Salvatore Genovese

Sanbolic announced today a software storage solution for hosted dynamic data centers that integrates easily with Windows Server Hyper-V virtualization and System Center Management components. Based on Sanbolic's Melio 2010, the solution adds centralized storage management, improved availability, and dynamic scalability to hosted Windows Cloud computing environments. Melio 2010 provides a unified storage platform for Microsoft Hyper-V, physical servers, and virtual machines running Windows applications. When used in conjunction with industry standard SAN storage, Melio 2010 provides centralized provisioning and management of logical volumes, as well as shared access to storage volumes for storage consolidation, application availability, and scale out. Melio 2010 now includes storage traffic shaping and quality of service management that allows granular management of ... (more)

Riverbed Accelerates Pathway to the Cloud with RiOS 6.1

Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the IT performance company, announced today the release of version 6.1 of the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS®), which powers Riverbed's award-winning wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions. With this release, Riverbed® accelerates organizations' pathway to the cloud by providing enhanced acceleration for cloud services and enterprise applications. These enhancements provide organizations more flexibility when determining the best approach for consolidating IT resources to public, private and hybrid cloud environments and ensure th... (more)

QLT Ophthalmics, Inc. Prepares for Growth with Cloud Computing

QLT Ophthalmics, Inc. (QOI), a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of QLT Inc. (NASDAQ: QLTI; TSX: QLT), selected Veeva System’s multi-tenant SaaS CRM system built on the cloud computing model. QOI was formed by QLT Inc. in Q4 2009 to take over the sales and marketing of Visudyne® in the U.S. from Novartis Pharma AG (“Novartis”). Veeva CRM™ proved the only system flexible and scalable enough to meet QOI’s rapidly growing needs, according to QOI’s Director of Commercial Operations, Scott Jones. “Veeva CRM is easily scalable, which was very important to us as we hope to scale-up our com... (more)

CA Technologies to Present at Cloud Expo Europe

Cloud Expo Europe €550 Savings here! Cloud Expo West $800 Savings here! Over the last eighteen months, cloud computing has become the most discussed topic in the IT industry. Vendors, the media and analysts have all been debating the topic from a variety of perspectives. In his session at the 6th International Cloud Expo, Gregor Petri, Advisor Lean IT at CA, will discuss the results of a new independent survey: "Unleashing the Power of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and the Perceptions of European Business." European businesses are still unconvinced by the benefits of the next l... (more)

Terracotta’s Innovation Spurs Massive Adoption of Ehcache

Terracotta, a provider of infrastructure software for enterprise Java scalability, on Tuesday announced the availability of Ehcache 2.1, an upgrade to its distributed caching solution. Since Terracotta acquired Ehcache in August, 2009, its adoption rate has accelerated, driven by the company's investment in research and development. As a result, a growing number of customers are using Ehcache for all their caching needs - scaling applications seamlessly from a single computer to large virtualized data center environments and private clouds. The importance of distributed caching ... (more)