Victor Cruz has actually touched on a few interesting points in his article “Safe Driving in the Cloud: A Black Box for Cars”.
The fact is that car companies have lately shifted their focus towards increasing security for passengers and drivers altogether and that is why they came up with the idea of introducing a black box for cars. This might be a bit strange as many people have said, but the reasons to why they came to this decision are actually very solid.
For instance, when an aircraft crashes, investigators will eventually be able to retrieve the data that was recorded during flight and analyze what actually went wrong. It’s a measure that has helped with designing safer airplanes and as a result, save people’s lives. Now, getting back to the black box itself, the box is not actually black.
It will only be black after the investigators retrieve it from the charred remains. From a statistical point of view, plane crashes are much rarer than car crashes, so why wouldn’t car manufacturers decide to introduce a black box in each and every vehicle they make? After all, it’s a legitimate reason.
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SYS-CON.tv Interview: A Systematic Approach to Cloud Computing
“IBM’s perspective on cloud computing has been about a systematic approach, to saying what’s the impact on the underlying business as a whole and from that perspective saying cloud computing certainly is the way we need to move,” stated Bruce Otte, Director of the IBM SmartCloud Platform and Workload Services, in this interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at our Times Square Studio in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, November 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.
SolidFire Pushes SSD Costs Below HDD’s
SolidFire, the Colorado-based all-SSD purveyor, has gotten a $31 million C round led by strategic investor Samsung, which is supplying the 960GB flash drives in its latest storage system.
The round brings SolidFire’s total outside investment to $68 million.
The widgetry, called the SF9010 and the third system out from SolidFire, is supposed to be the largest and fastest SSD storage system to hit the market – at a full-scale 100 nodes – delivering 3.4PB of effective capacity and 7.5 million IOPS in a 1U with dedup and compression.
It’s designed for large-scale public and private cloud infrastructure.
The 9010 is supposed to retire the old canard that flash is more expensive than hard disk storage by reportedly coming in at less than $3 a GB or below $1/IOP to HDD’s upwards of $4 for 60TB-3.4PB.
IBM Adopts Cloud Foundry
Although IBM has its own Platform-as-a-Service, Big Blue is going to integrate the Pivotal Initiative’s open source Cloud Foundry 2.0 PaaS into its Open Cloud architecture as a quick alternative for building, testing and ultimately moving applications to the cloud.
Pivotal of course is the company started recently by EMC and VMware with GE taking a piece.
IBM is joining the Cloud Foundry community to ensure it has an open governance model.
Pivotal is supposed to establish an advisory board of Cloud Foundry users and vendors including IBM. Otherwise it will continue to steward the Cloud Foundry brand and preserve the trademark from direct commercial use in product names.
Pivotal expects to release a branded and supported version of Cloud Foundry in the fourth quarter.
Disasters & Data: What You Need To Know
If you’re doing business in this era, then you’re dealing with a lot of data. That data is everywhere as well, especially if parts of your business are global. Depending on where you’re doing business, the data your business is generating has to adhere to different data rules, especially where disaster recovery and business continuity are concerned.
There are two ways to look at big data: it either means you have a lot of data, or it means that you’re doing a lot of data processing. Often times, you’re doing both.
Often data is considered secondary (and thus not important), generated out of their primary application, and the company is using it to better understand how an application is working. Generally in cases such as this, the emphasis to protect data is not top priority. All businesses in this situation want are service credits towards when the infrastructure supporting data is down.
Meanwhile, others are using data processing as part of their mission-critical, revenue generating work, so the data becomes a goal in its own right. Some businesses that approach data this way are advertising, natural language processing, finance, and healthcare, among other primary forms of data analytics as well as data gathering focused businesses.
Lew Moorman To Step Away from «Leading the Rack»
«I have taken some time to assess my ability to balance the demands of leading the Rack with the needs of my family,» wrote Rackspace President Lew Moorman in an email to all staff this morning. For a variety of health-related family reasons, he told them, he will be handing off his day-to-day responsibilities to other members of Rackspace’s senior leadership team. The process will take several months, after which – Moorman explained – he will «step down as president and chief strategy officer and assume a much more limited role.»
Intel Wants To Re-Architect the Data Center
Intel wants to re-architect the data center to rapidly deliver new services efficiently and at scale through the cloud in an age of massively growing network connections and scads of real-time unstructured data, not to mention its need to ensure its own continued relevance and growth.
With no real mobile business to offset the global plunge in PC sales, down lately 11% year-over-year, Intel last week reported Q2 revenues down 5% year-over-year to $12.8 billion while returning earnings of $2 billion in line with expectations. It trimmed its Q3 expectations to $13.5 billion plus or minus $500 million.
Cloud Computing, Big Data & Smart Mobile Apps to Drive IT Spending in 2014
Big bucks continue to be spent on hardware and software, with a marked increase in cloud services, according to a new report.
Forrester released the data of its annual survey on IT spending worldwide and detected areas with higher spending, including apps and tablets.
Forrester Research’s annual report on worldwide IT spending split the amount of $2.06 trillion spent this year from businesses and governments between hardware, software and services related to the IT world. CIOs and IT decision-makers plan their biggest software spending increases in mobile applications and middleware, analytics, security, and collaboration software, according to an article on CloudTimes.org.
Software registered the largest share of tech spending in 2013 and companies will continue to spend in this segment particularly on smart and cloud computing in 2014. While investment in legacy applications (both desktop and server) begins to languish, most investment moves towards cloud computing solutions, SaaS solutions development and towards the smart computing, i.e., Big Data and mobile application development.
Ben Golub, Who Sold Gluster to Red Hat, Now Running dotCloud
Ben Golub, the former CEO of Gluster, the storage venture gone to Red Hat for $136 million, is now CEO of another promising venture-backed open source start-up, two-year-old dotCloud.
DotCloud first came to market toting a multi-language Platform-as-a-Service that proved revenue-producing but is now consumed with a project called Docker that has claimed much of its technology.
Docker is an open source engine that quickly wraps up any application and all its peculiar dependencies in a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that can run virtually anywhere on anybody’s infrastructure.
It’s a take on the old Java promise of write once, run anywhere.
CoreSite Reports Second Quarter Results
CoreSite, provider of network dense, cloud enabled data center solutions,has announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013.
Tom Ray, CoreSite’s Chief Executive Officer, commented, «We are pleased to record a solid quarter of growth for CoreSite, and importantly, one that reflects the continued success we are seeing in our network-centric, differentiated strategy. We remain focused upon continuing to increase the number and quality of customer deployments in our portfolio and enhancing the value proposition of the CoreSite Mesh. We executed 115 new and expansion leases in the quarter including agreements with 33 new customers. Additionally, we are pleased with the continued evolution we saw in our sales mix, recording an increasing number of leases bringing high-value applications to our platform.» Mr. Ray continued, «Regarding growth, we continue to invest to meet customer demand, with four data center projects under way. We believe that we have considerable upside embedded in our portfolio as we increase the utilization of existing and new inventory, positively mark to market expiring capacity, and most importantly, continue to drive increased network density and valuable customer communities across our data centers.»