Cloud Hosting Provider Rackspace becomes AWS competence DevOps Partner

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hosting provider in global cloud, Rackspace, reached Amazon Web services (AWS cloud) DevOps competence within the AWS skills Program Partner. The program recognizes the members of the AWS Partner Network who have completed a rigorous verification of third parties demonstrating their expertise in Devops practices, tools and success of the proven client.

Rackspace customers can access the expertise of DevOps and 24 × 7 operational support through 'Fanatical Support company' s team AWS Cloud architects and engineers -. which collectively hold over 270 certifications AWS professionals and associates worldwide

cloud hosting rackspace Historically, the deployment process and application management was manually intensive and personalized. deployment and management of applications Manuel would generally lead to results such as less release cycles, longer delays and unpredictable quality, all-time impact on the market and stable operations.

applying these practices manual and customized in a cloud environment negates the inherent advantage of infrastructure defined software. DevOps is the use of practices, tools and automation that can improve the efficiency of how companies use applications in the cloud.

"Fanatical Support" Rackspace for AWS provides businesses access to AWS certified experts who can help to implement and operate cloud workloads on AWS using practical tools and Devops, both AWS and leading 3 e parts. Rackspace DevOps expertise can help customers improve the speed, frequency and quality of their software deployments and operational support process.

Rackspace Aviator

Customers using Service Rackspace Aviator receive ongoing support for native Devops AWS tools such as OpsWorks AWS AWS CloudFormation AWS CodeDeploy, AWS and AWS CodePipeline CodeCommit. As an added service, Rackspace engineers can use a wide range of leading third Devops tools like head, SaltStack Ansible and to help ensure that customers have a choice about their favorite toolset DevOps.

"Rackspace has been active in practices Devops since 2012, working to help customers increase the speed and consistency of their operations," said Chris Cochran, senior vice president and director General AWS, Rackspace . "We are thrilled to be recognized by AWS and apply our knowledge to customers working on the platform AWS Cloud. Not all customers begin with a high degree of expertise in this area, but Rackspace can help these companies to constantly improve their effectiveness with running applications in the cloud. "

SUSE Manager 3 output to boost efficiency and reduce complexity in the management of IT infrastructures

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SUSE Linux solutions provider, cloud infrastructure and interoperable storage, announced the release of SUSE Manager 3. the new version would help customers reduce the complexity of managing their IT infrastructures, especially when adopting DevOps and hybrid cloud solutions.

With a large percentage of companies adopting private clouds to increase agility and innovation, the corresponding increase in complexity would require

SUSE Manager 3 is the latest Linux server management solution that manages the entire lifecycle and followed strengthened the management, automation and monitoring as with SUSE Manager. for Linux servers between distributions, hardware architectures, virtual platforms and cloud environments. SUSE Manager 3 includes a salt automation software and enhanced features of configuration management, easier management of subscription and enhanced monitoring capabilities.

suse storage "SUSE Manager is built to improve responsiveness to changing business needs, improving the automation of configuration with the salt of integration," said Michael Miller, president of strategy, alliances and marketing for SUSE . "SUSE Manager 3 is even more valuable for large and complex data center environments where ease of management, scalability, performance and high availability are extremely important. Customers know manual update, correction and configuring servers can be difficult and time consuming, but SUSE Manager solves this problem while reducing costs with automated, centralized management of their Linux systems. "

SUSE Manager 3 open source iT's customer management solution are able to manage multiple Linux distributions, hardware platforms, including x86, IBM Power Systems and z Systems, as well as virtual environments and physical cloud - from a centralized console. key new benefits would be:

  • Increase IT efficiency through better management of configuration via Salt - Use Management salt-based configuration, customers can deploy tens of thousands of systems without compromising speed or security. With the real-time configuration and monitoring, time to patch hundreds or even thousands of servers in environments is greatly reduced
  • use and subscription management Optimized SUSE -. The new SUSE Manager Subscription Management Tool provides a detailed insight into the use of products from SUSE, identifying the top or under-utilization of subscriptions. This helps to ensure that clients pay only for the subscriptions they need, when they need it
  • reduces the complexity of monitoring capabilities enhanced by using the Nagios Nagios monitoring server compliant -. integration of monitoring with Nagios provides additional reporting capabilities and provide easy solutions to use monitoring and the flexibility to add on management functions. Customers also have the option to use internal monitoring solutions with existing SUSE Manager, improved control and management of IT assets.

"SUSE Manager 3 represents a significant expansion of the functionality that directly addresses the needs of today DevOps and hybrid cloud management teams," said Mary Johnston Turner, vice president of research for enterprise system management software at IDC . "New integration of SUSE Manager with salt offers customers a single integrated tool that moves beyond the traditional supply Linux server and power management to enable more automated and scalable configuration, provisioning, patch management, monitoring and reporting for mixed Linux platforms deployed in physical, virtual or cloud infrastructure. "

Network and Cloud Hosting Provider, US Signal, iTopia team to accelerate Cloud Services for MSPs

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US signal, network and cloud provider with over 14,000 miles of lit fiber and metro rings in 23 strategic markets, announced a strategic alliance with an innovative cloud software, iTopia. The relationship would provide managed service providers (MSP) with an intuitive platform that automatically detects all components of a computing environment on site, then the terms and migrates to the cloud "ten times faster" than traditional approaches and "at a lower price point. "

platform Cielo Itopia standardizes applications, desktops and client security in a single interface that can be accessed from anywhere and any device.

us signal cloud hosting "US iTopia signal and make it easier for MSPs access to appropriate technologies and reduce the cost for engineers needed to maintain a cloud infrastructure of their own high level," said Jon Bruckbauer, vice president of sales for US national clouds signal .

The cloud iTopia Workspace is a workspace cloud provides end to end offering workstations, software applications and computer systems of entire businesses as a secure cloud hosted service.

"Businesses of all sizes are looking to move their infrastructures on site, applications and workspaces in the cloud to reduce capital IT costs and increase operational efficiency," said Scott Markley, executive vice president of sales, iTopia . "in collaboration with uS Signal we provide a fully managed cloud environment and an intuitive interface, making it easier and more profitable for MSP to migrate customers to the cloud and establish an infrastructure of cloud enabled companies can benefit. "

Enterprise self-hosted file sharing FileCloud the platform brings 12.0 Branch Office / Hybrid Cloud File Sharing for business

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CodeLathe an Enterprise File sharing and synchronization platform provider, announced the immediate availability of FileCloud 12.0. The new version is an innovative and feature rich file sharing and synchronization solution

FileCloud of 12.0 CodeLathe would distinguish itself from competitors with FileCloud ServerLink -. An office and remote branch office that addresses latency and high availability requirements between sites which are located in large geographic areas.

as an example of how FileCloud ServerLink can be used, imagine a large multinational , which has offices in several countries. Society often finds it unacceptable data download speeds when you try to access files. The time between the request for information and delivery significantly impacts productivity. To solve the problem, companies deploy FileCloud ServerLink their branches to "significantly" improve the speed of data access, "reduce latency and get faster access" to files, regardless of physical geography.

solutions "When it comes to supplying businesses to ensure they have secure, fast and reliable to the organization's data over the web, desktop and mobile, FileCloud 12.0 resets the bar for entire industry, "said Madhan Kanagavel CEO CodeLathe ." When we founded the company we are committed to our customers to continue to innovate and provide solutions that are several generations ahead of our competitors. With 12.0 FileCloud we offer our customers and prospects with the best absolute sharing business files and synchronization software. "

cloud hosting FileCloud ServerLink can also be deployed as a hybrid cloud using both and the cloud infrastructure on site. for example, an organization might want a FileCloud site locally on the LAN for fast local access and remote site on the cloud ( AWS Cloud , Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud) for accessing remote files. in this case, the local FileCloud site can be connected to ServerLink FileCloud remote site on the cloud to store the replicated data.

provides 12.0 FileCloud . also users full text search Now, users can search for files by content contained in the documents the following popular file extensions: txt, pdf, doc, docx, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx and. The text search is supported on both the managed and network shares.

Another advantage for Microsoft Office users would FileCloud the new add-on for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Now, users of Office can open, edit and save files FileCloud directly from the application on a PC

Stronger than 12.0 FileCloud solution CodeLathe :.

  • out mobile synchronization line for iOS devices - users can synchronize folders (one or two channels) directly from the server FileCloud. This would be a significant benefit to users working in disparate job sites and need to update their iPads without benefit of an internet connection. Mobile offline available for Android devices soon
  • Mobile 2FA support - .. From FileCloud 12.0 CodeLathe will support two-factor authentication Google Authenticator
  • faster access to network shares with the NTFS file permissions -. FileCloud 12.0 would be "transparent" improve access performance of existing network shares and NTFS file permissions

FileCloud is available through 108 partners in 55 countries around the globe. FileCloud clients include the first space agency in the world, five of the top 500 law firms, one of the largest title insurance companies, the first home builder to a US and a large poultry producer.

Microsoft Azure Germany is now available to the data center operator e-shelter

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e-shelter, a data center operator with a presence in all key market towns the DACH region, announced that Microsoft Azure cloud services Germany will be available to customers in their e-shelter data center facilities via Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute. At the same time, e-shelter will be the launch of its e-connect platform.

"With the development of the Internet, mobile computing and Big Data, the expectations of users and customers have changed," said Toan Nguyen, Director Business Development & Cloud Platform e-shelter . "The use of enterprise cloud computing services is an engine of this digital transformation, and has become a business reality. Through our relationship with Microsoft, we are now closer to the cloud, and our customers receive all services from a single source. "

azure cloud" Being located in Germany also ensures data security according to German law, "added Nguyen M .. . "Combined with our e-connect service portfolio, we are able to connect our customers across different locations and reliably in the world of hybrid cloud."

The new platform e-connect services, e-shelter clients are now able to use the connectivity neutral, flexible and scalable support for connecting to Microsoft Azure.
e-connect is based on a proprietary network infrastructure operated by dedicated e-shelter, and do not use the public Internet. Customers would therefore benefit from "greater reliability, faster speeds, lower latencies and greater security" than traditional Internet connections.

With a presence in all key market towns of DACH -region, e-shelter benefits from 300 MW of power and 0,000 square meters of capacity of data center space to provide solutions for evolving data centers. as a member of the NTT Group e-shelter Enterprise Communications provides access to a global network of 140 data centers.

Web Hosting Canada Releases Custom Cloud Servers including types of SSD-Powered servers

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Canadian cloud hosting provider, the Canadian web hosting, has announced the general release of its SSD types of personalized and customized cloud servers Cloud servers are now available in Toronto, oN and Vancouver, BC through their cloud hosting platform.

The new customizable cloud servers allow customers to change the size and resources to the exact number of virtual CPU, RAM and storage they need. The new cloud server options are designed to let developers and companies to save money and maximize resources by paying only for cloud infrastructure they need -. Rather than having to choose from the predetermined types of bodies with fixed amounts of virtual CPU, RAM and storage

cloud servers canada The options include types of regular cloud servers and high performance such as highly available storage, "ultra-fast" cloud of SSD storage or private clouds with options for most Linux and Windows operating systems (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows servers,

"One of the biggest challenges customers experience when migrating workloads to the cloud is to choose Canadian resources for their instance types," said Kevin Liang, director of technology Canada, etc.). Web Hosting . "Several infrastructure cloud providers today have leading up to 40 types of proceedings, no custom resources within each type. The complexity of choosing the right example creates frustration and can add significant cost to the process of integration in the cloud. "

Since 1998, Canadian Web Hosting has been providing the hosting application solutions that include shared web hosting, virtual private servers (VPS), cloud hosting, dedicated servers and Infrastructure -as-a-Service (IaaS) for Canadian businesses of all sizes.

Cloud Security Pioneer FortyCloud lance une meilleure visibilité du réseau pour l'infrastructure de Cloud Environments [1945001

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FortyCloud, un pionnier dans Security-as-a-service pour le nuage de réseau, a annoncé l'introduction d'une meilleure visibilité du réseau fonctionnalités. de nouvelles capacités de SIEM et IDS de FortyCloud permettrait de faire face aux besoins des clients de l'entreprise, comme ils ont été soulignant SIEM et IDS comme blocs de construction critiques qui ont été absents de leur boîte à outils de sécurité du nuage.

cloud-server-security de nombreuses organisations ne trouvent que le manque de visibilité dans leurs déploiements cloud est un inhibiteur majeur à l'adoption du cloud. Par conséquent, la libération de FortyCloud de SIEM et IDS capacités serait à droite sur la marque. La collection d'événements de sécurité et les flux de l'utilisateur et de réseau en temps réel par les éléments de solution FortyCloud, et la capacité de les livrer à SIEM et IDS logiques internes ou externes, seraient considérablement étendre le point de vue de son déploiement en nuage d'une organisation. Cette capacité accrue révèle accès et d'autorisation des événements, des tentatives d'attaque et de motifs dangereux.

"A FortyCloud, nous cherchons à fournir une solution de sécurité complète qui complète les capacités de sécurité qui manquent dans les offres des fournisseurs de cloud indigènes," dit Amit Cohen, PDG de FortyCloud . «Beaucoup de nos clients de l'entreprise ont été mise en évidence SIEM et IDS comme blocs de construction critiques qui manquent dans leur boîte à outils de sécurité du nuage. Nous sommes très heureux d'être en mesure de combler cette lacune pour nos clients et la collecte d'événements de l'offre ainsi que les points d'intégration permettant aux clients d'apporter leurs propres solutions SIEM et IDS, rendant ainsi l'environnement de cloud aussi sécurisé comme un centre de données d'entreprise. "

Ces nouvelles capacités ajouter à la vaste gamme déjà disponible par FortyCloud de sécurité qui comprend un pare-feu de réseau, Identity and Access Management (IAM) , l'automatisation des configurations de sécurité et de nuages, le chiffrement des données en -Transit et plate-forme cloud indépendance.

Platform9 Releases Managed OpenStack pour vSphere, augmente de 10 millions $ en aide financière [1945001

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Platform9, une entreprise axée sur faire des nuages ​​privés facile pour les organisations de toute envergure, dont le siège est à Sunnyvale , en Californie, a a annoncé la disponibilité générale de Platform9 OpenStack géré pour les environnements VMware vSphere. Dans le même temps, la société a annoncé qu'elle a recueilli 10 millions $ en financement de série B de Menlo Ventures et Redpoint Ventures.

Platform9 Managed OpenStack est une solution SaaS qui transformerait les serveurs existants d'une organisation en un agile, self-service cloud AWS comme privé en quelques minutes et a été en production à l'échelle mondiale pour les environnements KVM depuis Janvier 2015. Soutien à Docker est en développement; une version bêta sera annoncé plus tard cette année. Platform9 présentera ses Managed OpenStack solution à VMworld au stand n ° 339 ce mois-ci.

platform9-private-cloud Un nouveau VMware Virtual Appliance spécifique est maintenant disponible pour intégrer les services de contrôleur de OpenStack de Platform9 avec des ressources vSphere . L'appliance virtuelle fonctionne en utilisant vSphere API et est 100% interopérable avec VMware vSphere, donc les opérations peuvent être effectuées soit par l'intermédiaire du contrôle OpenStack plan ou via directement vSphere. Cela se traduirait par les clients VMware ayant un facile à gérer, entièrement solution interopérable pour orchestrer leurs ressources comme un cloud privé basé OpenStack.

La libération suit un succès sept bêta mois pour les clients VMware vSphere où le service a été testé par les entreprises et les fournisseurs de services à l'aide de VMware vSphere comme plate-forme de virtualisation.

«la mission de Platform9 est de faire des nuages ​​privés facile à déployer et à gérer pour l'entreprise», a déclaré Sirish Raghuram, co-fondateur et PDG de Platform9 . "Les clients ne doivent plus choisir entre leader cloud privé la plate-forme du monde (OpenStack) et première plate-forme de virtualisation du monde (VMware vSphere): Platform9 Managed OpenStack est 100% interopérable avec VMware vSphere, ce qui permet aux clients d'intégrer OpenStack et vSphere de façon transparente. Les développeurs peuvent avoir libre-service provisioning utilisant OpenStack tout en même temps, IT Operations gère l'infrastructure sous-jacente en utilisant vSphere. "

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Platform9 a également obtenu $ millions en financement de série B, portant le total de financement à 14,5 millions $. Menlo Ventures a conduit la ronde, et des investisseurs précédente Redpoint Ventures ont également participé. La société prévoit d'utiliser l'argent pour accélérer sa feuille de route de produits pour sa clientèle grandissante.

Menlo Ventures General Partner Mark Siegel rejoint Redpoint Ventures Partner Scott Raney sur la carte. "Platform9 est prête à répondre à la demande croissante pour une solution simple de OpenStack dans l'entreprise, et ils ont l'équipe parfaite pour le faire», a déclaré Mark Siegel . "Nous voyons OpenStack gagne du terrain et nous croyons qu'il prendra une part de marché de piles technologiques propriétaires."

Pare-feu Solutions de Barracuda est maintenant disponible dans Microsoft Azure Gouvernement Galerie d'images [1945001

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Barracuda Web application Firewall et Barracuda NG Firewall sont maintenant disponibles dans la nouvelle Azure gouvernement Microsoft, un nuage gouvernement communautaire destiné à soutenir scénarios stratégiques du gouvernement qui exigent la vitesse, l'échelle, la sécurité, la conformité et de l'économie pour les organismes gouvernementaux des États-Unis.

Barracuda Web application Firewall fournit une protection avancée des menaces, le provisionnement automatisé et la configuration, et Azure intégration active Directory pour les clients qui déploient des applications sur Azure.

barracuda-ng-firewalls Barracuda NG Firewall livrerait les capacités de la prochaine génération firewalling et haut débit (> 1Gbps) de site à site distant l'accès à Azure, permettant aux administrations de déployer en toute sécurité interconnectés architectures de réseau multi-zone.

"les organismes gouvernementaux sont sous la même pression pour réduire le temps et les coûts associés à la mise des applications en ligne, et en même temps, doivent respecter un ensemble strict des exigences de sécurité et de conformité », a déclaré Michael Hughes, SVP Sales Worldwide au Barracuda. ​​" L'intégration des produits de sécurité Barracuda dans Microsoft Azure gouvernement simplifie ce processus pour les clients et offre une infrastructure d'élasticité dynamique que les échelles avec les besoins des agences gouvernementales "

La application Firewall Barracuda Web faits saillants:.

  • sécurité et DDoS application protection - Fournit ciblée et automatisée protection contre les attaques contre SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, DDoS et les attaques de botnets, ainsi que des mécanismes de prévention des attaques plus sophistiquées telles que le cryptage des URL, pare-feu XML, la vulnérabilité intégration du scanner et des modèles de sécurité pour les applications comme Exchange et Sharepoint. impose également la conformité et la gestion des identités via une authentification à deux facteurs avec LDAP et RSA SecurID / Radius, la réputation IP et CAPTCHA
  • Automated Provisioning -. Comprend le provisionnement automatisé avec un ensemble robuste de fonctionnalités accessibles par l'interface API RESTful, permettant aux clients de tirer parti des outils tels que Systems Center et Powershell
  • authentification simplifiée et accès -. Fournit aux clients un chemin de migration facile et sécurisé à Azure qui applique l'authentification avant d'autoriser l'accès à une application

Le Barracuda NG Firewall faits saillants:.

  • barracuda-firewall simplifié la migration vers le Cloud - Permet aux clients de simplifier la migration des centres de données physiques - y compris facile Lift & Maj pour de nouvelles applications - avec des architectures multi-niveaux, tout en offrant une connectivité de haute performance à Azure à partir des bureaux et des dispositifs clients.
  • haute performance et disponibilité - Permet la hiérarchisation du trafic, qualité de service, la fiabilité et la redondance pour augmenter la visibilité du trafic et de contrôle, et pour la haute performance et la disponibilité
  • gestion complète:. Fournit des capacités de gestion centralisée à l'infrastructure réseau de clients avec de bas frais généraux de gestion - y compris la gestion centralisée pour les déploiements physiques et cloud