There is a lot of guidance and expertise on achieving PCI compliance. In virtualized and cloud computing environments it is trickier, yet a lot of expertise is building up there as well. Witness the venerable PCI Security Standards organization and its guideline for virtualization, which includes a section on cloud computing as well. Yet in […]
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Eucalyptus continues its aggressive march through the cloud computing skyscape, with an agreement with upstart Appcara to integrate Eucalyptus private IaaS with public Amazon Web Services. Appcara has said its model-basaed approach competes directly with cloud management leader Rightscale, a company with which Eucalyptus also cooperates.
Appcara’s product, AppStack, “captures and assembles the entire application environment regardless of languages and development platforms and provides 100 percent automation throughout the application lifeycle,” according to CEO John Yung. “Users have found that AppStack has reduced their DevOps effort dramatically – turning painfully manual enterprise application deployment processes into highly automated workloads.”
For Eucalyptus’s part, SVP David Butler says, “Enterprise customers turn to Eucalyptus for open, scalable and fully compatible on-premise clouds to freely manage and migrate workloads based on business demand. By leveraging Eucalyptus’ industry leading on-premise IaaS cloud sofware, and compatability with AWS APIs, Appcara can provide even the most advanced enterprise IT applications with on-demand cloud deployment, real-time configuration and advanced operations.”
I’ll be talking to both companies (among others) at VMworld next week, and will report back on what I hear.
In an unusual rapprochement, bitter rivals Apple and the Android mob including Google, Samsung, HTC and LG have teamed up to buy the Kodak patents on the cheap, according to the Wall Street Journal, a stratagem that had Kodak threatening to pull the sale only Kodak is boxed in.
“Big Data” is everywhere. What does it mean? In this article we discuss the impact of cloud and big data technology have on the application performance monitoring space. The number of components, the diversity of the data, the analysis frequency and data granularity results into an extremely complex analytics and Big Data problem. We explore how each of these dimension impact the APM space and how it is shaping Netuitive Analytics product roadmap.
As an exhibitor at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, UShareSoft is offering special passes to 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.
To obtain this special pass, here is a quick summary of all anyone needs to do – feel free to cut and paste these instructions into any email blast you might be sending out.
Here is another use case keeps coming up from customers using Gladinet Cloud. As one potential customer asked:
“We search for a solution for our team. We have a file server with Active Directory for our projects, with a team of
A bunch of the boys who worked at XenSource through its acquisition by Citrix have pragmatically turned their back on the hand that used to feed them in their new enterprise infrastructure start-up.
Convergent.io is going to base its scale-out software-defined storage widgetry on VMware virtualization, which is way more popular with the storied enterprise set it will focus on attracting once its mojo is ready.
It says it’s “developing a disruptive technology” – of course, what else – “that combines the flexibility of a software approach to redefine enterprise storage resources with the economics of high-performance commodity hardware to help customers realize the vision of a software-defined data center.”
