Category: News

Grazed from Dell. Author: PR Announcement.

Dell recently unveiled its most advanced and easy-to-manage portfolio of PowerEdge servers, designed to help customers worldwide address and optimize the evolving spectrum of application and workload requirements. The new Dell PowerEdge portfolio– which begins with five form-factors across blade, rack and tower servers– provides customers with choice in how they address industry trends including cloud computing, mobility, big data, and software-defined.

These are factors that more than 80 percent of IT decision-makers report as investment priorities for the next 12 months, according to the Future Ready IT survey, recent worldwide research commissioned by Dell and Intel…

Grazed from VMTurbo.  Author: Webinar Announcement.

How to Deliver Real-Time Automation & Hyperscale Operations – with a VDI use case from a Fortune 50 Health Insurer

OpenSky Corp. helps transform IT infrastructure for the world’s most innovative clients, and was specifically tasked by a Fortune 50 Health Insurer to increase the efficiency of its VDI environment and guarantee zero downtime… all while scaling from 1,500 to over 25,000 seats in less than four years.

In the process, OpenSky’s Don McKeith realized that to fully deliver the project, a fundamentally different operations framework was necessary. What happened next provided insights from which every IT organization can learn…

Grazed from TechGoondu.  Author: Aaron Tan.

Robots, drones and driverless vehicles will propel the next decade of growth in the cloud computing industry, according to a Dell executive.  In an interview with Techgoondu at the Cloud Asia 2014 conference last week, Martin Yates, strategic enterprise practice director at Dell Asia-Pacific and Japan, said the increased processing power delivered over the cloud will offer unlimited possibilities in advanced automation.

“You’ll see an acceleration of cloud computing in areas like drones,” he said, noting that companies like DHL and Amazon are already using or experimenting with drones to deliver packages…

Grazed from USANews.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The Software program-Defined Data Center (SDDC) is at an early stage in its improvement, but software and hardware vendors are currently lining up to sell you SDDC items. EMC lately released its Federation Software-Defined Data Center Answer, a combined software stack that it hopes will serve as a reference architecture for all future application-defined data centers, equivalent to the way the Java EE reference architecture is a template option for several Java enterprise applications.

The objective of a SDDC is to do away with massive infrastructure boxes and replace them with network solutions dedicated to and tuned to the requirements of person applications. This will let applications to be decomposed into compute workloads, transport workloads, and storage workloads – and these many tasks can be executed wherever it makes the most sense…

Grazed from SysCon Media.  Author: Michael Bushong.

We got into the Halloween spirit here at Plexxi—check out this Plexxi pumpkin carved by our talented marketing manager, Khoa Ma!  Jack-o-lanterns aside, we know the thought of navigating trends like the Internet of Things and Big Data can be frightening, especially if you are unsure of how to approach them.

As these trends gain popularity and deployments increase, IT architects often worry about increased activity on already taxed infrastructures. Our own Mike Bushong is our resident expert on this topic and he penned an interesting blog post this week on networking’s atomic unit and “going small to scale up.” Creating smaller units of capacity makes the network easier to manage, and most importantly, scale…

Grazed from CRN.  Author: Kari Hamanaka.

The head of an early-stage security analytics company has a well-thought-out strategy for partnerships moving ahead amid what he called accelerating demand for smarter approaches to security.

Austin, Texas-based SparkCognition is just about a year old and has established partnerships with IBM Watson, SoftLayer and Power, and while most of its sales currently are direct, Founder, President and CEO Amir Husain is already in the beginning stages of building out the company’s channel…

Grazed from CIOInsight.  Author: Samuel Greengard.

The march to cloud computing has accelerated to a sprint over the last few years. Nevertheless, many CIOs and other senior executives overlook or are unable to unlock the value of clouds, according to a new report from cloud provider Canopy, in conjunction with Vanson Bourne, which recently conducted a survey of 950 CIOs, CFOs and other decision-makers.

The study found that 81 percent of CIOs and CFOs in the U.S. fear their business will become uncompetitive, with a large majority of them (74 percent) believing this will happen as soon as the next 15 months. In fact, these executives estimate that their businesses lost a collective $41 billion in revenues last year due to the lack of ideal cloud solutions…

Grazed from VirtualizationReview.  Author: Dan Kusnetzsky.

I’ve followed Splunk Inc. for quite some time and have always thought that its approach to exploring and analyzing data found in operational and machine logs to be clever and, potentially, quite useful. The company recently launched its newest edition of its enterprise product, Splunk Enterprise 6.2.

The idea is to make it easier for IT and business analysts to search through mounds of data, find patterns and glean useful and actionable insight. Splunk makes it possible for analysts to discover previously hidden relationships in their data, regardless of whether it’s being created and stored on-premises, off-premises or in a cloud service provider’s datacenter…

Grazed from BusinessWorld.  Author: Ajay Gupta.

 few years back we used to store hard copies of the images we clicked in smart, colourful albums. Those were the days when the best we could do to preserve our important documents was to put them in a folder. With the advent of today’s fast paced digital age, these safe-keeping tasks have been pushed to Cloud. Ironically, we are made to believe that our personal data is safe on some remote server that is unknown to us and out of our physical reach!

No wonder the recent series of Cloud Storage hacks and password leaks has managed to spread pandemonium amongst the enterprises and the users alike. One is left to wonder that inspite of major chinks in its armour, why are more and more number of enterprises pushing for Cloud?…

Grazed from TheVarGuy.  Author: Christopher Tozzi.

A lot of people back up their data to the cloud. But how do you back up the cloud itself? Convirture, the company that until now has specialized in cloud and virtualization management solutions, hopes to answer this question with a new backup and disaster recovery solution for the OpenStack open source cloud operating system running on the KVM hypverisor.

The tool, called Convirture Backup, "is a software-based product that provides automated, policy-based backup for OpenStack compute pools and tenants with fast," according to the company. It has a Web-based interface and is designed to work efficiently by minimizing the load on virtual and physical infrastructure, bandwidth usage and storage requirements…

Read more from the source @ http://thevarguy.com/cloud-computing-services-and-business-solutions/103114/convirture-expands-product-line-openstack-cloud-back