Friday: Rackspace CloudConnect - Hybrid Architecture in Action Rackspace steps up to the plate with a new hybrid architectural solution. Earlier this year we talked about the “other” hybrid architecture; the one that lives out there, in the cloud, but that combines two different deployment models: applications deployed on co-located servers that are imbued with elasticity by taking advantage of the same provider’s cloud computing offering. Throughout the year I’ve posited (nearly harped upon) the reality that because most organizations are not greenfields, hybrid architectures will be the norm. This is especially true with applications that have consistent workloads and that may only benefit periodically from the elasticity enabled by cloud computing. Some organizations prefer the benefits of a hosted environment for applications, but only need to take advantage of elasticity once in a while or, perhaps, they need that elasticity as part of a longer time strategy to manage potential growth and scale.
Products - Tufin SecureTrack, Tufin SecureChange Tufin Security Policy Orchestration Suite Tufin’s Orchestration Suite™ extends the benefits of IT automation to network security. Around the world, organizations are using Tufin’s award-winning products to accelerate service delivery, increase IT agility, and reduce the time spent on security changes and audits by up to 80%. The Orchestration Suite is a complete solution for designing, provisioning, and auditing network security changes. It enables you to proactively assess risk in real-time, to continuously enforce compliance with standards, and to keep business-critical applications online. Verizon.com Are hybrid clouds the path to cloud-computing nirvana? This post is sponsored by Dell. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. Dell had no involvement in the content of this or other posts. If you’re tackling your company’s computing needs, you’re going to have to look to the clouds.
TadaSoft Restorepoint Review - SC Magazine With downtime a dirty word in today's enterprise networks, administrators have to tread carefully when it comes to making configuration changes to critical network devices. Businesses that don't have any laid-down codes of practice or change-management systems can get into a real mess if they're modifying key switches and routers and the aftershocks can be far reaching - not least with regulatory compliance. UK-based Tadasoft claims to have the answer with its Restorepoint appliances. These are designed to provide a central point of management for multiple network devices, which securely stores their configurations, backs them up at regular intervals and provides swift restoration facilities. The RSP-500 solution on review looks good value, as it can handle up to 500 network devices and the price includes the appliance plus a three-year maintenance contract.
Cloud Computing Vocabulary - Cloud Computing Wiki Cloudburst: The term cloudburst is being use in two meanings, negative and positive: Cloudburst (negative): The failure of a cloud computing environment due to the inability to handle a spike in demand. Reference:"The only way to do cloud computing efficiently is to share the cloud - to establish a broad, multitenant grid (or a number of them) that balances the loads of many different companies. Otherwise, it'll be one cloudburst after another, and a whole lot of underutilized capital assets." Source: Nicholas Carr: Intuit's cloudburst frustrates customers. Cloudburst (positive): The dynamic deployment of a software application that runs on internal organizational compute resources to a public cloud to address a spike in demand.Reference: "ISV virtual appliances should underpin a new surge in cloud use followed by self-service mechanisms and enterprise connectors enabling organizations to 'cloudburst' to using cloud services."
Blue Coat Microsoft Pitches its Hybrid Cloud Approach Against Google Microsoft Tuesday dumped the clumsy, not-very-memorable Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) brand it inflicted on poor SharePoint Online and Exchange Online in favor of a new cloudy repackaged concoction called Office 365, simpler, more memorable branding than Microsoft has seemed capable of lately accompanied by a lot of confused and confusing messaging. Contrary to reports Office 365 is not – repeat not – an online cloud-ified version of the honest-to-God desktop Office suite that brings Microsoft so much dough. Heavens to Betsy, no, Microsoft isn’t ready to go that far to ward off the Googles of the world. Hell hasn’t frozen over yet. Basically the hybrid approach to the cloud Microsoft has previously said it would take.
Restorepoint: Disaster Recovery for Multi-Vendor Network, Security & Storage Devices - Restorepoint Home In Q3, Big Data Meant Big Dollars: Cloud « If the third quarter represented anything, it was that IT M&A is alive and well, particularly in the Big Data space. As I highlight in my wrapup of the quarter’s news and trends, if a company can store or analyze large amounts of data with any degree of innovation, a larger vendor is eyeing them up for an acquisition — even if it means paying premium. 3PAR, Netezza, Greenplum, Storwize, Ocarina Networks and ParaScale all found new homes during the past few months, for instance. Speaking of Big Data, we saw even more evidence that startups selling the tools of tomorrow (i.e., Hadoop and NoSQL) are in a good position to capitalize if they follow the right strategy. Cloudera continued to bolster its partner portfolio to ensure that it will be the platform layer for Hadoop as it increasingly sees adoption among enterprises.
In Q3, Big Data Meant Big Dollars 1Executive Summary If the third quarter told us anything, it was that IT M&A activity is alive and well, particularly in the big data space. When a company can store or analyze large amounts of data with any degree of innovation, a larger vendor is likely to eye them up for an acquisition — even if it means paying premium. 3PAR, Netezza, Greenplum, Storwize, Ocarina Networks and ParaScale all found new homes during the past few months. Internal external private public hybrid virtual cloud « RightScale Blog I'd like an external private hybrid cloud, dry, with whole milk, please! Enterprises rise to the cloud, terminology takes off - as if we didn't have enough cloud confusion already. But it's not all bad news - some of the terms do make sense. While many of the benefits associated with the cloud are independent of cloud type – internal, external, private, public – the type of cloud does determine regulatory compliance, security, and financial benefits. The cloud end-user mostly shouldn't care, but to IT these are important considerations.