"IaaS" Posts
IaaS information from Talkin’ Cloud covers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) options for cloud services providers cloud and channel partners.
Rackspace (NYSE: RAX), the cloud services provider, now has 7,000 channel partners. But Rackspace isn’t resting on its cloud partner program laurels. The company is taking steps to deliver programmatic, vertical market and transformational enhancements to partners, according to Channel Chief Christopher Rajiah.
“Partner contributions to new business at Rackspace have continued to grow every month,” Rajiah told Talkin’ Cloud yesterday. “And we’re continually taking steps to make sure we’re in shape to support that growth.”
Indeed, Rackspace seems to …
Cloud database specialist Xeround announced the availability of its database-as-a-service (DbaaS) for MySQL applications on the AppHarbor .NET platform and AppFog’s PHP Fog PHP platform, providing developers, according to the press release, with a “zero-management, highly available and scalable cloud database solution in just one click.”
The AppHarbor and AppFog efforts provide simple integration between applications hosted on these applications and Xeround’s DbaaS. From a cloud integrator’s perspective, deploying the add-on automatically creates a MySQL-compatible cloud-based database that connects to …
When Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) recently announced its long-term strategy for OpenShift, I began to think about potential implications for cloud-focused application developers and emerging cloud consultants. Already, cloud developers are seeking to understand cloud platforms like OpenStack, CloudStack, Microsoft Windows Azure and VMware Cloud Foundry. Amid all that noise, can Red Hat attract developers to OpenShift? And equally important: Can cloud consultants explain OpenShift and its alternatives to business customers?
So far, Red Hat is …
Converged infrastructure and automated software firm Egenera announced that IBM (NYSE: IBM) has certified its main software, PAN Manager, for IBM’s BladeCenter platform. Based on Egenera’s PAN (processing area network) Architecture, its flagship PAN Manager is a converged infrastructure management software product that provides rapid provisioning, high availability, disaster recovery and secure multitenancy, as well as physical and virtual management.
For Egenera, which hailed the news as a “significant announcement,” this is confirmation of its commitment to giving enterprises …
HP‘s (NYSE: HPQ) recently announced HP Public Cloud initiative now has some elements in public beta, with a slew of companies immediately jumping in to offer technologies ranging from applications to mobility to security.
The HP Cloud Compute, HP Cloud Object Storage and HP Cloud Content Delivery Network elements of HP Cloud Services are now officially open for use, although in beta form (which means there probably are some kinks yet to be worked out). The HP Cloud …
Big data specialist Zettaset and data center server manufacturer Hyve Solutions, a division of distributor SYNNEX (NYSE: SNX), announced their partnership to create a joint implementation of Apache Hadoop built on an enterprise-level platform and operating system. From their vantage point, the collaboration unites Zettaset Orchestrator, a Hadoop big data management platform that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, with Hyve Solutions’ data center servers.
The combination of Red Hat Linux 6.2, Zettaset Orchestrator and integration by …
At Citrix Synergy this week, Zenoss, a provider of management software for physical, virtual and cloud-based IT infrastructures, announced its open source ZenPack now has monitoring and correlation capabilities for virtual machines (VMs) running on Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) CloudStack, providing a more unified view of the CloudStack infrastructure.
There is an “underlying core” of VMs that are essential to CloudStack operation; Zenoss claims its ZenPack customers now have a deeper understanding of the functioning of these systems, as …
Dell Services (NASDAQ: DELL) announced the first two offers in its newly launched Dell Cloud suite for SAP Solutions. Dell is targeting customers looking to move their SAP infrastructure by offering a set of SAP-certified cloud services in secure hybrid, public or private clouds. According to the Dell release, the SAP Solutions suite provides “the agility to easily integrate legacy applications and enables customers to expand beyond physical resources for ‘just in time’ resource allocation and incremental on-demand capacity.”…
VMTurbo, a workload software management provider for cloud and virtualized environments, announced the 3.1 version of its Operations Manager offering. The new software release features an extension to the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) infrastructure, new integration with CloudStack and physical-to-virtual planning.
With the extension of the ADC infrastructure, Operations Manager now integrates with Citrix NetScaler, an application acceleration and load balancing appliance which, according to VMTurbo, automates control and real-time resource allocation decisions for multitiered applications. The newly …
The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has named T-Systems, the customer arm of Deutsche Telekom that operates information and communication technology systems for corporations and government institutions worldwide, to its steering committee. According to the ODCA, T-Systems’ membership on the steering committee will help it assess and leverage new cloud technologies in meeting its customers’ needs. Corporate membership in the ODCA’s top committee now stands at 13.
ODCA also announced Cloudera, Hortonworks, Lenovo, Link4Dev, MapR, …
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