"For the want of nail..." The importance of IT infrastructure management

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: StrategyAlcatel-Lucent is facilitating the incorporation of revenue generating applications into telecommunications networks and other infrastructure with the launch of an open source software engine designed to enable companies to more effectively manage the APIs to their cloud platforms, telecommunications networks and enterprise infrastructure.

Paris, the 2nd of November 2012 : Mandriva has released CloudPulse, its new cloud-based I.T infrastructure management solution. CloudPulse is the SaaS evolution of Mandriva Pulse².

Energy management specialist Schneider Electric has launched InfraStruxure for Small IT, the company’s first physical IT infrastructure offering, which integrates power, cooling, racks, security and management components plus services. The platform can be used for new “greenfield” or existing “brownfield” data centers and uses a modular architecture for scalability.

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Cloud ServicesBendigo Community Telco - a telecoms service provider focussed on businesses in regional Australia - has launched a free backup service for its infrastructure as a service customers, based on the CommVault Simpana 9 data management platform.

Enterprise network infrastructure company BTI Systems has raised $10 million in new capital led by Bain Capital Ventures and existing investors BDC, Covington Capital and GrowthWorks. The company has raised more than $33 million since 2011. BTI Systems’ network infrastructure allows carriers and content providers to capitalize on the increasing demand for bandwidth (i.e.

Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: DealsGetty Images is to be sold to a partnership between its management and Carlyle Group for $US3.3b in what is claimed to be the largest Internet content transaction since 2010.

CA Technologies announced this morning that it has acquired API management company Layer 7. It is the second major acquisition of an API management company in the past week, signaling a consolidation of a market that larger companies see as vital for closing the gap between on-premise and online infrastructure and apps. Last week, Intel acquired Mashery for $180 million.

Open source IT management and monitoring company Zenoss raised a $25 million series C lead by Summit Partners with participation from previous investors Grotech Ventures, Intersouth Partners and Boulder Ventures.

APIs are the glue that connect apps. It’s as true for consumer apps as it is for the enterprise. API management platforms have come into vogue as apps proliferate across the enterprise. As APIs rise in importance, so has the need for better practices in their creation, development and management.