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TEC Accreditation: UNIT4 Reinvents Cloud Multi-Tenancy
SLIEDRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwire -06/29/12)- UNIT4 (EURONEXT:UNIT4), a global business software group, announced today that its multi-tenant cloud deployment model has been accredited by Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) as "reinventing cloud multi-tenancy" by delivering all the benefits of multi-tenancy while providing peace of mind for larger organizations that require a change-oriented platform with the security of a separate database. Its 'pure cloud' software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment option has security and change features that are competitively unique - and advantageous - to organizations seeking low-cost business agility.
The TEC accreditation report "UNIT4 Multi-Tenancy SaaS Delivery Model Accreditation - June 2012" applies to UNIT4's Agresso ERP cloud deployment option, Vita Cloud Angel, housed on Agresso's change-centric Vita architecture backbone. Today, both single and multi-tenant Vita Cloud Angel implementations of Agresso are running globally in 200+ companies, and a fast-growing percentage of UNIT4's software revenue is now coming from cloud-based contracts.
UNIT4's unique multi-tenant approach: five advantages
UNIT4 has created a new category of multi-tenancy for larger organizations that are concerned about the risks associated with traditional multi-tenancy and require a more secure and more change-ready cloud solution. The multiple tenants share the application and database "servers", yet have a unique advantage over other ERP multi-tenant options: their information is protected and "move-ready" in separate databases. For sophisticated and highly configurable solutions such as ERP, many businesses and organizations want a much higher level of data/information security rather than being part of one pervasive database shared by all tenants.
By approaching multi-tenancy in this way, UNIT4 offers all the benefits of multi-tenancy with unique advantages for the customer and solution provider:
For the customer:
From the ERP suppliers perspective (which simultaneously provides stability and cost benefits to customers):
"UNIT4 has a global reputation for both supporting low-cost change and for providing choice," said Ton Dobbe, Vice President, Product Marketing at UNIT4. "We will always be the leader in supporting changing business requirements on every level. What could be better for an organization than to select a cloud deployment, and then decide it's not for you and switch easily to a traditional on premise model? Or how about easily being able to merge data and processes with an acquired company? Or handle changing tax or environmental regulations, reorganizations or market requirements seamlessly? We're not just delivering a security-optimized multi-tenant cloud option: we are delivering the optimum ERP solution for organizations to keep up with this fast-changing marketplace - both from a technology and cost perspective."
TEC accreditation report covers multiple requirements
As part of the accreditation process, TEC interviewed both UNIT4 architectural executives as well as current Agresso ERP users who are currently deployed in a cloud multi-tenant SaaS environment on areas including data security and compliance. UNIT4's software upgrades also all occur simultaneously and concurrently, with all clients automatically running on the same version of Agresso software. Agresso clients reported high levels of satisfaction with the quality of UNIT4's service-level agreements (SLA's) for uptime and security, for procedures and documentation, for its communications regarding any changes to the physical location of customers' data and UNIT4's overall cloud-based security strategies and methodologies.
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How to create and manage outgoing mail servers | FastDot Cloud Hosting – Video
27-06-2012 22:25 In this tutorial we'll learn how to create and manage outgoing mail servers. Proudly Sponsored by FastDot International Cloud Hosting. Visit our website for more web-hosting tutorials: Cloud VPS | cPanel Hosting | Domains
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CollabNet Survey on the 'State of Subversion' Shows Continued Adoption of Hybrid Source Code Management and Cloud …
BRISBANE, Calif., June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CollabNet (www.collab.net), a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services, recently conducted a survey of more than 1,300 software developers and administrators on how the Apache Subversion (SVN) source code management (SCM) tool is being utilized within ALM environments. Key findings show growing demand for cloud-based support services, including remote back-up, and an increase in hybrid SCM strategies that include parallel usage of Subversion and Git. It also revealed an increase in SVN repository sizes, demonstrating how development teams continue to use the tool for more than just code management, but also to support testing and release management.
For a copy of the complete "State of Subversion" survey please visit: (www.collab.net/subversionsurvey2012).
"Each year we reach out to the Subversion community to gain insights into usage trends and to uncover new directions developers would like to see the project take to address emerging challenges," said Lothar Schubert, senior director, product marketing for CollabNet. "What we see is the continued advancement of Subversion and the role of SCM within the ALM ecosystem, and how it supports the adoption of emerging practices around DevOps and Enterprise Cloud Development."
Key findings from the global online survey include:
Created by CollabNet in 2000, Apache Subversion is an open source version control system that is being used by more than 5 million developers around the globe. The project and software have seen incredible success since being launched, with continued widespread adoption in both the open source community and the enterprise world. Also provided by CollabNet, Subversion Edge offers a complete certified stack of Apache, Subversion and ViewVC, along with a browser-based interface for ease-of-use and management. It keeps all components current with auto-updates delivered straight to the web browser and ensures cohesive functionality of the integrated tool suite.
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To learn more about Subversion and its latest developments please visit http://blogs.collab.net/subversion/. To download Subversion Edge (bundled with Apache Subversion), please visit: (www.collab.net/svnedge).
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About CollabNet
CollabNet is a leading provider of Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM products and services for software-driven organizations. With more than 10,000 global customers, the company provides a suite of platforms and services to address three major trends disrupting the software industry: Agile, DevOps and hybrid cloud development. Its CloudForge development-Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS) enables cloud development through a flexible platform that is team friendly, enterprise ready and integrated to support leading third party tools. The CollabNet TeamForge ALM, ScrumWorks Pro project management and Subversion Edge source code management platforms can be deployed separately or together, in the cloud or on-premise. CollabNet complements its technical offerings with industry leading consulting and training services for Agile and cloud development transformations. Many CollabNet customers improve productivity by as much as 70 percent, while reducing costs by 80 percent. For more information, please visit (www.collab.net).
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New Mobile options for Home Server users and media streaming – Video
27-06-2012 23:11 This is the annual Mobile edition of the Home Server Show Podcast. Jose Ortiz joins Dave while John and Jim have the night off. We go over Microsoft's Surface, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, as well as iOS 6, iPad, iPhone, and Google's latest Nexus 7 and Nexus Q. Tons of stuff to talk about and how all of these new toys play with your home media, cloud media, and servers.
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Bullhorn Streamlines Application Delivery and Deployment in the Cloud With CloudBees Java Platform
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire -06/28/12)- JBOSS WORLD -- CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced that Bullhorn, the global leader in web-based software for staffing and recruiting agencies, has selected the CloudBees Platform to accelerate their customized application development. Bullhorn serves over 100,000 users in 126 countries. The CloudBees Platform allows Bullhorn to accelerate its develop-to-deploy process for Java web applications -- eliminating the time and resources typically required for deploying applications in the cloud.
"The ROI we've experienced since we began working with CloudBees has been phenomenal. The CloudBees Platform has enabled us to scale dramatically, as it frees up our developers to do what they do best -- build applications to meet customer needs," said Matthew Fischer, VP of Engineering, Bullhorn. "We're committed to providing a high level of service to Bullhorn customers; utilizing the CloudBees Platform we are consistently meeting or exceeding our customers' expectations."
Since utilizing the CloudBees Platform, Bullhorn has delivered 60 customized, cloud-based applications. CloudBees allows Bullhorn's development team to focus on satisfying the specific needs of their customers, rather than allocating valuable time and resources to solving infrastructure maintenance issues that often come with cloud deployments. To date, the CloudBees Platform has already resulted in significant benefits for Bullhorn's organization, including:
Other value Bullhorn has realized from streamlining application development and cloud deployment using the CloudBees Platform include:
"Bullhorn is the type of customer we covet -- a cutting-edge business understanding the significant cost and operational efficiencies which can be gained from deployment in the cloud," said Sacha Labourey, CEO and founder, CloudBees. "Today, Java developers spend far too much time on tasks that are completely outside of their workflow. Bullhorn's services team can now concentrate on delivering quality customer applications, rather than being bogged down in issues that ordinarily plague application deployments."
For more information on Bullhorn's customized application deployment using RUN@cloud, please visit: http://www.cloudbees.com/case-study/bullhorn-inc.cb
About BullhornBullhorn (www.bullhorn.com) creates software and services that improve the way employees and employers come together. For over ten years our innovations have powered the recruiting and staffing operations of fast-growing start-ups up through the world's largest employment brands. Headquartered in Boston, with offices in London and Sydney, Bullhorn's recruiting CRM and social recruiting products serve over 100,000 users across 126 countries. Independently operated, Bullhorn is owned by Vista Equity Partners.
About CloudBees CloudBees (www.cloudbees.com) turbo-charges the way Java applications are built and deployed to meet the rapid pace of business in an on-line and increasingly mobile world. By eliminating the friction caused by provisioning, maintaining and administering complex hardware and software infrastructure, we streamline and accelerate the entire Java application lifecycle from development to deployment. The CloudBees platform provides a set of rich services that are easily consumed by developers allowing them to rapidly build and deploy new business applications with zero IT administrative overhead. Our AnyCloud Service Architecture enables those applications to be easily deployed to any public, regional or enterprise cloud environment. CloudBees serves the needs of a wide range of businesses from small startups that want to focus on quickly creating new on-line businesses to large IT organizations that need to rapidly respond to new business application projects.
Backed by Matrix Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of middleware and open source technology professionals.
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ScaleXtreme to Support Google Compute Engine
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
ScaleXtreme, a leading provider of cloud and server management products, announced coming support for Google Compute Engine. As part of this support, ScaleXtreme customers will be able to monitor, manage, patch and automate deployment of Google Infrastructure-as-a-Service servers.
Were excited to see Google give public cloud computing customers additional choices in who to partner with for infrastructure, said ScaleXtreme CEO Nand Mulchandani. We built ScaleXtreme to handle multiple clouds simultaneously and along with internal enterprise infrastructure. Google Compute Engine, along with services like Amazon EC2, Rackspace, HP Cloud Services, Microsoft Windows Azure and VMware vCloud powered services is making multi-cloud infrastructure a reality for customers, and ScaleXtreme has given customers native support for all these platforms.
ScaleXtreme provides a single view, unifying the management of an organizations server environment spanning private and public cloud machines, different public cloud providers running on any virtualization platform, and even physical servers. It works with both Windows Server and a variety of Linux-based operating systems and helps users rapidly scale server deployments using templates.
ScaleXtremes products also come equipped with cloud-based patch management automation, which provides customers the ability to schedule, deploy and automate patches for multiple machines, as well as the on-the-go iPhone application that gives system administrators a unified view of their cloud instances through a single, simple interface.
For more information on ScaleXtreme for Google Compute Engine, please visit: http://www.scalextreme.com/partners/google
About ScaleXtreme
ScaleXtreme provides powerful, cloud-based server automation products for the modern distributed data center. Built from the ground up to be simple, scalable and social, IT gets a single unified automation platform to build and control physical, virtual and public cloud servers. For more information, visit http://www.scalextreme.com.
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Got old hard drives? Turn them into cloud servers.
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When an old system is replaced in the office, usually one of two things happens to it. The IT guys might keep it around as a spare unit, or they will cannibalize it for certain components before giving it the final send off.
Since many computer technologies have changed within the last five years, most components are not worth keeping from much older systems. However, hard drives, while gettingmore capaciousand faster, have used the same interface for about eight years now. The industry sticking with Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) for this long means that you are more likely to find use for the hard drive from an old system than any other type of component.
Of course, since new systems already come with hard drives, the IT storage room tends to fill up with the old ones. These SATA drives technically are usable, so most IT people are loathe to simply throw them away. But it would be nice to find a use for one or two of them, say, as a cloud server, for instance.
Akitio Cloud Hybrid
Pros: Can access from anywhere, use any drive.
Cons: Tools required for setup, interface less than intuitive.
Performance: A
Ease of Use: B+
Features: B+
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Cloud 9 browser-based development environment gets tricked out
Editing JavaScript in the Cloud 9 IDE.
The Cloud 9 Web-based development platform has launched a major update. The new version brings several noteworthy new features like collaborative code editing and offline support. The service has also been enhanced with broader support for running code on the Cloud 9 servers.
Cloud 9 aims to give developers a complete browser-based integrated development environment (IDE). The tool includes project management and version control functionality as well as a sophisticated interactive code editor. Its literally a hosted IDE that loads in a browser tab.
It is designed to integrate tightly with source code repository sites GitHub and BitBucket, making it easy for developers to clone, edit, and push code without ever having to download it to their local filesystem. The concept is ambitious, but delivering an implementation that is fully competitive with native development tooling on the desktop is obviously a major challenge.
For some kinds of projects, Cloud 9 is surprisingly close to achieving feature parity with conventional development environments. It is already well-suited for Node.js programming, an area that was a major focus for the company. The latest improvements will help to make it more viable for additional languages and development frameworks.
The editing experience is largely what you would expect to get in a programming text editor, offering features like syntax highlighting and optional support for Vim key bindings. But Cloud 9 aspires to be more than just an editor. The goal is to allow users to run their code on the server itself so that they can conduct testing during development without having to deploy to a separate test environment.
Cloud 9 is capable of executing Node.js applications on the server side, with full support for breakpoint-based debugging in the Cloud 9 editor. The new version of Cloud 9 has been extended to support running PHP and Ruby code in addition to Node.js projects.
We discussed the new functionality with Ruben Daniels, one of the cofounders of Cloud 9. In order to support server-side code execution, he explained, the Cloud 9 backend was rebuilt so that users would have their own isolated virtualized environment on the server. The new version of Cloud 9 also has a built-in terminal interface that allows users to get full shell access to the remote VM.
In addition to improved support for code execution, Cloud 9 has also gained a number of other new features. The latest version supports real-time collaborative editing in the browserallowing multiple developers to edit the same file at the same time. The experience is a bit like collaborative editing in tools like Google Docs or SubEthaEdit.
Another major new feature is support for offline editing, which allows the user to continue working without an Internet connection. Unlike most of the functionality in Cloud 9, this particular feature requires users to install and run a special client application on their computer that can handle synchronization between the local filesystem and the cloudexisting offline storage mechanisms in browsersaren'tquite up to the task yet.
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Voxware Introduces Cloud-Based Voice Solution
HAMILTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Voxware, a leading provider of voice solutions, today introduced Cloud Voice Management Suite (VMS), a cloud-based voice software solution that empowers organizations to enhance operational productivity, improve accuracy, and better serve their customers without investing in costly IT infrastructure.The benefits of this new offering include:
Our newest offering enables companies who are looking for easy, but high-impact change to implement a robust voice solution that improves productivity, safety, accuracy,and ultimately, customer relationships, said Keith Phillips, President and CEO, Voxware. By leveraging Cloud VMS, organizations are equipped to cost-effectively address their current needs and adapt to changing demands.
Cloud VMS is a fully productized bundle that includes:
Cloud VMS removes the headaches of implementation, maintenance, and updates freeing organizations from relying on heavy internal IT resources, continued Phillips. Customers do not have to manage servers, undergo timely and expensive deployments, or costly upgrades. Instead, we handle the heavy-lifting, allowing organizations to more efficiently realize the advantages that voice solutions provide.
About Voxware
Voxware helps organizations with teams who are on the move to more effectively receive, act on, and communicate information critical to their work. Our hands-free voice solutions enable employees to safely and accurately speed through tasks, thereby boosting operational productivity and improving customer experiences. Whats more, Voxware easily adapts to changes in technology and processes, enabling organizations to quickly address shifting demands without disruptions to the operation.Our innovative approach to voice communication has proven to help our customers increase profitability by cutting costs and enhancing brand loyalty.For more information, please visit http://www.voxware.com.
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ScaleXtreme Announces New Server And Application Monitoring Functionality
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
ScaleXtreme, the leading provider of cloud-based monitoring and systems management, announced early access availability of its new server and application monitoring product with thresholds, alerts and actions.
This new monitoring product gives customers a complete solution to monitor the health of all your cloud, physical and virtual machines all in one place at a glance. Customers can monitor key system metrics (CPU, disk, memory, network, processes), set thresholds and associated alerts and actions based on those thresholds. Customers can create multiple trigger conditions for each metric and the product currently has more than 35 trigger conditions.
Application specific metrics are also fully supported for databases, web servers, application servers on Windows and Linux. This includes specific metrics for network, processes, IO stats, disk usage, physical memory, CPU usage,PostgreSQL, Mongo DB, IIS,MySQL Host,Nginx, Apache and more.
This whole new way of monitoring and managing your datacenter works for both internal enterprise servers as well as public cloud servers such as those at Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Microsoft Windows Azure, HP Cloud Services, and others.
We are excited to add powerful monitoring and alerting capabilities to our rich automation capabilities, said ScaleXtreme CEO Nand Mulchandani. Monitoring is a simple and easy way for customers to start controlling their datacenters. ScaleXtreme will be tying monitoring tightly in with our Big Data insights and automation products to give customers a complete, next-generation solution for managing their datacenters.
Existing ScaleXtreme customers will see the new monitoring and alerting capabilities available immediately and integrated in the application interface. The new functionality is also available to new customers who set up free accounts. Free ScaleXtreme accounts with the new functionality is available at http://www.scalextreme.com/free
Learn more about this new functionality with a webinar on Thursday, June 28 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM PDT: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/413775630
About ScaleXtreme
ScaleXtreme provides powerful, cloud-based server automation products for the modern distributed data center. Built from the ground up to be simple, scalable and social, IT gets a single unified automation platform to build and control physical, virtual and public cloud servers. For more information, visit http://www.scalextreme.com.
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