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Grazed from CloudComputingNews. Author: Editorial Staff.

Those who implement cloud computing in general, and AWS in particular, are often confused by the role that managed services providers play. Cost and simplicity are driving the movement to leverage AWS through managed services providers as enterprises look for more ways to consume AWS services. These services are easier to mix and match with existing applications, and provide a better and more effective way to leverage AWS.

Managed services providers can place a well-defined layer of infrastructure, management, and governance between the cloud provider, in this case, AWS, and those who consume AWS as a managed service. Managed service providers get enterprises on-boarded quickly to AWS, and avoid initial issues that many enterprises encounter when going directly to AWS…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.

Numerify on Wednesday said it has raised $15 million in funding to continue building out its cloud-based business analytics product portfolio. Sequoia Capital led the Series B financing round, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners; Amit Singh, president of Google for Work; Deep Nishar, senior vice president of products and user experience at LinkedIn; and Lane Bess, former CEO of Palo Alto Networks.

The Cupertino, California-based company provides IT business analytics through Numerify360, its cloud-native platform that assists organizations with gaining visibility into IT assets through each stage of their productive use. Numerify said it will use the additional funds to expand its marketing sales and efforts, as it seeks to double the size of the company in the next year. It also plans to fill out its suite of cloud analytics applications…

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Grazed from WhaTech. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing has topped the list of industry sectors in which venture capitalists feel most confident about investing, for the second year in a row, according to the 2014 Global Venture Capital Confidence Survey, from Deloitte and the US based National Venture Capital.

The tenth annual survey, conducted in May and June of 2014, questioned more than 300 venture capital, private equity and growth equity investors in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. It sought to assess investor confidence in the global venture capital environment and understand market factors shaping industries and investments in specific geographies and industry sectors…

Grazed from MidsizeInsider. Author: Doug Bonderud.

While the cloud is a "very viable scenario," there are some things that do not belong in the cloud, such as nuclear command and control, says David Bennett, CIO of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), a Department of Defense cloud computing broker. Sure, midsize companies may not have the power to level nations and scorch the earth, but there is solid advice here — the cloud is ideal for many things, but not for everything.

Shields Up

According to a recent CIO article, Bennett has a message for the leaders of other agencies: "carefully consider which data sources and applications are suitable for a remotely hosted and managed environment." His feeling is that certain assets must stay behind local perimeters. Determining what is suitable for the cloud means taking a hard look at existing data sources and applications to identify "crown jewels" that are better safe than as-a-service. He also calls out the need for continuous monitoring that goes beyond watching data to cover an entire business network, everything from application behavior to bandwidth use to employee activity. And of course, it is critical to have access to this monitoring data in real-time…

Grazed from PCMag. Author: Damon Poeter.

Broadcom on Wednesday introduced a new line of high-density, 25/100 gigabit Ethernet switches for cloud-scale data centers. The new StrataXGS Tomahawk Series is currently sampling to equipment makers, software developers, network operators and OS vendors, and interconnect solution providers, the company said.

StrataXGS Tomahawk Ethernet switches are the "first to deliver 32 ports of 100GE, 64 ports of 40GE/50GE, or 128 ports of 25GE on a single chip," helping cloud service operators scale out quicker and more affordably, according to Broadcom. The additional bandwidth and support for the new 25GE and 50GE protocol standards provided by the new Tomahawk switches should appeal to builders of high performance computing (HPC) environments as well as "mega data center" operators building out leaf-spine networking architectures, the company said…

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Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Daniel Robinson.

Oracle has officially released its Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux, its distribution of the OpenStack cloud framework that integrates with Oracle Linux and the Oracle VM Server virtualisation platform, providing customers with increased choice and interoperability when building cloud infrastructure, the firm said.

Available as a free download from Oracle’s Public Yum Server and the Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN), Oracle’s OpenStack build installs on top of Oracle Linux and allows users to operate virtual machines using any guest operating system supported by Oracle VM Server, including Microsoft Windows, Oracle Solaris and other versions of Linux…

Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Roland Moore-Colyer.

Cloud is one of the biggest trends in the IT industry, driving revenues for major technology brands and changing the way organisations manage their IT infrastructures and processes. As such, virtually every major technology firm has its approach to adopting the cloud, and Dell recently outlined its cloud strategy at the company’s 2014 Solutions Summit attended by V3.

However, unlike other tech giants, Dell’s approach, according to Nick Hyner, EMEA director of Cloud Services at Dell, is to act as a facilitator of cloud adoption for enterprises, rather than provide its own cloud services. This might come as a surprise as Dell – a manufacturer of servers and a provider of cloud-ready tools, with vast resources at its disposal – might be expected to set up its own service similar to that of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Cloud…

Grazed from Investors. Author: Reinhardt Krause.

Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) would face big challenges taking on U.S. cloud computing service giants, which have boosted capital spending to expand data centers globally, says Oppenheimer. A TechCrunch report speculated that Alibaba, which raised $25 billion in its initial public offering on Friday, could use its war chest to challenge Amazon Web Services, part of e-commerce leader Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN); Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT).

Oppenheimer analyst Tim Horan says Alibaba would be playing catch-up. "We believe that the three dominant U.S. cloud providers are years ahead of any potential competition," Horan wrote in a report. "Alibaba would almost certainly need to build out a massive data center infrastructure within the U.S. to gain any sort of traction, since we doubt U.S. enterprises would be willing to store their proprietary data in China regardless of cost…

Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: Editorial Staff.

Red Hat Inc. CEO Jim Whitehurst says the IT industry is undergoing a momentous shift from the client-server model to cloud-mobile, and the vendor of enterprise Linux and other open source software is pushing to come out the other end on top. In the blog post, "Only a Matter of Time, Cloud Winners Will Be Chosen Soon," Whitehurst yesterday outlined recent moves and successes of the company while letting everyone know that enterprise cloud vendor supremacy is the next target.

"Right now, we’re in the midst of a major shift from client-server to cloud-mobile," Whitehurst said. "It’s a once-every-20-years kind of change. As history has shown us, in the early days of those changes, winners emerge that set the standards for that era — think Wintel in the client-server arena…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Editorial Staff.

Nigel Beighton, VP Technology, Rackspace, discusses the five most common cloud problems customers face, and how businesses can overcome these.

1. Support

The most common cloud services complaint is the lack of support and management that comes when businesses are embarking on any level of cloud migration. Businesses need to consider their wider approach to cloud operations first and ask themselves if they are going to run it internally, 24×7 or get someone else to do the hard work of scaling, automation controls and data recovery when needed. Businesses that have a trained staff-base can do this internally, but many don’t so an understanding and sympathetic support layer cannot be overvalued…