The hybrid cloud opportunity (also called cloud virtualization) could turn the tables on server virtualization market leader VMware or help it to establish even higher growth rates.
I have heard of TAM (total addressable market) estimates for VMware of about $80B. I’m not sure if that includes the much touted hybrid cloud (or cloud virtualization) opportunity.
VMware has stirred up plenty of news lately for sending mixed messages about the public cloud, and its willingness to allow its customers to leverage true hybrid cloud operating models (which would involve seamlessly connecting public clouds like AWS and Azure with their private clouds, or The End of Server Virtualization Lock-In).
Gartner forecasts the shipment of about 10M servers per year over the next three years, with about 50% of them being x86. What if enterprises wanted the strategic scalability, agility and protection of the hybrid cloud model, instead of the tactical agility, efficiency and protection of server virtualization?
Hybrid cloud would give enterprises more complete control of their apps and services.
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Open Source Cloud Offers Another Route to Better Security
NIST conducts proof of concept on trusted geolocation in the cloud – A group of NIST scientists working with Intel, VMWare and RSA Archer have created of proof of concept for trusted geolocation in the cloud. This allows managers to locate the exact hardware that is running their cloud services. This is possible using the Intel Trusted Execution Technology.
Open source cloud offers another route to better security – “IBM’s move to OpenStack is another indication that open cloud offers many advantages when it comes to security.” There are currently over 5,000 IBM private consumers who will be switching to OpenStack in the near future. This will create a huge surge in the open-source cloud market at that time.
Infographic – Cloud Collaboration in Healthcare
Collaboration, or the act of working together, is universal across business types and industries – education, healthcare, real estate, government or any other. However, each industry has its own specific language for referring to things, and puts different emphasis on different collaborative processes.
This Blog May Have Jumped the Shark
Really? Already?!? For whatever reason, the term ‘Jump the Shark’ has been jumping out at me recently. From the Jump the Shark Hat Tutorial to watching past episodes of Supernatural on Netflix to Cloud Computing to the many #jumptheshark tags added to tweeps tweets. Originally linked to the Happy Days episode where the water-skiing Fonz […]
Why cloud computing is slowly winning the trust war
Seeing skeptical CIOs agree to cloud-based pilots of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other applications is evidence of how cloud computing is slowly winning the trust war.
Further evidence can be seen from how skeptical many of these CIOs initially were, and how successful pilots led to their gradual trust.
This trust hasn’t come cheap however.
Every one of these CIOs spoken with, across a range of manufacturing companies, learned that Service Level Agreements (SLAs) aren’t sufficient to manage the areas of security, privacy and confidentiality on their own. Cloud computing vendors have used SLAs as a means to imply security standards are met; one CIO told me he had an audit done to see if the SLA targets promised were realistic.
They weren’t and he moved on to another vendor. That is the level of skepticism and lack of trust many CIOs …
Rackspace Hosting Named “Platinum Plus Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the open cloud company, has been named “Platinum Plus Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the open cloud company, delivering open technologies and powering more than 205,000 customers worldwide. Rackspace provides its renowned Fanatical Support® across a broad portfolio of IT products, including Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting and Dedicated Hosting. Rackspace has been recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company, is featured on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For and is included on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Rackspace was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the “2011 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting.” Rackspace is headquartered in San Antonio with offices and data centers around the world.
Dell Boomi Takes Next-Generation Master Data Management to the Cloud
Dell Software has launched its next-generation Dell Boomi Master Data Management (MDM) that delivers a comprehensive set of features and capabilities in a single cloud-managed solution. This marks a fundamental shift: now mid-sized companies can take advantage of an MDM solution that simplifies data management, data integration and assurance of data quality—at a fraction of the traditional big-vendor cost.
Dell Boomi MDM offers significant realization of next-generation MDM as defined by The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) Best Practices Research1, and it is a 100 percent cloud-based offering with multi-domain support, near real-time synchronization, bi-directional data flow and includes web service calls that support enriching and validating data.
“MDM tools based on software as a service (SaaS) and/or clouds are still relatively new,” said Philip Russom, research director for data management, The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI). “Even so, there is a growing demand for and trust in cloud-based MDM tools and solutions. For example, a TDWI survey run in 2012 showed that 25 percent of organizations are planning to adopt cloud-based MDM within three years. This amounts to a potential growth rate of 20 percent, which is quite healthy given the current economy. So we can expect cloud-based MDM solutions to be in use by more organizations soon.”
Infographic: Tech Giants By the Numbers
From Staff.com, an infographic comparing revenue, profit, and market cap for Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook:
TwinStrata to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that TwinStrata, an innovator in cloud-integrated storage solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
TwinStrata delivers cloud-integrated storage solutions that seamlessly combine the flexibility of cloud-based technologies with the robustness of traditional storage. As a result, customers benefit from significant reductions in IT costs, time and administrative requirements. Customers of all sizes use TwinStrata to capitalize on the cloud’s scalability and economy advantages without sacrificing the security, performance and peace of mind of local storage.
Egnyte Leverages New Public Cloud Economies
Egnyte, the file-sharing, file-storage, not to mention backup hybrid cloud for business, is integrating with third-party public cloud storage starting with the ever-popular – and increasingly cheap – Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure and NetApp StorageGrid so its EgnytePlus users can access and share their files in the ether.
The company thinks it’s the first integration of its kind.
EgnytePlus combines Egnyte’s own cloud storage with the user experience and performance of local storage.
The company reckons that the promise of the cloud to deliver competitively priced utility-like service has been unrealized when it comes to SaaS solutions. But since Amazon, Google and Microsoft slashed their cloud storage prices 25%-30% just in the last quarter, this “race to the bottom” signals a commodity market that enterprises have to leverage.