Cloudian has announced that it has closed a $24 million financing round with new investors, INCJ and Fidelity Growth Partners, and existing Cloudian shareholders, including Intel Capital. All three funds actively seek well-positioned, high-growth, enterprise-focused companies for investment and targeted Cloudian as a key provider of hybrid cloud storage solutions. The funding will enable the company to extend its global sales and marketing reach through targeted programs and amplified market development.
“This substantial investment is strong validation of our unique and leading approach to enterprise on-premises storage and hybrid cloud storage,” said Michael Tso, CEO and co-founder of Cloudian. “The rapid growth of unstructured data is transforming the data storage landscape. With this funding, we will accelerate the deployment of our production-proven storage solutions and revolutionize the cost, scalability and availability models for storing unstructured data in the enterprise.”
Monthly Archives: July 2014
CommVault Fuels Cloud Growth with Enhanced Partner Program
CommVault on Tuesday announced a series of new enhancements to the CommVault PartnerAdvantage partner program Service Provider (SP) Edition, designed to help service provider partners maximize revenue, profitability and growth opportunities through new leading edge tools, resources and solutions that support their specialized requirements.
CommVault’s ongoing cloud strategy builds on its leadership in software innovation and, through strategic relationships with service provider partners, delivers solutions to simplify and secure the transition of these services providers and their customers to cloud computing. To achieve this, CommVault utilizes its single software platform to power highly efficient cloud infrastructures, is expanding market reach through a broad cloud ecosystem and further investing in its own cloud solutions group.
NaviSite Launches Enterprise Mobility Management Solution
NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company and premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed applications, managed messaging and managed cloud services, on Tuesday announced an Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution to help enable enhanced data security while simplifying the management of devices and resources across an organization. NaviSite’s EMM solutions provide a full portfolio of Mobile Device Management (MDM) capabilities to help companies address the critical challenge of securing data across a range of personal devices in a workplace environment where Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has become the norm.
Case Study: Implementing a Cloud-Based Information Management System
In the pharmaceutical industry, the drug development clock is ticking at the rate of warp-speed. As a result, companies are constantly looking for solutions to help them accelerate time to market – and many are realizing that implementing a cloud-based information management system can bring much needed clarity, organization and efficiency to the complex documentation processes and protocols required to bring a drug to market.
One such company is Singapore-based Lypanosys, an early-stage pharmaceutical company developing a clinically differentiated drug for the dermatology market. Blaine Ah Yuk-Winters, the project manager of the geographically dispersed pharmaceutical startup, describes Lypanosys as a virtual company in the sense that its manufacturing, preclinical, and clinical development activities are spread across the US, Asia, and Australia.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: The Cloud Services Market
“About two years ago Brother launched a new group called Brother Online. We thought it was a good idea for a hardware company to get into the cloud services market and our first step into that market was web conferencing,” explained Courtney Behrens, Senior Marketing Manager at Brother International, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 14th International Cloud Expo®, held June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo® 2014 Silicon Valley, November 4–6, 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 Cloud Computing Empowers the Agile Enterprise
Public cloud service adoption is already a mainstream phenomenon in most organizations. Meanwhile, many large enterprises see a private cloud in their future. But choosing whether to invest in building an internal cloud infrastructure or buy from a cloud service provider will become more challenging – in anticipation, savvy IT leaders are becoming brokers of dynamic business technology solutions.
Hybrid cloud resource management and progressive operational process adoption are the key focal points in preparation for this transition. Moreover, Line of Business demand for emerging use cases and just-in-time IT workload creation requires speedy access to a managed self-serve DevOps deployment model.
That’s why comprehensive management and provisioning tools — such as Red Hat CloudForms — have become essential platforms. Besides, given the pervasive trends in the marketplace, every business will eventually need an actionable hybrid cloud adoption plan. It’s a requirement of the forward-looking agile enterprise.
Public Cloud Services Still Gaining Momentum
International Data Corporation (IDC) has released the latest results from their ongoing global market study. For 2013, the worldwide public cloud services market reached $45.7 billion — growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent until 2018.
Three major product groups comprise the total public cloud services market in IDC’s software taxonomy: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
The SaaS market – accounting for 72 percent of the total public cloud services market and forecast to grow at a 20 percent CAGR over the forecast period – is dominated by Enterprise Applications cloud solutions such as enterprise resource management (ERM) and customer relationship management (CRM), followed by Collaborative applications.
System Infrastructure Software cloud solutions – the other major part of the SaaS market, including Security, Systems Management, and Storage Management cloud services – drove 21 percent of the 2013 SaaS market.
The PaaS market – accounting for 14 percent of the market in 2013 with a forecast CAGR of 27 percent – is composed of a wide variety of highly strategic cloud app development, deployment, and management services.
In 2013 and 2014, PaaS spending has been largely driven by Integration and Process Automation solutions, Data Management solutions, and Application Server Middleware services.
The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market – comprised of two major segments, Server and Basic Storage – drove $3.6 billion in 2013 spending and is projected to grow at a 31 percent CAGR through 2018.
On a regional basis, the United States holds almost 68 percent of the market which is much more than what it holds for traditional technologies. Western Europe holds 19 percent and the other six regions IDC tracks hold 5 percent or less each.
However, IDC forecasts that by 2018, the U.S. share will drop to 59 percent, while the Western European share will grow to 23 percent. Emerging regions are also expected to grow above worldwide average.
“We are at a pivotal time in the battle for leadership and innovation in the cloud. IDC’s Public Cloud Services Tracker shows very rapid growth in customer cloud service spending across 19 product categories and within eight geographic regions,” said Frank Gens, senior vice president at IDC.
How Cloud Computing Empowers the Agile Enterprise
Public cloud service adoption is already a mainstream phenomenon in most organizations. Meanwhile, many large enterprises see a private cloud in their future. But choosing whether to invest in building an internal cloud infrastructure or buy from a cloud service provider will become more challenging – in anticipation, savvy IT leaders are becoming brokers of dynamic business technology solutions.
Hybrid cloud resource management and progressive operational process adoption are the key focal points in preparation for this transition. Moreover, Line of Business demand for emerging use cases and just-in-time IT workload creation requires speedy access to a managed self-serve DevOps deployment model.
That’s why comprehensive management and provisioning tools — such as Red Hat CloudForms — have become essential platforms. Besides, given the pervasive trends in the marketplace, every business will eventually need an actionable hybrid cloud adoption plan. It’s a requirement of the forward-looking agile enterprise.
Public Cloud Services Still Gaining Momentum
International Data Corporation (IDC) has released the latest results from their ongoing global market study. For 2013, the worldwide public cloud services market reached $45.7 billion — growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent until 2018.
Three major product groups comprise the total public cloud services market in IDC’s software taxonomy: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
The SaaS market – accounting for 72 percent of the total public cloud services market and forecast to grow at a 20 percent CAGR over the forecast period – is dominated by Enterprise Applications cloud solutions such as enterprise resource management (ERM) and customer relationship management (CRM), followed by Collaborative applications.
System Infrastructure Software cloud solutions – the other major part of the SaaS market, including Security, Systems Management, and Storage Management cloud services – drove 21 percent of the 2013 SaaS market.
The PaaS market – accounting for 14 percent of the market in 2013 with a forecast CAGR of 27 percent – is composed of a wide variety of highly strategic cloud app development, deployment, and management services.
In 2013 and 2014, PaaS spending has been largely driven by Integration and Process Automation solutions, Data Management solutions, and Application Server Middleware services.
The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market – comprised of two major segments, Server and Basic Storage – drove $3.6 billion in 2013 spending and is projected to grow at a 31 percent CAGR through 2018.
On a regional basis, the United States holds almost 68 percent of the market which is much more than what it holds for traditional technologies. Western Europe holds 19 percent and the other six regions IDC tracks hold 5 percent or less each.
However, IDC forecasts that by 2018, the U.S. share will drop to 59 percent, while the Western European share will grow to 23 percent. Emerging regions are also expected to grow above worldwide average.
“We are at a pivotal time in the battle for leadership and innovation in the cloud. IDC’s Public Cloud Services Tracker shows very rapid growth in customer cloud service spending across 19 product categories and within eight geographic regions,” said Frank Gens, senior vice president at IDC.
How cloud computing empowers the agile enterprise
Public cloud service adoption is already a mainstream phenomenon in most organizations. Meanwhile, many large enterprises see a private cloud in their future. But choosing whether to invest in building an internal cloud infrastructure or buy from a cloud service provider will become more challenging – in anticipation, savvy IT leaders are becoming brokers of dynamic business technology solutions.
Hybrid cloud resource management and progressive operational process adoption are the key focal points in preparation for this transition. Moreover, Line of Business demand for emerging use cases and just-in-time IT workload creation requires speedy access to a managed self-serve DevOps deployment model.
That’s why comprehensive management and provisioning tools — such as Red Hat CloudForms — have become essential platforms. Besides, given the pervasive trends in the marketplace, every business will eventually need an actionable hybrid cloud adoption plan. It’s a requirement of the forward-looking agile enterprise.
Public cloud services still gaining momentum
International Data Corporation (IDC) has released the latest results from their ongoing global market study. For 2013, the worldwide public cloud services market reached $45.7 billion — growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent until 2018.
Three major product groups comprise the total public cloud services market in IDC’s software taxonomy: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
The SaaS market – accounting for 72 percent of the total public cloud services market and forecast to grow at a 20 percent CAGR over the forecast period – is dominated by Enterprise Applications cloud solutions such as enterprise resource management (ERM) and customer relationship management (CRM), followed by Collaborative applications.
System Infrastructure Software cloud solutions – the other major part of the SaaS market, including Security, Systems Management, and Storage Management cloud services – drove 21 percent of the 2013 SaaS market.
The PaaS market – accounting for 14 percent of the market in 2013 with a forecast CAGR of 27 percent – is composed of a wide variety of highly strategic cloud app development, deployment, and management services.
In 2013 and 2014, PaaS spending has been largely driven by Integration and Process Automation solutions, Data Management solutions, and Application Server Middleware services.
The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market – comprised of two major segments, Server and Basic Storage – drove $3.6 billion in 2013 spending and is projected to grow at a 31 percent CAGR through 2018.
On a regional basis, the United States holds almost 68 percent of the market which is much more than what it holds for traditional technologies. Western Europe holds 19 percent and the other six regions IDC tracks hold 5 percent or less each.
However, IDC forecasts that by 2018, the U.S. share will drop to 59 percent, while the Western European share will grow to 23 percent. Emerging regions are also expected to grow above worldwide average.
“We are at a pivotal time in the battle for leadership and innovation in the cloud. IDC’s Public Cloud Services Tracker shows very rapid growth in customer cloud service spending across 19 product categories and within eight geographic regions,” said Frank Gens, senior vice president at IDC.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Leveraging the Cloud for Disaster Recovery
“We provide disaster recovery services as well as solutions. We also provide back-up solutions that work across your internal on-premise assets as well as in the public and private cloud,” stated Joel Ferman, Vice President of Marketing at InMage Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 14th International Cloud Expo® (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com/), held June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo® 2014 Silicon Valley, November 4–6, 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.
Racemi Announces $10 Million Series C Funding
Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software, has closed a $10 million Series C round of venture financing.
The round included new investors, led by Milestone Venture Partners, along with existing investors Harbert Venture Partners, and Paladin Capital Group.
The funds will be used to further scale Racemi sales, services and engineering to meet growing demand for its cloud migration software, which automates the process of migrating workloads to public, private and hybrid clouds.