“Big data represents a sea change of capabilities in IT” notes Matt McLarty, Vice President, Client Solutions at Layer 7, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. McLarty continued: “In conjunction with mobile and cloud, I think Big Data will provide a technological makeover to the typical enterprise infrastructure, drawing a hard API border in front of core business services while blurring the line between logic and data services.”
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Moving workloads to the cloud, between public cloud providers, and back to the datacenter, is now significantly faster, easier, and more reliable with the release of Racemi's latest DynaCenter software.
With Racemi DynaCenter 4.0, customers can move workloads among Amazon EC2, Rackspace and Terremark - three major cloud computing providers - in any combination or direction. DynaCenter's image-based provisioning software automates the movement of entire server images, whether physical or virtual - including operating systems, storage and network configurations and applications - to another physical or virtual server or cloud computing resource. Unlike other technologies, Racemi does not require modifications to the server workload.

"The recent outage at Amazon reinforces the need for mobility in managing workloads. For some time, people have joked about cloud vendor lock-in by saying workloads check-in, but they don't check out," said Lawrence Guillory, CEO of Racemi. "Of course, no one is laughing now. What the market really wants is the ability to build complex hybrid cloud strategies, involving their private data centers and multiple cloud providers. To do this, they must have the capability to quickly and easily migrate existing workloads in and out of the major cloud providers. With DynaCenter, we make it possible to transition workloads between local data centers and public clouds, as well as migrations from one cloud provider to another, which gives customers freedom to choose solutions that meet their changing business needs and streamline the on-boarding process for MSPs (managed service providers)."
Racemi makes its software available to technology partners to incorporate into their product offerings providing an easy path for OEMs to add cloud-ready capabilities to offerings.
"Racemi moves existing server images into the cloud without special modifications, which is exactly what the market wants," said William Fellows, principal analyst, The 451 Group. "By incorporating Racemi's software technology with their own offerings, technology companies can deliver new levels of flexibility for their customers on where to run workloads - whether on physical or virtual servers in the data center or on a public cloud."
DynaCenter migrates workloads by comparing the configurations of the source and destination servers, and configuring the necessary virtual machine components and device drivers "in-flight" to ensure that the image can be run on the target platform, regardless of hardware or hypervisor platform.
Racemi has been named a "Cool Vendor" and has received other industry awards. The latest version of DynaCenter is immediately available for OEM partner evaluations. To read more, go to www.racemi.com/cloud2.htm. View a short video highlighting Racemi's cloud and virtual server migration capabilities at www.racemi.com/cloud.html.
About Racemi
Racemi builds server imaging and cloud migration technology allowing companies to quickly capture, clone and migrate their server images anywhere. Racemi enables OEM partners to automate private data centers by leveraging its market-leading server imaging technology to rapidly provision servers in any automated use case including rapidly deploying enterprise images to cloud computing resources. For MSPs, Racemi is the fastest and best method for on-boarding customers to their cloud. For more information, visit www.racemi.com.
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In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Eric Shepcaro, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Telx, will discuss how distributed computing has many advantages. It wou...
Virtualization and private cloud are good for server consolidation, creating flexible environments, and saving IT budget dollars. A recent survey of 1200 companies with 500+ employees showed that 59% had server virtualization in production or pilot. But that doesn’t tell the whole story.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Dave Asprey, VP of Cloud Security at Trend Micro, will explain the types of situations when you should consider not virtualizing some of your applications. ...
Hardware and chemistry improvements will make the $1,000 human genome a reality soon. While the massive amount of genomics data that will be generated represents a huge opportunity to advance personal medicine, it also presents an enormous big data challenge.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Dr Andreas Sundquist, CEO of DNAnexus, will discuss how the cloud will address these issues by enabling the management, storage, sharing and analysis of the world’s DNA data and how it ...
The Platform as a Service (PaaS) market grew out of the fact that no other cloud solution addressed the ever-increasing complexity of managing and writing modern applications: no frameworks, libraries or APIs alone could tackle the sticky application engineering challenges. Unfortunately, PaaS 1.0 is what people are now seeing as strictly a “tool” to easily deploy apps to the infrastructure in a self-service way with little or no differentiation among offerings. However, in order for PaaS to rea...
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