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Featured Articles » Polkast Explains at ITEXPO Why It's Better Than the Cloud » Hosted, Cloud or On-Premises: Which is Best? » The Importance of Flexibility in Cloud Migration » How to Leverage the Cloud for Business Continuity Sponsored By: Redhat WEBINAR: Using Distributed Storage to Develop a Data Availability Solution Across Private, Public clouds and traditional datacenters. Wednesday September 18, 2013 2:00 PM EDT/ 11:00 AM PDT SIGN UP TODAY! Enterprise IT is diverging because of growing business needs with deployments in traditional virtualized datacenters and on private clouds powered by OpenStack and public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS). This raises the question of data availability across these platforms and is a growing challenge for architects and administrators in IT organizations. Essential to addressing this challenge is to build upon an open and highly-scalable storage platform. In this session, you'll learn how a distributed scale-out storage platform, like Red Hat Storage (gluster) , can be used for data availability between traditional data centers, OpenStack clouds and AWS. Key takeaways include identification of technical challenges and pitfalls, and solution architectures with use cases. Who should attend: IT Managers Enterprise architects Solution architects Application architects System/Storage administrators   Top Stories » SDI Acquires Another Systems Integrator: X7 » Dell Strengthens its Commitment in Asia-Pacific Region; Unveils New Solutions » Imagination Technologies Partners with Mentor Graphics » Appcelerator Acquires API Management Company Singly   From The Expert Corner August 28, 2013 ITEXPO Special Report: Making Money with PaaS By Doug Barney. TMCnet Editor at Large There are two levels of cloud services that are pretty well understood. The easiest is Software as a Service (SaaS), which is simply an application hosted in the cloud. This is really the top level of what could be considered a cloud services stack. At the bottom is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), which is raw server and storage infrastructure that you rent. Then you load up your own licensed software including operating systems, middleware and applications, and run it all from the cloud. Stuck in the middle of the stack is Platform as a Service (PaaS). This is far more difficult to define, but may be the most valuable layer of all. Read More

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