As the impact of cloud technology becomes better understood and really takes hold, organizations will need to restructure themselves to ensure they are able to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them and as a result stay relevant and alive.
But to understand the impact of the future we need take a look back at some vital thinking that took place in the late 1980s.
As the impact of cloud technology becomes better understood and really takes hold, organizations will need to restructure themselves to ensure they are able to take full advantage of the opportunities presented to them and as a result stay relevant and alive.
But to understand the impact of the future we need take a look back at some vital thinking that took place in the late 1980s.
Reuven Cohen, who in 2004 founded Enomaly to bring to market his vision for an «Elastic Computing Platform» (ECP), has joined Citrix in a newly-formed role: Chief Cloud Advocate.
Cohen joins other household names in Cloud Computing who now work at Citrix such as Sheng Liang and Shannon Williams, founders of Cloud.com in 2008, and open source veteran Mark Hinkle. All four – Cohen, Liang, Williams, and Hinkle – were early, and remain popular, participants in the industry-leading international Cloud Expo® conference series.
Reuven Cohen, who in 2004 founded Enomaly to bring to market his vision for an «Elastic Computing Platform» (ECP), has joined Citrix in a newly-formed role: Chief Cloud Advocate.
Cohen joins other household names in Cloud Computing who now work at Citrix such as Sheng Liang and Shannon Williams, founders of Cloud.com in 2008, and open source veteran Mark Hinkle. All four – Cohen, Liang, Williams, and Hinkle – were early, and remain popular, participants in the industry-leading international Cloud Expo® conference series.
Part 2 of Cloud Monitoring Essentials presents 3 key actions to ensure that cloud users maintain a strong security posture.
The cloud offers users agility and flexibility at, potentially, a far lower cost than a traditional data center model. However, with these benefits come risks from cost sprawl, security holes, and availability management. Part 1 of Cloud Monitoring Essentials focused on cost concerns. This second part looks at security.
The dynamic nature of the cloud, with ever-changing security groups and rules, makes security difficult. New instances, auto scaling groups, and buckets are created and terminated daily. Resources that were ‘secure’ yesterday may be altered today and your security posture may be compromised.
The distributed and centralized nature of the cloud creates security headaches. Not only is the deployment regularly changing, but the people changing it are across groups and departments.
Mobile and cloud are two of the biggest changes in the enterprise today. Amidst a disruptive shift in technology and IT economics arrive the difficult decision of how you can design, build, deploy, and manage your mobile websites. Decisions such as “do I build native” or “how can I build once and deploy everywhere” are common questions that bring mobile and cloud together in many of the answers.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo, Steve Fox, Director of the Windows Azure Center of Excellence at Microsoft, will show how you can design and build mobile websites on the cloud – emphasizing some of the choices along the way. Specific themes will be responsive Web App design, tooling choices, developing, deploying and scaling your mobile website on Windows Azure, and more.
Moving to a centralized service portal to manage and deploy infrastructure has allowed T-Mobile to improve their service offerings across multiple platforms and enabled a lifecycle approach to delivering advanced cloud services.
The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series explores how wireless services provider T-Mobile US, Inc. improved how it delivers cloud- and data-access services to its enterprise customers.
It’s a story about walking back manual cloud provisioning services and moving to a centralized service portal to manage and deploy infrastructure better. In doing so, they have improved their service offerings across multiple platforms and enabled a lifecycle approach to delivering advanced cloud services.
To learn how T-Mobile did it, we recently sat down with Daniel Spurling, Director of IT Infrastructure at T-Mobile US, Inc. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Those who think cloud computing requires no forethought or planning are dead wrong. Considering the fact that cloud computing is a truly complex distributed architecture, there is a lot to think about in terms of what components are leveraged (e.g., storage, compute, database, etc.), how they are configured, governance and security, and monitoring and management. Just to scratch the surface.
Thus, those who implement cloud computing need to get smart around how to approach the architecture. Many skip this step or role and move directly to the good stuff, the technology. A lack of planning and architecture will absolutely derail your cloud implementations, short- and long-term.
As Cloud Computing has become the most transformative technology shift since the personal computer and the Internet, it’s apparent that migrating business to the cloud has reached a tipping point in 2013, where it is no longer a trend but rather an absolute business requirement.
In recognition of this shift, The Huffington Post has published a list of the top 100 Cloud Computing Experts on Twitter. Huffington Post noted that the “list consists of industry analysts, chief executives – including CEOs, CTOs, and CIOs, journalist, authors and keynote speakers.”
Thirty-one of the top 100 Cloud Computing experts in the Huffington Post list are contributing authors for various SYS-CON Media publications and 24 are Cloud Expo faculty members.
Out of this list of 100, SYS-CON Media and SYS-CON Events were pleased to note that , 24 of the experts have spoken at one of our International Cloud Expo® series, and 31 of the experts are writers for SYS-CON Media’s numerous online publications including Cloud Computing Journal, SDN Journal, Big Data Journal, OpenStack Journal and Virtualization Journal.
One of the big revelations within the evolving PRISM scandal is how important a role big data and cloud computing have played in enabling the NSA to facilitate the scale of monitoring they achieved.
While there are many things to be said on both sides of the discussion around the PRISM program, its diminished presence within the 24 hour news cycle has given many within the cloud computing and big data industries pause enough to provide some analysis of the programs impact on the technology space.
Mark Milian of Bloomberg recently published a post articulating the perceived problems the PRISM fallout proposes for U.S. based cloud providers.
Citing a global survey detailing respondents’ reticence to continue with cloud providers, market projections for the cloud industry have been reduced on expectations that more businesses will jump ship.