Internap Network Services Corporation has announced the beta availability of the next generation of its public cloud, AgileCLOUD, which will fully expose both virtualized and bare-metal compute instances over a native OpenStack API and deliver significant performance, interoperability and flexibility benefits.
Raj Dutt, senior vice president of technology at Internap, stated that, “AgileCLOUD is now 100% OpenStack ‘under the hood,’ which provides an open, interoperable framework that helps us deliver a dramatically more scalable platform.”
Monthly Archives: November 2013
OpenNebula Enhances Its Amazon API Implementation
OpenNebula has enhanced the Amazon EC2 and EBS API implementation exposed by the econe-server. The econe-server is a component on top of the OpenNebula core that translates Amazon API calls into OpenNebula actions, therefore a user will be able to interact with an OpenNebula cloud using any of the available EC2 clients or tool such as euca2ools, ElasticFox to interact with the econe-server.
Now instance types are based on OpenNebula templates instead of files. Users can create different base templates from Sunstone or the CLI and then make them available as instance types for users interacting with OpenNebula through the EC2 interface. These templates will be merged with the information provided by the user (i.e., AMI, user data, keypairs…) when a new instance is created. This allows us to use restricted attributes inside the templates or set permissions like any other OpenNebula resource. The describe functions have also been improved , for example users can query any of the resource pools providing a list of IDs, and now the describe-instances response includes instances that have been terminated recently.
Now instance types are based on OpenNebula templates instead of files. Users can create different base templates from Sunstone or the CLI and then make them available as instance types for users interacting with OpenNebula through the EC2 interface. These templates will be merged with the information provided by the user (i.e., AMI, user data, keypairs…) when a new instance is created. This allows us to use restricted attributes inside the templates or set permissions like any other OpenNebula resource. The describe functions have also been improved , for example users can query any of the resource pools providing a list of IDs, and now the describe-instances response includes instances that have been terminated recently.
AppZero to Exhibit at Cloud Expo 2014 New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that AppZero, the fastest way to move enterprise applications to the cloud, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
AppZero, the fast, flexible way to move server applications can migrate your apps from an old OS to a newer one. Microsoft recommends AppZero Enterprise for application migration for a variety of applications from Windows Server 2003 to either Windows Server 2012 or Windows Azure.
Accelerate Your Success Through Virtualization
An executive summary that provides insight into the challenges organizations face when moving to a virtualized environment and covers best practices and solutions to help. Learn more about Symantec’s unique solution to IT environments looking to take full advantage of virtualization.
AWS’s elastic database cloud thickens
Madan Sheina, Lead Analyst, Software – Information Management
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a series of updates to its expanding database services portfolio at its AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, reinforcing its ability to run multiple database workloads with elastic scale in the AWS cloud. While AWS offers a comprehensive menu of best-of-breed cloud services, Ovum would like to see a more integrated platform approach. AWS has disrupted the price barriers for large-scale data processing in the cloud. But cost will become less of a differentiator as customers look for richer and more orchestrated database services to fully support their enterprise data-processing needs.
Momentum and growth continue for AWS database services
Since the launch of Amazon S3 in 2006 as a simple online storage service for software developers, AWS has broadened and deepened its cloud services to cover virtually any type of workload in the cloud – compute, networking, storage …
Transforming Business Transformation with Cloud and Agile Architecture
All the Cloud players—both service providers as well as the software and hardware vendors—are missing critical elements of the big picture. From the perspective of the enterprise customer, the transformative nature of the Cloud is but one of many disruptions to the organization. There are global marketplace challenges, regulatory issues, organizational and process changes, as well as disruption across the breadth of IT, from the rise of mobile technologies to Cybersecurity to the Cloud. Cloud Computing is an important part of this story to be sure, but it is but one of many concerns facing the C suite.
How Might the Cloud Save BlackBerry?
Before coming to Canada I worked for British Telecom in the UK, so I was very familiar with Nortel, they were one of the main vendors we worked with for incorporating into large telco solutions.
So watching them go under made me think it would be the equivalent to seeing BT go down in the UK, and you know what, I don’t think the Brit government would allow that to happen. It’s simply too much of an iconic institution among other critical infrastructure and economic reasons.
How Might the Cloud Save BlackBerry?
Before coming to Canada I worked for British Telecom in the UK, so I was very familiar with Nortel, they were one of the main vendors we worked with for incorporating into large telco solutions.
So watching them go under made me think it would be the equivalent to seeing BT go down in the UK, and you know what, I don’t think the Brit government would allow that to happen. It’s simply too much of an iconic institution among other critical infrastructure and economic reasons.
SoftLayer – The Smart Move
SoftLayer could be said to be the leader when it comes to one platform offering endless possibilities. Their unified platform is specially designed to meet the end users requirement of giving cloud computing users the results they want, the way they want it. SoftLayer operates all over the United States, Europe and Asia, giving its flexible technology of data-centers, network and automation and control with no compromise on quality and security to all that require it.
The entire architecture is held together through a private global network offering higher and faster performance. Their dedicated servers operate using this common network, capable of high speed and enabling maximum functionality between the data centers. Of course, SoftLayer is more than just speed and performance; it is the way that it is built with every service in perfect synchrony with the requirements of the individual and the firm.
SoftLayer – The Smart Move
SoftLayer could be said to be the leader when it comes to one platform offering endless possibilities. Their unified platform is specially designed to meet the end users requirement of giving cloud computing users the results they want, the way they want it. SoftLayer operates all over the United States, Europe and Asia, giving its flexible technology of data-centers, network and automation and control with no compromise on quality and security to all that require it.
The entire architecture is held together through a private global network offering higher and faster performance. Their dedicated servers operate using this common network, capable of high speed and enabling maximum functionality between the data centers. Of course, SoftLayer is more than just speed and performance; it is the way that it is built with every service in perfect synchrony with the requirements of the individual and the firm.