Asigra Inc., on Thursday announced it has been named as one of the Top 20 Coolest Cloud Vendors of 2014 by CRN. The annual list recognizes the most innovative cloud storage vendors and solutions tailored to address the channel industry’s unique needs. Asigra was honored for its cloud-based data recovery solution and the company’s unique recovery-based pricing model.
Each year, CRN honors the 20 Coolest Cloud Storage Vendors in an effort to help solution providers navigate the growing cloud marketplace and identify the best solutions to support the IT channel. Winners are named across the category for platforms and tools, infrastructure, hardware and software, based on data and information gathered from both solution provider nominations and the CRN editorial team.
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IceWEB Enters into Consulting Agreement with Open Data Centers
IceWEB has signed a consulting agreement along with a separate Joint Marketing and Sales Agreement with Open Data Centers, LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company («ODC») and 1stPoint Communications, LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company (“FP”). ODC will provide operational and sales expertise to enhance the capabilities and operations of IceWEB’s Computers & Tele-com, Inc. and KCNAP, LLC subsidiaries (“collectively “CTC”) in Kansas City, Missouri. In addition, CTC, KCNAP, FP and ODC will jointly market and sell their services.
“We are very pleased to welcome Mr. Levitt to our team, and look forward to his participation in furthering IceWEB’s operational objectives,” stated Hal Compton, Sr., IceWEB’s Chairman and Interim CEO. “He contributes his experience and expertise in many areas of the information technology, telecommunications and data center fields, and brings a valuable perspective on the issues and opportunities facing the Company. In addition, we believe that the ODC sales agreement will be able to generate sales momentum in our data center and wireless businesses.”
Coraid and ATA-Over-Ethernet Technology
Data server admins are always on the lookout for changes in the industry that will help do their job better, keep their data safer, and speed up file access. The old standbys in recent years have been iSCSI and Fibre Channel. These high-speed technologies have been good matches for storage applications like database use and management where use can be intense. They can, however, be quite costly to keep up and running properly and they require a lot of care and maintenance. A new alternative to iSCSI and Fibre Channel is ATA-Over-Ethernet (AoE).
This open-source connectionless storage networking protocol was originally developed in 2003 by California company, Coraid. It connects servers and storage in a less complex fashion than iSCSI and Fibre Channel. The AoE Layer 2 design works to find the most efficient way to transmit raw disk I/O commands over raw Ethernet. The more connects that are added, the more bandwidth that is made available, the more resilient the pathways. It is important to note that AoE is not iSCSI. The only commonality between AoE and iSCSI is that they both use Ethernet for transport. iSCSI uses TCP/IP at Layer 4 and AoE Layer 2.
SUSE Channel Program Provides Tools to Deploy SAP Business One
Last spring SUSE announced the addition of a new channel program that provides further assistance to SAP channel partners. Since then SUSE has signed up more than 400 members in 57 countries that are SAP channel partners delivering the version of the SAP Business One application that works with and is powered by the SAP HANA platform.
The SUSE channel program, in conjunction with the overall SUSE partner program operated by PartnerNet, provides members direct access to free SUSE technical training, pre-sales support and installation software. This provides them with the tools they need to deploy SAP Business One version for SAP HANA, running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Linux technical training through the SUSE Certified Linux Administrator Academy, a 10-week online program, has been the most requested service. In addition, channel partners authorized to resell the version of SAP Business One designed for use with SAP HANA receive access to the SUSE Installation Wizard, a powerful automation tool that streamlines deployment of SAP Business One running on SAP HANA with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
Esri to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that Esri will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10–12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Esri inspires and enables people to positively impact the future through a deeper, geographic understanding of the changing world around them.
Cloud Expo® 2014 New York, June 10–12, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Carriers, Apple, Google, Microsoft… Fighting Over Slices of the Pie
Much of the dialog over net neutrality seems rather dated. This is understandable, since the debate has been going on since last century.
The January 14th Federal Appeal Court decision in favor of the Internet access providers gave those companies (apparently) a degree of latitude to selectively block or prioritize edge provider services. We know that they want to do this, even though they might be coy about admitting it. Verizon, the plaintiff in the recent appeal case, issued a statement saying that nothing much will change as a result of this decision. We all expect Verizon and the other ISPs to take advantage of this change to the maximum extent they can. If they don’t their shareholders might be a bit upset, after spending all that time and money.
Survey: Organizations Measure Disaster Recovery Time in Days, Not Hours
TwinStrata on Wednesday announced the results of its «Industry Trends: Data Backup in 2014» survey. Conducted between December 2013 and January 2014, the report analyzes responses from 209 IT personnel.
The results indicate an urgent need for organizations to make significant improvements to their backup strategies with one in five organizations experiencing back-up failures at least monthly and one in 10 weekly. As a result, 53 percent of organizations plan to make changes to their backup strategy this year. Incorporating cloud storage was the remedy most often cited by these respondents.
Top Cloud Security Threats
To say that cloud security for cloud computing is gaining traction would be the understatement of our era. Whether in public clouds, private clouds, or hybrid scenarios – it seems like everyone is in the cloud. Healthcare providers, eCommerce, disaster recovery services, data storage . . . the types of cloud services available seem to cover every base. What would Darwin think about his “Survival of the Fittest” evolving from animal species to businesses who take advantage of the flexibility, elasticity, and cost-effectiveness of cloud computing?
Goldie Locks and the Three Clouds: The Rise of the Enterprise Cloud
We all know the story of Goldilocks and the three bears, but have you heard the one about Goldie Locks and the three clouds? This tale is playing out throughout the IT marketplace.
Goldie Locks – an IT executive for a state government – has once again found herself in a dilemma. “If only I could choose one of the three options,” she sighs. Goldie’s dilemma is a result of competing requirements within her enterprise. Regarding infrastructure costs, Goldie has been told to “do more with less.”
“If someone says that one more time, they’re going to have porridge thrown at them,” she huffs. Goldie knows that standardizing infrastructure requirements to serve the business and its processes securely, reliably and quickly is a proven way to reduce capital and operational costs. On the other hand, various business units and their departments have specific requirements for their mission-critical applications. They are resisting giving up control.
Building Trust & Transparency with Personal User Data in the Cloud
Olivier Amar loves the Internet and the experience that a good application can provide by accessing your data. But with years of experience in online performance marketing for companies like AIG, WSOP, Harrahs, ElAl, GetTaxi and Toyga Financial, he understands how exposed our personal information is in apps and in the cloud, and how breaches of trust that can occur when we ignorantly trust a developer with our private information.
With over 700K applications on both the Android and iOS market, tens of millions of sites and services using connection protocols, and rough privacy guidelines for developers to follow at best, there is simply no real way for an end user to know whether or not they should trust an application or the developer to use their data securely and ethically.