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.
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Accurately Identify Impact of System Issues on End-User Response Time
Triggered by current expected load projections for our community portal, our Apps Team was tasked to run a stress on our production system to verify whether we can handle 10 times the load we currently experience on our existing infrastructure. In order to have the least impact in the event the site crumbled under the load, we decided to run the first test on a Sunday afternoon. Before we ran the test we gave our Operations Team a heads-up: they could expect significant load during a two-hour window with the potential to affect other applications that also run on the same environment.
During the test, with both the Ops and Application Teams watching the live performance data, we all saw end-user response time go through the roof and the underlying infrastructure running out of resources when we hit a certain load level. What was very interesting in this exercise is that both the Application and Ops teams looked at the same data but examined the results from a different angle. However, they both relied on the recently announced Compuware PureStack Technology, the first solution that – in combination with dynaTrace PurePath – exposes how IT infrastructure impacts the performance of critical business applications in heavy production environments.
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.
WSO2 and SUSE Presenters at Cloud Expo New York
WSO2 on Thursday announced that WSO2 Vice President of Technology Evangelism Chris Haddad and SUSE Business Development Manager Frank Rego will lead a joint presentation at 12 International Cloud Expo. The session, «Bridging IaaS and PaaS to Deliver the Service-Oriented Data Center,» is part of the event’s Enterprise Cloud Computing Track on Thursday, June 13, 2013. The Cloud Expo conference is being held June 10-13, 2013 at the Javits Center in New York City.
Bridging IaaS and PaaS to Deliver the Service-Oriented Data Center
Increasingly, enterprises are adopting private infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds to take advantage of the scalability and flexibility inherent in cloud environments while avoiding the security and latency issues inherent in publicly hosted settings. As a result, organizations are also reevaluating how to optimize their future application delivery models.
This session will examine how IT professionals can efficiently and flexibly tackle the challenges of the modern connected enterprise using a combination of IaaS and platform as a service (PaaS). It also will discuss how a private PaaS can leverage the automation and scalability of a private IaaS solution, such as the OpenStack-based SUSE Cloud, to deliver secure, standardized development environments that enable migration to an agile, service-oriented delivery model. The presentation will run from 8:15-9:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 13, 2013.
OpenNebula Cloud API
Last week the OpenNebula project launched a survey to collect feedback from their community regarding what is their preferred interface for cloud consumers and how they should invest their resources in cloud API enhancement and development. The survey was open for two days receiving feedback from almost 200 OpenNebula clouds.
Targeted to OpenNebula cloud administrators, its aim was firstly to have information about the level of use of the two cloud APIs offered now by OpenNebula, namely AWS and OGF OCCI. The results show that:
38% do not expose cloud APIs, their users only interface through the Sunstone GUI
36% mostly use the AWS API
26% mostly use the OpenNebula’s OCCI API or the OCCI API offered by rOCCI
Coraid to Speak About Software-Defined Storage for Cloud at Cloud Expo NY
Coraid, a provider of scale-out Ethernet storage solutions, will be speaking at Cloud Expo on the use of software-defined storage to build large, scalable cloud architectures. Cloud Expo, now in its fifth year, is an annual conference dedicated to senior technologists that focuses on how to improve business agility while lowering operating and capital costs. It is larger than all other cloud events put together and is taking place June 10-13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Kevin Brown, CEO of Coraid, will present a general session on software-defined storage for cloud architectures on Tuesday, June 11, at 11:45 a.m. Brown will explain how Ethernet storage architectures employ off-the-shelf hardware, standard Ethernet and distributed storage processing to enable a building-block approach, with no forklift upgrades required. These architectures leverage a powerful REST API policy engine and automation to enable one-click provisioning to deliver flexible software-defined storage that offers simplicity at scale. Paul Roberts, principal architect at Coraid, will provide a technical overview of the rapidly changing landscape in enterprise storage on Thursday, June 13, at 1:40 p.m.
Code Quality as a Service
Recently, there have been an increasing number of cloud-based static code quality analysis tools, or should I say services. A few that I’ve been watching include:
Code Climate consolidates the results from a suite of Ruby static analysis tools into a real-time report, giving teams the information they need to identify hotspots, evaluate new approaches, and improve code quality.
Codeq imports your Git repositories into a Datomic database, and then performs language-aware code quality analysis. By doing so, Codeq allows you to: track changes at the program unit level (e.g. function and method definitions); query your programs and libraries declaratively, with the same cognitive units and names you use while programming; and query across repos.
HP Fortify on Demand is a Security as a Service (SECaaS) testing solution that allows any organization to test the security of software quickly, accurately, affordably, and without any software to install or manage.
Where’s the Cloud Taking IT Next? | CEO Power Panel at Cloud Expo New York
In this fast-moving discussion at the 12th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, topics discussed will be at a deliberately high level and will include:
What specific Cloud implementations can we be most proud of, to date?
What are the remaining barriers perhaps still preventing some companies from moving some of their on-premise computing to the Cloud, in whole or part?
What impact has the arrival of Oracle, Microsoft, Dell, IBM, HP, Cisco and the other giants had on SMBs – has it increased Cloud traction in that sector of IT?
Cloudant Halves Price for Pre-Revenue Start-Ups
Cloudant has announced an Accelerator Program to help young companies on a start-up budget go to market on its highly scalable, always-on NoSQL Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS).
The goal of the sales program is to make it more affordable for start-ups to launch their businesses on a data layer that gets them to market fast and doesn’t inhibit their growth or profitability.
The services provided through the program are identical to Cloudant’s full-priced services.
Cloudant figures many web and mobile start-ups are financially pressured into going to market without a growth strategy for their back-end operations and that sudden success can cripple the database systems powering their applications.
ScaleOut Software at Cloud Expo New York
ScaleOut Software, a provider of in-memory data grids (IMDGs), has announced that its founder and CEO Dr. William Bain will present at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference in New York City.
In-memory data grids (IMDGs) have seen rapid adoption over the last several years, driven by the need to help applications scale their performance as workloads grow. Because IMDGs host fast-changing («operational») data in memory across a cluster of servers, they also offer the ability to perform real-time analytics on this data as it flows through the grid. Recent advances in IMDG technology now enable Hadoop MapReduce-style analytics to be integrated into the IMDG’s architecture, performing parallel analysis even while operational data is changing. This exciting new capability creates the opportunity for real-time analysis in financial trading systems, credit card fraud detection, power systems monitoring, and many other applications.
Dr. Bain’s session will explain how to use an IMDG to perform real-time analytics and will describe recent benchmark results that demonstrate its power to deliver fast results for operational systems.