POMPTON LAKES, N.J., Oct. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Kubisys announced today its namesake CID Platform, which automatically captures production environments and orchestrates the provisioning and deployment of replicas for development, testing and QA. The Kubisys CID Platform makes it easy for developers of mission critical multi-tier applications, such as Microsoft Dynamics AX, to follow DevOps practices for continuous delivery. The Kubisys platform delivers greater accuracy and agility than existing processes that rely on virtualization technologies and release management solutions.

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Thoroughly knowing the difference between the three prominent types of datacenter storage will help you immensely in job interviews, product pitches and tech conferences. Server storage is typically stored in one of three different methods. Since each acronym is similar, it is imperative for you to know the stark differences when discussing DAS, SAN and NAS.

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What are the benefits of using an enterprise-grade orchestration platform?
In their session at 15th Cloud Expo, Jeff Tegethoff, CEO of Appcore, and Kedar Poduri, Senior Director of Product Management at Citrix Systems, will take a closer look at the architectural design factors needed to support diverse workloads and how to run these workloads efficiently as a service provider. They will also discuss how to deploy private cloud environments in 15 minutes or less.

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There’s Big Data, then there’s really Big Data from the Internet of Things. IoT is evolving to include many data possibilities like new types of event, log and network data. The volumes are enormous, generating tens of billions of logs per day, which raise data challenges. Early IoT deployments are relying heavily on both the cloud and managed service providers to navigate these challenges.
In her session at 6th Big Data Expo®, Hannah Smalltree, Director at Treasure Data, to discuss how IoT, Big Data and deployments are processing massive data volumes from wearables, utilities and other machines.

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For the third year in a row, we worked together with Pacific Crest Securities, an investment banking firm with a specific focus on SaaS, to survey 306 SaaS companies. This represents nearly double the # of respondents from last year, giving us deeper benchmarking data and insights to share on the growth and operations of […]

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Swiss innovators dizmo Inc. launches its ground-breaking software, which turns any digital surface into an immersive platform. The dizmo platform seamlessly connects digital and physical objects in the home and at the workplace.

Dizmo breaks down traditional boundaries between device, operating systems, apps and software, transforming the way users work, play and live. It supports orchestration and collaboration in an unparalleled way enabling any data to instantaneously be accessed on any surface, anywhere and made interactive.

Dizmo brings fantasies as seen in Sci-fi movies such as Iron Man and Minority Report, as well as in Corning’s video ‘A day made of glass’ to reality, revolutionising traditional methods of interacting with digital content and objects.

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Depending on whom you listen to, the private cloud is either dead or on the cusp of a major market breakthrough. Some tech pundits argue this technology has already been replaced by more efficient public cloud offerings and businesses just need time to catch up, while others claim there’s a bright future for private solutions.
Research supports the latter – according to IDC, spending on hosted private cloud services should hit $24 billion by 2016. Why? Because there’s real value in this model. Here’s a look at five compelling advantages of the private cloud.
It’s Not On-Premises (Necessarily)
As noted by a recent Business 2 Community article, there’s a critical misconception about the private cloud still making the rounds even after years of corporate adoption: that it must be on-premises. At first glance, the idea makes sense – public clouds are always hosted off-site because they cater to multiple tenants, while private alternatives come with security of locally deployed servers.

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The impact of DevOps in the cloud era is potentially profound. DevOps helps businesses deliver new features continuously, reduce cycle time and achieve sustained innovation by applying agile and lean principles to assist all stakeholders in an organization that develop, operate, or benefit from the business’ lifecycle.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Prashanth Chandrasekar, General Manager at Rackspace, will exam whether / how companies can work with external DevOps specialists to achieve “DevOps elasticity” and DevOps expertise at scale while internally focusing on writing code / development.

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IBM and SAP announced a major strategic agreement that integrates Big Blue’s datacenter capabilities with Big Hasso’s ongoing HANA cloud-based database initiative.
IBM is investing $1.2 billion to build 15 new datacesnters as part of its SoftLayer acquisition and expansion, and will also use its existing IBM Cloud servers to support the new agreement with SAP.
The announcement was made jointly in Armonk, NY and Walldorf, Germany. IBM is described by SAP as a “premier strategic provider” of cloud infrastructure services in the agreement, and the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud will now be available through IBM’s cloud.

“We look forward to extending one of the longest and most successful partnerships in the IT industry,” said Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP. “The demand for SAP HANA and the SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA in the cloud is tremendous and this global agreement with IBM heralds a new era of cloud collaboration.”

For her part, IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty said, “This announcement is a significant milestone in the deployment of enterprise cloud. It builds on our two companies’ long history of bringing innovation to business.”

Rometty also noted the modern age of enterprise IT, saying “our secure, open, hybrid enterprise cloud platform will enable SAP clients to support new ways to work in an era shaped by Big Data, mobile and social.”

Take that, Larry
Coming in the wake of recent criticisms of SAP by Oracle Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison, but presumably not related to Ellison’s remarks, the agreement will focus on “(delivering) SAP business solutions on the IBM Cloud,” according to an official statement. The agreement also closely follows IBM’s agreement to develop apps for Apple, if nothing else showing that the folks in Armonk are apparently seeking to be flexible in this 21st century, cloud-philic world.

“SAP brings the power of realtime through in-memory computing capabilities of SAP HANA combined with the ability to run mission-critical business applications, like SAP Business Suite, in a cloud environment. IBM brings enterprise depth and the open architecture of IBM Cloud Managed Services and SoftLayer–enabling customers to securely manage SAP workloads from trial to production on a consistent infrastructure, with transparency and control over where data resides.”

In a separate, exclusive interview with Cloud Computing Journal, IBM General Manager of Cloud Services Jim Comfort (pictured) told us that the two companies have already made several customers aware of the agreement and are working with them. He noted that many of IBM’s enterprise customers are also SAP customers.

The agreement thus takes effect immediately, and is offered worldwide. Comfort said this “strategic announcement expands what we’ve been doing (for customers), at scale.” he also mentioned that many IBM and SAP customers are multi-national enterprises, so will benefit from a global approach. “This key attribute of being worldwide also means that we’re providing consistent services around the globe,” he noted. “Our strategy is to build a global platform.”

IBM has also been focusing a lot of resources on its Bluemix PaaS in recent months. Although the new strategic agreement doesn’t specifically involve Bluemix for all customers, Comfort noted that “there may be linkage” in some cases, and the two companies are prepared to handle it.

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