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Cisco Acquires Meraki to Strengthen Cloud Networking

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Meraki boasts a number of cloud-related offerings, from Ethernet switches and security appliances to a mobile device management platform and wireless LAN. Founded in 2006 and subsequently funded by a number of prominent firms, including Sequoia Capital and Google, Meraki touts itself as a shop for “easy-to-manage wireless, switching, and security solutions.” Business segments include supporting Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) shops, retail analytics, and massive networks managed from a central point.

via Cisco Acquires Meraki to Strengthen Cloud Networking.

Also from: Cisco to Buy Cloupia for Cloud Management – IP & Convergence – Telecom News Analysis – Light Reading Service Provider IT

Service Provider Information Technology (SPIT) player Cloupia calls itself a “a leading data center orchestration and cloud management software provider” and has worked with Cisco and NetApp Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP), providing management for Cisco switches and NetApp storage appliances. The company’s speciality is providing provisioning, monitoring and management for physical, virtual, and cloud environments.

VMware realizes it doesn’t rule the cloud, boosts support for Amazon

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VMware has long had an aversion to supporting virtualization tools other than its own, even as rivals like Microsoft and Citrix happily built management software that could control the deployment of virtual machines using both their own hypervisors and VMware’s. VMware always had a plausible excuse in that its own vSphere virtualization platform was so widely used that supporting anything else was unnecessary—although Hyper-V’s advances are making that argument less convincing.

via VMware realizes it doesn’t rule the cloud, boosts support for Amazon | Ars Technica.

Hortonworks Data Platform 1.0 Targets Enterprises

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Hortonworks has unveiled Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 1.0, an open-source platform built on Apache Hadoop 1.0 that includes data-management, monitoring, metadata and data-integration features.

via Hortonworks Data Platform 1.0 Targets Enterprises.

For example, the platform’s provisioning interface surveys nodes in the target cluster and recommends optimal software configurations, with the subsequent ability to start the cluster via a single click. The monitoring interface offers a streamlined ability to see the health of the cluster in depth. The data integration services allow users to connect with data services and build transformation logic via graphical interfaces, sparing them from having to write code.

Android Management | MobileIron

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THE SOLUTION: MobileIron enables companies to deploy Android devices at scale by bridging the gap between the security IT needs and the experience end users demand. The MobileIron platform includes a server that is up and running in your corporate network in less than a day, plus a MobileIron Android app that is available for download on the Android Market.

via Android Management | MobileIron.

AWStats

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AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.

via AWStats – Free log file analyzer for advanced statistics (GNU GPL)..

ScaleXtreme: Cloud-Based Server Automation

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ScaleXtreme is a powerful product that allows you to build, deploy, and manage servers across a variety of different public and private cloud providers.

via Overview | ScaleXtreme: Cloud-Based Server Automation.

From: Accel-Backed ScaleXtreme Takes Data Center Management To The Cloud

ScaleXtreme wants to do the same thing to data automation that Salesforce did to CRM. Replace million-dollar deployments that take months with a five minute download that can have a machine being managed from the cloud in five minutes. And instead of an upfront $1,500 licensing fee per machine, plus maintenance and upgrade fees, ScaleXtreme is shooting for something closer to $150 a year per machine. “This is a radically different model,” says Mulchandani, who started out as an enterprise IT sales guy. “You download the agent and you are done—no sales people, no Italian suits flying across the country.”

IT staff can now manage iPads, iPhones, iPod touches with Configurator tool

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According to Apple’s description of the application, IT staff can create and restore from a backup of preconfigured settings and app data, as well as create and install configuration profiles, among a number of other setup options. Admins can also supervise devices and organize those into custom groups, restrict which computers they can sync with, and add common configurations automatically. Admins can even apply custom text, wallpaper, or pictures to the iOS devices’ lock screens (keep an eye on your snarky IT staff if your work-issued iPhone’s lock screen image mysteriously changes to Nyancat).

via IT staff can now manage iPads, iPhones, iPod touches with Configurator tool.

PHP-based admin tool to manage SQLite databases

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phpLiteAdmin is a web-based SQLite database admin tool written in PHP with support for SQLite2 and SQLite3. Following in the spirit of the flat-file system used by SQLite, phpLiteAdmin consists of a single source file, phpliteadmin.php, that is dropped into a directory on a server and then visited in a browser. There is no installation required. The available operations, feature set, interface, and user experience is comparable to that of phpMyAdmin.

via phpliteadmin – PHP-based admin tool to manage SQLite databases – Google Project Hosting.