Category: News

October 27, 2015 Off

DH2i DxEnterprise, Container Management Software, Achieves Microsoft Platform Ready Validation

By David
Grazed from DH2i Company

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: 

October 27, 2015 Off

Affymetrix Reduces Time to Configure and Deploy Desktops by 94% With Gridstore VDI

By David
Grazed from Affymetrix and Gridstore

Gridstore, a leader in hyper-converged all flash infrastructure for the Microsoft Cloud-Inspired Data Center today announced that Affymetrix, a pioneer in microarray technology and genomics analysis, has chosen the Gridstore HyperConverged All-Flash Appliances to address their need for a solution that would provide greater agility and lower TCO in supporting the organization’s short and long-term IT development projects.

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.

October 27, 2015 Off

VeloCloud Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN Solution is BroadSoft Validated

By David
Grazed from VeloCloud Networks.

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.

October 27, 2015 Off

Nearly Half of Companies Adopting Containers See In-Production Monitoring as Key to Success

By David
Grazed from Ruxit.

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.

Since Docker launched in 2013, more than 800 million containers have been pulled from the public Docker Hub and this technology continues to capture the attention of developers and operators alike. While container use is skyrocketing there are barriers to success that need to be addressed.
October 27, 2015 Off

CloudBerry Releases Easy-to-Use Cloud Backup Solution for Oracle Databases

By David
Grazed from CloudBerry Lab.

CloudBerry Lab, a vendor of backup and management solutions for cloud storage services, today announced the immediate availability of CloudBerry Backup for Oracle Database: http://www.cloudberrylab.com/oracle. This backup solution is so easy-to-use that customers can simply set and forget – their databases will be automatically protected — with backups stored in the Oracle Database Backup Cloud and a data restore capability that is both simple to use and free.

The solution is based on Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) and the RMAN cloud backup module which provides backup and recovery capabilities to Oracle Cloud, and includes all the features customers expect from a CloudBerry Backup solution, including easy scheduling setup, 256-bit AES encryption, compression and email notifications.

October 27, 2015 Off

VMware to Work With Oracle to Use ACE Best Practices for Oracle Mobile Cloud Service

By David
Grazed from VMware and Oracle.

Today at Oracle OpenWorld, VMware announced Oracle will use ACE (App Configuration for Enterprise) best practices to help deliver secure enterprise applications to mobile devices. The Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, which includes the Mobile Application Framework, will be compatible with the ACE approach.

ACE is an enterprise mobility management (EMM)-neutral community focused on providing education and best practices around native operating system capabilities to drive a more consistent, open and simple way to configure and secure mobile apps and drive mobile adoption in business. AirWatch is one of the founding companies of ACE.

Oracle Mobile Cloud Service is an enterprise-quality Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), and provides easy to use tools for business professionals to analyze and mine data about usage of the MBaaS. It simplifies and secures the process of connecting mobile applications to enterprise systems and other cloud services.

October 27, 2015 Off

Cavium to Demonstrate Solutions for Cloud Infrastructure and Scale-Out Applications at OpenStack Summit Tokyo

By David
Grazed from Cavium

Cavium, Inc. a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, will demonstrate ThunderX and LiquidIO II based solutions for private and public cloud infrastructure and scale out applications at the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo.  The OpenStack Summit is a four-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software and is held from Tuesday October 27th through Thursday October 29th.

Cavium Product Highlights and Demonstrations (Booth T31)

Cavium’s LiquidIO II Intelligent Server adapters fully support and seamlessly integrate OpenStack software. This functionality includes:

October 27, 2015 Off

Midokura Launches New Network Virtualization Solution to Support OpenStack Liberty Release and Soaring Popularity in Containers

By David
Grazed from Midokura.

Midokura, the global innovator in software network virtualization, today announced the latest release of its award-winning Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) technology, a scalable network virtualization solution designed for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds. The production-ready, enterprise-grade new MEM release supports Liberty — the latest OpenStack release — as well as the growing popularity of containers in the modern enterprise.

"Much like the recently unveiled OpenStack Liberty release, our new MEM technology delivers on the industry’s requests of a diverse community of OpenStack and container users," said Dan Dumitriu, CEO of Midokura. "There’s a clear pent-up demand for automation as infrastructure density increases and our new technology release squarely addresses this."

October 27, 2015 Off

SUSE Offers Beta Preview of SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6

By David
Grazed from SUSE

SUSE has launched beta testing of SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6, giving customers an early look at the latest enterprise-ready technology for building Infrastructure-as-a-Service private clouds. Based on the OpenStack release Liberty, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 delivers high availability enhancements and non-disruptive upgrades along with Docker and IBM z Systems mainframe support to ease the transition of business-critical applications and data to the cloud. The Liberty-based beta will be demonstrated during this week’s OpenStack Summit in Tokyo and at SUSECon in Amsterdam Nov. 2-6.

"The key enhancements in SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 are a result of SUSE listening closely to our customers and focusing on delivering the functionality they need to help their businesses thrive," said Michael Miller, SUSE vice president of global alliances and marketing. "They need a robust and stress-free cloud that drives innovation. Improved high availability, non-disruptive upgrades and the inclusion of Docker support directly address these concerns. As the OpenStack market continues its rapid growth, we’re staying focused on enterprise customers and meeting their business-critical requirements."

October 27, 2015 Off

Oracle Cloud Applications Drive Business Transformation Around the World

By David
Grazed from Oracle.

Organizations worldwide are increasingly adopting Oracle Cloud Applications to grow faster, differentiate from competitors and better serve their customers. A complete and fully integrated suite of cloud applications for every function in the enterprise, Oracle Cloud Applications enable organizations across all industries to quickly and easily adopt modern best practices, increase business agility, reduce complexity and costs, and succeed in a digital world.

To deliver the experiences customers expect, attract and retain the talent required to succeed, and achieve the performance that today’s digital economy demands, organizations across all industries need to transform their critical business functions and embrace modern best practices. This transformation requires complete, integrated and modern business applications that provide business users with quick and easy access to social, mobile and analytic capabilities.