IBM Cloud Strategy: A spectrum of options

The IBM cloud strategy hinges on the ability to deliver a wide spectrum of cloud and non-cloud platforms and software. Deploying and managing applications and components into this complex an environment represents a challenge for DevOps teams. To address this complexity, IBM has embraced open systems such as Cloud Foundry and Open Stack. To further help manage these multifaceted hybrid systems, IBM plans to introduce a hybrid cloud controller product that will assist in management, governance, and automation of operational elements of these environments.

RedHat Summit: Open Source Meets Scalable Clouds and Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is already a scalable, available Linux distribution that is widely used for both enterprise and cloud computing. This year’s Red Hat Summit in Boston showed that Red Hat is building a wider ecosystem, leveraging RHEL and Red Hat middleware to expand its presence in the broader world of hybrid computing – linking enterprise datacenters with cloud datacenters – and providing tools and platforms for end-to-end workloads spanning public, private and hybrid clouds.

Oracle expands IaaS and PaaS cloud services

Oracle is adding Engineered Systems IaaS services to its portfolio of cloud services offerings, supporting enterprise customers’ hybrid cloud deployments spanning both on-prem and off-prem data centers.
Based on the Oracle Big Data Appliance and Oracle Exadata Engineered Systems, these cloud services offer dedicated compute and storage resources – managed by Oracle – to enterprise customers.
By doing so, Oracle is leveraging its investments in engineered systems — and its IP in Oracle 12c databases and Oracle Enterprise Linux — to support growing database workloads with Oracle-configured and managed servers that support end-to-end hybrid cloud solutions for the enterprise.

Zadara Storage Kicks It Up A Notch

At its annual Zadara Summit 2015 held in Las Vegas, NV, the company welcomed 75 of its very loyal customers. Neuralytix was invited as one of only three analyst firms to attend this event.
Neuralytix believes that the “-as-a-Service” approach to storage capacity will increase over the next several years. This is a disruptive approach to the entire storage industry that continues to commoditize at a rapid pace. With the subscription approach, and now with added-value features such as Backup to S3 (B2S3) and Zadara Container Services (ZCS), Zadara is able to create greater value within their service, allowing them to outpace their competitors.