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Amazon woos VMware admins (and workloads) with new portal

Jun

5

2014

photo: Barb Darrow SUMMARY:Can you say hybrid cloud? AWS says its new portal will let VMware administrators manage AWS, as well as VMware, resources. Interesting. Late Friday, Amazon Web Services announced a portal that it says will make VMware admins comfortable managing workloads in the Amazon cloud. This is just the latest push by the public ...

New AWS Management Portal for vCenter

Jun

5

2014

IT Managers and Administrators working within large organizations regularly tell us that they find the key AWS messages — fast and easy self-service provisioning, exchange of CAPEX for OPEX, and the potential for cost savings — to be attractive and compelling. They want to start moving into the future by experimenting with AWS, but they don’t always ...

Tectonic shift as public cloud giants acknowledge the power of private deployment options

Jun

5

2014

photo: Barb Darrow SUMMARY:News flash: Amazon and Google start to realize that businesses want more than public cloud. Among all the cloud news this week, the bulk of attention went to dueling price cuts by Google and Amazon that went across the major services. But equally, or perhaps more important, was that Amazon continued to acknowledge the existence ...

S3mper Fi! Netflix open sources library to make Amazon S3 even more awesome

Jan

13

2014

SUMMARY:For shops that want to keep using AWS S3 storage service but also want better data consistency, Netflix just open-sourced its S3mper library. Cloud architect Adrian Cockcroft may have flown the coop but Netflix continues to do its thing by enhancing or bolstering existing Amazon cloud services and then making its work available for others to use. This ...

Amazon’s big reveal at re:Invent: Desktops as a service

Nov

18

2013

photo: Amazon Web Services SUMMARY:Amazon Web Services announced a new service called Amazon WorkSpaces during its re:invent conference on Wednesday. If it can deliver VDI and gain traction where others have not, it could be a big boon for the company. Amazon Web Services has been courting enterprise IT users pretty heavily for the ...

Amazon says CloudTrail will track all those API calls for risk-averse enterprises

Nov

18

2013

photo: Barb Darrow SUMMARY:So just who is making all those API calls to your Amazon Web Services and what are those calls doing? Amazon’s new CloudTrail aims to corral that for you. That companies will move even their mission critical applications to the cloud is not a question of if but when, according to ...

Amazon cloud delivers virtual Windows desktops to PCs and tablets

Nov

18

2013

Windows and Microsoft Office delivered to iPad, Android, or Kindle Fire. Deploying an Amazon virtual desktop. Amazon Amazon has been a cloud computing giant for years, delivering infrastructure-as-a-service that lets businesses and developers build and host applications in Amazon data centers. Now, the company is using its cloud to deliver virtual desktops to any Windows ...

A quick reminder of why cloud computing really matters — the applications

Nov

13

2013

photo: Barb Darrow SUMMARY:Amazon Web Services’ second-annual user conference is around the corner, but its scale is as much about AWS’s platform as it is about the ecosystem of developers and applications it has enabled. Amazon Web Services’ second-annual re:Invent user conference kicks off on Tuesday, and the scale of the thing speaks volumes of ...

RightScale rolls up multi-cloud management and cost analytics in one suite package

Nov

11

2013

SUMMARY: The early mover in multi-cloud management is melding cloud cost and usage analytics with its management services in a new suite. Dealing with multiple clouds is all the rage, at least if you scan the headlines — recently systems integration giant CSC bought ServiceMesh to deal with these issues. So RightScale, which staked its claim in ...

Flexiant readies OpenStack support with plug-in-friendly Orchestrator release

Nov

5

2013

photo: JULIADEBOER PHOTOGRAPHY SUMMARY:The British company, whose software aims to help service providers enter the cloud game, has “opened up” its platform to allow more flexibility. It’s also preparing to support OpenStack, claiming it will make service provider deployments less painful. Flexiant, a company that sells service providers software to help them start offering cloud ...