Where does WAN optimization and application acceleration come together with virtualization and cloud computing? Right here.
Jun 16, 2011
The Talkin Cloud 50 report by Nine Lives Media recently identified the top 50 VARs and MSPs in terms of revenue earned from IaaS, SaaS and PaaS services. The companies in the Talkin Cloud 50 generated $321 million in annual cloud revenues in 2010, up 47% from the year prior. The top 3 companies on the list are OpSource, Apptix and mindSHIFT Technologies. For more information and to access the full report (registration required), click here.
Jun 15, 2011
Virtualization – The Engine that Enables Cloud Computing
— “Most cloud environments – public, private, or hybrid – run on virtualized infrastructure that share CPU, memory and storage between applications,” noted Bryan Semple, Chief Marketing Officer at VKernel in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “These shared resource environments behave a lot like mainframes and hence require the same level of capacity planning,” concluded Semple.
A very general question first, about Cloud Computing itself: Surely we’ve heard all of this before in various forms and guises – grid computing / utility computing, etc.? What is different this time – why is everyone so convinced it will now work?
Mar 30, 2011
“7 days over a WAN” – sounds like an old movie.
Jessica Scarpati, News Writer at Search Enterprise WAN just finished up a great story about one of our customers Forum Energy Technologies (FET). FET saw WAN optimization cut backup over WAN for DR from 7 days to 1
Once you no longer have 6 days or you organizations data at risk you have time to do some innovative work, and that sounds like what Sean Barnes has in his future.
“After our recent merger, we had another one of our companies [with] a data center here in Houston, and they have EqualLogic arrays as well,” Barnes said. “We may end up looking at doing some sort of data replications from that data center to our Houston data center.”
FET is also stepping up its virtual server footprint over the next year. Barnes will deploy VMware’s Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) to schedule and balance computing workloads — creating another opportunity to use aCelera for backup over WAN links.
“We may end up replicating actual VMs over to the DR site as well,” Barnes said. “There’s potential for more data to be pushed across.”
Freeing up the time and the dollars to innovate is how smart organizations like Forum Oil stay ahead of the pack. FET is working all angles to keep its competitive advantage.
Mar 28, 2011
In 2008, Certeon shifted from a hardware-based solution to a software-only approach.
What should companies look for when evaluating WAN optimization solutions?
WAN optimization should not be considered as a point solution to solve pain at a couple of remote sites; instead it should be thought of a strategic initiative for the entire infrastructure.
When deployed across organization, CIOs and IT administrators will no longer have to worry where the data is and where the users are. Data will be available instantly at LAN like speeds from anywhere in the world.
Can you provide some real-life examples?
Pathfinder uses the aCelera software-based WAN optimization solution to enhance global communications. Pathfinder has close to 900 employees globally, across more than 40 offices in 24 countries – all of whom need access to optimized application performance. aCelera has increased Pathfinder’s application performance dramatically across all its applications, from finance and data to communications and file sharing.
HellermannTyton is using aCelera to optimize its global manufacturing business. Business continuity processes such as backup and replication are often crippled over the Wide Area Network (WAN) leaving most organizations to throw bandwidth at the problem. HellermannTyton instead chose to deploy Certeon’s software solution to cut its replication window times from 13 hours to less than one hour.
Mar 07, 2011
Take the tour of private and enterprise cloud providers, to public cloud services, to the Hybrid cloud.
Quoted from Wikibon http://wikibon.org/blog/cloud-computing-landscape/
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Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosting services over the Internet. A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting. It is sold on demand, typically by the minute or by the hour, it is elastic – a user can have as much or as little of a service as they want at any given time; and the service is fully managed by the provider.
Here is a graphical look at the cloud computing landscape. From private and enterprise cloud providers (such as IBM, HP/3Par, and VMware), to public cloud services (like Google and Microsoft Azure), to the Hybrid cloud (Verizon and the NRE Alliance of newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus as examples).
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