In an era where reliable and scalable computer resources are like air and water to data-centric businesses and the time and cost of building in-house data centers are prohibitive for most businesses, Salt Lake City-based Voonami has developed a strong market position for outsourced data center services with a broad portfolio of services, everything from cloud computing, colocation, managed services, hosting and VOIP. The company focuses on performance and a commitment to disruptive technologies to help it stay a step ahead of the competition and deliver added value to customers.
Voonami’s newest data center is the greenest facility of its kind in Utah and it demonstrates the company’s innovative thinking in pursuing unconventional solutions to maximizing its value proposition for customers. Building out the new data center, Voonami harnessed the climate of Utah to design an environmental cooling system that enables the data center to run 98% of the time without using the power-hungry chillers that are typically required to keep data center operating temperatures at a safe level and slashing energy costs by as much as 80%.
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Voonami Embraces Disruptive Solid State Technology from Tegile Systems
In an era where reliable and scalable computer resources are like air and water to data-centric businesses and the time and cost of building in-house data centers are prohibitive for most businesses, Salt Lake City-based Voonami has developed a strong market position for outsourced data center services with a broad portfolio of services, everything from cloud computing, colocation, managed services, hosting and VOIP. The company focuses on performance and a commitment to disruptive technologies to help it stay a step ahead of the competition and deliver added value to customers.
Voonami’s newest data center is the greenest facility of its kind in Utah and it demonstrates the company’s innovative thinking in pursuing unconventional solutions to maximizing its value proposition for customers. Building out the new data center, Voonami harnessed the climate of Utah to design an environmental cooling system that enables the data center to run 98% of the time without using the power-hungry chillers that are typically required to keep data center operating temperatures at a safe level and slashing energy costs by as much as 80%.
Dell Gets More Support for Privatization
No sooner had Michael Dell and Silver Lake gotten the go-ahead for their takeover scheme from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) Monday than Glass Lewis and Egan-Jones, the two other important if not quite as influential proxy advisors, fell into line behind ISS and advised Dell shareholders to take the money and run.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: SDN and Virtual Infrastructure
“We basically simplify infrastructures. We use the latest devops and SDN technologies to make it simple for people to operate virtual infrastructures,” stated Mathieu Lemay, President and CEO of Inocybe Technologies, 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.
How Do You Price a Cloud Service? Subscription, Consumption, Other Model?
If you are like most businesses you struggle with the age-old problem of trying to define the perfect price for your service. You also struggle with what can and is offered as a service. While this is true for all industries, in cloud it is a particularly acute problem. It is important to remember that the cloud market has plenty of opportunity for providers to differentiate offerings or for completely new providers to enter the market and compete. However, unseating the market leaders will not come from selling commodity services. While providers like the old recurring, predictable contracted revenue model, customers are becoming more educated, have more visibility and are demanding that their bill be better aligned with their actual consumption. In addition, service differentiation does not mean simply bundling multiple features to justify a single flat price regardless of a customer’s interest. Customers are reacting to the “tyranny of packages” as they realize they are being forced into a commodity model. There is no question that the value-add bar needs to move higher and service providers need to build tailored, high-margin, sticky relationships with customers. Using financial commitments, you can achieve predictable revenue while providing customers with elasticity to utilize reserved instances, on-demand instances, bandwidth, etc.
How Cloud, Mobile & APIs Change the Way We Broker Identity
The adoption of cloud by organizations looking for more efficient ways to deploy their own IT assets or as a means to offset the burden of data management drives the need for identity federation in the enterprise. Compounding this is the mobile effect from which there is no turning back. Data must be available any time, from anywhere and the identities accessing it must be asserted on mobile devices, in cloud zones, always under the stewardship of the enterprise.
APIs serve federation by enabling lightweight delegated authentication schemes based on OAuth handshakes using the same patterns as used by social login. The standard specifying such patterns is OpenID Connect where a relying party subjects a user to an OAuth handshake and then calls an API on the identity provider to discover information about the user thus avoiding having to setup a shared secret with that user – no identity silo. This new type of federation using APIs is easi
How Cloud, Mobile & APIs Change the Way We Broker Identity
The adoption of cloud by organizations looking for more efficient ways to deploy their own IT assets or as a means to offset the burden of data management drives the need for identity federation in the enterprise. Compounding this is the mobile effect from which there is no turning back. Data must be available any time, from anywhere and the identities accessing it must be asserted on mobile devices, in cloud zones, always under the stewardship of the enterprise.
APIs serve federation by enabling lightweight delegated authentication schemes based on OAuth handshakes using the same patterns as used by social login. The standard specifying such patterns is OpenID Connect where a relying party subjects a user to an OAuth handshake and then calls an API on the identity provider to discover information about the user thus avoiding having to setup a shared secret with that user – no identity silo. This new type of federation using APIs is easi
OVH.com “2013 Reloaded” Dedicated Servers Are Now Hybrid Cloud Ready
OVH.com has unveiled its next generation of custom-made dedicated servers dubbed “2013 Reloaded” and designed specifically for hybrid Cloud infrastructures.
The new servers are perfect to boost the performance of already deployed solutions – like Big Data, databases, critical applications – integrating the last generation of RAID cards, with 6Gbps of bandwidth (unbreakable) and 3 options of access acceleration: the CacheVault technology (with ultra-fast Flash memory), FastPath (improving I/O performances using SSD drives) and CacheCade which combines SSD and SATA/SAS drives for frequent access (SSD) and primary storage (SATA/SAS). A hybrid configuration that enables to reach the best I/O performances in the market, without the heavy cost of a 100% SSD solution.
A High-Level IDaaS Metric: If and When Moving ID in the Cloud
Building metrics to decide how and whether moving to IDaaS means considering what variables and strategy have to be taken into account when organizations subscribe identity as a service contracts. Before moving any IdM to the Cloud, organization should balance costs and risks. Accordingly, metrics adopted should be enough flexible to be applied from both a company that is developing an IdM system and a company that already has a IAM in operation but is considering to move the ID to the Cloud. The metric introduced below is included into a coming IDaaS Best Practices helping companies to understand, evaluate and then decide if and how moving ID to the Cloud.
A High-Level IDaaS Metric: If and When Moving ID in the Cloud
Building metrics to decide how and whether moving to IDaaS means considering what variables and strategy have to be taken into account when organizations subscribe identity as a service contracts. Before moving any IdM to the Cloud, organization should balance costs and risks. Accordingly, metrics adopted should be enough flexible to be applied from both a company that is developing an IdM system and a company that already has a IAM in operation but is considering to move the ID to the Cloud. The metric introduced below is included into a coming IDaaS Best Practices helping companies to understand, evaluate and then decide if and how moving ID to the Cloud.