Organizations are faced with the requirement to migrate applications from Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008(R2) or even Windows 2012 when adopting a private, managed or public cloud. AppZero’s tool extracts Windows server applications from production environments and packages them for movement to any datacenter or cloud, without re-engineering, change, or lock-in, fast.
The fastest and most flexible way to move server applications from the datacenter to the cloud, AppZero took a market-setting step forward on Tuesday with the release of “up-level OS migration” now available in V5.2. This technology allows users to effortlessly move server applications from old operating systems to new ones.
AppZero Announces Availability of Up-Level OS Application Migration
Organizations are faced with the requirement to migrate applications from Windows Server 2003 to Windows 2008(R2) or even Windows 2012 when adopting a private, managed or public cloud. AppZero’s tool extracts Windows server applications from production environments and packages them for movement to any datacenter or cloud, without re-engineering, change, or lock-in, fast.
The fastest and most flexible way to move server applications from the datacenter to the cloud, AppZero took a market-setting step forward on Tuesday with the release of “up-level OS migration” now available in V5.2. This technology allows users to effortlessly move server applications from old operating systems to new ones.
Dell to Go Private in $24.4 Billion Deal
After 25 years as a public company, the Dell board met Monday night to approve an offer to take the company private for $24.4 billion.
The deal, which values Dell at $13.65 a share, was announced Tuesday morning. The stock closed at $13.27 Monday, down 2.6%.
Stockholders still have to approve the buyout. The agreement gives the company 45 days to “go shop” and find a better deal. It would mean a $180 million termination fee.
Taking Dell private is supposed to give the one-time PC leader now under pressure from Apple and the tsunami it released the chance to get into mobile computing. It also wants to catch up with the cloud and sell to the enterprise.
Dell to Go Private in $24.4 Billion Deal
After 25 years as a public company, the Dell board met Monday night to approve an offer to take the company private for $24.4 billion.
The deal, which values Dell at $13.65 a share, was announced Tuesday morning. The stock closed at $13.27 Monday, down 2.6%.
Stockholders still have to approve the buyout. The agreement gives the company 45 days to “go shop” and find a better deal. It would mean a $180 million termination fee.
Taking Dell private is supposed to give the one-time PC leader now under pressure from Apple and the tsunami it released the chance to get into mobile computing. It also wants to catch up with the cloud and sell to the enterprise.
Cloud Conversations: Public, Private, Hybrid, What About Community Clouds?
Have you heard of a community cloud?
Cloud computing including cloud storage and services as products, solutions and services offer different functionality and enable benefits for various types of organizations, entities or individuals.
Public clouds, private clouds and hybrids leveraging public and private continue to evolve in technology, reliability, security and functionality along with the awareness around them.
IT professionals tell me they are interested in clouds however they have concerns.
Cloud concerns range from security, compliance, industry or government regulations, privacy and budgets among others with private, public or hybrid clouds. Peer, cooperative (co-op), consortium or community clouds can be a solution for those that traditional public, private, hybrid, AaaS, SaaS, PaaS or IaaS do not meet their needs.
In the Cloud Differentiation Means Services
Scott Bils has a post on the “Five Mistakes that Enterprise Cloud Service Providers are Making” over on Leverhawk. Points four and five were particularly interesting because it seems there’s a synergistic opportunity there.
Point number four from Scott:
Omitting SaaS and PaaS: Cloud infrastructure service providers have little incentive to migrate customers to public cloud SaaS offerings such as Salesforce.com or Workday. For many customers, migrating legacy apps to SaaS models will be the right answer. Many enterprise cloud service providers conveniently omit this lever from their transformation story and lose customer credibility as a result.
Piston Closes $8 Million B Round
Piston Cloud Computing, the OpenStack disciple, has gotten an $8 million B round to accelerate OpenStack adoption from Cisco, Data Collective, Divergent Ventures, Hummer Winblad, Swisscom Ventures and True Ventures.
The money will be used for product development.
Cisco, Data Collective and Swisscom Ventures are new investors.
Piston got a $4.5 million A round in July of 2011 and launched the first commercial OpenStack distribution for building, scaling and managing a private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud on bare-metal, converged commodity hardware.
The widgetry also integrates with the open source Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service.
Oracle to Buy Networking Firm
Oracle is going to buy Acme Packet, a Massachusetts networking gear player that sells secure IP video conferencing, data and voice calling to SPs and the enterprise.
Acme is a company, described as a “one of Boston’s recent success stories,” as well as a rival of Cisco and Juniper, more likely to be acquired by Cisco than Oracle, that Oracle is picking up for $2.1 billion in cash or $29.25 a share, a 22% premium over Acme’s Friday close.
Oracle will wind paying $1.7 billion, net of Acme’s roughly $363.4 million in the bank.
Acme reportedly has 1,900 service provider and enterprises customers worldwide including 89 of the world’s top 100 communications companies.
Oracle to Buy Networking Firm
Oracle is going to buy Acme Packet, a Massachusetts networking gear player that sells secure IP video conferencing, data and voice calling to SPs and the enterprise.
Acme is a company, described as a “one of Boston’s recent success stories,” as well as a rival of Cisco and Juniper, more likely to be acquired by Cisco than Oracle, that Oracle is picking up for $2.1 billion in cash or $29.25 a share, a 22% premium over Acme’s Friday close.
Oracle will wind paying $1.7 billion, net of Acme’s roughly $363.4 million in the bank.
Acme reportedly has 1,900 service provider and enterprises customers worldwide including 89 of the world’s top 100 communications companies.
4 non-obvious costs of cloud downtime
Remember when Twitter went out for 40 minutes last July? Twitter was so contrite that it posted the following statement:
“The cause of today’s outage came from within our data centres. What was noteworthy about today’s outage was the coincidental failure of two parallel systems at nearly the same time…We are investing aggressively in our systems to avoid this situation in the future.”
Glitches like this have consequences – many of which aren’t immediately obvious, and often aren’t public. Many are much more serious, because their business value is more intense for any one customer. I can think of four cautionary tales right off the bat.
1) Silent but deadly financial claw-backs
When one firm’s systems experienced serious performance degradation during the holiday season (at precisely the time when traffic was expected to peak), savvy customers took financial action behind closed doors.
“We did issue …