Red Hat, Inc., on Monday announced continued momentum for Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, including a new industry-leading performance benchmark, the introduction of the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Promotional Offering. Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure, a comprehensive offering designed to support organizations on their journey from traditional datacenter virtualization to OpenStack-powered clouds, has emerged as a high performing offering with greater value as organizations look to build and manage private cloud IaaS.
According to the latest cloud computing market overview analysis from 451 Research’s Market Monitor, IaaS is expected to grow at a 37 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2016 (1). As cloud and IaaS adoption grows, research also indicates that open source cloud infrastructure solutions are taking the lead. According to the 2013 “State of the Cloud” survey, among the 64 percent of respondents who plan to include a private cloud as part of their cloud portfolio, 41 percent plan to use only open source-based private cloud options, while another 29 percent plan to use a hybrid combination of open source and proprietary solutions (2).
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Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Big Data Analytics
The onset of Big Data has many organizations scrambling to find ways to leverage this new domain in such a way as to gain the competitive edge. Alas the hype surrounding Big Data Analytics often makes organizations jump into large initiatives and investments before they have reviewed their own technical landscape and capabilities.
VMware Appoints Microsoft Veteran Tony Scott as Chief Information Officer
VMware on Monday announced the appointment of Tony Scott to the role of senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO) of VMware. Scott will manage VMware’s global information technology organization, a group that manages critical technology systems supporting the company’s worldwide business operations. Scott will report to Pat Gelsinger, VMware’s chief executive officer.
«Having a leader of Tony’s caliber join VMware is an example of the talent we are attracting to what is already a world-class VMware team,» Gelsinger said. «Tony will have responsibility for advancing and protecting VMware information assets, leading a team that is helping VMware meet the IT needs of more than 500,000 customers worldwide.»
NBC4 Puts on a Great GovCloud Show !!
NBC 4 in Washington, DC highlighted government cloud computing today as part of their GovInnovate show. Below is just a taste of the informative public service they provided. Go to the NBC Washington video site for much more!
Implementing a Canadian G-Cloud on OpenStack
Our headline theme of ‘Building the Canadian Cloud‘ is intended to help grow the Canadian Cloud supplier industry, by linking product development to major market opportunities, like repeating implementation of the UK’s G-Cloud model for Government. Shared Services Canada have recently released an updated roadmap plan (46-page PDF) for their implementation of Cloud Computing, which […]
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Measuring Business Impact and ROI in Red Hat Satellite Study
This ROI study is based on data gathered from structured in-depth interviews with representatives from 10 IT organizations that are using Red Hat Network Satellite Server to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. Find out in this Red Hat white paper how the IT organizations in this study experienced strong positive returns on their investments, yielding an average 338% ROI over a three-year period – over three times the initial investment.
Why Every IT Organization Should Consider Cloud-Integrated Storage
You’ve probably already heard that storage capacity needs are growing rapidly, with IDC projecting the digital universe will exceed 40,000 exabytes (40 billion terabytes) by 2020. According to Gartner, organizations are on average growing their capacity 40% to 60% year over year. On the other hand, disk storage densities of SAN and NAS storage arrays are not keeping up with the growth of data, resulting in a looming storage capacity sprawl for many organizations. The potential impact is measured not only in additional floor-space, but also cooling, management and increases in maintenance staff. As a result, many organizations will eventually find themselves trapped in a situation where their storage needs exceed their existing on-premise capabilities – the unenviable position of facing additional investments in infrastructure and people.
In fact, a recent survey we took indicated that a full 60% of users feel that they are «always running out of storage» – a clear indication that this «future» problem is already being felt on the ground.
Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) Webinar Now Online
In this hypercompetitive era faced with multiple technology transitions, businesses must change the game and transform how they engage customers to promote future growth. See Cisco unveil the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) Enterprise Networks Architecture, a game-changing technology that helps you capture new business opportunities by creating innovative experiences with greater IT simplicity and investment protection.
Hear customers discuss how they use innovative networking technologies to solve IT challenges and impact business.
Watch Rob Soderbery and Inbar Lasser-Raab introduce next-generation technology architecture unveiled at Cisco Live Orlando.
Learn about breakthrough networking solutions that will help you to stay ahead of technology transitions.
Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) Webinar Now Online
In this hypercompetitive era faced with multiple technology transitions, businesses must change the game and transform how they engage customers to promote future growth. See Cisco unveil the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) Enterprise Networks Architecture, a game-changing technology that helps you capture new business opportunities by creating innovative experiences with greater IT simplicity and investment protection.
Hear customers discuss how they use innovative networking technologies to solve IT challenges and impact business.
Watch Rob Soderbery and Inbar Lasser-Raab introduce next-generation technology architecture unveiled at Cisco Live Orlando.
Learn about breakthrough networking solutions that will help you to stay ahead of technology transitions.
451 Research: Platform-as-a-service fastest growing area of cloud computing
The majority of cloud computing revenue in 2012 was generated from vendors with sales over $75M (66%) and who are privately held (77%), with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) projected to attain a 41% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2016.
Market Monitor, a service of 451 Research, is also predicting 36% CAGR in cloud computing, growing from $5.7B in 2012 to $20B by the end of 2016 in their Cloud-as-a-Service overview report. Other research firms including Gartner have much higher forecasts for cloud computing in general and IaaS, PaaS and SaaS specifically.
Market Monitor relies on a bottoms-up forecasting methodology that includes revenue analysis and forecasts from 309 cloud-services providers and technology vendors across 14 sectors. Their taxonomy defining Cloud as a Service is shown in the following graphic:
Here are the key take-aways from the report:
- The cloud computing market will grow from $5.7B in 2012 to $20B in …