I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a blog for about six months now.
Initially I didn’t see how any of my contributions to the blogosphere
would matter to the world. The importance of this view, however, waned
as I became more and more absorbed by the power of Web 2.0. As my
participation in these technologies (Facebook, LinkedIn, RSS, wikis,
etc.) increased, I began to understand the uniqueness of my personal
interactions. This made the idea of doing a blog important on a personal
level. As my on-line network grew, I then realized that a blog is not
really for the rest world. It is really a most effective means for
conversing with you own personal, on-line network. So today, I start my
blog and in so doing, I start my public conversation in earnest.»
That was my very first post five years ago last month. Thank you all for allowing me to share my thoughts with you. The benefit I have gain from this and other online interactions have been immense! I only hope that you have also found my musings worthwhile.
We all talk about cloud differently, but is there a way we should be speaking about this tech?
Cloud computing is now a widely reported, if not accepted, IT movement that, depending on who you talk to, has changed or is changing the way businesses utilize infrastructure.
MetraTech, a provider of agreements-based billing, commerce and compensation solutions, on Tuesday announced the availability of MetraNet 7.0. With this latest release, MetraTech builds upon its agreements-based billing and real-time Commerce Decision Engine with the introduction of Behavioral Billing and multi-party settlement capabilities. Service providers now have an unlimited ability to create pricing models that drive customer behavior and compensation models that drive channel behavior based on any product or service attributes spanning arbitrary collections of accounts. MetraTech service providers’ customers have an intuitive now-cast dashboard that enables them to modify their behavior to manage costs or meet commitments. Release 7.0 is being deployed by seven MetraTech customers.
SYS-CON Events announced today that MetraTech Corp., the leading provider of agreements-based billing™, commerce and compensation solutions, has been named “Bronze 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.
MetraTech Corp. is the leading provider of commerce, billing and compensation solutions enabling customers to monetize relationships with customers, partners, and suppliers. Its unique Agreements-Based Billing ™ and Compensation platform models and supports fluid, personalized, multi-party agreements. MetraTech is the only monetization provider with an extensible metadata-driven architecture that makes it simple for customers to model and configure products and services, pricing plans, new business models and to change them in rapid response to market demands or customer behavior. Customers can select the customizable full control MetraNet® platform, available on-premise or as a managed service or a turnkey SaaS solution with the Metanga® offering.
There’s an inherent sense of almost forced innovation that appears to pervade the information technology industry. As we constantly push forward into perpetual cycles of reinvention, continual enhancement and augmentation after augmentation, one almost has to stop and ask what’s wrong with the software and systems that we have at our disposal today?
If a ‘neophiliac’ (don’t worry, it’s not rude) can be described as a person with a personality type characterized by a strong affinity for new things and an ability to adapt well to extreme change, then perhaps it is the neophiliacs who built the new style of IT model that we appear to be hurtling towards today.
With the right tools, file storage today can be in the cloud or on-premise, with seamless and secure access and publishing regardless of location. Novel, high-speed transport technologies that alleviate the bottlenecks and limitations of traditional data movement protocols are now intrinsically enabled for cloud object storage, such as Amazon Web Services S3 and Microsoft Windows Azure. Companies of all types and sizes can use the latest technology to ingest and distribute large media files to and from Windows Azure BLOB storage, for example, and integrate the platform into media services running on the Azure cloud.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Jason Warman, Director of Sales Engineering at Aspera, Inc., will explore how infrastructure-agnostic transport technologies are transforming the ways all kinds of organizations access and use Big Data for ever-greater efficiencies and innovation.
Storage and Archive offerings are now exploding on the market. From end-user mobile devices to company tactical level, the cloud has become a black hole for every kind of data. But what are the risks, and what are the real needs?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Alexandre Morel, Cloud Product Manager & Evangelist at OVH.com, will answer questions such as:
How to develop a strategy to use those offers as a base to develop mid and long-term value?
Should companies trust the cloud (Dedicated or Public) or rely on some other solutions?
How to select the right solution for the right internal need?
Which best of breed approaches can be used?
Boston-based Cloudant and its NoSQL distributed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS), which have gone to the VC trough four times since the company was started in 2008, have gotten what appears to be their first real money to grow on: a $12 million B round led by Devonshire Investors, the private equity arm of Fidelity Investments, which was joined by Rackspace, Samsung Ventures and Toba Capital, former Quest Software CEO Vinny Smith’s new venture fund.
The start-up, which says it’s targeting profitability in the first half of next year, recently got a secret amount of money from the CIA’s venture arm In-Q-Tel and Samsung and brought in a reported $4 million before that.
Interesting trend reported on by James Glanz of the New York Times. Ample access to electrical power is driving up data center rents across the river in New Jersey — to levels higher than the trophy skyscrapers in Manhattan.
…electrical capacity is often the central element of lease agreements, and space is secondary.
Companies around the world are collecting massive amounts of data everyday that’s sitting around and not being utilized. Take for example the fact that companies collect demographic and location-based data via mobile devices all the time, but have to figure out how to monetize that data.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Jason Hoffman, CTO & Founder of Joyent, will examine the state of Big Data, taking a look at what we’re doing now to discussing what’s on the horizon, as companies prepare and realign their business strategies for new streams of revenue.
