Posted on: May 16th, 2013 by John Humphreys
With the rise of cloud computing, it is no surprise that more companies are jumping into the business of offering cloud services. At their developer’s conference, Google just announced that their cloud offering is now generally available, after having it available only to select users till now. Each new cloud offering brings a new twist on what users can get – in the case of Google, you can buy time in as little as 10 minute increments. In case Amazon Web Services wasn’t enough of a threat to many companies who provide computing services, here comes another giant. What does this mean to the thousands of VARs and MSPs, especially those who serve small and medium businesses? In most cases their revenue is already under attack, as those same SMB companies are turning to the cloud in record numbers. That is a trend that is sure to continue, so VARs… continue reading
Posted on: May 3rd, 2013 by John Humphreys
This week we were pleased to announce a new customer for Egenera Cloud Suite: The Bunker, a managed service provider in the UK who provides cloud services with the highest degree of security. In fact, their systems are housed in state-of-the-art, nuclear bomb proof data centers. This is serious security for their government, financial services and other business customers. As you might imagine, The Bunker did an exhaustive analysis of potential cloud management solutions in order to find one that would meet their stringent requirements. They looked for software that would deliver the security, high availability and scalability they needed while delivering the very fast time-to-service their customers expect. Egenera Cloud Suite’s capability to manage both physical and virtual servers from a single, simple user interface was a key benefit as well. We were very pleased that The Bunker decided that Egenera Cloud Suite was the only product in the… continue reading
Posted on: April 29th, 2013 by admin
In this session we review the uptake and best practices for developing and deploying a private cloud. Topics to be covered include the state of the private cloud market, the business case for implementing private clouds, the technical components needed for a private cloud, along with a discussion on the critical role that application strategy plays in the development of a private cloud. The architecture of a well-structured private cloud initiative will also be reviewed and discussed. Available On-Demand view now
Posted on: April 23rd, 2013 by John Humphreys
An interesting analysis of the cloud market was just published by Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2013/04/22/why-cloud-computing-is-accelerating-in-the-enterprise/. The author created an index of 23 publicly traded companies who derive a substantial portion of their revenue from cloud software or services, and compared the stock performance of specific cloud companies to the overall index. Not surprisingly, it was some of the leading SaaS (software as a service) vendors whose performance significantly outpaced the overall index. After all, it is SaaS that began the overall growth in cloud and its acceptance in the enterprise. While the growth of the overall index was just 4% in the past year, SaaS vendors NetSuite and Workday posted large double digit increases. Now the cloud market includes far more private vendors like Egenera than it does public ones, and I assume that the overall index would be higher if it had a way to account for them. But a key… continue reading
Posted on: April 9th, 2013 by Scott Harris
Floods, thunderstorms, fires, corrupted data, human error, leap year, atomic clock adjustments. Those were the causes of the most headline-grabbing data center outages in 2012 according to an article published late last year on the datacenterknowledge.com site (read it here.) When an enterprise suffers an outage it can result in financials losses to be sure. It can be even worse when a public cloud service like Amazon Web Services goes down – as that can impact thousands of businesses all at once. While disasters will happen, and they seem to be doing so at an increasing rate, the question isn’t what will cause your next outage. The most important question you should ask yourself is: How long will it take to recover and get the most critical applications back up and running? If your answer is “I really don’t know”, you’re not alone. Numerous industry surveys show that less than… continue reading
Posted on: March 28th, 2013 by Pete Manca
There’s been a lot of buzz around Converged Infrastructure (CI), especially as an underpinning for the cloud computing. And it’s true… CI is the perfect foundation for the cloud. But with all of that buzz comes confusion, hanger-on’s, and many different tangents, as everyone tries to cash in on the latest trend. As one of the pioneers in this field, and after 13 years developing solutions, I’d like to think Egenera is in a good position to describe what Converged Infrastructure really is and where it’s going. What got me really thinking about this was the recent IDC Directions conference where the topic of Converged Infrastructure was explored and categorized. The products mentioned were dispersed and in some cases, barely converged. So let’s start with a quick definition. I won’t bore you with the history of Convergence, just the state of the technology today. Convergence starts at the I/O layer… continue reading
Posted on: March 19th, 2013 by John Humphreys
It is that time of the year again in the US – yes, tax time. With April 15 looming, there are probably a lot of you who are (1) working on your taxes (2) procrastinating (3) trying not to think about doing your taxes. Maybe a few of you have actually sent them in already. Today most of us use tax software to fill out the complex tax forms, and then we file them online. It’s hard to think back to the days when you had to do it with pen and paper then print it all out and mail it. It was much more complex and error-prone. Maybe you hired someone else to do it because it was such a specialized skill. What does this have to do with Clouds, or Cloud Computing? From a user point of view cloud computing is like good tax software. It lets us… continue reading
Posted on: March 12th, 2013 by Chris Cleary
A recent IDC survey found that data center managers expect to allocate nearly 50% of their budgets to cloud services (public and private) in 2013. It is no surprise then that an increasing number of service providers are becoming cloud service providers, systems integrators are adding a cloud specialty to their practice, and technology companies are adding complementary product offerings in order to capture some of that growing market. Egenera Cloud Suite provides a great foundation for companies to build a cloud offering on. Our partners agree, demonstrated by the fact that partners were key contributors to the high rate of growth of our software business and customer base in 2012. 2013 promises to be an even bigger year in the adoption of cloud automation and ITaaS solutions. With that in mind, now is the time to partner with Egenera and share in the success. Our Cloud Suite software with… continue reading
Posted on: March 5th, 2013 by John Humphreys
The technology business has been rife with buzzwords and “the next big thing” since the earliest days. Some have come to pass (like virtualization and SaaS) and many others have fallen by the wayside (anyone remember videotex or DCE?). Quite a few are more marketing than technology-oriented, and are used so often and in so many ways it is impossible to lock in on a consistent definition. Case in point: according to a very interesting article from the Global Language Monitor, the top 2 most confusing buzzwords of 2012 were “Big Data” and “Cloud”. Despite this confusion, there seems to be no doubt that both represent real opportunities for businesses to become more efficient, improve customer service (for both external and internal customers) and compete more effectively. In regard to Cloud, a recent survey entitled “Future of Cloud Computing” from North Bridge Venture Partners included a question to determine what… continue reading
Posted on: February 28th, 2013 by Dana Morris
Obviously, cloud is changing everything. It is transforming how IT Services are delivered, shifting how resources are managed and turning the economics of IT on its head. As a result, organizations are radically shifting how they allocate their IT budgets. But is it meeting the all the needs of the enterprise? In this Egenera Cloud Webinar series as we examine how other organizations have built and deployed cloud services that meet the strict security, reliability and performance requirements of enterprise IT. Available On-Demand view now
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