Despite its reported immaturity, Rackspace has gone production with the Essex version of OpenStack, making it the first large-scale public cloud deployment of the fabled open source platform.
It’s positioning Open Cloud as freeing users from vendor lock-in, a taunt directed at Amazon, Google and Microsoft whose customers it expects to run off.
Other OpenStack clouds should follow quickly, say, from HP, Dell and Intel, and since they’ll be look-a-likes users able to flit from one to another.
To get the roll-out started Rackspace is offering public, private and hybrid hosting solutions and says there’s unlimited availability of Cloud Databases and both Linux and Windows Cloud Servers on OpenStack.
Some mojo called RackConnect will integrate public and private clouds.
Lenovo and EMC Now Strategic Partners
In a rare outreach Lenovo has teamed up with EMC, which will get another entry into the vast Chinese market through its new partner.
The pair is going to form an SMB-focused storage joint venture.
They’ve also got a server technology development program to extend Lenovo’s nascent capabilities in the x86 server segment. The servers will be brought to market by Lenovo and embedded into selected EMC storage systems over time. It could threaten HP.
What Does the New EMC and Lenovo Partnership Mean?
The past several weeks have been busy with various merger, acquisitions and collaborating activity in the IT and data storage world. Summer time often brings new relationships and even summer marriages. The most recent is EMC and Lenovo announcing a new partnership that includes OEM sourcing of technology, market expansion and other initiatives. Hmm, does anybody remember who EMCs former desktop and server partner was, or who put Lenovo out for adoption several years ago?
Here is the press release from EMC and Lenovo that you can read yourself vs. me simply paraphrasing it:
Gartner Hype Cycle: Sales turn CRM to the Cloud for quick relief
Sales VPs for years have been test-driving SaaS-based CRM systems, piloting them with sales teams to see if using them leads to higher sales and greater customer retention. Marketing VPs and Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) also continue to pilot SaaS-based web analytics and marketing automation applications.
What’s been missing from these pilots is the ability to bring CRM, marketing automation, sales management and web analytics systems into existing enterprise IT architectures just as fast. This is changing quickly. CRM vendors have been quick to respond to the challenge, offering Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs), integration adapters, connectors and from larger vendors, integrated bus architectures.
What the Hype Cycle for CRM Sales, 2012 Means
CRM’s real value is in unifying an entire enterprise based on its ability to sell, serve and retain customers better than before. Gartner shows this is a high priority for its CRM clients by underscoring which …
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Managing Big Data
“Impetus is a software services company, and we’re focused on Big Data practice. What we are doing for enterprise organizations is helping them create Big Data architectures and helping them come up with solutions for their very critical business challenges,” explained Anand Raman, VP of Business Development at Impetus, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
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.
Mobile Demand Driving Growth in the Cloud
“Increasing mobile demand will drive a lot of the growth in cloud,” stated James Strayer, VP of Product Management and Marketing at Racemi, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “But,” Strayer continued, “there are still people running Windows NT 4 out there and there are probably even old IBM System/360s out there in production still.”
Cloud Computing Journal: Just having the enterprise data is good. Extracting meaningful information out of this data is priceless. Agree or disagree?
James Strayer: Agree. I am often amazed at how many businesses don’t even have the data yet, so getting it is a great first step. But the value is limited unless you can build useful information and models from it.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Reducing Cost & Complexity of Cloud Migrations
Analyst research shows that the change, cost, and complexity associated with cloud migrations continue to be key challenges for cloud computing adoption.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Adiascar Cisneros is Director of Operations at Racemi, will help attendees understand the cost and complexity associated with specific migration strategies and how they can effectively manage these issues, enabling them to migrate to the cloud with minimal cost and risk.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Essential Cloud Computing Training
“Global Knowledge provides solutions that pulls all types of training into a transformation package and helps you get from point A to point B,” explained Hank Marquis, Practice Leader at Global Knowledge, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
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.
Amazon Launches Provisioned IOPS for EBS
Amazon Web Services has launched Amazon Elastic Block Store Provisioned IOPS for customers looking to run high performance databases in the cloud. Provisioned IOPS (input/output operations per second) are a new EBS volume type designed to deliver predictable, high performance for I/O intensive workloads, such as database applications, that rely on consistent and fast response times. With Provisioned IOPS, customers can flexibly specify both volume size and volume performance, and Amazon EBS will consistently deliver the desired performance over the lifetime of the volume. To get started with Amazon EBS, visit http://aws.amazon.com/ebs.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Latency in the Cloud
“We launched our next Cloud Test Lab with Eucalyptus, Atrato and Arista. We consider it a very important tool for the European market,” stated Jelle Frank van der Zwet, Manager Cloud Segment at Interxion, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
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.
The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in Santa Clara, CA, November 5–8, 2012.