OpenStack Seeing the Light of General Availability
The last few weeks have been interesting around the OpenStack ecosystem. We’ve had HP moving object storage and Cloud CDN to general availability. We had Morphlabs introduce an interesting combined hardware and software offering called mCloud Helix. The product is powered by OpenStack, and combines that with SSD-powered nodes to deliver a compact rack mount [...]
Puppet Now Powering OpenStack Implementations
Looking past the politics of whose Cloud stack is the best for a moment, the undeniably truth remains that no matter what you use, tools to help deploy and automate said cloud are becoming increasingly critical – this is even more the case in an ecosystem that is becoming ever more heterogeneous. Given this fact, [...]
Morphlabs Embraces SSDs
Morphlabs (previous CloudAve coverage), the company offering converged infrastructure solutions to enterprises, today announced that they are using Dell Technology to offer fully Solid State Drive technology based cloud solution. Morphlabs’ mCloud Data Center Unit (DCU) will be powered by the Dell PowerEdge C portfolio, the hyperscale server line developed by the Dell Data Center Solutions [...]
iPad In Enterprise: IT Folks Can Have One Too
Ever since iPad has been released by Apple, there are discussions on whether iPad is an enterprise material or not. However, we are seeing increased iPad adoption in many organizations including some big enterprise players. However, there is another trend slowly shaping up without much media fanfare. Slowly, there are tools available for IT folks [...]
Morph Labs Tweaks Their Offerings To Make It More Palatable To Enterprises
MorphLabs, a company offering private cloud solutions to enterprises (see our previous coverage), today announced the release of mCloud for the enterprise. Essentially, it is a rebranding of their existing offering with some enhanced features that makes enterprise deployment easier. Using mCloud Controller for Enterprises, organizations can seamlessly deploy private cloud in their environment. According [...]
Morph Labs Gets Ready To Take On The Competitive Marketplace After A Series B Funding Round
MorphLabs, the company that helps enterprises and service providers build private clouds announced a $5.5 Million Series B funding. This funding round is led by Global Gateway Investment Group (G2iG) with new investor, Frontera Group LLC, joining existing investors CSK Venture Capital Co. Ltd. and AO Capital Partners Ltd.. After gaining lots of traction in Japan, [...]
PaaS, Trusting Beyond Its Initial Hype
Image via Wikipedia Friday, I wrote about the shutdown of PaaS vendor, Coghead, and wondered how one can minimize the risks involved with such scenarios. Unless we figure out a way to minimize such risks, it will be impossible to convince enterprise customers to trust their applications on top of PaaS. Let us take a detour and check out some of the players [...]
