Virtustream has completed its acquisition of Enomaly an early innovator in cloud and pioneer in cloud exchanges. The integration of Enomaly and its software capabilities will further enhance our enterprise class cloud solutions, enabling customers to benefit from the dramatic operational advantages and cost savings of cloud computing.
Virtustream will continue to support Enomaly’s existing products, including its ECP public cloud software and SpotCloud, a cloud exchange offering a marketplace and cloud‐to‐cloud federation. Both ECP and SpotCloud will be enhanced further with additional security. In 2012, Virtustream will also integrate additional public cloud functionality and cloud exchange capabilities into xStream, our enterprise cloud solution. In addition, with the acquisition of Enomaly, Virtustream continues to expand its global presence by adding distribution in China and a cloud software development center in Canada.
“With our acquisition of Enomaly, Virtustream continues to shape the cloud industry for the enterprise client,” said Bill McNamara, Chief of Corporate Development, Virtustream. “Combining Enomaly’s cloud exchange, federation and public cloud capabilities with Virtustream’s Micro‐VM cloud technology enables customers to efficiently pool data center resources, use hybrid clouds and federate between private, virtual private and public clouds ‐ all assured by SLA guarantees that are models for the industry.”
Vijay Sarathy, Director, Marketing Cloud BU at Red Hat is responsible for ISV Partner ecosystems for Red Hat Cloud. Red Hat, being a leader in Open Source software, is focusing more on the cloud and is partnering with Virtustream and many others to expand its presence in the next phase of IT.
According to Sarathy, some key themes to pay attention to for Red Hat users hoping to stay on top of the industry are self-service, and interoperability. He also stresses that customers are looking for solutions that address concerns of compliance when choosing to move into the cloud. Security certifications like the ones Virtustream possesses ensure customers receive attributes red hat is known for – reliability, scalability, and safety.
Virtustream is a Premiere Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider. This program creates a set of trusted providers for clients looking to run their applications on Red Hat products. Virtustream is also a member of the Open Virtualization alliance, which helps promote the virtues of KVM to a broader audience.
When VMware went into production about 5 years ago, it was essentially the Windows workloads that were being virtualized. At that time, these workloads were less mission critical and were less utilized as servers so they made ideal candidates for server virtualization, explained Navin Thadani, Senior Director Virtualization Business, Red Hat.
It became a great test case and CIOs quickly saw the advantages to virtualization. Time to crank up the Linux side of the business as well. The Linux guys explained that VMware isn’t the only game in town.
Customers that come to Red Hat are looking for alternatives to VMware, Thadani said.
Thadani argued that Red Hat offers solutions that can handle far more demanding workloads than other hypervisor competitors, specifically VMware. IBM and NTT are basing their entire public cloud infrastructure on the Red Hat virtualization substrate.
Red Hat’s hypervisor is the KVM, Kernel-based Virtual Machines, which is a module in the Linux kernel that converts the Linux kernel into a hypervisor. It runs Linux VMs as well as Windows VMs.
To manage that hypervisor you don’t need to deal with Linux’s command-line management. REV, or Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, is the front-end graphical centralized management system that behaves just like vSphere and vCenter, Thadani said.
Tweet When we talk about desktop applications we’re essentially talking about Microsoft Windows applications, said Brian Madden, blogger at brianmadden.com and editor at TechTarget. Even though virtualized environments are growing like mad, Microsoft still dominates. An enterprise is laden with so much legacy software and knowledge built into Microsoft applications that they have no other [...]
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So many companies that worry about consumerization focus their IT security issues on devices. Brian Madden argues most companies are missing the big story. Our insecure data isn’t on devices, it’s spread across hundreds of random cloud services.
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Edward Haletky of “The Virtualization Practice” discusses the noticeable uptick in hardware and software vendors being upfront about their collaboration and integration.
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