Enterprise IT needs more applications designed for cloud in order to take advantage of private cloud implementations and more efficiently use public cloud solutions. Leveraging the unique benefits of the cloud requires a specialized approach to application architecture. The right design enables business agility, massive scaling, ability to burst, and high resiliency. Plus, it promotes… Continue reading Enterprise Strategies for Cloud-Aware Apps
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Benchmarking Sahara-based Big Data as a Service solutions
Sahara provides a way to build Big Data as a Service on OpenStack, but there are many options and considerations. This presentation introduces our work on benchmarking various solutions, including VM vs. container vs bare-metal, HDFS vs. Swift, and a few others. This was conducted on latest Intel hardware platforms and will provide insights into… Continue reading Benchmarking Sahara-based Big Data as a Service solutions
Cloud Foundry on OpenStack Hands-on: It’s what on the Stack that matters!
The goal for both OpenStack and Cloud Foundry foundations is to build open source software and communities. The software is intended for public, private and managed clouds. Cloud Foundry is intended for a variety of IaaS including OpenStack. This Hands-on session will cover the basics of Cloud Foundry. We will discuss the motivation for a… Continue reading Cloud Foundry on OpenStack Hands-on: It’s what on the Stack that matters!
VMware Introduces Open Source Projects for Cloud-Native Applications
VMware, Inc. today announced two new open source projects built to enable enterprise adoption of cloud-native applications — Project Lightwave, an identity and access management project that will extend enterprise-scale and security to cloud-native applications; and Project Photon, a lightweight Linux operating system optimized for cloud-native applications. Designed to help enterprise developers securely build, deploy… Continue reading VMware Introduces Open Source Projects for Cloud-Native Applications
SkySync Enables Hybrid Storage Options for Oracle Customers
Portal Architects, Inc., the creators of SkySync, today announced the release of a new connector for Oracle WebCenter Content. The new SkySync connector, along with the existing SkySync Oracle Documents Cloud connector, enables organizations to tightly integrate any existing on-premises or cloud content storage systems with Oracle WebCenter Content or Oracle Documents Cloud Service quickly.… Continue reading SkySync Enables Hybrid Storage Options for Oracle Customers
Datadog Acquires Mortar Data to Enhance Analytics for Cloud Monitoring
Datadog, the leading SaaS-based monitoring platform for cloud applications, today announced it has acquired Mortar Data, a New York-based startup enabling companies to build and run custom big data applications and data pipelines. With the addition of Mortar Data’s analytics platform and experienced team, this acquisition will extend Datadog’s data analytics capabilities and will soon… Continue reading Datadog Acquires Mortar Data to Enhance Analytics for Cloud Monitoring
Actifio Introduces Actifio One, the Business Resiliency Cloud
Actifio, the copy data virtualization company, today announced the launch of Actifio One, the business resiliency cloud. Actifio One is a cloud-based service built on Actifio’s copy data virtualization technology that provides businesses of all sizes with the fastest and easiest way to make their applications available when and where they need them. Built on… Continue reading Actifio Introduces Actifio One, the Business Resiliency Cloud
Mega Trends to support Unified Communications market growth in APAC
Unequivocally, 2015 will see strong growth in the Cloud computing, Big Data Analytics, Social media, Internet of things, and Mobility (CASIM). Frost & Sullivan believes that CASIM will mark a positive impact on the unified communications (UC) market, making UC more critical to the businesses than ever before. “UC will no more be just about… Continue reading Mega Trends to support Unified Communications market growth in APAC