Racemi Launches Dynacenter 4.0 – More Help With Moving Cloud Workloads

Racemi Dynacenter 4.0 Highlights

• Allows server images to be provisioned from physical to virtual and from on premise to Cloud supplier
• Adds Amazon EC2, Rackspace and Terremark movements
• Protects users from Cloud outages, such Amazon’s this month
• Can play a part in assuring users and vendors from lock-in problems

Vision Solutions Double-Take Software Steps Into Cloud Computing With Amazon EC2 – Promises ‘Recovery as a Service’

please note – Double-Take is now part of Vision Solutions

Double-Take Software Cloud Computing Highlights

• Has selected Amazon’s EC2 as the first deployment platform and partner
• Offers real time replication at around $250/month for the first and $150/month for subsequent servers
• Focuses on ensuring recovery, rather than merely backing up data
• As an asynchronous technique with a recovery point, will not be used for transaction processing
• Is only available for x86 servers running Windows or Linux
• Will move to ‘Recovery as a Service’ provider status
• Will consider partnerships and more integrated solutions in future
• Is focusing on Large as well as Medium and Small Enterprises

Quest Software – Targeting The Management and Monitoring Of Private Cloud Computing

In introducing Cloud Computing as one of themes I flagged an intention to write profiles of suppliers and users. The first company to get in touch was Quest Software. I had an interesting talk with Joe Baguley (European CTO) and will try to capture his company’s approach.

Quest Software 2009 Backgrounder

Quest is a US management software company engaged in helping CIOs and software developers (usually in large organisations) manage their software deployments and improve efficiency. Its products cover four main areas – Microsoft Windows, Applications, Virtualisation and Database. I’ve shown the company’s revenues and profits in Figure 1.