Products & innovations
Puppet Expands Offerings With New
Container and Cloud Native Technology
Puppet has announced Lumogon and Puppet Cloud Discovery. The new offerings empower
enterprise IT professionals with the situational awareness and visibility needed to securely and
scalably run cloud infrastructure and container based applications in production, across all public,
private and hybrid cloud environments.
These new innovations mark a major milestone for Puppet as the company expands its
enterprise offerings beyond Puppet Enterprise, enabling companies to overcome challenges
associated with modernising infrastructure and application stacks.
Discoveries provided by Lumogon and Puppet Cloud Discovery break open the black box of
container and cloud workloads, giving enterprise IT teams insights and visibility into the services
running across containerised applications and cloud infrastructure. These advancements show
them exactly what they have running, and where, so they can ensure consistency and compliance
as they modernise their environments.
For further information visit: www.puppet.com
Cisco delivers powerful 5th generation
servers for its Unified Computing System
Cisco has announced a new generation of servers and software that extend its unique, unified
approach to computing. The Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) M5 generation
builds on the company’s vision to deliver pervasive simplicity, uncompromised application
performance and a strategic, future-proof architecture for IT.
IT leaders are realising that a system-level approach that helps scale and accelerate
operational capabilities is essential to future success, and a ‘more of the same’ approach is no
longer sustainable. The Cisco UCS M5 lineup delivers new systems and software that extend
the power and simplicity of unified computing for data-intensive workloads, applications at
the edge, and the next generation of distributed application architectures.
Cisco takes a unique approach to computing and continues to build on the architectural
foundations, partnerships and rapid customer adoption of Cisco UCS to offer a more effective
operating model for the data centre. Cisco UCS customers have gained value from this total
system design: Reducing administration and management costs by up to 63 per cent and
accelerating the delivery of new application services by up to 83 per cent.
For further information visit: www.cisco.com
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Products & innovations
Cloudian,
Komprise
Offer Cure
for Common
Cold Storage
Problem
Cloudian and Komprise have
announced a joint solution
that enables customers
to move dormant or
infrequently used data to an
on-premises active archive
and reclaim more than half of
their Tier 1 Network Attached
Storage (NAS) capacity.
According to Jon Toor,
Cloudian’s chief marketing
officer, organisations have
to contend with cold or
infrequently accessed data,
that can occupy more than
60 per cent of their most
costly NAS resources. The
Cloudian/Komprise solution
enables customers to move
cold data to an onsite active
archive to be transparently
accessed when needed,
with zero impact to the
user experience.
The solution is ideal for
enterprise customers and
service providers who have
large amounts of file based
data and need a solution
that can reduce storage
costs. Cloudian provides
high availability, enterprise-
class storage at 70 per
cent less than the costs of
traditional NAS solutions.
Additionally, data migrated
to Cloudian no longer
consumes backup license
costs, reducing overall
backup cost by as much as
60 per cent.
For further information
visit: www.cloudian.com
and www.komprise.com
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