SYS-CON Events announced today that StarNet Communications will exhibit at the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
StarNet Communications’ FastX is the industry first cloud-based remote X Windows emulator. Using standard Web browsers (FireFox, Chrome, Safari, etc.) users from around the world gain highly secure access to applications and data hosted on Linux-based servers in a central data center.
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Microsoft overhauls Salesforce in enterprise SaaS, Synergy argues
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Microsoft has overtaken Salesforce to become the leading software as a service (SaaS) vendor despite a fragmented market, according to the latest note from Synergy Research.
The analyst firm, which extensively covers cloud software and infrastructure markets, argues that with the latest Q2 data to hand, the global enterprise SaaS market grew by 33% year on year to hit more than $11 billion (£8.3bn) in quarterly revenues.
The space is divided up by Synergy into several buckets. Collaboration, the largest segment, grew by 37% and has Microsoft, Cisco, and Citrix as leaders. Perhaps surprisingly, the analysts see the ERP market as the quickest growing, by 49% year on year and Oracle, SAP and NetSuite as the leaders.
The former was acquired by the latter for $9.3bn in July, and at the time, Synergy chief analyst John Dinsdale argued the move would help bolster Oracle’s play in ERP, as well as CRM, although still being behind Microsoft and Salesforce. CRM is considered by the analysts as the smallest segment, behind HR and human capital management (HCM), of which the leaders are ADP, Workday, and Ultimate Software, system infrastructure SaaS, with IBM, SAP and Oracle leading the way, and a more general bucket for other enterprise apps.
Dinsdale argues that with this analysis, the widely thought concept of the ‘born in the cloud’ companies biting at the heels of the established legacy software vendors may be something of a misnomer. “In SaaS a big battle is playing out between the traditional broad-based software vendors and companies that are focused on a specific application or industry sector, many of which are entirely cloud based,” he said.
“It might be tempting to assume that the latter camp are leading the charge, but in fact the traditional software vendors are growing their SaaS revenues more rapidly, helped by their huge base of on-premise software customers that can be aggressively targeted for conversion to a SaaS consumption model,” Dinsdale added.
IBM study assesses improving hybrid cloud usage – with innovation the key
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A study from IBM has revealed a major increase in organisations having fully integrated cloud initiatives – but the cloud is not used for everything.
78% of the survey respondents, in the study of 1,000 C-suite executives entitled ‘Tailoring hybrid cloud: Designing the right mix for innovation, efficiency and growth’, say their cloud initiatives are fully integrated or coordinated, up from 34% in 2012. Among high performing organisations, this number rises further to 83%.
In terms of adopting hybrid cloud solutions, the key drivers are lowering the total cost of ownership (54%), facilitating innovation (42%), improving operational efficiencies (42%) and more readily meeting customer expectations (40%). Companies undertaking cloud initiatives said they were most likely to expand into new industries (76%), as well as creating new revenue sources (71%) and supporting new business models (69%).
“Enterprises are moving to the cloud, especially hybrid cloud, faster than anyone expected to support their digital transformation, drive business model innovation and fuel growth,” said Marie Wieck, general manager of middleware at IBM. “As clients continue to reap the benefits of integrating their on-premises infrastructure with the cloud, we see them increasing their investments in new workloads on public clouds.
“Successful clients have integrated plans to place workloads where they fit best, and IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy provides this on-ramp for flexibility and growth,” Wieck added.
In the study, IBM recommended three actions for businesses to drive competitive advantage through cloud adoption. Organisations need to deepen their understanding of the business implications and the financial cases of cloud and then use that knowledge from there, as well as better manage the complexity of multiple cloud ecosystem partners, and establish strict control policies.
IBM’s various partnerships have hit the headlines this week. At the VMworld event in Las Vegas VMware announced an update and the continuation of its deal with IBM, noting that more than 500 new clients, including Marriott International and Monitise, were running VMware’s software on IBM’s cloud. Meanwhile, when cloud storage firm Box announced its latest financial results, the company’s partnership with IBM, launched last year, was cited as a contributing factor in eight ‘six figure’ deals.
Cybersecurity Crosses the Chasm | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Security #DigitalTransformation
As cloud security is rapidly advancing, enterprises can begin to prevail over digital disruption by increasingly using cloud-defined security.
The next BriefingsDirect cybersecurity innovation and transformation panel discussion explores how cloud security is rapidly advancing, and how enterprises can begin to innovate and prevail over digital disruption by increasingly using cloud-defined security.
We’ll examine how a secure content collaboration services provider removes the notion of organizational boundaries so that businesses can better extend processes. And we’ll hear how less boundaries and cloud-based security together support transformative business benefits.
Thin client reseller business alert – Cross-selling opportunity
With the increase in cloud and virtualization networks, the thin-client reseller business became lucrative. Many top brands in the hardware industry, such as Dell and HP, entered this market and are still the leaders. Thin-client technology enables organizations to centrally host resources on a server and securely publish them to any remote device at […]
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Virtualization in Definition-Driven API Development | #CloudExpo #API #Cloud #Virtualization
Agile development is highly iterative, and relies upon the rapid development of software and early feedback. These practices are well understood and practiced in mature application development teams.
The shift to an agile software development process has helped teams accelerate time to market, improve quality and reduce costs. With new technologies and processes that have hit the market, these same benefits can now be delivered to API development teams.
Beyond Walls: Modern Security Detection | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Security
Our walls of security prevention are actually being surmounted every day – we just don’t always know it. Assaults from within the network, as well as zero-day threats, are driving new types of solutions referred to as “advanced threat detection” (ATD). ATD brings in real-time packet capture and analysis in addition to monitoring of logs and NetFlow information, as well as recording of packet capture data for near-real-time and post-analysis. By analyzing data traffic, it is possible to build a profile of normal network behavior that can then be compared against real-time data or recorded data to detect anomalies. Alerts can be compared against security prevention solution data to assess if an attack is underway. Conversely, it can be used to determine “false positives.”
Box cites importance of IBM partnership in latest financial results
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Enterprise cloud storage firm Box has reported record quarterly revenue of $95.7 million (£72.1m) for Q217, as well as billings of $106.5 million.
The figures show a business which is edging closer to profitability. Free cash flow in the second quarter was negative $8m compared with negative $39.8m this time last year, while GAAP operating loss totalled 40% of revenue at $37.9m, compared to $49.8m and 68% of revenue in Q216.
Among the customer wins for Box in the quarter were Electronic Arts, Pfizer and Uber, while CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie cited the importance of the deal with IBM struck last year in building company momentum.
In prepared remarks to analysts, as transcribed by Seeking Alpha, Levie explained: “As businesses use more and more applications to get their work done, we want to ensure that our customers can get access to their most important content from wherever they are.
“We continue to gain traction with IBM,” he added. “IBM played a role in eight six figure deals that were closed in the quarter. Customers are seeing the potential of leveraging…both Box and IBM products together.”
Among these customers were a ‘major financial institution’, as well as a ‘major retailer’, who opted for Box via IBM because they “recognised the long-term advantages of using Box with IBM products.” Levie also noted the ‘significant dividends’ of Box’s partnership with Microsoft.
“We achieved record revenue in the second quarter while delivering cash from operations of negative $5 million, a $17 million improvement from a year ago,” said Dylan Smith, Box co-founder and CFO. “These results demonstrate our ability to capture the natural leverage we have in our business model while continuing to grow at a rapid rate.”
Box has had a particularly busy week, not only issuing its financial results but also the acquisition of data visualisation platform Wagon, as well as announcing another customer win in the form of market intelligence firm Ipreo.
You can read the full Box IR release here.
[session] Architecting for the Cloud By @RagsS | @CloudExpo @IBMBluemix #Cloud #Docker #Microservices
As the world moves toward more DevOps and Microservices, application deployment to the cloud ought to become a lot simpler. The Microservices architecture, which is the basis of many new age distributed systems such as OpenStack, NetFlix and so on, is at the heart of Cloud Foundry – a complete developer-oriented Platform as a Service (PaaS) that is IaaS agnostic and supports vCloud, OpenStack and AWS. Serverless computing is revolutionizing computing.
In his session at 19th Cloud Expo, Raghavan «Rags» Srinivas, an Architect/Developer Evangelist at IBM, will discuss the Microservices architecture, 12-factor app, containers, etc., and how to architect applications for the cloud in general and Cloud Foundry in particular. We will look at serverless computing for increasing efficiencies.
[session] Virtualized Apps and Private Cloud By @Tintri | @CloudExpo #Cloud #Storage #WebPerf
Fact: storage performance problems have only gotten more complicated, as applications not only have become largely virtualized, but also have moved to cloud-based infrastructures. Storage performance in virtualized environments isn’t just about IOPS anymore. Instead, you need to guarantee performance for individual VMs, helping applications maintain performance as the number of VMs continues to go up in real time.
In his session at Cloud Expo, Dhiraj Sehgal, Product and Marketing at Tintri, will share success stories from a few folks who have already started using VM-aware storage. By managing storage operations at the VM-level, they’ve been able to solve their most vexing storage problems, and create infrastructures that scale to meet the needs of their applications. Best of all, they’ve got predictable, manageable storage performance – at a level conventional storage can’t match.