Year: 2013

Cloud Cruiser is a company which provides solutions for financial management of cloud solutions has announced that an express version of its Cloud Cruiser software will be included in the upcoming version of Windows Azure pack which will be released later this week as part of the Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 wave. Cloud Cruiser provides solutions not only for Microsoft but also Cisco, HP, VMware, Amazon and OpenStack.

The solution will offer financial management, chargeback, and cloud billing to enterprises and hosters utilizing cloud solutions based on Windows Azure, and fills an important GAP in the current solutions provided by Microsoft. It’s very normal that Microsoft gives partners the opportunity to fill those gaps.

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A major number of  Amazon Web Services customers are startups. Each starting company with services depending on delivery via the Internet is unsure about its future. They want to quickly scale up or down depending the demand for their new service. They do not want to invest in own infrastructure. Examples of AWS customers are Instagram, Spotify, Pinterest, Dropbox, Etsy, AirBnB and Shazam

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Growth and Innovation. These are the key points that were mentioned on the first day of the IBM InterConnect 2013 event in Singapore started today October 9 ending on October 11. Growth and innovation over cost reduction, according to Big Blue are the main benefits and the future of the cloud market for what they call a Smarter Enterprise.

IBM announced a series of new offerings and new systems and solutions, one is the uncovering of the new solutions that Big Blue created after the acquisition of SoftLayer, back in July, an acquisition that was made by IBM to intensify the cloud offering which at the moment resulted to be a social business and mobile one that would be integrated to its software-as-a-service solution portfolio.

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Research firm Gartner has revealed its top predicitons for IT organizations and IT users for 2014 and beyond. The predictions combine several disruptive topicslike Digital Industrial Revolution, Digital Business, Smart Machines and the Internet of Things. The predictions will be presented by Gartner Analysts during Gartner Symposium/Itxpo which will be held on October 10 in Orlando.

The predictions which are devided into four categories are:

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Microsoft yesterday made some announcements on releases for the fall of the year. Besides making both Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 generally available at October 18, Microsoft will also provide a new version of their development environment Visual Studio 2013 and a new .NET Framework, version 4.5.1. Microsoft will also release a second preview version of SQL Server 2014 and it will release Windows Azure HDInsight Service, which cloudcomputing.info covered in October last year.

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VMware last week announced that it has teamed with HP in order to provide a federated network solution spanning both physical and virtual networks. HP will launch a new network solution called Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller and will federate this with NSX which VMware announced during VMworld in August this year.

The networking solution will provide a centralized view, unified automation, visibility and control of the complete data center network, improving agility, monitoring and troubleshooting.

It’s obvious that these kind of integrated solutions are important for VMware to have their NSX solution adopted into already existing environments, therefore VMware really wants to cooperate with network hardware vendors in order to have NSX integrated into the already existing network management solutions. It’s interesting to note that Cisco still isn’t listed as a Partner on the website of VMware, also here for VMware and NSX to really succeed it’s important to have a big network vendor like Cisco on board.

John Jiang has published some interesting data on user and developer community contributions of four of the Open Source Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS) solutions; OpenStack, OpenNebula, Eucalyptus and CloudStack. Jiang started this effort in Q4 2011 and has updated it every 3 months since.

Having insight in these kind of figures can give us an idea about which platforms have the most interaction and therefore are the most active from a development perspective.

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Microsoft currently has a new Windows Azure feature in preview which allows customers authenticated to Windows Azure Active Directory single sign-on (SSO) to over 227 SaaS applications. Examples of such applications are Box, Skype, Salesforce.com, GoToMeeting, DropBox and others.

Microsoft announced this SSO feature part of Application Access Enhancements for Azure AD will be free for every SaaS application that is integrated with Windows Azure. Also four other features will be free.

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The Pivotal Initiative, the organization born from the merging of EMC and VMware cloud application and big data offerings, announced its first acquisition, Toronto-based Xtreme Labs a privately-held company specialized in mobile strategy and application development.
This acquisition fits in Pivotal’s plan to provide a converging platform ready for the big data explosion expected for the coming years.

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