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Parallels Summit - Birger Steen

Dan Kusnetzky — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:06:23 -0800

Parallels’ CEO discusses event attendance, Parallels’ strategy, partners and a competitive overview.

Parallels Summit 2012 - John Zanni

Dan Kusnetzky — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:03:25 -0800

John Zanni, Parallels‘ VP, Service Provider Marketing and Alliances, is first on the agenda today. He’s welcoming the analysts and offering a quick overview of today’s sessions.

I’m pleased to learn that Parallels listened to the comments from the event last year. He’s promising no “death by PowerPoint.”

John asked the analysts to introduce themselves and tell [...]

Parallels Summit Analyst Day

Dan Kusnetzky — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:07:23 -0800

Parallels is presenting its view of the world at its Parallels Summit 2012 in Orlando. I’ll be commenting on what Parallels has to say in this and following posts.

Greenbutton helps software providers transition to cloud computing

Dan Kusnetzky — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:16:25 -0800

GreenButton offers a framework and services so that software providers can add cloud computing performance and scalability to their applications.

Chating with Red Hat's John Mark Walker

Dan Kusnetzky — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:13:37 -0800

Open source storage virtualization from Red Hat is taking on the big players in the market. Can it win? Red Hat’s Gluster Community Manager thinks it has what it takes to win.

Sumo Logic claims to be first Big Data service provider. Can you believe them?

Dan Kusnetzky — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:03:27 -0800

Companies all over the world are looking for ways to gain some advantage due to the industry interest in processing massive amounts of rapidly changing data. Sumo Logic just emerged from stealth mode and claims to the be first offering Big Data services. The problem is that they’re not the first.

Evolven - a Cloudyn customer profile

Dan Kusnetzky — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:11:13 -0800

Evolven’s CEO talks about how Cloudyn helps his company manage cloud-related costs.

eG Innovations wants to help organization make sense out of complexity

Dan Kusnetzky — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:45:57 -0800

eG Innovations is offering a comprehensive, yet easy to use, set of tools to monitor enterprise environments. The company has to make itself heard over others in a very competitive and noisy performance management market.

VMware debuts cloud integration manager for service providers

Paula Rooney — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:14:33 -0800

VMware has announced its latest cloud product, the VMware Cloud Integration Manager, which automates the delivery and operation of the company’s vCloud Director clouds. It will be delivered in the first quarter and is aimed at service providers and resellers.

Cloudability wants to manage cloud usage to reduce costs

Dan Kusnetzky — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:11 -0800

Cloudability wants to apply clever management tools to cloud computing usage and reduce costs. Interesting idea, but do they have what it takes to beat all of the other players who are promising the same thing?