whether you are hosting a large business forum, or a casino affiliate WordPress theme, it should be within your budget.

Code42, the leader in cloud-based endpoint data protection and recovery, today announced a partnership with Okta to provide enterprise customers with added security and ease for their cloud adoption strategies. As the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, Okta’s single sign-on authentication works alongside Code42’s data security and visibility tools to continue connecting and protecting employees at many of the world’s largest enterprises.

"We are excited to announce this partnership with Okta. Our customers are deploying in the cloud at an increasing rate and to do that effectively they need the world’s leading cloud-based identity security technology," said Joe Payne, CEO and president at Code42. "Through a strong technology integration with Okta, Code42 can provide a holistic and secure cloud experience that simplifies SaaS adoption for our current and future customers."

It is interesting to see these new solutions creating a big impact on the market. They’re not only making the cloud a more secure environment but are also reshaping the industry like never before.

Microsoft’s Take on Cloud Security

The latest iteration of Microsoft Azure showed just how important security is as an element of cloud-based services. Microsoft revamped Azure’s security measures and introduce new features that many experts believe will be the standard of future implementations and solutions.

Grazed from Cloudify

Today at NFV World Congress, Cloudify announced that the open-source Cloudify software platform announced last week is already in use by several carriers via an early access program to manage virtual network functions (VNFs) across multiple cloud environments. Cloudify 4 allows carriers to move from VNF concept to production faster and with open source tools.

Cloudify is an open source multi-cloud management software platform. The latest version -Cloudify 4-shipped last week with new features that present a direct threat to legacy cloud management platforms (CMPs) used by enterprises. These legacy CMPs-such as RightScale and CloudForms-are showing their age now that orchestration-first approaches like Cloudify have matured, adding CMP features and enhanced performance in the latest version. Cloudify 4 is available for download here, and more information about The End of Cloud Management is available on the Cloudify community blog.

New Open vCPE

However, what we don’t often hear about is the fact that with the advent of PaaS (Platform as a Service) and the integration of other applications into your core platform, there are bound to be some inconsistencies and minor glitches that need to be ironed out before they become major. Working in the cloud has indeed made life easier for the busy professional and businesses all around the globe, but if you know a bit of code, it makes it even easier yet.

From PaaS to iPaaS

Businesses today are really beginning to understand the many benefits of a cloud based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) platform through which they route most of their business applications. From accessibility to functionality, transparency and beyond, there is nothing like having one central platform that can be accessed, as needed, by everyone in the front and back end of a business.

Nutanix has announced an agreement with Leeds-based managed service provider, Firstnet Solutions, to offer customers a choice of flexible hybrid cloud services based on the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform.

An established provider of managed services in the North of England, Firstnet Solutions recently formed a new entity, Firstnet Data Centres, which opened its first datacentre in Leeds. Aspiring to be the first dedicated Tier III datacentre in its region, it gives customers a choice of traditional co-location facilities alongside a new mix of managed hosting, virtual desktop and cloud services. These new services will be based entirely on the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform, chosen after exhaustive research and competitive analysis.

Datos IO, the application-centric data management company, today announced RecoverX 2.0, enabling organizations to be more agile, enhance productivity, and drive operational efficiency as they deploy their next-generation customer centric applications in the cloud and scale their traditional applications across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud infrastructures.

Data Management Reinvented for a Multi-Cloud World

Since its inception, Datos IO has realized the importance of data as the only common denominator binding all clouds together. To enable success for customers in their journey towards cloud adoption, Datos IO brings to the table ground-breaking innovations: