Red Hat is best known for its RHEL distribution, but the company has been making a big push into cloud computing with its OpenShift platform as a service, offered in both public and private cloud versions. Source: Tech
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Info-Tech Research Group Names Flexiant Leading Innovator for Second Year and Value Award Winner
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Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator is recognized with the Value Award in Info-Tech Research Group’s Vendor Landscape: Cloud Management Platform London, UK – 6 March 2014 – For the second year in a row, Flexiant has achieved the highest product innovation score among ten vendors evaluated by Info-Tech Research Group’s Vendor Landscape: Cloud Management Platforms and was…
Are Your Servers Pets or Cattle?
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Yesterday I attended a talk by Randy Bias of Cloudscaling. The talk was called “Pets vs. Cattle: The Elastic Cloud.” I thought Randy’s perspective on infrastructure and system administration is really interesting, so I’m going to explain some of the key points that he shared with us yesterday… Under the old-fashioned “enterprise computing” infrastructure model,…
Centrify Secures Critical Servers
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Centrify Secures Industry’s Broadest Range of Mission-Critical Servers from Identity-Related Insider and Outsider Threats — New Centrify Server Suite 2014 Uniquely Helps Organizations Enhance Risk Management and Meet Compliance Requirements for the Broadest Set of Cloud and On-Premise Servers and Apps , today introduced major new functionality in … (more) Source: Tech
How The IT Department Will Strike Back In 2014
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The IT department isn’t traditionally perceived as the hub for organizational innovation and growth, but it’s slowly getting there. Gartner recently forecasted a number of developments that will significantly impact the IT function in years to come, spanning mobile device management, hybrid cloud integration and software-defined networking. As these disruptive technologies continue to mature, IT…
Flexiant Expands Global Reach with Skyliance Networks Appointment
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London, UK – 17 February 2014: Flexiant, a leading international provider of cloud orchestration software, today announced IT service provider, Skyliance Networks Limited (Skyliance) has selected Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator to transition its managed infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to the cloud. Already an established service provider in Hong Kong, Skyliance selected Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator to…
Azul Systems Launches Zulu
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As the industry’s first company dedicated to supporting an enterprise-quality, commercialized version of OpenJDK across various operating systems, hypervisors and Cloud platforms, Azul will help accelerate the continued adoption of open source Java technology by enterprises. Source: Tech
Cogenta Is First To Launch Multi-National Retail Pricing Comparison Tool
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Leading retail intelligence technology group Cogenta (www.cogenta.com) has launched a multi-national version of its Cloud-based Retail Insight platform. The innovative pricing intelligence application is the first system to enable international retailers, manufacturers, brand managers and market researchers to monitor consumer goods pricing data from major economic centres in 24 countries across the globe, including Europe…
The Three Most Important Open Computing Trends to Watch in 2014
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Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Adam Jollans, Program Director of Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy at IBM. The key events of 2013 set up many of the changes in open computing that we can expect to see in 2014. This year, KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) will go cross-platform, Linux will increasingly be deployed…
Open Computing Accelerated Sharply in 2013
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Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Adam Jollans, Program Director of Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy at IBM. Open computing has been steadily growing in enterprise acceptance and, in 2013, that trend accelerated sharply. Many factors contributed to the upward trajectory of open computing in the last year. However, there were three notable developments…