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"Canonical continues to expand our SDN ecosystem to ease the deployment of OpenStack with an SDN. Midokura is an Ubuntu Cloud partner, and today Midokura Enterprise MidoNet is available to our customers through the MidoNet Juju Charm. The simplicity and agility inherent in MEM’s distributed architecture is now easier to deploy with OpenStack," said John Zannos, Canonical VP of WW Alliances and Ecosystem. "With this seamless integration in place, Ubuntu OpenStack and MEM will be deployable in minutes using Juju and the MidoNet Juju Charm."

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Grazed from CloudComputing. Author: Graham Jarvis.

Over a number of years there has been a long and hard fought battle to secure the ability to‘accelerate anywhere’any data type to, from and across a cloud area network (ClAN) to allow fast access to applications, or to secure data as a part of a back-up and archiving strategy. According to Claire Buchanan, chief commercial officer at self-configuring infrastructure optimise networks (SCION) vendor Bridgeworks, this battle is still ongoing. With the use of traditional WAN optimisation techniques the long drawn out battle has still to be won.

“It may not long be the case as with the advent of machine intelligence and technologies such as SCION, The problem has been that of small pipes and the inability to accelerate data. Therefore, the use of deduping and compression tools have been the only way to gain a perceived performance improvement”, she explains…

Grazed from EINNews. Author: PR Announcement.

Conference Concepts today announced announced its new event for data center architects and their ecosystem. The SDI Summit highlights the positive impact of SDI on Big Data, cloud computing, real-time analysis, and the storage explosion, all without busting budgets or adding staff. The Summit will be on December 1-3 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Registration is now open at the event website.

SDI helps data centers respond easily and rapidly to new requirements and business needs. With it, a data center can use both local and cloud resources to roll out new services and applications quickly. The center can also scale to handle ever-increasing amounts of data. The Summit begins with day-long pre-conference seminars to bring attendees up-to-date on key topics…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: William Terdoslavich.

IBM is pushing Apache Spark into the IBM Cloud and expanding its reach into a number of analytic and commerce platforms. "We do talk about Spark as being an operating system," said Beth Smith, IBM’s general manager for analytics platforms. "We see it…as enabling more analytic applications for more users."

IBM will provide Apache Spark as a service on Bluemix, IBM’s cloud platform. IBM will also be pushing Spark into BigInsights on Bluemix, as well as IBM’s Data Science Workbench and its SPSS Analytics Server and Modeler. Some of these efforts have quietly rolled out in recent weeks though all became official on Oct. 26, Smith said…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Oracle simplified the process of unlocking business value from big data today with the announcement of Oracle Cloud Platform for Big Data. As part of the world’s most complete Platform as a Service portfolio, Oracle Cloud Platform for Big Data is uniquely positioned to enable customers to maximize the value of their data and accelerate time-to-insight.

The new services, Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service, Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service, Oracle Big Data Discovery Cloud Service and Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service, complement Oracle’s Big Data Cloud Service and Big Data SQL Cloud Service, forming a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for big data in the cloud that enables customers to integrate, aggregate, prepare and discover real-time insights from any and all data sources…

DH2i Company, recently named a Cool Vendor by Gartner in the "Cool Vendors in Servers and Virtualization, 2015" report, today announced that its DxEnterprise container management software has achieved Microsoft Platform Ready status. Now certified across a number of Windows Server and SQL Server platforms, the designation demonstrates that DxEnterprise has successfully completed a highly detailed validation process.

Certified for Windows Server logo demonstrates that a mission critical or line-of business application meets Microsoft’s highest technical bar for Windows fundamentals, best practices and platform compatibility; attesting to efficient deployment capabilities in the Cloud and the Enterprise.   

DxEnterprise has achieved Microsoft certification for the following platforms: 

The Affymetrix data center, until recently, had very limited virtualization. They were burdened by a custom application development process that required physical hardware to be deployed for each project, requiring extensive investment and manpower. They needed greater agility, flexibility, and better use of system and people resources.

VeloCloud Networks Inc., the Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN company, today announced that its SD-WAN solution is now BroadSoft Validated. Service Providers and enterprises can now architect, design and implement Unified Communications (UC) solutions for the long term, secure in the knowledge that they are using both the best-in-class communications platform and SD-WAN solution.

VeloCloud Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN delivers enterprise-grade reliability and performance for Unified Communications Services over Internet and Hybrid WAN networks. It seamlessly integrates with existing service provider networks and is a transformational approach for WAN architectures. VeloCloud enables unified elastic bandwidth, provides direct and optimal access to cloud-based applications, simplifies deployment of services, and improves operational automation. Global service providers are able to increase revenue, deliver advanced services and increase flexibility. VeloCloud’s cloud-based multi-tenant orchestrator provides MSPs with configuration management, zero touch provisioning, and a single pane of glass for monitoring and troubleshooting end-to-end network quality and status.

Ruxit, a division of Digital Performance software company Dynatrace, today announced findings from a new survey titled: The State of Containers and the Docker Ecosystem 2015. The report identifies key issues facing organizations using containers, including in-production application performance monitoring to achieve even more successful container deployments. Download the complete survey report and infographic here.

The report, conducted by O’Reilly Media in collaboration with Ruxit, provides insights into adoption, use, and challenges of container technologies like Docker. Survey participants represent 138 companies across a wide range of industries, including software, consulting, publishing and media, education, cloud services, hardware, retail, government and others.