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LogicWorks For AWS Releases Cloud Patrol Automation And Security Solution LogicWorks  has announced a new solution to augment its managed cloud services with automation and security tools. Cloud Patrol, released today for LogicWorks and Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers, aims to bridge the gaps between developers, operations and security roles. LogicWorks is a member of the  AWS Premier Partner Network , with competencies as a Managed Service Provider (MSP) as well as DevOps, Healthcare, Marketing and Commerce. Managed cloud services from Logicworks include providing strategies and assessments to see where you are now and help with developing a roadmap to get you into the cloud. Cloud Patrol has two core components to its service: automation and security. The Cloud Patrol automation solution provides DevOps tooling to use and a central management portal for delivering services. The Cloud Patrol security solution enables the security team with operations and automated tests. ...

The rise of cloud culture: A sign of further maturation? The idea that IT leaders and their teams should pay attention to broader issues outside of their direct remit has been on the agenda of many businesses for years. IT should play a much greater role, it has been argued, than its traditional speciality of ‘keeping the technology lights on’. But for many, the scope to achieve greater levels of integration has been limited, not least by the need to control IT investment and drive down costs. Now, the rapid adoption of cloud is driving a change in how organisations see IT supporting their business as a whole. A year ago, this meant the emergence of ‘cloud people’, where organisations were increasingly shaping their IT teams with cloud front of mind. At the time, that was an emerging concept, yet just a year later we are seeing the growth of a broader ‘cloud culture’, whose influence is going far beyond tech teams and right into the boardroom. ‘Cloud people’ are here Cloud, in its many...

CloudBolt Software announced upgrades to its cloud delivery platform, which aims to simplify administrative tasks in multi-cloud environments. Upgraded features include self-service and task automation services as well as deeper integration with cloud platform providers. By offering a layer of abstraction between the cloud services and the management platform, CloudBolt can act as an intermediary on your behalf. This can simplify the management of the infrastructure, especially in situations where multiple cloud platforms are being leveraged. Cloudbolt integrates into VMware and Citrix virtualization platforms as well as cloud services from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and OpenStack. It also integrates into popular configuration management platforms Chef and Puppet. This doesn’t only manage upstream connections to the cloud, it also provides some management options downstream to the resource consumers. By leveraging your existing cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources, you ca...

IndependenceIT and nGenx are teaming up to bring Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software GoldMine to the cloud. In what looks to be a win for all three parties, GoldMine will get an update to its delivery platform from an off-the-shelf independent software vendor to a cloud-based subscription model. IndependenceIT provides a desktop as a service (DaaS) platform built on top of the Google Compute Engine. By leveraging this solution, GoldMine can get its software delivered seamlessly to customers, giving them the opportunity to modernize licensing to a subscription model. nGenx delivers its “Bring Your Own Cloud” solution to GoldMine, updating the code to perform within a cloud environment. By using the nGenx nFinity Workspace, GoldMine was able to work with cloud experts in delivering its product. We got a chance to talk to JD Helms, president of nGenx, about this latest news to find out more about “cloudifying” an application. nGenx works directly with their customers to update...

Nutanix unveiled its next generation Xtreme Computing Platform (XCP), designed to allow IT organizations to focus more on applications and services. XCP is comprised of two product families, Nutanix Acropolis and Nutanix Prism. Nutanix Acropolis provides an open platform for virtualization and application mobility. By providing management for storage and hypervisors, Nutanix Acropolis uses App Mobility Fabric to enable VMs to move between hypervisors and high-availability VMs that span hypervisors. Both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware hypervisors are supported by the storage fabric, but a built-in Acropolis hypervisor built on Linux KVM is the first to plug into the advanced App Mobility Fabric. Nutanix Prism is the infrastructure management tool that delivers IT automation against Nutanix storage, hypervisors and applications. Prism also uses machine learning and business intelligence to analyze infrastructure data and create actionable items that allow administrators to increase perform...