VIRTUAL DESKTOP STRATEGIES, SERVER HYPERVISORS
MacStadium | March 08, 2023
MacStadium, a leading Mac cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, recently announced that its Orka Platform is available for purchase through MacStadium and AWS Marketplace. The digital catalog contains software listings from independent vendors. It helps to find, buy, test and deploy software on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Tom Schnell, Chief Customer Officer and Senior Vice President of MacStadium, said, "Offering Orka Platform in AWS Marketplace provides consumers even greater access to the preferred solution available for orchestrating macOS." He added, "Orka Platform on AWS streamlines the iOS developers' build efforts while delivering a seamless buying and billing process."
(Source – BusinessWire)
Kubernetes-based Orka Platform enables life-cycle management and macOS orchestration in the cloud. From simple Xcode builds to fully integrated and complex automated CI/CD pipelines, it delivers high-performing virtual macOS environments in seconds. As macOS development must be done on Apple hardware and follow Apple's strict standards, Orka Platform simplifies and scales macOS cloud environment orchestration.
Disruptive technology from the Orka Platform automates repetitive process configuration and maintenance. Orka Platform by MacStadium on AWS offers an easy, automated solution to improve developer performance and build times.
Orka Platform on AWS Marketplace benefits organizations. Forrester Consulting's May 2022 commissioned study, 'The Total Economic Impact of AWS Marketplace,' revealed enterprises benefitted:
66% faster vendor selection.
50% faster invoicing
Higher efficiency saves $2 million.
Improved onboarding saves $64,000 per vendor.
About MacStadium
MacStadium, Based in Atlanta, the company, which provides scalable and secure enterprise cloud solutions for macOS, was founded in 2011. The company's superior software-enabled infrastructure and innovative technology
provide the security, dependability, performance, and flexibility that DevOps customers need for the development of the Apple device app.
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VIRTUAL DESKTOP TOOLS, SERVER VIRTUALIZATION
Coretelligent | February 16, 2023
On February 15, 2023, Coretelligent, a leading provider of comprehensive managed and co-managed white glove IT support, digital transformation, cybersecurity, cloud integration and compliance and Norwest Equity Partners (NEP), a renowned middle-market investment firm, announced the acquisition of NetCom Systems, Inc. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
NetCom Systems, headquartered in Roswell, GA, has been providing IT support to businesses throughout the Southeast for 36 years. They offer a range of services, such as security, managed and co-managed IT solutions, business continuity, and cloud services.
This acquisition provides Coretelligent with additional network and cloud infrastructure, virtual desktop infrastructure and application management, which improves the current resources and enables necessary redundancies to strengthen its already secure infrastructure further.
This is Coretelligent's sixth acquisition in total and the third since NEP added Coretelligent to its investment portfolio in October 2021. SoundView IT Solutions, LLC., United Technology Group, LLC., Lighthouse Technology Partners, Soundshore Technology Group and Chateaux are among Coretelligent's previous acquisitions.
Coretelligent's Founder, President, and CEO, Kevin J. Routhier, commented, "We are delighted to welcome NetCom and their top-tier customers and well-respected team into the Coretelligent family. Our shared tenet of being a trusted partner, passion for providing first-rate customer service, high standards for technical expertise, and the comparable makeup of our solutions made bringing our two firms together a natural conclusion." He added, "Through the acquisition of NetCom, Coretelligent has effectively enhanced its services and further strengthened its commitment to delivering the highest-quality service. This acquirement is a mutually advantageous arrangement that benefits our shared clients and provides our current and new team members with abundant opportunities."
(Source – Business Wire)
About Coretelligent
Coretelligent, headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, is a leading provider of comprehensive DevOps, IT support, cloud services, cybersecurity, digital transformation, and more. Its team of industry experts delivers high-quality services to leading organizations, helping them thrive in the digital economy. As one of the country's most decorated IT service providers, it offers complete IT support around the clock, 365 days a year. In addition, the company's proprietary technological solutions and comprehensive security services guarantee top-notch business performance and data protection for clients' critical information assets.
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VIRTUAL DESKTOP TOOLS, SERVER VIRTUALIZATION
OpenSynergy | March 06, 2023
OpenSynergy has announced that the ‘COQOS Hypervisor Software Development Kit’ (SDK) has been successfully ported to the STMicroelectronics Stellar family of Integrated MCUs. The software firm, based in Berlin, has collaborated with STMicroelectronics to prove that the automotive virtual platform, 'COQOS Hypervisor SDK for real-time processors', uses hardware virtualization and extends it. Virtualization allows automakers to safely and successfully run numerous processes and applications on a shared piece of hardware without interfering with one another. Future generations of the domain and zonal designs will be built on the foundation created by this method technically.
To fully utilize the vast potential of the new class of automotive MCUs, function separation by hardware virtualization is not enough. To further facilitate the integration of several applications and operating systems working simultaneously, various functions are placed side-by-side on virtualization technology such as COQOS Hypervisor SDK. OpenSynergy's COQOS Hypervisor SDK includes a hypervisor and virtual devices, enabling the systems to connect without additional hardware. Thus, ‘VIRTIO-CAN’ is used instead of traditional CAN buses (a CAN implementation in shared memory, instead of wires). Since 2018, OpenSynergy has been an active member of the OASIS Open consortium, specifying the essential devices per the open VIRTIO standard for developing these virtual devices.
Using the COQOS hypervisor in conjunction with STMicroelectronics' Stellar virtualization technology, it is possible to entirely isolate the software from the hardware, allowing the operating systems and the applications executing on them to function in isolation from one another. They can be modularly updated also.
Philippe Prats, Vice President of Automotive Marketing and Applications, EMEA Region, STMicroelectronics said, "We developed Stellar Integration MCUs for Software Defined Vehicles specifically to deliver hardware virtualization able to integrate many real-time and multi-ASIL vECUs".
(Source – CISION PR Web)
Hardware virtualization enables domain functions (such as power distribution, body control, and GW functions) to function concurrently on a single Stellar MCU. Stellar's high-performance, multi-core design expands integrated functions necessary for a zonal or domain-based strategy. Spatial aggregation of functions, such as zonal computers, will be favored by future architectures as it reduces the cabling required for the entire vehicle. In addition, reduced vehicle weight and simplified integration are possible due to the cost savings made possible by harnessing via zonalization and virtual ECUs.
About OpenSynergy
OpenSynergy, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Berlin, provides embedded software products for the next generation of vehicles. Hypervisor and communication products enable integrated driving. It's communications platforms include the automotive-leading Bluetooth stack Blue SDK. Many OEMs use it as their Bluetooth reference. OpenSynergy offers complementary Automotive-Grade software components for the Android Open Source Project to enhance Android's automotive adoption. In addition, it offers engineering services for product customization.
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