In the last five years, organizations have increasingly embraced cloud applications to help them innovate and transform their business. Applications that automate sales processes, HR management, collaboration, email and file sharing are growing fast and enabling organizations to meet their needs in a shorter timeframe than ever before.
Cloud applications are ubiquitously employed across all industries. However, there are increased concerns about security and compliance of sensitive information, particularly in banking, insurance and in the public sector. A wide range of regulations and privacy laws make organizations directly responsible for protecting regulated information, but when this data is stored in the cloud, they have less direct control over leaks, theft or forced legal disclosure.
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SYS-CON.tv Interview: The Hybrid Cloud
“I think 2013 is the year of hybrid cloud – it’s really starting to take off now. It’s the combination of public cloud, private cloud and dedicated infrastructure working seamlessly together to provide the best application platform, but it’s also providing reliability, availability, performance and lowest TCO,” stated Lisa Larson, VP of Enterprise Cloud Solutions for Rackspace, in this 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.
Prolexic Raises $30 Million Round
Prolexic Technologies, the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation company, has gotten a $30 million Series C round led by new investors Trident Capital and Intel Capital.
That makes $51.9 million altogether. Its existing shareholders include Kennet Partners, Camden Partners and Medina Capital.
Trident will get a board seat.
The 10-year-old company says its year-over-year revenues are up 65% and its EBITDA is positive.
The company says this year it mitigated the single largest attack in its history (167 gigabits a second), as well as the world’s most powerful attack campaign (144 million packets a second).
AWS Goes to Court over CIA Contract
Amazon has gone to the US Court of Federal Claims in Washington, DC, to get the CIA to follow through on the four-year $600 million cloud contract it was awarded earlier this year.
IBM, which also bid for the contract, objected to Amazon getting it claiming price discrimination because the evaluation wasn’t apples to apples, so to speak, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which found some terms were relaxed only for Amazon, recommended that negotiations be reopened and the RFP clarified.
The CIA is supposed to decide what it’ll do early next month. Amazon is hoping for a judicial decision by September 23.
It claims the spy agency got it right based on Amazon Web Services technical superiority and best value. And wouldn’t you know, most of the complaint is under seal. Seems some information in it is under a GAO protective order.
SOA Software API Management Honored by American Business Awards
“We’re leading the charge into the cloud for American businesses,” said SOA Software EVP Roberto Medrano as SOA Software announced that its API Management solution is a Finalist in the American Business Awards “APIs are the backbone of the new, interconnected world of web commerce – we make it safe and manageable for everyone,” noted Medrano. “We are honored for the recognition of the American Business Awards for this work.”
A panel of corporate executive judges conferred the honor on the API Management Solution, deeming it the best new cloud platform software product of the year. The awards, known as the “Stevies”, were created to honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and business people worldwide.
Case Study: Too Fast for the User
I just heard an interesting story from Runtastic, who is one of our Mobile Real User Monitoring customers. Runtastic’s main mobile app allows their users to track their sport activities such as running, biking, hiking or skiing. They had a user complaining about too high speed. He didn’t actually complain about the performance of the app but instead complained about his average speed during his workout as calculated by the app. After his one hour biking session, the app showed the he covered a distance of 490 km – that would probably be a world record and give him the yellow shirt in a small French bicycling event.
When Will ‘Bursting’ Become Acceptable Boardroom Terminology?
Way back in the 20th century we used to regard cyclical trading patterns as the highs and lows of any given business market in the most traditional sense. Driven by changes in demand and supply, seasonal fluctuations and the relative performance of competing products or services, we have always understood that business cycles exist as a natural part of classical economic teaching.
Today we have the opportunity to view the various economic models of the business world slightly differently.
How To: Enhancing Legacy Apps with Cloud
Dealing with legacy applications in the cloud is not a simple, straight ahead proposition. The bottom line is it can be done, but doing it smartly is a whole other issue.
As Dan Woods asks:
“Can cloud infrastructure support traditional applications that were not built to deliver reliable performance from unreliable components?”
The reasons to move legacy apps to the cloud are manifest: improved performance, ROI, and associated upkeep costs, to name a few. So much money has already gone into creating the tech and utilizing the data center real estate that simply abandoning what you’ve been using would be like burning millions of dollars.
However, the answer to Dan Woods’ question is not a simple yes or no, and many providers who reply in one way or the other are selling short the amount of thinking that has to go into making legacy applications at home in the cloud.
Tips for Corporate Cloud Adoption
Corporate Cloud Adoption A couple of weeks back, Solar VPS President and COO Ross Brouse (@RossBrouse), gave a technical keynote presentation at New York City’s Cloud Expo. The presentation covered corporate Cloud adoption – how Cloud adoption begins on the couch and makes it all the way to the boardroom. Well, in this short article, we are going to run with that flag and dive into the topic a bit. So, if you’re a company of any size looking to fully Cloudize (word, not a word? We think it should be), err, make the jump into the Cloud, here are a few tips for successful Cloud computing adoption. Understand the Difference Before even considering a move into the Cloud, companies and non-IT minds need to understand the difference between the public Cloud and the private Cloud. Are you streaming music via Spotify right now? Are you looking at a friend’s Facebook status, tweeting to a person halfway across the world or downloading data from a shared Dropbox account? If so, you are using the public Cloud. The public Cloud, is as the name suggests, for public use. On the other hand, a private Cloud deployment is a Cloud deployed and maintained behind a private, closely guarded, corporate firewall. All the data stored in the private Cloud require corporate access keys and are housed behind a stringent firewall to ensure security. When deploying a corporate Cloud, although some employees might use applications like Dropbox, Box.net and SugarSync to store less vital all information, the most sensitive data is stored, secured and kept behind your corporate firewall, in your corporate private Cloud only accessible using the right access keys. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Means Everything When it comes to corporate Cloud adoption, the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) movement is paramount. Why is that? Well, think about it this way. If you work for a company who issues you a device instead of allowing you to use your own personal device, you now have two devices with different purposes. One device is for your personal life and one device is for your work life. However this creates an issue. It means, subconsciously, that employees can’t check in with their personal lives while at work and while at home, the last thing they want to do is check in with their work lives. This division is not good. A person is more than a simple division. The fix is BYOD. The Bring Your Own Device movement allows consumers to bring their personal devices to work and use their personal devices for work. By synching with the corporate exchange server, corporate apps, corporate WordPress blogs etc. on their personal device, employees no longer need to worry about that work/life division. Instead of only checking personal email accounts, an employee can and now will check both personal and work accounts at the same time. The joining of work and life means a blurring of the work/life balance but it also means – and this … Continue
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