Category: News

 Grazed from InfoWorld.  Author: Pete Johnson.

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Pedro Hernandez.

Jim Hanna, former sustainability exec for Starbucks, joins Microsoft to help the tech titan float greener clouds.  Jim Hanna has joined Microsoft as the director of data center sustainability, a newly created position.  Hanna previously served as the director of environmental affairs for Starbucks, the Seattle-based coffee chain.

"Over the past decade, he has driven global strategies to address sustainability issues across the company, from the supply chain to energy and water reduction to policy engagements," stated Microsoft’s chief environmental strategist, Rob Bernard, in a blog post. At Microsoft, Hanna will work to minimize the environmental impact of the company’s globe-spanning network of cloud data centers…
 

Grazed from NetworkWorld.  Author: Khalid Raza.

dinCloud, a cloud services provider that helps organizations rapidly migrate to the cloud, today announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, named David Graffia, dinCloud’s VP of Sales, to its prestigious list of 2016 Channel Chiefs. The executives on this annual list represent top leaders in the IT channel who excel at driving growth and revenue in their organizations through channel partners.

Channel Chief honorees are selected by CRN’s editorial staff on the basis of their professional achievements, industry standing, dedication to the channel partner community, and strategies for driving future growth and innovation. Each of the 2016 Channel Chiefs has demonstrated loyalty and ongoing support for the IT channel by consistently promoting, defending, and executing outstanding channel partner programs.

Grazed from FederalNewsRadio.  Author: Jared Serbu.

While the Defense Department has made some strides over the past year in simplifying the way it buys cloud computing services, individual DoD components are still, to a large extent, on their own when it comes to picking a provider and shepherding them through the military’s security approval process. The Navy hopes to change that beginning next month with a managed service it’s calling its “Cloud Store.”

Version 1.0 of the store will have a decidedly limited selection: its catalog will include just one provider, Amazon Web Services, leaning on an existing contract the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare System Command already holds with AWS…

Grazed from MarketWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

Alluxio (formerly known as Tachyon), the world’s first memory-centric virtual distributed storage system, today announced its open source version 1.0 release. The vision for Alluxio is to become the de-facto storage unification layer for big data and other scale-out application environments in the same manner that Apache Spark became the standard computation layer.

Alluxio’s memory-centric architecture provides orders of magnitude performance gains over existing solutions and superior manageability by allowing developers to interact with a single storage layer API without worrying about the configurations and complexities of underlying storage and file systems. Co-created by Haoyuan Li, CEO of Alluxio, Inc. and a founding committer of Spark, Alluxio ushers in the next generation of storage virtualization for petabyte scale computing…

Big Blue announced a major partnership with VMware to bring its customers onto the IBM Cloud; and at the same time, also announced partnerships with the developer community GitHub, link shortener Bitly, the recently open-sourced Swift language from Apple, and more.

Despite the increase in organizations embracing and investing in the cloud, only five percent of respondents believe they have an "optimized" cloud strategy.

Boomerang is an easy-to-use and cost-effective virtual appliance for replicating VMware virtual machines (VMs) to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud for low-cost backup and disaster recovery. Boomerang also automatically remodels replicated VMs to native Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for fast execution, providing an ideal solution for migrating from on-premise systems to the cloud and for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).

VeloCloud enables enterprise-grade performance, security and reliability to both enterprise and cloud applications as part of the MetTel managed SD-WAN and bonded Internet solution. VeloCloud Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN runs as an overlay over Internet and Hybrid links while simplifying deployments and reducing costs.