In these days IBM launched its new hybrid cloud offering called IBM Platform Computing Cloud Service.
The service, that runs on IBM SoftLayer infrastructure, integrates IBM Platform LSF and Platform Symphony workload management software delivered as SaaS and aims at that market segment that requires high-performance computing, where cloud adoption is still proceeding at a slow pace.
IBM PCCS is available in two models: a stand-alone cluster running in the Softlayer cloud (private cloud) where users directly access workloads and data and a hybrid cluster (cloud bursting) that integrates on-premise and cloud resources in a proper hybrid model.
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Citrix has released version 2.2. of its cloud services delivery and business management platform CloudPortal Business Manager. Version 2.2. is the follow-up of version 2.1. which was released in September 2013. CloudPortal Business Manager provides a webportal which manages the commerce, user management, service provisioning and operational aspects.
Version 2.2. provides the following new features:
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VMware vCloud Hybrid Service is the VMware’s owned and operated public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) service, launched in 2013 in US only ,was running in beta on a single datacenter in UK until today, February 25 when VMware announced the general availability for Europe.
The service will be initially provided only from a data center in Slough, UK complementing VMware’s existing US data centers and providing to customers the adequate compliance with UK and EU regulations, a wider rollout across Europe is planned through 2014.
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On February 18, Virtual Bridges provider of desktop virtualization solution, announced to have become Corporate Sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation, the organization which aims to develop and distribute the OpenStack cloud operating system. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Virtual Bridges focuses on VDI and desktop virtualization, delivering solutions either on-premises or in the cloud.
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Xervmon, a start up headquartered in Houston with development center in India, provider of a integrated cloud management tool, announced the availability of its product: Xervmon Management & Monitoring Suite, supporting the administration of public clouds such as Amazon AWS, Rackspace Cloud, Digital Ocean and HP Cloud System Matrix.
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Cloud Cruiser is a cost analysis tool targeted at enterprises and service providers. It provides features like showback, chargeback, reporting. It is able to compare different cloud platforms on costs and shows cost savings if workloads are shifted to a different platform. This feature is called the Hybrid IT cost advisor.
Cloud Cruiser is now able to provide insight in costs of using public Windows Azure in addition to the current support of Windows Azure Pack running in private clouds.
Using hybrid cloud infrastructures organizations have a choice where to deploy a workload. Either in their private cloud or in a public cloud. Cloud Cruiser can help making the decision. It can compare costs of resources like websites, virtual machines, storage, databases and networking. Supported platforms are besides Microsoft public and private clouds: HP, Cisco, Amazon Web Services and OpenStack.
See a video of hybrid cost advisor here.
Privately held, venture funded company based in New York Datadog, announced to have raised $15 million in a Series B round led by OpenView Venture Partners with investments from Index Ventures, RTP Ventures, Amplify Partners, IA Ventures and Contour Ventures.
Datadog is provider of monitoring services that grants to unify the infrastructure, gathering together metrics and events from servers, databases, appications on a Saas data analytics platform.
Datadog’s product enables a single view on premise and cloud, it combines metrics and events across the full Dev/Ops Stacks, it can be integrated among others tools and services, with Pivotal and Puppet. The company announced that it is aiming to use this funding to develop a new monitoring platform with highly scalable cloud infrastructure.
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Microsoft added two new instances which are targeted at high performance computing. Instance called A8 has 8 virtual cores with 56 GB of internal memory. Instance A9 has 16 virtual cores with 112 GB of memory.
In addition both A8 and A9 instance have a 40Gbit/s InfiniBand network that includes remote direct memory access (RDMA) technology for maximum efficiency of parallel MPI applications. This powers high performance applications that require a low latency and high throughput communication between compute instances.
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VMware has released a paper titled: "VMware vCloud Automation Center 6.0 Reference Architecture", the paper which contains 21 pages provides recommendations about deployment topology, hardware specifications and scalability for vCloud Automation Center version 6.0, vCloud Application Director version 6.0 and IT Business Management Suite Standard Edition version 1.0. The paper provides recommendations for small, medium and large deployement scenario’s.
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Microsoft has announced that it will contribute to the Open Compute Project a community whose mission is to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs for scalable computing . Microsoft will contribute cloud server specifications, which cover the hardware used by Microsoft te deliver cloud services like Windows Azure, Office 365, Bing and others. More information about the specification can be found here.
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