“Most on-premise vendors recognize the need for a SaaS model with a self-service sales model,” observed Dustin Whittle, Developer Evangelist at AppDynamics, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo conference chairs Larry Carvalho and Vanessa Alvarez. “Companies are often having trouble making the migration to the cloud, because it is a fundamental change in the business model for many old school software companies.”
Cloud Computing Journal: How are cloud standards playing a role in expanding adoption among users? Are standards helping new business models for service providers?
Dustin Whittle: Standards initiatives like OpenStack make it easy for cloud vendors to offer interoperability and ultimately the freedom of choice for consumers. It simplifies the initial investment required for cloud vendors since these open standards and open source tools make them easier to support.
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Powering the Mobile Enterprise
Delivering modern application experiences requires a cloud based architecture that unlocks the silos of process and information within the organization. These capabilities must be resident in the cloud, and easily consumed by mobile applications.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Dan Sholler, Vice President, Platform and Technology at Infor, will discuss a common approach to access application capability, end to end process automation, and information stores designed to enable modern applications experiences, which are mostly or exclusively mobile.
High Quality, Affordable Care in the Cloud
Healthcare executives like you are challenged with implementing changes from healthcare reform, adapting to value-based reimbursement, and bending the cost curve. At the same time, you are expected to maintain a high level of patient satisfaction and deliver quality outcomes. Your operational and administrative systems need to support your expanded responsibilities by transforming traditional business processes and arming decision makers with sound, insightful information.
The systems you use today should have the power to take you into the future, while ensuring that your care units, departments and facilities run efficiently and effectively. But finding a way to modernize your healthcare organization quickly, easily, and cost-effectively hasn’t been an easy thing to do.
Reinventing Cloud Storage Services Through Innovation and Collaboration
The reach and demand of cloud storage services are rapidly expanding as many organizations are expressing interest in storage-as-a service (STaaS) for public, private and hybrid cloud implementations. The next generation of applications and workloads are driving a big change in storage requirements that lead us to develop a new object-based software defined storage platform with elastic Exabyte scalability and enterprise consistency in flexible dynamic and open architecture.
A major worldwide telco provider was looking to enter the Storage as a Service market and wanted to reinvent cloud storage services delivering unprecedented capabilities and value to a variety of external and internal customers. They explored a number of options and ultimately choose to work with Amplidata to help them design and build and enterprise class cloud storage platform using their hardware platform of choice.
Service-Aware Cloud Management
“All software vendors now or in the near future will need to have “born of the cloud” capabilities in addition to on-premise,” observed Shashi «Sash» Purohit, Founder, President & CTO of Ambernet, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo conference chairs Larry Carvalho and Vanessa Alvarez. V”endors will need to develop multi-tenancy, improved security and other features to support true SaaS deployment. There are a lot of vendors that offer “hosted” deployments as the basis of their SaaS offer.”
Cloud Computing Journal: How are cloud standards playing a role in expanding adoption among users? Are standards helping new business models for service providers?
Shashi «Sash» Purohit: The National Institute of Standard & Technology (NIST) was instrumental in setting the stage for the adoption of Cloud Services in both the public and private sectors. We believe standards help create a rallying point for vendors, service providers and end users to work from. They help create confidence and validate choices and decisions that separate market leaders from others. Most buyers like to know that they are working with thought leaders who have invested time, money, and effort to secure the right approach that is standards compliant. Standards help reduce “short-cuts” and create motivation for the industry to work from. As an example, just look at what the FedRamp Standards/Certification process has done for public markets. It has really started the ball rolling to ensure security, compliance, governance, and other important criteria that makes it possible for agencies to buy with confidence. We offer a Cloud Management & Brokerage product that is based on industry standards including NIST and ITIL, yet offers unique differentiating features.
Big Data, Cloud and Mobile – Converging Technology Trends
Big Data, the cloud, and mobile are converging technology trends that represent real opportunities for developers and IT pros to deliver more efficiencies and new value. Join Microsoft on June 11 at 14th Cloud Expo and learn how their strategy is to deliver an integrated and yet open platform centered in cloud that also enables you to extend your existing investments. For developers and architects, this means using familiar tools with enhanced capabilities never seen before. In the past 12 months Microsoft has delivered tremendous innovation including: infrastructure as a service, cloud storage, cloud based device management across heterogeneous devices and Big Data solutions. Learn how you can move your business and career forward by taking our innovation to your business.
World Class Business Applications & Infrastructure
Infor CloudSuite combines proven industry expertise, differentiated user experience, and world-class infrastructure from Amazon Web Services. Join Infor at 14th Cloud Expo, and learn how to take advantage of AWS’s expertise and economies of scale to access resources when they need them, on demand and with auto-scaling built into the Infor applications.
IBM’s Kristof Kloeckner: «Cloud Is a Growth Engine»
A highlight of the upcoming Cloud Expo and co-located @thingsexpo will surely be a lunchtime keynote by Dr. Kristof Kloeckner, General Manager of Rational Software, IBM.
Kristof (pictured below) will be one of five speakers from IBM during the three days of the event, being held June 10-12 at the Javits Center in New York City. His topic will be “Cloud as a Growth Engine for Business: Unleashing Software-Driven Innovation,” and will be delivered at 12:15pm on Tuesday, June 10.
“In a world of ever accelerating business cycles and fast changing client expectations, the cloud increasingly serves as a growth engine and a path to new business models,” he notes. “Dynamic clouds enable businesses to continuously reinvent themselves, adapting their business processes, their service and software delivery and their operations to achieve speed to market and quick response to customer feedback.”
“The cloud opens up new possibilities for businesses to continuously deliver software driven innovation and enables new ways of collaboration between an extended group of stakeholders, including business leaders, developers, operations as well customers and partners,” he adds.
Kristof plans to illustrate To illustrate these possibilities by discussing BlueMix, IBM’s Cloud Platform, with integrated DevOps Services. “With BlueMix, developers can compose applications in a tight feedback loop, using a wealth of IBM, third-party and open-source services and APIs, deploy and scale with infrastructure services from SoftLayer and code with the confidence based on a foundation of open standards, “ he says.
Kristof joined IBM in 1984 as a development engineer in the Boeblingen Development Laboratory in Germany, working on porting UNIX to the mainframe. is responsible for application lifecycle management and system engineering tools within IBM’s software business.
He has held executive leadership positions in strategy, architecture and development in Germany, the UK and the USA, and has delivered many industry leading software products. He was CTO of the first Cloud Computing initiative in IBM’s Corporate Strategy team and created the Beta for IBM’s first public cloud.
The Mission-Critical Enterprise Is Getting Wider, Broader, Deeper
It’s a logical suggestion after all, i.e., that the mission-critical enterprise is getting wider.
In truth, the mission-critical enterprise is getting wider, deeper, longer, broader and altogether bigger. But what does that mean?
In practical terms we are stating that the “granular depth” of the mission-critical enterprise has increased in both overall external size and internal granular richness.
Once again we need to ask, what does that really mean?
A Seamless Path to the Public and Private Cloud
“A strategy that will work for the new cloud providers is to focus on a vertical industry / application and provide a deeper and more complete solution than the big guys currently provide,” noted Jeff Tabor, Senior Director of Product Management at Avere Systems, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo conference chairs Larry Carvalho and Vanessa Alvarez. “After succeeding in one vertical, move on to the next vertical to grow the business.”
Cloud Computing Journal: How are cloud standards playing a role in expanding adoption among users? Are standards helping new business models for service providers?
Jeff Tabor: Standards always help users since with standards the users don’t have to treat all the vendors as separate entities. Standards can eliminate vendor lock-in and give users bargaining power since multiple vendors can sell them technically equivalent solutions. Standards create an ecosystem of users and vendors that allow new business models to get started. Without this ecosystem, there is too much risk that users will head down the wrong vendor-proprietary path and new businesses can’t get off the ground.