Open source software is powering the most successful public cloud offerings including Amazon and Google. At the same time, other initiatives like OpenStack and CloudFoundry are growing in popularity with a number of vendors actively contributing code.
In this Lunchtime Power Panel at 14th Cloud Expo, Greg O’Connor, President & CEO of AppZero, Cory Isaacson, CEO of CodeFutures Corporation, and John Derrick, CEO of Jelastic, will discuss the future of open source in cloud computing and how customer adoption will be influenced by open clouds.
Monthly Archives: June 2014
CiRBA Executives Speaking at Key Upcoming Industry Events
CiRBA Inc. on Tuesday announced that three members of its management team will be speaking at four industry events over the next two weeks: Gartner Infrastructure and Operations Management Events in Berlin and Orlando, Cloud Expo in New York and the J.P. Morgan 4th Annual Cloud & Beyond Conference.
Over-provisioning costly IT infrastructure resources in order to reduce performance risk is a universal issue for enterprise IT today. The sessions will focus on how organizations can stop this cycle and greatly increase efficiency while controlling risk by actively balancing capacity supply with application demand. CiRBA invites event attendees to join the following sessions to learn how Fortune 500 organizations leverage CiRBA to solve this critical challenge.
The Future of Cloud Is Hybrid… and Seamless
It’s probably no surprise that I have long advocated the position that hybrid cloud would eventually become “the standard” architecture with respect to, well, cloud computing. As the dev/ops crowd at Glue Con was recently reminded by the self-styled “most obnoxious man in cloud”, Josh McKenty, you can only add to what exists in the data center. You can’t simply rip and replace, forklifts are not allowed, and allowances must be made for how to integrate with existing systems no matter how onerous that might be. The future is, as he put it, open and closed, traditional and modern, automated and human.
I would add to that, it is both public and private, with respect to cloud.
Open Source Cloud: Explore the Commercial Applications
During the course of the last twelve months the OpenStack community has advanced as more users of the leading open-source cloud technology have been reporting their progress — with the help of their partners — towards making a meaningful impact on their business goals and objectives.
We’ve also learned how these progressive technology users are pioneering changes in their own organizations — enabling them to become more competitive in the Global Networked Economy.
The OpenStack Summit 2014 opened with a keynote on the first day of the conference featuring lessons learned from industry leading organizations that have already deployed these open cloud technologies. Each case study had multiple instances of OpenStack that have been applied for a variety of commercial application scenarios
Safeguarding Data in the Cloud
As enterprises look to take advantage of the cloud, they need to understand the importance of safeguarding their confidential and sensitive data in cloud environments. Enterprises must protect their data from (1) system administrators who don’t need to see the data in the clear and (2) adversaries who become system administrators from stolen credentials. In short, enterprises must take control of their data: The best way to do this is by using advanced encryption, centralized key management and cutting edge access controls and policies.
When an outside party owns, controls, and manages infrastructure and computational resources, how can you be assured that sensitive data remains private and secure, that your organization is protected from damaging data breaches, and that you can still satisfy the full range of reporting, compliance and regulatory requirements?
IBM Makes It Easier for Clients to Develop Software in the Cloud
IBM on Monday announced that businesses of all sizes – from start-ups to large enterprises – are rapidly adopting IBM Bluemix to develop software in the cloud with greater speed, security and quality.
IBM also announced additional services on Bluemix, which will move from beta testing and into production later this month. Bluemix, IBM’s open cloud platform, is based on an open standards foundation, Cloud Foundry, and provides developers access to IBM’s software for integration, security, transactions and other key functions, as well as software from business partners. As a result, it can help developers connect two broad categories of systems in a cloud environment: systems of record, such as core banking and accounting systems, and systems of engagement, such as mobile, situational and social apps.
MangoApps to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that MangoApps, the unified collaboration company, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10–12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
MangoApps provides private all-in-one social collaboration networks allowing workers to securely collaborate from anywhere in the world and from any device. Social, mobile, and easy to use. MangoApps has been named a “Market Leader” by Ovum Research and a “Cool Vendor” by Gartner. 10,000+ business customers worldwide.
Why Legacy Approaches to Availability for OpenStack Doesn’t Make Sense
OpenStack has made inroads among companies building elastic cloud environments for on-premise and hosted cloud apps. However, OpenStack and other Cloud OS still have challenges and maturing to do to create robust always-on clouds.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Dave LeClair, Sr. Director of Strategy at Stratus Technologies, will explain why legacy reliability doesn’t work for OpenStack; why the answer lies in a software model that separates availability from application and hardware; how IT can move traditional applications to cloud without rewriting and fill the gap in availability guarantees from public cloud providers; how those providers can use Software-Defined Availability to deliver SLAs that prevent outages that cost millions and damage reputations.
From Supply-Led to Demand-Led: Lead Your IT to Better Serve Your Users
What are the strategies and technologies that can help you accelerate your IT organization’s journey to private cloud?
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Scott McNeil, Product Marketing Analyst – Enterprise Manager at Oracle, will discuss how to plan, build and deploy different approaches for implementing self-service IT, and discover best practices for how organizations can successfully move to the cloud using a demand-led strategy. He will also provide examples of early adopters who have achieved success using these techniques.
Setting the Bar for Agile Architecture
The Agile Architecture bar is set. Vendors should know what their products must do. Architects have some insight into the patterns they must follow. And business stakeholders can finally rest assured that at least it’s possible to achieve technology-enabled business agility. True, it’s difficult. Many of the pieces are only just now falling into place. Levels of maturity are low across the board. But we’re on our way.