Posts by Dave Courbanou
In the cloud world we often talk about virtualization and hosted solutions that provide a direct service. They’re tangible in the sense that they’re accessible and customizable. But is that the only kind of cloud the IT world should explore? Apple’s iCloud offers a version of the cloud that acts more like an extension of existing services instead of something different all together.
When iCloud is doing its job, you don’t see it. In fact, the best way to use …
Back in January 2011, Awareness Technologies announced it had signed 100 partners in just six months. Fast forward almost a year, and the company is now expanding its Partner Program Management Team. The reason? Awareness Technologies has seen growth with its partner program and wants some top brass to enhance the expansion.
Quick refresher: Awareness Technologies provides cloud security that encompasses DLP, web filtering and user monitoring technology. Right now, the company boasts more than 190 partners, with a …
Google is holding nothing back with its Chrome OS campaign, even going so far as to open a brick-and-mortar store called Chromezone. The first shop has opened in London, but can a physical store really help push Google’s cloud agenda? Here’s the scoop with some channel perspective …
The tip of the hat goes to The London Evening Standard, which reported Google opened the Chromezone store inside London’s PC World store. Apparently, Google so far is pleased with customer …
Cloud storage company Gluster has announced a new version of its GlusterFS file system, which now supports Apache Hadoop. With this update, Apache Hadoop deployments now can integrate with GlusterFS for object-based storage needs as well as hooking into Hadoop APIs.
More specifically, this Gluster 3.3 beta 2 opens Gluster to large data infrastructure compatibility, with support for storage networks that need to scale into the petabytes. Feature highlights include N-way replication, which allows for both asynchronus and synchronous replication …
Turn the wayback machine to January 2011 and Talkin Cloud was covering e-mail archiving company Sonian’s desire to gain more channel momentum with an influx of partners. Fast forward to the present and Sonian is getting cozy with the channel by offering e-mail archiving for Office 365 and Exchange Online with a fully supported feature set.
Sonian also supports Google Apps, LotusLive Notes and Hosted Groupwise, which rounds out the company’s claim of supporting all “major” hosted e-mail platforms. What …
One of the major players in the virtualization and cloud space is getting a little bigger. Citrix has acquired RingCube, which provides a unique technology that can mitigate VDI adoption headaches when it comes to virtualization personalization and management. Can it help your own cloud and virtualization deployments? Maybe.
RingCube technology strives to bridge the gap between the issue of dedicated and personalized VM’s which can take up large amounts of space in the data center vs. the more …
If you’re a managed service providing looking for a better way to deliver new cloud business apps, Parallels may have the solution for you. Parallels Automation for Cloud Applications is designed to be a packaged cloud services model to pave the way for MSPs looking to provide customers with easy access to a swath of cloud solutions.
With this offering, Parallels is providing partners and other MSPs a ready-for-market virtual storefront with tested ISV cloud business apps. Included in the …
Over at The VAR Guy, we’ve covered Centrify’s ongoing developments in the Active Directory scene, but now the company is taking everything it knows about Active Directory and putting it in the cloud. Its CloudTools offering is designed to provide Active Directory security solutions for Linux cloud-based systems.
Basically, Centrify CloudTools wants to be the go-to tool for hosted Active Directory platforms. It’s actually that simple. CloudTools acts as a add-on for users who already are using Centrify, …
When we last left ScaleXtreme, the company had opened its doors to an early access program of its cloud management technology. Now the company is looking to provide an even deeper, albeit simpler, level of management with its new cloud provisioning and management features for Amazon EC2 clouds and vCloud Director-enabled hosts.
According to ScaleXtreme, its namesake offering is a one-of-a-kind tool, helping IT admins automate, configure and manage the lifecycles of their nebulous infrastructure. That coupling is seen as …
For better or worse, storage needs are expanding exponentially, and if you don’t want it on premise, there’s pretty much one other place to get it, and that’s the cloud. But what if you want a little of both? That’s why CTERA is launching its new cloud storage gateway, specifically designed to blend on-premise and cloud storag, for the SMB market and enterprise branch offices.
CTERA’s C800 is a rack-mountable eight-bay appliance that is designed to be an “on-ramp” for …
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