OpSource Cloud Journal

Round Two – Last time I wrote a blog comparing APM versus network-based APM tools, which I still consider NPM at it’s core regardless of what some critics and competitors claim. Let me make one thing clear though, NPM is great for equipping IT network administrators to see how fast or slow data is traveling through the pipes of their application. Unfortunately, network-based APM tools simply cannot provide App Ops granular visibility into the application runtime when isolating bottlenecks go beyond the system level and it’s final destination – the end user’s browser. I find several of the blogs and YouTube clips from such NPM vendors quite comical as they try to throw punches at APM companies. Their arguments are centered primarily against agent-based approaches being an inadequate APM solution due to today’s fickle and distributed application architectures. It’s n... (more)

The Evolution of IT to the Cloud at Cloud Expo New York

Cloud Expo New York $500 Savings here! IT has already jumped on the SaaS bandwagon. They've realized that it is easier to use a SaaS application than to build and support a custom application in-house. As cloud computing becomes increasingly pervasive, businesses will move more and more of their infrastructure into a public or private cloud, initially looking to benefit from the economics and efficiency. As end users become more familiar with consuming infrastructure on-demand, the role of IT will change from being more project-oriented to being more service-oriented, essentiall... (more)

Zadara™ Storage Delivers High-Performance Enterprise Storage-as-a-Service with OpSource

All About the Cloud — OpSource, Inc., Dimension Data’s wholly-owned enterprise cloud and managed hosting business, today announced it has teamed with Zadara Storage, Inc., a provider of enterprise-class storage in the public cloud, to deliver on-demand Virtual Private Storage Arrays (VPSAs™) to businesses. Supported by Zadara’s unique, software-only CloudFabric™ Architecture, enterprise public cloud users and users of OpSource’s Managed Hosting Environment now have the option to migrate mission-critical applications to the public cloud while still maintaining a high level of per... (more)

Aryaka Optimizes Data Replication to Data Centers and Cloud; Turns Idle Disaster Recovery Sites Into Business Accelerators

LAS VEGAS, NV -- (Marketwire) -- 05/08/12 -- Interop -- Global enterprises are leveraging Aryaka's WAN optimization as-a-service to better meet their data protection initiatives. Built on a dedicated, intelligent network, Aryaka's solution reduces the amount of data and the time required to transmit data between data centers and on-premise to cloud services. Using the compression, deduplication, Quality of Service (QoS) and TCP optimization technologies that are the cornerstones of its WAN optimization solution, Aryaka provides performance gains when replicating data globally. En... (more)

Scribe President and CEO Lou Guercia to Speak on Cloud Integration at All About the Cloud

MANCHESTER, NH -- (Marketwire) -- 05/07/12 -- Scribe, the leader in CRM data integration, announced that Scribe President and CEO Lou Guercia is joining the Cloud Integration panel at All About the Cloud, the industry's leading ISV conference on cloud computing by OpSource and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA). The panel is scheduled to take place from 2:00 - 2:45 pm on Wednesday, May 9th at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA. "The emergence of cloud platforms, the explosion of data and the development of new avenues for information -- social media, mobile ... (more)