This week Dave Linthicum is on-site with Tom Kiblin, CEO of Virtacore.

TOP NEWS

1)  Dell has launched the next phase of its Virtual Integrated System Architecture, offering Virtualization to Cloud management tools

The key words here are converged and open. Dell promises customers will be able to preserve and leverage existing data center infrastructure without silos or rip and replace.

Dell’s Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM – not to be confused with AOL Instant Messenger) is designed to simplify data center management with wizards, plugins, etc. The VIS Self-Service Creator uses a Web-based portal for end users to launch their own workloads.

Article: http://bit.ly/cdXHhU

Q:   How important is the design philosophy of open architecture with its promise of choice, flexibility and agility? Is this a long-term play on Dell’s part?

2) TwinStrata has launched a new cloud storage appliance optimized for data protection.

Called CloudArray ‘software as an appliance,’ it integrates with applications, and physical and virtual servers. And in the event of a disruption or outage, data can be restored on-site, off-site, or in the cloud.

Article: http://bit.ly/ab0QuW

Q:  Right now, the cloud is mainly being used by SMBs to backup or archive data, but the next step is to use the cloud for primary storage. When do you think this will happen?

3) ACQUISITION: CA is buying Hyperformix, a specialist in building capacity management software, in a move to to better manage virtualized environments.
The move also broadens CA’s announced direction of providing the tools to build and manage internal cloud environments.

Article: http://bit.ly/ay92ai

Q:  Talk about why capacity management is a tough goal to achieve in virtualized environments. What benefits will CA customers see from Hyperformix?

4)  Amazon Web Services has released a PHP development kit.
The AWS SDK for PHP works with PHP 5.2 or later versions. It’s based on the CloudFusion toolkit and includes a library of APIs, code samples and documentation. Previously, developers had to download several libraries from different providers in order to build an application on multiple AWS products.

Articles: http://bit.ly/cohk7p

Q:  Will this PHP support mean more developer uptake for AWS?

5) Wall Street not bullish on cloud computing
Computerworld – Wall street firms have been slow to take full advantage of the potential financial and resource savings available through cloud computing because they have security and regulatory concerns, say IT executives.

Article: http://bit.ly/bOhDh8

Q:   Will the world of high finance ever trust the public cloud?

6) Dave post: solid reasons for choosing a private cloud over a public one

Article: http://bit.ly/9WylmG

Q) Are too many enterprises rushing into private clouds without understanding why?

Featured Guest: Tom Kiblin, CEO of Virtacore

Twitter: @virtacore / @tomatvirtacore

Tom Kiblin founded Virtacore to fill a marketplace void – to meet the need for affordable customized virtualization and cloud hosting solutions.

Background:

• Serial entrepreneur w 15 years of progressive engineering, management and business development experience at Wellfleet Communications/Bay Networks (acquired by Nortel), International Networks (acquired by Lucent), Village Networks, YDI/Proxim Wireless and PCCW Global Web Hosting.
• In 2005, he founded PowerVS to focus on virtualization environments for voice applications and in 2006, founded Power VPS to provide consumer grade server virtualization technologies.

In this episode, Tom addresses key questions like:

• Virtacore targets the mid market – what specific needs are you addressing for this market?
• Virtacore is one of only a few VMWare vCloud Express partners – what makes the vCore platform unique?
• Your cloud solutions are backed by 100% uptime SLAs – how important is this to customers?
• Last month you announced a partnership with Equinix for your new Infrastructure as a Service delivered over your vCore platform. In essence, it bridges public and private VMware clouds. Why did you choose Equinix?
• Why is it important to offer hosted solutions?