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BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is one of the hot challenges that nowadays enterprises are facing, that’s why AirWatch acquisition, made by VMware earlier this year, is extremely significative together with its integration with the newly released Horizon 6 Suite.
The Indian company VMUnify, originated from MindTree’s innovation program, announced this week the general availability of version 3.0 of its homonymous solution for managing Virtual Infrastructure Enterprises, Private or Public Clouds to enable the delivering of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) for public or in house consumption.
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vCloud Hybrid Service is VMware’s owned and operated IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) offering, released in September 2013 in the US only and extended to Europe (UK) in February 2014.
This week, through its official blog, VMware announced two new partnerships with SoftBank (Japan) and China Telecom (obviously China) aimed to launch vCHS in Asia.
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Red Hat has released its OpenStack platform version 5. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform is able to create, deploy, and scale a public or private OpenStack cloud. The OpenStack Platform is build on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and uses the Icehouse release of the OpenStack cloud platform as its basis.
Racemi, an American company headquartered in Atlanta, founded in 2000, provides server workload migrations between dissimilar physical, virtual, and cloud platforms announced to have raised $10 million in Series C funding led by Milestone Venture Partners, along with existing investors Harbert Venture Partners, and Paladin Capital Group.
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HP has released a paper titled: “HP Reference Architecture for OpenStack on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS“. The paper which contains 15 pages provides guidance in the deployment of an OpenStack Icehouse cloud on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS using HP servers including recommendations for setting up a medium sized functional OpenStack Cloud. CONTINUE READING…
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On June 30th, IBM released two different news announcing one the availability of its open cloud development platform as a service Bluemix, the other revealing the opening of the new SoftLayer datacenter in London.
Bigblue’s PaaS offering Bluemix started in February as beta and it is already among the distinguished cloud foundry deployments, the solution is built from open standards and it allows providers to develop and distribute cloud oriented applications using a combination of IBM’s middleware software with other open services and tools from their partners ecosystem.
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Microsoft has released version 9.1 of its capactiy planning tool the Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP). This version is the follow-up of version 9.0 which was released in December last year. Microsoft provides the Assessment and Planning Toolkit as a so called solution accelerator for free.
The MAP Toolkit uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), SMS Provider, and other technologies to collect data in your environment and inventories computer hardware, software, and operating systems in small or large IT environments without installing any agent software on the target computers. The data and analysis provided by MAP streamline the planning process for software migration, help assess device driver availability, and allow you to make hardware upgrade recommendations. The MAP Toolkit also gathers performance metrics from computers you are considering for virtualization and includes a feature to model a library of potential host and storage hardware configurations
CloudPhysics is a provider of a SaaS performance and capacity analytics solution, the first in its segment to leverage the informations collected for its customer datacenters to improve the intelligence and effectiveness of the product itself.
The company, founded in November 2011 from John Blumenthal and Irfan Ahmad, both former VMware employees, but publicly presented only in July 2012, announced today a new Series C funding of $15M that comes on top of a $10M Series B funding achieved in August 2013 and led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and of a previous $2.5M funding from angel investors and the Mayfield Fund, announced in August 2012, for a total funding of $27.5M in 3 years.
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Virtustream is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider, funded among the others from SAP, that also offers a Cloud Management Platform called xStream.
This week the company announced version 3.0 of xStream, expected to ship in July, introducing the support for OpenStack together with what they call Enterprise Risk Management capabilities.
xStream already supports VMware and KVM hypervisors and offers APIs for Amazon EC2 and S3.
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June 19th, 2014
Zerto has announced that it has closed a $26 million Series D funding. The round was led by Harmony Partners, with participation by Battery Ventures, Greylock IL, RTP Ventures…
June 19th, 2014
On June 18 Red Hat announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2014.
Total revenue for the first quarter ended May 31, 2014 was $424 bmillion, with an…
June 19th, 2014
Yesterday Red Hat announced the launch of ManageIQ community, announced this May with the participation of partners such Chef, CiRBA and VMTurbo, with the idea to provide a comprehensive open…
June 19th, 2014
Data Protection is VMware’s backup solution based on EMC Avamar and designed and typically offered in bundle with vSphere.
This solution is also available in vCloud Hybrid Service, VMware’s owned…
June 19th, 2014
Citrix has released a Tech Preview of a Service Template for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). The Service Template provides a standardized group of hardware and software settings that…
June 18th, 2014
Today Red Hat announced to have signed a definitive agreement to acquire eNovance an important player in the OpenStack integration services market.
The purpose of this acquisition, is to give…
June 17th, 2014
Yesterday Red Hat has announced the global availability of version 3.4 of its Enterprise Virtualization: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).
RHEV is based on the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor…
June 16th, 2014
Microsoft last week released a new tool which is capable of assessing your on-premise infrastructure and make recommendenations for migration of Active Directory, SharePoint or SQL Server workloads to Windows…
June 16th, 2014
Microsoft is actively working on enhancements to connect on-premises Active Directory to Azure Active Directory.
DirSync and Active Directory Federation Services are two options to connect. DirSync can now be…
June 13th, 2014
Last week Mirantis announced the availability of version 5.0 of its OpenStack distribution updated with Icehouse, the latest OpenStack release.
The key features of this new release is the…
June 11th, 2014
I like to attend events and conferences because they allow to measure the temperature of a given technology within its target market.
You could argue that an Italian event,…
June 4th, 2014
Amazon yesterday announced the availability of Virtual Machine Images (AMI’s) for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 running on top of Windows Server 2012 R2.
The AMIs…
June 3rd, 2014
Amazon Web Services (AWS) released at May 30 2014 the ‘AWS Management Portal for vCenter‘. This free plug-in for vCenter allows management of virtual machines and virtual networks running on…
May 30th, 2014
Research firm Gartner this week updated its Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for the year 2014. The Magic Quadrant for 2013, was released in August last…
