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Grazed from PRweb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Advanced Clustering Technologies, a leading manufacturer of high performance computing (HPC) clusters, announced today it has expanded its high performance computing offerings to include an on demand HPC cloud service.

The service, called ACTnowHPC, gives users easy access to the latest HPC technologies including CPUs, accelerators and interconnects without the upfront capital outlay for HPC hardware.  “Our enhanced HPC cloud service answers a growing demand from our customers for an HPC cloud built to meet workload demands without the need to buy hardware,” said Kyle Sheumaker, President of Advanced Clustering Technologies…

Grazed from Emirates247.  Author: Vicky Kapur.

Long-time rivals Microsoft and Red Hat have tied up to, in their own words, “lend a helping hand to customers in taking up hybrid cloud computing by deploying Red Hat solutions on Microsoft Azure”.  As part of the recently announced agreement, Microsoft will offer Red Hat’s Linux OS as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure.

Grazed from ITWorldCanada. Author: Gary Hilson.

The subscription billing market for technology services is growing, according to a new report from Forrester Research, and enterprises looking to offer eBusiness offerings to customers have a lot of options when choosing a platform partner. The Forrester Wave: Subscription Billing Platforms, Q4 2015 found that the subscription market is growing as more eBusiness professionals across different industry verticals see the benefits of using more complex billing services. However, it noted that vendors differ significantly when comparing their B2B and B2C strategies, cloud architecture, usage-based business model capabilities, financial reporting and integration strategies.

Cloud computing, mobile devices, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are pushing companies to try out new product offerings that combine software, hardware, services and content while figuring out how to best monetize them, according to Forrester, and that means they are shifting from one-time perpetual sales or fixed monthly subscriptions to consumptions that blend one-time, subscription and usage-based billing, a shift that reflects how relationships with customers are changing to long-term partnerships, and that many companies are becoming more software-driven…

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Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

Expect this headline very soon: "Public cloud used to hack government systems." I’m sure aspects of this are happening right now, and I’m sure we will see more widespread use of public clouds as the platforms for hackery. What should we do with the public clouds used as hacking venues? Do we seize the physical servers? Shut down the offending data center? All of the above?

And if criminals use the same cloud infrastructure as enterprises, how do enterprises know that their data won’t get seized along with the bad guys’ data? Recent developments are not reassuring. Last month, the FBI seized a private cloud server. And we still remember the NSA’s digital spying revelations. Ironically, technical issues may make seizures of public cloud servers unappealing to policing agencies…

Grazed from SemiEngineering. Author: Ernest Worthman.

If you’re anywhere in the high-tech biz, the two terms that are rocking your world are the Internet of Everything and the Cloud. Whether you are on the inside track of these, or on the sidelines, they are going to be two of the most disruptive technologies of the 21st century. The cloud is already here and gaining momentum.

Some people will argue that the cloud has been here since the inception of the Internet—or that it is the Internet. They define cloud computing as, simply, having access to data and programs via the Internet rather than going to your computer’s hard drive. While that has some element of accuracy, the original representation of the cloud can be traced back to early explanations and drawings of the Internet. It was a big, puffy, white cloud, interconnected to everything and existing above everything…

Grazed from SemiEngineering. Author: Ernest Worthman.

No one doubts the cloud will be an important part of the Internet of Everything, but the transition from local to off-site computing will never be completely seamless or risk-free. To begin with, there is the cost of storage and bandwidth. Running applications using on-site hardware with power delivered over a wire always will be faster and cheaper than remote access.

That’s especially true if the application is complex and requires a lot of I/O. In fact, one of the more difficult tradeoffs that mobile device makers are wrestling with today is whether to do computing locally or remotely, comparing the battery drain and performance for intensive I/O versus localized computing. That’s compounded by the issue of who controls access…

dinApp runs in the cloud on dinCloud’s secure servers and can be accessed by any physical or virtual desktop or mobile device (e.g. Chromebook, Mac, Android, or Windows device). Instead of virtualizing apps within an existing infrastructure, organizations now have an easy and flexible way to minimize security threats without continuous maintenance costs, saving both time and money.
 

Rancher Labs, a developer of Docker infrastructure software, and Redapt today announced the industry’s first hyper-converged infrastructure platform for containers, greatly simplifying and reducing the cost of building a private container service from scratch.

As the de-facto standard for cloud native workloads, Docker enables vendors like Rancher Labs and Redapt to create purpose-built infrastructure stacks for containerized workloads by defining an application packaging and runtime standard. The companies are working together to leverage containers, enabling the new hyper-converged infrastructure platform that is ideal for simplifying operations, and reducing the cost of running container and cloud workloads.

SingleHop today announced AI, a first-of-its-kind, free, SaaS platform for remotely monitoring, managing, and patching servers and operating systems no matter where they are hosted – any cloud and any provider. Using advanced automation and predictive intelligence technologies, AI aggregates data from disparate server environments into one, simple-to-use, unified portal and suggests next steps, enabling IT staff to take immediate action across their entire server ecosystem. This dramatically reduces time spent on routine and repetitive tasks and speeds completion of critical actions. Account registration is now open at http://try.ai.

With the execution of one line of code, SingleHop makes what is often a multi-month process of specifying and deploying expensive monitoring and management systems a less than 60-second process. The free solution is managing tens of thousands of servers at initial rollout and is designed to scale exponentially.

Akanda is the main contributor to the OpenStack project Astara, which they will be charming as part of the CPP. It is the leading open source network orchestration solution built by OpenStack operators for real OpenStack clouds. Astara eliminates the need for complex SDN controllers, overlays and multiple plugins for cloud networking by providing a simple integrated networking stack (routing, firewall, load balancing) for connecting and securing multi­tenant OpenStack environments.