Category: News

April 11, 2016 Off

PLUMgrid Partners With NocSys to Offer OpenStack SDN Solutions in China

By David
Grazed from PLUMgrid and NocSys

PLUMgrid, a leader of secure and scalable SDN and NFV solutions for OpenStack clouds, today entered a global reseller agreement with NocSys, a cloud solutions provider focused on serving enterprises and service providers in China. NocSys will deliver PLUMgrid’s SDN and NFV solutions, expanding the company’s presence into China’s market where its distributed data plane powered by IO Visor is crucial to customers deploying scalable OpenStack clouds. Together, the two firms help customers quickly and efficiently deploy applications and services within the cloud with the highest levels of security, scale, performance, operations monitoring and diagnostics.

April 11, 2016 Off

Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager made IT management faster and easier

By David
Grazed from Dell

Managing large numbers of virtualization hosts can take a lot of time and effort from a company’s IT staff. But the right tools can make the management process a whole lot easier.

Principled Technologies (PT) compared the time and number of steps it took to perform important infrastructure management tasks with two solutions for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. PT found that Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration required less time and fewer steps for essential datacenter functions than HP OneView did. Additionally, the templates and automation in the Dell solution could reduce human error, helping prevent hassles in the future.

April 10, 2016 Off

Blue Skies Or Dark Clouds Ahead?

By David

Grazed from BSM.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Enterprise computing projects are moving rapidly to cloud-based solutions, and companies around the world expect 80 percent of their IT budget will be dedicated to cloud computing services by the beginning of 2017. This shift towards a cloud-first approach to enterprise services is being driven not just by improved agility and cost savings, but also by increasing trust in all things cloud, with 77 percent of organizations saying they trust clouds more now than they did a year ago.
 
Blue Skies?
 
Cloud computing covers a wide range of services, from infrastructure to applications in private, hybrid, and public variants. Based on a survey of 1,200 IT professionals responsible for cloud security across eight countries, organizations are currently using just over 40 cloud services (that they know about), from a low of 29 in the United Kingdom to a high of 55 in Brazil…
April 9, 2016 Off

Workflow of the future: Time for distributors to move to Cloud ERP

By David

Grazed from MIS-Asia.  Author: Zakir Ahmed.

Distribution companies have no easy task when it comes to maintaining their daily operations. The need to control manufacturing and inventories, coupled with the requirement to track a huge range of products over widely dispersed distribution networks make it one massively complex operation to handle.  Many distributors are still relying on aging, on-premise systems to operate their businesses and supply chains.

Not only does this add the burden of cost and complexity to their day-to-day operations, but it also results in slower employee productivity and eventually dampens business sustainability in the long run.  With customers’ demands growing more personalised and diverse in today’s burgeoning e-commerce landscape, there is a critical need for companies to deliver everything ‘real-time’. Businesses are forced to think on their feet in order to stay above their growing number of competitors…
 

April 9, 2016 Off

Cloud Computing: Repealing Moore’s Law

By David

Grazed from Business Standard.  Author: Editorial Staff.

 Every segment of computing is likely to see a tectonic shift over the next few years. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, an advisory issued by experts from the global semiconductor industry, makes it clear that computer design and architecture must seek new paths. Processing power will not increase at the same exponential pace any more. Moore’s Law – the paradigm which underpinned research and development (R&D) for the last 50 years – is finally hitting physical limits.

In 1965, Gordon Moore, then Director of Research at Fairchild Semiconductors, observed that the numbers of transistors on integrated circuits doubled every year. This implied that processing power (the number of calculations per second) would also roughly double every year. He thought this rate of doubling would continue for a decade. Mr Moore proceeded to co-found chipmaker, Intel, in 1968. In 1975, Mr Moore "downgraded" projections, estimating that doubling would occur every two years…

April 9, 2016 Off

Cloud Computing: Rackspace Looks to Boost OpenStack Adoption

By David

Grazed from EnterpriseTech.  Author: George Leopold.

OpenStack pioneer Rackspace has moved to boost enterprise adoption of the cloud operating system with this week’s release of a managed private cloud service that can be installed in a variety of datacenter settings.  Also this week, the cloud provider along with OpenStack developers announced new servers, server specifications and the latest release of OpenStack deployment software.
 
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) said Thursday (April 7) the managed private cloud service integrates software, hardware and services for private clouds hosted in a customer’s datacenter, a third-party facility or a Rackspace datacenter. The managed service also includes computing, networking and storage…
April 8, 2016 Off

CliQr Named SIIA Business Technology CODiE Award Finalist for Best Cloud Management Solution

By David
Grazed from CliQr

CliQr, the leading enterprise cloud management platform provider, today announces that CliQr CloudCenter is a finalist for the 2016 SIIA CODiE Awards in the Best Cloud Management category. Finalists represent the information industry’s best products, technologies and services in the software, content and business technology.

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier awards for the software and information industries and have been recognizing product excellence for over 30 years. The awards offer 91 categories that are organized by industry focus of education technology and business technology. CliQr CloudCenter is honored as one of 215 finalists across the 62 business technology categories.

April 8, 2016 Off

Velocity Helps Transform Innocor IT Ecosystem With Zoom Analytics, Hybrid Cloud, Unique Cloud Application Management Platfom

By David
Grazed from Velocity Technology Solutions

Velocity Technology Solutions, a global leader in enterprise application cloud managed services, announced that it will provide Innocor Inc. with hybrid cloud services for its information technology (IT) footprint across manufacturing and distribution centers throughout the U.S. Innocor, a manufacturer of innovative sleep products, will also employ sophisticated analytics and wide application management capabilities provided by the Velocity Cloud Application Management Platform™ (VCAMP™) to realize greater operational efficiencies and product fulfillment. 

April 7, 2016 Off

Rackspace Simplifies Cloud Adoption for Companies by Delivering Managed Private Cloud Everywhere

By David
Grazed from Rackspace

Rackspace today announced companies can run a fully-managed private cloud in any data center around the world without bearing the high cost, risk and operational burden of doing it themselves. By delivering OpenStack everywhere, the new integrated software, hardware and services solution can answer CIO demand for managed services for private cloud on their own terms — meeting customers at every step of their cloud journey whether it is in a customer or third party data center, a Rackspace-supported third party colocation facility or a Rackspace data center.

Companies are on a transformational journey inside and outside their data centers — adopting a hybrid approach to public and private cloud to deliver improved customer experiences, increase reliability and reduce infrastructure and operational costs. OpenStack has fast become a dominant platform for private cloud, but the complexity and cost of hiring talent to deploy and operate it themselves has enterprises wanting to consume OpenStack as a managed service.

April 7, 2016 Off

Newest OpenStack Release Reflects Project Maturity, Elevates User Experience

By David
Grazed from Mitaka

The OpenStack community today released Mitaka, the 13th version of the most widely deployed open source software for building clouds, with a focus on manageability, scalability and end-user experience. OpenStack has become the cloud platform of choice for enterprises and service providers, bridging cloud-native software development with the optimization of enterprise applications. It is an integration engine that can manage bare metal, virtual machines, and container orchestration frameworks with a single set of APIs.

OpenStack’s Mitaka release was designed and built by an international community of 2,336 developers, operators and users from 293 organizations. As OpenStack approaches the sixth anniversary of its launch, the project is widely acknowledged as having achieved a mature and stable core; therefore, recent development efforts by the OpenStack community have been focused largely on making the software easier to deploy, manage and scale.