ZeroStack Joins Remotely-Managed Private Cloud Marketplace

ZeroStack, Inc. has announced it has joined the OpenStack Marketplace for Remotely-Managed Private Clouds, a collection of leading private cloud solutions for enterprises that want the self-service and agility of on-premises cloud without the pain of configuring and managing complex cloud infrastructure. ZeroStack achieves this using Z-Brain — a SaaS-driven operations portal that leverages machine learning combined with on-premises infrastructure to “bring the cloud home.” Enterprise application developers can now rapidly build, test, and deploy on-premises, production-ready, distributed web applications, mobile applications, containerized applications, and big data analytics workloads.

“Remote IT management has been a rapidly-growing trend over the past two years, beginning with cloud-managed Wi-Fi systems and moving into other IT infrastructure areas like security and SD-WAN,” said Zeus Kerravala, principal analyst at ZK Research. “Remotely-managed clouds like the ZeroStack Intelligent Cloud Platform deliver the security, performance, and control of private cloud combined with the ease-of-use of public cloud, and they use a SaaS portal to automate provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and management.”

ZeroStack’s implementation of OpenStack leverages machine learning technology in the Z-Brain SaaS portal to eliminate capacity planning, VM sizing, software maintenance, patching, and performance monitoring so IT administrators and software development teams can focus on delivering cloud-native applications.

“ZeroStack’s unique SaaS-driven operational model securely automates remote management and delivers continuous innovation using AI and machine learning technologies, dramatically reducing dependence on human experts,” said Kamesh Pemmaraju, Vice President of Product Management at ZeroStack. “We invite enterprises to compare our self-driving cloud with any other remotely-managed private cloud solution on the market.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

American Axess Selects Epsilon

Epsilon has announced a partnership with American Axess, Inc. This partnership provides American Axess customers with on-demand access to a suite of connectivity solutions via Epsilon’s Infiny platform.

In order to satisfy multinational corporations’ growing demand for direct connects into top Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, American Axess has connected to Infiny in Miami, providing access to Epsilon’s North American footprint and interconnection options. By backhauling services to their network in Cali, Colombia, American Axess will facilitate superior options for interconnectivity between North and South America for its customers.

“Epsilon is a proven leader in the communication services industry, and we are delighted at the opportunity to utilize their platform to provide our customers with exceptional interconnectivity services,” says Lou W. Dabbe, owner and CEO, American Axess. “Infiny is a perfect fit for our business due to its global reach and ability to enhance the projection of our service across the world and to public cloud locations. Their team understands what it takes to be successful in the cloud, and Infiny is a platform that supports our customers growing needs.”

Infiny delivers a comprehensive set of enterprise, voice, local access, cloud and global connectivity services from a single, self-service platform. Utilizing this new and innovative technology, partners have the ability to procure and manage services via the Infiny web-based portal, APIs, and Android and iOS apps.

“Since launching Infiny in March, we have been dedicated to sharing this exceptional connectivity platform with international customers to enhance their experience when procuring and managing critical connectivity services,” shares Jerzy Szlosarek, CEO, Epsilon. “Our alliance with American Axess will build upon this mission, further validating our ability to deliver the highest quality connectivity services available to Latin America and the Caribbean.”

Phase two Epsilon will expore building upon this partnership by potentially bringing its Infiny platform to Colombia over the American Axess international network.

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Qligent Named IABM Design & Innovation Awards 2017 Finalist

Qligent has been named as a finalist for the IABM Design & Innovation Awards 2017. The winners will be announced at a special IBC 2017 ceremony taking place on Saturday, September 16.

The IABM Design & Inovation Awards 2017 are spread across 10 categories with 40 finalists. Qligent was shortlisted in the Test, Quality, Control & Monitoring category for Match, the company’s new automated programmatic error detection software for its Vision cloud-based monitoring and analysis platform. Qligent will exhibit Match alongside other products at Stand 8.E47 throughout the IBC show, taking place September 15-19 at the RAI Amsterdam.

Qligent Match provides a real-time, automated, software-based solution for compressed and uncompressed signals on any delivery platform (OTT, IPTV, satellite, cable, terrestrial). The software spots programmatic errors and anomalies introduced by the repeated multiplexing, overlaying, embedding, inserting and other real-time processes as signals move downstream from the origination to the end-user.

Lightweight and affordable, Match arms users with a toolset to identify today’s most common media distribution errors, including airing of incorrect programs, the capture of programmatic local ad splicing errors, and assigning foreign languages to the wrong audio track among other errors. This approach efficiently addresses the growing problem of TV operations becoming more error-prone, driven by the rapid expansion of program streams along with the last-mile need for localization and personalization for the enduser.

“With so much transition taking place today in TV operations and content delivery, there is a growing need for an automated verification and reporting solution that targets the presentation of content as it is being delivered,” said Ted Korte, COO, Qligent. “Unlike other QoS, QoE, and Compliance monitoring solutions, Match is unique in its ability to verify the dynamic changes of the program stream across large geographic deployments, affordably, and in real-time. We are thankful and excited to be recognized by IABM for our product development and problem-solving efforts associated with Match.”

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EdgeConneX® And Cedexis Publish New White Paper

EdgeConneX® and Cedexis have announced the availability of a new white paper titled, “Cloud, Content, Connectivity and the Evolving Internet Edge.” The study uses Cedexis’ Real User Measurements (RUM) to reveal why the superior performance of Edge content and connectivity is driving more and more industry deployments.

Noted in the study, CDNs have taken the first step towards the Network Edge, realizing up to a 47% better response time compared with regions without Edge deployments. Cloud providers, meanwhile, are lagging in edge deployments and this is evident in higher latency — up to twice as high in regions without cloud-enabled data centers.

Cloud hyperscalers are bridging this gap using direct connections, including both physical and Software Defined Networks (SDN). The white paper compares Cedexis’ own panel of Internet measurements to services localized with EdgeConneX and Megaport, the world’s leading Network as a Service (NaaS) provider. Megaport’s global platform uses SDN to provide the most secure, seamless and on-demand way for enterprises, networks and services to interconnect. The response time improves 50% to 85% for users who bypass the public Internet, opting for direct cloud access via Megaport from an EdgeConneX Edge Data Center® (EDC).

“Megaport’s Software Defined Network is designed to enable superior performance for companies accessing public cloud services,” states Nicole Cooper, Executive Vice President, Americas, Megaport. “As the results in this whitepaper demonstrate, users at the network Edge can benefit from lower latency by using our SDN as part of their cloud deployments.”

Additionally, these changes in Internet architecture will result in a greater need for third-party load balancing services. As companies manage hybrid clouds, multiple CDNs and connectivity options, Global Server Load Balancing, offered by Cedexis, will be crucial to ensuring efficient content and application delivery.

“Cedexis is pleased to partner with EdgeConneX to further understand the impact of proximity and direct connectivity,” notes Simon Jones, head of marketing and evangelist, Cedexis. “By combining our data on billions of Real User Measurements with information on EdgeConneX local deployments, we are better able to understand the evolving Internet landscape. Customers needing to navigate the growth in hybrid cloud and content will be looking for solutions that manage multiple local and regional service providers.”

“The robust edge ecosystem within each of our Edge Data Centers is expanding each day as the Internet must support the nonstop content, cloud and application demand,” states Clint Heiden, chief commercial officer, EdgeConneX. “Along with Cedexis, we are pleased to validate and showcase how we are bringing the Internet community together to improve peering and connectivity globally.”

EdgeConneX specializes in providing purpose-built, power dense Edge Data Center solutions that enable the fastest delivery of data to end-users. EdgeConneX has created a new Edge of the Internet by designing and deploying facilities that are strategically positioned nearest to network provider aggregation points, ensuring the lowest latency data delivery with improved security and quality of service.

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Army Re-Ups With IBM For 5 Million In Cloud Services

IBM has announced that the U.S. Army’s Logistics Support Activity (LOGSA) awarded IBM a contract to continue providing cloud services, software development and cognitive computing, constituting the technical infrastructure for one of the U.S. federal government’s biggest logistics systems.

The 33-month, $135 million contract represents a successful re-compete of work that LOGSA signed with IBM in September 2012. Under that managed services agreement, the Army pays only for cloud services that it actually consumes. The efficiencies created by this arrangement have enabled the Army to avoid about $15 million per year in operational costs — a significant yield for the Army and taxpayers.

In addition to continuing to provide managed services as part of this new contract, IBM also will help the Army focus on:

• Improving cybersecurity by applying the risk management framework (RMF) security controls to LOGSA’s IT enterprise. RMF is the unified information security framework for the entire U.S. federal government; it replaces legacy IT security standards
• Incorporating cognitive computing that enhances readiness by anticipating needs
• Speeding application modernization

As part of this new contract, IBM also will help the Army predict vehicle maintenance failures from more than 5 billion data points of on-board sensors that will be stored within this environment. In addition, the Army is adopting Watson IoT services and a new Watson IoT Equipment Advisor solution that analyzes unstructured, structured and sensor data directly from military assets.

The solution, part of the IBM Watson IoT for Manufacturing and Industrial Products product suite, includes IBM Predictive Maintenance and Quality System, an integrated solution that monitors, analyzes, and reports on information gathered from devices and equipment and recommends maintenance procedures. It also includes Watson Explorer, a cognitive exploration and content analysis platform that enables users to securely capture and analyze both structured and unstructured data. With the platform, the Army will look to extract enhanced insights from its vehicle data and recommend optimal repair methods and procedures. By combining tactical vehicle sensor and maintenance data, the Army better understands the health of its vehicles and can take proactive repair measures.

IBM recently completed a proof of concept that demonstrated the effectiveness of Watson cognitive computing for 10% of the Army’s Stryker vehicle fleet. Under this new contract, LOGSA will increase its ability to provide that predictive and prescriptive maintenance information to the Army.

LOGSA provides on-time integrated logistics support of worldwide Army operations, impacting every soldier, every day. As the Army’s authoritative source for logistics data, LOGSA provides logistics intelligence, life cycle support, technical advice, and assistance to the current and future force; integrates logistics information (force structure, readiness, and other logistics data) for worldwide equipment readiness and distribution analysis; and provides asset visibility for timely and proactive decision-making.

“LOGSA and the Army can now take advantage of the technological innovation that cloud offers — especially cognitive computing and analytics — so that the Army can continue to reap cost savings, further streamline its operations and deliver services to its clients,” said Lisa Mascolo, managing director, U.S. Public Service, IBM’s Global Business Services. “We’re pleased to continue our work with the Army to demonstrate the viability of cloud for mission applications and the promised benefits of efficiency and taxpayer savings.”

“Over the past four and a half years, LOGSA has benefitted from the business and technical advantages of the cloud,” said LOGSA Commander Col. John D. Kuenzli. “Now, we’re moving beyond infrastructure as-a-service and embracing both platform and software as-a service, adopting commercial cloud capabilities to further enhance Army readiness.”

“When Gen. Perna took command of the Army Materiel Command, he said we cannot conduct tomorrow’s operations using yesterday’s processes and procedures,” Kuenzli added. “He has since emphasized understanding the leading indicators to readiness, and getting in front of the Army’s logistics challenges. The services we have received from IBM and the potential of IBM Watson IoT truly enable LOGSA to deliver cutting-edge business intelligence and tools to give the Army unprecedented logistics support at efficient and affordable means.”

In addition to private cloud deployments, IBM manages five dedicated federal cloud data centers, including a cloud environment accredited up to impact* level 5 (IL-5). These were built to meet Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements for government workloads.

*The Defense Information System Agency’s (DISA’s) information impact levels consider the potential impact of information being compromised. IL-5 gives the cloud provider the authority to manage controlled, unclassified information. For IBM’s work with the Army’s private cloud at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., the Army expects the company to achieve DISA’s IL-6 – the agency’s highest level – by early 2018, which would certify IBM to work with classified information up to “secret.” Presently, IBM is the only company authorized at IL-5 to run IaaS solutions on government premises.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Microsoft Leads In SaaS Market

New Q2 data from Synergy Research Group shows that the enterprise SaaS market grew 31% year on year to reach almost $15 billion in quarterly revenues, with collaboration being the highest growth segment. Microsoft remains the clear leader in overall enterprise SaaS revenues, having overtaken long-time market leader Salesforce a year ago. Microsoft was already rapidly growing its SaaS revenues, but in Q2 its acquisition of LinkedIn gave its SaaS business a further boost. In terms of overall SaaS market rankings, Microsoft and Salesforce are followed by Adobe, Oracle, and SAP, with other leading companies including ADP, IBM, Workday, Intuit, Cisco, Google, and ServiceNow. It’s notable that the market remains quite fragmented, with different vendors leading each of the main market segments. Among the major SaaS vendors those with the highest overall growth rates are Oracle, Microsoft, and Google.

In many ways the enterprise SaaS market is now mature. However, spending on SaaS remains relatively small compared to on-premise software, meaning that SaaS growth will remain buoyant for many years. Synergy forecasts that the SaaS market will double in size over the next three years, with strong growth across all segments and all geographic regions.

“IaaS and PaaS markets tend to get more attention and are indeed growing more rapidly, but the SaaS market is substantially bigger and will remains so for many years,” said John Dinsdale, a chief analyst and research director at Synergy Research Group. “Traditional enterprise software vendors like Microsoft, SAP, Oracle and IBM still have a huge base of on-premise software customers and they are all now pushing to aggressively convert those customers to a SaaS-based consumption model. At the same time, born-in-the-cloud software vendors like Workday, Zendesk and ServiceNow continue to light a fire under the market and help to propel enterprise spending on SaaS.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

CloudJumper Named A 2017 Gartner ‘Cool Vendor’ In Unified Workspaces

CloudJumper has announced that the company has been included in the Gartner report titled Cool Vendors in Unified Workspaces, 2017, by Michael A. Silver, Nathan Hill, Federica Troni, Manjunath Bhat, and Stephen Kleynhans. This is the first Cool Vendor report for unified workspaces by Gartner, Inc. and notes the disruptive nature of this technology for IT service providers and the clients they serve.

According to the report¹, “The traditional desktop environment that organizations are deploying to users is old and tired. It prevents organizations from being agile, and limits the creativity and innovation of users. In the digital workplace, users need to be able to consume IT-provided applications from different sources, on whatever device they choose. They need to have the ability to innovate using devices and applications that the organization’s IT department has not done a full analysis and regression test on, yet IT must ensure that new ways of working won’t prevent the legacy and well-tested applications they use from being deployed. In our inquiries with clients, organizations are asking how to solve this problem. Unified workspaces allow the mix of IT-provided and user selected technologies to coexist in peace, harmony and productivity.”

nWorkSpace is CloudJumper’s Unified Workspace or Workspace as a Service (WaaS) platform which includes everything required for highly reliable, scalable and efficient service delivery. The solution is widely deployed by channel partners worldwide and allows for the management and monitoring of all client accounts from a single interface. CloudJumper provides IT service providers with all of the software, infrastructure and services necessary to quickly and easily deliver WaaS to end-customers of every configuration.

nWorkSpace allows partners to scale their services based on the client employee count or the unique operational requirements presented to them across customer locations. The high level of workflow automation in nWorkSpace allows CloudJumper delivery partners to shift their resources from the management of the platform to more important strategic activities, including business development and revenue generation.

“Vendors in the unified workspaces market can help organizations provision applications and data across multiple devices in a user-centric manner. I&O leaders responsible for mobile and endpoint strategies should identify innovative products that will help realize their unified workspaces vision,” stated the report².

“CloudJumper is proud to be named as one of Gartner’s ‘Cool Vendors’ for 2017,” said Max Pruger, chief sales officer, CloudJumper. “We believe this acknowledgment recognizes our dedication to IT service provider-focused WaaS solutions and reinforces our vision of cloud-based workspaces for organizations across every sector. With the upward trajectory of unified workspaces and our industry-proven platform, we look forward to building upon this achievement in 2018 and beyond.”

1.Gartner, Cool Vendors in Unified Workspaces, 2017, May 25, 2017, ID: G00327743, https://www.gartner.com/doc/3729317?ref=SiteSearch&sthkw=CloudJumper&fnl=search&srcId=1-3478922254

 2. ibid

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Faction Partners With CoreSite

CoreSite Realty Corporation has announced that Faction has partnered with CoreSite in both the Northern Virginia and Silicon Valley markets to deliver expanded multi-cloud service offerings to its customers.

Faction chose to partner with CoreSite based on its scalable data center platform, strategic locations and high-performance interconnection solutions that allow Faction to optimize the delivery of its multi-cloud service offering by providing low-latency connectivity to leading cloud and network service providers. Faction will leverage connectivity to the CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange to deliver high-performance and cost-effective VMware based clouds with Administrator-level access to VMware vCenter that offers unprecedented control, flexibility, and integration capabilities for hybrid & multi-cloud deployments.

Along with Faction’s leading enterprise-class private cloud and Veeam backup solutions, Faction is launching a multi-cloud NetApp storage solution and Managed VMware on AWS offering that is enabled by leveraging the low-latency cloud on-ramps within the CoreSite portfolio.

“CoreSite provides the facilities, high-performance interconnection solutions and close proximity to the major public cloud providers, which are key to enabling our multi-cloud solutions and go-to-market strategy,” said Luke Norris, Chief Executive Officer at Faction. “We are committed to providing our customers with maximum control in an unmatched multi-cloud environment, and CoreSite enables us to deliver a differentiated customer experience.”

The CoreSite Silicon Valley market is comprised of seven operational data centers, providing colocation solutions to one of the largest concentrations of Internet and technology companies in the world. More than 185 international and national carriers, social media companies, cloud computing providers, media and entertainment firms, and enterprise customers connect to do business in CoreSite’s Silicon Valley data center market.

The CoreSite Northern Virginia data center market currently includes three highly scalable facilities — one in Washington, D.C. and two on its Reston, VA campus (VA1 and VA2). CoreSite recently announced the expansion of both its Reston and Washington, D.C. campuses, all of which will now total over 1,097,000 sq ft of colocation data center space upon full build out. CoreSite’s customer community includes a diverse mix of government, financial services and cloud service providers, as well as domestic and international networks providing a direct connection to U.S. and European markets. With the growing importance of Northern Virginia as a communications and enterprise hub, CoreSite’s Reston campus provides flexible colocation and hybrid-cloud deployment solutions for customers located in Washington, D.C. and the greater Northern Virginia area.

“We are pleased that Faction has partnered with CoreSite to expand the reach of their VMware-based private cloud and Veeam backup solutions. Additionally, their multi-cloud service offering is a valuable addition to the ecosystem, and through the CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange, Faction is able to deliver a true hybrid-cloud experience without compromising security or performance,” said Steve Smith, senior vice president, sales and marketing at CoreSite. “Faction provides enterprises with unique and customized cloud solutions built on a powerful and well-adopted VMware environment, and we look forward to supporting their future growth.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag

Stream Data Centers And Megaport Partner

Stream Data Centers has announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Megaport (USA), Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Megaport Limited to deliver secure, direct consumption-based connectivity services to enterprises.

The Megaport Software Defined Network enables Stream customers with the ability to right size their capacity, by scaling bandwidth up and down, with a consumption-based payment model. Customers can access multiple service providers over the ecosystem and manage direct, multi-cloud connectivity through the Megaport API or via the Megaport portal.

“A primary mission for Megaport is to reduce the barrier of entry for enterprises adopting cloud services,” said Nicole Cooper, executive vice president, Americas, Megaport. “Our industry-leading SDN brings a powerful set of capabilities in which to execute a network and connectivity strategy that aligns to cost and performance goals. Stream’s U.S. data center portfolio complements our neutral networking model extremely well. It enables further expansion of our footprint in the United States as we help accelerate cloud service adoption in emerging cloud markets.”

“We are excited to partner with Megaport to enable flexible cloud connectivity for our enterprise customers,” said Eric Ballard, vice president of network and cloud at Stream Data Centers. “Megaport is a market leader in the elastic cloud connectivity space and is redefining how our customers can grow and scale cloud, multicloud, and hybrid cloud connectivity. The Megaport partnership enriches the value to our customers by bringing a substantial ecosystem of service providers to our industry-leading data centers. It expands the horizons of network connectivity and what we can offer our customers.”

Megaport brings direct, private connectivity to the top five cloud service providers. In particular, this partnership will take advantage of a new Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute gateway. It will offer a direct connection to Microsoft Azure services as well as a low-latency private link to customer-resources located in the nearby Azure South Central region. All of these services will now be available at Stream’s San Antonio data center.

Ross Ortega, partner program manager, Microsoft Azure Networking, Microsoft Corp., said, “The cloud is driving transformation through new business models, global expansion and accelerated innovation, along with an enhanced customer experience. Collaborating with Megaport to bring ExpressRoute to customers is a core part of these attributes and values.”

The Megaport and Stream partnership will launch in San Antonio for customer availability in 4Q17. Following the launch, Stream and Megaport plan to continue expansion of their partnership to other Stream data centers in Houston and Minneapolis.

Source: CloudStrategyMag

MapR Orbit Cloud Suite Extends Analytics And Applications Across Clouds

MapR Technologies, Inc. has announced the MapR Orbit Cloud Suite. Offering a comprehensive set of cloud computing capabilities for the MapR Converged Data Platform, MapR Orbit enables organizations to build data fabrics for the first time that manage data across one or more clouds, hybrid clouds, or to the edge. It also includes advanced features specifically useful to cloud builders and cloud service providers.

Organizations today are looking to take advantage of the economics and business agility that the cloud promises but are encountering several challenges such as the “component” approach to building applications that draws on multiple services which has led to a crisis of complexity for companies, and the incompatibility between cloud providers which creates lock-in. Additional challenges include the inability of cloud services to fully reach the edge resulting in data silos and the ongoing balance of in-country cloud requirements with geographically distributed data and applications. 

MapR is addressing these cloud challenges with the new MapR Orbit Cloud Suite. Optimizing the MapR Converged Data Platform, MapR Orbit simplifies analytics and application deployment across clouds and takes advantage of business agility and cloud-scale economics such as object tiering.

“In addition to being a global cloud IaaS provider, Outscale offers the entire MapR Converged Data Platform to provide fast access to data stored in files, databases and event streams for performing real-time analysis on business critical, operational applications,” said Rob Rosborough, CEO, Outscale Inc. “Whether a business seeks to deploy MapR as a Service or stand up a business continuity solution, Outscale can deliver a public, hybrid or private Cloud solution through our network of global data centers. Many of our customers already benefit from existing multi-tenancy capabilities provided by MapR. We look forward to leveraging future innovations from MapR in this area and others, as they become available.”

The new MapR Orbit Cloud Suite is designed to address complexities for a variety of cloud use cases, including the following four major use cases:

Cloud-Native Data Management and Object Tiering to Public Cloud: MapR Orbit includes new product capabilities and offerings for companies looking to deploy MapR in a public cloud like AWS or Azure.

• Object tiering for the automatic, secure archiving of data to cloud object stores based on “data temperature,” while keeping the metadata in the MapR global namespace so that it is available for any application, anywhere.
  – Cloud-native cluster management for seamless operations of MapR in the cloud, including installation and cluster scaling. Uniquely customizable to support any cloud architecture, capability, or provisioning framework.
  – Integrations with major cloud object storage systems, including AWS S3, Azure Blob Store, OpenStack Swift, and Google Cloud Storage simplify the movement of data between the MapR platform and native cloud stores.

Build Multi-Cloud/Hybrid Data Fabrics: MapR Orbit also includes rich capabilities for synchronizing data between different cloud providers or between on-premises installations and the cloud. These features let customers build distributed, global applications and data fabrics for analytics, operations, and streaming.

Seamless Bridge to the Edge: Edge-to-Cloud file migration to automatically move files from MapR Edge to the cloud in real-time to power hybrid edge/cloud applications. MapR Orbit Cloud Suite includes capabilities for gathering and processing data close to the source, while moving and replicating this data to cloud or on-premises environments.

A Single Platform to Build Converged Clouds : MapR Orbit empowers companies building private clouds or regional public clouds to provide cross-cloudoperational, analytic, and streaming services to their own customers. Cloud-scale multi-tenancy allows cloud builders to provide converged data services to all end customers on a single shared platform, increasing resource utilization and simplifying operations. In addition, a plugin for Openstack Manila that allows the OpenStack cloud operating system to provision MapR file resources in a multi-tenant way, enabling MapR to be the file storage medium for private or public clouds.

“After speaking to numerous customers over the years it’s clear to me that the growth of data in the cloud has its challenges. MapR lays the foundation to remove the barriers to scale and is designed to enable companies bring their cloud strategies to reality,” said Tom Fisher, CTO, MapR Technologies. “With MapR Orbit Cloud Suite, data access across multiple clouds and cloud types as well as Edge Computing are simply treated as another seamless tier for analytics. The future is leveraging data, no matter where it is persisted, and its use, in real-time, for delivery through the next generations of applications.”

Source: CloudStrategyMag