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  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise Announces Global Reseller Agreement with Mesosphere

    PALO ALTO, CA – February 7, 2017 – Today, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that it has signed an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) and reseller agreement with Mesosphere to help customers transform and modernize their data centers with hybrid IT solutions that span traditional infrastructure, private, public and managed cloud services.

    As part of this OEM and reseller agreement, HPE will be a provider of Mesosphere enterprise solutions worldwide. HPE will build and deliver infrastructure solutions, including server, storage and technology services designed for Mesosphere DC/OS, an open-source platform (built on top of Apache Mesos™) for developing, deploying and elastically scaling the technologies that underpin today’s modern applications.

    The agreement with Mesosphere is the latest milestone for HPE as the company continues to expand its container leadership to help enterprise customers fully embrace the benefits and flexibility hybrid IT provides, such as optimized performance and faster service time to market.

    “Today’s enterprises need to engage a lot of users, process real-time data at scale and roll out services fast. That means running distributed systems of containers, big data services and everything else that modern applications require elastically across on-premises IT and in the cloud,” said Peter Schrady, senior vice president and general manager, SMB and Enterprise Server Solutions, HPE. “By combining Mesosphere’s DC/OS technology with our infrastructure and service leadership, we are making it easier for our customers to leverage hybrid IT to run, deploy and manage today’s distributed enterprise environments more efficiently.”

    Through this reseller agreement, customers get the benefits of cloud native platform services, accelerated by HPE services and powered by HPE infrastructure. As part of the platform, Mesosphere Enterprise DC/OS running on HPE servers and storage enables customers to use a single platform to run container applications, Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, distributed databases, big data analytics and stateful services.

    The reseller agreement is the latest chapter in a growing relationship between Mesosphere and HPE. Mesosphere also announced today that it has joined the HPE-led Cloud28+ community as a technology partner. Cloud28+ provides customers and HPE partners a platform from which they can find hybrid IT solutions, share knowledge, and create new connections. In March 2016, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, the HPE venture investment and partnership program, led Mesosphere’s $73.5 million Series C funding round.

    “We’re excited to partner with HPE to help its customers around the world adopt modern applications and simplify their IT operations via DC/OS,” said Florian Leibert, co-founder and CEO of Mesosphere. “DC/OS is built around technologies that have automated infrastructure and application development at large web and consumer-technology companies, but is designed for use by all companies from startups to global enterprises. Our relationship with HPE brings the rich capability and elastic scale of public cloud to our joint customers’ own infrastructure.”

    HPE and Mesosphere are also working together in a number of other areas designed to help joint customers modernize their IT environments and operations around technologies such as cloud computing, containers and flash storage. Details include:

    • Servers: Initially available on HPE ProLiant servers running Linux operating systems as supported by Mesosphere. Expanding in the future to servers with other operating systems as supported by Mesosphere and certified by HPE.
    • Storage: New reference architectures and platform integration to address the data persistence needs of containerized applications on DC/OS. The solution provides elasticity, superior performance SLAs, high availability and data services required for deploying massively scalable containers on HPE 3PAR StoreServ All-flash Storage platform and software-defined HPE StoreVirtual Storage.
    • Technology Services and Support: Worldwide support for Mesosphere as well as the underlying infrastructure from one global IT partner, with HPE Foundation Care.
    • Technology Consulting Services: HPE Cloud Native Container Service for Mesosphere is designed to help customers achieve faster time to application service delivery while lowering the costs and challenges of adopting the latest container strategies. The service is delivered in three phases’ discovery, design and deployment. Through the HPE Cloud Native Container Service for Mesosphere, HPE can help you achieve:
    • Faster time to containerize applications.
    • Deliver services rapidly on Mesosphere’s Cloud Native platform.
    • Integrating containers into the customers’ developer platforms and processes.

     

    — Jules Louis

  • Electric Cloud and Dynatrace Partnership Shifts Feedback Loops Farther Left in the Software Delivery Pipeline

    SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 7, 2017 – Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com), the leader in DevOps Release Automation, today announced a partnership with Dynatrace enabling organizations to uncover end user, performance and operational cost impacting issues in cloud environments and enterprise software much earlier in the delivery pipeline.

    The new bi-directional integration is the first of its kind – enabling closed feedback loop between DevOps and Release pipelines and environments in ElectricFlow and Dynatrace.

    The integration allows users to detect performance issues earlier in the lifecycle, have faster remediation and recovery, and prevent outages with automated policy-based rollback and self-healing. These enhance product quality and customer experience and give Operations confidence in the Release and environments and deployments fidelity.

    “In a world where batch sizes are shrinking and the pace of releases is increasing, having automated policy-based control in the pre-production environment proactively reduces the chances of end user, performance and operational issues in production,” said Steve Brodie, CEO at Electric Cloud. “Dynatrace, like Electric Cloud, was named a leader in a 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant. The Application Performance Monitoring suite provides full-stack monitoring—looking deeper than typical testing tools—and allows ElectricFlow to automatically trigger the appropriate actions needed to bring the system back to a good state.”

    “This partnership between Dynatrace and Electric Cloud helps enterprises reduce the risk of end user impacting production deployments by monitoring and looping feedback earlier in the application lifecycle, “ said Andreas Grabner, DevOps Advocate at Dynatrace. “Customers will now be able to immediately see the potential impact of code changes, remediate and fix poor app behavior earlier in the lifecycle. This greatly reduces time spent course-correcting in production and frees up more time for innovation.”

    ElectricFlow is a DevOps Release Automation solution that orchestrates the end-to-end software delivery pipeline from Development to Production. ElectricFlow is used by IT organizations to frequently and reliably deploy mission-critical applications at scale. It standardizes and automates software deployment tools and processes for consistent build, test and deployment procedures that speed cycle times, eliminate bottlenecks and reduce IT capital expenditure and operating costs.

    Dynatrace is an application performance management solution that accelerates innovation, time-to-market and software quality through fact based decisions. Users can identify, for example, whether code changes cause any performance, scalability or architectural regressions. Developers can then stop the build early and allow only quality code in production, resulting in the production of better software faster.

    The new Dynatrace plugin for ElectricFlow is available at http://electric-cloud.com/plugins/directory/p/dynatrace/

    — Jules Louis

  • Introducing Hazelcast Jet – A New Lightweight, Distributed Data Processing Engine

    Introducing Hazelcast Jet – A New Lightweight, Distributed Data Processing Engine

    Palo Alto, Calif., February 7, 2017 – Hazelcast, the leading open source in-memory data grid (IMDG) with hundreds of thousands of installed clusters and over 17 million server starts per month, today launched Hazelcast Jet – a distributed processing engine for big data streams. With Hazelcast’s IMDG providing storage functionality, Hazelcast Jet is a new Apache 2 licensed open source project that performs parallel execution to enable data-intensive applications to operate in near real-time. Using directed acyclic graphs (DAG) to model relationships between individual steps in the data processing pipeline, Hazelcast Jet is simple to deploy and can execute both batch and stream-based data processing applications. Hazelcast Jet is appropriate for applications that require a near real-time experience such as sensor updates in IoT architectures (house thermostats, lighting systems), in-store e-commerce systems and social media platforms.

    IoT devices churn out massive amounts of data which flows to computers for analysis. In some cases, analyses must be done in near real-time – log analysis, monitoring, fraud detection, dashboard data extraction, and placement. However, there are challenges to handling large amounts of data:

    ● Ingest high volumes of data, while keeping up-to-date with what’s coming in;
    ● Anomaly detection, recognize and validate the correctness of data entering the system;
    ● Analyze, aggregate, extrapolate and react to a situation in near real-time;
    ● Work with extremely low latency access to data; and
    ● Reporting, whether running on-demand or via scheduled batch processing.

    Hazelcast Jet is built on top of a one-record-per-time architecture (sometimes known as continuous operators). This means that it processes incoming records as soon as possible, opposed to accumulating records into micro-batches, consequently lowering latency for applications. Jet ingests data at high-velocity (via socket, file, HDFS or Kafka interfaces), and processes the business logic or complex computation on incoming data. A pure in-memory approach, Jet is 20x faster than Hadoop, enabling users to meet service-level requirements. It is extremely simple to program and to deploy – in particular Jet can be fully embedded for OEMs and for Microservices – making it is easier for manufacturers to build and maintain next generation systems.

    Important components include:

    ● Events-based architecture for low latency Transaction Processing System (TPS) applications
    ● Uses directed acyclic graphs (DAG) to model data flow
    ● High level java.util.stream API for great simplicity.
    ● Low level Core (DAG) API for maximum flexibility allowing direct manipulation of vertices representing data source readers, joiners, sorters, aggregators and data sinks
    ● Distributed connectors for reading and writing: Hazelcast IMDG Map and List, HDFS, Kafka, File, Socket

    Greg Luck, CEO of Hazelcast, said: “Hazelcast Jet is a super fast, low latency, next generation DAG Engine for Big Data processing. We believe that the Hadoop and Spark ecosystems are too complex to program and to deploy and have set out to bring Hazelcast’s legendary simplicity to Big Data. We have designed it as a general purpose engine for the intersect of Big Data programmers and Java programmers. But if you are already a Hazelcast user or have data in Hazelcast it will be the easiest way to solve your Big Data problems. ”

    Hazelcast will be providing 24×7 enterprise support subscriptions for Hazelcast Jet.

    For more information about Hazeclast Jet visit http://jet.hazelcast.org/

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    — Jules Louis

  • Anchore Expands Container Image Discovery, Deep Inspection and Analysis With Enhanced Navigator Service

    Anchore Expands Container Image Discovery, Deep Inspection and Analysis With Enhanced Navigator Service

    Santa Barbara, CA  – February 7, 2017 – Anchore, Inc., announced today new functionality for its free Navigator service, a simple and powerful user interface that allows application developers and data center operations teams to search for and inspect container images across multiple registries, including DockerHub. Additional public and third party private registries will be added in the first quarter of 2017. Using Anchore Navigator, users can perform deep inspections of container images, including package manifest, software libraries, configuration files and security policies.

    Finding the right container image and keeping track of updates is becoming increasingly complicated with nearly 500,000 images on DockerHub and thousands more hosted by cloud providers such as Amazon and Google, as well as a growing number of private registries hosted by independent software vendors. With Navigator users can quickly search for images that meet their requirements including detailed content, security and compliance status. In addition to current content, detailed analysis of historic images is maintained including the frequency of updates made to images, ensuring they are well maintained and allow for a user to subscribe to notifications when an image has been updated.

    “While end-users welcome the simplicity containers bring to deploying off-the-shelf applications,  software vendors face a number of adoption challenges,” said Saïd Ziouani, CEO and Cofounder of Anchore. “Many enterprises are reluctant to deploy a third party container without knowing what is inside the container or if the container has introduced new risks into their organization in terms of security, compliance and overall best practices.”

    With Anchore’s Navigator software vendors and service providers can enable their customers to verify the compliance of container images without needing to download and analyze the images themselves. This validation by an independent third party, using open source tools with a published certification policy allows enterprises to deploy third party containers with confidence.

    “Shipping Scality’s applications as containers greatly simplifies deployment and maintenance for our customers,”said Giorgio Regni, Founder and CTO at Scality. “However, enterprise customers want to be sure that the containers they are deploying are secure and well maintained. Using Anchore’s tools we can define strict policies for security and compliance that ensure only images that meet our stringent security requirements are released. Anchore’s Navigator allows our customers to independently verify the certification status of all their images at any time, as well as define their own specific certification policies.”

    — Jules Louis

  • Avi Networks’ Software-Defined Load Balancers Elastically Scale Applications from Zero to One Million Transactions Per Second With No Impact on Performance

    Avi Networks, the leader in next-generation application services, today announced it has achieved breakthrough scalability with its elastic services fabric consisting of software-defined load balancers. Avi Networks’ software delivered one million SSL transactions per second (TPS) to a single web application, automatically scaling up load balancing services from zero to peak traffic, after which it scaled down to normal levels just as easily. This is unlike traditional hardware load balancers such as F5 Networks or Citrix Netscaler which would require huge investments in capital equipment that goes unused during normal periods of traffic.

    Avi’s centrally managed, elastic services fabric is ideal for enterprises across industries requiring highly scalable, automated application services to handle traffic spikes due to denial of service (DoS) attacks, seasonal events such as Black Friday, and hybrid cloud use cases. It empowers IT departments to pay for maximum load balancing capacity on an as-needed basis, and scale it down as traffic returns to normal levels. With this demonstration, Avi Networks has completely debunked a common myth that companies must spend millions of dollars on hardware load balancers to handle large transaction volumes or high throughput.

    The Internet is seeing ever increasing volumes of encrypted traffic in response to the higher incidence of cyberattacks – over 50 percent of all Internet traffic, including Netflix movies, is now encrypted with SSL/TLS. This presents new challenges for network managers and application architects who must ensure that their applications are secure and responsive for end users. The growing amount of encrypted traffic puts enormous strain on load balancers that must offload or decrypt these SSL-encrypted packets before they reach the application.

    Avi Networks conducted the comprehensive demo on SSL traffic to prove how a software-defined architecture for load balancing delivers the most elastic and cost-effective approach for the growing volume of encrypted traffic. For the demo, Avi ran its software in front of a single web application to load balance a continuously growing volume of SSL encrypted transactions from over 320 clients. Avi’s built-in visibility and analytics dashboard was used to monitor the build-up of transactions and the application response. The demo was performed on the Google Cloud Platform but can easily be replicated on-premises or in any other cloud. It ran on 40 servers at an infrastructure cost of just $1.20 per server per hour, scaling out to handle one million SSL transactions per second and scaling back just as easily and efficiently.

    “Enterprise customers increasingly value agile and flexible network infrastructure that supports their digital transformation initiatives by dynamically scaling up or down to meet application delivery requirements in a multi-cloud context,” said Brad Casemore, research director for datacenter networks at IDC. “Avi Networks’ test results demonstrate that a software-defined approach to application delivery can also attain a high degree of raw performance in conjunction with agility and flexibility.”

    The demo is relevant for a number of use cases including:

    Driving greater elasticity to respond to seasonal changes (e.g. Black Friday) in application traffic
    Handling DDoS attacks by elastically autoscaling until the attack is mitigated
    Managing modern container-based microservices applications at scale
    Seamlessly scaling beyond the data center by automatically bursting to the cloud
    Eliminating overprovisioning caused by expensive, purpose-built hardware load balancers
    Scaling up or down dynamically through integration with native cloud APIs

    “This demo validates what we hear from our customers everyday – our software-defined load balancing architecture brings webscale IT principles to manage and deliver their applications,” said Amit Pandey, CEO of Avi Networks. “With our platform, enterprises get a flexible, analytics-driven load balancing solution that can replace legacy load balancers at a fraction of the cost, bringing true elasticity and automation to application services in the data center or the cloud.”

    For more details and instructions to replicate the demo, please visit https://avinetworks.com/million-tps-demo

    About Avi Networks

    Avi Networks delivers public-cloud-like agility for application services beyond load balancing including deep application analytics, predictive autoscaling, and security in the data center or public cloud. The Avi Vantage Platform delivers elastic, software-defined application services on commodity x86 servers, VMs or containers. The platform provides application services as a dynamic pool of resources that matches the automation needs of private or public cloud initiatives. Global 2000 technology, media, and financial services companies use Avi Networks to accelerate application delivery, enable self-service for application owners and lower their TCO. Learn more at www.avinetworks.com or @avinetworks.

    — Jules Louis

  • Webinar: 10 Things Your CIO Should Know About DevOps

    Webinar: 10 Things Your CIO Should Know About DevOps

    In today’s digital landscape, there’s no debate on whether you should be focusing on DevOps. But successful DevOps isn’t just about setting up a new team to work in a different way or adding DevOps to your job title, it’s a cultural and operational IT transformation that requires the full understanding and support of your CIO.

    DevOps done right results in the ability to deploy thirty times more frequently and with two hundred times shorter lead times. Put simply, DevOps is a digital transformation imperative, as superior software strategy and application performance leads to superior business performance.

    In our new webinar, AppDynamics’ Director of Technology Strategy, John Rakowski, will outline the top ten vital aspects about DevOps that your CIO needs to know to ensure the future success of your organization.

    During this webinar you will learn:

    • What DevOps means and how to successfully implement DevOps
    • The top level DevOps metrics that your CIO should be measuring
    • Why Application Performance Management is crucial in a DevOps approach

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    — Jules Louis

  • Illumio Brings Adaptive Segmentation to Cisco, Arista, AWS, and Azure

    SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 31, 2017 — Illumio announced today the company is taking another step forward in making its Adaptive Security Platform (ASP)™ the new foundation for data center and cloud security with industry-first capabilities and support for ACLs on Cisco and Dynamic Filters on Arista data center network switches, as well as AWS Security Groups and Azure Network Security Groups. These new capabilities will be delivered to market during 2017 and the switch integrations will be demonstrated on the floor of the RSA conference in February.

    “As segmentation becomes the core strategy for data center and cloud security, organizations are now looking at how other elements of their compute environment can be used to enforce these policies,” said PJ Kirner, chief technology officer and founder of Illumio. “Our customers have asked us to efficiently coordinate policy across their data center and cloud environments, simplifying management of the security control plane. This expansion of our platform builds on our previously demonstrated capability of programming the F5 LTM and AFM and represents our next step towards Illumio’s vision for adaptive segmentation.”

    Today organizations are looking at segmentation to move beyond reactive breach detection solutions to a proactive protection model that stops the lateral movement of bad actors. However, that shift often comes with additional operational overhead and inconsistent policies that don’t scale across their environments.

    “Despite the rapid increase in cybersecurity spending focused on implementing stronger security controls to limit access to sensitive data and applications – organizations of all sizes don’t always end up with more secure environments,” said Jon Oltsik, ESG’s senior principal analyst and founder of the firm’s cybersercurity service. “The ability to drive segmentation in depth throughout the data center and cloud can be a critical next step in securing data center and cloud environments.”

    By extending Illumio ASP’s enforcement point ecosystem from the workload (bare-metal servers, virtual machines, containerized hosts) to the additional security controls in the network and cloud, Illumio is delivering on the promise of segmentation and is ending the need to manage multiple, disconnected policy models. This provides three core benefits:

    1. Eliminates the security gaps generated by the disparate, uncoordinated security policies enforced separately at the workload, in the network, and in cloud environments.
    2. Reduces the operational overhead of manual segmentation provisioning by taking advantage of software-driven automation of security policies.
    3. Stops the addition of unnecessary firewall choke points or SDN deployments to achieve robust segmentation-based security.

    “One of the biggest challenges in security is battling complexity and that’s amplified by increasing heterogeneity that we see in customer data centers and cloud environments. Legacy infrastructure combined with virtualization and cloud means there is opportunity for coordinated points of policy enforcement,” said Eric Hanselman, chief analyst of 451 Research. “We see segmentation in depth addressing a real requirement for customers who are looking to both strengthen security and simplify operations by centralizing and harmonizing policy and enforcement across different environments.”

    About Illumio

    Illumio stops cyber threats by controlling the lateral movement of unauthorized communications through its breakthrough adaptive segmentation technology. The company’s Adaptive Security Platform™ visualizes application traffic and delivers continuous, scalable and dynamic policy and enforcement to every bare-metal server, VM, container, and VDI within data centers and public clouds. Using Illumio, enterprises such as Morgan Stanley, Plantronics, Salesforce, King Entertainment, NetSuite, Oak Hill Advisors, and Creative Artists Agency have achieved secure application and cloud migration, environmental segmentation, compliance, and high-value application protection from breaches and threats with no changes to applications or infrastructure. For more information, visit www.illumio.com or follow us @Illumio.

    — Jules Louis

  • Webinar: Starting and Scaling DevOps

    More and more companies worldwide are excited about DevOps and the many potential benefits of embarking on a DevOps transformation. The challenge many of them are having, however, is figuring out where to begin and how to scale DevOps practices over time. These challenges can be especially daunting in large enterprises. In this webinar we will discuss a maturity model for framing your transformation, then focus on analyzing your deployment pipeline and identify existing inefficiencies in software development and deployment.

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    — Jules Louis

  • Linux Academy Survey Shows Vast Skills-Gap in Cloud Technology Talent and Experience

    DALLAS, TX  – January, 2017 – Most businesses believe there is a scarcity of skilled Linux and cloud technology professionals in the workforce and that current professionals are not getting the training they need, according to a recent survey by Linux Academy, the foremost online Linux and cloud training platform and community.

    When Linux Academy surveyed nearly 900 IT professionals on Linux and cloud technology training trends, 76 percent said there is a global shortage of talent with proper Linux and cloud technology skills; the majority of respondents said their companies require them to have various levels of regular training on Linux and cloud technologies; and more than a third of respondents thought the IT professionals they’ve worked with have minimal understanding of or no experience with these technologies.

    “Companies should pay attention to these survey findings, particularly with the continued proliferation of open source and cloud technologies,” said Anthony James, founder, Linux Academy. “The advancement of these technologies is clearly outpacing the pool of professionals who are able to service and manage them. By the time professionals receive the training they need, the technologies have progressed, making their training obsolete. This underscores not only the need for access to timely and affordable training, but also for companies to further invest their employee’s skills.”

    The two greatest impediments to receiving training on Linux and cloud technologies are a lack of time and money, with 38 percent paying up to $500 for one course. A combined 77 percent of respondents said their companies only spend up to $25,000 annually on Linux and cloud training for their employees. Sixty percent of companies have between one and 20 employees managing these technologies.

    When it comes to recruiting Linux and cloud professionals, a combined 72 percent of respondents indicated there is little talent to pull from in their area, and those who are there are hard to find; sixty-seven percent either said they either always or sometimes have a hard time recruiting these professionals. The greatest challenges companies have to recruiting are a general lack of skilled talent and lack of resources to find and attract them. It takes most companies four to six weeks to fill Linux and cloud related jobs.

    The training topics IT professionals believed to be the most beneficial were Linux, AWS, and DevOps. While answers varied by industry – which included technology, healthcare, finance, government, manufacturing, education, business/corporate, retail, and others – most respondents believe that formal certifications such as RHCSA and RHCE are somewhat important to their vertical.

    “The findings suggest that specific technology skill sets and related certifications play an important role in professional development. Online training providers, which help professionals learn these skills at a faster, more economical pace and in a practical, real-world environment, are best-positioned to help close the talent gap,” added James.

    Linux Academy conducted this survey in November, 2016. For a complete copy of the results, contact Matthew Pugh at mpugh@weisspr.com.

    About Linux Academy

    Linux Academy redefines continuing education for today’s IT business professional. Through self-paced courses, hands-on server labs, personal access to expert instructors and an ever-growing learning library, Linux Academy caters to beginners and experts alike. Courses are geared toward certifications in Linux, AWS, OpenStack, DevOps, Azure and Big Data, offering content that digs deeper to answer nuanced challenges of the latest emerging technologies. Linux Academy provides more value per dollar than any other IT training program. To enroll or to explore enterprise tools and group rates, visit: www.linuxacademy.com. 

    — Jules Louis

  • Panzura Expands Enterprise Grade Functionality and Services

    CAMPBELL, Calif. – January 26, 2017 – Panzura®, the leader in hybrid cloud storage, today announced a significant expansion in enterprise grade functionality and services to meet the increasing large enterprise demand for hybrid cloud storage. These new software, hardware, and support services offerings are available immediately and provide substantial enhancements for Panzura’s primary use cases of active archive, hybrid cloud NAS, and cross-site collaboration.
    Panzura’s latest release of software, version 6.3, provides larger virtual machine cache sizes, enhancements in high availability functionality, enterprise grade reporting, and new cloud storage support and features. To satisfy demand of larger customers, Panzura increased the cache size of its largest virtual machine to 36 terabytes, a 350% increase in size over the previously largest virtual machine controller. To assist with disaster recovery planning and execution, this new release simplifies high availability failback, making it as easy to failback as failover. Storage, network, performance, and user analytics across all controllers are now available through a single pane of glass. Support for IBM Cloud, IBM Cloud Object Storage and Virtustream as well as the ability to write to multiple cloud storage providers has also been added.
    In addition to larger virtual machine cache sizes, Panzura also introduced a new hybrid cloud controller model that doubles the cache size of Panzura’s previously largest hybrid cloud controller. Panzura’s newest controller, the 5550, provides a 16 terabyte usable cache size equating to over three petabytes of total storage footprint addressable by a single controller. All Panzura 5000 series hybrid cloud controllers received a performance boost resulting in a 40% increase in throughput.
    To provide the extra level of support services needed by larger enterprise customers, Panzura is now providing a new Technical Account Manager program. Panzura Technical Account Managers can be dedicated or shared, and provide personalized planning and operational support of the Panzura hybrid cloud storage environment. The Technical Account Manager acts as a liaison with internal Panzura groups and resources to assist in providing the highest level of proactive support services. The Technical Account Manager reviews and oversees all of Panzura support activity and regularly monitors customers’ controllers, using Panzura’s Support Assistance.
    “With the increasing adoption of a cloud-first model, Panzura added a significant number of large enterprise customers in 2016. The common requirement across all these customers is that everything must be enterprise grade,” said Patrick Harr, CEO of Panzura. “Our latest version of software is the most rock solid release ever delivered by Panzura and furthers our market-leading enterprise scale, performance, throughput and availability. This, combined with our new platforms and premium support services, makes it an easy transition to a hybrid cloud storage model.”
    About Panzura
    Adding multiple petabytes of new enterprise storage under management per month, Panzura is a market leader in enterprise hybrid cloud storage. Panzura’s hybrid cloud storage software seamlessly combines the economics, capacity, and business model of cloud storage with the flexibility, performance and features of enterprise storage. Using Panzura, enterprises shift from an outdated, on premise storage model into the cloud and unlock the power of data. Organizations like the Department of Justice, Milwaukee Tool, Fluor and Chevron use Panzura for active archive, hybrid cloud NAS, and cross-site collaboration. Please visit www.panzura.com for further information.

    — Jules Louis