10 Things to Know about Cisco UCS « Readme.txt. Choosing the right cloud platform. The emergence of a number of self-proclaimed 'open' cloud platforms presents any would-be cloud adopter with a confusing plethora of choice. Rackspace's OpenStack initiative, unveiled last week, is the latest, but it's by no means the only one [disclosure: Rackspace hosts my business and personal websites free of charge]. There are also portability initiatives like VMware's 'open PaaS' which, except in its use of the Spring stack, seems to be open in much the same way that Windows Azure is open (it's a published standard and you have a choice of hosting partners). For cloud adopters all these offerings, in their various ways, hold out the promise of pursuing a hybrid strategy. They're attractive because they provide the option of putting some assets in the cloud while keeping others on trusted terra firma — or at the very least, a user can reserve the option of pulling their IT back off the provider's cloud if they ever need to, avoiding lock-in to a single provider.
Spring cleaning release. It’s been two years since we first released our blogging assistant Zemanta. Two years is a long time on Internet and a lot has changed since. New blogging platforms appeared and some popular then are less so today. We tried to support all of them through browser extensions, platform plug-ins and a browser bookmarklet.
We also developed services like reblog and added many features, some less successful than others. Spring is traditionally a time to do some cleaning that nobody likes doing, but must be done nevertheless. And it is time we do some cleaning of our own. We realized our ability to evolve our service rests on us doing fewer things. We will not be supporting the following platforms anymore: WordPress up to version 2.5, MovableType up to 4.0, MySpace, LiveJournal, Ning, DotClear and older interface of Typepad. If you blog on these platforms, we urge you to upgrade to a newer version and apologize sincerely to those who can’t. That’s it. EMC Atmos Virtual Appliance both to play, and for production - V. Great news in Atmos land!
First of all – what is Atmos? Atmos may seem like something new to many, but you use Atmos-like stuff every day. If you think about YouTube, or your Facebook pictures, or Twitpics – or the type of storage used for these new funky scale-out noSQL based applications, it ain’t your usual SAN/NAS stuff. Those are all examples of next gen apps that leverage this class of storage platform. The largest example of cloud object storage is Amazon S3, so if you know that, imagine Atmos as similar, but different in the sense that: it’s read-writeable without doing anything fancy it has a more rich geo-dispersion capabilties and more rich metadata model perhaps most importantly, you can use it in the cloud, but you can ALSO have one of your own (much like the vCloud value proposition is you can have a private vCloud inside your enterprise and federate to public vClouds) Beyond Web 2.0 apps – there are all sorts of other applications. So… see the coolness involved in this? NetApp: Cloud computing driving profit surge.
NetApp reported a strong fourth quarter courtesy of data center buildouts fueled by server virtualization and cloud computing. The storage company reported fourth quarter earnings of $145 million, or 40 cents a share, on revenue of $1.17 billion, up from $880 million a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were 50 cents a share. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 43 cents a share on revenue of $1.09 billion. For the year, NetApp reported earnings of $400 million, or $1.13 a share, on revenue of $3.93 billion, up 15 percent from fiscal 2009.
As for the outlook, NetApp was upbeat. The company projected revenue between $1.1 billion and $1.14 billion. Earnings will be between 31 cents a share and 35 cents a share. What's driving the upside? The server virtualization and cloud computing trends are driving significant business for us, as our competitive advantages in those areas lead more customers to choose NetApp storage efficiency solutions for larger and larger data center projects. EMC, Ethernet and the Cloud | Data Center Edge. If you are already heavily invested in EMC infrastructure, it's no secret that the future of your storage networking lies with the Ethernet. Any doubts to the contrary were firmly laid to rest at EMC World this week in Boston, where the themes of Ethernet, SSDs and private clouds were heard at just about every turn. It seems to be the company's way of preparing its customers for the coming data crunch, estimated by some to top the zettabyte level this year.
And it does appear that EMC has all its ducks lined up in the Ethernet direction. Along with broad support from Cisco, which itself has positioned itself as the Ethernet guru for the coming age, EMC has tapped Brocade for Ethernet switch support -- namely, a reseller agreement for the FCX 1 GbE switch, the NetIron CES 200 switch and MLX router and the ServerIron and TurboIron controllers. It seems clear, then, that no matter where the Ethernet goes from here, EMC will be able to follow. The answer is not much. But from EMC itself? Selecting A Cloud Storage Provider - Storage Blog - InformationW. To Acquire Greenplum. What's This All About? In a nutshell: big data driving a new generation of data computing applications using a private cloud model.
Let's take these one at a time. You've probably heard the term "big data" before: it refers to analytical applications that depend on billions of facts and hundreds of terabytes -- more often petabytes -- of data. To get meaningful value from any mountain of data, you need not only massive storage, but massive compute and memory as well. These "big data" applications will likely want an environment that's build on dynamic and virtualized pools of compute, memory and storage. Simply put, data computing is a great use case for a private cloud.
The EMC / Greenplum Story EMC and Greenplum have been working together with shared customers for quite some time. Greenplum brings two key things to the table -- a new architectural model as well as a new consumption model. What Happens Next? Many Targets For Value-Added Integration Sample Q+A Well, it isn't. Final Thoughts.