Synchronoss Technologies on Monday announced that it has reached 10 Million Personal Cloud Subscribers throughout the world since launching its Personal Cloud Platform this summer. Synchronoss’ Personal Cloud Platform is an industry leading personal cloud solution that enables mobile operators to provide subscribers the ability to backup, restore, sync and share their valuable content across smartphones, tablets, computers and other connected devices – accessible from anywhere at any time. In addition to our successful launch of the Personal Cloud Platform, Synchronoss continues to grow its cloud services across all its subscriber base, with over 60 Million subscribers, including Network Address Book, Social Gateways, and Smart Mobility worldwide.

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Chef™ (formerly Opscode) on Monday announced it has closed a $32 Million Series D funding round. Scale Venture Partners (ScaleVP) led the round, which included Citi Ventures, Citi’s corporate venturing arm, as well as existing investors Battery Ventures, DFJ, and Ignition Partners, and also included Amplify Partners.
The new round of capital will be used to further accelerate the development of the company’s Chef IT automation platform, expand market penetration, and drive customer success.
Chef also today announced that Rory O’Driscoll, a partner with ScaleVP, has joined the company’s Board of Directors. In addition, the company has expanded its executive team and has changed the company name from Opscode to Chef.

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«Lanlogic has been around since 1995 and we focus on helping customers that are traditionally less technical and need someone who’s an IT consultant, a trusted business adviser, to help them evaluate their needs,» explained Joe Foos, Director of Sales & Marketing at Lanlogic, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo® 2014 New York, June 10-12, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.

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It’s that time of the year again. That time when we humans like to celebrate the annual revolution of our arbitrary measure of chronological quantities and units known as time. Or to put it another way, it’s that time of the year for 2014 predictions, postulations and hypothesizing on the state of the road ahead.
The very easiest and possibly most certain prediction we can make for technology as we head into 2014 is that we are precisely five years away from the next major paradigm shift in IT, as compared to where we stand today. Paradigm platform shifts come around just about every five years – you can count on it.

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Synchronoss Technologies on Monday announced that it has reached 10 Million Personal Cloud Subscribers throughout the world since launching its Personal Cloud Platform this summer. Synchronoss’ Personal Cloud Platform is an industry leading personal cloud solution that enables mobile operators to provide subscribers the ability to backup, restore, sync and share their valuable content across smartphones, tablets, computers and other connected devices – accessible from anywhere at any time. In addition to our successful launch of the Personal Cloud Platform, Synchronoss continues to grow its cloud services across all its subscriber base, with over 60 Million subscribers, including Network Address Book, Social Gateways, and Smart Mobility worldwide.

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In my first post in this three-part series I talked about the need for distributed transactional databases that scale-out horizontally across commodity machines, as compared to traditional transactional databases that employ a “scale-up” design. Simply adding more machines is a quicker, cheaper and more flexible way of increasing database capacity than forklift upgrades to giant steam-belching servers. It also brings the promises of continuous availability and of geo-distributed operation.
The second post in this series provided an overview of the three historical approaches to designing distributed transactional database systems, namely: 1. Shared Disk Designs (e.g., ORACLE RAC), 2. Shared Nothing Designs (e.g., the Facebook MySQL implementation), and 3) Synchronous Commit Designs (e.g., GOOGLE F1). All of them have some advantages over traditional client-server database systems, but they each have serious limitations in relation to cost, complexity, dependencies on specialized infrastructure and workload-specific performance trade-offs. I noted that we are very excited about a recent innovation in distributed database design, introduced by NuoDB’s technical founder Jim Starkey. We call the concept Durable Distributed Cache (DDC), and I want to spend a little time in this third and final post talking about what it is, with a high-level overview of how it works.

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«It’s been a great show for NetIQ – we’ve had the opportunity to speak about how NetIQ is enabling the cloud – how we are allowing customers to get access to cloud services that enable service providers to deliver cloud services in a secure, compliant manner,» explained Gary Ardito, Chief Architect for Cloud Service Provider Solutions at NetIQ, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4-7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo® 2014 New York, June 10-12, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.

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Chef™ (formerly Opscode) on Monday announced it has closed a $32 Million Series D funding round. Scale Venture Partners (ScaleVP) led the round, which included Citi Ventures, Citi’s corporate venturing arm, as well as existing investors Battery Ventures, DFJ, and Ignition Partners, and also included Amplify Partners.
The new round of capital will be used to further accelerate the development of the company’s Chef IT automation platform, expand market penetration, and drive customer success.
Chef also today announced that Rory O’Driscoll, a partner with ScaleVP, has joined the company’s Board of Directors. In addition, the company has expanded its executive team and has changed the company name from Opscode to Chef.

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Growing trends such as BYOD will fuel the move to more pervasive use of identity and access management as a service, driven by the need for pervasive access and management and broader security concerns.
Business trends like bring your own device (BYOD) are forcing organizations to safely allow access to all kinds of applications and resources anytime, anywhere, and from any device.
According to research firm MarketsandMarkets, the demand for improved identity and access management (IAM) technology is estimated to grow from more than $5 billion this year to over $10 billion in 2018.
The explosive growth — doubling of the market in five years — will also fuel the move to more pervasive use of identity and access management as a service (IDaaS). The cloud variety of IAM will be driven on by the need for pervasive access and management over other cloud, mobile, and BYOD activities, as well as by the consumerization of IT and broader security concerns.
To explore the why and how of IDaaS, BriefingsDirect recently sat down with Paul Trulove, Vice President of Product Marketing at SailPoint Technologies in Austin, Texas, to explore the changing needs for — and heightened value around — improved IAM.

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Today I am announcing my partnership with EITAGlobal to produce and deliver a series of business focused training webinars on cloud computing.
Headquartered in Fremont, California, EITAGlobal is a continuing professional education provider with a difference. Their strategy delivers effective and relevant training to IT professionals via three delivery options – Live Webinars, Recorded Webinars and In-person Seminars.

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