Month: September 2018

Flexera, a company delivering software licensing, compliance and installation solutions for application producers and enterprises, has bought cloud management solutions provider RightScale. This would mean a big leap forward for Flexera in helping solve the issue of cloud services overspend and control. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 2007, RightScale’s offerings are built as multi-cloud, vendor agnostic solutions that support leading public and private clouds – including Amazon Web Services (AWS),…

Elasticsearch and Elastic Stack provider Elastic has released its Elastic Cloud Enterprise version 2.0. Elastic Cloud Enterprise was designed to provide a centralized and easy way to provision, manage, monitor and scale multiple Elastic Stack deployments, giving organizations the ability to control all their deployments from a single place. Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) 2.0 would elevate the control and administrative ease with many new features such as host tagging, customizable deployment templates including hot-warm architecture,…

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), one of world’s leading organizations dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, will be opening a new CSA Europe headquarters and with it, creating a new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Center of Excellence for cloud computing in Berlin, Germany, later this year. The opening of a new European headquarters for the Cloud Security Alliance is in response to rapid membership…

At 451 Research’s Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit in Las Vegas last week, the technology research and advisory company has released 4SIGHT – a new report detailing the major forces of innovation that will reshape the entire digital enterprise landscape over the next decade “In the almost two decades since 451 Research was formed we have witnessed vast changes to the information technology landscape; however, these shifts will pale in comparison to the disruption and…

Blockchain startup Cognate is joining GoDaddy, one of the world’s largest cloud services platforms dedicated to small, independent ventures. The two Cognate founders and their engineers say they’re going to be working hard with the GoDaddy team on future trademark and documentation management services. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. There would be quite some companies putting their energy into naming and branding efforts while lacking the tools and resources necessary to protect…

CloudJumper, a Workspace as a Service (WaaS) platform provider, has announced the launch of a ‘Single Server’ version of its Cloud Workspace Management Suite for managed service providers (MSPs). The new solution enables service provider partners to deploy software-defined virtual data centers that would lower the server and software requirements for a broad range of customer environments. CloudJumper’s single server version of their Cloud Workspace Management Suite would increase the company’s Workspace As-a-Service (WaaS) affordability…