Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public clouds, has announced that it has been selected by cloud hosting provider HOSTING to expedite customer onboarding to its enterprise-class managed cloud hosting infrastructure.
Racemi’s DynaCenter server imaging technology quickly migrates data even between dissimilar physical, virtual or private cloud platforms, reducing the onboarding process from days to minutes.
HOSTING has implemented Racemi’s migration technology at its six data centers across the United States, from which it serves over 4,000 customers. The faster ramp up will accelerate the return on investment for HOSTING customers.
“Manually migrating data takes time and can be expensive. Racemi’s technology in combination with HOSTING services will make moving business-critical applications quicker and more cost-effective than ever before for our customers,” said John Vernazza, vice president, Enterprise Solutions at HOSTING.
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Stackdriver Launches Intelligent Monitoring Service Public Beta
Stackdriver has launched the public beta of Stackdriver Intelligent Monitoring, a flexible and intuitive SaaS offering that provides rich insight into the health of cloud-powered systems, infrastructure, and applications. The service features seamless integration with Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Cloud and is optimized for teams that manage complex distributed applications. Customers can access the service immediately via the company’s website at www.stackdriver.com.
Stackdriver’s engineers set out to build a solution that:
- Monitors applications, systems, and infrastructure components,
- Identifies anomalies using modern analytics and machine learning, and
- Drives remediation and automation using a proprietary policy framework.
Edmodo, a leading social learning platform that runs on AWS, has relied on Stackdriver for several months. “The technology stack that powers Edmodo’s online learning platform is very sophisticated. We use a variety of application building blocks, including AWS services and open source server software,” noted Kimo Rosenbaum, Infrastructure Architect. “Before Stackdriver, we monitored our stack with many disparate tools, often designed without the dynamic nature of the cloud in mind. With Stackdriver, we can monitor our systems, AWS services, and applications with one simple interface built for cloud-based services.”
Stackdriver Intelligent Monitoring is available free of charge for companies using Amazon Web Services and Rackspace Cloud. Today, Stackdriver manages nearly 100,000 cloud resources and processes over 125 million measurements per day. Nearly 100 customers, paid and non-paid, use the service, including Edmodo, Yellowhammer Media, Exablox, Atomwise, Qthru, and Webkite.
Cloud Expo New York: Security for Cloud Computing
Enterprises should have a clear understanding of potential security benefits and risks associated with cloud computing to set realistic expectations with their cloud provider. With this baseline knowledge, enterprises can effect changes in security and privacy that are in the best interest of the organization.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Todd M. Moore, IBM Director – Interoperability and Partnerships, Director – OpenStack Foundation, share his experience on how to analyze and respond to the security implications for cloud computing.
Learn about the “Security for Cloud Computing: 10 Steps to Ensure Success” white paper from the Cloud Standards Customer Council and understand the strategies designed to help decision makers evaluate and compare security offerings.
The Polyglot PaaS Platform
This simple phrase encapsulates so much more than just the notion of platforms capable of supporting multiple development languages. It comprises the notion of an operationalized polyglot platform, one that brings standardization to operations while providing flexibility for developers to choose the right tool (language) for the job (application).
To understand why this is so important (and game-changing) you have to understand traditional enterprise application platforms. They are largely single-language platforms (think .NET and Java EE) that are operationalized only in the sense that scripting languages are capable of remotely modifying platform configurations and restarting the daemon. Enterprise organizations have long standardized on a few key platforms as a means to constrain the costs associated with licensing (OSS gained traction this way) and more importantly, administrative overhead.
BMC Could Reportedly Go for Around $6.5 Billion
Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital are the leading contenders to buy BMC Software for more than $6.5 billion, according to Reuters, which says they made a binding offer on April 22.
The price the pair offered was more than that of a rival consortium consisting of KKR, TPG Capital and Thoma Bravo.
The wire service couldn’t learn the exact bid but it appears to be in the range of $45-$50 a share. Expecting a deal the stock is currently trading at $45 and change for a market cap of $6.51 billion.
The rival consortium could sweeten the pot or BMC could decide not to sell. But it appears it will try to finalize a deal in the coming days.
Build Your Private Cloud in a Month
My fellow Technical Evangelists and I have authored a content series that steps through building your very own Private Cloud by leveraging Windows Server 2012, our FREE Hyper-V Server 2012, Windows Azure Infrastructure Services ( IaaS ) and System Center 2012 Service Pack 1.
Week-by-week, we walk through the steps to envision, plan and implement your very own Private Cloud to take your existing data center to the next level and give you the tools and time back in your day for improving IT services and being able to change and shift with your business / IT needs.
Choosing a Cloud Protection Gateway Provider | Part 2
In a recent blog post, we discussed the emergence of Cloud Protection Gateways as a solution for enterprises looking to protect sensitive cloud data by keeping that data under their complete control. We started looking at the vetting process enterprises undertake when they are selecting a Cloud Protection Gateway Provider.
Since it is a decision with implications across the enterprise, we recognize that there are a variety of teams within the organization that should be included in the selection process. We began last time by looking at the information the Security Team needs to make an informed decision about a provider. Other groups to involve include the Governance & Risk team, Information Technology team and End User team.
Cloud Expo New York: XenServer in Datacenters of the Future
With more than one million downloads to date, Citrix XenServer has become a leading server virtualization platform powering some of the world’s largest production clouds.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Tim Mackey, XenServer Evangelist at Citrix Systems, will offer real-world stories about the value XenServer 6.1 is delivering and how daily operations for a fully virtualized environment are managed. Plus, learn about future capabilities in the product roadmap, and get an insider’s view on how XenServer will be leveraged in datacenters of the future.
Federating Application Network Services with BIG-IQ
We were serious about getting serious about managing hybrid cloud and federating application network services
Last month I brought up the need to manage application network services – load balancing, acceleration, optimization, application security.. you know, application services that live in the data path.
These services are what address concerns that Our customers (and I’m sure the market at large) are having regarding application deployments. It’s not the case that these services are any less needed or desired to address concerns related to cloud and emerging architectures, it’s that they need to be more automated, more elastically scaled, and more broadly deployed across a variety of environments.
That’s where BIG-IQ Cloud comes in. It’s the first application available on our new BIG-IQ platform and its focus is on (as you might guess from the name) cloud.
12th Cloud Expo | Speaker Faculty A–Z
With Cloud Expo New York (12th Cloud Expo) now under six weeks away, let’s remind you in greater detail about all the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference…