Red Hat has bought itself a Christmas present - privately held ManageIQ.
It's paying $104 million in folding money for the pleasure of what appears to
be a made-to-measure glove. The two seem to be a perfect fit. The deal might
close by the end of the year.
Red Hat approached the six-year-old UK-based start-up around September when
ManageIQ, already a Red Hat partner, was starting to look around for more
money to finance a deeper plunge into the channel.
ManageIO says it's "channel-ready" now and eager to get out there and mix it
up.
It brings Red Hat the real-time cloud management and automation it lacks.
It's in the center of Red Hat's three hot buttons: Red Hat's KVM Enterprise
Virtualization, CloudForms, Red Hat's hybrid IaaS solution, and OpenStack.
It's got a hybrid cloud bias, which should suit Red Hat to a "T," since it's
bet the farm on hybrid. And it says... (more)
In 2012, Gladinet Cloud continues to differentiate from other online storage
solutions.
While most of the online storage solutions provide a folder sync solution,
Gladinet provides a drive mapping solution. Drive mapping provides random
on-demand access without the wait for full sync to finish, which is a very
good fit for VDI environment.
While most of the online storage solutions provide a client device solution,
Gladinet provides a file server solution in addition to the client
applications. With Gladinet, you can sync a file server share to the cloud
and use the share folde... (more)
By John Cowan, CEO and Co-Founder
Another year, another dollar… or something like that. It’s time for an
update on the 6 things I think I think for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
in the coming year!
1. Hybrid Cloud Computing
2012 Perspective: Hybridization WAS key in 2011 and I’m doubling down in
2012. If you’ve paid attention to the consolidation in the industry,
you’d best do the same. The big boys are snapping up anything that smells
like bridging the enterprise to the multi-tenant host. Look for this trend
to intensify.
2013 Perspective: VMware buys DynamicOps. Red... (more)
It was nearly a year ago that I authored a post predicting ten hot trends in
cloud data for 2012. While there’s a strong temptation to cast old
predictions into ancient history and dive into ten predictions for 2013, I
felt it more appropriate to first glance back and reflect on how those past
predictions fared.
After all, much can transpire over the course of 12 months — hot
technologies cool off, fads pass, buzzwords vanish — and, of course, some
technologies really stick. So let’s take this opportunity to revel in our
success or eat our humble pie. Without much ado, here are ... (more)
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley $500 Savings here!
OpenStack is powering production clouds. In this General Session at the 11th
International Cloud Expo, Nebula CEO Chris C. Kemp will outline the open
source cloud platform's path to maturity, leading to production use in some
of today's most popular companies. He will moderate a panel discussion among
featured OpenStack users PayPal, Cisco WebEx and eBay, asking the questions
that are top of mind as your organization considers implementing OpenStack.
The group will discuss how they're using OpenStack today, ways the cloud
platform is ... (more)
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