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a survey by Vandon Bourne and commissioned by the Bunker, a British supplier of managed hosting, colocation, and cloud, outlines convincing current adoption of hybrid cloud. 0% of organizations are currently implementing a sort of hybrid cloud infrastructure, but 54% are yet to identify the optimal technical solution to meet their business needs.

The report on the completion of the puzzle hybrid cloud is based on research conducted by Vanson Bourne, which interviewed 100 IT decision makers in private business organizations (1,000+ employees) in the United United. Key findings of the study are:

• 0% of organizations are currently implementing a sort of hybrid cloud infrastructure; while 96% plan to migrate applications and data to the cloud infrastructure in the next 5 years
• Nearly 60% of organizations are implementing hybrid cloud so as to achieve greater cost efficiency, flexibility and scalability. 40% looking to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO); and 38% the transition from CAPEX to OPEX model.
• 55% identified a house blend and outsourced IT infrastructure using private cloud and / or public, either on site and / or off-site, if necessary as an ideal model for the future delivery of services IT

However, 94% of organizations that had already migrated applications or data to the cloud infrastructure, 70% had suffered some sort of failure -. be it in terms of a project that has failed or stalled, or a failure to realize the anticipated business benefits.

Moreover, despite confirmation of a high level of commitment to both internal and external to the decisions IT strategy, planning and execution , just over half of respondents (54%) have yet to identify the optimal technical solution to meet their business needs.

"the business benefits of cloud technologies can be compelling, but organizations still struggle when it comes to deliver on them," said Phil Bindley, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at The Bunker . "Although it is clear and DSI IT decision makers recognize the importance of aligning IT and business strategy, our research shows that many are unable to bring in technology that the company seeks to achieve."

IT vision

According to the report, only one-fifth of respondents (21%) evaluated the ability of their organizations to execute on their vision for the provision of IT services as "excellent", while just under a third (29%) rated as "fair", with external assistance needed to fill gaps in knowledge. Overall, three main factors contributing to failed or stalled cloud migration have been identified as: a lack of internal skills (49%); confusing advice, biased or incorrect (44%); and lack of integration of cloud infrastructure and non-cloud resources (41%).

"The business benefits of cloud technologies can be compelling, but organizations continue to struggle when it comes to providing them," said Phil Bindley, Chief Technology Officer (CTO ), the Bunker.

"CIOs and IT decision makers do not seem to get the advice and support they need," added Mr. Bindley . "The gap between the skills and knowledge available internally and advice received from outside consultants and key suppliers demonstrates the importance of working with the right partners to develop a hybrid cloud strategy that is both available and properly aligned with the needs of the company. "

the Bunker commissioned Vanson Bourne to interview mid-market (1,000-3,000 employees) and large organizations (over 3,000 employees) in services financial, manufacturing, retail, distribution and transport;. and "other business" sectors a copy of the report is available for download here

[] Inspur Group, headquartered in Beijing, China, released its cloud operating system 19,459,012 (OS) V4.0 In-Cloud based on OpenStack. The company also began their "Yuntu plan" to launch an ecosystem of cloud computing. Nineteen cloud companies have already joined the program as its first members, including Mirantis Ali Cloud (Aliyun), Intel, Citrix, Red Hat, VMware, AsiaInfo security and Qiniu.

The most important feature of V4.0 In-Cloud would support the OpenStack framework. In-Cloud V4.0 has OpenStack "mature" integrated. APIs for application developers, operators and maintainers facilitate the development and high integration easily achieve environmental software defined SDC, RPS and SDS based on OpenStack standard.

In addition to full support of OpenStack and integrated API, In-Cloud V4.0 support him fusion private clouds, public clouds and industrial clouds . It would also support heterogeneous hardware management platform X86 servers minicomputers, and management of the merger covering the public virtualization software such as InCloud Sphere, vSphere, XenServer, Hyper-V and PowerVM.

Inspur Group will provide a version V4.0 In-cloud free trial to allow more users to experience the "benefits of this open-source cloud computing offers.

" l membership is the only choice open cloud computing strategies Inspur as well as road development framework Inspur the merger, "said Peng Zhen, vice president of Inspur group . "On this basis, In-Cloud OS will become a strategic product of the IT infrastructure of the software-defined data center created by Inspur. The OpenStack framework of mature and available frees all users of vendor lock-in, accelerates innovation businesses and reducing costs, presenting the various benefits of open source computing. "

Cloud computing ecosystem

the launch of " plan Yuntu demonstrate the devotion of Inspur to build an ecosystem of cloud computing more open and perfect. To this end, Inspur will promote the system of three main namely technology, 'partners' solutions and services. It plans to cooperate with more than 50 technical partners, over 100 solution partners and more than 1000 service partners to jointly provide users with "open, integrated and secure" cloud services.

"We hope that the implementation of the Plan Yuntu bring together partners in different areas to provide users with more support of perfect information systems, more flexible investment patterns and a computer environment more . open, "said Zhao Wenhui, general manager of Inspur Information cover Department product

in future plans, in-Cloud OS include six major modules

• the version of OpenStack InCloud
• Sphere InCloud for computer software defined
• InCloud storage for storing software-defined
• InCloud network for the network defined by software
• InCloud Manager for the operation and the platform management and maintenance of the data center
• InCloud security for the safety of the software definition .

These six modules are component-based. Users can select modules or integrated solutions to control and deploy them to the business environment.

Amazon Web services (AWS) announced the launch of its Asia-Pacific (Seoul), fifth infrastructure area cloud business in Asia Pacific (APAC). The Seoul area comprises two Availability Zones AWS launch. Each Availability Zone includes one or more geographically separate data centers, each with redundant power, networking and connectivity.

Many thousands of Korean customers have used the AWS cloud other AWS regions for several years. Developers Now based in Korea, with the launch of the Seoul area, and companies , as well as multinational companies with end-users in Korea, can store "security" and process their data in AWS Korea with "digit millisecond single" latency through most of Korea.

Each AWS Availability Zone is designed to be resistant to all the questions in another Availability Zone, which allows clients to operate applications and production databases are more highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable than would be possible from a single data center.

"Customers continue to choose AWS cloud as their platform infrastructure technology because we have many more features than any other provider cloud, a lot more number partner ecosystem and builds customer around AWS, and unmatched maturity, security and performance, "said Andy Jassy, ​​senior Vice President, Amazon Web services (AWS) ." Our Korean customers and partners we asked to build infrastructure AWS Cloud in Korea so they can run more workloads on AWS and approve new initiatives that could change their business and customer experience; we are excited to deliver this to our customers today ' hui. "

with this launch, the AWS cloud is now available from 32 availability zones across 12 geographical regions worldwide, with four AWS regions (and new areas availability) in China, India, Ohio, and the United Kingdom are available in the coming year.

AWS Cloud Partner Ecosystem

with the new region of Seoul, AWS has also worked to build an ecosystem of dynamic local cloud technology in Korea. The rapid expansion AWS Partner Network (APN) in Korea includes independent software vendors (ISVs) and system integrators (SI) that are building solutions and services in the AWS cloud.

ISVs as Ahnlab, Dreamline, Hancom, IGAWorks and TMAXSoft provide a variety of software solutions, security and connectivity that can be used in conjunction with AWS Cloud . SI partners including global Bespin, GS Neotek, Megazone and Vsystems help companies migrate to AWS cloud, deploying critical applications on AWS, or are providing a full range of monitoring services of automation and management of AWS customer environments.

AWS also provides the AWS Educate Program to help promote the learning of clouds in the classroom with eight local universities, including Sogang University, University of Yonsei and Seoul national University . Since its local launch in May 2015, over 1,000 Korean students participate in AWS related classes and learning programs online nonprofit, such as "like a lion."

VeloCloud Networks, a provider of technology-SD comes WAN cloud has closed $ 27 million in series C financing led by venture capital funds in March Partners capital and two additional strategic investors including Cisco Investments. The new funding brings the total funding of the company to $ 49 million.

The funding will be used to expand business operations as the company accelerates new product development and customer deployments, and ramps up sales and marketing in theaters expanded to meet the growing global demand. Existing investors, including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Venrock , also participated in the round.

"VeloCloud has already established itself as a WAN-SD leader and set an impressive number of customers and ecosystem partners," said Sumant Mandal, partner, Mars Capital Partners . "We see a tremendous unusual growth opportunity for SD-WAN in the coming years and we firmly believe that VeloCloud with its cloud-delivered single strategy, is best positioned for success in this growing category."

VeloCloud solutions enable companies to quickly, transparently and economically extend their WANs to support demand growth, agility and simplified network branches implementations while providing access to optimized data centers and cloud applications.

SD-WAN

"We are seeing an explosion of growth in global demand for SD-WAN VeloCloud Cloud Delivery solutions, "said VeloCloud CEO and co-founder Sanjay Uppal . "This new funding validates our leadership and success comes only cloud, and accelerate the growth of our core business of providing streamlined branch network WAN, improving performance and delivery of services to medium and large enterprises and service providers . "

with the rampant growth of branch office deployments and rapid migration to cloud applications, industry would see an increasing need for advanced wide area network (WAN) service delivery, and assured performance of cloud and enterprise applications. in 2015, VeloCloud has seen rapid adoption of its SD-WAN solution fueled, in part, by a greatly expanded partner ecosystem now includes BroadSoft, Cisco, Equinix, HP, IIx Console, Intel, VMware, Websense, and Zscaler.

"as WAN leading provider of solutions for companies worldwide, we work closely with customers looking to transition to driven software WAN deployments with our intelligent WAN Cisco solution, "said Jeff Reed, vice president and general manager, enterprise Infrastructure and Solutions Group at Cisco . "Cisco is committed to open systems and interoperability with the VeloCloud solution will provide our joint customers with additional improvements to the performance of application services and cloud."

CloudBolt, a cloud management technology provider, has launched a channel partner program designed for systems integrators, resellers and service providers to help design and deploy multi-cloud IT environments and legacy of the bridge and modern technologies.

The Channel Partner CloudBolt program meets the growing market demand for hybrid cloud solutions. It provides partners with tools and resources to provide and implement a scalable and secure platform for integrating cloud services.

The CloudBolt channel program provide industry-leading incentives, including access to sales and marketing support CloudBolt , joint programs for marketing and demand generation and remuneration of all contractual services.

"The Channel Partner program provides CloudBolt the main channel companies with proven technology and a framework that can help customers in the public and private sector to transform existing assets and technology in a cloud environment private or hybrid available, scalable and secure, "said Jon Mittelhauser CEO CloudBolt . "In addition, alignment with key distribution partners nationwide CloudBolt will expand rapidly into new environments of the company's customers and markets."

Currently deployed in a range of IT environments of enterprise, including Large- scale and complex environments with more than 20,000 servers, CloudBolt provide a management platform mature that is intuitive and extensible. By balancing agility and control, it allows DevOps while avoiding the shadow IT. It would also be quickly and easily integrate with customers' existing IT tools and management systems to create a scalable and secure platform for the publication of cloud services.

Channel Partners

Some channel partners have already joined the CloudBolt program including August Schell Carahsoft CDW ePlus HPM Networks pureIntegration and Riverturn .

"We found no other product that provides the depth, breadth and quality of integration with existing technology enterprise virtualization and cloud," said Bill Schell, President, August Schell . "of particular interest for August Schell is the integration of CloudBolt with Virtual network VMware NSX product for software-defined networking (SDN) and its integration with all popular public cloud providers. Cloudbolt + VMware NSX provides a platform to create a hybrid cloud to serve security-conscious customers. "

" the platform of cloud management CloudBolt provides enterprise customers with the freedom to choices on where and how to deploy resources in the cloud, while providing end users with self-service to get their jobs done, "said Craig P. Abod, president, Carahsoft Technology Corp. "We are pleased to be part of CloudBolt channel program and make this award-winning technology available to our customers and partner network."

"our customers are ready to take the next step in automation of cloud computing and self-service, "said Sabur Mian, director of architecture Solutions, HPM Networks ." with CloudBolt Software, HPM Networks can provide our customers with a solution that makes the most efficient, agile and transparent economic. We are delighted to partner with official team CloudBolt and expect great things. "

Logicalis, an international IT solutions provider delivering managed services and cloud hosting solutions, announced a formal partnership channel with business analytics software provider Blackboard software. Logicalis join Reseller Partner Program Table.

The channel partnership with Tableau Software solutions and expand services Logicalis deals in the business analytics market, which enables customers to transform their data discovery capability and visualization, a key step in demonstrating the real business value of their information.

"At Logicalis we firmly believe that organizations can extract increase the value of their existing digital data assets," said Ed Charvet, Chief Information Insights at Logicalis UK . "Tableau Software brings to our customers the best visual analysis capabilities available and also a solution that provides immediate value in all industries."

"Logicalis is consultative approach to help clients to unlock the potential of their data by helping to build sustainable and scalable information management processes associated with all the tools that enable widespread and intuitive access, "added Charvet M .. . "Becoming a Partner Table allows us to better support our customers by helping them discover the huge commercial value if often locked away from those who can benefit most."

This partnership follows the recent acquisition of Logicalis of Trovus, a provider of analytical solutions with extensive experience in delivering hundreds of dashboards in Table for industries such as professional services, retail, real estate and financial services.

Logicalis employs over 4,000 people worldwide , including highly qualified specialists services who design, specify, deploy and manage complex iT infrastructures to meet the needs of nearly 6,500 clients in the sector private and public. for this, Logicalis maintains partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HPE, IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp, Microsoft, Oracle, VMware and ServiceNow on an international basis.

The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of more than $ 1.5 billion operations in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

Mirantis, a pure-play OpenStack cloud provider , announced an expansion of its management team with several key employees, including a new COO and CFO. The OpenStack cloud company closed 2015 with record sales, including 127 corporate customers in production deployments across the financial, telecommunications, media and retail sectors .

The expanding the management team follows a pivotal year for Mirantis cloud provider. The company announced a strategic technology and investment collaboration with Intel as part of a capital injection of $ 100 million with a new investor Goldman Sachs and existing investors August Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Ericsson, Sapphire Ventures ( formerly SAP Ventures) and WestSummit Capital.

key employees' Mirantis include:

• CFO Rik Thorbecke - Mr. Thorbecke was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and most recently director financial a number of startups such as Plastic Logic and Meltwater. He also held senior positions in finance at Equinix, Levi Strauss and Electronic Arts. At Mirantis, Mr. Thorbecke plans to level-up global financial strategy and business operations, human resources, legal, administration and IT operations to be up to the demands of Wall Street.
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  as COO, Jim Dvorkin actively oversee Mirantis engineering, professional services and customer support organizations

  COO, Jim Dvorkin -. Mr. Dvorkin brings 15 years of technology and operational experience of construction companies in the area of ​​cloud computing. He served on the board of directors Mirantis for 5 years as a "popular" Silicon Valley entrepreneur and innovator. As COO, Dvorkin actively oversees Mirantis engineering, professional services and customer support organizations. Previously, Jim served as CTO at Five9, a cloud-based call center software company that went public in 2014, where he managed software development, data center operations, customer support and Implementation.

• EVP / GM, Enterprise Cloud Business Unit, Chris Keene - Mr. Keene joined the BMC cloud provider, where he led the group of clouds and automation of $ 220 million. Previously, he sold his PaaS enterprise open source software, WaveMaker, VMware, and then led the spinout of Big Data Fast as Pivotal $ 400 million initiative. A Mirantis, Keene will work on accelerating the growth of the company's revenues by focusing on the commercial value of Mirantis private cloud solutions.
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  At Mirantis, Rik Thorbecke provides global financial level-up strategy and the cloud provider's operations, human resources, legal, the administration and IT activities

  EVP / GM, services, Parvesh Sethi -. Mr. Sethi joined Cisco Mirantis, where he led a several billion dollar global professional services organization of over 8,000 members. Its role includes key growth initiatives such as scanning / IoT, cloud, security, software platforms and managed / hosted services. A Mirantis, Sethi lead the long-term strategy, the growth and transformation of the global services business

• SVP Worldwide Sales, Brand Teegardin -. Mr. Teegardin was a huge success during a 20 year career in the software industry, according Mirantis. He has contributed to the significant growth in market-leading companies, PTC, and NICE Systems Inc., where he led teams responsible for over $ 500 in annual revenue. Before Mirantis, Mr. Teegardin led reconstruction effort StoredIQ, a Big Data governance Austin Texas-based company. According Mirantis, StoredIQ has doubled its turnover and has become one of the most successful acquisitions in the history of IBM under the direction of Teegardin. Since joining Mirantis in March 2015, Teegardin led the team in a "record" high turnover of year the line.

"Our outstanding growth is a reflection of the tremendous market opportunity we have before us. As AWS continues to disrupt the market infrastructure of $ 150 billion in cloud OpenStack will rise as the only viable open source alternative, "said Mirantis CEO Alex Freedland . "We aim to make the best Mirantis OpenStack OpenStack platform for cloud applications development and running, and our management team is increasingly critical to success. We will invest in innovation upstream, the construction of our technology partner programs, and solve the needs of key customers in OpenStack such as ease of use. "

P97 Networks, a mobile commerce based secure cloud provider and digital marketing solutions for the marketing industry stores and fuel bespoke version 2 version of its flagship application of mobile commerce, PetroZone, bringing to Windows 10 and Microsoft Azure Service Bus to provide mobile payment and digital marketing capacity.

PetroZone the mobile commerce platform P97 is now supported through of Windows 10 machines , including tablets and smartphones, to provide a wide experience mobile and cloud connected

"consumers today are focused on mobile -. to buy coffee for boarding flights - they want more access to data and services from the palm of the hand, "said Donald Frieden, president and CEO P97. "With PetroZone, consumers can now find gasoline prices in the shop, and save money in gas stations and convenience stores with the convenience of their smartphone and security of Windows 10 and Azure. This is the power PetroZone "

P97 uses Microsoft Azure as a service, and multi-factor authentication to deliver a" frictionless approach "for mobile payments on fuel retail sites and convenience stores . one that is secure, scalable and designed to support 150,000 gas stations and convenience stores in the US today.

"performance is non-negotiable for our customers, and is critical to the success of their companies focused on the cloud, "said Nicole Herskowitz, senior product marketing manager, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp . "Because of this we are pleased to welcome P97 to Microsoft Azure."

The P97 mCommerce solutions would enhance the ability of operators, marketing, and store the oil companies to attract and retain customers. It provides a technology that "safe" connects millions of individual mobile phones and cars connected with the identity and software of geo-location technology to create "connected-consumers unique experiences" .

Fogo data centers, a colocation provider and hosting cloud with data center facilities located in Carrollton, Georgia, the new Orleans, Louisiana and Pensacola, Florida, announced that the draft law Esslinger joined its management team as CEO and member of the Board of Directors.

Bill Esslinger is founder and director of Esslinger Law Tech, a consulting firm specializing in start-up and technology in phase of business growth. Before founding Esslinger Tech Law , he served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. for 14 years

"I Fogo leading delighted by this acceleration phase, "said Bill Esslinger, new CEO of Fogo Data Centers.

M .. Esslinger led the legal team Greenway and advised the Board administration and management of the company through six rounds of private financing and an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange , increasing by more than $ 150 million in total, as well as 'successful acquisition of $ 644 million by Vista Equity Partners in November 2013, which resulted in Greenway become a private company.

founders Fogo

Richard M. Haney, Jr., co-founder of Fogo Data Centers, remains actively involved in the management as President and Chairman of the Board. Edith F. Haney, co-founder of the company, continues to serve on the Board and Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary.

"I am excited about the Fogo Data Centers" relative market position in the cloud hosting services industry explosion, "said Bill Esslinger . "This company occupies an underserved market niche as local and regional provider. I look forward to leading Fogo by this acceleration phase, making the most of our talents, resources and opportunities, and continues to have a positive influence on the communities where we operate. "

Deborah Ingle Esslinger

Mr. Esslinger Esslinger Deborah Ingle, president of Esslinger Law Tech, also joined the board of Fogo data centers. It will bring a new perspective to the Board for improving the evaluation of business growth opportunities, as well as its leadership development initiative.

Ms. Esslinger of expertise in software development and product management includes a wide variety of technology platforms and application areas, including a combined 15 years experience at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, where she designed, developed and tested the software systems and electronic defense modeling and simulation fields and Greenway medical Technologies, Inc., where she developed the initial version of the medical file e Greenway has led the department of management PrimeSuite products, and founded other product lines during his tenure, including mobile products and research.