Cloud software vendor rPath has announced its rPath Cloud Engine, a product that is intended to make it easier for IT administrators to install and update applications on virtual machines in the cloud, both public and private. The product, based on the company’s former rPath X6 software, doesn’t use scripts to install applications but instead generates the software configurations itself, based on an application’s current run-time environment.
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Cloud Application Management Gets A New Road With rPath Cloud Engine
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Choosing The Right Private Cloud Storage
One of the key decisions in architecting an infrastructure for private cloud is selecting a storage platform for the deployment. Storage is a key component of the infrastructure and will play a major role in the overall performance of the private cloud. The storage decision carries additional weight due to its larger investment and typically longer refresh-cycle.
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Uptime Offers “Set It And Forget It” VMware Performance And Capacity Management
Toronto-based uptime software, Inc. is adding VMware monitoring to the latest release of its IT systems management performance and capacity software for midmarket and enterprise organizations. Expected to ship later this month, up.time 6, billed as “Set it and Forget it” VMware Performance and Capacity Management, delivers enterprise-grade VMware monitoring and management to companies of all sizes for a fraction of the cost of competing solutions, says the company.
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Keynote Acquires DeviceAnywhere To Boost Mobile Monitoring
In an attempt to broaden its line of mobile application testing software and services, Keynote Systems has acquired DeviceAnywhere. The companies will continue to be run separately and most of the 119 DeviceAnywhere employees are expected to join Keynote. In addition, Keynote’s Monitor Anywhere system, and Mobile Device Perspective and Mobile Web Perspective services will continue to be sold. DeviceAnywhere produces a cloud-based platform for testing and monitoring mobile websites and applications. Together, the two companies could grow into a $ 100 million business, they said.
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Vendors Turn Flash To Cache, Saving Cash
Ever since EMC announced that they were putting SSDs, or as they call them Enterprise Flash Drives, into their disk arrays, we as an industry have been straining our little brains to figure out the best way to use flash memory to improve our storage. We’ve used flash as a storage tier inside disk arrays, as a cache in those arrays and as dedicated storage systems. More recently we’ve started seeing a variety of server or system side caching solutions. Is server side caching the answer?
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Gloomy Outlook for Future of BlackBerry
RIM has suffered a number of setbacks, and its brand reputation and market share have been rapidly eroding. According to a new survey from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), that trend is going to continue–and possibly even accelerate.
The EMA study includes results from two separate surveys. The first targeted mobile device end users who indicated regular use of a smartphone or tablet for business. The second survey was of IT managers responsible for supporting mobile devices, aimed at those organizations rely heavily on mobile computing and communications.
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OS33 Cloud Drive Creates A Unified Cloud File System
OS33 has announced its OS33 Cloud Drive, which enables MSP clients to offer their users a technology that creates a unified file system by bringing together storage from various different private and public cloud technologies. The technology unifies the storage capabilities of Amazon Simple Storage, SharePoint 2010 Doc Libs for Enterprise Content Management, and Microsoft Windows on NTFS.
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Quantum Introduces vmPRO 4601 Appliance To Provide VM Backup For SMBs
Making use of its acquisition of Pancetera Software in June, as well as hardware it announced a few weeks ago, Quantum has introduced the vmPRO 4601 Appliance, a hardware/software bundle that is intended to perform virtual machine backup for small- to medium-sized businesses with requirements of 10 terabytes or less. The company also announced vmPRO Software, which works with its family of DXI deduplication appliances for larger organizations.
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Dell And EMC Exit Partnership Stronger Than Ever
While Dell and EMC may not be parting best of friends after ending their 10-year relationship two years before the latest agreement was to expire, they are both better off than when they became the IT industry’s best-known odd couple. Prior to hooking up, EMC was a major player in the enterprise storage market, while Dell was a PC company best known for its selling expertise. Both companies had relatively narrow markets and primarily sold direct. It was a multi-billion-dollar relationship while it lasted.
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BlueStripe Provides Insight Into Why Apps Fail
BlueStripe Software wants to answer the question of why apps have performance problems with the new release of its automated application management and transaction monitoring product, FactFinder. With v5.5, they’ve enhanced the transaction-tracking analytics to more effectively map out the multiple tiers of an application.
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