Big Data Goes Mainstream

 A new third generation of tools for Big Data is now emerging that offer the scalability, parallelism, performance and data flexibility of tools like Hadoop, but, unlike Hadoop, can also continuously process realtime data streams. Moreover, these new tools are as easy to use as a spreadsheet.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

So It’s Gonna Drizzle on Rackspace

 Rackspace has picked up the Drizzle team that Oracle cast off when it acquired Sun. In case you don’t know, Drizzle is a cloud-directed, Linux-leaning, stripped-down, hitherto for unsupported, GPL 2 MySQL 6.0 fork that Rackspace is betting will infinitely scale, or at least scale better than MySQL. It looks like Rackspace means to go to production with the thing this year. Hopefully it will be stable. Drizzle runs the risk of not being as stable as MySQL, because the Drizzle team is taking things out and putting other stuff in. Of course it may be successful in trying to create a product that’s more stable than MySQL. But creating a stable DBMS engine is something that has always taken years and years.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

CA Buys Nimsoft

 CA is buying privately held Nimsoft Inc for $350 million in cash, another bet in the cloud. The deal should close by the end of the month and Nimsoft would remain a standalone business unit under current management reporting to Chris O’Malley, head of CA’s cloud products and solutions business line. CA will use money it has on hand but overseas to pay for the property. The deal follows its recent acquisitions of Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore and its pending acquisition of 3Tera. All are basically cloud-directed and meant to bring the old mainframer into the 21st century. Nimsoft has previously identified CA along with IBM, HP, BMC, EMC and a bunch of smaller firms as competitors.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

Kneber: Another Bot Attack

 Another hack attack hits the headlines http://tinyurl.com/yebvj8p Big deal. This stuff happens every day now right? Wrong. Not on this scale it doesn’t. The Kneber Bot has penetrated 75,000 systems, 2,500 companies across in 196 countries. This is not a straightforward Trojan - a simple smash and grab. This one’s a game changer. Systems compromised by this botnet provide the attackers with not only user credentials and confidential information, but remote access inside the compromised network.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

Microsoft & Total Computer to Present at Cloud Expo East

 Law enforcement is no different in its IT needs and constraints from many other enterprises – they run legacy hardware. Migrating to a new on-premise system and hardware can be cost-prohibitive. This compels decision-makers to look for advice and evidence on how to successfully evolve existing solutions via the cloud. In their session at the 5th International Cloud Expo, Al Perez, Chief Software Architect at Total Computer, and Gunther Lenz, ISV Architect Evangelist at Microsoft, will discuss how Total Computer migrated its existing law enforcement solution to Windows Azure, the effort needed, the obstacles faced. The upshot – lower upfront investment, pay as you go, a new business model, scalability and reliability as well as familiar tools.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

Mainstream IT Buys into Cloud Computing

 We started 3Tera to radically ease the way IT deploys, maintains and scales – MANAGES - applications. Our AppLogic® cloud computing platform provides the foundation of our partners’ orchestration of cloud services for public and private clouds around the world. Today, we’re taking the next step in moving toward making cloud computing mainstream by joining CA. CA and 3Tera share a common vision for the future of cloud computing, and we are excited about the opportunities that this acquisition will create for our customers, partners and their cloud users. This is a historic moment in Cloud Computing. The significance of this acquisition is a heck of a lot more than just a land grab in a hot space. We are confident that as a team, CA and 3Tera, will extend our leadership of the cloud computing platform market.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

Your Roadmap To The Clouds – Part Two

 In part I of this series, we began our journey towards next generation enterprise transformation.  In part II, we will discuss some of the initiatives to abstract the enterprise, and create a virtual enterprise presence in the cloud. Last time, we spoke of undertaking initiatives, but what kind of initiatives?  Executive level, leadership initiatives, such as [...]

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

Your Roadmap To The Clouds – Part Two

 In part I of this series, we began our journey towards next generation enterprise transformation.  In part II, we will discuss some of the initiatives to abstract the enterprise, and create a virtual enterprise presence in the cloud. Last time, we spoke of undertaking initiatives, but what kind of initiatives?  Executive level, leadership initiatives, such as [...]

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

Managed Cloud Hosting Contracts Drive iomart Hosting’s Growth

 iomart Hosting the managed hosting and cloud hosting services company, is pleased to announce the recent signing of three new managed hosting contracts which are expected to generate total revenues of approximately GBP1.6M ($2.4M) over the next three years. These complex hosting contracts, with both public and private sector organisations, reflect the emerging and fast growing trend among companies to outsource all or part of their IT services to cloud computing. Examples of cloud managed service contracts won recently include a three year deal to host and manage the web and email platforms for Doctors.net.uk. This is the largest, most active online medical network in the U.K., currently supporting 160,000 registered doctors.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

Managed Cloud Hosting Contracts Drive iomart Hosting’s Growth

 iomart Hosting the managed hosting and cloud hosting services company, is pleased to announce the recent signing of three new managed hosting contracts which are expected to generate total revenues of approximately GBP1.6M ($2.4M) over the next three years. These complex hosting contracts, with both public and private sector organisations, reflect the emerging and fast growing trend among companies to outsource all or part of their IT services to cloud computing. Examples of cloud managed service contracts won recently include a three year deal to host and manage the web and email platforms for Doctors.net.uk. This is the largest, most active online medical network in the U.K., currently supporting 160,000 registered doctors.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization