Service Level Agreements (SLAs) offered by cloud providers are too often about Specification and not Service. It should come as no surprise that vanity metrics, like Availability, are used instead of business metrics because they are simple to measure and easy to misconstrue. Metrics that truly matter, like “will I be able to delight my customer,” are about as far removed as one can imagine. It should come as no surprise, then, that in a recent survey of 740 CIOs and IT Leaders 97% wanted more than a simple Availability guarantee.
Imagine a company selling a premium new car whose warranty includes 2M piston revolutions, 10k door latch cycles, and 20k window open and closes. And even then, with 99.5% availability, you might still be unable to start the car two days a year, or during winter there might be two weeks where the doors won’t unlock until the sun melts the ice in the door locks. Ready to buy?
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Wasted IT Resources
David Rubinstein’s post «Industry Watch: Be resilient as you PaaS» makes a very good point about underutilized hardware in IT data-centers.
Millions of enterprise workloads remain in data centers, where servers are 30% to 40% underutilized, and that’s if they’re virtualized. If not, they’re only using 5% to 7% of capacity.
The reason for this?
Take, for example, servers that are spun up for a project two years ago that were never decommissioned, just sitting there, waiting for a new workload that will never come. And, because the costs of blades and racks went down, cheap hardware has led to a kind of data center sprawl.
Cloud Management in a Hybrid World
In this Forrester report learn how the infrastructure/operations (I&O) role changes in a hybrid cloud world. How they accelerate the cloud application delivery life cycle to exceed the business expectations of cloud and which management capabilities must be mastered to take on the role of hybrid cloud manager.
Cloud Management in a Hybrid World
In this Forrester report learn how the infrastructure/operations (I&O) role changes in a hybrid cloud world. How they accelerate the cloud application delivery life cycle to exceed the business expectations of cloud and which management capabilities must be mastered to take on the role of hybrid cloud manager.
Red Hat to Acquire Inktank
Red Hat, Inc., on Wednesday announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Inktank, a provider of scale-out, open source storage systems. Inktank’s flagship technology, Inktank Ceph Enterprise, delivers object and block storage software to enterprises deploying public or private clouds, including many early adopters of OpenStack clouds. Combined with Red Hat’s existing GlusterFS-based storage offering, the addition of Inktank positions Red Hat as the leading provider of open software-defined storage across object, block and file system storage.
Instant, Integrated and Data-Rich Business Cloud Services
Ariba’s product and services roadmap is rapidly evolving, including gaining more analytics capabilities. BriefingsDirect had an opportunity to learn first-hand how at the recent 2014 Ariba LIVE Conference in Las Vegas.
To learn more about the recent news at Ariba LIVE — and also what to expect from both Ariba and SAP Cloud in the coming months — we sat down with Chris Haydon, Senior Vice President of Solutions Management for Procurement, Finance and Network at Ariba, an SAP company. The discussion is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.
Simplicity Is What Differentiates the New OpenNebula 4.6
Code-named “Carina”, the twenty-first release of OpenNebula is available today with a new innovative provisioning model based on virtual Data Centers that offers a simple but comprehensive framework for resource allocation to different groups of users in federated data centers and hybrid cloud deployments. Carina brings the ability to easily federate multiple OpenNebula clouds for high availability, scalability, isolation or multiple-site support, and the seamless sharing of golden images across these zones through a new revamped AppMarket. Users can also browse and provision services on-demand using a new simple, intuitive cloud provisioning portal.
Simplicity Is What Differentiates the New OpenNebula 4.6
Code-named “Carina”, the twenty-first release of OpenNebula is available today with a new innovative provisioning model based on virtual Data Centers that offers a simple but comprehensive framework for resource allocation to different groups of users in federated data centers and hybrid cloud deployments. Carina brings the ability to easily federate multiple OpenNebula clouds for high availability, scalability, isolation or multiple-site support, and the seamless sharing of golden images across these zones through a new revamped AppMarket. Users can also browse and provision services on-demand using a new simple, intuitive cloud provisioning portal.
Inktank Living in a Multi-Petabyte World
Blink your eyes and five years have gone by. That’s my feeling as I posed questions to Ross Turk (pictured below), VP of Community at Inktank.
I first interviewed him almost five years ago, at an event in San Jose, when he was with SourceForge. Since that time, the entire cloud computing revolution went into full-launch mode, with Inktank’s focus on massive distributed storage along with it.
Inktank and Ross were at the recent Red Had Summit, which seemed like a great opportunity to re-visit his thoughts. Here’s what I asked him and what he had to say.
Roger: What sort of scale do your customers face?
Ross: Deployments in the 3-5PB range are common, and larger ones are slowly coming online. In 2014, we plan to see regular deployments in the 10PB range.
Through Inktank Ceph Enterprise, we aim to deliver massively scalable storage that runs on commodity hardware, radically improving storage economics and easing the costs of managing exponential enterprise data growth.
Because Ceph contains no single point of failure and is built using only scale-out components, there is no theoretical limit to the deployment size. And because our solution is based on open source, it frees enterprises from vendor lock-in, providing the flexibility and scalability necessary to keep up with evolving storage needs.
Roger: What problems are InkTank and Ceph designed to solve?
Ross: Traditional storage solutions typically are built using costly and restrictive proprietary hardware, requiring enterprises with vast amounts of data to invest heavily. But they are also restrictive, often tying enterprises to a single vendor and reducing their ability to adapt to changing storage demands.
Roger: What are the keys to your relationship with Red Hat? What do each of the companies contribute to one another?
Ross: Our relationship with Red Hat is critical to us; as we work to bring the power of Ceph into the enterprise, more and more of our customers are demanding tight interoperability with technologies in the Red Hat ecosystem, and their customers are increasingly requesting Ceph-based solutions.
Inktank Ceph Enterprise is certified to provide storage for RHEL-OSP, Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution, and RHEV, Red Hat’s enterprise virtualization product. Our relationship is necessary to deliver and support the fully-integrated solutions our customers are asking for!
Red Hat to Acquire Inktank
Red Hat, Inc., on Wednesday announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Inktank, a provider of scale-out, open source storage systems. Inktank’s flagship technology, Inktank Ceph Enterprise, delivers object and block storage software to enterprises deploying public or private clouds, including many early adopters of OpenStack clouds. Combined with Red Hat’s existing GlusterFS-based storage offering, the addition of Inktank positions Red Hat as the leading provider of open software-defined storage across object, block and file system storage.