IT has more opportunities than ever before with the growth in users, devices, data and secure cloud services. This creates not only a more enriching experience for users, but more opportunities for businesses. The key to capitalizing on these opportunities is to have the right tools in place to help scale operations. In his Day 3 Keynote at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13, 2013], Intel’s Rob Crooke will describe the range of products that Intel provides to support different usage models faced by IT with a specific emphasis on the advancement in SSDs.
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Managed Service Provider Selects Zyrion Cloud Monitoring Solution
Zyrion Inc., a provider of Cloud and IT Monitoring software solutions, on Wednesday announced at Cloud Expo New York that United Technology Group (UTG), a provider of information technology solutions headquartered in Atlanta, has selected Zyrion’s Traverse Cloud monitoring software for offering managed services to their clients.
UTG is one of Atlanta’s fastest growing Managed Service Providers and a leading provider of information technology solutions for mid-sized enterprise and small businesses nationwide. UTG provides reliable, consulting and scalable technology solutions ranging from Cloud, virtualization, secure networking, storage, unified communications as well as backup and disaster recovery services to achieve optimal efficiency and full security with client networks.
Quantum to Present on Future of Cloud Data Protection at Cloud Expo NY
Quantum Corp., a proven global expert in data protection and Big Data management, has announced that Senior Vice President of Cloud Solutions Henrik Rosendahl will present a session exploring the future of cloud data protection and the impact of data reduction technologies on cloud storage at the 12th International Cloud Expo. The conference takes place June 10-13 at the Javits Center in New York City.
Rosendahl will explore trends in cloud-based backup and disaster recovery (DR) and how current approaches to cloud data protection often fall short. He will look at in-house versus subscription cloud backup as a service models and how on-premise backup for local recovery has advantages. Rosendahl will also discuss the perception versus reality of cloud-based backup and DR as a service for changing CAPEX to OPEX. Finally, the session will explore how long-term archive and big data management are converging with cloud, providing the potential for seamless backup and archive for all data types.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Prepare Your Enterprise IT Talent for the Cloud
One of the cloud’s biggest draws is the capability to virtualize computing resources, allowing it to be consumed with the click of a mouse. But behind that simple click is an enormous infrastructure challenge that has recently been cited as a major cause for slower enterprise adoption. Enterprises can better prepare for this shift and take full advantage of future computing benefits. Between architecture design and migration planning, the road can be long, so what do you do with your talent?
In her General session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Lisa Larson, VP of Enterprise Technical Sales at Rackspace, will discuss how you can best prepare your IT talent for this seismic shift in computing.
Day 2 Keynote Today at Cloud Expo New York | Ignite Innovation
In the old world of IT, if you didn’t have hardware capacity or the budget to buy more, your project was dead in the water. Budget constraints can leave some of the best, most creative and most ingenious innovations on the cutting room floor. It’s a true dilemma for developers and innovators – why spend the time creating, when a project could be abandoned in a blink? That was the old world. In the new world of IT, developers rule. They have access to resources they can spin up instantly.
A hybrid cloud ignites innovation and empowers developers to focus on what they need. A hybrid cloud blends the best of all worlds, public cloud, private cloud and dedicated servers to fit the needs of developers and offer the ideal environment for each app and workload without the constraints of a one-size-fits-all cloud.
INetU’s Rich Hand to Present on Private vs Public Cloud at Cloud Expo NY
INetU, the industry’s experts in complex hosting and a global provider of business-centric managed cloud and application hosting, has announced that Cloud Architect Rich Hand will be presenting «Private Cloud, Public Cloud – Is There a Third Option?» at the 12th International Cloud Expo taking place June 10-13, 2013 in New York City.
As more enterprise IT departments move into the cloud, many executives are evaluating whether to adopt a Public or Private cloud. The cost benefits of the Public Cloud may be appealing, but is this the appropriate environment for critical data? The performance and security of a Private Cloud infrastructure will create an IT corporate hero, but the costs may be prohibitive. IT team leads are discovering that there are no easy answers found by taking a hardline on a Public or Private solution. Now, CIOs are coming to consider a third option: a Hybrid Cloud.
The Transition to the Cloud
“I’m careful when using terms like Big Data, because it can mean so many things to different people,” explained Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst at 451 Research, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “There is huge value in analytics that companies can use to pull intelligence from a collection of data sources that are available in their businesses. The inexpensive storage that cloud services can offer make a great environment to pull together siloed data.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time – agree or disagree?
Eric Hanselman: Time or money shouldn’t be the driving motivations for a jump to any cloud. Cloudy capabilities offer the opportunity to change the way IT services are delivered to an organization. Improving deployment capabilities, making application designs more resilient, and optimizing access to data are far more important goals. Yes, costs and implementation times can be reduced, with clouds, but simply doing the same things with the same processes and procedures misses the largest advantages.
Salesforce Hires Oracle-Trained President-Vice-Chairman
In an interesting exercise in sharing that begs to be plumbed, Marc Benioff, founder and CEO of cloud doyen Salesforce.com, has hired himself a president-cum-vice-chairman and where else would the wannabe-Larry Ellison look but among the veterans of Oracle, his alma mater.
His pick is Keith Block, former EVP of North American sales at Oracle, head of a 11,000-man multibillion-dollar operation whose indiscrete Sun-knocking e-mails to a colleague where enshrined, thanks to legal discovery, in the HP v Oracle litigation over Itanium.
Focusing on IT Regions and Cities
State and regional efforts toward economic development and creating innovation are often as important as national initiatives. We’re starting to examine some of these with the same eye we’ve been taking for the past two years with national environments.
This is not to diminish the importance of a healthy national environment for technology and economic development; the best local or regional program will wither on the vine if a nation’s roots have gone bad.
On the other hand, strong local and regional programs can serve as beacons to attract talent and investment to their home countries, even if the national picture is not so pretty.
Three areas in the developing world spring to mind: Gauteng (South Africa), Lagos State (Nigeria) and New Wave Cities (Philippines). All have higher income levels than the countries in which they reside; all are driven in part by governmental commitments.
I’m most familiar with the latter of the three, the New Wave Cities program. This is something developed by the Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP); it lists different cities each year, located in the three major regions of the country (Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao).
But recently I’ve been in touch with some of the folks behind the program in Lagos State to focus on technology and innovation in a massive country that is giving it the good fight to emerge from the middling ranks of developing nations into a global leader this century.
Our research covers the globe – 102 countries so far in every region and economic tier – and we will be examining specific regions and cities of the spectrum of nations that we cover.
But I do enjoy traveling in developing nations to see and feel what’s going on. To paraphrase Tolstoy, wealthy nations are all alike, every unwealthy nation is unwealthy in its own way. Our research aims to uncover the diamonds in the rough among those unwealthy nations, and watch them as they fight to improve their economies and the lives of their people.
How to Recruit the Next Generation of Load and Performance Testers
Last month, I went to my engineering school, where I graduated 15 years ago, to attend the Annual Gala. While there, I met a few young engineers who asked about my job. This raised a question: “What would make them join my team?”
In the IT world, the demand for highly skilled software engineers continues to grow as application development becomes an integral part of more and more businesses around the globe. As more and more applications are highly connected and have strong SLAs and are addressing sensitive business issues, the demand for load and performance testers also grows.
Companies have been using creative techniques like using Big Data, Twitter and gamification to find top tech talent, but how do you get talented young engineers to 1) be interested in load testing and 2) want to work at your company in your team?