ndependenceIT (iIT), provider of the complete Cloud Workspace, has announced its acquisition of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Veddio Cloud Solutions, a cloud services management platform and aggregator for managed services providers (MSP). The acquisition broadens independenceIT’s customer base and enables channel partners of all sizes to reap the business-enabling benefits of the cloud through simple, intuitive management tools. The terms of the acquisition were not publicly disclosed.
“This is an exciting opportunity as Veddio’s platform has been validated by an industry leader in independenceIT,” said Todd B. Myers, Veddio’s co-founder and CEO, who will now take the position of chief operating officer with independenceIT. “An integrated solution from the two companies will provide the marketplace with the means to easily control all of their cloud services from an intuitive dashboard.”
ActiveState Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that ActiveState, whose software enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of 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.
ActiveState empowers innovation from code to cloud smarter, safer, and faster. ActiveState’s cutting-edge solutions give developers and enterprises the power and flexibility to develop in Java, Ruby, Python, Perl, Node.js, PHP, Tcl, and more. Stackato is ActiveState’s groundbreaking application platform for creating a private platform as a service (PaaS), and is the cost-effective, secure, and portable way to develop and deploy apps to the cloud.
Architecture-Agnosticism for Application Transformation
The problem with cloud computing is that the adoption challenge is firmly rooted on the ground.
All too often we hear vendors talk about the need for “management and usability” as key must-have characteristics in cloud application platforms, but these over-used generic marketing terms now have arguably less value in terms of real-world real-time real-data deployments.
At a more granular level we need to know what programmers need to a) migrate existing application structures to new hosted virtualized environments and b) initiative new cloud application and database builds that are architected in such as way that they can migrate across different cloud formations (i.e., private, public and hybrid) as and when this shift is needed.
Introducing IBM Worklight v5
Not too long ago, I wrote a post about IBM’s then very recent acquisition of a mobile application platform company called Worklight. Given the fact that is has been a while (at least in mobile market time) and IBM recently released (6/15) the new IBM Worklight 5.0 product, I thought it was a good time to revisit the topic.
First things first, the acquisition of Worklight by IBM and the subsequent release of IBM Worklight does not change the nature of the solution. It is still a mobile application platform, and it still provides the end-to-end capabilities that you probably (or at least should) expect from such a solution.
Eucalyptus 3.1 Now Available
“Eucalyptus 3.1 is open for business,” writes Eucalyptus VP of Community Greg DeKoenigsberg in a blogpost. “No more artificial separation between Enterprise and Community. No more frenzied checkins to the ‘enterprise edition’ while the separate-but-equal ‘community version’ atrophies…(and) no more wondering about what’s on the roadmap.”
The new release features “FastStart,” designed for users “to deploy on-premise, AWS-compatiable IaaS clouds” in less than 20 minutes, according to the company. Source code is now available on GitHub, and there are enterprise platform deployments for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Enterprise Virtualization, and VMware vCenter 5.
With a nod toward what seems to be an emerging hybrid cloud (and multi-cloud) world, Eucalyptus also notes that the “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization delivers a comprehensive virtualization platform…that provides benefits for cloud deployments, both private and hybrid.”
Eucalyptus Systems “is enabling 25,000 cloud starts each year, including instances at more than 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies,” the company says. In DeKoenigsberg’s words, “Build together. Run together. Manage together. That’s been the mantra for this release…we are deeply committed to the open source model, because we believe that it creates the best software, and we’re going to prove it.”
Cirrus Tech Pumps Up VPS Hosting Plans with Parallels Plesk Panel 11
Cirrus Tech, a Canadian web hosting provider specializing in shared, VPS and cloud hosting services, is participating as an official launch partner for the release of Parallels Plesk Panel 11, the latest version of the award-winning web hosting control panel.
At Cirrus, we are committed to providing our customers with the most up to date technology available. When we were approached by the Parallels team about participating in the launch, we jumped on board without hesitation and are thrilled to provision version 11 of the Parallels Plesk Panel on our Virtual Machine and Virtual Private Server hosting plans as of June 26th, 2012.
Users will continue to enjoy all the benefits of the intuitive and fully integrated Plesk control panel, and can now also take advantage of the new and improved features of version 11, including:
– An updated, modern look and feel to the user interface
– Improved web server performance and load times thanks to nginx high-performance architecture
– Better security features including improved password encryption, options to enforce the use of strong passwords for users, and the ability to configure Parallels Plesk Panel 11 for PCI compliance
– A new Software Development Kit (SDK) that makes the addition and customization of extensions easier than ever
At Cirrus, we’ve built our VPS hosting services from the ground up to offer a flexible, reliable, and cost effective solution that can meet the hosting needs of any business. Parallels Plesk Panel is a big part of our recipe for success.
Ehsan Mirdamadi, CEO, Cirrus Tech Ltd. – a Canadian web hosting company providing affordable, dependable VM and VPS hosting services since 1999.
Get Cloud Certified at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
The Cloud Essentials course is a two-day, interactive, classroom-based learning experience. The course provides a balanced curriculum and addresses the business and technical perspectives of cloud computing. It will also explain how to adopt, operate, and govern the cloud. The course enables participants to successfully complete the associated CompTIA Cloud Essentials Exam to become a Cloud Essentials Professional (CEP). In addition, the course complements the Virtualization Essentials course, which they can do either before or after they’ve taken the Cloud Essentials course.
BoogarLists Named “Media Sponsor” of Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that BoogarLists has been named “Media Sponsor” of 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.
With a qualified directory of more than 2,000 Venture Capital and Mid-Market/LBO private equity firms, BoogarLists is an excellent place for entrepreneurs to begin their search for investment capital. Whether starting a new company or striving to take an early stage company to the next level, CEOs and CFOs will invariably want to seek out new sources of capital or other financial services. BoogarLists provides an extensive directory of financial, operations and marketing services, as well as a comprehensive directory of conferences and associations, across the technology, media and communications industries.
Cloud Computing Bootcamp at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
The new, “super-sized” four-day Cloud Computing Bootcamp is a brief introduction to cloud computing carefully created and devised to help you keep up with evolving trends like Big Data, PaaS, APIs, Mobile, Social and Data Analytics. Solutions built around these topics require a sound cloud computing infrastructure to be successful while helping customers harvest real benefits from this transformational change that is happening in the IT ecosystem.
LifeWatch V: Smartphone with Healthcare Sensors Built In
LifeWatch AG, a wireless cardiac monitoring service and home sleep test provider in the U.S., today released LifeWatch V, a healthcare smartphone. The smartphone allows patients as well as health- and wellbeing-conscious consumers to self-operate a wide range of embedded medical sensors, wellness-related applications, cloud-based services and 24/7 call center support.
By using the barely visible sensors on the phone’s frame, patients as well as health- and wellbeing conscious consumers can track, capture, collect and analyze their health and medical measurements anywhere anytime. The features include ECG, body temperature, blood glucose, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, body fat percentage and stress levels (heart rate variability). All collected data can be retrieved from the cloud for a follow-up anytime anywhere. Users can thus take corrective action, plan their diets and activities, securely share the information with a health provider or family member, trend and analyze the data and more. Patients are also able to program the unit to remind them of their drug type, dose and intake time.
LifeWatch V was designed with a flexible service-product ecosystem in mind, allowing easy integration of services. The LifeWatch V handset unit includes a service enablement platform to support the transmission of medical data to be analyzed, evaluated and communicated to health professionals and call center personnel around the clock. The device wirelessly interacts with a cloud-based environment allowing users direct access to a wide range of valuable complementary medical and wellness related services.
LifeWatch intends to launch the healthcare solution smartphone world-wide. In the initial markets LifeWatch has identified several local partners to enter into strategic partnerships.
