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Egenera Makes Key Buy
Egenera has made a rare acquisition, picking a young Dublin ISV called Fort
Technologies that brings the Massachusetts firm private and public cloud
management sort of along the lines of what Cloupia is bringing Cisco and
Gale is bringing Dell.
Egenera, however, is way ahead of them since the integration is already
done.
Delivering Managed Flexibility for the Cloud
This whitepaper explores how Red Hat CloudForms meets the challenges that come from letting enterprise customers serve themselves, while maintaining the IT control of workloads and life cycle management. Red Hat CloudForms helps IT organizations better utilize the cloud or virtualization technology that best meets the customer’s needs while solving the challenges of portability, governance, security, and cost. Ideal for enterprise architects looking to move their Red Hat Enterprise Linux workloads to the cloud.
Preparing for Cloud Outages
Depending on what your business has in the cloud, the impact of a cloud outage can vary. However, whether it’s your email service that’s down or your entire IT infrastructure, an outage will have a negative effect on your business and could lead to a loss in revenue. Here are some tips to help quell this situation.
Depending on what you’ve moved to the cloud, the impact of a cloud outage can vary. If your email services or office productivity software is cloud based, the impact can be minimal and simply be some delayed emails or late reports.
On the other hand, if you are completely cloud based, and have your entire IT infrastructure offsite, the impact of a cloud outage would be more severe and could impact your accounting system or sales order processing system, which ultimately could lead to a loss of business revenue.
ClearStory Data Nails $9 Million A Round
The ballyhooed “Big Data for the masses” start-up, ClearStory Data, which made a bit of a splash back in March when it got seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures and a bunch of industry luminaries has gotten a first round worth $9 million from chi-chi Silicon Valley VC Kleiner Perkins, with Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures pitching in.
Former Twitter VP of engineering Mike Abbott, now a managing partner at Kleiner, will join the board.
The start-up is promising to deliver a newfangled Big Data analytics solution for the non-techie business user like Mad Men’s mythical marketing maven Dan Draper that integrates private and public data sources in a sleek interactive engine. The platform is supposed to simplify access to relational databases, Hadoop, web and social application interfaces, and third-party data at scale to search out trends and patterns.
Compuware and REALTECH Partner
Compuware Corporation on Wednesday announced that REALTECH AG is incorporating Compuware APM – dynaTrace Data Center Real User Monitoring (DC RUM) – into the latest release of its IT service management software, theGuard! Service Management Center. This will enable REALTECH to enhance application performance driven by end user experience across SAP, web, non-web and cloud applications.
“We are excited to partner with Compuware to deliver world-class APM capabilities to our current and future customers of theGuard!,” said Cornelia Pohl-Springer, Head of Product Management for theGuard! at REALTECH. “Our combined solution enables customers to have full visibility and control of their IT environments with high operational efficiency while ensuring customer satisfaction. Customers are able to quickly prioritize problems by business impact and get a complete view of all business processes from an end-user perspective.”
Compuware APM is the leader in application performance management technology for SAP and non-SAP environments. Compuware’s DC RUM solution is based on highly scalable agentless technology and offers the broadest application and technology platform support in the market. REALTECH theGuard! is Europe’s leading provider of software for enterprise-wide IT service management. From managing applications and any type of IT-enabled business process, to monitoring networks and systems, theGuard! supports the most important aspects of IT Management today.
‘Real Me’ as-a-Service: Cloud Privacy by Design for E-Health
Naturally one of the critical areas specified in the Canadian E-Health Cloud strategy document is the risks related to data privacy.
Specifically in section 8, from page 42 through 49, they describe the comprehensive standards, audit and certification frameworks that will be required to protect this next major phase of Cloud adoption.
CHI point to the number one risk issue cited by CIOs – Fears of inadequate data privacy protections, and they describe the various component parts what is required to address these risks including due diligence procedures and state of the art privacy controls.
Drastic Measures Not Needed with DRaaS
Perhaps the only thing worse than a disaster happening is seeing it coming and knowing nothing can be done to stop it. Businesses along the northeastern seaboard had several days of warning before Hurricane Sandy struck, certainly not enough time to implement a disaster recovery plan from scratch. Even more painful is the understanding that some disaster recovery plans would not be enough; physical backup systems in separate geographical areas may have still suffered the same losses as the home site due to the size of the storm.
Most disasters come with no warning at all. Explosions, power outages, and simple equipment failure can cause the same damage. Operations are down, customers suffer, and revenues tank. Once business recovers the harder work of wooing back customers and convincing new ones about the company’s reliability begins.
OpenNebula in Amazon EC2: A Private Cloud Within a Public Cloud
C12G Labs, the company behind the OpenNebula project, has just announced the availability of the OpenNebula Sandbox for Amazon EC2. OpenNebula is a widely-deployed open-source management solution for enterprise data center virtualization and private cloud computing that implements the Amazon EC2 interface. With the new Sandbox you can deploy in a single click an AWS-compatible OpenNebula nested cloud on Amazon EC2, where you can launch virtual machines within an Amazon instance.
The OpenNebula Sandbox is a CentOS 6.3 virtual machine appliance with a pre-configured automated installation of OpenNebula 3.8, a virtualization node using emulation (QEMU) ready to execute virtual machines, and prepared images to offer a feature rich cloud experience. Users are able to log into the OpenNebula cloud, monitor the managed resources, and launch instances of virtual machines without the hassle of configuring a physical infrastructure.
Security’s FUD Factor
Had a short but interesting twitter exchange with @securityincite @Gillis57 and @essobi (Mike Rothman, Gillis Jones and not sure (sorry!!) respectively) about using Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt when talking IT security services. @Gillis57 initially asked, ‘Question: We discuss FUD constantly (and I agree that it’s too prominent) But isn’t security inherently built upon fear?’ I sent an ‘09 Rothman article (@securityincite said it was ‘old school’ but still has some great comments)about that very topic. Soon, @essobi chimed in with, ‘Our foundation shouldn’t be fear, it should be education. 😀 ,’ @Gillis57 responded, ‘So, look. I agree wholeheartedly, but why do people need to be educated?’ @essobi answered, ‘imo? Bad programming/exploitable logic processes. we need to raise the bar or lower expectations.’ @Gillis57 added, ‘I really don’t think we need to keep selling fear, but denying that we are a fear based industry isn’t helping.’ @securityincite wizdom’d with, ‘Fear is a tactic like anything else. Depends in situation, context, catalyst. And use sparingly.’ And I conceded that, ‘splitting hairs but I try to talk about risk rather than fear – what’s the risk if…which often generates fear.’