The bottom line for the telcos is that Cloud-based offerings are value-added services, where the value they add is added to the plumbing. In other words, their fundamental cultural perspective is to make more money with the telecommunications infrastructure. The problem with this perspective, however, is that it’s not the best way for a Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to think.
Those of us whose careers have centered on moving bits around can easily forget that telephone companies have been in existence since Alexander Graham Bell and his partners founded the Bell Telephone Company in 1877. For most of this century and a half of history, telecommunications has delivered plain old switched voice networks. The rise of mobile telephony, the Internet, and now the Cloud have each in turn shaken the telco world to its core. And yet, its history, and hence its culture, rest in the world of the Public Switched Telephone Network. In other words, once a phone company, always a phone company.
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Force 3 Case Study: VMware vCloud Hybrid Service
VMware vCloud Hybrid Service can greatly reduce IT capital expenditure by removing the need for a remote offsite location for DR/CO-OP operations. IT departments can simply scale up the capacity during disaster operations, greatly reducing the operational cost for maintaining a DR site.
Was Trump University the Catalyst for Cloud Computing?
When cloud computing started to materialize we learned the benefits of matching workloads to the IT resources but what customer problem prompted the need for cloud computing? This one…
In 2005, I was working at Hewlett Packard in the storage group. We were three years past the Compaq-HP merger in Houston. My product line consisted of an entry-level SAN storage product and some accompanying data protection software. One of the many product management duties was customer interface. I always enjoyed tradeshows, telephone calls and face-to-face customer briefings.
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Give Cisco 60 minutes – well, 52 minutes, in fact – and watch the networking giant unveil a game-changing technology to help you capture new business opportunities by creating innovative experiences with greater IT simplicity and investment protection.
That is the value proposition of the video webinar that you can see this morning, this afternoon, this evening or indeed whenever is most convenient for you. It is free and it is only one click away.
ERPfocus.com Named “Association Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that ERPfocus.com has been named “Association Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
ERPfocus.com gathers together the latest thinking and research about ERP software. Whether you’re new to the world of ERP or an industry veteran, you’ll find exclusive articles, white papers and downloads designed to help you expand your expertise.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, Nov. 4-7, 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.
What Retailer BCBG Learned About Cloud Security
The major retailer BCBG migrated to a cloud security platform and discovered the CloudAccess’SIEM and Log Management capabilities enhanced their abilities for enterprise security.
There was a time the only security issues retailers needed to be concerned with was theft. Put a guard in the store and a couple of video cameras and prevent as much loss as possible. Those days are long gone.
The overall security of a retail organization has grown increasingly complex. The smash and grab has been supplanted by the hack and breach. A retailer’s IT environment is at as much risk as the product on the retail shelf. Every year hundreds of retailers fall victim to electronic intrusion. Ask Raley’s, Zaxby’s, Mapco, Michaels’s and dozens of retailers about how their POS and other exposed systems were not only breached, but cost them untold millions of dollars in stolen customer credit cards, abused sensitive data, and reparations and fines.
But if you ask, most of the named companies and the hundreds and hundreds of others attest that they apply a variety of security measures to maintain the sanctity of customer information and secure the workings of their network. Industrial and regulatory compliance demands this.
VMware Case Study: City of Melrose vCloud Hybrid Service
What the City of Melrose was looking for in a hybrid cloud is scalability, compatibility, integration and familiarity of management. vCloud Hybrid Service provides a great up-to-date test environment that can easily be converted to production. It’s good for mirroring or backing up to a different geographical location for DR purposes.
Why Test in the Cloud?
Cloud services have really captured the imagination. According to a Gartner survey 71% of organizations have adopted SaaS (Software as a Service) within the last three years. Quality Assurance teams, however, seem to have missed the boat, barely leveraging the benefits of the cloud. While enterprises and their so-called “QA Verified” software may be cloud-based, Test Management itself generally isn’t.
The benefits a cloud-based approach brings are plentiful and are particularly pertinent for QA teams. Top of the list for most companies adopting SaaS is the cost-savings. The ability to eradicate setup and ongoing maintenance costs for your QA toolset and data storage is most welcome. Working via a browser means no special software/hardware overhead.
VMware Webinar: Extend Your Datacenter to the Cloud
With the launch of VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, VMware is delivering on the promise of hybrid cloud, allowing you to run any workload, anywhere and extend your cloud beyond your data center. Join us for this technical webinar and discover how your organization can combine the convenience and agility of on-demand public cloud with the freedom to run today’s and tomorrow’s applications onsite, offsite or both – without compromise. This webinar will include a demonstration of the new service.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Nov 4-7, Exhibitor Show Prospectus Now Online
SYS-CON Events announced today that the Cloud Expo® 2013 Silicon Valley exhibitor show prospectus has now been published online. The prospectus offers the complete Cloud Expo Show Prospectus and an Overview of Cloud Expo Sponsorship Opportunities, including the All New Thought Leadership benefits.
13th International Cloud Expo®, co-located with the 4th International Big Data Expo, will take place November 4-7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California, and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
For more information on sponsorship, exhibit, and keynote opportunities, contact Carmen Gonzalez by email at events (at) sys-con.com, or by phone 201 802-3021.