This document discusses how enterprises can achieve agility in the cloud through integrated solutions from VMware, F5, and BlueLock. It provides an overview of how each company's technologies - VMware's virtualization platform, F5's application delivery networking solutions, and BlueLock's managed cloud services - can work together to provide enterprises with platform agility, network agility, and flexible cloud services. It then provides an example scenario of how these integrated solutions could help a company dynamically scale its applications between its private cloud and BlueLock's public cloud during periods of high traffic.
Windows Azure platform AppFabric provides a Service Bus and Access Control to enable connectivity and security in cloud applications. The Service Bus allows secure and interoperable communication across networks and firewalls. Access Control simplifies authorization management across organizations and identity providers. These services solve challenges of connecting cloud, mobile, and on-premises applications at scale through standards-based technologies.
VMblog - 2018 Hyperconverged Predictions from 13 Industry Expertsvmblog
Find out what's going on in the world of #HCI in 2018. Read #predictions from 13 of the industry's leading experts to learn more about #hyperconvergence and hear from industry thought leaders from companies like Scale Computing, Pivot3, Cloudistics, VMware, Red Hat, Primary Data and more. Make sure to also read the more than 280+ other expert #predictions from technologies across virtualization, cloud computing, IoT, security, and more, here: http://bit.ly/2DQi2OT
Whitepaper: Choose the cloud platform that beats the competition - Citrix Clo...Citrix
Server virtualization introduced the concepts of automation and agility to servers and applications. Now, as enterprises seek to achieve ever-higher levels of business agility, IT efficiency and cost control, they are exploring private clouds as a way to extend those benefits to the entire datacenter. There are many private cloud platforms in the market today, yet most fail to address key cloud design requirements that are critical to success, notably compatibility, scalability and flexibility. When choosing a private cloud platform, enterprises should carefully consider these and other private cloud attributes.
Webinar presentation March 3, 2016.
The CSCC deliverable, Practical Guide to Hybrid Cloud Computing, contains prescriptive guidance for the successful deployment of hybrid cloud computing. The whitepaper outlines the key considerations that customers must take into account as they adopt hybrid cloud computing and covers the strategic and tactical activities for decision makers implementing hybrid cloud solutions as well as technical considerations for deployment.
Download the deliverable: http://www.cloud-council.org/resource-hub
Cloud based cyber-physical systems in manufacturingGiriraj Mannayee
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are integrations of computation, cloud based networking, and physical processes. CPS integrates the dynamics of the physical processes with those of the software and networking, providing abstractions and modeling, design, and analysis techniques for the integrated whole.
1) The presentation provides an overview of IBM's cloud portfolio positioning and strategy, focusing on the evolving role of cloud into an environment for innovation and business value.
2) It discusses IBM's Softlayer, Bluemix, and Cloud Managed Services offerings, as well as the vision for an integrated hybrid cloud platform.
3) The presentation outlines IBM's approach to industrialized hybrid cloud, analytics, mobile development, and professional services to help clients deploy cloud solutions.
IBM Blue Box is a private cloud as a service offering that provides a dedicated, scalable OpenStack cloud infrastructure either hosted in IBM data centers (Blue Box Dedicated) or on a customer's own premises (Blue Box Local). Key benefits include fully managed infrastructure, high availability, security, and flexibility to scale compute, storage, and networking resources as needed. IBM provides expertise in deploying and managing the OpenStack environment so customers can focus on applications.
Microsoft Windows Azure - Platfrom Appfabric Service Bus And Access Control P...Microsoft Private Cloud
This document discusses Service Bus and Access Control in the Windows Azure platform. It provides an overview of how they can help solve challenges around connectivity, security, and access across organizational boundaries. Service Bus allows applications and services to connect across firewalls, domains, and networks. Access Control simplifies user authorization across organizations and identity providers. Case studies demonstrate how companies have benefited from these technologies in terms of efficiency, agility, focus, and trust.
Windows Azure platform AppFabric provides a Service Bus and Access Control to enable connectivity and security in cloud applications. The Service Bus allows secure and interoperable communication across networks and firewalls. Access Control simplifies authorization management across organizations and identity providers. These services solve challenges of connecting cloud, mobile, and on-premises applications at scale through standards-based technologies.
VMblog - 2018 Hyperconverged Predictions from 13 Industry Expertsvmblog
Find out what's going on in the world of #HCI in 2018. Read #predictions from 13 of the industry's leading experts to learn more about #hyperconvergence and hear from industry thought leaders from companies like Scale Computing, Pivot3, Cloudistics, VMware, Red Hat, Primary Data and more. Make sure to also read the more than 280+ other expert #predictions from technologies across virtualization, cloud computing, IoT, security, and more, here: http://bit.ly/2DQi2OT
Whitepaper: Choose the cloud platform that beats the competition - Citrix Clo...Citrix
Server virtualization introduced the concepts of automation and agility to servers and applications. Now, as enterprises seek to achieve ever-higher levels of business agility, IT efficiency and cost control, they are exploring private clouds as a way to extend those benefits to the entire datacenter. There are many private cloud platforms in the market today, yet most fail to address key cloud design requirements that are critical to success, notably compatibility, scalability and flexibility. When choosing a private cloud platform, enterprises should carefully consider these and other private cloud attributes.
Webinar presentation March 3, 2016.
The CSCC deliverable, Practical Guide to Hybrid Cloud Computing, contains prescriptive guidance for the successful deployment of hybrid cloud computing. The whitepaper outlines the key considerations that customers must take into account as they adopt hybrid cloud computing and covers the strategic and tactical activities for decision makers implementing hybrid cloud solutions as well as technical considerations for deployment.
Download the deliverable: http://www.cloud-council.org/resource-hub
Cloud based cyber-physical systems in manufacturingGiriraj Mannayee
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are integrations of computation, cloud based networking, and physical processes. CPS integrates the dynamics of the physical processes with those of the software and networking, providing abstractions and modeling, design, and analysis techniques for the integrated whole.
1) The presentation provides an overview of IBM's cloud portfolio positioning and strategy, focusing on the evolving role of cloud into an environment for innovation and business value.
2) It discusses IBM's Softlayer, Bluemix, and Cloud Managed Services offerings, as well as the vision for an integrated hybrid cloud platform.
3) The presentation outlines IBM's approach to industrialized hybrid cloud, analytics, mobile development, and professional services to help clients deploy cloud solutions.
IBM Blue Box is a private cloud as a service offering that provides a dedicated, scalable OpenStack cloud infrastructure either hosted in IBM data centers (Blue Box Dedicated) or on a customer's own premises (Blue Box Local). Key benefits include fully managed infrastructure, high availability, security, and flexibility to scale compute, storage, and networking resources as needed. IBM provides expertise in deploying and managing the OpenStack environment so customers can focus on applications.
Microsoft Windows Azure - Platfrom Appfabric Service Bus And Access Control P...Microsoft Private Cloud
This document discusses Service Bus and Access Control in the Windows Azure platform. It provides an overview of how they can help solve challenges around connectivity, security, and access across organizational boundaries. Service Bus allows applications and services to connect across firewalls, domains, and networks. Access Control simplifies user authorization across organizations and identity providers. Case studies demonstrate how companies have benefited from these technologies in terms of efficiency, agility, focus, and trust.
Hybrid cloud spending is predicted to reach $200B by 2018 as more organizations adopt various technology solutions from thousands of partners, creating a complex infrastructure to deploy, manage, govern and secure workloads across geographies. Virtual Instruments and KeyCloud provide infrastructure performance management and predictive capabilities integrated into cloud architectures to deliver consistent, exceptional performance with maximum uptime, unlike most "as-is" cloud solutions, ensuring workloads perform as enterprises require. For more information on these solutions, contact Key Information Systems.
This document summarizes a presentation by Michael Curry from IBM on August 21, 2014 about transitioning to hybrid cloud. It discusses trends like mobile, social, big data and cloud that are driving organizations toward hybrid models. It outlines IBM's investments in cloud computing and services like SoftLayer. It also describes IBM's BlueMix platform for developing and deploying applications in a hybrid manner across public and private clouds and how it provides capabilities like predefined patterns, services and integration tools.
Hyper-V has helped AcXess fill that much needed virtualization gap with an improvised and more competent functionality and reduced data center and hardware costs.
According to Tom Elowson, President and Cofounder, AcXess, “Hyper-V has made all the difference. It is amazing to think we have grown our business 300 percent over the last few years with Hyper-V. ”
IBM Global Financing can tailor financing solutions to your specific IT needs. For more information on great rates, flexible payment plans and loans, and asset buyback and disposal
The document discusses how companies can architect their business for disruption by leveraging cloud, cognitive, and data technologies on the IBM Cloud platform. The IBM Cloud provides a highly scalable and secure infrastructure, tools to prepare and analyze data, cognitive building blocks for developers, and targeted enterprise solutions. It enables companies to deploy new capabilities quickly, leverage their expertise through differentiating applications and services, gain insights from data across locations while respecting governance and compliance, and integrate legacy and new workloads.
Mastering Application Integration Challenges in Hybrid Cloud EnvironmentsSam Garforth
These are the slides from the Nastel Red Hat webinar of April 7th 2021. The abstract is:
Many enterprises are adopting OpenShift in their journey to building and running containerized workloads in on-premise, cloud-based or hybrid environments. These initiatives leverage multiple application integration technologies, such as IBM MQ, Apache Kafka or Tibco EMS.
But managing application integration in hybrid cloud environments introduces multiple challenges:
- Need a single point of control for multiple middleware
- Need to grant self-service and delegated authority to development teams
- Need to enable developers to test application message flows
- Need to address middleware upgrades & migrations
In this webinar, we’ll show you how Nastel Navigator can be used in the OpenShift environment to address these challenges:
- Automated discovery of middleware estate
- Simplified configuration management
- Full audit trail of changes (who, what, where, when)
- Secure, granular delegation of specific authorities to development and operations teams
- Full web-based command & control
You can watch the recording of the webinar here http://bit.ly/nastelredhat
The document discusses IBM's Cloud Service Provider Platform which aims to help communications service providers (CSPs) transition to becoming cloud service providers and capitalize on the cloud services market opportunity. The platform provides an integrated service management solution to help CSPs create, deliver, manage and assure cloud services. It also discusses solutions to help CSPs accelerate time to market, infuse innovation, energize cloud sales and monetize their cloud investments.
Ventana Research Presents: Best Practices with Hadoop - Real World DataCloudera, Inc.
David Menninger of Ventana Research presented on the findings of Ventana Research's benchmark research project examining Hadoop adoption and usage. The research found that over half of organizations surveyed either have Hadoop deployed or plan to deploy it within the next year. Hadoop is generally being used as a supplemental technology rather than a replacement. Common uses include analyzing log and event data as well as unstructured text and multimedia data. The Apache distribution and Cloudera are the most commonly used. Respondents report higher levels of benefits from Hadoop including increased data retention and analysis speed.
Tap into a Private Cloud as a Service to Accelerate Hybrid SuccessDenny Muktar
Used for IDC CXO-CIO Event in April 2016, JW Marriot, Jakarta. Talk about Hybrid and Private Cloud and IBM BlueBox. IBM commitment on open and contribution to OpenStack.
For IT recruiters, and just about everyone who has been interested in tech, cloud is not a new phenomena. However, over the past 18 months, adoption of cloud is growing quickly and is now used in some shape or form by businesses of all sizes around the world.
This issue provides an overview to the rise of cloud, highlights the most in demand IT skills and lists the fastest growing cloud companies by employee.
In this QuickView
- Fastest growing cloud companies by employees
- Most in demand skills, job roles and certifications
- Top employers of cloud professionals
- Is Big-data-as-a-service the next big growth sector?
- Top 5 uses of cloud computing for 2015
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g. networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Key characteristics of cloud computing include on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. Common cloud computing service models are Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Migrating its entire virtualized environment from VMware to Hyper-V has helped Miele & Cie, an appliance manufacturer shrink its server space by more than 50 percent and improve productivity.
To add to the new flexible and energy-efficient data center, Miele has also ‘saved an estimated 35 percent in licensing costs by going with a Microsoft virtualization solution’.
Accelerate Digital Transformation with IBM Cloud PrivateMichael Elder
Accelerate the journey to cloud-native, refactor existing mission-critical workloads, and catalyze enterprise digital transformations.
How do you ensure the success of your enterprise in highly competitive market landscapes? How will you deliver new cloud-native workloads, modernize existing estates, and drive integration between them?
Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research at salesforce.com, gave a presentation on cloud tools for connected communities. He discussed how the cloud enables deep customization while maintaining a coherent code base and security. Coffee also outlined how the cloud allows for integration without requiring rip-and-replace upgrades. He presented examples of how government agencies and companies have leveraged the cloud to accelerate projects, increase flexibility, and reduce costs. Coffee argued that cloud adoption is increasing and will continue to do so as cloud capabilities improve more rapidly than traditional IT models.
Ergo is a Microsoft Gold Partner that helps clients develop cost-effective IT environments using virtualization and Microsoft technologies. They have expertise in designing, deploying, and customizing solutions with Windows Server, SQL Server, and BizTalk Server. This allows organizations to consolidate infrastructure, increase availability, and simplify management. Ergo fully assesses clients' existing systems and migrates them to virtualized environments tested for optimal performance and reduced costs.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the March Edition:
•Veeam Availability Suite v10 unveiled
•P&O Maritime Logistics enables IoT with Aruba Solutions
•Avaya Spaces embraces a multiexperience approach
•Nutanix releases second Enterprise Cloud Index Report
•Huawei strengthens enterprise offerings
•Palo Alto Networks introduces Cortex XSOAR platform
•Mimecast announces new integration with IBM Security
•A10 Networks delivers virtual DDoS defense solution
•Fortinet introduces self-learning Artificial Intelligence appliance
•Veritas recognized by Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
•Kaspersky extends its partner network
Bluemix Paris Meetup - Session #8 - 20th may 2015 - Passer au cloud hybride a...IBM France Lab
This document summarizes an event about moving to a hybrid cloud with Bluemix. The event included presentations on using Bluemix for hybrid cloud capabilities, building applications with Bluemix and DreamFace for business agility, and announcements about startups, internships and networking. Bluemix was discussed as not just a public cloud offering, but now enabling hybrid cloud through services like Bluemix Local being delivered on-premises.
This document discusses how enterprises can achieve agility in the cloud through integrated solutions from VMware, F5, and BlueLock. It provides an overview of how each company's technologies - VMware's virtualization platform, F5's application delivery networking solutions, and BlueLock's managed cloud services - can work together to provide enterprises with platform agility, network agility, and flexible cloud services. It then provides an example scenario of how these integrated solutions could help a company dynamically scale its applications between its private cloud and BlueLock's public cloud during periods of high traffic.
The document discusses a new paradigm called the Unified Access and Application Delivery Methodology (UAADM) that aims to address shortcomings of traditional network security architectures. The UAADM revolves around how networks connect users to applications, considering access context and security profiles. It proposes a Unified Access and Application Delivery Controller that examines access requests, matches context to resource requirements, and intelligently applies services like caching, compression, and security screening. The methodology is presented as addressing issues with traditional approaches like lack of extensibility, complexity, and separate network and security designs.
Hybrid cloud spending is predicted to reach $200B by 2018 as more organizations adopt various technology solutions from thousands of partners, creating a complex infrastructure to deploy, manage, govern and secure workloads across geographies. Virtual Instruments and KeyCloud provide infrastructure performance management and predictive capabilities integrated into cloud architectures to deliver consistent, exceptional performance with maximum uptime, unlike most "as-is" cloud solutions, ensuring workloads perform as enterprises require. For more information on these solutions, contact Key Information Systems.
This document summarizes a presentation by Michael Curry from IBM on August 21, 2014 about transitioning to hybrid cloud. It discusses trends like mobile, social, big data and cloud that are driving organizations toward hybrid models. It outlines IBM's investments in cloud computing and services like SoftLayer. It also describes IBM's BlueMix platform for developing and deploying applications in a hybrid manner across public and private clouds and how it provides capabilities like predefined patterns, services and integration tools.
Hyper-V has helped AcXess fill that much needed virtualization gap with an improvised and more competent functionality and reduced data center and hardware costs.
According to Tom Elowson, President and Cofounder, AcXess, “Hyper-V has made all the difference. It is amazing to think we have grown our business 300 percent over the last few years with Hyper-V. ”
IBM Global Financing can tailor financing solutions to your specific IT needs. For more information on great rates, flexible payment plans and loans, and asset buyback and disposal
The document discusses how companies can architect their business for disruption by leveraging cloud, cognitive, and data technologies on the IBM Cloud platform. The IBM Cloud provides a highly scalable and secure infrastructure, tools to prepare and analyze data, cognitive building blocks for developers, and targeted enterprise solutions. It enables companies to deploy new capabilities quickly, leverage their expertise through differentiating applications and services, gain insights from data across locations while respecting governance and compliance, and integrate legacy and new workloads.
Mastering Application Integration Challenges in Hybrid Cloud EnvironmentsSam Garforth
These are the slides from the Nastel Red Hat webinar of April 7th 2021. The abstract is:
Many enterprises are adopting OpenShift in their journey to building and running containerized workloads in on-premise, cloud-based or hybrid environments. These initiatives leverage multiple application integration technologies, such as IBM MQ, Apache Kafka or Tibco EMS.
But managing application integration in hybrid cloud environments introduces multiple challenges:
- Need a single point of control for multiple middleware
- Need to grant self-service and delegated authority to development teams
- Need to enable developers to test application message flows
- Need to address middleware upgrades & migrations
In this webinar, we’ll show you how Nastel Navigator can be used in the OpenShift environment to address these challenges:
- Automated discovery of middleware estate
- Simplified configuration management
- Full audit trail of changes (who, what, where, when)
- Secure, granular delegation of specific authorities to development and operations teams
- Full web-based command & control
You can watch the recording of the webinar here http://bit.ly/nastelredhat
The document discusses IBM's Cloud Service Provider Platform which aims to help communications service providers (CSPs) transition to becoming cloud service providers and capitalize on the cloud services market opportunity. The platform provides an integrated service management solution to help CSPs create, deliver, manage and assure cloud services. It also discusses solutions to help CSPs accelerate time to market, infuse innovation, energize cloud sales and monetize their cloud investments.
Ventana Research Presents: Best Practices with Hadoop - Real World DataCloudera, Inc.
David Menninger of Ventana Research presented on the findings of Ventana Research's benchmark research project examining Hadoop adoption and usage. The research found that over half of organizations surveyed either have Hadoop deployed or plan to deploy it within the next year. Hadoop is generally being used as a supplemental technology rather than a replacement. Common uses include analyzing log and event data as well as unstructured text and multimedia data. The Apache distribution and Cloudera are the most commonly used. Respondents report higher levels of benefits from Hadoop including increased data retention and analysis speed.
Tap into a Private Cloud as a Service to Accelerate Hybrid SuccessDenny Muktar
Used for IDC CXO-CIO Event in April 2016, JW Marriot, Jakarta. Talk about Hybrid and Private Cloud and IBM BlueBox. IBM commitment on open and contribution to OpenStack.
For IT recruiters, and just about everyone who has been interested in tech, cloud is not a new phenomena. However, over the past 18 months, adoption of cloud is growing quickly and is now used in some shape or form by businesses of all sizes around the world.
This issue provides an overview to the rise of cloud, highlights the most in demand IT skills and lists the fastest growing cloud companies by employee.
In this QuickView
- Fastest growing cloud companies by employees
- Most in demand skills, job roles and certifications
- Top employers of cloud professionals
- Is Big-data-as-a-service the next big growth sector?
- Top 5 uses of cloud computing for 2015
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g. networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Key characteristics of cloud computing include on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. Common cloud computing service models are Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Migrating its entire virtualized environment from VMware to Hyper-V has helped Miele & Cie, an appliance manufacturer shrink its server space by more than 50 percent and improve productivity.
To add to the new flexible and energy-efficient data center, Miele has also ‘saved an estimated 35 percent in licensing costs by going with a Microsoft virtualization solution’.
Accelerate Digital Transformation with IBM Cloud PrivateMichael Elder
Accelerate the journey to cloud-native, refactor existing mission-critical workloads, and catalyze enterprise digital transformations.
How do you ensure the success of your enterprise in highly competitive market landscapes? How will you deliver new cloud-native workloads, modernize existing estates, and drive integration between them?
Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research at salesforce.com, gave a presentation on cloud tools for connected communities. He discussed how the cloud enables deep customization while maintaining a coherent code base and security. Coffee also outlined how the cloud allows for integration without requiring rip-and-replace upgrades. He presented examples of how government agencies and companies have leveraged the cloud to accelerate projects, increase flexibility, and reduce costs. Coffee argued that cloud adoption is increasing and will continue to do so as cloud capabilities improve more rapidly than traditional IT models.
Ergo is a Microsoft Gold Partner that helps clients develop cost-effective IT environments using virtualization and Microsoft technologies. They have expertise in designing, deploying, and customizing solutions with Windows Server, SQL Server, and BizTalk Server. This allows organizations to consolidate infrastructure, increase availability, and simplify management. Ergo fully assesses clients' existing systems and migrates them to virtualized environments tested for optimal performance and reduced costs.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the March Edition:
•Veeam Availability Suite v10 unveiled
•P&O Maritime Logistics enables IoT with Aruba Solutions
•Avaya Spaces embraces a multiexperience approach
•Nutanix releases second Enterprise Cloud Index Report
•Huawei strengthens enterprise offerings
•Palo Alto Networks introduces Cortex XSOAR platform
•Mimecast announces new integration with IBM Security
•A10 Networks delivers virtual DDoS defense solution
•Fortinet introduces self-learning Artificial Intelligence appliance
•Veritas recognized by Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice
•Kaspersky extends its partner network
Bluemix Paris Meetup - Session #8 - 20th may 2015 - Passer au cloud hybride a...IBM France Lab
This document summarizes an event about moving to a hybrid cloud with Bluemix. The event included presentations on using Bluemix for hybrid cloud capabilities, building applications with Bluemix and DreamFace for business agility, and announcements about startups, internships and networking. Bluemix was discussed as not just a public cloud offering, but now enabling hybrid cloud through services like Bluemix Local being delivered on-premises.
This document discusses how enterprises can achieve agility in the cloud through integrated solutions from VMware, F5, and BlueLock. It provides an overview of how each company's technologies - VMware's virtualization platform, F5's application delivery networking solutions, and BlueLock's managed cloud services - can work together to provide enterprises with platform agility, network agility, and flexible cloud services. It then provides an example scenario of how these integrated solutions could help a company dynamically scale its applications between its private cloud and BlueLock's public cloud during periods of high traffic.
The document discusses a new paradigm called the Unified Access and Application Delivery Methodology (UAADM) that aims to address shortcomings of traditional network security architectures. The UAADM revolves around how networks connect users to applications, considering access context and security profiles. It proposes a Unified Access and Application Delivery Controller that examines access requests, matches context to resource requirements, and intelligently applies services like caching, compression, and security screening. The methodology is presented as addressing issues with traditional approaches like lack of extensibility, complexity, and separate network and security designs.
This document discusses how F5 solutions can help organizations transition to cloud computing by providing dynamic control points that can adapt to changing traffic flows. It introduces F5's dynamic control plane architecture, which coordinates various application delivery, security, optimization, and management solutions to create an ecosystem that extracts more value from existing investments and enables on-demand IT. The control plane acts as an intelligent mediation layer that optimizes connections for users based on context like location, devices, and applications.
BIG-IP ASM provides application security for organizations whether their applications are hosted in the cloud, data center, or a hybrid environment. It protects both the application infrastructure and users from evolving threats. BIG-IP ASM can be deployed as a virtual edition in the cloud or as a physical appliance. It includes features like automatic policy synchronization across devices and vCMP to allow logical separation of instances on a single device. BIG-IP ASM defends against the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities and can operate using negative or positive security models.
BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) distributes user application requests based on business policies, data center and network conditions, user location, and application performance. BIG-IP GTM provides high-performance DNS services, secures DNS responses globally to survive DDoS attacks, delivers a complete DNSSEC solution, and ensures global application high availability. It optimizes DNS services and application delivery across global data centers, securing DNS infrastructure from attacks and protecting query responses while keeping businesses running.
Study: The Future of VR, AR and Self-Driving CarsLinkedIn
We asked LinkedIn members worldwide about their levels of interest in the latest wave of technology: whether they’re using wearables, and whether they intend to buy self-driving cars and VR headsets as they become available. We asked them too about their attitudes to technology and to the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the devices that they use. The answers were fascinating – and in many cases, surprising.
This SlideShare explores the full results of this study, including detailed market-by-market breakdowns of intention levels for each technology – and how attitudes change with age, location and seniority level. If you’re marketing a tech brand – or planning to use VR and wearables to reach a professional audience – then these are insights you won’t want to miss.
As the amount of data used by organizations continues to grow, securing critical information and programs on in-house computer servers has become crucial. Cloud computing offers secure access to users from anywhere and has been widely accepted around the world for its business efficiencies, cost-effectiveness, and competitive advantages.
This e-Book explores the business benefits of cloud migration, including flexibility, higher security, easy accessibility, data recovery, and minimal maintenance. It also provides an overview of the leading cloud service providers, such as Microsoft Azure, Citrix, CompTIA, and AWS.
The e-Book covers the following topics:
The history of cloud computing
An explanation of the three different cloud computing services
A comparative analysis of Cloud vs On-Premises
The advantages of Cloud computing
Quick stats on Cloud-migrated business profits
The top 10 entrepreneurial benefits of Cloud migration
Common Cloud migration challenges faced by every CIO
How to overcome these challenges with Cloud skilling plan solutions
A roadmap to master Azure, Citrix, CompTIA, and AWS Cloud certifications
We hope this e-Book provides valuable insights for organizations considering Cloud migration or looking to optimize their existing Cloud solutions.
Check for more information in these blogs: https://www.netcomlearning.com/blogs/347/microsoft-azure-certification-path-for-2023-the-ultimate-microsoft-azure-certifications-training-guide.html
For aws: https://www.netcomlearning.com/blogs/585/the-ultimate-guide-to-aws-certification-how-to-get-certified-and-succeed-in-your-career.html
CIO Bulletin - 10 Best Cloud Computing CompaniesCIOBulletin1
The document discusses Medallia, a company that provides experience management solutions through its cloud-based platform. Some key points:
- Medallia is a pioneer in experience management, using AI to analyze customer, employee, and citizen experience data to help companies improve experiences.
- The platform captures feedback across channels to provide insights and recommendations for optimizing experiences in real-time.
- It serves various industries like automotive, B2B, communications/media, government, and restaurants to improve experiences for customers, employees, and other stakeholders.
The document discusses emerging trends in cloud computing, including the introduction of cloud of clouds or intercloud models, increased adoption of OpenStack and platforms-as-a-service, and the growth of big data as a service. It also covers how cloud computing will play a bigger role in mobile/social applications, the internet of things, hybrid cloud models, and more software-defined infrastructure. Major tech companies like IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are expected to invest over $1 billion annually in their global cloud networks.
Cloud computing offers several advantages over traditional in-house IT solutions. It allows companies to cut costs, improve business operations, and gain access to resources without large capital investments. Cloud computing provides scalable, virtual computing resources on demand via the internet. This addresses issues many companies face with traditional outsourcing like lack of transparency, control, and inefficient processes. It allows flexible, collaborative development and testing without security or governance concerns.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the July Edition:
• Dell Technologies Accelerates HCI Portfolio Growth; Simplifies Path To Vmware-Based Clouds.
• Huawei Releases 3GPP R14-Based Commercial NB-IoT Solution.
• Leading The Software-defined Future - Sayantan Dev, Vice President, VCG, Redington Value.
• Avaya Brings Enterprise-Level Communication Capabilities To SMBs.
• Symantec Introduces Cloud-Based Network Security Solution With Web Isolation.
• Veritas Announces New Data Protection And Governance Offerings For Microsoft 365 Solution.
• Red Hat Unveils Next-Generation Process Automation Offering.
• Vmware Delivers Network Functions Virtualization Platform For 5G And Multi-Cloud Telco Networks
• Fujitsu Enhances Cloud Services Portfolio.
• Trend Micro Launches Managed Detection And Response Service.
• Cyberark Presents New Privileged Access Security As A Service Offering.
• Nutanix Introduces New Velocity Partner Program.
This document discusses cloud computing and provides definitions and examples. It makes the following key points:
1) Cloud computing allows on-demand access to shared computing resources like servers, storage, databases and applications over the internet.
2) Major benefits include reduced upfront costs, flexibility to scale resources up or down as needed, and a pay-per-use model.
3) Examples show how companies use cloud computing to save costs, improve efficiency and flexibility, and develop new business models.
This document discusses cloud computing and provides definitions and examples. It makes the following key points in 3 sentences:
Cloud computing allows on-demand access to shared computing resources over the internet and is growing rapidly. It offers flexibility, scalability, and reduces the need for large upfront capital expenditures. While primarily used for email, storage and testing currently, the document predicts more widespread enterprise adoption of cloud computing for additional applications and services in the coming years as standards improve around data security and storage.
VMware: Innovate and Thrive in the Mobile-Cloud EraVMware
The document discusses how organizations can evolve their IT infrastructure to deliver IT as a service (ITaaS) in the mobile-cloud era. It describes how VMware solutions such as vSphere, NSX, and vCloud Suite provide the foundation for organizations to build software-defined data centers and hybrid clouds. This allows organizations to virtualize their infrastructure, automate operations, and seamlessly extend their data centers to the public cloud in order to empower users, increase business agility, and accelerate innovation.
Nec smart enterprise_trends_2014-slidesTodd Landry
The document summarizes 10 strategic drivers that will empower the smart enterprise according to NEC Corporation in 2014. The drivers are: 1) Integrated Mobility, 2) Instant Collaboration, 3) Beyond Virtualization, 4) Hybrid Cloud, 5) Modularity, 6) High Availability, 7) Software Defined Anything, 8) Sensing & Biometrics, 9) Contextual Analytics, and 10) Smart Energy. Each driver is discussed in 1-2 paragraphs on how it will impact organizations and operations.
The document discusses how cloud computing provides companies flexibility and efficiency during tough economic times. It allows companies to rapidly scale computing resources up or down as needed without large capital investments. This enables companies to innovate faster, bring products to market quicker, and improve operational efficiency. Cloud computing provides automated provisioning of services, virtualized infrastructure, security, and standardized offerings to help companies work smarter and be more responsive to changing business needs.
Cloud Myths and Realities: The Truth About Moving to the CloudEmbotics Corp.
Businesses are moving workloads to the cloud to enable new processes and unlock new value, promoting process efficiency, collaboration, and insight.
In this article, we discuss some of the myths surrounding the various cloud platforms, helping you to avoid the major pitfalls and prepare your IT organization for migration to a cloud infrastructure.
Broadview Networks offers cloud computing services that allow businesses to:
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Achieving Enterprise Agility
in the Cloud
Cloud computing continues to be one of today’s most
intriguing IT technologies, yet enterprises are still weighing
whether it can help them achieve their business goals.
Working together, VMware, F5 Networks, and BlueLock
offer integrated solutions that help enterprises develop
agility so they can easily and efficiently use cloud resources
on demand to meet their changing needs.
by F5 Networks, VMware, and BlueLock
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Contents
Introduction 3
What Constitutes Agility in the Cloud? 3
Finding the Agility You Need in the Cloud 4
Platform Agility with VMware 4
Network Agility with F5 5
BlueLock: Fully Integrated with VMware and F5 6
Bringing It All Together: How Customers Can Implement
a Joint Solution 7
BlueLock Cloud Services Model 10
Conclusion 10
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Introduction
It’s no secret that cloud computing is here to stay—it promises everything
from reduced complexity and unlimited scalability to capacity on demand and
CapEx savings. Although there are still many unanswered questions about cloud
computing, many businesses are optimistic that it will be able to deliver on these
promises. Even skeptics are intrigued by cloud computing, if for no other reason
than that they want to maintain a technological edge over their competitors—and
the cloud is certainly the hottest new technology trend.
To whatever extent cloud computing delivers on these promises, one thing is certain:
businesses are not willing to sacrifice security, visibility, and control to make the
move to the cloud. They need to know what’s happening in the cloud, how their
applications are being delivered, and how traffic is being controlled and directed.
What’s emerging as a “must have” in cloud computing is agility—the quality that In a Sand Hill Groupi survey of
enables enterprises to respond quickly and precisely to unexpected and changing 500 IT executives, 49 percent
cited business agility as the
business demands. Agile businesses—those that can provide IT on demand under primary goal driving them
any workload conditions—can seize new opportunities and stay competitive. to adopt cloud computing.
What Constitutes Agility in the
Cloud?
Achieving agility is an ongoing process for most IT organizations. Reducing
complexity, consolidating, replacing static connections with dynamic ones, stream-
lining processes, and automating tasks—these efforts all put organizations on the
right path toward creating agile data centers. But what happens when the data
center reaches capacity and IT wants to move or extend applications to the cloud?
Suddenly maintaining agility becomes a lot more complex. Now IT must be
concerned about moving applications with ease from the data center into the cloud
and back again, or from virtual machine to virtual machine within the cloud or across
clouds—all without increasing costs, impairing performance, or compromising service
level agreements (SLAs). It would be simpler to move just a few isolated development
projects to the cloud, but that would do little to further overall IT agility. Ideally, the
goal is not to just move applications and data, but to dynamically monitor and direct
traffic to the most available resources.
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How easily (and securely) businesses can accomplish this depends not only on the
maturity of their current infrastructures and their Application Delivery Networks
(ADNs), but also on the cloud service provider, the platforms it supports, and the
amount of visibility and control it provides to customers.
Finding the Agility You Need in
the Cloud
No single vendor can provide all the solutions necessary to enable on demand IT
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in the cloud. That requires strategic partnerships and cooperation among vendors
who are committed to building integrated solutions. Collaborative efforts between
VMware®, F5 Networks®, and BlueLock® help give enterprises platform agility
(VMware), network agility (F5), and flexible cloud services with pay-as- ou- o
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pricing models (BlueLock). Each vendor’s solutions are beneficial in their own right,
but together deliver far greater value—and agility—to enterprises.
Platform Agility with VMware
VMware is the leader in server virtualizationii, and its solutions give organizations
many options for creating agile IT service models at lower costs. Virtualization is the
catalyst that is making Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) a reality; it’s the key enabling
technology on the path toward cloud computing.
VMware’s vSphere™ platform serves as a foundation for building private and public
clouds. With vSphere, enterprises can create and manage large amounts of virtual
computing infrastructure, both hardware and software. VMware vCloud™ Director
enables IT organizations to pool infrastructure resources (compute, storage, and
networking capacity) into virtual data centers, which are the building blocks of
private clouds. IT can then offer those resources to users through web- ased
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portals and vCloud APIs as fully automated, catalog-based services. This model
enables IT organizations and cloud providers to build secure, multi enant clouds. It
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brings great flexibility to IT organizations, yet allows them to retain control over the
security and management of their environments. Application and line-of-business
owners can access their own virtual data centers, and they can choose and deploy
preconfigured infrastructure and applications from a web- ased portal.
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Through the open virtualization format (OVF), VMware’s vCloud API enables users
to package, deploy, and manage virtual workloads across private and public clouds;
it also enables interoperability between clouds. Using the vCloud API, users can
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upload and download vApps—software solutions optimized for the cloud that
consist of multiple virtual machines and are packaged and maintained as a single
entity. vApps preserve application properties and other settings.
Network Agility with F5
As the leader in application delivery networkingiii, F5 helps enterprises dynamically
monitor and control traffic across the network to ensure that applications and data
remain fast, available, and secure at all times.
F5® BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM) is a network appliance that manages
traffic to virtualized servers and from virtual desktops. By offloading processor
intensive activities like SSL encryption, caching, and compression, BIG-IP LTM
reduces the CPU and memory load on servers, thereby increasing the capacity
of any given server. Especially helpful in cloud environments is BIG-IP LTM Virtual
Edition (VE), which provides the full set of BIG-IP LTM features but is packaged as a
virtual appliance. BIG-IP LTM VE can be uploaded to the cloud and then provisioned
and configured on demand.
When organizations run multiple application instances on virtual machines across
several data centers or clouds, BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager™ (GTM) maximizes
application performance and availability by intelligently directing traffic to the best
performing virtual machine, regardless of location.
F5 iControl® provides the programmatic interface for orchestration, automation,
and dynamic control of the network. This web services–enabled open API is
used to configure and manage BIG-IP devices and enables applications to control
their own traffic. For example, using iControl, application developers can create
solutions that bring servers online and offline dynamically, give priority to critical
traffic during traffic bursts, filter out unwanted traffic, distribute server updates
without disrupting service, manage applications from a single console, and so on.
iControl integrates with VMware vCenter™ virtual computing platform management
tools and vCloud API to help orchestrate automated provisioning and deprovisioning
of virtual machines in both private and public cloud environments.
With iRules®, F5’s powerful scripting language, developers can directly manipulate
and manage IP application traffic by controlling and customizing how it is
intercepted, inspected, transformed, and routed. iRules can be applied to any IP
application or protocol and can be invoked using iControl to perform tasks that
would ordinarily require changes to the application.
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Working closely with technology partner VMware, F5 introduced the F5 Management
Plug-n for vSphere, which enables IT organizations to easily manage ADN policies
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for their VMwarevirtualized applications. The plug-n eliminates the need to
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manually synchronize information between BIG-IP devices and the vSphere client
control panel and helps automate common networking and virtual machine
maintenance tasks. It can also automatically apply ADN policies to newly provisioned
virtual machines and deprovision them gracefully, without disrupting current user
sessions. Together, these solutions improve the agility of the overall infrastructure.
BlueLock: Fully Integrated with VMware and F5
BlueLock is an award-winningiv managed services and cloud services provider
that helps enterprises monitor, patch, secure, and manage their IT environments.
Through its CloudStart advisory services, it helps enterprises understand why, how,
and when it’s appropriate to move workloads to the public cloud. It also provides
professional services for customers that prefer hands- n assistance with migration.
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BlueLock provides centralized management with distributed capacity to
accommodate enterprises that don’t want to give up the tools and GUIs they have
spent years implementing and building workflows and approvals upon, and training
their staff to use. BlueLock collaborates with technology vendors VMware and F5 to
create workable cloud- ased solutions that protect organizations’ investments.
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By incorporating F5 solutions into its entire infrastructure, BlueLock provides the
most advanced ADN services available in the market today, whether companies
are managing traffic within a workload or bridging the gap between private and
public clouds. Because F5 delivers feature-rich software and hardware solutions,
including virtual appliances, BlueLock relies on F5 as its sole vendor for expanding
its ADN core capabilities and service offerings.
A technology partner of VMware as well, BlueLock built its IaaS offering on the
VMware platform. BlueLock is one of the first five cloud service providers worldwide
chosen by VMware to offer VMware vCloud Datacenter Services—enterprise-
class public clouds that are consistent with the technology and management tools
VMware clients use to manage their private clouds internally. As a VMware-certified
service provider, BlueLock delivers on-demand, pay-as-you-go infrastructure,
enabling enterprises to adopt a hybrid (private plus public) cloud computing model.
Now enterprises can extend their corporate data centers to BlueLock’s globally
consistent, compatible public cloud, built on VMware vSphere and vCloud Director.
In keeping with requirements for VMware vCloud Datacenter Services providers,
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BlueLock is SAS70 Type II certified, so BlueLock’s internal controls and safeguards for
hosting and processing customer information have been audited and approved by
an independent third party.
Using the VMware vCloud Director self-service web interface, BlueLock customers
can pool IT resources to create virtual data centers in the cloud. They can then
configure them to be compatible with the policies and procedures they use in
their local data centers. VMware vCloud Director provides the core capabilities for
importing and exporting virtual machines between customers’ VMware- ased b
private clouds and their BlueLock cloud.
In addition to vCloud Director, BlueLock customers can deploy and use VMware’s
new vCloud Connector. Via the familiar VMware vSphere Client control panel,
IT administrators can use VMware vCloud Connector to view, copy, and transfer
virtual machines across internal data centers and BlueLock’s public cloud. With
virtual machine mobility, customers can easily deploy their existing applications
in the cloud.
Bringing It All Together: How
Customers Can Implement a Joint
Solution
Let’s see how a joint solution between VMware, F5, and BlueLock plays out in a
real world customer scenario.
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ABC Corporation, a $6 billion manufacturing company, recently consolidated
nine regional data centers into three, located in Seattle, Dallas, and Philadelphia.
The majority of ABC’s applications are virtualized on 750 vSphere-based virtual
machines across four private clouds.
ABC’s vendor management portal is used by more than 4,000 vendors to manage
transactions, orders, and inventory. ABC often experiences spikes in traffic that
can quickly degrade user response time; however, the company is reluctant to add
permanent capacity due to high costs. ABC is seeking a solution that can offload a
portion of its portal traffic to the public cloud in response to randomly high demand,
and then scale back that additional capacity when demand recedes.
Knowing that BlueLock is a certified VMware vCloud Datacenter Services provider,
and that it uses F5 solutions in its environments, ABC is eager to pursue “cloud-
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bursting”—the practice of extending computing resources into the public cloud
when capacity in the corporate data center is reached. Because VMware and F5
solutions are integral to BlueLock’s infrastructure, ABC knows its own investment in
and integration with VMware and F5 solutions is protected. It doesn’t have to worry
about changing its business or administrative processes, and its applications and
traffic management will be consistent across private and public clouds. Furthermore,
by using BlueLock, ABC can avoid having to train its IT staff to use new products
or technologies.
Typically, portal application requests are routed to BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
(GTM) in ABC’s Seattle data center, and then directed to BIG-IP Local Traffic
Manager (LTM) in one of the company’s three data centers. Using the F5 iControl
API, BIG-IP LTM monitors performance to load balance and direct traffic to
application instances running on virtual machines in ABC’s private cloud.
During peak traffic periods, user response time can degrade rapidly. ABC’s system
is set to begin offloading to the cloud when average portal response times
exceed 15 milliseconds for 40 percent or more of users accessing the system.
When that happens, iControl reports conditions to ABC’s orchestration tool,
which automatically launches additional application instances in its private cloud to
handle the increased demand.
When ABC’s private cloud resources are tapped out, the cloudbursting process
with BlueLock begins automatically. ABC’s orchestration tool triggers actions to
access BlueLock public cloud services through VMware’s vCloud API, which then
launches a database synchronization process so portal instances in both locations
have access to the database. Next, the vCloud API launches a new application
instance in the BlueLock public cloud. It will continue to create additional application
instances in the BlueLock public cloud as long as application response time
demands it (see Figure 1). BIG-IP GTM reconfigures the network according to ABC’s
predefined business policies to route traffic through BlueLock’s implementation of
BIG-IP LTM which, in turn, balances traffic across all available application instances,
eliminating manual intervention.
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CLIENTS
INTERNET
ABC CORPORATION BLUELOCK
PRIVATE CLOUD BIG-IP GTM PUBLIC CLOUD
BIG-IP LTM BIG-IP LTM
ISESSIONS WAN ISESSIONS
VM VM VM
VM VM
ON-PREMISE ON-PREMISE
COMPUTERS COMPUTERS
VMWARE VCLOUD DIRECTOR VMWARE VCLOUD DIRECTOR
VCENTER SERVER VCENTER SERVER
VSPHERE VSPHERE
Figure 1: The vCloud API automatically creates new application instances in the
BlueLock public cloud in response to increasing demand.
Once client requests begin to drop off, user connections are bled off of the
application instances in ABC’s public cloud environment at BlueLock, and these
instances are gradually (and automatically) removed from the pool. When traffic
volume falls and average portal response time dips below the preset threshold,
all client requests will again be routed to application instances in ABC’s private cloud
only. Thus, in this pay-as-you-go model, ABC pays only for the services it actually
uses in the BlueLock public cloud.
As an alternative to using BlueLock’s shared physical BIG-IP LTM to manage traffic
in its virtual data centers, ABC can leverage F5 BIG-IP LTM Virtual Edition (VE),
which BlueLock includes as part of its public appliance catalog. This gives ABC the
same ADN functionality in the public cloud that it has in its private data centers.
Additionally, ABC can securely connect its networks to its cloud at BlueLock
using the F5 iSessions feature. iSessions, available with both BIG-IP LTM and
BIG-IP LTM VE, encrypts and accelerates data traveling between F5 solutions over
the WAN, thereby reducing bandwidth requirements and increasing the speed of
database replication. This gives customers a fast, seamless transition as they move
local applications into the public cloud.
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This integrated cloudbursting solution from VMware, F5, and BlueLock enables
ABC to respond dynamically to unpredictable and fluctuating traffic requirements,
improving the performance of its vendor management portal and ultimately,
the overall user experience. In addition, ABC avoids the complexity and cost of
expanding its own IT infrastructure, and it can manage both its private and public
cloud environments without compromising security or established business policies.
BlueLock Cloud Services Model
BlueLock offers flexible pricing models to fit virtually any enterprise need. The key
for enterprises evaluating cloud providers isn’t just finding the lowest-cost provider
or the most attractive cost model. The primary consideration (and real win for the
enterprise) comes from accurately sizing the requirements of the application and
matching that to the right cloud platform.
Through its partnerships with F5 and VMware, BlueLock has created a public cloud
platform with multiple performance tiers and payment options. For example, if the
enterprise has a testing workload that requires a lot of computing capability, it can
create a virtual cloud using low-end SATA disks. On the other hand, if the enterprise
has an e-commerce application that performs a lot of I/O disk operations, it can
place its vApp into a public cloud that uses solid state disks. BlueLock can also
accommodate customers that have no disk type preference and simply want to
guarantee a specific amount of I/O for the application.
Conclusion
As cloud computing continues to gain popularity, many enterprises are intrigued by
the potential benefits it promises, but they aren’t willing to sacrifice security, visibility,
and control to get them. Before taking the leap into the cloud, enterprises must be
convinced that public cloud services will help them retain and ultimately improve
their business agility.
Enterprises are learning that major vendors are collaboratively developing cloud
solutions designed to reduce risk and simplify their decision to leverage the public
cloud. With these solutions, enterprises can protect their in- ouse IT investments
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and augment their existing application infrastructures with public cloud resources.
The integrated solutions offered by VMware, F5, and BlueLock demonstrate how
a truly agile Application Delivery Network can help customers continuously deliver
virtualized applications during periods of unexpected load and, at the same time,
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retain internal control of their applications. The integration and automation built
into these joint solutions help enterprises increase application availability and
improve operational functionality while reducing the cost of delivering Infrastructure
as a Service.
About VMware
VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure,
delivers customer-proven solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity and enable
more flexible, agile service delivery. VMware accelerates an organization’s transition
to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more
efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control. With more than
190,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware helps organizations of all sizes
lower costs, preserve freedom of choice and energize business through IT while
saving energy—financial, human and the Earth’s.
About F5 Networks
F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking
(ADN), focused on ensuring the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications.
F5’s flexible architectural framework enables community-driven innovation that
helps organizations enhance IT agility and dynamically deliver services that generate
true business value. F5’s vision of unified application and data delivery offers
customers an unprecedented level of choice in how they deploy ADN solutions.
It redefines the management of application, server, storage, and network resources,
streamlining application delivery and reducing costs. Global enterprise organizations,
service and cloud providers, and Web 2.0 content providers trust F5 to keep their
business moving forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.
About BlueLock
BlueLock is a leading IaaS provider of cloud hosting solutions. The BlueLock
CloudSuite is a revolutionary way to address cloud computing needs by offering
a set of tailored VMware-based solutions where companies are able to pick and
choose the right cloud environment for the right application. As a top VMware
vCloud hosting provider BlueLock offers industry-leading solutions for the developer
to the Fortune 500 executive. For more information, go to www.bluelock.com.
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