The pace of cloud growth and adoption remains inextricably linked to the pace of cloud education. Whether it’s due to security concerns being allayed or cloud definition confusion being reduced, the small- and medium-business space seems ripe for education-based growth. Add in the continued cost-efficiency-based adoption of public cloud by SMBs that are priced out of significant infrastructure capital expenditures, and the growth trend is reinforced. With this overall trend in mind, here are additional predictions for 2014 in the cloud marketplace.
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Hostway’s Cloud Forecast for 2014
The pace of cloud growth and adoption remains inextricably linked to the pace of cloud education. Whether it’s due to security concerns being allayed or cloud definition confusion being reduced, the small- and medium-business space seems ripe for education-based growth. Add in the continued cost-efficiency-based adoption of public cloud by SMBs that are priced out of significant infrastructure capital expenditures, and the growth trend is reinforced. With this overall trend in mind, here are additional predictions for 2014 in the cloud marketplace.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: One Cloud, No Servers
«Lanlogic has been around since 1995 and we focus on helping customers that are traditionally less technical and need someone who’s an IT consultant, a trusted business adviser, to help them evaluate their needs,» explained Joe Foos, Director of Sales & Marketing at Lanlogic, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo® 2014 New York, June 10-12, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
HP Makes News at Discover in Barcelona
HP has quickly made itself a key supplier of some of the most important technologies of the present corporate era: cloud computing and big data processing.
This week here at the HP Discover 2013 conference — despite the gulf of 70 years but originating in the same Silicon Valley byways — has found a kindred spirit in … Facebook. The social media juggernaut, also based in Palo Alto, is often pointed to with both envy and amazement at its new-found and secretive feats of IT data center scale, reach, efficiency and adaptability. It’s a mantle of technological respect that HP itself once long held.
HP Makes News at Discover in Barcelona
HP has quickly made itself a key supplier of some of the most important technologies of the present corporate era: cloud computing and big data processing.
This week here at the HP Discover 2013 conference — despite the gulf of 70 years but originating in the same Silicon Valley byways — has found a kindred spirit in … Facebook. The social media juggernaut, also based in Palo Alto, is often pointed to with both envy and amazement at its new-found and secretive feats of IT data center scale, reach, efficiency and adaptability. It’s a mantle of technological respect that HP itself once long held.
As We Head Towards 2014 – Four Cloud Computing Trends
A few more days and 2013 is history. The big events for the year must include the IPO of Twitter, the unusual valuation of Pinterest and Snapchat, and the increasing velocity of Big Data and cloud adoption into the mainstream. I read this article in The Guardian, where Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, predicts four cloud computing trends for 2014. With the pioneering work at Amazon in cloud computing via its AWS stack, who better than Vogels to see the future? He says that despite all the amazing innovation we have already seen over the last seven years in cloud computing, we are still at day one. I also had the chance to listen to him at IBC 2013 Amsterdam last September. Here are his four trends.
As We Head Towards 2014 – Four Cloud Computing Trends
A few more days and 2013 is history. The big events for the year must include the IPO of Twitter, the unusual valuation of Pinterest and Snapchat, and the increasing velocity of Big Data and cloud adoption into the mainstream. I read this article in The Guardian, where Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, predicts four cloud computing trends for 2014. With the pioneering work at Amazon in cloud computing via its AWS stack, who better than Vogels to see the future? He says that despite all the amazing innovation we have already seen over the last seven years in cloud computing, we are still at day one. I also had the chance to listen to him at IBC 2013 Amsterdam last September. Here are his four trends.
2014 Is the Year That BYOD Bites Back
It’s that time of the year again. That time when we humans like to celebrate the annual revolution of our arbitrary measure of chronological quantities and units known as time. Or to put it another way, it’s that time of the year for 2014 predictions, postulations and hypothesizing on the state of the road ahead.
The very easiest and possibly most certain prediction we can make for technology as we head into 2014 is that we are precisely five years away from the next major paradigm shift in IT, as compared to where we stand today. Paradigm platform shifts come around just about every five years – you can count on it.
GreenButton Launches WarpDrive for Cloud Data Transfers
GreenButton™ on Thursday announced the GreenButton WarpDrive, a solution providing accelerated and secure transfers of large datasets to the cloud. Previously this capability was only available to GreenButton customers for running Big Compute and Big Data workloads; however, demand from other use cases, such as enterprise backups, has led to a new standalone service.
«WarpDrive provides the best performing UDP data transfer technology for moving large datasets to the cloud.» said Dave Fellows, Chief Technology Officer at GreenButton. “UDP is far more efficient than TCP over high latency and congested networks. The ability to deliver this capability for a fraction of the cost of what’s currently on the market should open the door for many exciting cloud-based initiatives.”
Can We Finally Find the Database Holy Grail? | Part 3
In my first post in this three-part series I talked about the need for distributed transactional databases that scale-out horizontally across commodity machines, as compared to traditional transactional databases that employ a “scale-up” design. Simply adding more machines is a quicker, cheaper and more flexible way of increasing database capacity than forklift upgrades to giant steam-belching servers. It also brings the promises of continuous availability and of geo-distributed operation.
The second post in this series provided an overview of the three historical approaches to designing distributed transactional database systems, namely: 1. Shared Disk Designs (e.g., ORACLE RAC), 2. Shared Nothing Designs (e.g., the Facebook MySQL implementation), and 3) Synchronous Commit Designs (e.g., GOOGLE F1). All of them have some advantages over traditional client-server database systems, but they each have serious limitations in relation to cost, complexity, dependencies on specialized infrastructure and workload-specific performance trade-offs. I noted that we are very excited about a recent innovation in distributed database design, introduced by NuoDB’s technical founder Jim Starkey. We call the concept Durable Distributed Cache (DDC), and I want to spend a little time in this third and final post talking about what it is, with a high-level overview of how it works.