In first half of 2014 Microsoft will open its first Windows Azure region in South America. The Brazil South Region will provide Azure customers based in Brazil reduced latency as well as the option of data not leaving the country. Something quite important seeing the recent spying by the NSA on Brazilian oilcompany Petrobras.
When the region has opened services like Web Servers, Azure Storage , HD Insight and Virtual Machines will be offered. There will not be a paired second Azure datacenter in Brazil initially. So when customers select the Geo-replication option of data, their data will be replicated to the Azure US South Central region datacenter located in San Antonio, Texas.
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VMware yesterday announced that the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service now supports Direct Connect. Direct Connect offers a dedicated and secure private line connection in addition to IPsec VPN which is already available with each cloud service offering from VMware.
Customers can set up private line connectivity into their vCloud Hybrid Service instance via dedicated circuits from their facility, or cross-connections from their co-located data center, into the VMware cloud. CONTINUE READING…
OpenShift Enterprise is Red Hat’s on-premise private PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) offering, introduced in November 2012, that has now reached version 2.0.
Built on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and OpenShift Origin, OpenShift Enterprise competes in the same area of the recently released Pivotal CF, providing a platform that manages elastic environments for application development, testing and hosting.
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In June 2012 Google revealed its IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) offering, called Google Compute Engine (GCE), with the beginning of this December the service is finally Generally Available (GA), available with 24/7 support and 99.95% monthly SLA.
The announcement is enriched with a set of new features and a price drop of 10% for the Standard Instances intended to catch that kind of customers that are evaluating Amazon AWS.
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Microsoft has made available for download a new free eBook titled:”Microsoft System Center: Cloud Management with App Controller“. The book which contains 104 pages provides an introduction to implementing and managing hybrid computing solutions using App Controller as part of the System Center suite of products from Microsoft. It describes the basic concepts, processes, and operations involved in connecting, consuming, and managing resources that are deployed both on and off premises. Each chapter provides a concise, self-contained walkthrough for a specific aspect of managing private, public, and hybrid clouds using App Controller.
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Pivotal CF is the commercially supported hybrid Platfor-as-a-Service (PaaS) based on Cloud Foundry, technology launched by VMware in 2011 and moved to Pivotal in this April as part of the merge of cloud application and big data assets from both VMware and EMC.
This week Pivotal made the platform generally available as a standalone product that runs on vSphere and consists in two main components: Pivotal CF Elastic Runtime Service, the actual runtime environment and Pivotal CF Operations Manager, its management platform with IaaS integration.
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Auto scale is, in my opinion, one of the core features that a potential customer must evaluate in order to choose a cloud provider.
In short, auto scale is the feature that allows virtual servers to obtain new resources on demand without the need of a reboot.
AWS has implemented this technology in 2009, Google Compute and Microsoft Azure offer auto scale too even if its introduction was not exactly flawless.
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Salesforce.com, company headquartered in San Francisco and famous for its CRM platform, quietly acquired Cloudconnect, a startup which produce, or produced, a developer tool that allowed to access customer data through a unified database containing all CRM, social and web data.
There are not many details on the acquisition, it was not publicized at all and no press release has been made available, only on Cloudconnect’s website there is a short announcement telling that the company has been acquired by Salesforce.com and that it is now part of Heroku, a Salesforce.com company.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced at their 2013 re:Invent summit the company will start a Desktop-as-a-Service (Daas) offering. Amazon WorkSpaces as the service is called is a fully managed Windows 7 experience which will be available in four different bundles named Standard, Standard Plus, Performance and Performance Plus.
The Standard bundle offers 1 vCPU, 3.75 GiB of memory, and 50 GB of persistent user storage. All of the bundles include Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, Firefox, Internet Explorer 9, and 7-Zip, among other utilities. The Plus bundles also offer Microsoft Office.
Pricing starts at $ 35 per month for Standard to $ 75 per month for the Performance Plus bundle. The service is currently available as a Limited Preview. Amazon did not provide information on a general availability date.
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Computer Sciences Corporation, better known as CSC, the multinational headquartered in Virginia, USA, announced the acquisition of Santa Monica-based ServiceMesh, an enterprise-grade cloud management provider specialized in automation of the deployment and management of enterprise applications and platforms across private, public and hybrid cloud environments.
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