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Egenera Makes Key Buy
Egenera has made a rare acquisition, picking a young Dublin ISV called Fort
Technologies that brings the Massachusetts firm private and public cloud
management sort of along the lines of what Cloupia is bringing Cisco and
Gale is bringing Dell.
Egenera, however, is way ahead of them since the integration is already
done.
Four in five IT directors feel responsible for cloud failure
New research from enterprise IT solutions provider Damovo UK has revealed that, for 80% of IT top brass, if they move their services to the cloud, it’s their responsibility if it goes wrong.
The UK-based research, conducted by Vanson Bourne which spoke to 100 IT directors catering for more than 1000 employees, also found that for nine in ten respondents, cloud providers should in turn be more accountable, and provide greater transparency when it comes to data governance.
Interestingly, nearly 70% of respondents believed the hype around the cloud was responsible for the delay in their utilising cloudy software – as the hype meant it was difficult to establish which was good or not due to ‘vanilla statements’ from cloud vendors.
This accounted for 80% of financial service companies, 76% in manufacturing, and 52% in retail, distribution and transport.
Research from Navint Partners in October found that four in five …
Delivering Managed Flexibility for the Cloud
This whitepaper explores how Red Hat CloudForms meets the challenges that come from letting enterprise customers serve themselves, while maintaining the IT control of workloads and life cycle management. Red Hat CloudForms helps IT organizations better utilize the cloud or virtualization technology that best meets the customer’s needs while solving the challenges of portability, governance, security, and cost. Ideal for enterprise architects looking to move their Red Hat Enterprise Linux workloads to the cloud.
Preparing for Cloud Outages
Depending on what your business has in the cloud, the impact of a cloud outage can vary. However, whether it’s your email service that’s down or your entire IT infrastructure, an outage will have a negative effect on your business and could lead to a loss in revenue. Here are some tips to help quell this situation.
Depending on what you’ve moved to the cloud, the impact of a cloud outage can vary. If your email services or office productivity software is cloud based, the impact can be minimal and simply be some delayed emails or late reports.
On the other hand, if you are completely cloud based, and have your entire IT infrastructure offsite, the impact of a cloud outage would be more severe and could impact your accounting system or sales order processing system, which ultimately could lead to a loss of business revenue.
ClearStory Data Nails $9 Million A Round
The ballyhooed “Big Data for the masses” start-up, ClearStory Data, which made a bit of a splash back in March when it got seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures and a bunch of industry luminaries has gotten a first round worth $9 million from chi-chi Silicon Valley VC Kleiner Perkins, with Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures pitching in.
Former Twitter VP of engineering Mike Abbott, now a managing partner at Kleiner, will join the board.
The start-up is promising to deliver a newfangled Big Data analytics solution for the non-techie business user like Mad Men’s mythical marketing maven Dan Draper that integrates private and public data sources in a sleek interactive engine. The platform is supposed to simplify access to relational databases, Hadoop, web and social application interfaces, and third-party data at scale to search out trends and patterns.
Gigaspaces Cloudify Partners with OpSpaces for Chef Onboarding
GigaSpaces Technologies, with its new release of the open source Cloudify product, has partnered with OpsCode for a dedicated Chef integration that caters to diverse application stacks and systems.
“The concept of DevOps and recipes can go well beyond setup, to actually manage the entire lifecycle of your applications—from setup, to monitoring, through maintaining high availability, and auto-scaling when required. This is where Cloudify and Chef come together,” says Bryan Hale, Director of Business Development for OpsCode. “By enabling users to leverage the power and variety of Chef recipes and cookbooks to deploy services, Cloudify supports comprehensive application level orchestration on any cloud.”
In addition to the integration with Chef, this new release also includes the following features:
- Complete application-level orchestration, allowing automated provisioning, deployment, management and scaling of complex multi-tier apps to any cloud environment
- Built-in, ready to use recipes for common big data components, such as Hadoop, Cassandra and MongoDB.
- Support for non-virtualized environments (AKA Bring Your Own Node), allowing you to treat an arbitrary set of server as your “Cloud” and have Cloudify deploy and manage applications on these servers.
- Comprehensive REST API for easy integration with third-party tooling and programmatic access.
- Support for all the common cloud infrastructures, including OpenStack, HPCloud, RackSpace, Windows Azure, Apache CloudStack, Amazon AWS and vCloud.
In addition, Cloudify now also simplifies the complexities involved with deploying big data applications to the cloud. It is well-known that the massive computing and storage resources that are needed to support big data deployments make cloud environments, public and private, an ideal fit. But managing big data application on the cloud is no easy feat – as these systems and applications often include other services such as relational and non-relational databases, stream processing tools, web front ends and more, where each framework comes with its own management, installation, configuration, and scaling mechanisms. With its new built-in recipes, Cloudify provides consistent management and cloud portability for popular big data tools, exponentially reducing the operational and infrastructure costs involved with running these systems.
“We’re seeing a growing market trend for the need to migrate applications – not just in one-off processes anymore – but on a much larger scale, by enterprises, managed service providers, and ISVs alike, who are looking to take advantage of the cloud promise—while until now, only about 5% have actually been able to do so,” says Uri Cohen, Vice President of Product Management at GigaSpaces. “The beauty of Cloudify and its recipe-based model is that it enables you to simply and smoothly take both new and existing applications to the cloud by the tens and hundreds through Cloudify’s built-in recipes and the new integration with OpsCode’s Chef, in very short time frames.”
You can fork the Cloudify code from GitHub, or download the Cloudify GA release.
Compuware and REALTECH Partner
Compuware Corporation on Wednesday announced that REALTECH AG is incorporating Compuware APM – dynaTrace Data Center Real User Monitoring (DC RUM) – into the latest release of its IT service management software, theGuard! Service Management Center. This will enable REALTECH to enhance application performance driven by end user experience across SAP, web, non-web and cloud applications.
“We are excited to partner with Compuware to deliver world-class APM capabilities to our current and future customers of theGuard!,” said Cornelia Pohl-Springer, Head of Product Management for theGuard! at REALTECH. “Our combined solution enables customers to have full visibility and control of their IT environments with high operational efficiency while ensuring customer satisfaction. Customers are able to quickly prioritize problems by business impact and get a complete view of all business processes from an end-user perspective.”
Compuware APM is the leader in application performance management technology for SAP and non-SAP environments. Compuware’s DC RUM solution is based on highly scalable agentless technology and offers the broadest application and technology platform support in the market. REALTECH theGuard! is Europe’s leading provider of software for enterprise-wide IT service management. From managing applications and any type of IT-enabled business process, to monitoring networks and systems, theGuard! supports the most important aspects of IT Management today.
‘Real Me’ as-a-Service: Cloud Privacy by Design for E-Health
Naturally one of the critical areas specified in the Canadian E-Health Cloud strategy document is the risks related to data privacy.
Specifically in section 8, from page 42 through 49, they describe the comprehensive standards, audit and certification frameworks that will be required to protect this next major phase of Cloud adoption.
CHI point to the number one risk issue cited by CIOs – Fears of inadequate data privacy protections, and they describe the various component parts what is required to address these risks including due diligence procedures and state of the art privacy controls.
Drastic Measures Not Needed with DRaaS
Perhaps the only thing worse than a disaster happening is seeing it coming and knowing nothing can be done to stop it. Businesses along the northeastern seaboard had several days of warning before Hurricane Sandy struck, certainly not enough time to implement a disaster recovery plan from scratch. Even more painful is the understanding that some disaster recovery plans would not be enough; physical backup systems in separate geographical areas may have still suffered the same losses as the home site due to the size of the storm.
Most disasters come with no warning at all. Explosions, power outages, and simple equipment failure can cause the same damage. Operations are down, customers suffer, and revenues tank. Once business recovers the harder work of wooing back customers and convincing new ones about the company’s reliability begins.