BroadSoft has announced that Wavenet Limited has selected BroadSoft’s BroadCloud® managed services to offer its customers and channel partners an integrated IP voice and Unified Communications (UC) service.
Wavenet, which has over 2,000 customers and supports 20,000 users in the United Kingdom, provides companies and associated partners with core telephony services. Wavenet’s arrangement with BroadSoft will enable the company to accelerate delivery of its hosted software and services, as customers demand the flexibility and scalability afforded by cloud-based infrastructure.
Moving to the Cloud By @EFeatherston | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
You can’t have a conversation about technology today without the topic of security breaches ending up front and center as a key concern. This is understandable with all the high profile breaches that have been occurring on what seems a regularly scheduled event. Anthem, the nation’s second largest health insurer is the latest in a long line of high profile breaches that have occurred recently. Given the size and severity of these breaches, security is very visible on everybody’s radar. This is especially true when discussing migration to the cloud. Unfortunately every breach can result in slowdowns or impediments to cloud migration plans.
Great Network Management By @MJannery | @CloudExpo [#SDN #Cloud]
On the surface, many network management products seem the same. But any network management system claiming to be a solution will, at a minimum, maintain an inventory of the network devices, understand their interconnectivity, monitor (and alert on) each device’s response (availability), monitor each device’s performance to some degree, and may note configuration changes. But beauty is only skin deep. How, how well, and how deeply an NMS does these makes all the difference.
Technology Growing at an Unprecedented Rate By @IanKhanLive [#Cloud]
Technology is driving the world. Innovation, fuelled by demand and the right amount of push through angel and venture backed funds are putting fuel into the fire. Here is what is driving demand, why demand is growing and where the growth is heading.
Overall the global technology arena is set for tremendous growth. here we are not specifically talking about Consumer or Enterprise growth but overall. Today, innovation is taking place in every small city to the large metropolis. Companies like whatsapp, drop box and many others that started in dorm rooms and garages are becoming mainstream application purely because of the massive disruptions they create. Do expect a number of smaller companies to grow rapidly and provide very focused and niche applications. Being narrow and catering to a very small need that is felt by a large audience is the place to grow.
‘Improving DevOps’ By @OmniTI | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
Some developers believe that monitoring is a function of the operations team. Some operations teams firmly believe that monitoring the systems they maintain is sufficient to run the business successfully. Most of them are wrong. The complexity of today’s applications have gone far and beyond the capabilities of “traditional” system-level monitoring tools and approaches and requires much broader knowledge of business and applications as a whole. The goal of DevOps is to connect all aspects of application development and operations, and monitoring provides visibility and troubleshooting tools to accomplish that goal.
DevOps Is Key Contributor to the Bottom Line | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
According to the study, respondents have experienced anywhere from a 14 to 21 percent improvement in business in the form of increased numbers of customers, faster time-to-market and improved quality and performance of applications. US respondents have seen more improvements than the global average, for instance about 27 percent increased collaboration between departments, a 26 percent reduction in time spent fixing and maintaining applications and a 24-25 percent increase in the number of customers as well as software and services that would otherwise not be possible.
New App Management Platform By @Qubell | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
Qubell announced on Monday the availability of the first autonomic application management platform for cloud applications. Qubell enables applications to become adaptive, self-managed services that configure, heal, optimize and protect themselves in response to changes within dynamic cloud environments. With Qubell, managing applications as an autonomic system dramatically accelerates application release cycles, improves quality, eliminates manual operations and reduces outages and operating costs. The platform is designed for a broad range of web, commerce and big data applications with an emphasis on retail, financial services and high-tech industries.
Box partners with Microsoft to enable collaboration through Office
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Cloud storage provider Box has joined the Microsoft Cloud Storage Program, integrating with Microsoft Office to enable businesses to seamlessly access content across devices and platforms.
The new collaboration includes enabling users to open, edit and save documents back to Box directly from Office for iOS, and is available today for free, with integration with Office Online arriving later this year.
“We’re excited to deepen our commitment to openness in the enterprise through Microsoft’s new program,” said Box CEO Aaron Levie in a statement. “We’re committed to delivering innovation that puts the customer first and allows enterprises to choose the tools they want to be successful.”
Levie wrote in a blog post the importance of openness, citing Box’s public APIs as a primary driver behind increasing enterprise productivity through being able to share documents any time, anywhere.
“The future of enterprise software is about choosing best of breed technologies to solve critical business problems,” he wrote. “Often these solutions will not come from the same vendors. To make this successful, these technologies must work together seamlessly.
“This next enterprise era will be defined by simple to use, modular services,” he added. “IT organisations will get better innovation for their dollar, users will achieve more productivity, and vendors will build stronger ties to one another.
“Today’s move is an important accelerant to this trend.”
Box isn’t the only company to partner with Microsoft in its Cloud Storage Program; Citrix and Salesforce are also inaugural members. Yet a more interesting comparison would be Microsoft’s partnership with Dropbox announced in November 2014. At the time, analysts argued the partnership was rooted in Dropbox’s greater need for an enterprise presence, and Microsoft’s need to ‘play nicely’ with other vendors.
This deal again focuses on Box’s core mission as an enterprise technology – a point Levie was keen to stress when the storage provider eventually went public in January.
You can find out more about the news here.
.@BMCSoftware and @Compuware Partner | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Compuware and BMC Software are partnering to improve the economics of IBM(R) z Systems ownership. By doing so, the two companies are empowering customers to reduce mainframe opex – even as they leverage their high-value mainframe applications, data and processing capacity to meet the challenges of the digital economy.
“The partnership between BMC and Compuware launches an integrated opportunity for mainframe customers to manage workload inefficiencies in a manner that has not been achievable to-date,” said Frank DeSalvo, former research director at Gartner. “This innovation helps organizations leverage their IT budgets by enabling them to continuously optimize their mainframe workloads, resulting in cost effective decisions for both current and future spending.”
Internet of Things Hackathon Proposals | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]
The 3rd International @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo – to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY – is now accepting Hackathon proposals. Hackathon sponsorship benefits include general brand exposure and increasing engagement with the developer ecosystem.
At Cloud Expo 2014 Silicon Valley, IBM held the Bluemix Developer Playground on November 5 and ElasticBox held the DevOps Hackathon on November 6. Both events took place on the expo floor.
The Bluemix Developer Playground, for developers of all levels, highlighted the ease of use of Bluemix, its services and functionality and provided short-term introductory projects that developers could complete between sessions.