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Between The LinesFTC loses patience with patent trolls

The FTC is soon to take on firms that exist purely to buy and collect royalties on patents.

virtualization.infoRelease: VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.7.1 with Hyperic 5.7

Together with the launch of vCenter Log Insight, VMware released vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.7.1 an update that also includes vFabric Hyperic 5.7.

vCenter Operations Manager is a performance, capacity and configuration analytics product that combines several products acquired by VMware in the past, the enhancements in this release focus on integration and can be resumed as follows:

  • Tight Integration with vCenter Log Insight, for faster troubleshooting and enhanced visibility across your IT environment.
  • New reports and dashboards, based on best practices, to help you save time and improve efficiency.
  • Security and infrastructure enhancements, for improved hardening and scalable performance.

vFabric Hyperic helps customers proactively manage application performance in virtual and cloud environments, also in this case the enhancements focus on integration:

  • Enhanced integration with vCenter Operations Manager, improving usability and scale.
  • Updated, as well as new plugins, with support for newer versions, as well as improved features.
  • Security and platform support updates, for Java, Windows and AIX.


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Between The LinesStructure 2013: Amazon CTO offers forecast for cloud market

The "cloud father" also shares some lessons to be learned from the evidently winning strategy at Amazon Web Services.

Between The LinesWorkday CEO on Oracle, Dropbox, and the CIO role at Structure 2013

Workday's chief offers suggestions for the best approach for dumping legacy systems for the cloud.

Steve JinSlow SSH Client and Quick Hack

While using PackStack to install OpenStack for multi-node topology, I found my SSH client was so slow that it failed the PackStack installation command. The ssh I had was the default one with CentOS 6.4: “OpenSSH_5.3p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips 29 Mar 2010.” It seemed to work just fine while using PackStack for all-in-one deployment as described [...]

Slow SSH Client and Quick Hack originally appeared on DoubleCloud by Steve Jin, author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall) and creator of VMware vSphere Java API. Follow Steve on Twitter and receive future articles via RSS or Email.

Between The LinesMicrosoft reportedly pondered buying Nokia, bailed

The plan was to combine Microsoft with a device maker with scale and then go after the likes of Apple and Samsung.

Between The LinesEnterprise apps landing on Google Glass by 2014

You may not think Google Glass has any practical applications in the enterprise — not yet, anyway — but one U.S. firm is working on disproving the naysayers by bringing a range of enterprise apps to the search giant's wearable technology by early 2014.

Between The LinesRed Hat Q1 earnings: Right in line

Results are in for the U.S. open source software company's fiscal first quarter 2014. A look at the numbers.

Between The LinesMicroStrategy, Hortonworks partner to connect business intelligence, Hadoop

Specifically, MicroStrategy has certified Hortonworks Data Platform 1.3 with MicroStrategy 9.3.1. Legacy vendors are increasingly cutting Hadoop partnerships.

Between The LinesAMD exec at Structure 2013: The one-size-fits-all hardware era is over

"For a long time in this industry, we just sat around for a more efficient processor to come out and put that on a motherboard. Those days are over," according to an AMD executive.

VMblogOpen Networking Foundation Drives Commercialization of SDN and the OpenFlow Protocol at Third PlugFest

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Software-Defined Networking (SDN), completed its third semi-annual PlugFest designed to drive interoperability, deployment, and commercialization of SDN and the OpenFlow protocol. Hosted June 3-7 at the Indiana Center for Network Translational Research and Education (InCNTRE), the first ONF certified lab for conformance testing, the event was attended by nearly 50 network engineers from 20 member companies with the common goal of ensuring that new SDN protocols work across all of their products. This year’s event saw more than 90 percent of member companies participating in testing of OpenFlow 1.3. ...(read more)

VMblogCloudSigma 2.0 Features Industry-First Transparent Private Patching to Public Cloud, All-SSD Storage System and Advanced CPU Options

CloudSigma, an international, customer-centric, pure-cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, today announced the launch of CloudSigma 2.0, a next-generation public cloud that enables seamless, high-performance hybrid environments. CloudSigma’s cloud breaks new ground on interoperability and performance, with new features including:...(read more)

VMblogWSO2 Launches WSO2 Stratos 2.0, the Industry’s Most Complete, Open Enterprise-Grade PaaS Available Today

Just as enterprises have achieved flexibility and innovation from implementing heterogeneous environments on-premises, they now seek to extend these benefits into the cloud. Today, WSO2 debuted its answer to this growing demand with the launch of WSO2 Stratos 2.0, the industry's most complete, open enterprise-grade platform as a service (PaaS). WSO2 Stratos 2.0 features an all-new cartridge-based architecture, which combines support for heterogeneous applications and service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform runtimes with native, secure multi-tenancy. WSO2 unveiled the latest release of WSO2 Stratos at GigaOm Structure, which runs June 19-20 in San Francisco. ...(read more)

VMblogCumulus Networks Brings the Power of Linux to Networking

Cumulus Networks today emerged from stealth to unveil Cumulus Linux, the first true, full-featured Linux operating system for datacenter networking. Already in deployment by several next-generation service providers and enterprises, Cumulus Linux enables fast, easy and affordable networking and fills the void for a truly standalone network operating system (OS). These benefits are helping customers fulfill the promise of the software-defined datacenter. ...(read more)

VMblog2013 Future of Cloud Computing Survey Reveals Business Driving Cloud Adoption in Everything as a Service Era

North Bridge Venture Partners, in conjunction with GigaOM Research and 57 collaborating organizations, today released the results of its third annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey. This year’s survey is the largest to date, examining viewpoints on drivers, inhibitors and opportunities in cloud computing across a sample of 855 respondents, including business users, IT decision makers and cloud vendors. More than a third of respondents were C-level executives within their organizations. ...(read more)

VMblogInfinitely Virtual Introduces InfiniteVault, First Cloud File Sharing Application Designed for Business

In a move to make sharing files via the cloud as simple as it is on the desktop, Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of Cloud Server computing services, today introduced InfiniteVault, the first cloud-based file sharing application designed expressly for small and midsize businesses....(read more)

Between The LinesCloud, automation to alter offshore outsourcing equation

Offshore outsourcing may begin to lose its appeal as technology management is increasingly automated.

Between The LinesThe future of tablets? It's all about the 8-inch model: analyst

Smaller variations are going to account for over half of overall tablets this year, analysts say.

Between The LinesOracle's Q4 and beyond: Five big issues

Hardware, Mark Hurd, open source databases and cloud computing are among the big question marks that need to be answered for Oracle.

Between The LinesNvidia expands business, offers graphics licensing

The chip maker's CEO says that graphics technology licensing deals will soon be on the table to increase the firm's future profitability.

Between The LinesIn the face of bankruptcy, Kodak eyes $406m offering

Kodak is seeking court approval in an offering to give creditors large equity stakes in the company once it emerges from bankruptcy protection.

Virtualization PracticeVMware to Revolutionize Operations Management with Log Insight

VMware has announced its log management product - Log Insights. Log Insights is priced at $200 per monitored OS instance (per VM pricing) and is to be available in Q3 of this year. VMware's own vSphere environment is the first targeted environment, and the two first use cases are Operations Management and Security/Compliance. Right now this is clearly a 1.0 offering competing with a very mature Splunk Enterprise offering - but there are some very interesting short term and long term dynamics at play.

VMware to Revolutionize Operations Management with Log Insight|The Virtualization Practice

VMblogThousandEyes Emerges From Stealth, Launches Performance Management for the Cloud Era

Today at Structure 2013, ThousandEyes emerged from stealth mode and launched a new product that, for the first time, provides detailed visibility into the performance of cloud applications and helps IT teams resolve performance problems quickly. ThousandEyes' customers include members of the Fortune 500, Equinix, Evernote, Priceline, ServiceNow, Twitter, Zendesk and Zynga. ...(read more)

VMblogMoorfields Hospital Invests in Workspace Virtualization to Improve Service Delivery

Moorfields Eye Hospital is working with Workspace Virtualization specialist RES Software to significantly improve IT service delivery across the hospital's central London campus....(read more)

VMblogQ&A: Interview with Instart Logic Talking about the Application Streaming Network

Peter Blum heads product management and product marketing at Instart Logic, which unveiled its new Web Application Streaming Network June 13, the week before the O'Reilly Velocity conference where the world gathers to talk about the latest advances in web performance and optimization solutions. I've previously spoken with Peter when he was at Citrix, where he was senior director of product management and marketing for the XenClient product. So I thought it appropriate to reach back out to him to see if I can find out more about what his latest venture is all about....(read more)

VMblogN-able Announces 2013 EMEA Managed Service Provider Partner of the Year Awards

N-able by SolarWinds, a global leader in remote monitoring and management (RMM) and service automation software, today announced its 2013 EMEA Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner of the Year awards. The annual awards recognize N-able's top-performing international partners for outstanding achievement in leveraging N-able's N-central MSP service automation platform to deliver exceptional IT service to customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA)....(read more)

VMblogBromium vSentry 2.0 protects users, companies with latest microvisor

At Citrix Synergy this year, I had the opportunity to speak with Simon Crosby, co-founder and CTO at Bromium. Though Bromium didn't have a booth at this year's event, I've discovered on more than one occasion that Crosby and I have a knack for finding one another in a crowd of a few thousand people. That's great news for me because I was able to get a sneak peek at what Bromium has been up to since our last conversation months earlier....(read more)

The Virtual Intelligence BriefingCloudByte cooks up $4M for software-defined storage

Campbell, Calif.-based CloudByte’s software promises to “guarantee quality of service to every application from a shared storage platform.” Essentially, the company’s tech brings virtualization and software-defined smarts to storage. Companies can use it to better manage storage for applications in a virtualized data center.

“While the all-flash discussion continues, our software approach allows organizations to optimize their infrastructure based on their requirements and select their preferred storage components,” CloudByte CEO Greg Goelz said in a statement.”Today, most customers are just beginning to deploy SSDs and economics is a key factor in driving their storage solutions.”

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/18/cloudbyte-funding/

The Virtual Intelligence BriefingGE partners with AWS for big data project

General Electric Co joined forces with Amazon Web Services on Tuesday to make a wide range of data on products, including jet engines and gas turbines, available online so they can be analysed. GE said Amazon Inc is the first online “cloud” service on which it will start creating an “Industrial internet” to tap a market that analysts say could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the decade.

Big Data

According to technology research group Wikibon, industrial data is expected to grow at two times the rate of any other big data segment over the next decade. Machine-based software and services will include capturing sensor data, performing local processes and real-time industrial analytics. Wikibon estimates total Industrial Internet technology spending will reach $514 billion by 2020. GE said its platform will run across the conglomerate’s interests, from healthcare to energy to transportation.

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://www.itnews.com.au/News/347180,ge-partners-with-aws-for-big-data-project.aspx

The Virtual Intelligence BriefingMarble Security’s cloud-based mobile security service augments MDM

Cloud security services provider Marble Security Inc., formerly known as IronKey, announced its new cloud-based mobile security service for protection against cyberattacks and data loss for employee-owned personal devices within the enterprise. While the bring-your-own-device trend (BYOD) is by no means a new blip on IT’s radar, there isn’t one tried-and-true method for enterprise mobile management.

cloud data security

Protecting the mobile perimeter of an enterprise is important because employees have come to expect access to corporate information with their personal smartphones and tablets. Marble Security’s cloud-based security service can help medium-to-large enterprise users access corporate and public networks and cloud services on their mobile device while protecting user privacy, Web browsing and company data, said David Jevans, chief technology officer for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Marble.

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/news/2240186388/Marble-security-cloud-based-mobile-security-service-augments-MDM

The Virtual Intelligence BriefingHadoop Is Now an Ecosystem : Brings All Data Together + Makes it Accessible | #IndustrialCloud

GE still has a long way to go, but Dumbill pointed out that what they are succeeding in bringing from the consumer industry is not just the data analysis, it’s also the ability to move data quickly. “There’s cultural change, we see that with data analytics, tools are half of the problem, culture is the other,” Dumbill stated. “The tooling is the platform,” engineers are so conservative, because if you fiddle with the systems they work with, which generates quite a lot of concern.

Hadoop

“There is a technical shift that really matters,” Dumbill said. “This is the breaking part of data silos and the emergence of Hadoop as a place to put everything. This is starting to transform businesses at a technical level. If you look for a connection, it’s definitely in Hadoop.” Hadoop has become an ecosystem, Dumbill stated “and it’s all about having data in one place and accessible.” “To get to data science you first need to get the data,” Dumbill said, explaining that 80 percent of time is spent on getting data out of data centers.

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/06/18/hadoop-is-now-an-ecosystem-brings-all-data-together-makes-it-accessible-industrialcloud/

The Virtual Intelligence BriefingEnterasys enhances data center offerings

Enterasys this week unveiled new switches, software and management products to enhance the automation and centralized control of data center operations. New switches include the S140 and S180, which can serve in the campus or data center core. The switches have a system capacity of 2.56Tbps, and can support up to 264 SFP+ 10G, 192 10GBase-T or 48 40G Ethernet ports.

Data Center Consolidation

Virtually all major vendors offer 64 port 10G switches. The switches are based on Enterasys’ CoreFlow2 ASIC, which is optimized for classifying users, devices and applications, and enforcing access control and categorization policies associated with them. CoreFlow2 allows the new S series switches to support up to 96 million flows, far exceeding the scalability of OpenFlow, Enterasys officials claim.

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061813-enterasys-270953.html

The Virtual Intelligence BriefingOptimizing VDI with Flash Storage for Improved ROI

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions allow IT organizations to deploy and manage virtual user desktops in the data center, eliminating the tedious management of numerous physical desktops. At the same time, virtual desktops allow end users to maintain their own personal desktops with access over remote desktop protocol.

Virtualization beyond VDI

VDI is typically deployed on traditional centralized hard-disk-based storage infrastructures, including large storage-area networks (SANs) or network-attached storage (NAS). As organizations scale to hundreds and thousands of virtual desktops, these traditional storage architectures can be overwhelmed, since VDI causes significant performance degradation due to the drastic fluctuation between average I/O workloads and peak I/O workloads.

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://www.sys-con.com/node/2703211

The Virtual Intelligence BriefingBarracuda Intros Cloud LiveBoot For VMware For Speedy Disaster Recovery

Barracuda on Tuesday released Barracuda Backup version 5.2 featuring Cloud LiveBoot for VMware, a new technology that lets customers that have replicated data to the cloud to boot VMware images using deduplicated data, said Andy Jensen, director of product management for Barracuda storage.

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LiveBoot for VMware customers that back up deduplicated and compressed data to a Barracuda Backup Server and from there to the cloud can also back up their VMware ESXi virtual servers with VMware’s vSphere APIs for Data Protection (VADP), Jensen said. “Customers can now log in to our hosted user interface, go to the restore browser, and get one or more virtual machines up and running in our Barracuda cloud,” he said.

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://www.crn.com/news/storage/240156889/barracuda-intros-cloud-liveboot-for-vmware-for-speedy-disaster-recovery.htm

The Virtual Intelligence BriefingHPC server sales spike: Buyers get chops around juicy cheap flops

The plain vanilla server racket may have struggled in the first quarter, but sales of machinery aimed at high performance computing workloads -both traditional simulation workloads and new-fangled “Big Data” jobs – bucked the downward trends in the first quarter, according to the latest research from IDC.

In its latest casing of the HPC server market, IDC reckons that revenues rose by 5.3 per cent to $2.5bn, which stands in the starkest contrast to the overall server market. As El Reg previously reported, worldwide server sales in the first quarter fell by 7.7 per cent to $10.94bn. (Frustratingly, you cannot just subtract these numbers to get a non-HPC server sales number because there are different components and base software included in the two different data sets. Yes, that is stupid.)

To read the entire article, please click on this link http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/18/hpc_server_sales_defy_economic_and_governmental_gravity_in_q1/

Between The LinesDish: Softbank can have Sprint, we'll pursue Clearwire

Dish gave up on its pursuit of Sprint after Softbank sweetened its bid. Dish did say that it will focus on acquiring Clearwire and its coveted wireless spectrum.

Between The LinesGoogle petitions Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court over data requests

Google argues it has the constitutional right to publicly address information it is forced to share with the U.S. government.

Between The LinesFormer ArcSight chief named as new Cloudera CEO

Cloudera shuffles the deck as the current CEO moves into a new role.

Between The LinesAdobe hits Q2 targets while boasting record digital publishing figures

UPDATED: Adobe CEO's comments hint at customer (dis)satisfaction over jump from desktop to cloud versions of the Creative Suite.

Between The LinesCarl Icahn now pressing $14-per-share alternative to Dell buyout

UPDATED: Dell's special committee responds to the American financier's latest proposal.

Between The LinesHuawei 'considering' Nokia acquisition: report

The Chinese smartphone giant is "considering" buying Nokia, but it all depends on whether or not the ailing Finnish phone maker finally cracks.

VMblogZenoss Cloud Service Assurance Certified on VCE Vblock Systems

Zenoss Inc, the leading provider of unified IT monitoring and management solutions for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures, today announced that Zenoss Cloud Service Assurance has been certified on Vblock Systems from VCE as "Vblock Ready". ...(read more)

Between The LinesAs end of Q2 nears, IBM employees fret 'resource actions'

IBM appears to be making good on its promise that it will make the bulk of its workforce rebalancing moves in the second quarter. Employees ranging from consultants to data center workers to sales are sweating.

VMblogCombine Flash and Storage Virtualization

Join DataCore and Astute to Learn About Achieving Unparalleled Storage Performance & Availability for Physical and Virtualized Applications...(read more)

VMblogInktank Works with Alcatel-Lucent to Integrate Ceph Storage in CloudBand

Inktank, the company delivering Ceph – the massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system, today announced it is teaming with Alcatel-Lucent to help service providers manage their storage infrastructure within the cloud....(read more)

VMblogSymantec Issues Global SMB IT Confidence Index

Symantec Corp. today released its 2013 Global SMB IT Confidence Index, which found that SMBs with higher IT Confidence scores are more successful in leveraging IT to drive their business, and ultimately experience stronger, better business outcomes....(read more)

VMblogMore than 500 Licenses of PHD CloudHook Sold in the First 90 Days

PHD Virtual Technologies, a pioneer in virtual backup, infrastructure monitoring and innovator of disaster recovery assurance solutions, announced today that its newly launched CloudHook™ backup feature is off to a great start with more than 500 licenses sold in the first 90 days. ...(read more)

VMblogMedia Temple Kicks off HostingCon 2013 with Speed and Simplicity; Introduces Next Generation VPS Hosting Platform and CloudTech Premium Technical Support

Today, (mt) Media Temple, a leading provider of web hosting and cloud services, launches a slate of new products and services during this year’s HostingCon 2013 to further enhance its customer experience and provide time-saving solutions for small businesses, entrepreneurs and enterprises. ...(read more)

VMblogPrivateCore Beta Program Opens to High Demand

PrivateCore, the private computing company, today announced the general availability of its PrivateCore vCage software beta release which protects data in use with full memory encryption. The beta release is designed to provide service providers (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), government, financial trading and enterprises with early access to this unique technology that provides a new layer of security for achieving end-to-end data protection. ...(read more)

VMblogOnApp and Bacula4Hosts to Bring Near Continuous Data Protection to OnApp Cloud

OnApp has partnered with Bacula4Hosts to bring its backup and recovery system to the OnApp Cloud platform. Developed by leading cloud and managed services provider Cartika, Bacula4Hosts will add incremental backup and self-service restore to the OnApp Cloud platform, so data is backed up as it changes, and customers can restore specific files and databases as well as entire virtual machines. It will complement the existing backup and restore capabilities of OnApp Cloud by adding near-continuous data protection, and create a more flexible, resilient and efficient backup environment for cloud providers and their customers. ...(read more)

VMblogCloudFounders Launches CloudFrames vRun for Cisco UCS

CloudFounders, Innovators in Cloud Technologies, has launched CloudFrames vRun offering, an all-in-one converged infrastructure in a box. CloudFrames vRun is purpose-built for the industry leading Cisco UCS server architecture and builds further on the unique Cisco Unified Computing principle. CloudFrames vRun offers Storage Virtualization, VM centric Management, Snapshotting, Replication and Multi-Tenant Networking on a single platform....(read more)

VMblogInfoblox Speeds Up Cloud Deployments with New IPAM Plug-In Integration with VMware vCloud Automation Center

Infoblox Inc., the automated network control company, today announced that the Infoblox IP Address Management (IPAM) Plug-in for VMware is now integrated with VMware vCloud Automation Center. As part of the VMware vCloud Suite, the VMware vCloud Automation Center is designed to enable rapid deployment and provisioning of cloud services across private and public clouds, physical infrastructures, hypervisors and public cloud providers. The plug-in is designed to deliver cloud infrastructure resources on-demand to provide maximum business agility. ...(read more)

Between The LinesGE intros 'cloud agnostic' data platform with Pivotal, Amazon Web Services

GE is also touting that the value of its new Industrial Internet scheme will reach nearly $1.3 trillion by 2020.

Between The LinesIBM debuts cloud portfolio aimed at C-Suite

IBM is going straight to those who hold the purse strings with its latest cloud product release.

Between The LinesHP swaps PC, printer unit captains: It's all about China, Lenovo

Todd Bradley steps down from HP's PC and printer unit to be replaced by Dion Weisler, a former Lenovo and Acer executive. HP is hoping Bradley and Weisler can form an executive tag team that can tackle China and Lenovo.

Between The LinesJive Software rolls out its biggest mobile update to date

The big focus is really to push as much content to mobile devices as possible for actual editing and collaboration rather than just viewing.

Between The LinesTwo Microsofts: Mulling an alternate reality

What would the technology world look like today if the 2000 ruling by the recently deceased Thomas Penfield Jackson -- that Microsoft be broken into two companies -- had been upheld?

Between The LinesSamsung may have key role in ARM server stakes

It's a bit unclear whether there are enough large horses to make ARM servers commonplace in the data center today. If Samsung entered the market either to manufacture processors or launch systems, the game would change.

Virtualization PracticeThe Many Faces of PaaS

By now, enterprises understand the value of Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), but there still is much confusion about Platform as a Service (PaaS). This confusion is one reason why enterprises have been slow to adopt PaaS. Why is there so much confusion? Because PaaS is still in its early days of maturity, but it is growing up really quickly right before our eyes.

The Many Faces of PaaS|The Virtualization Practice

VMblogMural Launches New Platform Proven to Improve Cloud Adoption

Mural, the provider of first-in-class customer on-boarding for cloud and managed IT services, announces the launch of Platform MaaX, an on-boarding and post-sales support platform designed to provide small and medium-sized businesses with services proven to accelerate cloud implementation and improve satisfaction. ...(read more)

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