Persistent Storage for Containers In recent years, containers have taken the world by storm. Companies of all sizes and industries have realized the massive benefits of containers, such as unprecedented mobility, higher hardware utilization, and increased flexibility and agility; however, many containers today are non-persistent. Containers without persistence miss out on many benefits, and in many cases simply pass the responsibility of persistence onto other infrastructure, adding additional complexity. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Denis Guyadeen, a Product Manager at Nutanix, will explore the benefits of persistent containers, talk about why persistence for containers makes sense and explore some of the Nutanix technologies that enable this persistence. Speaker Bio Denis Guyadeen is a Product Manager at Nutanix and currently leading the c... (more)

Calligo Named "Bronze Sponsor" of @CloudExpo | @CalligoCloud #CloudNative #DevOps #DX

SYS-CON Events announced today that Calligo, an innovative cloud service provider offering mid-sized companies the highest levels of data privacy and security, has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo ®, which will take place on Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Calligo offers unparalleled application performance guarantees, commercial flexibility and a personalised support service from its globally located cloud platforms. Through its four pillars of focus, Calligo delivers a platform that businesses can trust to deliver the high level of service and protection they expect and is lacking in many cloud offerings. The company offers considered and impartial advice to its clients in the selection of cloud based services including 3rd party offerings, ensuring they have the optimum combinat... (more)

Kicking Desktop Virtualization Adoption into High Gear with Sanbolic Melio!

Here’s something you may not know… desktop virtualization can ease desktop management. What! You already knew that? Well maybe you knew that, but how about the majority of IT professionals? What! They already knew that too? Hmmm… if that’s ... (more)

Simplifying Application Architecture in a Dynamic Data Center through Virtualization

Application architecture has never really been easy, but the introduction of virtualization may make it even less easy – unless you plan ahead Most applications today maintain at least two if not three or more "tiers" within their architecture. Web (presentation), application server (business logic), and database (data) are the three most common "tiers" to an application, web-based or otherwise, with the presence of middleware (queues and buses) being an optional fourth tier, depending on the application and its integration needs. It's never been an easy task to ensure that the web servers know where the application servers know where the middleware know where the databases are during a deployment. Most of this information is manually configured as pools of connections defined by IP addresses. IP addresses that, with the introduction of virtualization and cloud com... (more)

Cloud Management Tools – Programming your ‘Cloud OS’

As Michael O’Neill writes here, a quickly brewing sector of the Cloud market is ‘Cloud Management Tools’ (CMT) – Technologies that help you plan for and manage your use of Cloud services. It’s a hot sector because it spans a number of dimensions of Cloud adoption, such as the link Michael provides, tracking your Amazon costs. There will indeed be growth of an ecosystem of different tools, catering for the end to end process of migrating to the Cloud, such as estimating, forecasting and simulating costs, migrating legacy apps and so forth. Start-ups like Gravitant recently netted $3.8m in VC for their platform that offers this functionality as part of a Cloud Service Brokerage. Their Cloud Matrix platform is an example of a suite of CMT, offering a catalogue framework for organizing virtualized resources into self-service menus and other automations. Planning your Cl... (more)

Forrester Webinar: PaaS & cloud based business transformation

Why Platform as a Service (PaaS) is now a viable alternative to on-premise middleware Putten, The Netherlands, 29 January 2013 - Cordys, the Enterprise Platform provider, will host a webinar with special guest Stefan Ried, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Inc.. The webinar we be broadcast live on Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 11.00am EST / 3.00pm GMT / 4.00pm CET and is free to the public. Attendees of the webinar will learn about the latest Forrester research on PaaS and the way the Cloud transforms large enterprises and service providers. Featured guest speaker Stefan Ried will discuss the economic impact of public and private cloud implementations and how enterprises and cloud service providers can take full advantage of its unique properties. Attendees of the webinar will get insight on how to: Generate customer value with innovative new solutions Create... (more)

GovCloud 2.0 – Harnessing Cloud Computing for Digital Government Transformation

Recently the USA Government announced a Digital Government strategy. Our new white paper ‘GovCloud 2.0′ describes how Government Cloud Computing can provide an accelerating platform for implementing this policy, covering topics such as: Business Transformation - Harnessing social media and collective intelligence models to reinvent government to be more collaborative. Procurement Frameworks - Cloud procurement best practices, such as the UK’s G-Cloud. Digital Identity - How the  Identity Ecosystem will secure and streamline government workflows. Shared services architecture - Applying Cloud Computing models to better share infrastructure costs between collaborating agencies. Download 25-page PDF ... (more)

In 2014 Big Data Investments Will Account for Nearly $30 Billion - Eventually Accounting for $76 Billion by 2020 End

DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.; Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541 "Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" Key Findings: In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)

VessRAID From Promise Technology Awarded VMware Certification

MILPITAS, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/06/09 -- Promise Technology Inc., a leading supplier of sophisticated RAID storage solutions catering to customers from enterprise to consumer, announced today that its recently introduced VessRAID storage subsystem has been formally certified for interoperability with the VMware server virtualization platform. "Today an increasing number of our customers are leveraging the advantages of a VMware infrastructure," said Ray Bahar, vice president, Americas Sales and Marketing, Promise Technology. "Certification means that customers will be able to maximize the unique strengths of VessRAID's storage subsystem capabilities, keep data online longer, ensure reliable data protection and allow easy integration into their VMware virtual environment. Moreover, certification highlights our dedication to provide customers with the most positiv... (more)

BackOffice Associates Announces Donation To Lower Cape Outreach Council

BackOffice Associates, LLC, the leader in SAP data quality, data migration and data governance solutions, and headquartered on Cape Cod, announced today a $15,720 donation to the Lower Cape Outreach Council. The donation was raised through a BackOffice employee donation program. BackOffice Associates Co-founders Tom and Trish Kennedy have season tickets to the Boston Red Sox and knew they would not be able to attend all 81 home games. Under the donation program employees were offered tickets to home games provided they make a donation to the Lower Cape Outreach Council. The mission of the Lower Cape Outreach Council is to provide emergency assistance of food, clothing and financial support to individuals and families in Brewster, Chatham, Eastham, Harwich, Orleans, Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet which will lead to healthy, productive and self-sustaining lives as... (more)

Samsung Electronics and OpenX Announce Partnership to Launch Samsung AdHub Global Private Mobile Ad Exchange

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, and OpenX Technologies, Inc. (OpenX), one of the world’s leading providers of digital advertising technology, today announced a major new private advertising exchange specifically for global mobile inventory, including smartphones and tablets. The new exchange – the Samsung AdHub Market, Powered by OpenX – will be available to advertisers wishing to advertise on mobile-specific inventory. The partnership creates the first mobile private exchange formed by one of the world’s leading digital device manufacturers and is part of Samsung AdHub’s vision to provide sophisticated targeting solutions for advertisers. The Samsung AdHub Market is expected to launch in the second half of 2012. The announcement was made at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco. The new exchan... (more)