AppZero, the fastest, most flexible way to move server applications, announced today it has signed a channel partnership agreement with Dot Net Solutions, one of the UK’s top Microsoft Cloud partners. The agreement is part of a worldwide channel strategy implemented by AppZero to ensure comprehensive global coverage of its award-winning application migration software in the run-up to Windows Server 2003 (WS2003) end of support. Microsoft recommends AppZero Enterprise for application migration for various applications from Windows Server 2003 to either Windows Server 2012 or Windows Azure.
IBM couches NoSQL strategy with Cloudant acquisition
Tony Baer, Principal Analyst, Software – Information Management
IBM has taken another step to ramp up its cloud presence with the acquisition of Cloudant, a five-year-old company that offers a managed NoSQL cloud database. The acquisition adds a data layer to IBM’s growing portfolio of web/mobile application developer-oriented cloud platforms, such as WorkLight, and is a good complement to SoftLayer, the managed cloud service provider that IBM acquired last year.
The core component of the Cloudant data layer is based on CouchDB, one of a group of emerging NoSQL data stores based on the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) document-oriented data format to extend its portfolio of cloud-based development platforms to web/mobile app developers. It formalizes what was already a growing partnership between Cloudant and SoftLayer, IBM’s recently acquired managed cloud platform. But it also signifies that in the growing area of developer-friendly JSON-based NoSQL databases, IBM is …
The best cloud computing companies and CEOs to work for in 2014
2014 continues to be a year marked by the accelerating hiring cycles across nearly all cloud computing companies.
Signing bonuses of $3K to $5K for senior engineers and system design specialists are becoming common, and the cycles from screening to interviews to offers is shortening. The job market in the cloud computing industry is leaning in favor of applicants who have a strong IT background in systems integration, legacy IT expertise, business analysis and in many positions, programming as well.
One of the most common questions and requests I receive from readers is who the best companies are to work for. I’ve put together the following analysis based on the latest Computer Reseller News list The 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors Of 2014.
Using the CRN list as a baseline to compare the Glassdoor.com scores of the (%) of employees who would recommend this company to a friend and …
Compuware APM Extends Leadership in Big Data
Compuware Corporation on Wednesday announced that Compuware APM for Big Data now offers enhanced support and out-of-the-box dashboards that enable organizations to optimize big data projects through unmatched visibility into Hadoop, NoSQL and Cassandra deployments. Now organizations have deeper insight into big data workloads and transactions to quickly find the root cause of slow jobs and failures in minutes, instead of hours or days.
Enhancements for Hadoop enable operations teams to gain deep insight into the most active users in a cluster with automatic profiling of intensive jobs. Problem patterns, including data shuffle across the network, can be quickly identified as well as resource utilization and tracking to enable charge-back models.
AppDynamics APM at Morgan Stanley Technology Conference
AppDynamics, Inc. (AppDynamics), the next-generation application performance management (APM) solution that simplifies the management of complex applications and infrastructures, today announced that the company’s founder and CEO Jyoti Bansal and CFO Walter Berger will be presenting at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference 2014 being held in San Francisco on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Details are as follows:
Analyzing the Impact of Cloud Computing on the IT Department
Modern innovations in networking technology, virtualization, Big Data processing, storage, and analysis, along with cloud computing, are giving new shape to the information technology realm of today and the future.
Organizations have, for many years, effectively sourced a number of non-core business functions to outside service providers.
Marketing, accounting, customer service, sales and administrative staffing are just a few examples of such outsourcing; today, organizations can also get computing services on demand in virtually any location, and tailor those services to their specific needs. Such “micro outsourcing” can apply to functions such as processing, storage, software, security, and support.
Shifting The Storage Paradigm | Part Two: The Role of Object Storage
In part one of this three-part series I summed up how the way we produce and consume data has evolved over the last three decades, creating a need for new storage methodologies that can help enterprises store and effectively manage massive pools of data. I concluded that the immutable nature of unstructured data storage holds the key to solving the scalability and availability problems of traditional file storage.
Unstructured data has traditionally been stored in file-based systems, which enable users to access files simultaneously and modify them. This is great functionality for office environments, where multiple users might indeed be updating each other’s spreadsheets, but it is complete overkill when storing data that will probably never be changed again. DDN developed our Web Object Scaler (WOS) solution with this «unchanging» aspect of data in mind.
Microsoft Appoints Hanu Software to Azure Partner Advisory Council (PAC)
Hanu Software on Monday announced that it had been selected by Microsoft to participate in the Azure Partner Advisory Council, making it one of only 22 partner organizations worldwide to be asked to provide insight and guidance to Microsoft in the continuing development of the Windows Azure cloud platform.
According to Microsoft, the purpose of the council is to «organize a «go to» cross-geo and cross-business model partner advisory council to gain constructive insights and to improve our mutual position in the market.» Participation in the Azure Partner Advisory Council will give Hanu key opportunities to influence the future development of the Azure service.
NaviSite and Zensar Technologies Partner
NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company, has announced a strategic partnership with Zensar Technologies, a global software services and infrastructure management provider. Together the companies will leverage their expertise to support clients looking to evolve their businesses through cloud-based managed services including application management, end user computing, and data center services.
NaviSite and Zensar together bring unmatched expertise in cloud services and IT infrastructure management to businesses around the world in industries like healthcare, manufacturing and retail. The partnership enhances these service offerings and better equips customers around the world to transform their mission critical business processes, IT and data center infrastructures, and workplace and mobile computing strategies through managed cloud services, resulting in better efficiency and lower total cost of ownership. Now organizations that have been handicapped by legacy data center solutions can seamlessly migrate from their existing infrastructure to NaviSite Managed Services.
NaviSite Named to CRN’s “Top 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors” List
NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company, has announced it has received two leading industry awards from CRN: the Data Center 100 list, which recognizes the top 100 data centers, and the Top 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors list, which recognizes the top 100 most innovative and creative cloud vendors. These awards cement NaviSite’s position as a leader in delivering secure cloud-based storage technology and solutions, as well as in developing innovative and creative solutions to help customers and partners maximize the flexibility, scalability and cost savings possible through cloud technology.