“About two years ago Brother launched a new group called Brother Online. We thought it was a good idea for a hardware company to get into the cloud services market and our first step into that market was web conferencing,” explained Courtney Behrens, Senior Marketing Manager at Brother International, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 14th International Cloud Expo®, held June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo® 2014 Silicon Valley, November 4–6, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
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How Cloud Computing Empowers the Agile Enterprise
Public cloud service adoption is already a mainstream phenomenon in most organizations. Meanwhile, many large enterprises see a private cloud in their future. But choosing whether to invest in building an internal cloud infrastructure or buy from a cloud service provider will become more challenging – in anticipation, savvy IT leaders are becoming brokers of dynamic business technology solutions.
Hybrid cloud resource management and progressive operational process adoption are the key focal points in preparation for this transition. Moreover, Line of Business demand for emerging use cases and just-in-time IT workload creation requires speedy access to a managed self-serve DevOps deployment model.
That’s why comprehensive management and provisioning tools — such as Red Hat CloudForms — have become essential platforms. Besides, given the pervasive trends in the marketplace, every business will eventually need an actionable hybrid cloud adoption plan. It’s a requirement of the forward-looking agile enterprise.
Public Cloud Services Still Gaining Momentum
International Data Corporation (IDC) has released the latest results from their ongoing global market study. For 2013, the worldwide public cloud services market reached $45.7 billion — growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent until 2018.
Three major product groups comprise the total public cloud services market in IDC’s software taxonomy: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
The SaaS market – accounting for 72 percent of the total public cloud services market and forecast to grow at a 20 percent CAGR over the forecast period – is dominated by Enterprise Applications cloud solutions such as enterprise resource management (ERM) and customer relationship management (CRM), followed by Collaborative applications.
System Infrastructure Software cloud solutions – the other major part of the SaaS market, including Security, Systems Management, and Storage Management cloud services – drove 21 percent of the 2013 SaaS market.
The PaaS market – accounting for 14 percent of the market in 2013 with a forecast CAGR of 27 percent – is composed of a wide variety of highly strategic cloud app development, deployment, and management services.
In 2013 and 2014, PaaS spending has been largely driven by Integration and Process Automation solutions, Data Management solutions, and Application Server Middleware services.
The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market – comprised of two major segments, Server and Basic Storage – drove $3.6 billion in 2013 spending and is projected to grow at a 31 percent CAGR through 2018.
On a regional basis, the United States holds almost 68 percent of the market which is much more than what it holds for traditional technologies. Western Europe holds 19 percent and the other six regions IDC tracks hold 5 percent or less each.
However, IDC forecasts that by 2018, the U.S. share will drop to 59 percent, while the Western European share will grow to 23 percent. Emerging regions are also expected to grow above worldwide average.
«We are at a pivotal time in the battle for leadership and innovation in the cloud. IDC’s Public Cloud Services Tracker shows very rapid growth in customer cloud service spending across 19 product categories and within eight geographic regions,» said Frank Gens, senior vice president at IDC.
How Cloud Computing Empowers the Agile Enterprise
Public cloud service adoption is already a mainstream phenomenon in most organizations. Meanwhile, many large enterprises see a private cloud in their future. But choosing whether to invest in building an internal cloud infrastructure or buy from a cloud service provider will become more challenging – in anticipation, savvy IT leaders are becoming brokers of dynamic business technology solutions.
Hybrid cloud resource management and progressive operational process adoption are the key focal points in preparation for this transition. Moreover, Line of Business demand for emerging use cases and just-in-time IT workload creation requires speedy access to a managed self-serve DevOps deployment model.
That’s why comprehensive management and provisioning tools — such as Red Hat CloudForms — have become essential platforms. Besides, given the pervasive trends in the marketplace, every business will eventually need an actionable hybrid cloud adoption plan. It’s a requirement of the forward-looking agile enterprise.
Public Cloud Services Still Gaining Momentum
International Data Corporation (IDC) has released the latest results from their ongoing global market study. For 2013, the worldwide public cloud services market reached $45.7 billion — growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent until 2018.
Three major product groups comprise the total public cloud services market in IDC’s software taxonomy: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
The SaaS market – accounting for 72 percent of the total public cloud services market and forecast to grow at a 20 percent CAGR over the forecast period – is dominated by Enterprise Applications cloud solutions such as enterprise resource management (ERM) and customer relationship management (CRM), followed by Collaborative applications.
System Infrastructure Software cloud solutions – the other major part of the SaaS market, including Security, Systems Management, and Storage Management cloud services – drove 21 percent of the 2013 SaaS market.
The PaaS market – accounting for 14 percent of the market in 2013 with a forecast CAGR of 27 percent – is composed of a wide variety of highly strategic cloud app development, deployment, and management services.
In 2013 and 2014, PaaS spending has been largely driven by Integration and Process Automation solutions, Data Management solutions, and Application Server Middleware services.
The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market – comprised of two major segments, Server and Basic Storage – drove $3.6 billion in 2013 spending and is projected to grow at a 31 percent CAGR through 2018.
On a regional basis, the United States holds almost 68 percent of the market which is much more than what it holds for traditional technologies. Western Europe holds 19 percent and the other six regions IDC tracks hold 5 percent or less each.
However, IDC forecasts that by 2018, the U.S. share will drop to 59 percent, while the Western European share will grow to 23 percent. Emerging regions are also expected to grow above worldwide average.
«We are at a pivotal time in the battle for leadership and innovation in the cloud. IDC’s Public Cloud Services Tracker shows very rapid growth in customer cloud service spending across 19 product categories and within eight geographic regions,» said Frank Gens, senior vice president at IDC.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Leveraging the Cloud for Disaster Recovery
“We provide disaster recovery services as well as solutions. We also provide back-up solutions that work across your internal on-premise assets as well as in the public and private cloud,» stated Joel Ferman, Vice President of Marketing at InMage Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 14th International Cloud Expo® (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com/), held June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo® 2014 Silicon Valley, November 4–6, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Racemi Announces $10 Million Series C Funding
Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software, has closed a $10 million Series C round of venture financing.
The round included new investors, led by Milestone Venture Partners, along with existing investors Harbert Venture Partners, and Paladin Capital Group.
The funds will be used to further scale Racemi sales, services and engineering to meet growing demand for its cloud migration software, which automates the process of migrating workloads to public, private and hybrid clouds.
Business Management 3.0 and the Data-Driven Workforce
We talk a lot about so-called ‘business transformation’, but what do we really mean by this expression and how does it change the way (as workers) now operate on the shop floor?
Read any history of the industrial revolution and you will understand the massively impactful swings that our workplace went through from the 1800s through to the introduction of the automatic lathe around the turn of the last century.
NaviSite Launches Enterprise Mobility Management Solution
NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company and premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed applications, managed messaging and managed cloud services, on Tuesday announced an Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution to help enable enhanced data security while simplifying the management of devices and resources across an organization. NaviSite’s EMM solutions provide a full portfolio of Mobile Device Management (MDM) capabilities to help companies address the critical challenge of securing data across a range of personal devices in a workplace environment where Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has become the norm.
CommVault Fuels Cloud Growth with Enhanced Partner Program
CommVault on Tuesday announced a series of new enhancements to the CommVault PartnerAdvantage partner program Service Provider (SP) Edition, designed to help service provider partners maximize revenue, profitability and growth opportunities through new leading edge tools, resources and solutions that support their specialized requirements.
CommVault’s ongoing cloud strategy builds on its leadership in software innovation and, through strategic relationships with service provider partners, delivers solutions to simplify and secure the transition of these services providers and their customers to cloud computing. To achieve this, CommVault utilizes its single software platform to power highly efficient cloud infrastructures, is expanding market reach through a broad cloud ecosystem and further investing in its own cloud solutions group.
Docker + Stackato: The Perfect Workload Portability Solution
If you work in technology, you’d have to have been under a rock to have not heard about Docker. In a nutshell, Docker provides a lightweight container for code that can be installed onto a Linux system, providing both an execution environment for applications and partitioning to securely segregate sets of application code from one another. While this high-level description doesn’t sound that exciting, Docker addresses three key issues confronting application developers:
One of the problems confronting IT organizations is how to get the most benefit from computing resources; this translates as to how to raise utilization of servers to ensure that their cost and power use is actually applied to computing rather than being used to operate a server that is running, but performing no useful work. The previous solution to this issue was virtualization, which enabled a single server to support multiple virtual machines, each containing an operating system and software payload.
Looking for New Ways of Managing Identities Online
As we become more connected online, the old system of site-specific passwords and user identity are no longer equal to the task. We need to find new ways of providing identities and authorization.