Cloud computing’s promise is becoming reality, but cloud integration is an ongoing challenge. As the use of cloud applications spreads throughout the enterprise, there’s just no way to escape data exchange, change management, and related user issues. Why? The fact is, most top cloud and even enterprise software solutions require integration with other applications or data sources for optimal functionality and performance.
Whether corporate performance and business management, CRM, ERP, or operational and transactional data analysis, an enormous number of applications benefit from being interconnected to maximize business value.
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SYS-CON.tv Interview: Education and Cloud Computing
“The Cloud Credential Council focuses on cloud training and certification so we are basically helping to fill the gap for the people who need to have the skills related to cloud,” explained Marcel Heilijgers, Executive Director of the Cloud Credential Council, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center 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.
HDDs for Cloud, Virtual and Traditional Storage Environments
HDDs will continue to be declared dead into the next decade, just as they have been for over a decade, meanwhile they are being enhanced, continued to be used in evolving roles.
SSD will continue to coexist with HDD, either as separate or converged HHDD’s. Where, where and how they are used will also continue to evolve. High IO (IOPS) or low latency activity will continue to move to some form of nand flash SSD (PCM around the corner), while storage capacity including some of which has been on tape stays on disk. Instead of more HDD capacity in a server, it moves to a SAN or NAS or to a cloud or service provider. This includes for backup/restore, BC, DR, archive and online reference or what some call active archives.
The Macro and Micro of Multi-tenancy Regarding Private Cloud
I was recently reviewing some sales and marketing materials regarding building out Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Part of these materials included attributes of IaaS, one of which is multi-tenancy. Having been working with some large enterprise customers lately around private cloud, this attribute really got me thinking.
In most cases for the enterprises I have been working with, the private cloud is about agility and the workloads are all owned and related to the same business line. From the macro perspective, there is effectively one tenant, yet from a micro perspective (workload) there are multiple tenants that may require some isolation for purposes of service level and resource management.
Why is this important? Multi-tenancy is expensive. It requires additional resources and overhead to manage including encryption and key management, isolation across network, compute and storage, and additional support for tenant management. Remove this overhead and those physical resources can be focused on workloads instead of overhead.
OpenStack Turns Three: It’s All About the Community
Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation, has recorded a message for all of the global user groups celebrating OpenStack’s third birthday during July 2013.
Using APIs for Better Business Partnerships
There’s no denying the opportunities that Open APIs and Business to Developer initiatives offer today, but for many businesses APIs are going to be a huge driver of business partner programs. Successful B2B API programs introduce a completely new set of requirements that go far beyond the capabilities of most API Management platforms. This presentation will discuss how a B2B API program can help drive your business, what the challenges are, and how to make sure you succeed.
In his General Session at 12th Cloud Expo, Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, discusses how a B2B API program can help drive your business, what the challenges are, and how to make sure you succeed.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Network to the Cloud
“We are continuously expanding and we recently announced a new data center in Copenhagen, and our eighth data center in Frankfurt, so we now have 34 data centers,” stated Jelle Frank van der Zwet, Global Marketing Manager for Interxion, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 12th International Cloud Expo, held June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center 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.
Big Security for Small Businesses
In the world of information security, small businesses and the security needs of small businesses are often overlooked, particularly in the realm of application security. When looking at the investment required to build a robust application security program, it really doesn’t make sense financially. For example, an “enterprise” scanning tool, combined with the required hosting infrastructure, salary for a security specialist, and for the sake of argument, tack on static analysis, the total cost will easily exceed $120,000/year, which is decidedly cost prohibitive for a lot of smaller companies. This presents a significant problem due to the fact that as an attacker, well, hacking the little guys is easy. Simply put, when it comes to handling attacks and incidents, small companies are at a significant disadvantage as they frequently lack a dedicated security team, let alone one security specialist. So what’s the best way to maintain a secure infrastructure without breaking the bank?
USDA Plows New Ground, Becomes Cloud Service Provider
Technology sure does make strange bedfellows.
The federal government’s newest cloud service provider is one that may elicit surprise. It’s the same agency that oversees farm policy and food safety – the US Department of Agriculture.
The USDA has been certified to provide Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platforms as a Service (PaaS) under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, a rigorous security-approval program overseen by the General Services Administration. The USDA now offers FedRAMP-certified cloud services to other federal agencies, as well as to state and local government, via its National Information Technology Center.
It’s the latest example of an emerging cloud model, called shared clouds, in which one government agency gets the most from its data center resources by making them available to other agencies, according to an article on Forbes.com. The USDA offers virtualized desktops and servers, storage, networking, databases, and content management as cloud services.
IPO-Eying Ping Raises $44 Million F Round
Ping Identity, the 11-year-old Denver company that provides secure cloud-ified single sign-on to half of the Fortune 100 and reportedly has its eye on going public next year, has raised a $44 million F round led by private equity house W Capital Partners, brought in to help with the IPO through its new board seat, and DFJ Growth, a Draper Fisher Jurvetson fund.
The money, which is more than Ping’s estimated $43 million in sales last year, is also coming from existing backers General Catalyst Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Avista Partners, Triangle Peak Partners, SAP Ventures and Appian Ventures. Besides the $29 million in equity financing there’s $15 million in debt financing complements of Silicon Valley Bank.