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Exclusive VMware will add database-backup-as-a-service to its vCloud Air cloud in June, the company’s veep and general manager of hybrid cloud Bill Fathers has told The Register.

The service will be based on technology VMware acquired last year along with Continuent, a provider of clustering, replication and disaster recovery services for databases. The new services, due to launch in June, will mean it becomes possible to replicate databases into vCloud air, sync them, and move operations into the VMware cloud as a disaster recovery option should that become necessary.

Extending Security and Data Protection in Cloud Environments

Because SoftNAS was created in the cloud and developed its software on industry standard open source technologies, SoftNAS Cloud Version 3.3 is hypervisor, platform, and hardware agnostic, which offers strong security and flexibility. SoftNAS can also front-end traditional storage solutions and storage area networks (SANs) for greater flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership. New features include:

“5nine is looking forward to participating in the Microsoft premier event of the year as an exhibitor and presenter,” said Symon Perriman, VP of Business Development and Marketing, 5nine Software. “Ignite is a great opportunity for us to meet and greet our customers, partners and community members as well as introduce the new solution for Azure Pack to the audience.”

Grazed from Forbes.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

Cloud computing — in its current form — has been around for well over a decade now.  While it takes on many dimensions, the earliest roots of current-day cloud formations can be traced back to 1999 with the launch of Salesforce.com, and to 2004,with the first Amazon Web Services offering.

With all this activity going on year after, enterprises have accumulated some key lessons on what cloud is and is not all about. So, what have we learned, more than a decade in?…

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Jeff Fleece.

The ladder to the cloud is missing a few rungs. At least, that is the conclusion of 276 IT professionals recently polled in a survey commissioned by Sungard Availability Services*. In the survey, the top three reasons indicated for why cloud computing implementations fail were:

• lack of understanding of cloud security and compliance (indicated by 56% of respondents)
• lack of clearly-identified business objectives for migrating to the cloud (55%)
• lack of planning (42%)

Those are three gaping holes in the ladder to a successful cloud implementation, and I believe that mistaken beliefs are at the core of each one…

Grazed from EnterpriseTech.  Author: Alison Diana.
 

There’s a temptation to view the many flavors of cloud as the solution to all an enterprise’s network, storage, and infrastructure challenges. But simply transitioning existing processes to the cloud without scrutinizing every element from a security perspective compounds current vulnerabilities and creates new problems.

Despite the risks, between 40 percent and 60 percent of enterprises today do not always review these processes before moving to cloud, according to CompTIA’sTrends in Information Security Study, published March 2015. Risks include security gaps; moving some processes back to on-premise systems, or switching cloud providers – time-consuming, expensive, and sometimes risky…

Grazed from Fortune.  Author: Jonathan Vanian.

If you needed another reminder that the personal computer business is continuing to slump, look no further than Intel’s flat first quarter revenues that it blamed on people being uninterested in buying PCs.

But as those sales continue to decline, Intel sees a bright light when it comes to selling microchips to data center operators and cloud companies that handle computing for their customers. Intel expects this business will contribute more heavily to its future revenue. It’s just a question of whether that business will grow fast enough to offset the public’s lack of interest in desktop computers…

Enterprises and service providers operating modern data centers need to create an infrastructure that has higher capacity, is less complex, and allows for fast and affordable addition of standard and new services. They require an approach that supports new, more fluid application architectures with greater agility and efficiency. Flexible programmable network is vital in providing service agility. Incumbent networking solutions are generally proprietary in nature with an emphasis on tight integration between custom hardware and software, leading to network solutions that are expensive, complex, without common management toolkits to orchestrate, automate, administer, operate, monitor and maintain. This complexity at the management plane, leads to increased vulnerability to both systems and operator errors, and high CapEx and OpEx cost structures.

According to the report, “Most service providers that are deploying DaaS are looking for simplicity in managing these complex and distributed environments, and that’s what IndependenceIT has developed. Now, with Microsoft RemoteApp support, IndependenceIT partners have yet another service to offer. In many cases, published applications are all that customers need for their end users, but the Azure RemoteApp tools to manage those environments across multiple clouds aren’t as robust as the ones that come with the CWS platform. Not only that, CWS is hypervisor- and cloud-agnostic, and those features have proven to be very important to DaaS customers and partners.”