In our last post «OpenNebula vs. OpenStack: User Needs vs. Vendor Driven» we stated that»OpenStack penetration in the market is relatively small compared with the investment made by vendors and VCs». We have received several emails from people asking for the numbers that support this statement. This conclusion arises from the comparison between OpenNebula and OpenStack user base, a well as between the resources invested in development and marketing by each of them.
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How Are You Architecting for the Cloud – Science, Art or by Accident?
When was the last time you had a technology conversation that did not include the word ‘cloud’ in it? Gartner predicts that by 2016 the bulk of IT spend will be for the cloud. Gartner also believes that ‘nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017.’ Cloud technology continues to evolve at breakneck speeds and business wants to move to the cloud equally as fast. This presents significant challenges for technologists who need ensure the business doesn’t go crashing into a brick wall while moving at these speeds.
Is SMAC Good Enough to Meet the Demands of the New Digital World?
According to a recent KPMG report, SMAC, or Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud Computing, comprises around 80% of total ICT (Information & Communications Technology) spend. SMAC is not only promising a modern way for enterprises to leverage information technology, but it’s also revolutionizing the way business will be done in the future. However, getting there is not as easy as S, M, A, and C. Enterprises need to fully understand the power and potential of these technology areas in order to make sense of their intended dominance in the next few years ahead.
AppZero Announces $3M in Funding
Cloud migration innovator AppZero has announced a $3M round of funding to support enterprises moving to the cloud, including those faced with moving millions of applications to newer operating systems from Windows Server 2003, which reaches the end of extended support next year.
Leading technology investors and super angels are the investors and include AppZero Chairman Nigel Stokes, former CEO and co-founder of DataMirror, now part of IBM; Joseph Alsop, former CEO and co-founder of Progress Software; Covington Capital, a Canadian venture capital investment firm focused on supporting the growth and success of visionary entrepreneurs; individual investments from the partners of Gold Bench Capital, LLC; Frank A Bonsal, Jr., founder of New Enterprise Associates (NEA), one of the country’s largest venture capital firms; and Matt Ocko, long-time technology entrepreneur and startup investor, co-founder and co-Managing Partner of Data Collective.
Is Pay-As-You-Go Traditional Storage the Next Trend?
Looking back to one of my predictions for 2014, I had posited that traditional storage solutions labeled cloud will no longer fly this year, and some of the big-iron vendors will be forced to offer their wares as pay-as-you-go services. Perhaps this was stating an obvious eventuality as the market moves to a more cost-effective consumption model – but lo and behold, only two months into the year, it is already happening.
You may have seen that a large vendor introduced a pay-as-you-go model for their on-premise storage. While geared toward managed service providers seeking to provide cloud storage to their customers, this new payment model is the first volley in what will likely be a pay-as-you-go tidal wave for hardware. Such models are certainly laudable efforts, bestowing customers the benefit of not having to purchase multiple years’ worth of capacity from day one at the current pricing.
What’s Missing from “Cloud First” in the Enterprise?
My first experience with an “inverted yield curve” was in 2001 just prior to the tech bubble bursting. I was working on a financial portal for an investment bank and one of the charts was a yield curve. It looked odd all of a sudden, so I looked it up in a book of financial terms. An inverted yield is indicated when interest rates for short-term capital are higher than interest rates for long-term capital. In other words, people are willing to pay a significant price to alleviate short-term concerns because they’re focused on the now and not so concerned about one year, three years, five years, or thirty years from now. Inverted yield curves some believe signal disruption in financial markets. On the surface, Cloud First seems to signal the disruption that is cloud computing. To take this metaphor a little further, this inversion of Cloud First from “Cloud Never” suggests to me an inverted set of concerns. Does Cloud First prioritize an immediate need to say “something” about the cloud and cloud strategy? Does Cloud First prioritize the now while discounting near, mid, and long-term opportunities that far exceed the “costs less, more agile, faster time-to-market” recording I hear played daily throughout the blogosphere? Beyond staying Cloud First what else can enterprise technology teams prioritize that may amplify their ability to execute in the cloud?
QTS Announces 2013 Channel Partner Program Results and 2014 Focus
QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS), one of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing providers of data center facilities and managed services, announced the 2013 performance of its channel partner program and planned enhancements for this year.
QTS finished 2013 with 74 partners that closed sales, and of those sales, 54 were new customers to QTS. The result was a 21 percent growth in revenue over last year from the channel partner program. Charlotte, N.C.-based telecommunications and data center consulting firm Converged Network Services Group (CNSG) was honored with winning Partner of the Year for the second consecutive year.
«CNSG had an outstanding performance in 2013 generating more revenue than any other QTS Partner,» said Frank Eagle, vice president, business development – QTS. «Based on their data center services focus, strong sales skills and work to integrate our sales teams, it’s no surprise that they repeated as our top performing partner.»
QTS Launches Enterprise Cloud Solution
QTS Realty Trust has launched the QTS Enterprise Cloud, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution. Built upon industry-leading VMware, EMC and Cisco technologies, the platform is secure and flexible to meet evolving enterprise IT infrastructure needs.
«As a VMware vCloud® Powered Partner, QTS has adopted VMware vCloud Suite to deliver its Enterprise Cloud Services,» said Geoff Waters, vice president, Global Channel Partners –VMware. «We congratulate QTS on the launch of QTS Enterprise Cloud.»
QTS Enterprise Cloud is housed in QTS’ Atlanta-Suwanee and Santa Clara data centers, which employ multi-factor physical and logical security protocols. QTS’ Enterprise Cloud extends the cloud and managed services component of the company’s 3C’s product portfolio, and meets growing market demand among enterprise customers for control and visibility.
Net Neutrality: Are We on a Collision Course? | Part 1
The cable companies and telcos who dominate the U.S. market for Internet access won a victory when they succeeded in having the heart of the FCC’s ruling on net neutrality struck down. Now, for the first time legally, those companies can both block content and offer fast lane services at their discretion.
I have mentioned several times in my recent series of blogs that the eventual outcome of this decision may not be as obvious as we first thought: it may be less bad than network neutrality advocates feared, and rather less wonderful than some of the anti-neutrality advocates hoped. In previous blogs, I mentioned that neither the device vendors nor the edge providers will sit by passively and let the carrier’s Internet service providers (ISPs) call all the shots. To really understand this, it is worth reviewing other aspects of the Internet as they are actually evolving, as compared to the somewhat static model apparently envisioned by the courts, the FCC and some of the carriers.
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