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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.

The Hibernia Networks’ EtherReach Cloud Exchange service is one of the largest network connectivity deployments for Equinix’s Cloud Exchange, to date. The first phase of the deployment includes 12 major cities located across six countries and the second phase, slated for completion in the first quarter of 2016, will expand the reach to 18 cities in eleven countries. EtherReach Cloud Exchange features a rapid service turn-up and provides a consistent level of network and application performance backed by SLA guarantees.

Pivotal, the company accelerating digital transformation for enterprises, today announced a new release of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, the comprehensive Cloud Native platform that unifies the software delivery process with an integrated application framework, platform runtime, and infrastructure automation. Pivotal Cloud Foundry now includes expanded support for Spring Cloud Services, Microsoft Azure, .NET applications, Docker images, and application lifecycle management. With these enhancements, Pivotal further enables businesses to rapidly build, deploy, and operate Cloud Native applications on a wide choice of hosted, public, and private clouds.

“The days of monolithic technologies are ending. Today’s modern enterprises practice agile software development with Cloud Native tools, process, and culture that can respond to speed of market and customer demand,” said James Watters, vice president and general manager, Cloud Platform Group, Pivotal. “Pivotal Cloud Foundry delivers a comprehensive Cloud Native application development and operations environment so you can spend time building business value instead of your IT infrastructure.”

Grazed from Barron’s.  Author: Tiernan Ray.

For 50 years, the computer-chip industry has ridden a road of economic miracles, but now it’s reaching an end, and a potential crisis is unfolding for some of the industry’s biggest names.  The phenomenon known as Moore’s Law, which held that the number of transistors on a chip doubled every two years while the cost fell by half, led to vibrant markets such as the personal computer, with ever-rising performance and falling prices.

But Moore’s Law is now breaking down, and the physics of chips is becoming treacherous. Approaching the atomic level in size, transistors have started performing less reliably, making them less efficient. Intel and other semiconductor makers have had to add extra manufacturing steps, increasing costs…

Grazed from WSJ.  Author: Robert McMillan.

On Monday morning, Meg Whitman will ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange as the brand-new company she will lead, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., begins trading. The company’s emergence will mark the end of the yearlong process of dividing Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard’s 76-year-old company in two.