Riding the current software defined data center (SDC) wave being led by the likes of VMware and software defined networking (SDN) also championed by VMware via their acquisition of Nicera last year, Software Defined Marketing (SDM) is in full force. HP being a player in providing the core building blocks for traditional little data and big data, along with physical, virtual, converged, cloud and software defined has announced a new compute, processor or server platform called the Moonshot 1500.
GoGrid and Racemi Partner to Offer Free On-Ramp to Cloud Computing
GoGrid, a cloud infrastructure company, and Racemi, the moving company for the cloud, on Tuesday announced the availability of Cloud Path for GoGrid, a joint offering for migrating customers’ existing server workloads to GoGrid’s cloud platform free of charge.
The Cloud Path software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering is a customer self-service web portal for automated migration of existing Windows and Linux servers to GoGrid Cloud Server instances. There is no infrastructure to deploy or maintain on the customer site. Plus, the live capture of server workloads eliminates powering down servers and means no server downtime.
«This free migration solution provides an average cost savings of $800 per server migrated versus manual processes,» said Lawrence Guillory, CEO, Racemi. «Even more important, it reduces customers’ migration project timelines from days, weeks, or even months to just hours.»
Cloud Expo NY: Accelerating Cloud Computing with Intel SSD Technology
Explore SSD technology and key considerations when designing SSDs into cloud computing environments. Learn about the best known practices to overcome IO bottlenecks and accelerate cloud applications.
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Tahmid Rahman, an Applications Engineer at Intel, and Chuck Brown, Data Center SSD Product Line Manager at Intel, will cover key aspects of storage subsystem metrics including Quality of Service (QoS) and how IOP consistency is critical to cloud storage deployment and performance; SSD endurance needs within cloud deployment and its verification methods; and Reliability and Serviceability features to ensure stress free protection of cloud storage. This session also covers new SSD caching methods for accelerating SAN storage farms, achieving breakthrough performance with existing infrastructure and Intel SSD technology.
Cost Reduction with Automation in the Cloud
Forrester analyst James Staten says that “the whole value of cloud computing is tied to areas of IT that can be standardized, automated, and shared among multiple constituents.[1]” Automation through the cloud is the next step for cloud-based innovation to reduce costs and increase productivity. But questions remain. Find out how automation from the cloud can enhance the bottom line by delivering savings on hardware and manual effort.
From the telephone to the iPad, with every bit of new modern technology that’s introduced, there are very vocal early adopters who can’t wait to try it. There is also an equally vocal group of people who are skeptical about, if not completely opposed to, its introduction. When a decision whether or not to employ the latest and greatest affects an entire company’s well-being, it’s no wonder that questions of progress are approached with such trepidation. However, being a late adopter of innovation – like automation from the cloud – can cost companies real money.
NetDNA, YC’s Leftronic Partner on Real-Time CDN Monitoring
Content delivery network provider NetDNA today announced its partnership with Y-Combinator-funded Leftronic, to develop high-performance, secure and real-time data visualization dashboards for its CDN services.
Now, NetDNA or MaxCDN customers can get a bird’s-eye view of their traffic, including daily, weekly or monthly statistics on popular files, popular file types, status codes, cache hit percentage, statistics by location and more. All of which are presented in a Web browser using Leftronic’s real-time, large screen metric dashboard platform.
The companies also worked together to provide dashboards measuring traffic on NetDNA’s Bootstrap CDN project, samples of which are available online.
“We’re excited to be partnering with Leftronic because monitoring traffic is a critical step to receiving the full benefits of our CDN service. Now they can do that in a big and beautiful way using only a browser,” said Justin Dorfman, NetDNA’s Developer Advocate.
“We could see an immediate synergy between our two companies when NetDNA shared with us the demand for better CDN reporting it saw in its customer base,” said Rajiv Ghanta, CEO of Leftronic. “The company is truly developer friendly with its well-supported API and fast customer support. We’re looking forward to a lasting relationship with the company.”
Leftronic has created a data visualization platform that helps companies monitor and track their business metrics. The platform has no software to download, instead everything is shown in a Web browser for easy accessibility and organization. The technology is combined with a simple-to-use front-end interface for visualizing the data and has an API for integrating custom company data.
With more than 10,000 customers trusting its content delivery services, NetDNA provides simple, efficient and affordable web performance optimization solutions that help customers to increase and improve their website speed. Most recently, NetDNA’s MaxCDN service has been its leading, popular solution among businesses because of its easy sign up system and versatile web performance acceleration.
Cloud Expo | Maximizing the Small Things: Efficiencies for Cloud Hardware
Most of today’s hardware manufacturers are building servers with at least one SATA Port, but not every systems engineer utilizes them. This is considered a loss in the game of maximizing potential storage space in a fixed unit. The SATADOM Series was created by Innodisk as a high-performance, small form factor boot drive with low power consumption to be plugged into the unused SATA port on your server board as an alternative to hard drive or USB boot-up. Built for 1U systems, this powerful device is smaller than a one dollar coin, and frees up otherwise dead space on your motherboard.
To meet the requirements of tomorrow’s cloud hardware, Innodisk invested internal R&D resources to develop our SATA III series of products. The SATA III SATADOM boasts 500/180MBs R/W Speeds respectively, or double R/W Speed of SATA II products.
SugarCRM’s New Private Cloud Piggybacks on Amazon
SugarCRM is launching a turnkey Private Cloud, a dedicated SugarCRM-managed private instance of its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications using Amazon for its cloud.
It claims “exceptional” service levels of between 99.5% and 99.95%.
It’ll be available in the US, Ireland, Singapore, Japan, Australia and Brazil.
The widgetry employed includes Amazon’s load balancing, MySQL database, S3 storage, VPN and master-to-master replication. Sugar expects international accounts will “follow the sun” for the sake of data governance.
It says it’s been competing against in-house widgetry stuck together with bubble gum and bobby pins as well as Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce.com.
Cloud Expo NY: Network Transformation = High-Performance Cloud Enablement
Gain insight on how network transformation plays a role in enabling enterprises to migrate and better support a cloud environment.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Mark Casey, President and CEO of CFN Services, will discuss network transformation use cases illustrating how you can significantly improve cloud’s end-to-end performance tackling the challenges of performance, capacity and availability, while controlling sprawl across globally distributed applications. Learn how transforming your network and preparing it for cloud, makes it more effective and affordable maintaining cloud’s promise of on-demand service provisioning, economies of scale and a service-level driven customer experience.
Employees, Cloud, and Company Data: Problem or Reality?
Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, Apple iCloud. Chances are if your employees have Internet-connected mobile devices, they are using these and other services to store and transmit your company data — with or without your approval. That’s according to a new study from Enterprise Strategy Group, which found that while more than 75 percent of companies it surveyed had policies that prohibit the use of online file sharing and related tools, by and large their employees went ahead and used them anyway.
ICT remains mostly in-house, but cloud services adoption is growing
Dr Steve Hodgkinson, Research Director, IT, Asia Pacific
Ovum publishes Australian CIO Survey: ICT Challenges, Investment Priorities, and Sourcing Approaches
Our survey of 63 Australian CIOs across a range of sectors reveals a slightly surprising picture of the reality of ICT management compared to the media hype.
While alternative sourcing approaches such as shared services, outsourcing, and cloud services are much discussed at conferences and in the media, the reality for this group of CIOs is that ICT management is still about managing the people, processes, and technologies of the in-house ICT department. It is therefore not surprising that a shortage of people and skills was regarded as one of the major challenges.
However, outsourcing and cloud services are projected to account for one-third of ICT activities overall in the next 1–2 years. Change is definitely coming, while perhaps more slowly than expected, and momentum for cloud services in …