Introducing new products faster, reducing costs and increasing productivity continue to be top priorities for companies around the world and many of them are looking to Cloud computing to help meet these goals. Oracle’s Cloud Application Foundation provides a unified platform across conventional and Cloud environments, which helps customers deliver next generation applications, simplify operations, accelerate time-to-market, lower their total cost of ownership and derive more value from their current application infrastructure.
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Oracle Announces Availability of Cloud Application Foundation
Introducing new products faster, reducing costs and increasing productivity continue to be top priorities for companies around the world and many of them are looking to Cloud computing to help meet these goals. Oracle’s Cloud Application Foundation provides a unified platform across conventional and Cloud environments, which helps customers deliver next generation applications, simplify operations, accelerate time-to-market, lower their total cost of ownership and derive more value from their current application infrastructure.
Red Hat Goes To War Against VMware
Red Hat put the full cavalcade of its new cloud widgetry on the market
Wednesday priced at roughly a third what it would cost to use VMware, the
private cloud rival Red Hat is out to unseat.
Red Hat announced the widgetry last month but it wasn’t quite ready for
general availability then so it withheld pricing until now.
First comes the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, which
combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (good ole RHEL) with the
company’s newfangled Grizzly-based OpenStack distribution in a single
product aimed at advanced cloud users.
Red Hat Goes To War Against VMware
Red Hat put the full cavalcade of its new cloud widgetry on the market
Wednesday priced at roughly a third what it would cost to use VMware, the
private cloud rival Red Hat is out to unseat.
Red Hat announced the widgetry last month but it wasn’t quite ready for
general availability then so it withheld pricing until now.
First comes the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, which
combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (good ole RHEL) with the
company’s newfangled Grizzly-based OpenStack distribution in a single
product aimed at advanced cloud users.
Coming to a City Near You: Microsoft CityNext
«Cities play a vital role in our lives – both now and in the future. Microsoft’s CityNext initiative puts people first and builds on this new era of collaborative technology to engage citizens, business and government leaders in new ways,» said Laura Ipsen, corporate vice president of Microsoft Worldwide Public Sector, as Microsoft today announced CityNext, a global initiative empowering cities, businesses and citizens to re-imagine their futures and cultivate vibrant communities.
Strategies for Application Delivery in the Cloud Era
Cloud computing continues to gain momentum as enterprises of all sizes and across all industries seek to harness the business agility promised by this computing model. Despite its long-accepted benefits, the cloud has also fallen victim to performance and reliability challenges, combined with a perceived lack of security. As a result this has led to slower predicted growth and adoption of this still promising infrastructure methodology.
In his Lunchtime Focus Keynote at 12th Cloud Expo, Neil Cohen, Akamai’s Vice President of Global Product Marketing, explains how to these challenges, and the role application delivery solutions play in optimizing public and hybrid cloud architectures without sacrificing performance, security or control.
AWS Starting New Enterprise Unit
Amazon Web Services is starting up a new unit focused on getting the Fortune 2000/mid-market segment to adopt its widgetry.
According to Network World, it has also raided VMware for the guy who’s going to be its VP of worldwide commercial sales, Mike Clayville.
Clayville has been VP of product marketing for VMware’s cloud infrastructure offerings for the last year having previously been VP of North American sales.
What’s still unclear is whether Amazon means to chase after VMware’s private cloud business while VMware tries to step on Amazon’s toes and go into the public cloud business.
Cloud Expo NY Interview
Thoughts on cloud, Cloud Technology Partners, and PaaSLane
Cloud Expo NY Interview
Thoughts on cloud, Cloud Technology Partners, and PaaSLane
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Protecting Data in the Cloud
“Intrinsic-ID is a spin-off of the security experts team of Philips Research, and we bring here Saturnus, a secure cloud application that protects data in the cloud,” stated Tony Picard, VP of Business Development at Intrinsic-ID, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4–7, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.