"There is a tremendous opportunity for Adaptive Computing to apply its
multi-dimensional decision engine to enable customers to better address and
solve critical challenges in the data center, and positively impact their
business"
Adaptive Computing, a provider of cloud systems management and Optimized
Dynamic Cloud solutions, today announced that IT management and their staff
no longer need to accept static cloud environments. The latest release of
Moab Adaptive Computing Suite 6.1, a cloud decision engine, features extended
dynamic cloud capabilities, accelerates workload management processes, maps
and manages service component relationships to improve reliability and
consolidates cloud event reporting. Enhanced dynamic cloud management
capabilities in Moab allow IT departments to deliver applications, expand
resources and keep services running optimally, all at ... (more)
The Hype-Cycle for Emerging Technologies for the year 2011 has been released
by Gartner. As has been the trend from the past less than 60% of the
technologies listed last year find a place in this year’s report. Unlike
last year, there are not many glaring omissions. (Here is an analysis of last
year’s report). However, as is the case like last year, few technologies
appear from nowhere on:
Climbing the Slope
Consumerization The trend for new information technology to emerge first in
the consumer market and then spread into business organizations (see this)
QR/Color Code Quick ... (more)
Come the fall Tier 3, which styles itself the enterprise cloud house, is
going to have two new data centers inside Equinix, where it expects to
attract some of Equinix’ enterprise customers to its hybrid platform.
And some of those customers may want access to a public cloud too and handily
Amazon is also moving into Equinix for its Direct Connect widgetry, which
will deliver data to and from AWS and Equinix customers through dedicated
private links.
Anyway, Tier 3 currently operates two data centers out west and, unlike
Amazon, it doesn’t expect its users to supply their own con... (more)
"The goal of cost optimization and increased business agility through the
cloud will only be realized with processes and tools that are designed
specifically to address the new operational issues that cloud-based services
present," said Cameron Haight, Research Vice President, Gartner, Inc. "IT
organizations seeking to remain relevant in a new world of choices will seek
to optimize their client's satisfaction by making their transition to the
cloud as transparent as possible while they (IT operations) do the heavy
lifting."
BMC Software on Tuesday announced additional capabiliti... (more)
The biggest issue for the today's enterprises is the ways and means of
measuring their computing / processing workloads that need to run their
business and then work on the ways and means of optimizing the same.
Workload is the amount of work assigned to, or done by, a client, workgroup,
server, or Internetwork in a given time period. For example if we take a
manufacturing organization, a workload can be a combination of:
Interactive or Network Intensive Workloads: The amount of online entry of
sales orders, program planning, warranty claims that are referred to a help
desk and s... (more)