Telx together with Peak® (formerly PeakColo) announced on Thursday Peak’s expansion into two Telx data centers, SCL2, a 40,000 square foot data center at 2820 Northwestern Parkway in Santa Clara, California and in ATL1, a 160,000 square foot data center located : at 56 Marietta Street in Atlanta, Ga.
“Peak represents the latest in a broad range of cloud service providers that have selected Telx, ranging from IaaS to SaaS (Software as a Service) providers. We are servicing some of the world’s largest network service providers and enterprises across a wide range of business verticals, such as digital media and entertainment, social networks, video streaming, financial services, healthcare, retail, other cloud companies, and startups,” said Chris Downie, CEO, Telx.
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Gemalto Launches Identity-as-a-Service Solution
CloudEntr allows users to gain convenient access to all their web-based applications by authenticating just once with a unique log-in credential. With CloudEntr businesses are also able to smoothly transition from weak user-selected passwords to stronger protection, through complex passwords that don’t need to be remembered or two-factor authentication capabilities, including mobile one-time-passwords (OTP).
With a potential of 330 million(1) professional users in the US and Europe alone, Gemalto’s new Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) offer enables cost-effective and speedy deployment of advanced web-based strong authentication for businesses looking to manage employees’ access identities. CloudEntr’s scalability and frictionless technology offers companies a self-serve approach that easily interfaces with existing IT systems. CloudEntr introduces users to an optimal balance of convenience and security while being universally compatible with mobile technology for anytime, anywhere access to web-based applications.
3 reasons to love the bare metal cloud
When infrastructure-as-a-service is referenced, we are generally discussing virtual server offerings. Bare metal challenges that assumption, having become a major part of how hybrid clouds blend public, dedicated, and private virtual infrastructure.
Gathering Clouds’ contributor and cloud computing expert David Linthicum notes: “…virtualization and cloud computing are not mandatory partners.”
Indeed, Linthicum’s point should not be ignored. Too often, virtualization is confused for cloud, leading to the wide spread “cloud washing” ideology that has occurred over the last few years. Many companies suffer as a result; gaining the agility that virtualization delivers for infrastructure management but gaining none of the cost and performance benefits that true clouds can deliver. Linthicum continues to mention:
“It’s a fact that virtualization is not a requirement when creating cloud computing services, but it is helpful to those who manage the service. “
So when considering leveraging bare metal as part of a cloud …
ClearDATA nails $14m funding round, increases push to healthcare cloud
Cloud healthcare specialist ClearDATA has announced the conclusion of its series B round of funding to the tune of $14m, expanding its opportunities to provide cloud technology in the health industry.
The company, which describes itself as “exclusively dedicated” to healthcare in the cloud, has a solution which is approved by HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and serves over 300,000 healthcare professionals.
The investors in the second round of funding included usual suspects Excel Venture Management and Norwest Venture Partners, as well as crucially the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, which is the company’s strategic investor.
Darin Brannan, ClearDATA CEO, said in a statement: “The IT demands on healthcare organisations are greater than ever – and they will continue to grow as big data and analytics take hold in the industry.
“Our investors recognise the escalating need for hosting and services in the cloud that can help …
Proud to Be Joining Veterans 360 and Cloud for Vets!
Today I’m proud and honored to announce my appointment to the Board of Advisors for Veterans 360. Their mission is to provide young, recently-separated combat veterans with a program of support that will help them develop the professional and interpersonal skills needed to succeed in civilian life. The goal of this worthwhile organization is to use engagement, education, employment, and healing to help our student-veterans utilize what they have learned to manage the resources that are available to them and become better equipped to ensure a successful transition into civilian life.
Proud to Be Joining Veterans 360 and Cloud for Vets!
Today I’m proud and honored to announce my appointment to the Board of Advisors for Veterans 360. Their mission is to provide young, recently-separated combat veterans with a program of support that will help them develop the professional and interpersonal skills needed to succeed in civilian life. The goal of this worthwhile organization is to use engagement, education, employment, and healing to help our student-veterans utilize what they have learned to manage the resources that are available to them and become better equipped to ensure a successful transition into civilian life.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Game-Changing Technology
“We announced what we believe is a game-changing technology in storage. We introduced a new product called the Ultrastar He6 and we announced a technology called HelioSeal, which is the process of hermetically sealing helium inside the hard drive,” explained Brendan Collins, VP of Product Marketing at HGST, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4-7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo® 2014 New York, June 10-12, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Gemalto Launches Identity-as-a-Service Solution
CloudEntr allows users to gain convenient access to all their web-based applications by authenticating just once with a unique log-in credential. With CloudEntr businesses are also able to smoothly transition from weak user-selected passwords to stronger protection, through complex passwords that don’t need to be remembered or two-factor authentication capabilities, including mobile one-time-passwords (OTP).
With a potential of 330 million(1) professional users in the US and Europe alone, Gemalto’s new Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) offer enables cost-effective and speedy deployment of advanced web-based strong authentication for businesses looking to manage employees’ access identities. CloudEntr’s scalability and frictionless technology offers companies a self-serve approach that easily interfaces with existing IT systems. CloudEntr introduces users to an optimal balance of convenience and security while being universally compatible with mobile technology for anytime, anywhere access to web-based applications.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: A New Way to Deliver Cloud
“Since the acquisition Terremark has been getting closer and closer and tighter with Verizon and we have some joint projects underway. We’re about to set the world on fire,” noted Jim Anthony, VP of Sales Engineering at Verizon Terremark, talks to SYS-CON.tv at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4-7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo® 2014 New York, June 10-12, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Transforming IBM to Manage Customer’s Cloud Expectations
Customers are expecting to consume IT as a service and IT vendors, including IBM, are responding.
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the IBM Software Group’s Analyst Insights conference for the industry analyst community. IBM’s total revenue of about $100B comes from its combined hardware, software and services sales, but the software group contributes a large proportion of its profits. Cloud services require coordination from all IBM divisions, and it was no surprise that IBM focused an inordinate degree of attention at the event to non-software cloud products.