Robin Wauters

Cloud Services Provider Virtustream Opens New York Office

March 17, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Virtustream, a provider of cloud services and infrastructure solutions, has announced a new office in New York to support the development and delivery of Virtustream’s suite of Cloud Platform Services as well as regional sales.

Companies are selecting Cloud Services, delivered through Virtustream’s xStream cloud platform, to achieve the benefits of pooled resource efficiencies and elasticity without sacrificing security, availability and application performance.

xStream features a unique unit-based utility pricing model and provides guaranteed resources backed by industry-leading service level agreements.

Ed Franklin, Virtustream executive vice president, Global Cloud Platform Services, recently joined Virtustream and will lead the New York office. Prior to joining Virtustream, Franklin was vice president, Global Solutions for Verizon. Previously, Franklin created and led the IT Services organization of MCI Communications.

VMware Acquires WaveMaker To Ease App Development For Non-Coders

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VMWare has acquired WaveMaker, the result of discussions that have been going on between the latter and the SpringSource division of VMware for more than a year.

WaveMaker is based on the Spring framework but targets a different audience: non-expert developers looking for the easiest way to build web apps.

All of WaveMaker’s staff will be joining VMware.

OK Labs Teams Up With Galois In Research For Ultra-Secure Systems

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Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), provider of embedded virtualization software for smartphones, tablets, and other connected devices, and Galois, a technology transition company specializing in software security, safety, privacy and performance, today announced a technology partnership to create and commercialize ultra-secure and trustworthy systems for communications, data processing, and control.

The outcome of OK Labs and Galois collaboration will have broad horizontal impact, augmenting the security of systems in applications from software-defined radio to financial services, and medical and mobile/wireless devices.

Building on original research by Galois and by OK Labs incubation partner NICTA (National ICT Australia) on the OKL4 Verified platform for mission-critical applications, Galois and OK Labs support high levels of assurance, correctness and risk management for government agencies and contractors, device OEMs, network operators, software developers and integrators.

Release: VMware View Client For iPad

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VMware last week announced the availability of a VMware View Client for iPad on the Apple App Store. Free of charge, the app enables iPad users to access their virtual Windows desktops, applications and data from anywhere.

VMware View is a virtual desktop solution that enables enterprises to improve security and lower operating costs, while simplifying desktop administration and management by establishing a modern, end-user computing architecture.

Support for the iPad Keyboard Dock and Bluetooth keyboards makes text input even easier while the iPad VGA connector allows you to connect to an external monitor. VMware View Client for iPad supports iOS 4.2 and iOS 4.3.

IBM Pumps $38 Million In Cloud Computing Data Center To Address Asia Pacific Growth

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IBM recently announced a $38M investment in a new IBM Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Center in Singapore, which will provide businesses with solutions and services to harness the potential of cloud computing.

The new facility will extend IBM’s globally-integrated cloud delivery network with centres in Germany, Canada and the United States; and 13 global cloud labs, of which seven are based in Asia Pacific – China, India, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore.

Scheduled to launch in April, the Centre will make available IBM’s cloud services and technology portfolio via the company’s cloud delivery infrastructure. T

hese services are designed to enable clients to reap the benefits of business and IT transformation; increase flexibility and agility; accelerate time to market; reduce costs; and increase security and compliance of public cloud environments.

The first offering to be available at the IBM Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Centre will be from IBM’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud portfolio.

It helps enterprises reduce operational costs; eliminate capital outlays; improve cycle times for faster time-to-market; and improve quality with virtually instant, secure access to a standardized infrastructure as a service environment.

Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1 Includes Open Source Data Virtualization Solution

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Red Hat has announced the availability of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1, which includes new extensions for data services integration.

JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform 5.1, a superset of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1, is an open source data virtualization and integration platform that includes tools to create data services out of multiple data stores with different formats, presenting information to applications and business processes in an easy-to-use service.

These data services become reusable assets across the enterprise and value chain, increasing return on data assets, enabling faster time-to-solution and driving better business execution.

JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1 includes:

– Apache CXF web services stack
– JBoss Developer Studio 4.0, which features updated SOA tooling for ESB and data virtualization
– A technology preview of WS-BPEL, which delivers service orchestration
– A technology preview of Apache Camel Gateway, which is a popular enterprise integration pattern framework that brings an expanded set of adapters to JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
– Updated certifications (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Windows 2008, IBM, JDK and more)

Along with JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.1, Red Hat is offering a new two-day training course, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform – ESB Implementation, which is focused on developing and deploying ESB providers and services using JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.