Last week reports surfaced of a coming partnership between VMware and Amazon Web Services. Both companies declined to comment on the rumors, but earlier this week Amazon Web Services called a press conference for Thursday afternoon.Hours before the press conference in San Francisco with AWS CEO Andy Jassy a blog post from VMware leaked onto the Internet announcing the deal between the two companies. Tech Crunch was the first to report it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
What happens when fans of the Game of Thrones TV series work at a company that makes power equipment?This: Eaton
The Eaton ePDU G3 Throne
Behold the Eaton ePDU G3 Throne. Compare it to the original Iron throne, pictured here. Eaton commissioned a North Carolina artists to design the chair and then workers constructed it out of 35 rack power distribution unit. It has a total of 821 outlet receptacles. Now that’s a throne with some power capacity. Check out a slideshow of how the Throne was built here. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
What happens when fans of the Game of Thrones TV series work at a company that makes power equipment?This: Eaton
The Eaton ePDU G3 Throne
Behold the Eaton ePDU G3 Throne. Compare it to the original Iron throne, pictured here. Eaton commissioned a North Carolina artists to design the chair and then workers constructed it out of 35 rack power distribution unit. It has a total of 821 outlet receptacles. Now that’s a throne with some power capacity. Check out a slideshow of how the Throne was built here. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
AT&T today jumped headfirst into the fast-growing software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) market with a new offering it hopes to bring to market next year based on technology from SD-WAN startup VeloCloud.SD-WAN is gaining steam thanks to its ability to bring software-defined networking (SDN) controls to the wide area network. SD-WANs allow customers to integrate multiple network connection types and let software intelligently route traffic based on application profiles and available network types. Gartner has estimated that SD-WAN can save customers significant costs compared to traditional WAN architectures too. IDC predicts SD-WAN will be a $6 billion market by 2020.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
AT&T today jumped headfirst into the fast-growing software-defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) market with a new offering it hopes to bring to market next year based on technology from SD-WAN startup VeloCloud.SD-WAN is gaining steam thanks to its ability to bring software-defined networking (SDN) controls to the wide area network. SD-WANs allow customers to integrate multiple network connection types and let software intelligently route traffic based on application profiles and available network types. Gartner has estimated that SD-WAN can save customers significant costs compared to traditional WAN architectures too. IDC predicts SD-WAN will be a $6 billion market by 2020.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Data center power management vendor Eaton’s newest product has sensors that that the company says will proactively warn customers of when equipment component failures are likely to occur.Eaton’s announcement today of PulseIngisht Analaytics is part of a broader trend in the data center infrastructure management (DCIM) market moving to cloud-based platforms, says 451 Research director for data center technologies Rhonda Ascierto. Vendors such as Eaton, Schneider Electric and Emerson Network Power are evolving their platforms to collect more data their power systems generate and analyze it to provide customers with detailed information about data center performance, and even help predict and prevent downtime from equipment failure.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Data center power management vendor Eaton’s newest product has sensors that that the company says will proactively warn customers of when equipment component failures are likely to occur.Eaton’s announcement today of PulseIngisht Analaytics is part of a broader trend in the data center infrastructure management (DCIM) market moving to cloud-based platforms, says 451 Research director for data center technologies Rhonda Ascierto. Vendors such as Eaton, Schneider Electric and Emerson Network Power are evolving their platforms to collect more data their power systems generate and analyze it to provide customers with detailed information about data center performance, and even help predict and prevent downtime from equipment failure.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
The emergence of application containers has come with questions about where this technology fits in the enterprise technology landscape, and more specifically how it compares to virtual machines.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Are containers VM killers?A new report from 451 Research has some provocative findings on just how advantageous containers could be, not just for developers and operators, but for the finance team too.“451 Research believes containers are better placed, at least theoretically, to achieve lower TCO (total cost of ownership) than traditional hardware virtualization,” 451 Researchers Owen Rogers and Jay Lyman write. “In fact, we have found that double-digit resource savings are achievable even with relatively simple implementations.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Containers remain one of the hottest trends in technology thanks to the new ways they’re allowing developers to write new applications.
Canonical – the developer of the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system – today is hopping on the container management bandwagon by integrating its popular OS with Kubernetes, an open source project for managing containers at scale.
+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: As Adobe inks deal with Microsoft Azure, Amazon looms +
Canonical has been on the leading edge of developing container technology thanks to its heavy focus on Linux. Canonical has developed LXC and LXD, both of which are container platforms. In addition to supporting those open source tools, Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth says his goal is to make Ubuntu a platform for using many different higher-level container management tools too, including Kubernetes. To that end, the company has plans to integrate Ubuntu with Docker Swarm and Mesos’s Mesosphere too.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
How do you get started using the cloud?For some organizations, cloud usage has already begun by someone in the company - whether they know it or not. But to have a successful cloud deployment, it’s helpful to have a plan.Consultancy Cloud Technology Partners is one of many companies that help customers adopt public IaaS cloud computing resources. CloudTP says the following 10 tips are key for a successful cloud rollout.1. Alignment workshopsAfter a company has made a decision to use IaaS cloud computing services, it’s helpful to have a level-set meeting with important stakeholders at the company to get everyone on the same page. Typical groups involved in this meeting would be security managers, finance and procurement professionals, infrastructure engineers, operations workers and third-party consultants. Typically a senior IT manager or CIO leads the process. It’s important to have a clear message to this group of why the cloud is being explored.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
In a market dominated by vendors like Amazon, Microsoft and Google is there room for startups? Thinkstock
Many entrepreneurs and investors believe so. I’ve been interested in what it takes to start up a business in the uber-competitive cloud computing market. To help explore the issue, Cloud Chronicles visited ClearSky Data in downtown Boston to chat with co-founder Ellen Rubin – a cloud industry veteran and three-time entrepreneur – to talk about what Clear Sky is and how it competes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
To kick off his company’s Ignite conference in Atlanta this week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Adobe will run three of its most popular software as a service apps on the Microsoft Azure IaaS cloud.The move is a power play by Microsoft and Adobe on multiple fronts, analysts say. But, it should also be taken with a grain of salt: A spokesperson for Adobe confirmed that the company has a “large footprint” with AWS and it expects to use both AWS and Azure moving forward. In that sense, it shows the dynamic nature of partnerships across the cloud market.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Docker containers are coming to Windows | Review: Windows Server 2016 steps up security, cloud support +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
When most people think of application containers – one of the most popular new trends in how software is built and run by developers – they associate the technology very closely with Linux.Now, Docker Inc. – perhaps the most well-known container startup - is teaming up with Microsoft to integrate Docker Engine in Windows Server.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Review: Windows Server 2016 steps up security, cloud support +Microsoft announced the news at its Ignite event in Atlanta this week, along with the general availability of Windows Server and Windows Systems Center 2016.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Larry Ellison has voiced fighting words at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference this week, announcing that Amazon Web Services’ lead in the IaaS market is over and that AWS will have “serious competition going forward.”But does Oracle actually have a shot versus AWS and the company many see as the second place vendor, Microsoft?“It depends,” says Gartner distinguished analyst Lydia Leong, author of the annual Magic Quadrant benchmark report for the public Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud market.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Oracle CEO Mark Hurd says he has the whole cloud stack +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Cisco this week released new software and services for helping organizations migrate to cloud-based infrastructure, whether it be infrastructure they run themselves or resources from public cloud providers.+More on Network World: Cisco CEO: Spin-in technologies aren’t dead at Cisco+But as part of this effort Cisco is not pointing customers to one of its own public cloud platforms as it has wound down and pivoted away from its multi-year effort to develop its once-heralded Intercloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Health care organizations are increasingly open to the idea of using public cloud services, whether it be applications or infrastructure. But to do so requires thorough planning and vigilant execution of IT operations.+ RELATED STORY: Why this hospital is moving to Amazon’s cloud +Chris Bowen, founder and chief privacy and security officer for ClearDATA, a company that helps health care organizations use public cloud services, provides nine examples of controls that can be put in place. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Since 2012 three Texas-based health care organizations have merged to create USMD Health System. During the past four years CIO Mike Yerrid has been on a mission to centralize and consolidate IT operations. And a big part of that is moving to Amazon’s cloud.Yes, as a health care organization, USMD is subject to stringent regulations for protecting patient information, and yes it’s moving to the public cloud. USMD isn’t alone. “Health care organizations are becoming more comfortable with cloud technology,” says Lynne Dunbrack, leader of research firm IDC’s Health Insights practice.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: 9 Keys to a HIPAA compliant cloud | From CSO: What to think about when moving to the cloud +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
When LinkedIn started in 2003 it was a simple Java application with a web server.Today the company that calls itself the world’s largest professional network is a powerhouse network that Microsoft earlier this summer spent $26.2 billion to acquire. LinkedIn
Steve Ihde
“Growing the site has been a journey,” says LinkedIn’s director of engineering Steve Ihde. And recently, application containers have played a big role.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
The largest acquisition in the technology industry’s history today became official and with it, EMC Corp. is no longer.EMC is now referred to as Dell EMC. It’s a subsidiary of Dell Technologies and includes the enterprise business units of the former EMC Corp. and Dell.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: What Dell-EMC means for VMware | Video recap of 3 big takeaways from VMWorld 2016 +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
In the first quarter of 2016 Amazon reported that revenue for its Web Services division grew 64% from the same period a year earlier. Salesforce.com reported a 33% increase in revenues compared to a year earlier.Meanwhile, global storage revenues declined 32% between 2007 and 2015 and server revenues dropped 13%, according to research firm Forrester. The trend is clear: Cloud revenues are up, on-premises hardware revenues are down.A new report from Forrester titled “Evolve or Crumble: Prepare for the fate of the hardware incumbents” details what these seismic shifts in the IT marketplace mean for enterprise end users as legacy vendors like EMC, Dell, HPE, Oracle and IBM that are being disrupted by the likes of cloud-focused vendors Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce and Google.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Brandon Butler