PHD Virtual Technologies, a pioneer in virtual backup, infrastructure monitoring and innovator of disaster recovery assurance solutions,
announced today an easy on-ramp for cloud service providers
wanting to provide disaster recovery-as-a-service solutions
(RaaS). Because IT organizations feel sustained pressure to
support aggressive recovery time objectives (RTOs), they need
assurance from their cloud service provider that their
applications and business services can recover within a timeframe that
meets business requirements.
“More and more companies are
looking to leverage the cloud for disaster recovery and this is
positively impacting growth in the RaaS space,” said Carlos
Escapa, SVP and General Manager of Disaster Recovery products at
PHD Virtual. “We are seeing exponential growth from cloud service
providers who recognize that PHD’s ReliableDR, provides the only
automated way to prove that they can recover their customers’ IT
environments within agreed SLAs. ReliableDR’s powerful reporting
capabilities also provide auditable compliance proof of business
continuity policies.”
“The partnership with PHD Virtual
provided NSIS Systems the ability to provide cost effective
Disaster Recovery as a Service for the VMware Platform,” said
Stephan Buys, the Managing Director of NSIS Systems, a UK Cloud
Services Provider. “PHD Virtual's ReliableDR is a great product
which provides the end user with an easy to use interface to manage
their disaster recovery. The continuous and automated testing of the
recovery virtual machines ensures that the end users will have
functional recovery points to fail over to. NSIS Systems is looking
forward to a long term partnership with PHD Virtual.”
Gartner
estimates that the worldwide RaaS market will grow to $1.2
billion by 2017, a CAGR of 21%. By 2014, 30-percent of midsize companies
will have adopted recovery-in-the-cloud, also known as
recovery-as-a-service (RaaS), to support IT operations recovery.
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PHD’s
ReliableDR 3.1 is a disaster recovery assurance solution that
dramatically reduces the cost of IT disaster recovery testing to support
increasingly aggressive recovery service level agreements
demanded by businesses and compliance auditors. Unlike
legacy DR tests, which are typically performed once per year and
can cost upwards of $30,000, ReliableDR enables disaster recovery
(DR) exercises to be performed on a daily, or even hourly, basis
and at a fraction of the cost. ReliableDR not only enforces
Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) / Recovery Point Objectives
(RPOs), but actually delivers Recovery Time Actuals (RTAs) and
automatically detects stale snapshots that are outside the RPO
policy.
“Clouds reconfigure virtualized resources all the
time so testing for disaster recovery must be done frequently,”
said Escapa. “ReliableDR, fully automates the orchestration of the
DR testing process and helps cloud service providers make sure
that recovery procedures are current and in compliance with
business continuity requirements and regulations.”
“PHD's ReliableDR enables cloud service providers to provide ironclad
assurance that their customers’ systems will come up within SLAs,”
said Dave Simpson, Senior Storage Analyst, The 451 Group. “This
differentiates their cloud recovery services and allows them to
better meet customers’ requirements.”
Friday, May 17, 2013
ServiceNow Transforms Cloud Provisioning
ServiceNow, the enterprise IT cloud company, today announced ServiceNow Cloud Provisioning,
a new orchestration application that enables IT to automate the
entire cloud management lifecycle. From self-service cloud
selection to automated, standardized cloud creation and resource
optimization, ServiceNow Cloud Provisioning speeds the deployment of
cloud environments from weeks or months to just minutes. Without
special training or manual intervention, cloud administration is
transformed from day-to-day IT management overhead to an automated
business self-service—all within parameters determined by IT.
Benefits of the ServiceNow Cloud Provisioning Application
“IT organizations that implement extensive automation and orchestration technologies can significantly improve operational productivity and end-to-end service levels,” said Mary Johnson Turner, research vice president, Enterprise Systems Management Software, IDC. “A consistent user interface that is tightly integrated with the cloud provisioning workflow automation engine is a critical enabler in helping IT to improve business performance across the enterprise.”
This week at Knowledge13, the largest gathering of IT professionals using cloud services for enterprise IT service automation, ServiceNow is offering sessions, labs and demos dedicated to ServiceNow Cloud Provisioning and orchestration applications. In addition, ServiceNow expects to provision approximately 16,000 ServiceNow instances at the event using ServiceNow Orchestration.
Availability
The ServiceNow Cloud Provisioning application is available today. For more information, please go to http://www.servicenow.com/cloud-provisioning.do.
Benefits of the ServiceNow Cloud Provisioning Application
- Automated provisioning of cloud services. Together with the ServiceNow IT Service Automation Application Suite, Cloud Provisioning optimizes the management of heterogeneous cloud environments within a single, integrated system of record. Business users can now request cloud infrastructure through an intuitive self-service interface using the ServiceNow Service Catalog. Cloud Provisioning orchestrates a fully automated process to provision clouds based on Amazon EC2 or VMware in minutes. ServiceNow Change Management then allows the definition and enforcement of change policies for full change control.
- Eliminate VM sprawl. Through lifecycle automation, resources can be leased and include retirement provisions or scheduled reviews to determine necessity, thereby eliminating the common problem of virtual machine sprawl and optimizing utilization of virtual infrastructure.
- Visibility to cloud operations. The cloud operations portal provides a consolidated view of virtual asset status, the state of resource requests and provisioning exceptions.
“IT organizations that implement extensive automation and orchestration technologies can significantly improve operational productivity and end-to-end service levels,” said Mary Johnson Turner, research vice president, Enterprise Systems Management Software, IDC. “A consistent user interface that is tightly integrated with the cloud provisioning workflow automation engine is a critical enabler in helping IT to improve business performance across the enterprise.”
This week at Knowledge13, the largest gathering of IT professionals using cloud services for enterprise IT service automation, ServiceNow is offering sessions, labs and demos dedicated to ServiceNow Cloud Provisioning and orchestration applications. In addition, ServiceNow expects to provision approximately 16,000 ServiceNow instances at the event using ServiceNow Orchestration.
Availability
The ServiceNow Cloud Provisioning application is available today. For more information, please go to http://www.servicenow.com/cloud-provisioning.do.
Devon IT to Feature New Thin Clients, Software at Citrix Synergy 2013
Devon IT, Inc., a leading provider of thin client and VDI hardware
and software solutions, today announced it will feature its newest
HDX Ready thin clients, thin client operating system and thin
client management software in Devon IT booth #304. The event will
be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Los Angeles, CA, from
May 22 – 24, 2013.
Citrix Synergy brings together thought leaders in desktop and server virtualization, server-based computing, cloud computing, and virtual desktop computing. Devon IT will demonstrate the recently available high-powered ARM-based Acer Veriton N2010G thin client running DeTOS and the Acer Veriton N2110G thin client built with AMD’s Dual Core G-T56N 1.6 GHz Processor with AMD Radeon HD 6320 Graphics processor.
The company will also feature its newest innovative zero client that will be available for demonstration for the first time in public. The zero client will be expected to sell for under $100.
“There’s no question that the virtual desktop market is growing, a trend that is fueled by collaboration between IT thought leaders like Citrix and Devon IT,” says Joe Makoid, President, Devon IT. “New, more powerful thin client technology such as the N2010G thin client coupled with advanced software like Citrix HDX significantly expands the opportunities for IT administrators and organizations that need to do more with less. We are excited to share our ideas with other industry leaders at Synergy.”
The Devon IT team will be holding media-only demonstrations in their booth at various times throughout the event.
For more information about virtual desktop hardware and software solutions or to schedule a private demonstration, email info@devonit.com or call (610) 757-4220 or toll-free at (888) 524-9382. For more information about Devon IT DeTOS, Echo, and VDI Blaster, please visit www.devonit.com/software.
Citrix Synergy brings together thought leaders in desktop and server virtualization, server-based computing, cloud computing, and virtual desktop computing. Devon IT will demonstrate the recently available high-powered ARM-based Acer Veriton N2010G thin client running DeTOS and the Acer Veriton N2110G thin client built with AMD’s Dual Core G-T56N 1.6 GHz Processor with AMD Radeon HD 6320 Graphics processor.
The company will also feature its newest innovative zero client that will be available for demonstration for the first time in public. The zero client will be expected to sell for under $100.
“There’s no question that the virtual desktop market is growing, a trend that is fueled by collaboration between IT thought leaders like Citrix and Devon IT,” says Joe Makoid, President, Devon IT. “New, more powerful thin client technology such as the N2010G thin client coupled with advanced software like Citrix HDX significantly expands the opportunities for IT administrators and organizations that need to do more with less. We are excited to share our ideas with other industry leaders at Synergy.”
The Devon IT team will be holding media-only demonstrations in their booth at various times throughout the event.
For more information about virtual desktop hardware and software solutions or to schedule a private demonstration, email info@devonit.com or call (610) 757-4220 or toll-free at (888) 524-9382. For more information about Devon IT DeTOS, Echo, and VDI Blaster, please visit www.devonit.com/software.
VMTurbo Launches Virtual Health Monitor – Free, Unlimited, and On Any Hypervisor
VMTurbo, the leading provider of software-defined control
for cloud and virtualized environments, today announced the
availability of their Virtual Health Monitor tool for free download at www.vmturbo.com/freehealthmonitor.
This free tool is an evolution of the Community Edition of the
company’s Operations Management product and adds additional
insight to risk and efficiency improvements that should be made in
environments running the solution.
“As more organizations expand their use of virtualization to include different hypervisors and more applications being run in VMs, new performance challenges are arising. While this shared resource model improves utilization, it also increases the likelihood for interference and resource contention across workloads and applications,” said Derek Slayton, vice president of marketing at VMTurbo. “Monitoring and reporting are important capabilities to understand health and performance in the environment, and they should be fundamental and free on any hypervisor. Our tool focuses on delivering that in an unlimited fashion across any hypervisor with instant time-to-value – and providing unique insights to risk and efficiency improvements that should be made to our users.”
VMTurbo's Virtual Health Monitor provides full-featured monitoring and reporting in an unlimited fashion across vSphere, Hyper-V, XenServer and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. In addition, the solution collects metrics and, on a weekly basis, provides insight to risk and efficiency issues identified across the environment. VMTurbo's free monitoring and reporting tool is a stepping stone to its full-featured control system for cloud and virtualized data centers, VMTurbo Operations Manager. With Operations Manager, organizations significantly reduce the time spent reviewing and interpreting dashboard data, troubleshooting, and trial-and-error remediation of performance problems since it automatically maintains the environment in a perpetually healthy state. The solution automates decisions for resource allocation and workload placement in software to ensure applications get the resources required while maximizing utilization of IT assets.
Key features of VMTurbo Virtual Health Monitor include:
“As more organizations expand their use of virtualization to include different hypervisors and more applications being run in VMs, new performance challenges are arising. While this shared resource model improves utilization, it also increases the likelihood for interference and resource contention across workloads and applications,” said Derek Slayton, vice president of marketing at VMTurbo. “Monitoring and reporting are important capabilities to understand health and performance in the environment, and they should be fundamental and free on any hypervisor. Our tool focuses on delivering that in an unlimited fashion across any hypervisor with instant time-to-value – and providing unique insights to risk and efficiency improvements that should be made to our users.”
VMTurbo's Virtual Health Monitor provides full-featured monitoring and reporting in an unlimited fashion across vSphere, Hyper-V, XenServer and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. In addition, the solution collects metrics and, on a weekly basis, provides insight to risk and efficiency issues identified across the environment. VMTurbo's free monitoring and reporting tool is a stepping stone to its full-featured control system for cloud and virtualized data centers, VMTurbo Operations Manager. With Operations Manager, organizations significantly reduce the time spent reviewing and interpreting dashboard data, troubleshooting, and trial-and-error remediation of performance problems since it automatically maintains the environment in a perpetually healthy state. The solution automates decisions for resource allocation and workload placement in software to ensure applications get the resources required while maximizing utilization of IT assets.
Key features of VMTurbo Virtual Health Monitor include:
- Instant visibility to health and performance;
- Unlimited use across virtual data centers of any size;
- Free monitoring and reporting for any hypervisor;
- Lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) due to innovative product architecture;
- Weekly analysis of utilization rates and areas to improve efficiency and reduce risk.
Scale Computing Announces HC3x, Built for Private Cloud
Scale Computing, the industry leading developers of hyperconverged
solutions that seamlessly combine servers, storage and
virtualization into a single system, today announced the addition
of the HC3x extension of its award-winning HC3 platform.
HC3 Platform
The HC3x platform combines servers, storage and virtualization into a clustered, highly available solution analysts call hyperconverged. Built for midsize companies from the ground up, HC3x eliminates the need for expensive licenses and complex systems such as VMware and SANs from virtualized environments. As a result the deployment is radically simplified while delivering a single, scale-out environment with built in high availability. In a lab report, industry analyst Taneja Group reports "we measured deployment and configuration of HC3 as 10 minutes to set up a hardware cluster, and 2 minutes to deploy the first VMs."
“HC3 is all about utilizing our ICOS technology to radically simplify infrastructure management. We deliver a self-healing platform that takes the headache out of infrastructure management,” said Jason Collier, the company’s CTO. “With the new HC3x platform, we’re able to extend the Scale HC3 experience into even the most demanding environments.”
HC3x
HC3x, an extension of the HC3 platform, is a powerful system with twice the memory per node, 50% more compute cores and fast SAS drive technology. It allows for roughly double the VMs per node over the existing HC3 line and is targeted at customers with 50-200 VMs in their environment, who are looking to realize the benefits and efficiencies of private cloud. It includes the latest release of ICOS 4.2, the operating system for the HC3 product lines. ICOS 4.2 adds support for VLANs and multiple virtual NICs per VM.
Affordably Priced
Starting at under $25,500 for a three-node cluster, HC3 platform is ideal for organizations looking to achieve the efficiencies of virtualization but don’t want the complexities and cost of VMware. With no virtualization software to license or manage, no external storage to buy and a built in hypervisor, HC3 lowers TCO and radically simplifies the infrastructure needed to keep applications running. HC3 makes the deployment and management of a highly available and scalable infrastructure as easy to manage as a single server. HC3x prices start at under $37,500 for a three-node cluster.
HC3 Platform
The HC3x platform combines servers, storage and virtualization into a clustered, highly available solution analysts call hyperconverged. Built for midsize companies from the ground up, HC3x eliminates the need for expensive licenses and complex systems such as VMware and SANs from virtualized environments. As a result the deployment is radically simplified while delivering a single, scale-out environment with built in high availability. In a lab report, industry analyst Taneja Group reports "we measured deployment and configuration of HC3 as 10 minutes to set up a hardware cluster, and 2 minutes to deploy the first VMs."
“HC3 is all about utilizing our ICOS technology to radically simplify infrastructure management. We deliver a self-healing platform that takes the headache out of infrastructure management,” said Jason Collier, the company’s CTO. “With the new HC3x platform, we’re able to extend the Scale HC3 experience into even the most demanding environments.”
HC3x
HC3x, an extension of the HC3 platform, is a powerful system with twice the memory per node, 50% more compute cores and fast SAS drive technology. It allows for roughly double the VMs per node over the existing HC3 line and is targeted at customers with 50-200 VMs in their environment, who are looking to realize the benefits and efficiencies of private cloud. It includes the latest release of ICOS 4.2, the operating system for the HC3 product lines. ICOS 4.2 adds support for VLANs and multiple virtual NICs per VM.
Affordably Priced
Starting at under $25,500 for a three-node cluster, HC3 platform is ideal for organizations looking to achieve the efficiencies of virtualization but don’t want the complexities and cost of VMware. With no virtualization software to license or manage, no external storage to buy and a built in hypervisor, HC3 lowers TCO and radically simplifies the infrastructure needed to keep applications running. HC3 makes the deployment and management of a highly available and scalable infrastructure as easy to manage as a single server. HC3x prices start at under $37,500 for a three-node cluster.
HybridCluster2.0 self-healing, ultra-high availability capabilities unveiled
Following the recent highly successful launch of version 2.0 of its integrated
suite of storage, replication and web clustering software, HybridCluster, an
early stage software solution provider to the cloud and hosting industry, today
unveils full details of the ultra-high availability platform within
HybridCluster 2.0.
As standard functionality of HybridCluster 2.0, the ‘Self-Healing' ultra-high availability platform has been designed from the ground-up to automatically recover when data centre hardware, software, networks or even entire regions fail. It does this using automatic backups and snapshots that are taken every few minutes and distributed across all the machines, combined with the automatic migration of websites and applications between all machines.
"Our self-healing platform enables hosting organisations to launch highly profitable HA services to their clients at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions," said Luke Marsden, HybridCluster's CEO and founder. "We dramatically reduce both capex and opex: our clustering software utilises low-cost hardware driving capex down and we fully automate the recovery processes when a server or site goes down".
HybridCluster Self-Healing also transforms the normal concept of a backup/recovery regime for hosting businesses. Rather than taking daily or hourly backups with a separate backup application and using this as the primary means of recovery from a disk or server failure, HybridCluster self-healing continuously and automatically replicates data across machines and fully automates failover/recovery procedures between machines in a cluster and across clusters.
"Using HybridCluster self-healing HA clusters helps us recover from failures automatically and seamlessly rather than relying on a patchwork of monitors, scripts, and manual procedures." stated HybridCluster customer, David Kirkham, Managing Director at Beyond Colour, a creative marketing agency based in York in the UK who have been hosting their own dedicated servers providing solutions for individuals to enterprise customers across Europe for over 15-years.
HybridCluster Self-Healing provides fully automated recovery from site, server, network or disk failures - and measured in seconds and minutes rather than hours and days.
"Cloud and web hosting companies live in fear of data centre outages, which frequently result in damaging their margins and reputation," stated Ben Kepes, technology evangelist, commentator and HybridCluster investor and advisor. "With HybridCluster's high-availability platform, hosters can provide ultra-high availability web applications, databases and email at a fraction of the cost and time of competitive systems."
HybridCluster 2.0 is available immediately to cloud and web hosting service providers. Cloud and hosting service providers can visit www.HybridCluster.com to sign up for a trial. Visitors to HostingCon in Austin, Texas, from June 17 to 19, can see HybridCluster in action on the exhibit floor at exhibit #723 as well as see HybridCluster's CEO, Luke Marsden, first up on the Tech Track on the conference agenda.
As standard functionality of HybridCluster 2.0, the ‘Self-Healing' ultra-high availability platform has been designed from the ground-up to automatically recover when data centre hardware, software, networks or even entire regions fail. It does this using automatic backups and snapshots that are taken every few minutes and distributed across all the machines, combined with the automatic migration of websites and applications between all machines.
"Our self-healing platform enables hosting organisations to launch highly profitable HA services to their clients at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions," said Luke Marsden, HybridCluster's CEO and founder. "We dramatically reduce both capex and opex: our clustering software utilises low-cost hardware driving capex down and we fully automate the recovery processes when a server or site goes down".
HybridCluster Self-Healing also transforms the normal concept of a backup/recovery regime for hosting businesses. Rather than taking daily or hourly backups with a separate backup application and using this as the primary means of recovery from a disk or server failure, HybridCluster self-healing continuously and automatically replicates data across machines and fully automates failover/recovery procedures between machines in a cluster and across clusters.
"Using HybridCluster self-healing HA clusters helps us recover from failures automatically and seamlessly rather than relying on a patchwork of monitors, scripts, and manual procedures." stated HybridCluster customer, David Kirkham, Managing Director at Beyond Colour, a creative marketing agency based in York in the UK who have been hosting their own dedicated servers providing solutions for individuals to enterprise customers across Europe for over 15-years.
HybridCluster Self-Healing provides fully automated recovery from site, server, network or disk failures - and measured in seconds and minutes rather than hours and days.
"Cloud and web hosting companies live in fear of data centre outages, which frequently result in damaging their margins and reputation," stated Ben Kepes, technology evangelist, commentator and HybridCluster investor and advisor. "With HybridCluster's high-availability platform, hosters can provide ultra-high availability web applications, databases and email at a fraction of the cost and time of competitive systems."
HybridCluster 2.0 is available immediately to cloud and web hosting service providers. Cloud and hosting service providers can visit www.HybridCluster.com to sign up for a trial. Visitors to HostingCon in Austin, Texas, from June 17 to 19, can see HybridCluster in action on the exhibit floor at exhibit #723 as well as see HybridCluster's CEO, Luke Marsden, first up on the Tech Track on the conference agenda.
IGEL turbocharges best selling UD5 and UD3 thin clients with Dual Core processors increasing performance up to 40%
IGEL Technology today met desktop requirements for increased broadband
efficiency and computing power head on with its latest generation of UD5 and UD3
thin clients.
The new UD5 Dual Core can readily handle resource-intensive tasks such as decoding multimedia content. At the same time, it's more energy efficient than ever. In keeping with the well-proven Universal Desktop concept, the new top-of-the-line model also supports all popular communications protocols such as Citrix HDX, PCoIP and Microsoft RemoteFX.
Based on Intel's Sandy Bridge chipset technology, which is also used in today's more powerful notebooks, an Intel Celeron 847 dual-core CPU is at the heart of the UD5 Dual Core model series. In addition, 1 GB of main memory (DDR3 RAM) and up to 2 GB of flash memory (in the form of a SATA SSD) ensures fast signal processing. The newly improved UD5 also boasts upgraded hardware (including two fast USB 3.0 ports) that will be particularly beneficial when it comes to desktop virtualization. For instance, to accelerate multimedia playback on the hardware side, flash animations and other video files can be redirected from the server over to the thin client, which then locally decodes the content and plays it back smoothly and seamlessly. This highly effective multimedia redirection allows the new UD5 to conserve server resources while also offering users the best-possible playback experience.
Old and New Strengths Combined Just like its predecessor, the new UD5 Dual Core comes with a large number of standard ports for peripherals. Standard features include one PS/2 port, two serial ports, one PCIe slot and a total of six USB ports (2 x USB 3.0, 4 x USB 2.0). Furthermore, an integrated smartcard reader is optionally available as are two versions of IGEL's connectivity foot: one with an integrated WLAN module and an additional parallel port and another with an anti-theft USB port within the foot itself. The UD5 Dual Core also comes standard with dualview support, featuring a DVI and a display port allowing simultaneous use of two digital monitors.
With its excellent multimedia capabilities, there are practically no limits to where the new, high-performance UD5 can be deployed. The UD5 Dual Core is also exceptionally well suited for multi-screen workstations or as an end-user device in education, where it can easily meet the need for full-screen HD video playback or the delivery of complex graphical content, such as Aero interface effects, PowerPoint presentations or flash animations within efficient cloud environments.
IGEL UD3 Gets 20% Plus Boost In terms of performance, the fourth generation of the IGEL UD3 surpasses even the top-of-the-range UD5 single core models. The VIA Eden X2 dual core processor with the VIA VX900 chip set speeds up the ultra compact all-round thin client by over 20%. The new CPU is backed up by up to 2 GB of DDR3 RAM and up to 4 GB of flash storage in the form of an SATA SSD. Further highlights include Dualview with two digital monitors (max. resolution: 1,920 x 1,200 pixels) as well as USB 3.0 at two of the six USB ports. With the new UD3 dual core, IGEL is making the transition to the world of cloud hosted applications and virtual desktops more attractive and future-proof than ever before, combining improved multimedia capabilities and greater energy efficiency at a low price.
As with all IGEL devices, both new models come with the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS), the leading remote management software system within the sector. The UMS allows standardized and secure remote management as well as fast rollouts of IGEL Universal Desktops, converted PCs and selected thin clients from other manufacturers.
"Our incorporation of the very latest hardware components makes our best selling models even more powerful," said Simon Richards, IGEL's UK MD. "For our customers, this means greater freedom in deciding how to implement complex virtualization projects while, at the same, being able to enjoy all the proven benefits of thin clients along with IGEL's outstanding quality."
Prices and Availability The IGEL UD5-740 LX with IGEL Linux will cost £414; the IGEL UD5-740 W7 with Windows Embedded 7 will cost £475. Both devices will be officially available from May 16.
The IGEL UD3-740 LX with IGEL Linux is available for £329, while the IGEL UD3-740 W7 with Windows Embedded 7 costs £429 in the Advanced version. Both devices will be available from May 27.
All prices are net end-customer retail prices. IGEL offers a five-year warranty. The IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) remote management software comes supplied as standard.
The new UD5 Dual Core can readily handle resource-intensive tasks such as decoding multimedia content. At the same time, it's more energy efficient than ever. In keeping with the well-proven Universal Desktop concept, the new top-of-the-line model also supports all popular communications protocols such as Citrix HDX, PCoIP and Microsoft RemoteFX.
Based on Intel's Sandy Bridge chipset technology, which is also used in today's more powerful notebooks, an Intel Celeron 847 dual-core CPU is at the heart of the UD5 Dual Core model series. In addition, 1 GB of main memory (DDR3 RAM) and up to 2 GB of flash memory (in the form of a SATA SSD) ensures fast signal processing. The newly improved UD5 also boasts upgraded hardware (including two fast USB 3.0 ports) that will be particularly beneficial when it comes to desktop virtualization. For instance, to accelerate multimedia playback on the hardware side, flash animations and other video files can be redirected from the server over to the thin client, which then locally decodes the content and plays it back smoothly and seamlessly. This highly effective multimedia redirection allows the new UD5 to conserve server resources while also offering users the best-possible playback experience.
Old and New Strengths Combined Just like its predecessor, the new UD5 Dual Core comes with a large number of standard ports for peripherals. Standard features include one PS/2 port, two serial ports, one PCIe slot and a total of six USB ports (2 x USB 3.0, 4 x USB 2.0). Furthermore, an integrated smartcard reader is optionally available as are two versions of IGEL's connectivity foot: one with an integrated WLAN module and an additional parallel port and another with an anti-theft USB port within the foot itself. The UD5 Dual Core also comes standard with dualview support, featuring a DVI and a display port allowing simultaneous use of two digital monitors.
With its excellent multimedia capabilities, there are practically no limits to where the new, high-performance UD5 can be deployed. The UD5 Dual Core is also exceptionally well suited for multi-screen workstations or as an end-user device in education, where it can easily meet the need for full-screen HD video playback or the delivery of complex graphical content, such as Aero interface effects, PowerPoint presentations or flash animations within efficient cloud environments.
IGEL UD3 Gets 20% Plus Boost In terms of performance, the fourth generation of the IGEL UD3 surpasses even the top-of-the-range UD5 single core models. The VIA Eden X2 dual core processor with the VIA VX900 chip set speeds up the ultra compact all-round thin client by over 20%. The new CPU is backed up by up to 2 GB of DDR3 RAM and up to 4 GB of flash storage in the form of an SATA SSD. Further highlights include Dualview with two digital monitors (max. resolution: 1,920 x 1,200 pixels) as well as USB 3.0 at two of the six USB ports. With the new UD3 dual core, IGEL is making the transition to the world of cloud hosted applications and virtual desktops more attractive and future-proof than ever before, combining improved multimedia capabilities and greater energy efficiency at a low price.
As with all IGEL devices, both new models come with the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS), the leading remote management software system within the sector. The UMS allows standardized and secure remote management as well as fast rollouts of IGEL Universal Desktops, converted PCs and selected thin clients from other manufacturers.
"Our incorporation of the very latest hardware components makes our best selling models even more powerful," said Simon Richards, IGEL's UK MD. "For our customers, this means greater freedom in deciding how to implement complex virtualization projects while, at the same, being able to enjoy all the proven benefits of thin clients along with IGEL's outstanding quality."
Prices and Availability The IGEL UD5-740 LX with IGEL Linux will cost £414; the IGEL UD5-740 W7 with Windows Embedded 7 will cost £475. Both devices will be officially available from May 16.
The IGEL UD3-740 LX with IGEL Linux is available for £329, while the IGEL UD3-740 W7 with Windows Embedded 7 costs £429 in the Advanced version. Both devices will be available from May 27.
All prices are net end-customer retail prices. IGEL offers a five-year warranty. The IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) remote management software comes supplied as standard.
CloudBees Buzzes With Growth, Launches European Sales And Marketing Operations In Brussels To Drive Even Greater Growth In 2013
CloudBees, Inc.,
the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced a new
office in Brussels, Belgium as well as another record-setting quarter in Q1 2013
of new account acquisition and revenue growth. In 2012, CloudBees' business
increased by 350 percent. That success, along with an expanded presence in
Europe, will lay the foundation for even greater growth in 2013.
CloudBees is increasing the size of its European operations by investing in top local talent in Europe, beginning with Michel Goossens, vice president of worldwide sales, who was hired in 2012. Since the opening of the Brussels office in early 2013, the office has expanded rapidly, becoming the hub for European sales, marketing and business development. The new office joins existing CloudBees offices in Boston and San Francisco.
The demand for the CloudBees PaaS continues to grow as an increasing number of users realise they can use it to significantly accelerate the delivery of web and mobile applications. In 2012, the number of new CloudBees accounts grew over 150 percent over 2011. In the first quarter of 2013, CloudBees saw an increase of about 220 percent in new account subscriptions, versus the same period in 2012. The growth in new accounts shows the widespread adoption of PaaS, as more and more organisations seek to accelerate time to market, increase developer productivity and lower IT costs.
Analyst firm Gartner estimates that worldwide PaaS revenue may have reached $1.2 billion in 2012, up from $900 million in 2011. Gartner projects that the PaaS market will experience ongoing growth, with worldwide PaaS revenues totaling $1.5 billion in 2013, and growing to $2.9 billion in 2016.
"We are seeing rapid growth for our platform. CloudBees' revenue more than tripled in 2012 and the momentum has continued in the first quarter of 2013, fueling our European expansion. We expect an even more dramatic increase in 2013, given the market demand for cloud services provided by CloudBees" said Sacha Labourey, founder and CEO, CloudBees. "CloudBees is uniquely positioned to offer our customers the productivity boost and innovation provided by the cloud, with the ability to co-exist with on-premise IT systems. Next-generation web and mobile applications can be developed on the CloudBees Platform and securely access on-premise legacy back-end systems, as needed. This is the best of both worlds - accelerated innovation in the cloud without disruption of existing, on-premise IT infrastructure. Companies such as Bullhorn, ARTstor and VX Company are great examples of this dual leverage of cloud innovation and on-premise legacy operation."
The CloudBees Partner Ecosystem continues to expand, experiencing 300 percent growth in the number of new Ecosystem Partners added in 2012, over 2011. The CloudBees Ecosystem includes Technology Partners and Services Partners. Technology Partners provide an extensive variety of best-of-breed hosted services such as application testing, performance monitoring, log management, mail and database service providers, among others. The CloudBees Services Partner program was launched in 2012 and now includes 20 partners throughout Europe and North America. Services Partners deliver IT services to their customers utilising the CloudBees Platform to lead or augment in-house development projects. In the first quarter of 2013, CloudBees added almost half of the total number of partnerships added in all of 2012, including partners such as Cloud Foundry and SOASTA.
To support its European expansion, CloudBees has also extended its standard public cloud offering to include Amazon Web Services/EU West. Building on its commitment to AWS, CloudBees now offers European customers the ability to run on European infrastructure, enabling them to fully leverage AWS's extensive cloud-based technology and infrastructure.
"European users can run their applications on AWS EU West in both multi-tenanted and dedicated configurations, enabling them to comply with European regulations and reduce application latency," stated Michel Goossens, vice president of worldwide sales, CloudBees. "Further, the new Brussels office will drive continuing demand for CloudBees services throughout Europe by providing a local presence for our customers."
CloudBees is increasing the size of its European operations by investing in top local talent in Europe, beginning with Michel Goossens, vice president of worldwide sales, who was hired in 2012. Since the opening of the Brussels office in early 2013, the office has expanded rapidly, becoming the hub for European sales, marketing and business development. The new office joins existing CloudBees offices in Boston and San Francisco.
The demand for the CloudBees PaaS continues to grow as an increasing number of users realise they can use it to significantly accelerate the delivery of web and mobile applications. In 2012, the number of new CloudBees accounts grew over 150 percent over 2011. In the first quarter of 2013, CloudBees saw an increase of about 220 percent in new account subscriptions, versus the same period in 2012. The growth in new accounts shows the widespread adoption of PaaS, as more and more organisations seek to accelerate time to market, increase developer productivity and lower IT costs.
Analyst firm Gartner estimates that worldwide PaaS revenue may have reached $1.2 billion in 2012, up from $900 million in 2011. Gartner projects that the PaaS market will experience ongoing growth, with worldwide PaaS revenues totaling $1.5 billion in 2013, and growing to $2.9 billion in 2016.
"We are seeing rapid growth for our platform. CloudBees' revenue more than tripled in 2012 and the momentum has continued in the first quarter of 2013, fueling our European expansion. We expect an even more dramatic increase in 2013, given the market demand for cloud services provided by CloudBees" said Sacha Labourey, founder and CEO, CloudBees. "CloudBees is uniquely positioned to offer our customers the productivity boost and innovation provided by the cloud, with the ability to co-exist with on-premise IT systems. Next-generation web and mobile applications can be developed on the CloudBees Platform and securely access on-premise legacy back-end systems, as needed. This is the best of both worlds - accelerated innovation in the cloud without disruption of existing, on-premise IT infrastructure. Companies such as Bullhorn, ARTstor and VX Company are great examples of this dual leverage of cloud innovation and on-premise legacy operation."
The CloudBees Partner Ecosystem continues to expand, experiencing 300 percent growth in the number of new Ecosystem Partners added in 2012, over 2011. The CloudBees Ecosystem includes Technology Partners and Services Partners. Technology Partners provide an extensive variety of best-of-breed hosted services such as application testing, performance monitoring, log management, mail and database service providers, among others. The CloudBees Services Partner program was launched in 2012 and now includes 20 partners throughout Europe and North America. Services Partners deliver IT services to their customers utilising the CloudBees Platform to lead or augment in-house development projects. In the first quarter of 2013, CloudBees added almost half of the total number of partnerships added in all of 2012, including partners such as Cloud Foundry and SOASTA.
To support its European expansion, CloudBees has also extended its standard public cloud offering to include Amazon Web Services/EU West. Building on its commitment to AWS, CloudBees now offers European customers the ability to run on European infrastructure, enabling them to fully leverage AWS's extensive cloud-based technology and infrastructure.
"European users can run their applications on AWS EU West in both multi-tenanted and dedicated configurations, enabling them to comply with European regulations and reduce application latency," stated Michel Goossens, vice president of worldwide sales, CloudBees. "Further, the new Brussels office will drive continuing demand for CloudBees services throughout Europe by providing a local presence for our customers."
Q&A: Interview with HotLink, Talking Hybrid IT and Cloud Management Solutions
Three years ago, HotLink jumped into the scene with a new way of
managing hybrid virtualization environments. The company launched out
of stealth mode with a mission to simplify IT
management complexity with its transformation platform for
heterogeneous and hybrid computing infrastructures. And if you've been
following the company, you'll know they've expanded their coverage from
virtualization into the cloud.
VMblog recently sat down for an interview with Lynn LeBlanc, the company's CEO and founder, to find out more.
VMblog: Can you provide readers with a little background on HotLink? How did the company start? What is the company's focus within the virtualization and cloud management industry?
Lynn LeBlanc: HotLink was started in 2010 with a mission to dramatically simplify the management of heterogeneous and hybrid virtual environments. The fundamental idea was to build the core technologies that enable existing virtualization management consoles, originally designed for specific hypervisors, to natively support other virtual infrastructures and allow the identical administration and management capabilities to be extended cross-platform. This is exactly what we have done. HotLink solutions provide the industry's simplest, most robust, flexible, agile and affordable method to manage disparate resources, both on- and off-premise -- fully eliminating the complexity associated with deploying and operating multiple management platforms.
VMblog: Recently, you launched a new version of the hybrid IT management solution, HotLink Hybrid Express. Could you provide us with a few details on this announcement?
LeBlanc: Originally launched at VMworld 2012, HotLink Hybrid Express is the award-winning management plug-in that extends VMware vCenter to natively support Amazon EC2 resources, allowing IT to deploy, administer and manage public cloud accounts and instances seamlessly alongside on-premise hosts and virtual machines. The recent version of HotLink Hybrid Express, launched in April, provides that same Amazon EC2 plug-in capability for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) users. Now Microsoft-centric IT shops can easily administer and manage Amazon resources in a unified pool with Hyper-V, using the same console they use today and with the same level of robustness and granularity used to manage on-premise virtual machines. Best of all, we also announced new free editions of the HotLink Hybrid Express technology for both VMware and Microsoft environments.
VMblog: Who uses hybrid cloud management solutions? And what are some of the challenges they face?
LeBlanc: Business units, engineering teams, individual developers and remote sites are frequently utilizing public cloud resources to augment or replace on-premise computing resources. With very low financial barriers to accessing a broad menu of capabilities, end users have independently and aggressively embraced public cloud services, like Amazon Web Services (AWS), at a lower budgetary cost and much more quickly than if the same resources were procured from corporate IT. In the interest of innovation and time to market, most enterprises look the other way until one of several things happen: (1) the aggregate costs become large and finance takes notice, (2) the expense volatility sounds a budget alarm or (3) a security or compliance breach becomes publically visible. At this point, hybrid IT management usually becomes an enterprise priority. However, hybrid management projects have historically involved integrating tools that aren't designed to work together, rebuilding scripts and templates, new workflows, creating service catalogs, managing multiple databases and consoles, significant professional services engagement and challenging economics. Many vendors refer to this as a "journey to cloud."
VMblog: What's unique about HotLink's approach to hybrid IT management? And how would a company use HotLink Hybrid Express to manage its hybrid cloud environment?
LeBlanc: HotLink Hybrid Express is the only solution to natively extend on-premise virtualization management consoles to public cloud resources like Amazon EC2. HotLink's patent-pending transformation technology abstracts public cloud platforms and workloads so on-premise management consoles, including VMware vCenter and Microsoft SCVMM, treat them just like on-premise hosts and virtual machines - fully integrated and managed as a unified pool of resources without the need for separate management consoles or complex integration projects. Customers can implement hybrid clouds in just a few hours as opposed to weeks or months.
HotLink Hybrid Express is not another console; it is a simple, intuitive plug-in that uses the existing administration and management infrastructure of VMware vCenter or Microsoft SCVMM -- full featured, not just a basic set of overlay operations. With HotLink Hybrid Express, IT can administer, clone, snapshot and migrate cloud instances in the same way as on-premise virtual machines, utilizing the same management infrastructure and techniques across hybrid resources. Administrators administer manage all resources, both on-and off-premise as a unified pool, represented in a single inventory tree -- Amazon EC2 accounts and instances are treated just like on-premise hosts and VMs. HotLink's integrated, bi-directional workload conversion enables seamless migration to and from Amazon EC2, and users can even deploy cloud instances from existing on-premise templates. Because HotLink Hybrid Express is a plug-in technology, users have the familiar deployment and management interface of on-premise, with hybrid cloud flexibility and agility.
VMblog: So tell us, why did HotLink decide to focus on Amazon EC2? And will you be extending support to additional public cloud platforms in the future?
LeBlanc: We chose to focus on AWS because of its dominant market position and the level of customer demand, particularly in the enterprise. We will continue to announce support for additional public cloud platforms as other providers secure larger market footprints, increase enterprise deployments and drive customer requests.
VMblog: Shadow IT is a growing concern for many enterprises. What are the main issues you hear about? And how can corporate IT leverage HotLink technology to address the shadow IT problem?
LeBlanc: Enterprise business units and developers looking for agility and speed are broadly turning to public cloud platforms like AWS to avoid the typically laborious and protracted corporate process to procure internal IT resources. In fact, the ease with which public cloud resources can be accessed has led to broad proliferation of loosely managed or unmanaged Amazon EC2 accounts in many enterprises. Non-IT professionals are often building out sizable computing environments that are outside of any management controls and are completely non-standard with respect to procedures that corporate IT follows to ensure enterprise-compliant computing. While IT processes may seem bureaucratic and slow to hard-charging and independent business units, oversight and reasonable standards play an important role in the effective and responsible use of public cloud in the enterprise. The problem is, end users typically do not have the tools or the IT experience to operate sizable compute infrastructures.
HotLink Hybrid Express provides a very simple approach for corporate IT to extend existing on-premise virtual infrastructure management capabilities to these distributed Amazon resources and also provide an easy on-ramp for new Amazon users. In less than three hours, existing on-premise virtualization management platforms such as VMware vCenter and Microsoft SCVMM can be extended to support public cloud accounts and instances.
This allows IT to leverage existing infrastructure and processes built around the on-premise virtualized resources for public cloud services without building out disparate management infrastructure. End users have the independence and flexibility that lures them to AWS in the first place, but workloads are deployed with enterprise-appropriate management and standards. Existing on-premise virtualization management is very rich in capabilities for monitoring, tracking, reporting and many other capabilities from which end user management can significantly benefit to keep public cloud costs low and their budget in check. In this way, both corporate IT and end users benefit from a holistic approach to hybrid management
.
VMblog: HotLink recently launched a free edition of Hybrid Express. What's included in that product? And is it a trial or is it really a free version?
LeBlanc: The free version of HotLink Hybrid Express is the full-featured edition of HotLink's enterprise product, which provides the ability to deploy, administer and manage Amazon EC2 instances with VMware vCenter or Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. The free edition supports up to 10 simultaneously powered-on Amazon EC2 instances. If companies need to manage additional instances, they can easily upgrade to a larger, fee-based configuration. The free version is designed to allow companies to immediately benefit from the HotLink capabilities of hybrid administration and management and see how easy it is to extend their on-premise management to Amazon.
At the HotLink website (www.hotlink.com), potential users can sign up for HotLink Hybrid Express webinars, download white papers, and see videos of the technology. Anyone interested in downloading the free HotLink Hybrid Express can find the links on the "Technology" tab of the site.
VMblog: And finally, what can we expect from HotLink in the future regarding hybrid cloud management?
LeBlanc: HotLink will continue to expand the number of management plug-ins we offer as well as the public clouds we support. We will also have some very exciting hybrid IT announcements in August, right before VMworld. In the meantime, everyone should try the new free edition of HotLink Hybrid Express and let us know if you like it!
VMblog recently sat down for an interview with Lynn LeBlanc, the company's CEO and founder, to find out more.
VMblog: Can you provide readers with a little background on HotLink? How did the company start? What is the company's focus within the virtualization and cloud management industry?
Lynn LeBlanc: HotLink was started in 2010 with a mission to dramatically simplify the management of heterogeneous and hybrid virtual environments. The fundamental idea was to build the core technologies that enable existing virtualization management consoles, originally designed for specific hypervisors, to natively support other virtual infrastructures and allow the identical administration and management capabilities to be extended cross-platform. This is exactly what we have done. HotLink solutions provide the industry's simplest, most robust, flexible, agile and affordable method to manage disparate resources, both on- and off-premise -- fully eliminating the complexity associated with deploying and operating multiple management platforms.
VMblog: Recently, you launched a new version of the hybrid IT management solution, HotLink Hybrid Express. Could you provide us with a few details on this announcement?
LeBlanc: Originally launched at VMworld 2012, HotLink Hybrid Express is the award-winning management plug-in that extends VMware vCenter to natively support Amazon EC2 resources, allowing IT to deploy, administer and manage public cloud accounts and instances seamlessly alongside on-premise hosts and virtual machines. The recent version of HotLink Hybrid Express, launched in April, provides that same Amazon EC2 plug-in capability for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) users. Now Microsoft-centric IT shops can easily administer and manage Amazon resources in a unified pool with Hyper-V, using the same console they use today and with the same level of robustness and granularity used to manage on-premise virtual machines. Best of all, we also announced new free editions of the HotLink Hybrid Express technology for both VMware and Microsoft environments.
VMblog: Who uses hybrid cloud management solutions? And what are some of the challenges they face?
LeBlanc: Business units, engineering teams, individual developers and remote sites are frequently utilizing public cloud resources to augment or replace on-premise computing resources. With very low financial barriers to accessing a broad menu of capabilities, end users have independently and aggressively embraced public cloud services, like Amazon Web Services (AWS), at a lower budgetary cost and much more quickly than if the same resources were procured from corporate IT. In the interest of innovation and time to market, most enterprises look the other way until one of several things happen: (1) the aggregate costs become large and finance takes notice, (2) the expense volatility sounds a budget alarm or (3) a security or compliance breach becomes publically visible. At this point, hybrid IT management usually becomes an enterprise priority. However, hybrid management projects have historically involved integrating tools that aren't designed to work together, rebuilding scripts and templates, new workflows, creating service catalogs, managing multiple databases and consoles, significant professional services engagement and challenging economics. Many vendors refer to this as a "journey to cloud."
VMblog: What's unique about HotLink's approach to hybrid IT management? And how would a company use HotLink Hybrid Express to manage its hybrid cloud environment?
LeBlanc: HotLink Hybrid Express is the only solution to natively extend on-premise virtualization management consoles to public cloud resources like Amazon EC2. HotLink's patent-pending transformation technology abstracts public cloud platforms and workloads so on-premise management consoles, including VMware vCenter and Microsoft SCVMM, treat them just like on-premise hosts and virtual machines - fully integrated and managed as a unified pool of resources without the need for separate management consoles or complex integration projects. Customers can implement hybrid clouds in just a few hours as opposed to weeks or months.
HotLink Hybrid Express is not another console; it is a simple, intuitive plug-in that uses the existing administration and management infrastructure of VMware vCenter or Microsoft SCVMM -- full featured, not just a basic set of overlay operations. With HotLink Hybrid Express, IT can administer, clone, snapshot and migrate cloud instances in the same way as on-premise virtual machines, utilizing the same management infrastructure and techniques across hybrid resources. Administrators administer manage all resources, both on-and off-premise as a unified pool, represented in a single inventory tree -- Amazon EC2 accounts and instances are treated just like on-premise hosts and VMs. HotLink's integrated, bi-directional workload conversion enables seamless migration to and from Amazon EC2, and users can even deploy cloud instances from existing on-premise templates. Because HotLink Hybrid Express is a plug-in technology, users have the familiar deployment and management interface of on-premise, with hybrid cloud flexibility and agility.
VMblog: So tell us, why did HotLink decide to focus on Amazon EC2? And will you be extending support to additional public cloud platforms in the future?
LeBlanc: We chose to focus on AWS because of its dominant market position and the level of customer demand, particularly in the enterprise. We will continue to announce support for additional public cloud platforms as other providers secure larger market footprints, increase enterprise deployments and drive customer requests.
VMblog: Shadow IT is a growing concern for many enterprises. What are the main issues you hear about? And how can corporate IT leverage HotLink technology to address the shadow IT problem?
LeBlanc: Enterprise business units and developers looking for agility and speed are broadly turning to public cloud platforms like AWS to avoid the typically laborious and protracted corporate process to procure internal IT resources. In fact, the ease with which public cloud resources can be accessed has led to broad proliferation of loosely managed or unmanaged Amazon EC2 accounts in many enterprises. Non-IT professionals are often building out sizable computing environments that are outside of any management controls and are completely non-standard with respect to procedures that corporate IT follows to ensure enterprise-compliant computing. While IT processes may seem bureaucratic and slow to hard-charging and independent business units, oversight and reasonable standards play an important role in the effective and responsible use of public cloud in the enterprise. The problem is, end users typically do not have the tools or the IT experience to operate sizable compute infrastructures.
HotLink Hybrid Express provides a very simple approach for corporate IT to extend existing on-premise virtual infrastructure management capabilities to these distributed Amazon resources and also provide an easy on-ramp for new Amazon users. In less than three hours, existing on-premise virtualization management platforms such as VMware vCenter and Microsoft SCVMM can be extended to support public cloud accounts and instances.
This allows IT to leverage existing infrastructure and processes built around the on-premise virtualized resources for public cloud services without building out disparate management infrastructure. End users have the independence and flexibility that lures them to AWS in the first place, but workloads are deployed with enterprise-appropriate management and standards. Existing on-premise virtualization management is very rich in capabilities for monitoring, tracking, reporting and many other capabilities from which end user management can significantly benefit to keep public cloud costs low and their budget in check. In this way, both corporate IT and end users benefit from a holistic approach to hybrid management
.
VMblog: HotLink recently launched a free edition of Hybrid Express. What's included in that product? And is it a trial or is it really a free version?
LeBlanc: The free version of HotLink Hybrid Express is the full-featured edition of HotLink's enterprise product, which provides the ability to deploy, administer and manage Amazon EC2 instances with VMware vCenter or Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. The free edition supports up to 10 simultaneously powered-on Amazon EC2 instances. If companies need to manage additional instances, they can easily upgrade to a larger, fee-based configuration. The free version is designed to allow companies to immediately benefit from the HotLink capabilities of hybrid administration and management and see how easy it is to extend their on-premise management to Amazon.
At the HotLink website (www.hotlink.com), potential users can sign up for HotLink Hybrid Express webinars, download white papers, and see videos of the technology. Anyone interested in downloading the free HotLink Hybrid Express can find the links on the "Technology" tab of the site.
VMblog: And finally, what can we expect from HotLink in the future regarding hybrid cloud management?
LeBlanc: HotLink will continue to expand the number of management plug-ins we offer as well as the public clouds we support. We will also have some very exciting hybrid IT announcements in August, right before VMworld. In the meantime, everyone should try the new free edition of HotLink Hybrid Express and let us know if you like it!
CohesiveFT Shortlisted for Public Cloud Services & Infrastructure Award
CohesiveFT has been shortlisted for the 6th Annual International Datacentres Award. CohesiveFT is
nominated in the award category for Public Cloud Services & Infrastructure.
"The need for business application-layer security remains universal, and largely unanswered by IaaS and cloud vendors," said CohesiveFT CEO Patrick Kerpan. "By combining VNS3 Overlay SDN with IaaS provider infrastructure security features, our customers are able to create and control a multidimensional security solution."
The International Datacentres Awards, called "the Oscars of the datacentre industry," focus on recognising excellence across the datacentre and cloud sector. "The quality of entry this year was among the highest ever at the 2012 event. This reflects both the growth and confidence of the datacentre sector across Europe," wrote chairman of the Judges Panel, Ashley Davies.
The Public Cloud Services & Infrastructure Award recognises a company with a demonstrable track record established in the last 12 months that can be used as an exemplar to the global datacentre industry that has achieved transformation of traditional compute.
Upcoming "Life in the Cloud" Webinar CohesiveFT is also hosting a Cloud Networking Webinar series featuring our unique approach to application-layer focus on security and customer use cases. The series covers topics including application/overlay SDN (Software Defined Networking), edge and software security, extending networks to the cloud, and more real life use cases.
The final webinar, on Wednesday 22 May, focuses on case studies examining current customers and how they use cloud networking to solve their cloud related problems. Enterprises large and small across many industries are already building and running custom cloud networks inside of public cloud deployments to provide the security, control, and compliance needed for their specific use-cases.
CFT Senior Solution Architect, Sam Mitchell, will present the three part webinar series beginning 8 May. Webinars run every Wednesday, starting May 8, at 4pm UK / 10am CT / 8am PT. The webinar will last 30 mins with an additional 15 minutes for Q&A. For more information on visit www.cohesiveft.com/webinars
"The need for business application-layer security remains universal, and largely unanswered by IaaS and cloud vendors," said CohesiveFT CEO Patrick Kerpan. "By combining VNS3 Overlay SDN with IaaS provider infrastructure security features, our customers are able to create and control a multidimensional security solution."
The International Datacentres Awards, called "the Oscars of the datacentre industry," focus on recognising excellence across the datacentre and cloud sector. "The quality of entry this year was among the highest ever at the 2012 event. This reflects both the growth and confidence of the datacentre sector across Europe," wrote chairman of the Judges Panel, Ashley Davies.
The Public Cloud Services & Infrastructure Award recognises a company with a demonstrable track record established in the last 12 months that can be used as an exemplar to the global datacentre industry that has achieved transformation of traditional compute.
Upcoming "Life in the Cloud" Webinar CohesiveFT is also hosting a Cloud Networking Webinar series featuring our unique approach to application-layer focus on security and customer use cases. The series covers topics including application/overlay SDN (Software Defined Networking), edge and software security, extending networks to the cloud, and more real life use cases.
The final webinar, on Wednesday 22 May, focuses on case studies examining current customers and how they use cloud networking to solve their cloud related problems. Enterprises large and small across many industries are already building and running custom cloud networks inside of public cloud deployments to provide the security, control, and compliance needed for their specific use-cases.
CFT Senior Solution Architect, Sam Mitchell, will present the three part webinar series beginning 8 May. Webinars run every Wednesday, starting May 8, at 4pm UK / 10am CT / 8am PT. The webinar will last 30 mins with an additional 15 minutes for Q&A. For more information on visit www.cohesiveft.com/webinars
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