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"The advances we’re making across the Cloud Foundry ecosystem are inspiring," said Cloud Foundry Foundation CEO Sam Ramji, "The world’s leading companies in every market are building their businesses on Cloud Foundry. More importantly, they’re joining the cause and signing up as members to take a hands-on role in building out critical capabilities for their shared future."

Project Promotions
The Foundation’s Runtime PMC has promoted the Diego, Garden and Greenhouse projects from incubating status to active status. Diego is a cutting-edge version of the Cloud Foundry runtime layer, providing a more flexible architecture. Garden is Cloud Foundry’s container orchestration layer. Greenhouse enables support for .NET within the platform. Together, these projects significantly enhance the capabilities of Cloud Foundry by including native support for Docker containers and .NET applications.

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.

As Larry Ellison said in his Oracle OpenWorld keynote last week, when it comes to the public cloud, it’s early days for the enterprise. Amazon Web Services may now enjoy $7.3 billion in annual revenue and 81 percent year-over-year growth, but the proportion of enterprise workloads running in the public cloud remains a small slice.

From that perspective, Oracle’s entry into IaaS last week doesn’t seem as late as it otherwise might. Three years ago the company jumped into SaaS and PaaS. Last week Oracle president Thomas Kurian announced that an Elastic Compute Cloud was on its way, along with two new Storage Cloud services and a Network Cloud. For all you Docker fans out there, a Container Cloud is coming, too…

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Customers deploying Red Hat solutions on Microsoft Azure will have the flexibility and choices in moving to hybrid cloud computing, according to latest deal between the two companies. Under the terms of the deal, Microsoft will offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure.

In addition, Microsoft and Red Hat are also working together to address common enterprise, ISV and developer needs for building, deploying and managing applications on Red Hat software across private and public clouds. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise division said this partnership is a powerful win for enterprises, ISVs and developers…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Claire Hopping.

IBM has bought cloud brokerage software developer Gravitant in an effort to boost the company’s hybrid cloud and enterprise offerings. Gravitant helps companies assess, buy and manage the best cloud computing services for their business from multiple vendors, meaning no lock-in and greater flexibility for both employees and IT departments.

IBM is looking to bolster its hybrid cloud and enterprise computing services to make them more attractive for decision makers who want to embrace the cloud by opening up their infrastructure. Doing so allows employees to use services hosted on-premise, on public cloud services, and those running on IBM’s own private cloud servers…

The goal of Microsoft’s Enterprise Cloud Alliance is to create, nurture and grow a strong eco-system across a broad set of Enterprise Cloud Products delivering the best on premise, hosted and Public Cloud solutions in the industry. The Alliance was formed to promote and support partners providing integrations and extensions to existing Microsoft products.  As part of Microsoft’s Enterprise Cloud Alliance, Sphere 3D will provide its flagship application containerization platform, Glassware 2.0, which enables Azure users to modernize and upgrade any application to any connected device, and its SnapCLOUD virtual Networked Attached Storage (NAS) solution, which facilitates easy deployment of enterprise storage in the cloud or in a hybrid cloud environment.

ExtraHop, the global leader in real-time wire data analytics for IT and business intelligence, today announced the fifth generation of its platform. The company’s latest innovation positions ExtraHop as a pioneer in real-time stream analytics for all data-in-motion with market-leading dynamic discovery and universal observation capabilities. These features, when paired with the new ExtraHop Explore appliance, deliver sophisticated historical search and multi-dimensional analysis of all wire data. Extended Open Data Stream capabilities include support for Kafka and REST, delivering correlation and contextualization to extract value from a wider array of datasets.

In his October 2015 report, "Causal Analysis Makes Availability and Performance Data Actionable," Gartner Research VP Will Cappelli wrote: "Recognition that more data does not equate to availability and performance process improvement is cascading across global enterprises. As a result, users have begun to insist that any ITOA solution should focus not only on the ingestion, storage and access to data, but also on tools for making that data meaningful and actionable."

5nine Software, the leading global Hyper-V virtualization security and management provider, and Hostway Services, Inc., an innovative leader in Web & App Hosting, Cloud, Managed, and Hybrid Hosting services, have joined forces to ensure tenants are now able to easily manage their own Windows and Linux security policies through the Azure Pack self-service portal. 5nine Cloud Security, the only Security as a Service (SECaaS) solution for Windows Azure Pack, now allows Hostway to secure multi-tenant environments and virtual machines (VMs), while giving users the ability to easily configure firewalls, intrusion detection, and more.

Quadric Software—specializing in XenServer backup and disaster recovery solutions—introduces a major shift in its Alike product line to respond to the changing nature of virtual infrastructure. Alike v4.0 introduces a web-based management console and backup vaulting to Amazon S3 storage, both of which enable Alike to protect cloud assets and leverage the cloud as a backup medium.

Centrify, the leader in securing enterprise identities against cyberthreats, today announced that it has formed technology integration partnerships with five leading cloud access security brokers (CASBs): Cloudlock, Elastica, Imperva, Netskope and Skyhigh Networks. These integrations – coupled with Centrify’s proven leadership in end user and privileged user identity security – enables IT to confidently deploy cloud applications to all employees, while staying safe, secure and compliant.

SaaS applications like Salesforce.com, Office 365, Dropbox, Box, Google Apps and more are now a compelling option for enterprises looking to streamline their business and increase productivity. But as employees access those apps through their own devices, and from outside the corporate network, organisations are increasingly exposed to security risks.

The combination of CASB and Centrify’s Identity Service gives enterprises control over cloud applications by assuring that these applications are used for business purposes and are protected against data leakage – all without any compromise in performance or security.