SYS-CON Events announced today that XO Communications, a provider of advanced IP communications, managed network and hosted IT services for business, large enterprise and wholesale customers, 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.
XO Communications is a leading nationwide provider of advanced IP communications, managed network and hosted IT services for business, large enterprise and wholesale customers. These customers include more than half of the Fortune 500, in addition to leading cable, mobile wireless and domestic and international telecommunications companies. XO offers a superior customer experience through its innovative solutions, its employees’ focus on customers and the proven performance of its advanced network.
Archivo mensual: marzo 2013
AWS Cuts Prices Again
Amazon Web Services ratcheted up the cloud price war again Tuesday when it cut new EC2 Reserved Instances running Linux/Unix, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server by up to 27% or up to 65% compared to On-Demand instances.
Amazon said in a blog that the new pricing applies to all three Reserved Instance models (Light, Medium and Heavy Utilization) for purchases made on or after March 5.
It suggested that customers review their Reserved Instance usage monthly and offered a few economical guidelines: If your server is running less than 15% of the time, use an On-Demand instance; if your server is running 15%-40% of the time, use a Light Utilization Reserved Instance; if your server is running 40%-80% of the time, use a Medium Utilization Reserved Instance; and if your server is running 80%-100% of the time, use a Heavy Utilization Reserved Instance.
IBM Takes on AWS
Big Blue put its back into OpenStack Monday at its Pulse conference in Las Vegas, almost a year after lending its name to the open source cloud platform started by Rackspace and NASA – which has abandoned it.
It announced that “its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture.”
It said it’s doing it in the name of open standards, arguing that “this move will ensure innovation in cloud computing is not hampered by locking businesses into proprietary islands of unsecured and difficult-to-manage offerings. Without industry-wide open standards for cloud computing, businesses will not be able to fully take advantage of the opportunities associated with interconnected data, such as mobile computing and Big Data.” Ah, FUD.
Basically IBM has declared war on Amazon Web Services and its de facto standards.
CRM outsourcers need to follow Branson’s advice on telecommuting
Peter Ryan, Lead Analyst, IT Services
Regardless of the sector in question, home-based working has always aroused emotions among executives. The recent comments made by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg against home working have further inflamed this debate, but Ovum feels that contact center services players would be wise to heed the remarks of Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson, which were well thought out and very much in favour of working from home.
To date, this business model has been classified as “niche” in the CRM space, but all evidence suggests that it remains on an upward trajectory, and those players that have not availed themselves of credible home-agent offerings may miss the proverbial boat.
Branson’s assessment reflects the home-agent experience to date
We are very much in agreement with Branson’s recent blog comments, in which he stated that allowing workers the flexibility …
Cloud and CRM influencing 2013 enterprise software spend, says Gartner
For enterprises, customer relationship management (CRM) is moving ahead of enterprise resource planning (ERP) as the main priority for application software investment.
That was just one of the takeaways from Gartner’s latest report, “User Survey Analysis: Cloud and CRM Nexus Will Drive Enterprise Software Spending in 2013 and 2014”, published last month.
Other key factors emerging from the report include the clear differences between emerging and emergent markets in terms of cloud models.
Mature regions are more likely to go public, accepting the security risks and reliability rewards of the public cloud. Emerging markets, by contrast, are more likely to use a private cloud.
“This could be due in part to an immature telecommunications infrastructure in some emerging countries, while data security is a persistent concern related to public cloud services among our clients in developing-region countries,” said Hai Hong Swineheart, Gartner research analyst in a statement.
Consequently, Gartner …
AWS Cuts Prices Again
Amazon Web Services ratcheted up the cloud price war again Tuesday when it cut new EC2 Reserved Instances running Linux/Unix, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server by up to 27% or up to 65% compared to On-Demand instances.
Amazon said in a blog that the new pricing applies to all three Reserved Instance models (Light, Medium and Heavy Utilization) for purchases made on or after March 5.
It suggested that customers review their Reserved Instance usage monthly and offered a few economical guidelines: If your server is running less than 15% of the time, use an On-Demand instance; if your server is running 15%-40% of the time, use a Light Utilization Reserved Instance; if your server is running 40%-80% of the time, use a Medium Utilization Reserved Instance; and if your server is running 80%-100% of the time, use a Heavy Utilization Reserved Instance.
AppZero Named to CIO.com “10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch”
AppZero, the fastest way to move enterprise server applications to the cloud, has announced that it has been named to CIO.com‘s «10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch» compiled by Startup 50 writer Jeff Vance. The 10 companies making the list were selected from a «top 25» list that was nominated to the Startup 50 blog. Factors in moving onto the final list were: the company’s standings following a vote, viability of product, competitive advantages and management team’s pedigree.There will be a new round of voting to rank the companies on the top 10 list.
According to Vance, AppZero made the list because, moving applications from traditional IT systems to the cloud isn’t easy. AppZero encapsulates an application and its dependencies in a «virtual application appliance,» without a virtual machine (VM). The result is an application that is flexible, «hypervisor-agnostic, cloud independent, and fast.»
AppZero Named to CIO.com “10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch”
AppZero, the fastest way to move enterprise server applications to the cloud, has announced that it has been named to CIO.com‘s «10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch» compiled by Startup 50 writer Jeff Vance. The 10 companies making the list were selected from a «top 25» list that was nominated to the Startup 50 blog. Factors in moving onto the final list were: the company’s standings following a vote, viability of product, competitive advantages and management team’s pedigree.There will be a new round of voting to rank the companies on the top 10 list.
According to Vance, AppZero made the list because, moving applications from traditional IT systems to the cloud isn’t easy. AppZero encapsulates an application and its dependencies in a «virtual application appliance,» without a virtual machine (VM). The result is an application that is flexible, «hypervisor-agnostic, cloud independent, and fast.»
Moving Your Company’s Application or Service into the Cloud?
A number of studies I’ve recently read indicate that more enterprises will use cloud services in 2013 than ever before. This fact is not lost on many of my software vendor clients, who are transitioning many of their on-premises products into cloud-based offerings.
The problem many of these vendors are facing is the inability to address data privacy and security demands placed upon them by their customers due to the weak contractual protections offered by the vendor’s hosting providers. As a result, the time and cost savings expected by leveraging the cloud model are lost by extended contract negotiations between the vendor, customer, and hosting provider.
Weekly Roundup: Amazon Drops Prices for SQS and More News
Last week, there were some offerings and new features release from Amazon. Microsoft made an announcement on Windows Azure Store expansion and new add-ons. Google has published some interesting Google Cloud Platform case studies. Plus, Scalr has announced the extension of their multi-cloud capabilities.
Here’s a quick summary of cloud happenings over the last week.
Early last week, IaaS leader Amazon added three new features to the CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts for Linux. New features include IAM Role Support, Auto Scaling and Aggregate Metrics. These scripts can be run in the background to periodically report system metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. Next, they have announced the beta release of AWS Diagnostics for Microsoft Windows Server. The AWS Diagnostics tool addresses a user request to make the intersection between AWS and Windows Server easier to analyse and troubleshoot.