AppZero has announced three premier partners as the company sees significant revenue growth. In addition to IBM and HP Cloud Services, AppZero has added Amazon Web Services, CA Technologies, and Rackspace to its premier partner program this year.
Through the program, AppZero collaborates with system integrators, service providers and resellers. These partners combine cutting edge products and services that open up the business potential of the cloud. For more information or to participate in the partner program contact partners@appzero.com.
“Success in the cloud requires a collaborative effort, and AppZero offers our customers a distinct advantage in deploying services on the CA AppLogic platform” said Jay Williams, vice president for CA AppLogic. “We look forward to continuing to work with AppZero so that our mutual customers can reap the full efficiency and cost benefits of cloud deployment.”
The partnerships announcement is accompanied by early reports from the company of exceptional growth and success this year.

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AppZero has announced three premier partners as the company sees significant revenue growth. In addition to IBM and HP Cloud Services, AppZero has added Amazon Web Services, CA Technologies, and Rackspace to its premier partner program this year.
Through the program, AppZero collaborates with system integrators, service providers and resellers. These partners combine cutting edge products and services that open up the business potential of the cloud. For more information or to participate in the partner program contact partners@appzero.com.
“Success in the cloud requires a collaborative effort, and AppZero offers our customers a distinct advantage in deploying services on the CA AppLogic platform” said Jay Williams, vice president for CA AppLogic. “We look forward to continuing to work with AppZero so that our mutual customers can reap the full efficiency and cost benefits of cloud deployment.”
The partnerships announcement is accompanied by early reports from the company of exceptional growth and success this year.

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Türk Telekom and Akamai Technologies have signed a strategic partnership to jointly build and manage a high-capacity Operator Content Delivery Network (OCDN) in Turkey for high-quality delivery of online content and video. The partnership, which will optimize the network efficiency of Turkey’s Internet infrastructure, was announced at a press conference in London attended by Türk Telekom CEO Tahsin Yılmaz and Akamai CEO Tom Leighton.
The partnership will ensure a significant increase in speed and performance for broadband and mobile users in Turkey, particularly when accessing social media and popular online video sites. It will also allow Turkish media companies to provide high quality content to their audiences outside of Turkey. With this business partnership, Türk Telekom joins a select group of leading telecommunications companies who have entered a strategic partnership with Akamai to serve global and local customers on a joint technology and network platform.

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Türk Telekom and Akamai Technologies have signed a strategic partnership to jointly build and manage a high-capacity Operator Content Delivery Network (OCDN) in Turkey for high-quality delivery of online content and video. The partnership, which will optimize the network efficiency of Turkey’s Internet infrastructure, was announced at a press conference in London attended by Türk Telekom CEO Tahsin Yılmaz and Akamai CEO Tom Leighton.
The partnership will ensure a significant increase in speed and performance for broadband and mobile users in Turkey, particularly when accessing social media and popular online video sites. It will also allow Turkish media companies to provide high quality content to their audiences outside of Turkey. With this business partnership, Türk Telekom joins a select group of leading telecommunications companies who have entered a strategic partnership with Akamai to serve global and local customers on a joint technology and network platform.

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Who said storage is boring? I’m not lying when I’m writing that I’m on my way to a place in the desert, far away from regular society, for a secret meeting with the Top Guns of the Cloud & Web Industry. I’m one of a select group of Object Storage visionaries who have been invited to meet the industry’s greatest, listen to their challenges and teach them how object storage – when done well – can solve all of their problems.
There is no arguing that object storage is currently the most watched storage paradigm. Object storage is potentially an even more important evolution than virtualization and cloud computing were 5 years ago: it’s about data, information, companies’ most valuable assets. The challenge of building Exabyte-size storage clouds is no longer just a concern for Facebook, Google and Amazon.

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Who said storage is boring? I’m not lying when I’m writing that I’m on my way to a place in the desert, far away from regular society, for a secret meeting with the Top Guns of the Cloud & Web Industry. I’m one of a select group of Object Storage visionaries who have been invited to meet the industry’s greatest, listen to their challenges and teach them how object storage – when done well – can solve all of their problems.
There is no arguing that object storage is currently the most watched storage paradigm. Object storage is potentially an even more important evolution than virtualization and cloud computing were 5 years ago: it’s about data, information, companies’ most valuable assets. The challenge of building Exabyte-size storage clouds is no longer just a concern for Facebook, Google and Amazon.

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Laurent Lachal, Senior Analyst, Ovum Software

PaaS is a multi-faceted phenomenon that has been evolving very rapidly in the past five years, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Enterprises should get ready to anticipate and take advantage of new PaaS developments. To do so, they should ask vendors some hard questions about strategy plans and product roadmaps. For more information, see the Ovum report PaaS: Two More Years of Confusion Ahead.

PaaS has quickly evolved in the past few years

Today’s PaaS is quite different from that of yesterday, and this can cause confusion. Its rapid evolution has so far partly reflected the evolution of the overall cloud computing market. PaaS has, for example, evolved from a focus on public clouds to private and hybrid clouds, from green-field to legacy applications, and from being packaged with its own infrastructure services to supporting third-party (mostly IaaS …

You are surely aware of the new features introduced in OpenNebula 4.2 Flame, and its focus to strengthen the most demanded and useful features. So now is time to move forward and implement new features demanded by our uses and that’s why the beta version OpenNebula 4.4 Retina is out for testing! This release includes important features that meet real demands from production environments, with a focus on optimization of storage, monitoring, cloud bursting, and public cloud interfaces.

OpenNebula Retina includes support for multiple system datastores, which enables a much more efficient usage of the storage resources for running Virtual Machines. This feature ships with different scheduling policies for storage load balancing, intended to instruct OpenNebula to spread the running Virtual Machines across different storage mediums to optimize their use. This translates in the ability to define more than one disk (or other backend) to hold running VMs in a particular cluster. Monitorization subsystem in OpenNebula underwent a major redesign as well, effectively switching from a pulling mechanism to a pushing model, with the implications in scalability improvements.

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You are surely aware of the new features introduced in OpenNebula 4.2 Flame, and its focus to strengthen the most demanded and useful features. So now is time to move forward and implement new features demanded by our uses and that’s why the beta version OpenNebula 4.4 Retina is out for testing! This release includes important features that meet real demands from production environments, with a focus on optimization of storage, monitoring, cloud bursting, and public cloud interfaces.

OpenNebula Retina includes support for multiple system datastores, which enables a much more efficient usage of the storage resources for running Virtual Machines. This feature ships with different scheduling policies for storage load balancing, intended to instruct OpenNebula to spread the running Virtual Machines across different storage mediums to optimize their use. This translates in the ability to define more than one disk (or other backend) to hold running VMs in a particular cluster. Monitorization subsystem in OpenNebula underwent a major redesign as well, effectively switching from a pulling mechanism to a pushing model, with the implications in scalability improvements.

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