Category: News

March 16, 2016 Off

VMTurbo Enhances Private Cloud Control with vRA Integration in VMTurbo 5.5

By David
Grazed from VMTurbo

VMTurbo, the only application performance control platform, today announced turnkey integration with VMware vRealize Automation in its latest release, VMTurbo 5.5. This release continues to expand VMTurbo’s control, extending support and control for IBM PowerVM, as well as fully automated public cloud migration capabilities.

"Intelligent workload management is a crucial component to the success of nearly every IT initiative, from managing a diverse infrastructure to deploying multi- and hybrid cloud solutions," said Shmuel Kliger, President and Founder of VMTurbo. "We continue to add data center entities to our market-based algorithm, transforming a whole new set of infrastructure into an available pool of resources. This release extends our mission to provide control for any workload, across any cloud, any time, anywhere."

March 16, 2016 Off

The Linux Foundation and edX Announce Free Open Source Cloud Infrastructure Course

By David
Grazed from The Linux Foundation and edX

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced its newest massive open online course (MOOC) is available for registration. The course is an Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies and is offered through edX, the nonprofit online learning platform launched in 2012 by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The course is free and will begin this June.

Registration is now available for this free cloud training course.

This is the second edX MOOC offered by The Linux Foundation. Its first course, Intro to Linux, has reached more than 500,000 students globally and continues to grow in registrations.

March 16, 2016 Off

CloudLinux Launches KuberDock, Allows Hosting Providers To Start Selling Dockerized Apps In Just 2 Hours

By David
Grazed from CloudLinux

CloudLinux, the maker of the leading hosting OS powering more than 20 million websites, today announced the launch of the KuberDock platform that allows hosting providers to deploy dockerized applications and offer them to customers in just two hours. The first of its kind, KuberDock is based on Docker containers, and allows hosters to choose from thousands of available dockerized apps to expand their app portfolio. Hosters can upsell add-on applications, offer popular apps from the list of more than 70K options, or allow customers to choose and deploy any of the dockerized applications.

With KuberDock, hosting providers can expand revenues fast:

March 16, 2016 Off

Talend Unveils Innovative Cloud Solution to Automate Big Data Integration in Amazon Web Service (AWS) Environments

By David
Grazed from Talend

Talend, a global leader in big data integration software, today released a new version of its Talend Integration Cloud , a secure, Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) solution designed to help companies more easily manage on-premises, cloud and hybrid integration workloads in their AWS environments. Available now, the new release allows IT organizations to execute big data and data integration projects running on AWS Redshift or AWS Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) with fewer resources and at a reduced cost. The updated Talend Integration Cloud solution also enables developers and architects to bring native Spark processing capabilities into an iPaaS solution in order to empower departments across the enterprise with real-time analytics.

The continued growth of big data, the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT), and expanding corporate data lakes is driving companies to move an increasing percentage of data processing to the cloud. In fact, Gartner expects that enterprise iPaaS will continue to grow at a double-digit rate over the next five years. Talend Integration Cloud delivers the fast, scalable, elastic, and secure technology businesses need to keep pace with their growing stores of data and transform that information into real-time insight.

March 16, 2016 Off

Unitas Global Announces OpenStack Liberty Availability for Its Enterprise Cloud Service

By David
Grazed from Unitas Global

Unitas Global, the leading enterprise cloud solution provider, today announces the availability of its newest Enterprise Cloud service built on OpenStack Liberty, the 12th version of the most widely deployed open source software for building clouds. This release further supports the company’s mission of providing fully-managed and hosted cloud services to enterprise organizations looking to take advantage of open source hybrid cloud computing without traditional vendor lock-in and the challenges associated with building and operating production-grade cloud environments.

"OpenStack’s 12th release represents a significant milestone in terms of technical maturity and enables even more enterprises to make the move to open, hybrid cloud computing environments," says Grant Kirkwood, Founder & CTO of Unitas Global. "Unitas helps architect and guide enterprise customers through deploying and operating custom OpenStack environments to create open, dynamic and production-grade clouds without the complexity and hassle associated with going it alone."

March 16, 2016 Off

Cloud Makes For Strange Bedfellows: Apple Signs On With Google, Cuts Spending With AWS?

By David

Grazed from CRN. Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

Alphabet’s Google has quietly scored a major coup in its campaign to become an enterprise cloud computing powerhouse, landing Apple as a customer for the Google Cloud Platform, multiple sources with knowledge of the matter told CRN this week.

Since inking the Google deal late last year, Apple has also significantly reduced its reliance on Amazon Web Services, whose infrastructure it uses to run parts of iCloud and other services, said the sources, who all requested anonymity to protect their relationships with the vendors. Apple has not abandoned AWS entirely and remains a customer, the sources said…

Read more from the source @ http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300080062/cloud-makes-for-strange-bedfellows-apple-signs-on-with-google-cuts-spending-with-aws.htm

March 15, 2016 Off

Headwaters Group Offers Zadara Storage to Enable Their Storage-as-a-Service Offering

By David
Grazed from Zadara Storage

Zadara Storage, the provider of enterprise-class Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS), and Headwaters Group today announced that Zadara’s award-winning Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) platform is now available as part of the Headwaters Group Storage-as-a-Service offering.

Headwaters Group has built a strong reputation for delivering sophisticated technical professional services to enterprise IT channel solution providers and end customers, in the design, implementation and optimization of their storage and data technology infrastructure. As data technologies and complexity increase, both providers and users are recognizing that the traditional approach of allocating capital for large storage array expenditures and then depreciating and maintaining those complex devices has become inefficient and will not scale.

March 15, 2016 Off

Altiscale Launches Altiscale Insight Cloud

By David
Grazed from Altiscale, Inc.

Altiscale, Inc., the leading provider of Big Data-as-a-Service, today introduced a new solution, the Altiscale Insight Cloud, a self-service analytics solution for Big Data. The Altiscale Insight Cloud supplies the critical missing bridge between Big Data and the business user — a rapidly queried data lake that enables business analysts to get critical answers all by themselves, while using familiar business intelligence tools like Tableau and Microsoft Excel.

The Altiscale Insight Cloud powers interactive SQL queries, dynamic visualizations, real-time dashboards, and other reporting and analytics capabilities. As a high-performance, self-service analytics solution, the Altiscale Insight Cloud replaces more complex, expensive alternatives that require heavy IT involvement, allowing Big Data to be harnessed more broadly and quickly throughout the organization and improving the speed and size of business impact. 

March 15, 2016 Off

Lifesize Enhances All-in-One Collaboration Platform With Integrated Group Chat Across All Devices

By David
Grazed from Lifesize

Lifesize, a global provider of award-winning audio, web and video conferencing technology, today announced that it has expanded and enhanced the free chat functionality in its Lifesize Cloud service. By improving 1:1 chat and introducing group chat, Lifesize Cloud now aggregates the critical features for collaboration and meeting productivity into one easy-to-use application.

Lifesize group chat extends the conversation beyond the conference room, helping teams continue brainstorming, problem solving, and addressing questions more efficiently. And when the team wants to gather face-to-face, Lifesize chat instantly escalates to a video call with just one click. To keep projects moving forward, users can participate in chats in multiple meeting rooms, return to a previous chat session, or review their chat history.