What are the technical benefits of building a business on the cloud? If that cloud is open, are the benefits fewer or are they more plentiful? What security issues remain in the clouds being stood up in 2012, compared to cloud computing’s earlier days? How are multi-national cloud initiatives faring, technically and from a compliance perspective? How *green* is cloud computing? Why does big data analytics need clouds, and where will the two-step between Big Data and the Cloud lead to next?
In this CTO Power Panel at the 11th International Cloud Expo, these and a host of other questions will be asked and answered in this fast-moving industry panel, featuring leading Cloud & Big Data practitioners and thought leaders and moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan.
Zadara Storage Announces Integration with OpenStack Cloud Block Storage
Zadara Storage has announced their latest storage industry break-through: integration of their Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) service with OpenStack® Cloud Block Storage (Cinder) for Public and Private Clouds.
The integration with OpenStack expands the availability of VPSA to developers and users world-wide, offering all the benefits of Zadara’s solutions suite including Cloud Block Storage, Cloud File Storage, High Performance, True High Availability, RAID Protection, Flexibility and Elasticity (grow and shrink performance and capacity on the fly), and Security and Privacy (including data-at-rest encryption).
Zadara Storage is an active contributor and thought leader for OpenStack’s Cloud Block Storage (Cinder) code, including Compute (Nova) and Block Storage (Cinder). “As early and ongoing supporters, developers and users of OpenStack, it is a delight to announce we have completed our integration with OpenStack Cloud Block Storage (Cinder),” states Zadara’s CEO, Nelson Nahum, adding, “It is now easier than ever for Cloud Service Providers and Private Cloud Users to adopt and benefit from our Cloud Block Storage Software.”
Zadara Storage Announces Integration with OpenStack Cloud Block Storage
Zadara Storage has announced their latest storage industry break-through: integration of their Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) service with OpenStack® Cloud Block Storage (Cinder) for Public and Private Clouds.
The integration with OpenStack expands the availability of VPSA to developers and users world-wide, offering all the benefits of Zadara’s solutions suite including Cloud Block Storage, Cloud File Storage, High Performance, True High Availability, RAID Protection, Flexibility and Elasticity (grow and shrink performance and capacity on the fly), and Security and Privacy (including data-at-rest encryption).
Zadara Storage is an active contributor and thought leader for OpenStack’s Cloud Block Storage (Cinder) code, including Compute (Nova) and Block Storage (Cinder). “As early and ongoing supporters, developers and users of OpenStack, it is a delight to announce we have completed our integration with OpenStack Cloud Block Storage (Cinder),” states Zadara’s CEO, Nelson Nahum, adding, “It is now easier than ever for Cloud Service Providers and Private Cloud Users to adopt and benefit from our Cloud Block Storage Software.”
Photo Evidence From Google: Apparently the Internet Actually IS a Series of Tubes
The late Senator Ted Stevens famously claimed the Internet was “A series of tubes” when speechifying on Network Neutrality. His maladroit metaphor immediately became a meme. Now, from a first-ever tour of a Google data center comes this photo, which appears to show he was right all along:
Inside Google Data Center. It’s full of tubes!
[Image: Connie Zhou / Google]
Trinity Solar to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Trinity Solar, the leading solar company on the East Coast, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Trinity Solar is the leading designer and integrator of solar electric systems. Its mission is to provide high-performing, cost-effective, environmentally responsible solutions to address the energy needs of customers.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, 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.
News shorts from Citrix Synergy Barcelona (October 17-19)
CENTERM Exhibiting Cloud Terminal
CENTERM will exhibit its new desktop cloud terminal B20 and mobile cloud terminal CT Pad2, calling it “…a major step forward as the firm demonstrates its latest technological achievement in System-on-Chip (SoC) and Power-over-Ethernet (POE) after CENTERM made its first foray into the US and European markets when it announced the GM810 cloud terminal at Citrix Synergy San Francisco 2012 in May.”
The GM810 is certified as Citrix HDX Ready and ready to ship now.
CA, Citrix Partner
CA Technologies and Citrix announced that they are partnering to “help enterprises and service providers increase agility and productivity by providing additional management and monitoring capabilities on top of Citrix cloud and desktop virtualization solutions.”
New Mobile Enterprise Solutions
Citrix unveiled the next phase of its strategy to enable the mobile enterprise. With the advent of consumerization, mobility and the cloud, an increasingly mobile workforce is looking for easier ways to work the way they want – with anyone, from any location, on any device. With today’s announcements, Citrix gives customers of all sizes the Power to Say Yes to consumer-inspired mobile workstyles with an expanding portfolio of solutions that give employees the freedom and flexibility they want, combined with the security and control businesses need. Today’s announcements make it easier for companies of all sizes to go mobile – empowering employees to interact securely with any combination of data, apps and devices – then bringing it all together in a seamless, integrated experience for end users.
Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions with Citrix Products
Dell announced new additions and enhancements to its end-to-end cloud client computing portfolio. The solutions, which are specific to Citrix-based IT environments and now available in the US and Europe, are “…easy to select, deploy, and support, and deliver a cost effective and highly secure user experience to any device anywhere.”
Dell unveiled new vStart for VDI Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 reference architectures. Available in two configurations, vStart for VDI 50 and vStart for VDI 1000 are pre-engineered, pre-built and pre-integrated converged solutions that include Dell’s PowerEdge servers, EqalLogic or Compellent storage, PowerConnect or Force10 networking, Dell Wyse T10, Dell Wyse Xenith Pro and now Dell Wyse Xenith 2 thin- and zero-clients and management plug-ins. These VDI infrastructure solutions leverage XenDesktop and help organizations achieve benefits of desktop virtualization in a rapid, highly secure manner.
Dell is also updating its DVS Simplified Appliance this month to specifically address the cost and complexity challenges of virtual desktop adoption with new flexible server form factors, support for new hypervisors and additional new capabilities.
Citrix outlines strategy
Citrix unveiled the next stage of its strategy to help enterprises and service providers of all sizes deliver business-ready cloud services. Citrix revealed that Project Avalon will be delivered in two releases – code named Excalibur and Merlin.
The Excalibur release, available this quarter as a tech preview, will feature “…advancements in simplicity, scalability and rich multi-media services needed to deliver Windows apps and desktops to millions of new consumer style mobile devices. Excalibur will dramatically simplify the management of virtual apps and desktops, giving Citrix XenApp® and Citrix XenDesktop® customers a single unified way to design and deliver any mix of virtual applications and desktops from a common management console, and deliver them to end users with any mix of virtual delivery technologies.”
The Merlin release, available as a tech preview in the first half of next year, will “…bring cloud-style orchestration, self-service and deployment flexibility to XenApp and XenDesktop by integrating proven technology from products like Citrix CloudPlatform™ and Cloud Portal™. As a result, customers will be able to rapidly deploy personalized Windows apps and desktops in a flexible, private cloud environment across single or multiple sites, and utilize public clouds in a “capacity on demand” fashion to support fluctuating business needs.”
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Cloud Data – Right Here, Right Now in Real-Time
Do you want SQL access to your SaaS application?
In their session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Sumit Sarkar, Sr. Solutions Consultant at Progress Software, and Paul Griffin, Sr. Manager, Sales Enablement, at Progress Software, will discuss how to achieve this with real-time SQL-92 access using ODBC and JDBC directly against your SaaS application database. See how this unique data connectivity is now possible and how other organizations use SQL access to get even more out of the cloud data running their businesses.
New Relic Delivers SaaS-Based Key Transaction Performance Management
New Relic, Inc., on Wednesday announced the availability of key transaction performance management, enabling organizations large and small to take advantage of enterprise business transaction performance tracking. Until now, business transaction performance management has only been available in expensive, on-premise tools. With the addition of this feature to New Relic Pro, the company is empowering its customers with advanced, fine-grained visibility into their most critical business interactions at an affordable price.
Additionally, New Relic has enhanced its already-intuitive product workflow with a new and improved user interface. In a single pane of glass, the new UI consolidates real user monitoring and application performance overviews for at-a-glance convenience The new design makes it even easier for dev, ops and devops teams to quickly identify bottlenecks and performance issues before they impact business activity.
New Relic Delivers SaaS-Based Key Transaction Performance Management
New Relic, Inc., on Wednesday announced the availability of key transaction performance management, enabling organizations large and small to take advantage of enterprise business transaction performance tracking. Until now, business transaction performance management has only been available in expensive, on-premise tools. With the addition of this feature to New Relic Pro, the company is empowering its customers with advanced, fine-grained visibility into their most critical business interactions at an affordable price.
Additionally, New Relic has enhanced its already-intuitive product workflow with a new and improved user interface. In a single pane of glass, the new UI consolidates real user monitoring and application performance overviews for at-a-glance convenience The new design makes it even easier for dev, ops and devops teams to quickly identify bottlenecks and performance issues before they impact business activity.
Compuware Extends APM Leadership with New Big Data Pricing
Compuware Corporation has announced pricing for a deep transaction management solution for optimizing performance of Apache Hadoop applications. Compuware APM’s dynaTrace Enterprise for Hadoop will be offered starting at just $1,000 per Hadoop Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
Applications using Hadoop MapReduce suffer from many of the performance challenges and bottlenecks that plague current distributed applications, though the volume of performance data can be much larger. Optimizing compute and data distribution across nodes, assuring job execution efficiency, identifying I/O bottlenecks, tuning CPU and memory consumption amongst thousands of nodes requires deep insight into the Hadoop environment.