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Austin Hackathon For Change 2013

18 Jun 2013

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Racker Alan Bush and other folks from Rackspace participated in the ATX Hackathon for Change at the beginning of June. This hackathon was part of the National Day of Civic Hacking where developers, designers and sys admins partner with nonprofits to help improve their systems and online services. Check out some of the projects that Alan and his peers worked on.

Hosting Desktops for Financial Services with the Citrix Service Provider Program

17 Jun 2013

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Craig Taylor from Citrix Service Provider LC9 explains why desktops as a service help Australian financial services customers be more competitive and deal with aging infrastructure. He highlights moving IT to a "pay per user per month" operational expense gives customers more effectiveness, plus confidence around redundancy, reliability and software license compliance.

Nutanix delivers on promise to bring virtual computing platforms to all enterprises

18 Jun 2013

New NX-1000 Provides Converged Infrastructure Designed Specifically for Mid-Sized Enterprises and Branch Office Deployments

New NX-6000 Independently Scales Storage Resources to Run Any Application at Any Scale

Nutanix, a leading provider of hyper-efficient, massively scalable and elegantly simple datacenter infrastructure solutions, today announced two new platforms that meet the cost, performance and scale requirements to run nearly any enterprise application. Nutanix’s expanded portfolio of Virtual Computing Platforms enables IT teams to tailor and seamlessly grow their compute and storage environment to fit their individual requirements, whether for an enterprise branch office with limited on-site IT resources or core datacenters tasked with supporting an increasingly diverse and demanding set of workloads.

Skyscape joins VMware Cloud Credits Purchasing Program

18 Jun 2013

VMware Program simplifies and facilitates use of public and hybrid cloud allowing businesses to buy, secure and manage cloud spending in one transaction

Skyscape Cloud Services, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave assured cloud services company, has announced its participation in the VMware Cloud Credits Purchasing Program (CCPP). The Program enables businesses to take advantage of public or hybrid cloud as a comprehensive IT strategy through the purchase of VMware Cloud Credits.

Limerick Institute of Technology - Case Study

18 Jun 2013

With growing data volumes and a desire to move to an internal cloud computing platform, the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) felt that its current Fibre Channel SAN offered limited flexibility while an upgrade represented a high CAPEX and OPEX burden. 

Four reasons why companies should back up to the cloud

17 Jun 2013

In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit millions of people and companies across the east coast of the United States. The damage caused by the storm meant that many people suffered from lost and damaged of personal or business assets, including invaluable corporate data.

Private Cloud offers multiple benefits to (almost) all applications

17 Jun 2013

Brian Jacobs, Senior Product Manager, Ipswitch Inc. writes: Although ‘the cloud’ has become a part of standard IT vocabulary over the past few years, many organisations remain unaware of the potential impact cloud technologies can have on their businesses.  Can almost any business benefit from ‘the cloud’?  For most, the answer is a definite yes, although there are some areas where the cloud may not be beneficial.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Foundation for the open hybrid cloud

12 Jun 2013

Jim Totton, vice president and general manager, Platform, Red Hat, writes: Red Hat espouses a vision called open hybrid cloud, but it’s important to note that this is not merely “cloud washing” or a response to the latest fad. Rather, it’s based on a foundation that Red Hat has been building for years, and stems from the experience and credibility we’ve established in helping to create the market for commercial Linux. This long-held vision has been informed by a decade of collective feedback from our customers, and helps avoid some of the pitfalls that are often created within enterprise software –sometimes by vendors themselves. Examples of pitfalls are the purpose-built solutions that enterprises adopt that end up becoming rigid and inflexible infrastructure silos. These silos are expensive to maintain, often implement non-standard interfaces and APIs, and result in vendor lock-in.