Akamai Technologies, Inc., a cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere, is showcasing its cloud delivery and optimization expertise at Cloud Expo NY 2013 which will be held at New York’s Javit’s Center, June 10-13, 2013. Through a combination of keynote, general and technical sessions, as well as booth demonstrations (Booth 418) of the company’s Terra Alta solutions, Akamai will show attendees how they can maximize the results of their cloud computing strategies.
Terra Alta is a cloud-based application delivery platform designed to improve enterprise agility and collaboration by offering the power to instantly configure and deliver all web-based applications, to any users, anywhere in the world. The solution also can help overcome the inherent challenges related to performance, availability, scalability and security, which cannot be accomplished by deploying specialized hardware within the data center. Further, Terra Alta is designed to mitigate new application delivery challenges introduced by the rapid migration and movement of applications across cloud computing platforms, the diversity of mobile device types and networks, and the need for real-time aggregation of data sources.
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Cloud Enables a Win-Win on Both Sides of the Business
“Open source is very important for the cloud ecosystem,” noted Manjula Talreja, VP of Global Cloud Business Development at Cisco, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “One of the biggest concerns our customers have about cloud is the fear of lock-in: cloud, especially public cloud, has the potential of becoming ‘a hotel’ where customers can check in but can never check out.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time – agree or disagree?
Manjula Talreja: Putting aside the old adage that “time is money,” Cisco agrees that cloud is more about creating efficiencies in business processes. This is true for the cloud consumers (to take advantage of new technologies more quickly and with maximum flexibility and to tap into pay-as-you grow business models where they pay only for what they consume) and for cloud providers (to create new services rapidly and with fewer barriers to sell and create demand for those services).
What Will Stop the Amazon Cloud Juggernaut?
Amazon has built a classic virtuous cycle. They got IaaS to work, disrupting the pre-existing data center outsourcing market. They achieved market dominance, enabling them to be the low-cost leader. And they figured out how to scale, facilitating unlimited growth. But such growth and market dominance cannot go on forever, can it? What—if anything—has any hope of stopping, or even slowing down, the Amazon Cloud juggernaut?
The first place to look for an AWS-killer, of course, is the competition. And perhaps the one adversary that has a real shot at dethroning Amazon is Google. They are the only competitor that understands infrastructure at scale as well as Amazon does. They also have a trusted, well-established brand, and they’ve shown they’re willing to take risks and provide market leadership. Expect better than an AWS clone from Google.
Salesforce Buys E-Mail House for $2.5 Billion
Salesforce.com, the poster child of the cloud computing era, has agreed
to pay a giant $2.5 billion – at an equally giant 53% premium – for
ExactTarget, the Indianapolis-based company that got started very late in
2000 intent on stuffing marketing e-mails from mid-sized companies into
people’s inboxes, something now called social marketing.
IBM Reportedly Peels Off $2 Billion or More for SoftLayer
IBM Tuesday said it’s going to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, the Dallas-based outfit that’s supposed to be the largest privately held Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider in the world.
Terms were not disclosed but the good ole rumor mill, touched off by a Reuters report in March about how both IBM and EMC were interested in buying SoftLayer, pegged the deal at around $2 billion. Others venture that it could be worth as much as $2.5 billion.
Either amount makes it the largest acquisition of IBM CEO Ginni Rometty’s new reign.
Going Green with Cloud Computing
Calling it a full-fledged tree-hugger may be a slight overstatement, but cloud computing is being viewed as an eco-friendly service that reduces the number of machines and the carbon footprint of enterprises.
Thanks to virtualization and server utilization rates of around 60-70 percent, large, shared data centers are usually able to employ fewer physical machines to achieve the same capacity as an equivalent number of in-house data centers, according to an article on GreenerIdeal.com.
Large data centers can also dynamically allocate resources where they’re needed, where individual enterprises must often buy more machines than they need to handle peak data loads. This reduction in physical servers means less energy expended in running, cooling, manufacturing, transporting, and replacing these machines, and that can mean big savings over time.
Cloud Expo New York: Building-Block Approach to Hadoop DataNode Design
Hadoop is delivering on its promise to provide Big Data analytics for enterprises at a fraction of the cost of proprietary MPP systems. The combination of industry-standard hardware and open source software is the key combination behind this success.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Wing Au, Director of Server Application at Supermicro, will discuss how to utilize innovative multi-node server architectures for Hadoop DataNode designs. He will illustrate the flexibility that allows using similar building-blocks to build starter Hadoop configuration up to hyper-scale and power-user implementations. He will also share Data Center environmental optimizations and management software suites that help to scale out your Hadoop deployment.
Cloud Expo New York | SDN for the Hybrid Cloud: The Scalable Solution
The hybrid cloud provides compelling benefits to the enterprise – the security of the private cloud combined with a public cloud’s scale and scope. However, hybrid clouds also experience similar challenges. Increasing traffic demands combined with their dynamic nature can result in costly overprovisioning or inefficient under-provisioning of resources. OpenFlow-enabled SDN as a foundation for hybrid cloud provides a uniquely scalable and cost-effective solution to these problems.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Marc LeClerc, a representative of the Open Networking Foundation, will discuss this solution to the provisioning issues of the hybrid cloud and the resulting benefits.
Countdown To Cloud Expo New York: IBM To Acquire SoftLayer
«Cloud computing in the enterprise is all about workloads,» said Ric Telford is Vice President of IBM Cloud Services, as IBM today announced its intent to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, Inc. – the well-respected provider of a wide array of options for hosting applications in the cloud.
Why the Cloud Will Supplant On-premise Security
The cloud will soon supplant on-premise security initiatives. IT is at a crossroads: the acceptance of cloud-based computing as the chief business driver.
Erasmus Wilson, the celebrated Oxford professor once proclaimed, «When the Paris Exhibition [of 1878] closes, electric light will close with it and no more will be heard of it.” History is littered with those who refused to embrace the obviousness of the future. Didn’t Digital founder Ken Olsen prognosticate “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home,” in 1977. (His company was broken up for parts after its acquisition by Compaq in 1998.)
There are many of us who have been around IT long enough can even remember how storing 1MB on a 3.5” hard case floppy disk was cutting edge IT. Yes, I remember punch cards too, but the point is that IT grows up. It advances, evolves. Thirty years on from those halcyon days, IT is facing its latest crossroads: the movement away from on-premise solutions and the acceptance of cloud-based computing as the chief business driver.