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Otixo Adds Ubuntu One to Aggregated Cloud Storage Lineup

October 11, 2012 | Author: admin

Otixo.com added Ubuntu One to its long line of aggregated cloud storage providers. Now One users can easily move files between 22 services including Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Box, SugarSync, CX.com and more.

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Otixos addition of Ubuntu One opens an easy path for integrating workflow between Ubuntu One and other cloud services. It is particularly exciting for users of iWorks (and other WebDAV compliant apps on iPad). Otixo allows users to retrieve and store files from iPad to Ubuntu One.

Otixo.com provides cloud service aggregation with a current focus on aggregating storage for personal file management and group collaboration. They enable full file management from a rapidly growing list of cloud storage providers such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, Box, SugarSync, Picasa, Amazon S3, FilesAnywhere, CX.com, DumpTruck and now Ubuntu One!

Otixo also connects to any FTP, SFTP or WebDav server. Otixo turns all of these cloud services into one big online file system that can be reached by their elegant, intuitive and attractive web app or via Otixos own WebDav servers which allow people to connect Otixo to their local file system on their laptop, tablet (including iPad) or smart phone.

Look for news about integration of open source project management, workflow and collaboration in the near future!

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New Cloud Storage Company, ZapDrive, Launches Today Offering 100 GB for $19.99/year.

October 11, 2012 | Author: admin

http://www.ZapDrive.com, a new entrant in the cloud storage market, launches today. Offers 100 GB for $19.99/year. Plans up to 10 TB available.

Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) October 10, 2012

"ZapDrive has a feature known as 'Drive Mapping'. It behaves just like an external drive on your computer, explaind a company spokesman, It shows up in your My Computer or Mac Finder window, and everything you copy into it is stored in the cloud! ZapDrive works on all versions of Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Users can easily view their files and listen to their music on multiple devices, such as their smart phones and tablets. The service offers Android, iPhone and iPad apps, and is working on Blackberry and Windows Phone apps.

ZapDrive comes with a lot of features, e.g., version history and WebDAV support. Users can share their files and folders publically or privately with friends and family. If a user has more than one computer, they can set up ZapDrive on all their computers and have the same files on each device, providing an efficient method for file syncing. Since ZapDrive built its own cloud, rather than storing user data on a third party cloud like EC2, it provides a safer place for storage than some other popular cloud storage services.

ZapDrive prides itself for providing the lowest prices for consumer cloud storage. As a comparison, Dropbox offers 100 GB for $99.00/year, Google Drive offers the same amount of space at $60.00/year and Box.com offers only 50 GB at $19.99/month. ZapDrive also offers a free 250 MB package, so that the users can use the service to their full satisfaction, before buying additional space. Giving more details on why the company does not offer more free space, the spokesman said, Other companies make the paid users pay for their free users. According to our estimates, 66% of the space provided by one of our competitors, is given to free users. Basically, they are taxing their paid users, to cover the costs for providing more free space to free users. 250 MB is enough to try the service, and if you like it, then pay for it!

Users can get a free account by going to http://www.ZapDrive.com.

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Lunacloud Deploys Cloudian® To Grow Business, Offer S3 Compatible Cloud Storage

October 11, 2012 | Author: admin

FOSTER CITY, Calif., Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Cloudian, the leader in S3 compatible cloud storage software, today announced that Lunacloud, a leading European pure-play cloud services provider, has selected Cloudian's industry-leading Cloudian software to power its cloud storage service, marking Cloudian's entry into the rapidly growing European cloud market. According to GIgaOm, the worldwide cloud market is expected to climb 126.4 percent from now through 2014, with the federated cloud market in Europe alone seeing 300 percent growth.

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Cloudian is ideal for enterprises and service providers looking to offer Amazon S3-compatible Storage as a Service (StaaS) and/or provide secondary storage systems for their cloud compute platforms, such as Citrix Cloud Platform, Apache CloudStack, or OpenStack. The company recently released the free Cloudian Community Edition, which will support up to 100 TB of useable storage and offer forum support, opening up the scalability, reliability and power of cloud object storage to anyone building an Amazon S3-compatible cloud, be it public, private or hybrid. The Community Edition can be downloaded from http://www.cloudian.com/get-started.html.

Lunacloud is backed by Claranet, one of Europe's largest managed services providers, with more than 2,500 customers across Europe. Lunacloud is a progressive, pure play public cloud company that is focused on delivering reliable, elastic and low cost cloud infrastructure services (IaaS), on which companies can run their operating systems and applications or store data. Like Lunacloud's services, Cloudian is built upon the idea that the cloud should be accessible to all companies via affordable, commodity hardware-based solutions. This gave Lunacloud a low-cost implementation while also allowing the company to take advantage of Cloudian's other competitive differentiators, including its scalable object store and Amazon S3 compatibility.

"Not only does Cloudian share our same goal of bringing affordable, reliable and scalable cloud solutions to companies of all sizes, it also shares our commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction," said Antonio Miguel Ferreira, Lunacloud Co-Founder and CEO. "The team was extremely responsive during our implementation and remains a true partner in working together to bring new cloud solutions to our growing joint customer base. We look forward to building superior solutions around Cloudian in the years to come."

Cloudian is sponsoring and will be exhibiting at Citrix Synergy2012 in Barcelona October 16-20. For more information on the event, please visit http://www.citrixsynergy.com/barcelona.

"We are pleased to bring the Cloudian solution to the European marketplace, especially with a progressive partner such as Lunacloud," said Giorgio Propersi, Cloudian general manager, Americas and EMEA. "Together, we are helping companies of all sizes and types take advantage of powerful cloud storage via affordable hardware and scalable solutions. We look forward to expanding our service across Europe together."

About The Cloudian Cloud Storage Platform

Cloudian is an Amazon S3-compliant cloud storage platform that enables service providers and enterprises to build reliable, multi-tenant data storage systems. Utilizing the Cloudian platform, service providers and enterprises can now build reliable and scalable cloud storage solutions with a fully distributed, peer-to-peer architecture, and no single point of failure. The system easily scales from two nodes up to thousands of nodes across multiple data centers, supporting petabytes of data. Cloudian provides a robust and flexible management interface, which accommodates a wide variety of billing and licensing models.

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Cloud computing: here we go again

October 11, 2012 | Author: admin

Summary: The same pattern has emerged again and again in the history of IT. New ideas emerge. Vendors develop their own approaches. Camps form to support those approaches. Eventually standards emerge. The battle over cloud computing standards and approaches is only the latest repetition of the pattern

Here we go again. Cloud computing is the newest area for the age-old pattern we've seen throughout the history of information technology. The pattern goes like this:

This process has repeated time and again. We've seen battles over items such as:

We're seeing factions build up behind the approaches offered by Amazon, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, OpenStack, VMware and several others. Customers that select one approach are likely to find that interoperability between and among these different approaches will take careful planning and execution.

It would be wise to start out with a clear idea of what needs to be accomplished before plunging headlong into an implementation effort. This way, it would be far easier to chose the approach that best fits this set of requirements. Thoughts of interoperability should be part of this careful design.

Topic: Cloud

Daniel Kusnetzky is a distinguished analyst and the founder of the Kusnetzky Group LLC.

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Cloud computing firm hits new fundraising heights

October 11, 2012 | Author: admin

A Halifax cloud computing startup has raised $1.1 million to advance its file-sharing technology and expand into new markets.

TitanFile Inc.s latest round of fundraising is backed by Innovacorp, the provincial governments high-tech funding body, the First Angel Network, and a handful of private donors.

The fledgling firm, which specializes in encrypting data to help organizations and individuals share documents securely over the Internet, has diluted its shares by 30 per cent as a result of the financing.

Co-founder and chief executive Milan Vrekic, 27, said the cash will help the startup break into the lucrative United States market with its latest technology.

We want to hire more people in the marketing and sales side and expand our U.S. presence, he said an interview Wednesday, noting that TitanFiles key clientele are professionals such as lawyers, accountants and investment bankers in the Boston and New York areas.

TitanFile was selected by two of Atlantic Canadas largest law rms, McInnes Cooper and Stewart McKelvey, as a secure communication solution with their clients, he said.

Professionals can now communicate with clients and colleagues without worrying about privacy and security, while avoiding the complexity of traditional enterprise solutions, said co-founder and chief technology officer Tony Abou-Assaleh, a former Google engineer.

The cloud computing company has three employees in its Nova Scotia office and another two in its satellite office in Waterloo, Ont.

The company has its Canadian data centre in Halifax, which helps clients comply with Canadian rules about information shared over the web.

Vrekic said he hopes to double the workforce over the next year, either by adding staff in the Halifax location or opening a new office in the U.S.

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Cloud computing company hits new fundraising heights

October 11, 2012 | Author: admin

A Halifax cloud computing startup has raised $1.1 million to advance its file-sharing technology and expand into new markets.

TitanFile Inc.s latest round of fundraising is backed by Innovacorp, the provincial governments high-tech funding body, the First Angel Network, and a handful of private donors.

Co-founder and chief executive Milan Vrekic, 27, said the cash will help the startup break into the lucrative United States market with its latest technology.

TitanFile was selected by two of Atlantic Canadas largest law rms, McInnes Cooper and Stewart McKelvey, as a secure communication solution with their clients, he said.

The cloud computing company has three employees in its Nova Scotia office and another two in its satellite office in Waterloo, Ont.

The company has its Canadian data centre in Halifax, which helps clients comply with Canadian rules about information shared over the web.

Vrekic said he hopes to double the workforce over the next year, either by adding staff in the Halifax location or opening a new office in the U.S.

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IBM, AT&T Offer Secure Passage to the Cloud

October 11, 2012 | Author: admin

IBM has offered up a variety of cloud computing options for its customers in recent years. The latest, in tandem with AT&T, brings a security element to the mix. "AT&T and IBM have both been making efforts in cloud services, but haven't yet established a strong marketing position," said Simon Aspinall, chief marketing officer for Virtustream.

After years of chipping away at the cloud computing market, IBM on Wednesday announced that it has teamed up with AT&T to offer secure cloud computing as a service.

The two companies will combine IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise+ with AT&T's virtual private networking service to Fortune 1,000 companies worldwide.

The service will be offered early next year.

The combined offering secures data in motion, integrating the security features of both IBM's cloud computing resources and AT&T's VPN service. This will let users move data or applications between their own data centers or private clouds, and the service.

"This is going to provide clients with an extra level of security because the data leaves their own data center at the company and travels on a protected network tunnel to be processed, and then goes back to them through the tunnel," IBM spokesperson Colleen Haikes told The E-Commerce Times.

Corporate data usually travels over VPNs, but the difference is that the AT&T network "is connected at the code level to the IBM cloud and data is protected the whole way through," Haikes said. "The two companies have worked really closely together over the past 10 years."

AT&T will dynamically allocate networking resources to computing resources. This will let both scale up or down in tandem rapidly to support changes in demand.

The service will be customized to fit customer demand. It will offer service level agreements aligned to business and usage requirements. It will have more than 70 automated built-in security functions, and will extend security to both wired and wireless devices that have been authenticated to the user's VPN.

The IBM-AT&T joint offering "fundamentally reinforces the notion that cloud providers recognize that they can't treat security as a 'nice-to-have' but, rather, need to deliver it as a service, the same as how core computing services are delivered," Urvish Vashi, vice president of marketing at Alert Logic, told The E-Commerce Times.

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Penguin Computing's New Scyld Cloud Management Platform Makes It Easy to Move HPC Applications to the Cloud

October 11, 2012 | Author: admin

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Penguin Computing today announced the availability of the Scyld Cloud Management Platform (SCMP) on its public HPC cloud Penguin Computing on Demand (POD). SCMP is a comprehensive software suite that makes it easy to implement service-based on-demand access for HPC applications. SCMP provides services for:

SCMPs storage system is based on the distributed open-source storage system Ceph, which supports file-based, block-based and object-based storage. The management of virtual servers leverages OpenStack, an open-source solution for creating and managing large groups of virtual servers in a cloud computing environment. All SCMP components are accessible through an intuitive web-based interface, as well as a web-service API.

As the first organization to offer commercial cluster management solutions for HPC and as one of the first to offer a public HPC cloud, we have a solid foundation on which we built SCMP, says Tom Coull, Senior VP of Software and Services at Penguin Computing.

SCMP is also the foundation of Penguin Computings upcoming Scyld Cloud Manager (SCM), a packaged software suite that will enable customers to build their own public and private HPC clouds.

An early adopter of SCMP is the global biotechnology company Life Technologies. The Scyld Cloud Management Platform has enabled Life Technologies to offer cloud-based genomic sequencing analysis services through its Torrent Suite Cloud offering.

SCMP is the core component of our Torrent Suite Cloud infrastructure, says Matt Dyer, associate director of Bioinformatics at Life Technologies. It enables us to offer a flexible solution for processing and managing genomic sequencing data to our customers. Typical use cases include software development and testing, as well as data sharing in collaborative projects.

For more information, please visit http://www.penguincomputing.com.

About Penguin Computing

For well over a decade Penguin Computing has been dedicated to delivering complete, integrated Enterprise and High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions that are innovative, cost effective, and easy to use. Penguin offers a complete end-to-end portfolio of products and solutions including workstations, rack-mount servers, custom server designs, power efficient rack solutions and turn-key clusters. Penguin also offers the Scyld suite of software products for efficient provisioning and infrastructure monitoring. For users who want to use supercomputing capabilities on-demand and pay as they go, Penguin provides Penguin Computing on Demand (POD), a public HPC cloud that is available instantly and as needed.

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Looking to cloud shop? Marketplaces are the new place to do it

October 11, 2012 | Author: admin

A few weeks ago Amazon Web Services announced a marketplace for its cloud services in which users could order a variety of applications to run on the company's cloud servers. Not surprisingly, other cloud providers are now rolling out almost the exact same feature, with Savvis being the latest.

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Savvis, which telecommunications company CenturyLink bought last year for $2.5 billion, today announced the beta launch of Savvisdirect, aimed at mid-market enterprises as a public cloud service that includes an app marketplace. It's meant to complement enterprise-grade cloud and managed service offerings from Savvis, and it will operate as a new business unit within the company. Whereas Savvis is aimed at enterprises because of its focus on virtual private clouds and managed services, Savvisdirect is meant to provide easy on-board, swipe of the credit card access to public cloud resources.

To start, Savvisdirect's marketplace will include applications from a variety of vendors, including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and security programs from Symantec and McAfee, for example. "It's critical to have fluid, frictionless click-to-buy cloud services," says Andrew Higginbotham, president, Savvisdirect, noting that the Savvisdirect offering is aimed at IT administrators, developers and business users who want to rapidly onboard cloud-resources and commonly used enterprise applications, but have them hosted in a public cloud-like environment.

In addition to the app store, Savvis will also have virtual servers that can be rented by the hour, month or annually that can be used as a development platform for building new or customized applications, creating a platform as a service layer on top of the traditional Infrastructure-as-a-service offering from Savvis.

Savvisdirect is announced as a public beta today and is expected to be rolled out in general availability in the fourth quarter of this year.

Network World staff writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing and social collaboration. He can be reached at BButler@nww.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW.

New vFoglight Storage 2.0 Provides Integrated Application to Disk Performance Monitoring

October 10, 2012 | Author: admin

BARCELONA, Spain & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

VKernel, now part of Dell Software, and the award-winning provider of enterprise-class performance, configuration and capacity management products for virtualized data centers and cloud environments, announced today general availability of vFoglight Storage 2.0, an integrated solution that provides application to disk performance monitoring. This new release will enable server and storage teams to jointly resolve VM performance issues by working from the same data set that unites server and storage performance metrics. vFoglight Storage 2.0 is available for download and will be showcased this week at VMworld 2012 in Barcelona, Spain, October 9-11, at VKernel booth #B406.

Server and Storage Teams use Separate Management Tools That Do Not Integrate Together

In the past, storage administrators tended to use management software that looked at fabrics and storage arrays while server admins tended to use management applications that monitored servers. While less than ideal, the one-to-one mapping of hosts to LUNs at least provided some measure of simplification. Virtualization upended this less than perfect system by eliminating the easy linkage between storage and operating systems with the addition of virtual datastores. With virtualization, storage administrators have lost the ability to determine what applications are hitting which spindles just as server admins have lost the ability to tell which physical storage components are being utilized by their applications.

vFoglight Storage 2.0 Integrates Server and Storage Data to Provide End-to-End Monitoring

vFoglight Storage 2.0 is designed to bridge this gap by combining and analyzing information from storage arrays and fabrics with the information contained within VMware vCenter. This new release provides a holistic view of the storage from the application through the virtualization layer to the physical disk spindle. This universal visibility enables server and storage administrators to literally get on the same page when managing, planning and troubleshooting virtual machine performance.

Additional Features

vFoglight Storage 2.0 also adds:

Were excited to provide server administrators with the ability to jointly troubleshoot performance issues with their storage counterparts, said Alex Rosemblat, Product Marketing Manager, VKernel. This vFoglight Storage release will link the previously separate server and storage performance data sets to provide a unique, integrated solution for the market.

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