
Cloupia Expands Beyond Flexpod As They Update Their Offerings
Cloupia (previous CloudAve coverage), the Santa Clara based company offering automation and orchestration solutions, announced last week that they are enhancing their product to meet the needs of today’s enterprises and, also, signaled their intent to move beyond Flexpod in the converged infrastructure space (see previous story about Cloupia Flexpod validation). Now their powerful orchestration […]

What’s Cloud Management ?
This last year has been immensely interesting for me as I watched the shaky cloud market mature. The change in people’s state of mind was rapid. The discussion advanced quickly from “the cloud will not prosper” to “Can we trust its security?”, and on to the current mood – “the cloud is here to stay”. […]

Cloupia Gets Flexpod Validation As They Push Hard Into Converged Infrastructure Space
Cloupia (previous CloudAve coverage), the Santa Clara based startup offering automation and orchestration solutions, today announced that their FlexPod Management and Automation solution is validated by Cisco and NetApp. This is a big boost for the startup taking a different route compared to the other cloud management players. Unlike companies like Rightscale which are solely […]

ScaleXtreme Ramps Up Server Management For The Federated Cloud Era
ScaleXtreme, Palo Alto based server management company with a focus on the cloud era, yesterday announced the availability Dynamic Server Assembly, an update to their existing free and premium products. This gives their users an ability to create highly structured servers across many different cloud providers. As we move towards a more federated cloud ecosystem, […]

enStratus On A Roll
enStratus (previous CloudAve coverage), the Minneapolis based company focussing on cloud governance, has raised $3.5 Million according to this MarketBrief from SEC filing. Enstratus Networks, Inc reported today in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission it had raised $3.5M of a $4M private offering. Companies file this special form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange […]

The Rise Of Managed Cloud Services
Looks like it is time to take “self service” out of cloud definition. There is a new trend that is slowly gaining traction which, even though it is not cloud washing, appears to be a desperate repackaging of services by companies with deep roots in the managed hosting world. I still feel that the availability […]

Maestro 3: Build, Test And Deploy In Private Cloud
MaestroDev, the company offering enterprise software build platform and private cloud, today announced the release of Maestro 3, their latest version of platform that features an innovative application layer that deeply integrates with a broad range of open source tools. As the DevOps go towards a more automated approach, a comprehensive platform like the one […]

iPad And IT Admins: NaviSite Adds iPad Support To Manage Their Cloud
The iPad and IT Admin frenzy that started few weeks back is now turning into “enterprise fashion” trend. Every day you hear from an enterprise service provider adding support to their service through iPad. Particularly, apps designed to help IT Admins and manager take care of their infrastructure through iPad is very attractive for me. […]

Rightscale Adds Dev & Test Support To Beef Up Their Offering
Rightscale (See CloudAve’s previous coverage of Rightscale), the leading cloud management company, today announced their support for Development and Testing in the cloud. This is one feature that was lacking in Rightscale as they try to push themselves hard in the enterprise cloud marketplace. Skytap, the company that was focussing on Labs play earlier, has […]

Rightscale Now Supports Windows Servers Bringing Parity With Linux
Rightscale, the leading cloud management vendor, today announced support for Windows based applications on the cloud. This puts the support for Windows applications on par with Linux based ones, making cloud automation, management and portability for Windows instances as easy as Linux instances. This also helps Rightscale target organizations using Windows servers for their IT needs. […]