Category: News

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.”

Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE provides a simple solution for backing up Windows-based desktops and laptops. It’s so easy to install that users can be up and running in just a couple of minutes. And it’s just as easy to use. With Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE, users can back up endpoints to an external hard drive, network shared folder or a Veeam Backup & Replication™ repository. If a user’s system crashes, hard drive fails, or files get corrupted or accidentally deleted, they can recover whatever they need in minutes. Even better, Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE enables the creation of bootable recovery media, which helps users to fix issues with their machine which may prevent the operating system from booting, or even reset the Local Administrator account’s password.

Citrix CloudBridge provides a unified platform that connects and accelerates applications, and optimizes bandwidth across public cloud and private networks. The only WAN optimization solution with integrated, secure, transparent cloud connectivity, CloudBridge allows enterprises to augment their datacenter with the infinite capacity and elastic efficiency provided by public cloud providers.

Citrix CloudBridge demo appliance updates

Citrix partners can now can order demo units for the full CloudBridge hardware appliance lineup: 400, 800, 1000WS, 2000, 2000WS, 3000, 4000 and 5000. This expanded offering gives you the flexibility to showcase the scale of the CloudBridge portfolio while demonstrating the current WAN optimization solution and the upcoming virtual WAN solution.

LightEdge’s Workplace Cloud allows our customers to extend the reach of not only their legacy applications, but also traditional Windows applications and data to next generation end user devices and prolongs the lifespan of aging equipment. Customer’s applications—Windows, legacy, client-server—can now be made available through customer app store portals just like next generation cloud and SaaS architectures.

Nexenta (@Nexenta), the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that the Nexenta User Community is growing in record numbers by serving as a driver of OpenSDS innovation. The Nexenta User Community gives thousands of IT professionals a forum to discuss the latest in software-defined storage solutions and the ability to work with new open source releases unavailable anywhere else. Participation in the Community is a driver of Nexenta’s OpenSDS innovation, architectures, solutions, and software and hardware platforms.

• Over 100,000 Nexenta Community Edition solution transactions at no cost.
• Over 46,000 users and community members.
• Over 10,000 questions and comments.

 “As a NexentaStor Community Edition (CE) user for over 4 years now, I continually see the benefit from using the community edition as this provides me with a great solution for home lab use, as well as being able to spread the word into the enterprise and having a solid background on the solution,” said Larry Smith Jr., a Nexenta community member. “If all companies provided a community edition to home users for their labs, now that would be amazing.”

SkyLIGHT^™ VCX, the industry’s first performance assurance controller employing Network Function Virtualization (NFV) to bring advanced monitoring capabilities network-wide, without the need for expensive, high-end test equipment. By eliminating key cost, scalability, and coverage barriers to network performance visibility, service providers can now more cost-effectively ensure a better quality of experience (QoE) for users.

"We are honored to receive an INTERNET TELEPHONY NFV Pioneer Award, recognizing the effort and innovation put into our NFV-powered vCPE solution," said Patrick Ostiguy, President & CEO of Accedian Networks. "The VCX is a radically more efficient approach to network performance monitoring, combining all the benefits of virtualization without compromising test speed or precision."