IDenticard Access Control is a leading manufacturer of integrated access control solutions to protect employees, visitors, and facilities. Owned by Brady Corporation (NYSE:BRC), a $1.15 billion manufacturer of identification products, IDenticard Access Control draws on its 30 years of experience in security software development to provide innovative products based on its customers’ requirements and the needs of the marketplace. With an in-house engineering team, IDenticard Access Control has developed a patent-pending, revolutionary physical security solution that secures and monitors server rack access at the cabinet level. The system features easy-to-use dynamic mapping and customizable reporting capabilities to identify and track who accesses server racks and specifically where, when, and for how long.
Dropbox goes deeper with more powerful Pro tool set
Remember Dropbox? While its upstart little brother Box has been giving the tech press plenty to write about with its soap opera-styled ‘will they, won’t they’ IPO saga and proclamations of the end of the storage wars, Dropbox has been going about its business a little more quietly.
And the company has today launched an update to its Dropbox Pro product, chief of which revolves around introducing a single plan of 1 terabyte of space at the same price of $9.99 a month.
The majority of the other changes to Dropbox’s paid individual product revolve around collaboration and security. You can now creating passwords for shared links, adding an extra layer of security; create expiry dates for shared links; and put together view-only permissions, so you can delegate as to who can read and who can edit files (below).
Picture credit: Dropbox
The updated Dropbox Pro also dabbles in content and device management by incorporating a remote wipe facility. Current Dropbox Pro users will see their software being upgraded automatically in the coming days.
A blog post announcing the move has generated mixed reviews, with positive comments being weighed out by users complaining at only one price option. Yet it’s a balancing act; there will be users ecstatic at essentially getting more storage for no extra charge, while others who don’t need 1 TB will be disappointed there aren’t lower tiered, lower cost options.
The news comes at an interesting time for Dropbox, with cloud storage vendors’ tiered business model of individual freemium and enterprise coming under scrutiny. Last month Box announced it was clearing out all storage limits for enterprise customers – you want to pay for the world, we’ll give it to you. Once the biggest vendors – Amazon, Google, Microsoft – were slashing its prices, it sounded the death knell for Box and Dropbox’s traditional models.
Last month Gartner released its Enterprise File Synchronisation and Sharing Magic Quadrant, with Dropbox finding a place in the ‘challengers’ section whilst Box placed among the leaders, behind Citrix and EMC. Yet according to this CMSWire article, for this enterprise-heavy field of business, pure cloud vendors might not be the best solution.
With Box’s BoxWorks event coming up at the start of this month, all eyes will be on CEO Aaron Levie. Investors and analysts certainly haven’t forgotten the company bailing out of its IPO in July, opting instead for more private cash.
Find out more about the latest Dropbox Pro here.
@NuoDB Demo Theater Presentation at @CloudExpo New York
As more applications and services move “to the cloud” (public or on-premise) cloud environments are increasingly adopting and building out traditional enterprise features. This in turn is enabling and encouraging cloud adoption from enterprise users. In many ways the definition is blurring as features like continuous operation, geo-distribution or on-demand capacity become the norm. NuoDB is involved in both building enterprise software and using enterprise cloud capabilities. In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Seth Proctor, CTO at NuoDB, Inc., will discuss the experiences from building, deploying and using enterprise services and suggest some ways to approach moving enterprise applications into a cloud model.
Announcing @iwNetworks “Exhibitor” At @CloudExpo Silicon Valley
Macrotron Systems is an ISO 9001:2008 registered Electronic Manufacturing Services company specializing in PCB assembly/test, ultrasonic welding, laser marking/engraving and pad printing. Operations are in Fremont, California. Macrotron offers a competitive advantage in the electronics manufacturing service marketplace from its Silicon Valley facility. Macrotron develops OEM partnerships by consistently fulfilling customer requirements for dependable and cost effective services and products. To this end, Macrotron has invested in current technology to establish itself as the ideal contract partner of the Electronics OEM customer.
EMC Acquired TwinStrata in July. What’s This Mean For You Moving Forward?
Video with Randy Weis, Practice Manager, Data Center http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McUyYF9NIec Back in July, storage giant EMC acquired TwinStrata. Information infrastructure and storage expert Randy Weis breaks down TwinStrata’s capabilities and explains what this means for your organization. Interested in speaking with Randy about the latest trends in storage? Email us at socialmedia@greenpages.com …Read More »
@Solgenia_Corp To Exhibit at @CloudExpo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Solgenia, the global market leader in Cloud Collaboration and Cloud Infrastructure software solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Solgenia is the global market leader in Cloud Collaboration and Cloud Infrastructure software solutions. Designed to “Bridge the Gap” between personal and professional social, mobile and cloud user experiences, our solutions help large and medium-sized organizations dramatically improve productivity, reduce collaboration costs, and increase the overall enterprise value by bringing collaboration and infrastructure solutions to the cloud.
@HarbingerSys To Exhibit At @CloudExpo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Harbinger Systems will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Harbinger Systems is a global company providing software technology services. Since 1990, Harbinger has developed a strong customer base worldwide. Its customers include software product companies ranging from hi-tech start-ups in Silicon Valley to leading product companies in the US and large in-house IT organizations.
@SendGrid Named “Exhibitor” of @CloudExpo Silicon Valley
Founded in 2009, after graduating from the TechStars program, SendGrid has developed a cloud based service that solves the challenge of email delivery by delivering emails on behalf of companies. SendGrid eliminates the complexity of sending email, saving time and money, while providing reliable delivery to the inbox. With over a decade of thought-leadership backed by a stellar record of delivering email, SendGrid is climbing to new heights. Jim Franklin is the CEO of SendGrid, Inc., a Foundry-backed infrastructure applications company. Prior to his tenure with SendGrid, Jim was the Vice President of Enterprise Performance Management and the General Manager of the Crystal Ball Global Business Unit of Oracle Corporation.
SoftLayer beefs up its bare metal offering, available on hourly basis
IBM-owned infrastructure as a service provider SoftLayer has always distanced itself from its IaaS brethren by continuing to provide bare metal alongside its virtual servers and software offerings.
The company has improved on this further with a series of bare metal releases which are billed by the hour and can be deployed in under 30 minutes. The overall effect of this is a greater preponderance to deploy computing-intensive workloads on SoftLayer.
“As businesses deploy more powerful workloads in the cloud, there is increased demand for performance with even shorter demand cycles,” said SoftLayer CTO Marc Jones.
“Our new hourly bare metal servers are designed to hit the sweet spot of how much power they need, how long they need it, at price points that make sense,” he added.
These prices can be seen in the table below:
|
Processors/ Server |
Cores/ Processor |
Core Speed |
RAM |
Storage |
Price/hour |
|
|
Intel 1270 |
1 |
4 |
3.4GHz |
8GB |
2x1TB SATA |
$0.53 |
|
Intel 1270 |
1 |
4 |
3.4GHz |
32GB |
2x400GB SSD |
$1.26 |
|
Intel 2620 |
2 |
12 |
2.0GHz |
32GB |
4x1TTB SATA |
$1.43 |
|
Intel 2650 |
2 |
16 |
2.0Ghz |
64GB |
4x1TB SATA |
$1.49 |
SoftLayer says this latest bare metal offering will be able immediately in its Dallas, San Jose, Washington DC, London, Toronto, Amsterdam, Singapore, and Hong Kong data centres.
The London and Toronto data centres have only been recently opened, in July and August respectively. Having just celebrated the first anniversary of being acquired by IBM, SoftLayer’s press release cycle is starting to get an IBM-ish air to it; frequent and insistent. At the very least, it’s the sign of a company looking to be innovative in the space.
@Innodisk_Corp to Exhibit at @CloudExpo Silicon Valley
Innodisk is a service-driven provider of industrial embedded flash and DRAM storage products and technologies, with a focus on the enterprise, industrial, aerospace, and defense industries. Innodisk is dedicated to serving their customers and business partners. Quality is vitally important when it comes to industrial embedded flash and DRAM storage products. That’s why Innodisk manufactures all of their products in their own purpose-built memory production facility. In fact, they designed and built their production center to maximize manufacturing efficiency and guarantee the highest quality of our products.