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Utility metered cloud company 6fusion announced at the Citrix Synergy conference it has expanded its multi-hypervisor federated cloud to include the Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) and Open Source Xen platforms, adding to its existing support for VMware.
With these two announcements, 6fusion customers will be able to build and meter private and public cloud infrastructures with either VMware or Citrix platforms. As I noted in a previous blog, 6fusion’s distribution model is fully focused on its channel partners.
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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.”…
A whopping 85 percent of Citrix Systems VARs see an opportunity to build private clouds using CloudStack, the open source cloud computing platform from Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS). That big statistic emerged at Citrix Partner Summit 2012, which attracted roughly 2,000 channel partners, according to Citrix Channel Chief Tom Flink.
In many circles, CloudStack is considered an alternative to OpenStack, the open source cloud platform first promoted by Rackspace and NASA. While Rackspace has a lot of cloud mind …
Even as Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) promotes its own cloud platforms (Office 365 and Windows Azure), cloud services providers (CSPs) and channel partners continue to launch Microsoft Lync, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM and Exchange in their own clouds. The moves suggest there’s still a growing, thriving market for third-party CSPs that offer Microsoft’s business applications in the cloud.
Among the latest examples:
1. ITUtility.NET, a cloud services provider in Canada, recently launched Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 as a multi-tenant …
Enterprise cloud platform specialist Tier3 announced the latest release of its flagship Enterprise Cloud Platform, which now features Web Fabric, a multiple language and framework Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud is based on VMware vCloud and is designed to run back office and “line of business” applications in a secure virtual private cloud; it also has built-in disaster recovery functionality. In addition, Tier 3 announced Data Fabric, a high availability database-as-a-service (DbaaS) that will be in beta …
Managed hosting and cloud solutions firm BroadCloud, and enterprise OpenStack specialist Piston Cloud Computing announced BroadCloud will now offer the Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS) to its managed services customers, enabling them to implement and manage private clouds without large capital expenditures, according to the company. BroadCloud provides IT services from 60 data centers worldwide via a network of data center operating vendors inlcuding Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX) Level3 (NYSE: LVLT), Bytegrid and CoreLink, as well as on-premise solutions for …
MeriTalk Cloud Computing Exchange (CCX), a consortium of U.S. government IT leaders and personnel, released a report titled “Cloudy with a Chance of Savings,” which claims federal agencies are saving $5.5 billion in IT costs with current cloud computing efforts, and could save as much as $12 billion annually.
MeriTalk announced the findings of the report, which polled 108 government CIO’s and IT managers, at its inaugural Cloud Computing Brainstorm, co-hosted by Sen. Tom Carper, (D-Del). …
At the recent Microsoft Management Summitt 2012 in Las Vegas, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) and storage/data management firm NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) announced its FlexPod shared infrastructure now is enabled for Microsoft System Center 2012. Additionally, FlexPod is the first data center solution to be validated by Microsoft for the updated Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track 2.0, a program by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) that vets cloud hardware and software to reduce infrastructure and application deployment time and help achieve greater …
Last week at the OpenStack Design Summit, Morphlabs launched its all-SSD (solid state disk) mCloud Rack Enterprise Edition, an enterprise-level converged infrastructure solution on the OpenStack platform. The mCloud “Rack E” includes technologies such as Dell’s PowerEdge-C Platform, Arista Networks’ switches and Nexenta’s enterprise-class OpenStorage, and optimizes enterprise cloud implementations by providing more I/O operations per second (IOPs) per compute while retaining industry-defining power and cost efficiency, according to the company.
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