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Integration and Interoperability
The silos within IT are breaking down, at least in terms of awareness of each other and the need to coordinate provisioning and orchestration of compute, network and application services. No longer is it acceptable to simply provide a solution; that solution must integrate, collaborate and interoperate with a plethora of existing and emerging data center technologies such as SDN, cloud management platforms, and virtualization frameworks.
After all, part of the raison d’être for SDN is the need to enable the network with the agility and flexibility of its counterparts- devops and application development – necessary to improve service velocity. That goal cannot be realized by enabling just the underlay networks addressed by SDN architectures. The application service layers (4-7) must also support the programmability, dynamism, and flexibility promised by SDN guiding architectural principles.
Integration and Interoperability
The silos within IT are breaking down, at least in terms of awareness of each other and the need to coordinate provisioning and orchestration of compute, network and application services. No longer is it acceptable to simply provide a solution; that solution must integrate, collaborate and interoperate with a plethora of existing and emerging data center technologies such as SDN, cloud management platforms, and virtualization frameworks.
After all, part of the raison d’être for SDN is the need to enable the network with the agility and flexibility of its counterparts- devops and application development – necessary to improve service velocity. That goal cannot be realized by enabling just the underlay networks addressed by SDN architectures. The application service layers (4-7) must also support the programmability, dynamism, and flexibility promised by SDN guiding architectural principles.
CenturyLink Acquires Tier 3
CenturyLink has acquired Tier 3, an innovative provider of public cloud services based in the Seattle area. Tier 3’s cloud platform is immediately available as «CenturyLink Cloud.» In addition, Tier 3’s products, roadmap and vision are now the foundation of CenturyLink’s cloud strategy and anchor the new Seattle-based CenturyLink Cloud Development Center.
Jeff Von Deylen, president of CenturyLink’s Savvis organization, stated, «Our mission is to provide world-class managed services to global businesses on virtual, dedicated and colocation infrastructures. Tier 3’s innovative automation and self-service platform are game-changing for our global enterprise clients.»
CenturyLink Acquires Tier 3
CenturyLink has acquired Tier 3, an innovative provider of public cloud services based in the Seattle area. Tier 3’s cloud platform is immediately available as «CenturyLink Cloud.» In addition, Tier 3’s products, roadmap and vision are now the foundation of CenturyLink’s cloud strategy and anchor the new Seattle-based CenturyLink Cloud Development Center.
Jeff Von Deylen, president of CenturyLink’s Savvis organization, stated, «Our mission is to provide world-class managed services to global businesses on virtual, dedicated and colocation infrastructures. Tier 3’s innovative automation and self-service platform are game-changing for our global enterprise clients.»
Choosing the Right Devices for Enterprise BYOD
Which tablet will work best for an enterprise BYOD strategy? It turns out that, if you’ve done your back-end homework, any of the top three or four will do just fine.
Now that server hardware decisions are no-brainers (thanks to virtualization and the ubiquity of multi-core 64-bit x86), deciding on the enterprise-wide purchase of a tablet computer types will be the biggest hardware choice many IT leaders will make.
So what guides these tablet decisions? Do the attributes of the mobile device and platform (the nature of the thing) count most? Or is it more important that it conforms to the fast-changing needs of the back-end services and cloud ecosystem? Can the tablet be flexible and adaptive, to act really as many client types in one (the nurture)?
On-Premise or Cloud ERP – Which Is Right for Your Business?
If you want to implement an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, then you will undoubtedly have to answer a lot of questions before you can be sure that the system will run smoothly. But before anything, you should ask a simple question about deployment. Will you need to host your ERP system on-premise using your own servers or will you be using a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) provider? It will be a major decision, since you will need to choose who handles the hardware and software.
Big companies usually tend to want to deploy on-premises. This could be a because of paranoia, but big companies want total control over their data. But many smaller companies will opt to choose the SaaS method so they can save on upfront capital expenditures. Since they won’t have to buy their own hardware, the SaaS option will be cheaper (at least in the short-term).
But between the largest and smallest companies, there are businesses in the middle that have to make a tough choice. To make the best decision, they will need to weight three variables: total cost of ownership, customization options, and integration.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Enterprise Cloud Adoption
Start-ups have been formed by leveraging cloud resources but enterprises are taking note and adoption rates are increasing.
While attending the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference last week, I spoke to enterprise customers who described how they benefited from AWS cloud services. One customer converted a $70K bid from a systems integrator for a hosted website and implemented it on AWS for less than $7K. Another customer estimated the cost of acquiring an on-premises business intelligence solution for $200K plus maintenance compared to under $10K a year on AWS. Savings like this will prompt enterprises to assess and migrate applications to the public cloud while addressing privacy and security concerns.
Platform-as-a-Service Offerings Grow in the Cloud
Add another fill-in-the-blank-as-a-service that’s making waves in the cloud.
Verizon, which just recently launched a major overhaul to its cloud platform, announced plans to integrate the VMware/EMC-backed Cloud Foundry open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) initiative into its offering, according to an article on Networkworld.com.
Here’s why that news is important: the PaaS market is getting awfully crowded, awfully fast. Seen by many as a secondary player in the cloud compared to the much larger and more robust IaaS and SaaS markets, the PaaS industry has in recent months become a focus for many of the leading cloud computing vendors. PaaS could be an important initiative in the cloud because of what it enables.
Most PaaS are a cloud-based application development platform used to build apps that are hosted in the cloud. Others view the PaaS market, especially open source PaaS tools like Cloud Foundry and others, as being an intermediary that acts as a portal to access infrastructure from Amazon, OpenStack or other IaaS. More vendors are getting in on the PaaS action.
How Cloud Computing Can Help Your Business
While articles on cloud computing are popping up everywhere, very few actually understand what it is and how it can help in business. In reality, cloud computing is all about making access to data easier regardless of your location.
Cloud computing enables users to store files and software remotely, instead of keeping data on a server in their office where it is inaccessible. In reality, many employees may be already using cloud computing without even realizing it. For example, Skype is a form of cloud computing. An example of business-focused clouding computing can include utilizing CRM systems (customer relationship management). Both examples house the data in a remote location and the user «logs on» to access it from any location. Companies that offer cloud computing solutions, such as service cloud from Salesforce, have experience in understanding what is needed for a company to succeed with cloud computing and can then develop and implement a solution that will work for any size company.