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Brad Hokamp Interview with Light Reading

Published on August 24, 2011 in Cloud Computing, Hosting Industry and Layered Technologies. Closed
Posted by Tom Eagle

We were recently approached by Light Reading, one of the most widely read IT publications in the industry, to do an interview on Layered Tech’s approach to cloud computing services.  Naturally, we obliged, and our president, Brad Hokamp, sat down with Light Reading’s editor, Phil Harvey, to discuss the results our clients are achieving with our managed compliant cloud solutions:

  • Control costs more effectively – with a cloud environment, customers can build/repurpose infrastructure towards normal loads of traffic and then use cloud for peak capacity management
  • Drive revenue growth and increase agility as a company – allows companies to bring on their customers more rapidly, load applications quicker, etc.
  • Innovate and launch products much faster – leading to faster return on investments

Security and compliance concerns have often prohibited businesses from migrating to the cloud, but a private cloud or even hybrid/community cloud architecture of the kind that Layered Tech regularly deploys for its clients has demonstrated time and again that data and transactions can be so secure as to meet even PCI DSS strict requirements.

The full interview is available as an audio podcast at LightReading.com and as a slide presentation summary on SlideShare.net.

CA Announces AppLogic 3.0

Published on July 27, 2011 in Cloud Computing, Grid Computing, Hosting Industry, Industry Events, Infrastructure and Strategic Partners. Closed
Posted by Kevin Van Mondfrans

This week CA Technologies announced Applogic 3.0. This comes after VMware announced vCloud Director 1.5 and Citrix acquired Cloud.com. This was an exciting month of events for the leading Cloud OS platforms. This is interesting to Layered Tech and our customers because this illustrates the rapid maturing of cloud platform technologies. It exemplifies that these technologies initially targeted to service providers like Layered Tech are also adopting many of the capabilities enterprises are looking for to build out private, hybrid and secure multi-tenant cloud environments.

Today, Layered Tech utilizes both CA Technologies AppLogic and VMware vSphere to provide unique multitenant and private cloud services to our customers. We have long standing relationships with both companies and are one of the original adopters of 3Tera AppLogic before server virtualization, orchestration and automation was called Cloud.  As one of the early adopters of the AppLogic 1.0 platform, we have a unique insight and relationship with CA Technologies. I would like to share a few thoughts regarding the latest release.

The CA AppLogic 3.0 cloud computing platform continues its focus to innovate on the application deployment layer with its intuitive drag and drop application deployment interface. The visual interface, which is the hallmark of AppLogic, continues to differentiate this platform from the others. AppLogic enables complete deployment of entire application environments including virtual load balancers, firewalls, web servers, application server and databases in a single motion.

Among significant new enhancements, AppLogic has added the capability to support:

1)      vLAN tagging to further enable private networking and VPN;

2)      Role-based user access to further separate observers, operators, admins and owners access levels and to improve security;

3)      Support of OVF (Open Virtualization Format) standard to facilitate the import of Xen and VMware workloads from outside the Cloud;

4)      Enhanced cloud operation with the global fabric controller to further automate the maintenance and addition of resources and the enrichment of usage metering capabilities

These are interesting enhancements, and enable a broader set of use cases for our customers with privacy requirement and who want to migrate VMware and Xen environments to the cloud.

Our broad portfolio of managed hosting services includes on-demand multi-tenant cloud services, dedicated virtual and physical environment, and compliance services. With the AppLogic platform we offer Virtual Private Servers (VPS) which is a multi-tenant public cloud with on-demand user portal, and Virtual Private Data Centers (VPDC), which are dedicated cloud environments and give you complete customization and admin access.  In addition, we offer additional cloud services to meet enterprise high availability and compliance challenges.

Layered Tech applauds the advancements by CA Technologies, VMware and Citrix and we remain dedicate to offering the latest best of breed technologies with excellent service and support.

Bye for now.

Kevin Van Mondfrans

Sr. Director Cloud Services, Layered Tech

Cloudbook Profiles JDA and Layered Tech

Published on April 20, 2011 in Cloud Computing. Closed
Posted by Tom Eagle

Cloudbook, an independent authority and educational resource for cloud computing, recently published an in-depth look at JDA’s process of evaluating and selecting a private cloud provider.

With the help of consultants from Burstorm, JDA — the leading supply chain solutions company — met the challenge of finding a flexible cloud provider who could help consolidate 1 million users from over 100 countries into a single hosted cloud environment.

View the videos and read the article over at Cloudbook to learn why Joe King, SVP of JDA Managed Services, selected Layered Tech to help migrate JDA’s mission-critical managed services to the cloud.  This is an interesting read and an excellent insight into how a well-respected enterprise selected a private cloud provider.