VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that HPE OneView has reached one million licences, helping thousands of customers worldwide improve and simplify their cloud experience and speed the delivery of applications and services through automation, allowing them to move faster, and be more responsive to critical business needs. In addition, HPE continues to add capabilities to HPE OneSphere to enable Azure public cloud. Leveraged by leading enterprises, small and medium businesses and in every major geography, HPE OneView enables customers to deploy infrastructure and workloads faster, deliver policy-based management and increase efficiency through workflow automation. “As enterprise cloud adoption continues to mature, organizations are developing a comprehensive strategy for managing both on- and off-premises infrastructure,” said Vikram K, Senior Director, Hybrid IT, HPE India. “HPE OneView brings together all aspects of everyday lifecycle management across comp...

Microsoft had huge success with Azure (cloud computing platform). Now Microsoft is taking steps to move Azure into hybrid cloud environments with the announcement of the general availability of Azure Stack, an extension of Azure. Microsoft's hardware partners, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell EMC and Lenovo, will ship Azure Stack with their hardware systems. Microsoft is pricing Azure Stack using pay-as-you-go use and capacity-based models.... Read More

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Microsoft has launched the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure (India). Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure (India) is supposed to host 10 select early-stage startups onsite for four months and take them through a deep immersion program, focused on helping build businesses that take advantage of the Cloud. Amit Chatterjee, MD, Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd. said, "The Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure is a particularly exciting program and we are thrilled to launch this initiative in India. Through this unique initiative, Microsoft is partnering with leading industry mentors to provide startups with the much needed support they need to innovate and become successful businesses. We are not only providing them technical and business guidance and mentoring, but also connecting them to prospective VCs and investors. The success of this program will be measured by the success of these startups. Microsoft will have...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE CommVault has expanded collaboration with Microsoft Corp. to offer a cloud storage capability that combines the power of Simpana software with the benefits and flexibility of storing data on the Windows Azure cloud platform. The new offering provides enterprise organizations a simple solution to archive, index, search and access massive amounts of data for long-term retention and compliance. This combined data management solution for Windows Azure offers up to 62 TBs of cloud storage capacity and the data and information management capabilities of Simpana 9 Express for a starting price of approximately $50,000. CommVault also announced that it has deepened its strategic alliance with Microsoft, expanding collaborative development and sales and marketing activities around the Windows Azure platform. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Microsoft has unveiled a cloud capability, Windows Azure Media Services, for delivering video to clients, including devices. Streaming formats are supported, including Smooth Streaming, HTTP Live streaming, and Flash Media Streaming. Services can be delivered to HTML5, Silverlight, Flash, and Windows 8 clients as well as to Apple iPad and iPhone, Google Android, and Xbox and Windows Phone devices. Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Server and Tools Business, Microsoft said, "Windows Azure Media Services is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) for building and delivering media solutions to customers. Users can build media workflows in the cloud. "It offers a bunch of ready-to-use services that enable the fast ingestion, encoding, format-conversion, storage, content protection, and streaming (both live and on-demand) of video. It also integrates and exposes services provided by industry leading partners -- enabling an incre...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Gradatim has migrated to the Windows Azure cloud platform to simplify its service configuration and gain global scalability, achieving an 84-per cent decrease in project deployment time and saving an estimated US$2 million. "We wanted a Platform-as-a-Service solution, not just cloud infrastructure. We concluded that Windows Azure offered the best long-term value and the most reliable cloud platform for transforming our business," said C. V. Prakash, Founder & CEO, Gradatim. Windows Azure allowed Gradatim to not only shift to cloud-based delivery of its products but also to make major improvements to its pricing model. Rather than buying a perpetual licence to access the software, customers can choose to pay a nominal subscription fee, along with a percentage of the value of each transaction or a fixed fee for each loan or insurance policy they manage, using Gradatim technology. "We are excited about the impact this migrati...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE HP has announced new applications services designed to accelerate the building or migration of applications to the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. With the new HP Cloud Applications Services for Windows Azure, applications developers can quickly design, build, test and deploy applications for the Windows Azure platform. The services also enable clients to accelerate adoption of the Windows Azure platform as part of their hybrid service delivery environments. Additionally, clients can manage risk and optimize IT resources with a methodical approach to assessing, migrating and developing applications on the Windows Azure platform. With usage-based pricing for the platform, clients also can align IT costs with changes in demand and volumes. Marshal Correia, Director, Enterprise Services, HP India, said, "As their needs shift, enterprises want to confidently and rapidly adopt cloud-based applications. HP helps clients speed time to market...