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Grazed from Fortune. Author: Barb Darrow.

On Monday, VMware showed off technology that it says will move working computing jobs between private and public clouds provided all the clouds involved run VMware VMW 0.11% software. An analogy would be if a car company could move an automotive assembly line between one plant and another without shutting it down. You can see the difficulty.

The crowd at VMworld 2015 applauded the demo of cross-cloud live migration but details on availability were scant. A blog post about the “Project Skyscraper” preview said the goal is to let customers “extend their data center to the public cloud and vice-a-versa by seamlessly operating across boundaries while providing enterprise-level security and business continuity.” No timeframe was given…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.

EMC is slowly, but surely pulling together the elements of its federated ecosystem to create a hybrid cloud computing platform. Under the auspices of The EMC Federation today at the VMworld 2015 conference previewed components that will be added to a Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud platform that combines elements of products and services from EMC and its VMware and Pivotal sister companies.

Berna Devrim, director of EMC cloud solutions marketing, said the goal is to make it a lot simpler to set up, deploy and manage hybrid cloud computing environments than it is today. At the core of the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Platform will be new application lifecycle automation tools that will enable IT organizations to deploy applications on topo of both VMware vSphere and OpenStack environments as well as instances of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings based on the Virtustream platform that EMC acquired in May…

Read more from the source @ http://talkincloud.com/hybrid-cloud-computing/emc-advances-case-hybrid-cloud-computing

Grazed from Zentera. Author: PR Announcement.

Zentera Systems is demonstrating its CoIP (Cloud over IP) CoNET network security fabric at Booth 1637 in VMworld 2015, August 30-September 3, San Francisco, CA. The CoNET platform allows companies to define, configure, provision, secure and manage extensive overlay networks over existing network infrastructure.

CoNET can connect company datacenters to public and private clouds, set up partner-to-partner networks, enable remote access networks and support rapid datacenter network migration. The platform leaves the existing network and security infrastructure unchanged while supporting virtual IP-based routing, security logs, 3rd party advanced threat detection, data encryption, whitelisting and cloud firewalls…

Grazed from CIO. Author: Mary K. Pratt.

At Milwaukee Tool, the long, long waits to open large CAD files were making international collaboration between engineers in the U.S. and China inefficient–and threatening the company’s goals for innovation, agility and speed. Eric Hanson, the company’s vice president of IT and business optimization, says engineers in China often had to wait multiple hours for the tool company’s design files, typically about 2GB each, to open.

Because of the lag, engineers in China saved files locally so they could be opened quickly. But that meant their changes weren’t visible to engineers in other locations, and vice versa, until files were later synced. Moreover, because engineers worked with local files, there was a chance that files might not have up-to-date information, which could lead to duplication of effort and incomplete product designs, Hanson says…

Grazed from ITWorldCanada. Author: Gary Hilson.

Moving data and workloads to the cloud can be a hefty task for enterprises and some still prefer to keep everything on-premise, so a startup has come up with a solution that decouples storage from compute. “The common assumption was to provide adequate performance, you needed to couple storage and compute,” said Issy Ben-Shaul, founder and CEO of Velostrata.

“We decided to challenge that premise.” The company enables enterprises to stream production workloads from on-premise storage into the cloud computing. The decoupling is done without sacrificing performance, he said. Ben-Shaul said most customers are looking to make use of the cloud, but there are still some key barriers. Enterprises are less likely to move workloads into the cloud if they have particularly large data sets in the terabyte range, he said…

 Grazed from TimesOf India.  Author: Kumar Saurav.

Grazed from IntelligentAerospace.  Author: Courtney Howard.

Grazed from SFGate.  Author: Benny Evangelista.

At last year’s VMworld, the big news was conference sponsor VMware announcing partnerships with big companies like Hewlett-Packard and Dell to introduce two business virtualization products.  But in July, VMware suffered a setback when HP dropped out of an agreement to bundle VMware’s Evo Rail technology with an HP system.

“We thought it was very interesting and well-intentioned, but when we look back a year later, there was just no real market traction,” said Joe Skorupa, a data center convergence analyst with the Gartner research firm…

Grazed from FierceGovernmentIT. Author: Robert Bartley.

The Defense Department Wednesday initiated two sets of policies to enforce stricter guidelines when dealing with about 10,000 contractors the department trusts with offsite cyber information. One part of the interim rule, called "Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Network Penetration Reporting and Contracting for Cloud Services," will amend the DFARS to include mandates passed in recent Defense funding bills for stricter contractor reporting rules on cyber incidents.

According to the issuance, this is part of a greater effort to streamline contractor incident reports. For their part, the National Defense Authorization Acts from two of the last three years sought to require more DoD oversight on contractor systems during potential cyberattacks. The NDAA from fiscal year 2013 (pdf) requires that cleared defense contractors report network penetrations to DoD…

Grazed from OpenDNS. Author: Editorial Staff.

OpenDNS has gone through many changes in its ten-year history as a leading cloud-delivered network security company. In 2006, the company was launched as a consumer DNS provider. In 2012, the company transitioned to cybersecurity with the release of the Umbrella network security service.

Two years later, OpenDNS announced partnerships with some of the biggest IT security vendors in the world. Next, 2015 saw a new set of APIs that allow any customer to integrate any security product with OpenDNS’s global security network. The latest change came on June 30th, when Cisco Systems announced its intent to acquire the company. Today officially marks not only the close of the acquisition, but also the first milestone in our joint efforts to accelerate Cisco’s cloud-delivered security portfolio…