Google Cloud goes corporate with peering, carrier interconnects, VPN

By Barb Darrow

 Google Cloud struts its corporate stuff, adding connections from carrier hotels and direct peering as well as virtual private networking access for risk-averse companies seeking hybrid cloud.

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Google has apparently been listening to what business customers want from a public cloud.
On Tuesday the company announced that it will introduce Virtual Private Networking support in the first quarter of 2015. VPNs will let customers tie securely into Google Cloud via the internet, and they are a key foundation of hybrid clouds that let customers keep some key applications and data under their control in-house while also relying on the public cloud for other workloads.
Also new from Google: Direct peering promises a fast connection to Google’s network from 70 locations worldwide. And new carrier interconnects add Google cloud access from Equinix, IX Reach, Level 3, Tata Communications, Telx, Verizon and Zayo facilities around the world.

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By Barb Darrow

 

Summary: As it expands its hybrid/public cloud effort, VMware adds new Australia coverage, bringing the number of company-run vCloud Air regions to nine worldwide.

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VMware is taking vCloud Air cloud to Australia in a move that brings the total data center coverage for the company’s hybrid cloud to nine — with five data centers in the U.S. and one each in the U.K., Germany, Japan and now Australia.
The company will own and operate its Australian infrastructure but host it out of Telstra data centers.
Earlier this year,VMware renamed its cloud offering from vCloud Hybrid Services to vCloud Air.

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Google has been laying the foundation of its cloud platform for years

  

By Derrick Harris

        

Summary: Google announced a handful of new features on Tuesday, but the company is only turning into products what it has been building for years.

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A stream of Google cloud executives took the stage in San Francisco on Tuesday to announce a slew of new cloud computing features, including around advanced network and resource-management capabilities. Speaking on a panel at the AppDynamics user conference in Las Vegas, Allan Naim, global product lead for the Google Cloud Platform, told the audience about how the company has been laying the groundwork for these new capabilities for years.
He explained how application containers can be a huge source of operational efficiency if you know how to manage them. Everything at Google runs on containers and the company spins up 2 billion of them per week, he said. In the name of squeezing every ounce of capacity out of each server, a single box might contain hundreds of containers split among multiple workloads (Gmail and MapReduce jobs, for example) and it’s management software like Google’s Omega that helps ensure they’re all getting the resources they need.

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The target audience for Google Container Engine is wondering about security and interoperability

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Summary: Google wants to show the enterprise world that it can trust it when it comes to container technology. But if you want to give its new container engine a test run, you won’t be able to use it on other public clouds.

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Google’s announcement of its new Google Container Engine, a managed service version of its open-sourced Kubernetes container-management system, shows that the search giant believes it can lure new customers to its cloud through its container expertise. But, it’s clear from talking to various attendees at Google’s Cloud Platform event that while many people are interested in an enterprise-version of Kubernetes, questions of container security, ease of use on different cloud platforms and stability need to be ironed out before folks are ready to sign up.

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Why EMC thinks it’s ready to power the internet of things

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EMC President Jeremy Burton came on the Structure Show podcast this week to talk about the company’s current plan to deliver hybrid cloud-storage systems and its future plan to provide the infrastructure underpinning the next generation of big data and internet-of-things applications.

Despite major shakeups among its large IT-vendor peers over the past few years, storage giant EMC maintains that it’s more than capable of sticking around for the long haul and housing data for even the most-innovative types of applications. This week, Jeremy Burton, president of products at EMC, came on the Structure Show podcast to explain the company’s plans for the years to come.

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Akanda exits stealth and promises better routing in virtualized networks

By Jonathan Vanian

  

Summary: The San Francisco-based startup took in a seed round of $1.5 million. Its open-source software can virtualize the part of the network that handles intelligent routing with IP addresses.

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Akanda, a San Francisco-based startup that aims to improve routing in a virtualized network, has come out of stealth and taken a seed-funding round of $1.5 million. Web-hosting provider DreamHost helped co-found the company and supplied all of the seed-round funding.
The two-man shop, less than a month old, consists of CEO Henrik Rosendahl, a virtualization veteran who recently helped sell CloudVolumes to VMware and CTO Mark McClain, who was the former project team lead of the OpenStack Neutron networking project and a former DreamHost senior developer.

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Microsoft makes its cloud data move

    

By Andrew J. Brust

 

Summary: Microsoft’s cloud data stack was short and slow-growing. But this summer, something changed, raising its stature considerably.

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It’s taken Microsoft quite a while to get traction in the cloud, and even longer for it to get its cloud data story right. For the longest time, things weren’t looking good. I say that as someone who has worked with – and at various times championed – Microsoft technology for most of my career. As much as I’ve wanted Microsoft to do well in the cloud data arena, I thought it was doomed to an eternity of near misses.

Fast forward

But things have been steadily improving since the summer, especially in the last few weeks. The glass that was half empty in the spring is now nearly full, with a complete HDInsight Big Data service based on Hadoop 2.0; an able machine learning service called Azure Machine Learning; a document store NoSQL database called DocumentDB; a publish-subscribe service for capturing streaming data called Event Hubs; a service for processing and analyzing that data called Azure Stream Analytics; a data transformation workflow service called Data Factory; and an eponymous Search service based on ElasticSearch at its core.

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Microsoft adds stream processing and pipeline tools to Azure

By Derrick Harris   
    

Summary: Microsoft announced a trio of new cloud data services on Wednesday aimed at stream processing and data pipelines. They’re not revolutionary, but they appear to have their own advantages, and they also help ensure Azure keeps up with the Joneses in cloud computing.

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Microsoft continued its rollout of new Azure cloud services on Wednesday, with a trio of features to help users get a better handle on their data. Two of the new features — Stream Analytics and Event Hubs — deal with the processing of data in real time while the third, Data Factory, lets users visually diagram how data moves from one store to another and what happens to it at each step.
Microsoft’s biggest cloud competitors, Amazon Web Services and Google, already have their own stream-processing and pipeline services, so they’re really more like table stakes at this point than they are true points of distinction — except, of course, to the degree that any one is better than the others. Microsoft probably has the strongest hybrid cloud story among the three companies, which might make for more natural connections as pipelines span cloud and local data stores, but the AWS pipeline tool works with local sources as well.

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Amazon keeps on wooing enterprise admins, this time with Windows System Center support

By Barb Darrow   

Summary:
If you want to win enterprise workloads to your cloud, making it easy for in-house admins to manage their resources from a familiar screen is a good way to start.

photo: Barb Darrow

If you thought Amazon would let up on its enterprise cloud push, you have another think coming. The company just released a new tool that promises to let Windows admins — folks used to working with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (who makes up these awful names?)  — to manage their EC2 instances from a console that will look familiar to them.
Per the AWS blog post:

This add-in allows you to monitor and manage your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances (running either Windows or Linux) from within Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. You can launch new instances and you can also perform common maintenance tasks such as restarting, stopping, and removing instances. You can even connect to the instances using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

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Microsoft tweaks its server specs as part of Open Compute Project

By Barb Darrow

Summary:
Microsoft, a software power, wants to have a greater say in how data center hardware is designed. And now it’s even got some hardware partners in this effort.

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In January, Microsoft came out with initial server specifications, building on its experience running big-time data centers, as it joined the Open Compute Project. The idea was to share its experience running those big facilities with hardware makers so they could build the equipment Microsoft and potentially other big tech providers, needs to run infrastructure efficiently.
Now it’s tweaked some of those design specifications with its Open CloudServer v2 recommendations which it’s announcing at the Open Compute Project’s  European Summit
In a blog post, Kushagra Vaid, GM of server engineering for Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise group, wrote that improvements include:

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EMC cloud really isn’t all about EMC hardware, says EMC product chief

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By Barb Darrow

The storage giant has some secrets up its sleeve including how its acquisition of the Andy Becholsheim-backed DSSD startup will help fire up high-performance next-gen apps.

Skeptics and smart asses (raising hand here) contend that any cloud delivered by a hardware provider is immediately suspect because it’s just a way for that vendor to sell more of that aforementioned hardware. There is some validity to that theory but there is also nuance. For example, most legacy hardware businesses are now fully into the software game. Count EMC among them.

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AWS names Dow Jones vet to drive its enterprise game plan

by Barb Darro

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SUMMARY:

Stephen Orban, a former CIO at Dow Jones and a Bloomberg veteran as well, brings an enterprise worldview with him to Amazon Web Services.

Amazon Web Services has a new enterprise strategy chief in Stephen Orban, who, as a former CIO of Dow Jones, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal and Barrons, probably knows something about the enterprise mindset. Before that he was at Bloomberg where he helped launch Bloomberg Sports, which was sold to STATS LLC, according to CIO Journal (registration required), which first reported the news. Orban disclosed his plans two weeks ago in a Medium post.

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IBM builds up its cloud with Netezza as a service and NoSQL as software

by Derrick Harris

photo: Clockready/Wikimedia Commons

SUMMARY:

IBM announced a new, promising collection of cloud data services on Monday, adding to an already-impressive collections services on its Bluemix platform. At this point, though, IBM’s biggest challenge isn’t selling enterprise users on the cloud, but convincing them it’s still the best choice.

IBM announced a bunch of new cloud data services on Monday, including an intelligent data-preparation tool, an in-memory analytic database and even a local version of a historically cloud-based database. It’s an impressive and in some cases even unique set of capabilities that complements the work IBM has been pushing with its Bluemix platform since February.

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Twitter Beats In Q3 With Revenue Of $361M, But Slowing User Growth Drags Its Shares Down 8%

by Alex Wilhelm (@alex)

Update: Twitter is now down around 10 percent in after-hours trading. Its CEO, in an interview with CNBC, said that his company is the “fastest growing business” in the big-dollar digital advertising space. 

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AWS Expands Its European Footprint With Frankfurt Data Center

 Provided by Frederic Lardinois (@fredericl)

Amazon today announced that it has opened the second data center for its AWS cloud computing service in Europe. The new Frankfurt region follows in the footsteps of the company’s operations in Ireland, which launched back in 2007.
The Frankfurt region sports two availability zones (compared to the three zones in Ireland) and offers access to almost all of Amazon’s cloud computing services, including EC2, S3 and DynamoDB. Missing, however, are tools like ElastiCache, SimpleDB and Amazon WorkSpaces.

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Android Wear Update Adds Offline Music, Bluetooth Headphone And GPS Support

Android Wear is getting its first big update, with features that make smartwatches using Google’s wearable operating system more standalone devices, including music syncing and GPS location support. That means if you leave your watch at home while you go out for a jog, you’ve still got access to sweet jams, and your watch can still tell you where you are, and how to get home.
The GPS features will work so long as an Android Wear device has the necessary hardware, which means no current shipping Android Wear watch can take advantage of them yet. The first Wear-powered smartwatch coming to market with GPS support is the Sony SmartWatch 3, which is up for pre-order starting today at Verizon’s website, and which lists a shipping date of October 30. Google says it’ll start selling the SmartWatch 3 via the Play Devices store soon, too.

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Hardware Battlefield Applications Close In A Week

Stop procrastinating and fill out your application for Hardware Battlefield. The show is set to be even better than last year with participating startups getting free exhibition space at the 2015 International CES and competing for $50,000 and the coveted Metal Man trophy.
For the first time, TechCrunch has partnered with the CEA to be an official media partner of the tradeshow. This means companies selected to participate in Hardware Battlefield will get even more attention from the press, investors and hardware distributors.

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Bitcasa nixes unlimited storage plan as it upgrades its infrastructure

By Jonathan Vanian

    

Summary: As part of the change, users will need to download new Bitcasa apps and then migrate their old data to the new platform by November 15 or face their data being erased.

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Streaming storage startup Bitcasa has removed support for its “infinite drive” storage plan that allowed unlimited storage for $999. The company has also decreased its free storage plan from 20GB to 5GB. Bitcasa described the change in service as part of its storage infrastructure overhaul.

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Microsoft taps Amazon vet to help run Azure

By Barb Darrow   
        

Summary: Former Amazon VP Suresh Kumar comes in as Microsoft Azure poohbah reporting to Scott Guthrie.

photo: Corbis

Let’s face it: If you’re hiring for a primo public cloud position, Amazon is likely your first stop. And it looks like Microsoft knows it — having recently installed a former Amazon VP Suresh Kumar as corporate VP for cloud infrastructure and operations.
In that role, according to the blurb, Kumar is:

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Microsoft rolls out a private Azure appliance and big freaking cloud servers

By Derrick Harris   

Summary:
Called the Cloud Platform System, the new appliance will run the same Azure APIs, services, hypervisor, and everything as the Azure public cloud and will be able to connect easily to the Azure public cloud.

photo: Jonathan Vanian/Gigaom

At a press event in San Francisco on Monday, Microsoft Executive Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise Scott Guthrie announced a new family of Azure products that the company hopes will drive home the message it’s trying (really hard) to send about its ability to run hyperscale, enterprise-grade and hybrid cloud computing environments. Among those products are a new Azure appliance that companies or service providers can deploy in their own data centers, and a new family of very beefy Azure cloud instances.

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OpenStack Juno debuts, more moving and shaking by cloud providers

By Barb Darrow

Summary:
The week in cloud: OpenStack M&A continues — stay tuned for more action. And Max Schireson on MongoDB momentum (and why he stepped down as CEO.)

photo: Shutterstock user Tyler Olson

New OpenStack versions come out every six months  — the latest “Juno” release debuted this week. But OpenStack deals have been rolling out considerably faster — the most recent being EMC’s acquisition of Cloudscaling. That news comes less than a month after Cisco bought Metacloud. And that came a week after Hewlett-Packard, an OpenStack partisan, snarfed up Eucalyptus, a cloud player that recently got OpenStack religion.

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Report: IBM is paying GlobalFoundries $1.5B to rid itself of its chip-making business

By Kevin Fitchard   
Summary:
IBM plans a big announcement at its earnings call on Monday. Bloomberg has it that IBM has come to terms with GlobalFoundries on taking over its money-losing commercial silicon business.

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IBM apparently really, really doesn’t want to be in the commercial silicon business, to the point it’s willing to pay GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion to take its chip-making unit off its hands, according to a new report from Bloomberg.

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Google’s infrastructure spending dipsslightly; cloud revenue looks higher

By Derrick Harris

OCT. 16, 2014 - 4:49 PM PDT

Google spent more than $2.4 billion on infrastructure during the third quarter, which was down from its record second quarter but still very large. The company has numerous infrastructure-intensive businesses, including its growing cloud computing platform. Read more »

The Smart Home Is Going To Be A Huge Boon To Accessibility

Posted Sep 5, 2014 by Steve O'Hear (@sohear)

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I reach for the iPhone tucked down the side of my wheelchair and launch the Hive app. After a couple more taps on the screen, there’s an audible click from across the room. A few seconds later, I hear the boiler sparking up before the central heating finally kicks in. It’s a familiar sound, but this time the experience is profoundly different.

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For Two New Apps Called “Push” And “Drop,” The Push Notification Is The App

Posted Oct 13, 2014 by Sarah Perez (@sarahintampa)

Two new applications, Drop and Push, want to save you from having to download multiple news apps or browse dozens of websites just to keep up with the topics that interest you. But what makes these two apps different, when compared with news aggregators or other mobile news readers (aka RSS readers), is that they primarily function via push notifications.

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How To Protect Yourself In The Cloud

Some helpful tips.

 

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SEP 3, 2014

The massive iCloud hack that exposed photos of female actresses stored in their personal Apple accounts, has left many—including myself—scrambling to change their passwords.

Some speculated that the hack was due to a vulnerability in Apple’s Find My iPhone feature, with which hackers used a “brute force” attack to guess the passwords on celebrities’ accounts, The Next Web reported.

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Microsoft Cortana: Mobile virtual assistant and, now, concert hookup

By Derrick Harris

Microsoft has rolled out new features for its Cortana virtual assistant app, including the ability to track evening activities, track important flights and even recommend nearby concerts. Cortana probably still is not a Google Now or Siri killer, Read more »

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Mobile This Week: iPads upgraded; Nexus 6 and 9 launched

A busy week in mobile devices pitted Google and Apple against each other: Both introduced new hardware.

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