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Gladinet to Provide 1TB of Free HP Cloud Object Storage
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct.2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Gladinet has announced that for a limited time, it will include 1100 GB of free HP Cloud Object Storagehttps://docs.hpcloud.com/object-storage with each new Team Edition account as it collaborates with HP to provide collaboration, file storage, backup and team workspace solutions using HP Cloud Object Storage. This solution will be provided by the Gladinet Cloud with HP Cloud Services (http://www.gladinet.com/hpcloud?promo=gladinet_pr ). The 1100GB remains free until the Gladinet Cloud account is closed.
HP Cloud Object Storage provides a way to store and retrieve objects in a highly redundant cluster of publicly accessible physical machines. Gladinet Cloud leverages the power of this service to provide simple collaboration, file storage, backup and team workspace solutions. It also supports seamless integration with existing local storage to create a hybrid cloud with centrally managed, unified access.
Jerry Huang, Gladinet's CEO, states, "A powerful use case involves attaching a local folder to HP Cloud Object Storage to provide secure, remote access to any desktop or mobile device. In this scenario, the local folder can be synchronized with the HP Cloud Object Storage regardless of where changes occur and because there is a local copy, the data remains accessible even when Internet connectivity is lost."
The ability to seamlessly replace traditional backup media with cloud storage further demonstrates the value of Gladinet's unified approach. Any third party backup application can send data to the cloud through the existing file system interfaces, making the cloud migration completely transparent to the application.
"We are excited by this opportunity to work closely with HP as they provide the technology we need to add value to our solutions. Using HP Cloud Services with the Gladinet Cloud provides the usability, reliability and performance that customers are looking for," stated Jerry Huang, Gladinet's CEO, "and our compelling free storage offer provides an incentive for new customers to come and see what we have to offer."
For more information about the promotion, please visithttp://www.gladinet.com/hpcloud?promo=gladinet_pr.
About GladinetFounded in 2008, Gladinet started by providing users the convenience of a network drive attached to cloud storage. With the addition of products that attach cloud storage to file servers, backup to the cloud and create personal clouds, Gladinet is changing the way businesses access and use cloud storage through its widely accepted cloud storage access platform. Learn more athttp://www.gladinet.com. Follow us at http://twitter.com/gladinetor find us on Facebook athttp://www.facebook.com/Gladinet.
Contact: Franklyn Peart, SVP Business Development Gladinet franklynp@gladinet.comhttp://www.gladinet.com (954) 489-6498
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Oracle sets sights on an all-Oracle cloud
Summary: CEO Larry Ellison has unveiled an ambitious cloud strategy built around an all-Oracle IT stack, but has failed to give evidence at Oracle Open World of performance or cost advantages over rivals.
Oracle wants to build a cathedral of cloud services, while all around it its competitors are building slums.
The company's chief executive, Larry Ellison, outlined the database giant's cloud strategyon Sunday at Oracle OpenWorld. His vision was that Oracle customers will use both a public and private cloud entirely based around the company's software and hardware.
"We're adding a new line of business, cloud computing, to our traditional business of selling software and selling hardware... and we're going to sell it on the fastest computers in the world," Ellison said on Sunday. "It makes a lot of sense for Oracle to be in all three tiers of cloud services."
Those three tiers are software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). In other words, Oracle wants to be the Salesforce, Heroku, and Google, Microsoft, Amazon and HP of the cloud.
"The infrastructure that we're offering isn't conventional infrastructure," Ellison said. "What we're offering is our OS, our VM, compute services and storage services on the fastest, most reliable machines in the world on our engineered systems all networked together with a modern Infiniband network."
In other words, Oracle's cloud is one that is built with its overarching 'software and hardware, engineered together' philosophy.
Different approach
The approach differs markedly from that of Oracle's competitors: Amazon Web Services (AWS) is known to use vast amounts of low-cost commodity servers to run its cloud, while Google has gone as far as to design and build its own stripped-down servers. Neither of these companies sell on-premise hardware.
HP, which via its significant hardware business is perhaps the closest company to Oracle in terms of form, has opted for a more open cloud strategy. Though the IT giant sells cloud-specific hardware, it uses the open-source OpenStack cloud software for its own cloud effort.
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Oracle bulks up cloud computing services
Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison unveiled a high-end server with more memory Sunday evening, and the tech company updated its flagship database to compete against SAP in meeting businesses' growing information needs.
Oracle will also sell computing power and storage, applications software and its database as a cloud service businesses can rent instead of buying outright, Ellison said in the opening address of the company's OpenWorld conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
"You can access all of these services across the network," said Ellison. "It makes sense for Oracle to be in all three tiers of cloud services."
Oracle, the world's largest supplier of database software, is jockeying with SAP, the top business applications maker, as well as Salesforce.com and Workday, for the edge in cloud computing for businesses. Its revamped 12c database, the first new version in five years, will let customers move their computing jobs from data centers to the Internet, Ellison said.
The company's addition to its Exadata line of servers, called the X3, will be able to house as much as 22 terabytes of flash computer memory and four terabytes of DRAM in a single server rack to greatly speed up business reports. That's four times as much flash storage per rack than a previous version of Exadata, Ellison said.
"If you thought the old Exadatas were fast, you ain't seen nothing yet," said Ellison.
He said Oracle is "ideally positioned" to deliver many components of hardware and software - including its database, application-connecting middleware and computer systems - as a cloud computing service delivered entirely through the Internet, or with some equipment sitting in customers' data centers.
"Oracle should be in this business," said Rick Sherlund, an analyst at Nomura Holdings Inc., who recommends buying the shares. "Oracle has to reposition for the cloud."
Ellison has said the 12c database will let Oracle serve multiple companies' data-processing needs from the same information storehouse and will arrive by early next year. The company's Exadata and Exalogic systems, plus its database, Java development tools and social-media analysis software, can be delivered to businesses as a service Oracle manages over the Internet, co-president Mark Hurd said in an interview last week.
International Business Machines, Microsoft and VMware are also vying to supply more of the platform software that can help companies move to cloud computing. SAP's High Performance Analytical Appliance uses hardware from IBM, Hewlett-Packard and others to store data in computer memory for faster analysis.
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3Di, Inc. Announces New Releases of 3Di Cloud to Support Large-Scale Avatar Social Communities: Enterprise Edition …
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
3Di, Inc., which develops and offers 3D Internet solutions (head office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; representative Director and CEO: Satoshi Koike), announces new releases of 3Di Cloud, a cloud service supporting easy creation of 3D avatar-oriented virtual worlds. The new offerings include the large-scale Enterprise Edition and Unlimited Edition, as well as a free-of-charge Community Edition. Sales are expected to start on October 5, 2012.
A license for the Enterprise Edition allows creation of a maximum of 10,000 separate virtual spaces and 500 simultaneous user connections. The price is USD 499 per month.
The Unlimited Edition places no limit on the number of separate virtual spaces that can be created, and is available based on an individualized revenue share agreement.
An additional new offering, the Community Edition, allows no-charge usage of 3Di Cloud servers, on the condition that the users' 3Di Cloud project files and contents are published as open source.
Previously offered Personal Edition and Professional Edition licenses will migrated to the new monthly billing system.
"3Di Cloud Server" Editions and Pricing
(1) Community Edition (free)
The Community Edition may be used free of charge, if the user's project files and contents are published as open source. One virtual space can be created.
(2) Personal Edition (for individuals)
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HP Introduces ProLiant Gen8 Servers That Enhance Virtualized Performance, Facilitate Move to Cloud Ultradense four …
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Bangkok--1 Oct--Aziam Burson-Marsteller
BANGKOK September 27, 2012 HP today unveiled two new HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) four-socket servers that facilitate customers move to cloud while delivering increased compute power in less space and a return on investment within three months.(1)
The industrys first four-socket servers to incorporate HP ProActive Insight Architecture, the HP ProLiant BL660c and DL560 Gen8 servers significantly reduce the time spent on maintenance tasks through high levels of automation and continuous monitoring of system health, saving IT staff more than 30 days of administration time a year.(2)
Clients are continuously virtualizing their compute-intensive applications in order to achieve greater utilization and efficiency, and to facilitate the move to private and hybrid clouds. Many clients have virtualized the basic infrastructure and smaller workloads, but a challenge still remains with more complex and higher-end workloads. Clients often face performance bottlenecks, data-center footprint and power limitations, and inadequate memory capacity from traditional two-socket servers.
As building blocks for HP Converged Infrastructure, these multiprocessor servers satisfy the need for high-end compute power that enables clients to extend end-to-end virtualization and provide a foundation for creating private and hybrid clouds.
With a three-to-one server-consolidation rate(3) and reduced server footprint in the data center, the HP ProLiant BL660c Gen8 server offers four-socket density in half the size of the previous generation, and reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 30 percent.(4)
Additionally, the HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8 server provides a space-minimizing four-socket server in a 2U form factor without compromising performance, scalability or expansion requirements.
New server capabilities in a powerful, compact footprint The HP ProLiant BL660c and HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8 servers were designed to drive better performance for complex, virtualized environments so clients can access their data faster, optimize their system to achieve higher-performing workloads and add more virtual machines (VMs) per server. The new servers deliver:
Improved storage performance with the first integrated PCIe 3.0 storage technology(5), providing twice the input/output bandwidth(6) and up to six times faster performance than previous generations.(7)
Oracle to launch cloud service to rival Amazon
Oracle announced Sunday the launch of a new cloud computing service to rival Amazon.
Oracle chief executive officer Larry Ellison unveiled plans for an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) called Oracle Public Cloud at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. The service will have two versions: public and private.
Oracle Public Cloud can be compared to Amazon Web Services, where servers will be stored, managed and maintained by Oracle. Business Insider reports that the hardware for the public cloud service will ne stored at Oracle data centers.
According to ZDNET, the Oracle Private Cloud will run both Oracle and customer software.
"The Oracle Private Cloud is quite literally an extension of the Oracle Cloud," Ellison said. "You can't tell the difference." The new service is meant to be "interchangeable" with other Oracle cloud solutions.
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Security and efficiency were highlighted by Ellison. The New York Times speculates that Oracle will compete with companies like Amazon or Google by "promising better security, reliable industry standard practices, and a higher quality of services."
Ellison went on to stress that Oracle Cloud is a new service offered by Oracle and that its main competitor is Amazon not IBM.
Oracle specializes in enterprise hardware and software, like servers and database management software. Its main competitor has traditionally been IBM, which also offers hardware and software solutions for businesses.
HP Introduces ProLiant Gen8 Servers That Enhance Virtualized Performance, Facilitate Move to Cloud
BEIJING--(Marketwire - Sep 26, 2012) - HP ( NYSE : HPQ ) today unveiled two new HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) four-socket servers that facilitate customers' move to cloud while delivering increased compute power in less space anda return on investment within three months.(1)
The industry's first four-socket servers to incorporate HP ProActive Insight Architecture, the HP ProLiant BL660c and DL560 Gen8 servers significantly reduce the time spent on maintenance tasks through high levels of automation and continuous monitoring of system health, saving IT staff more than 30 days of administration time a year.(2)
Clients are continuously virtualizing their compute-intensive applications in order to achieve greater utilization and efficiency, and to facilitate the move to private and hybrid clouds. Many clients have virtualized the basic infrastructure and smaller workloads, but a challenge still remains with more complex and higher-end workloads. Clients often face performance bottlenecks, data-center footprint and power limitations, and inadequate memory capacity from traditional two-socket servers.
As building blocks for HP Converged Infrastructure, these multiprocessor servers satisfy the need for high-end compute power that enables clients to extend end-to-end virtualization and provide a foundation for creating private and hybrid clouds.
With a three-to-one server-consolidation rate(3) and reduced server footprint in the data center, the HP ProLiant BL660c Gen8 server offers four-socket density in half the size of the previous generation(4), and reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 30 percent.(5)
Additionally, the HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8 server provides a space-minimizing four-socket server in a 2U form factor without compromising performance, scalability or expansion requirements.
New server capabilities in a powerful, compact footprint The HP ProLiant BL660c and HP ProLiant DL560 Gen8 servers were designed to drive better performance for complex, virtualized environments so clients can access their data faster, optimize their system to achieve higher-performing workloads and add more virtual machines (VMs) per server. The new servers deliver:
The new servers drive a balance of economics and density for customers, while optimizing application performance to help speed innovation and business growth. For example, ZTE Corporation, one of the world's largest smartphone vendors, needed to break through its capacity limitation and enhance the adaptability of the traditional data center in order to be able to keep up the business rapid growth.
"We needed to modernize our data centers in order to keep up with rapid growth and to ensure continued service to our customers across 140 countries," said Yu Yuan, product manager, ZTE Corporation -- Guangdong NewStart Technology Service Ltd. "We chose the HP ProLiant DL 560 Gen8 server over the competition because it offered increased virtual machine densities to reduce space and cost, while improving performance, which enabled us to develop a platform to build private clouds."
Built on HP Proactive Insight Architecture HP ProLiant Gen8 servers redefine expectations and economics in the data center by leveraging HP ProActive Insight Architecture to offer the new four-socket servers unprecedented lifecycle automation. A direct connection to the HP Insight Online portal accelerates problem resolution and reduced unplanned downtime. Through self monitoring, self diagnosing and proactive support, clients can resolve problems up to 66 percent faster.(12)
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Speeding enterprises into the cloud: HP Malaysia
AvantiKumar | Oct. 1, 2012
HP CloudSystem has been optimised for Microsoft Windows Server 2012 to deliver a single-vendor experience, says HP Malaysia.
PHOTO - Vincent Lee country manager Industry Standard Servers, HP Malaysia.
In conjunction with software giant Microsoft's announcement of Windows Server 2012, technology solutions provider HP has expanded its Converged Cloud portfolio with a joint private cloud initiative to help Malaysian enterprises along the private journey.
HP Malaysia country manager, industry standard servers (ISS), Vincent Lee said the HP and Microsoft Joint Private Cloud option has optimised, preintegrated solutions based on a deep joint technology development curve, which offers one-stop-shop life cycle sales and support.
Lee said that local organisations were drawn by the possibilities of flexibility and financial benefits of cloud computing but needed options to help them get started quickly while addressing risk areas such as data loss, security and vendor lock-in.
"By providing a clear, proven path along with a single-vendor client experience, HP and Microsoft are greatly simplifying and accelerating the evolution to cloud computing," he said.
"As customers move to private clouds, they are looking for a simplified approach that minimises risks, increases their flexibility and allows for greater cost savings," said Lee. "Through this relationship with Microsoft, we're providing customers with a trusted, single-source experience to provide them an easy on-ramp to cloud."
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New Relic Extends Partnership With RightScale With the Addition of New RightScripts
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 27, 2012) - New Relic, Inc., the SaaS-based cloud application performance management provider, today announced the availability of New Relic RightScripts for .NET, PHP, and Java on the RightScale cloud management platform. Available now in the RightScale MultiCloud Marketplace, RightScale customers can quickly and easily run RightScripts to deploy New Relic on RightScale managed cloud servers for monitoring and troubleshooting their applications. All RightScale customers receive unlimited use of New Relic Standard free of charge.
The addition of New Relic RightScripts now makes implementing New Relic even easier. In addition to one-click account creation, RightScale customers can easily deploy New Relic by simply adding the RightScript to a ServerTemplate, providing the proper inputs, and launching a server. Customers get the critical data they need to monitor and manage application performance in real time, all accessible through the RightScale management console.
"New Relic is a longtime strategic partner of ours, and we are thrilled to see their continued innovation on our platform bring value to even more RightScale users," said Bailey Caldwell, Vice President of Business Development at RightScale."New Relic's additional language support further broadens the selection of cloud-ready components in our MultiCloud Marketplace, our one-stop shop for cloud application needs."
"We've enjoyed a long and harmonious partnership with RightScale and are pleased to deepen our partnership with the availability of RightScripts that make it even simpler to start using New Relic," said Bill Lapcevic, Vice President of Business Development at New Relic. "Together we're helping organizations ensure successful application deployments in the cloud through our deep integration."
RightScale and New Relic have partnered to offer unlimited use of New Relic Standard free of charge to all RightScale customers. RightScale customers can sign up today from within their RightScale Dashboard by clicking on the "New Relic" link under "Reports." New RightScripts are available in the RightScale MultiCloud Marketplace. Organizations that want to try RightScale and New Relic can sign up for a RightScale free edition to get started. New Relic RightScript support for Ruby already exists and Python support is on the horizon. To learn more, visit http://www.newrelic.com/rightscale.
About New Relic New Relic, Inc. is the all-in-one web application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. Its SaaS solution combines real user monitoring, application monitoring, server monitoring and availability monitoring in a single solution built from the ground up and changes the way developers and operations teams manage web application performance in real-time. More than 30,000 organizations use New Relic to optimize over 8 billion transactions in production each day. New Relic also partners with leading cloud management, platform and hosting vendors to provide their customers with instant visibility into the performance of deployed applications. New Relic is a private company headquartered in San Francisco, CA. New Relic is a registered trademark of New Relic, Inc. To learn more: http://www.newrelic.com.
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RiverMeadow Software(TM) Delivers Automated and Rapid Onboarding Capability for HP Cloud Services
SOURCE: RiverMeadow Software, Inc.
RiverMeadow's enCloud SaaS Enables Quick, Easy and Cost Efficient Onboarding of Physical, Virtual and Cloud Based Servers With the HP Cloud
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 19, 2012) - RiverMeadow Software Inc., developer of the enCloud software service, the world's only automated cloud migration solution developed specifically for Service Provider IaaS platforms, today announced support for the HP Cloud, based on OpenStack technology, with its enCloud service. In addition, RiverMeadow has joined the HP Cloud Services partner ecosystem.
"We're impressed with HP Cloud Services commitment to offer a cloud computing platform that caters to the constantly evolving IT needs of its customers," said Mark Shirman, RiverMeadow CEO. "The HP Cloud is architected on the premise of choice, consistency and flexibility and RiverMeadow's enCloud service is the perfect enabler, providing customers the ability to move to the HP Cloud quickly and easily."
The enCloud software service is an easy to access, multi-tenant solution supporting unlimited concurrent connections. Without agents or downtime, RiverMeadow's enCloud service reduces the cost and complexity of cloud migration, providing HP Cloud customers the seamless onboarding of physical, virtual and cloud based servers.
In 4 easy steps, RiverMeadow's enCloud service automates server migration into the HP Cloud from start-to-finish:
You can locate RiverMeadow in the HP Cloud Partner site.
About RiverMeadow Software Inc. RiverMeadow Software, Inc., with offices in Westford, MA and San Jose, CA, develops industry-leading software that automates the migration of physical, virtual and cloud based servers (live and as-is) into and between public, private and hybrid clouds. Our enCloud SaaS is a rapid cloud onboarding solution developed specifically for Cloud Service Provider IaaS platforms. Without agents or downtime, the enCloud software dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of cloud migration, enabling Service Providers to quickly, easily and cost-efficiently deliver the benefits of elastic cloud computing to enterprise and SMB customers.
RiverMeadow and enCloud are trademarks or registered trademarks of RiverMeadow Software. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
For further information visit: http://www.rivermeadow.com, email: pr@rivermeadow.com, or call: (978) 467-4090.
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