It is surprising to see how every new technology suddenly becomes the thing that will solve every problem. The cloud is no different. Everybody rushes to migrate their applications to the cloud because they think this will magically make them faster, cheaper, agile, competitive and… add any other buzzword that comes to mind. Well, not so fast! You don’t need to move every single application to the cloud! Or at lest not in its current state.
There are thousands of articles on Internet that discuss what applications are applicable for the cloud (including several that I have written) and what are not. There are also thousands of articles discussing the different cloud technologies and how they can be used. Unfortunately what I have seen in the last four years is that people don’t pay attention to those writings and choose applications that are not applicable for the cloud or severely misuse the technology.
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Michael Dell’s Buyout Scheme Gets ISS Backing
Michael Dell’s scheme to take the company he started in his dorm room 30 years ago private for $13.65 a share got backing Monday from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the biggest of the shareholder advisory firms.
The news, which represents a sudden about-face for ISS compared to its position last week according to Bloomberg, didn’t come a moment too soon.
Last Friday word leaked out that Michael and private equity house Silver Lake Partners refused to up the original $24.4 billion bid although the board’s special committee, responsible for weighing offers for the company, recommended a sweetener. As a result Dell shares dropped to $13.03 on fears the proposal might fall apart.
Now the committee has gotten behind the ISS recommendation.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Managed Cloud Hosting
“We have moved on from hosting to managed hosting to managed cloud hosting. We build and operate clouds for high performance clouds for business-critical applications,” explained Mike Donaldson, CMO of HOSTING, stated, 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.
IBM Closes on SoftLayer, Nails First Joint Account
IBM said Monday that it had closed its estimated ~$2 billion acquisition of public cloud infrastructure house SoftLayer Technologies, which is supposed to help Big Blue compete against IaaS market leader Amazon Web Services.
The eight-year-old company has been paired with IBM’s private SmartCloud unit to create a new Cloud Services Division reporting to GM Jim Comfort to pursue a share of what IDC figures could be a $105 billion market by 2016.
Before the acquisition IBM had an internal goal of reaching $7 billion in cloud revenue by the end of 2015, a bogie that reportedly remains unchanged. IBM’s cloud revenues were up a reported 80% last year.
SoftLayer brings IBM 13 data centers worldwide and 21,000 customers, largely SMBs. The new IBM division where SoftLayer now lives will be chasing both IBM and SoftLayer clients, ISVs, and channel and technology partners.
SOA Software Announces API Management for DataPower
SOA Software on Monday announced API Management for the IBM WebSphere DataPower family of SOA appliances. “APIs present a challenge to IT organizations today,” said Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software. “SOA Software’s unique approach to API management on DataPower allows IT organizations to keep pace with technology advances presented by next generation mobile and web applications while benefiting from the same rich enterprise support we already offer customers today.”
The new solution manages the full lifecycle of DataPower-based APIs and extends the capabilities of the widely deployed SOA Software Integrated Governance Solution for IBM DataPower.
This unified approach to managing both APIs and services extends the capabilities of DataPower infrastructure, enabling mobile and web solutions for internal mainframe and WebSphere MQ based services. SOA Software’s API Gateway, Lifecycle Manager for APIs and Community Manager have been integrated with DataPower, providing our customers a seamless API Management solution.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Riding the Cloud Wave
“Quantum is transitioning its business from being a predominantly hardware-based, on-premise data protection provider into a cloud-based managed service provider,” explained Henrik Rosendahl, Senior Vice President of Cloud Solutions at Quantum, stated, 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.
The “Invisible Hand” Accelerating Cloud Adoption
With the C-suite, innovators, developers and IT all pushing for the cloud, albeit for different reasons, there is no doubt that cloud computing is the next or fifth wave.
As the cloud computing market continues to mature, explaining the platform shift gets easier and more succinct. There are a wide variety of benefits to this next wave of computing, each resonating in shape, tone and strength depending on the listener’s role in an organization.
C-level and financial people like the economic drivers of the cloud. Limiting capital investment by converting CAPEX to OPEX; paying for what the business needs with scalable, success-based pricing; and enabling efficient use of limited internal resources. These are a few of the benefits that strike a chord with this part of the organization.
Green IT: How Infrastructure as a Service Can Lead to 80% Energy Savings
The data center industry, especially cloud providers, has recently been in the spotlight for massive power consumption. For example, if the industry were a country, it would be in the Top 15 users of energy, somewhere between Spain and Italy. The 30+ Gigawatts pushed through data centers across the globe has a far-reaching impact, including on the enterprise bottom line. Electricity isn’t cheap and, to top it off, analyst firm IDC estimated un-utilized server capacity as equal to $140 billion, more than 20 million servers and 80 million tons of CO2 per year.
Yet, using virtualization technology in a public or private cloud scenario to run many instances of operating systems simultaneously on the same piece of hardware can lead to up to 80% efficiency. Pair this with Infrastructure as a Service or cloud computing models where virtualization is the norm, and the potential for cost savings is tremendous.
Rackspace Taps Top CMO To Help with Doubling Down on Hybrid Cloud
«As we continue to leverage our heritage in OpenStack and capitalize upon our strong leadership position within the hybrid cloud marketplace, it is crucial that we continue to build our brand and reputation worldwide at a faster rate than ever,» said Rackspace President Lew Moorman as Rackspace Hosting today announced that IT industry veteran Rick Jackson had already since July 1 joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Jackson, said Moorman, will lead Rackspace’s global marketing strategy and execution as the company works to strengthen its leadership position around hybrid cloud.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Distributed Database as a Service
“We are a very unique product, being a Distributed Database as a service, kind of meeting in between Big Data, NoSQL and mobile,” explained Sam Bisbee, Director of Technical BD at Cloudant, stated, 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.