Parallels’ CTO of server virtualization James Bottomley claims there’s an inherent tenancy problem with PaaS and SaaS clouds because most applications are designed for single occupancy.
And they’re designed for single occupancy mostly because it’s easier to write them that way, ignoring the fact that their data can leak or they can hog resources – or maybe not get enough resources – if they’re deployed in a multitenant cloud.
He figures the software industry will pretty much treat the problem the way it did the need for high availability some years back and stick its head in the sand. Single-occupancy applications won’t get rewritten to oblige multitenant clouds. ISVs are unwilling to make the investment.
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Cloud Expo New York: Harnessing APIs to Deliver Competitive Applications
With the rapid rise of open cloud services, organizations face a future of sourcing and integrating functionality from multiple open APIs. But harnessing this API-centric ‘cloud of clouds’ to deliver competitive applications is not simple. You will need to understand and adopt new disciplines, processes, and technologies – like service analysis, cloud brokering, process orchestration, service integration, agile development, accelerated testing, devops collaboration, continuous delivery, and of course, API management and security.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Andi Mann, vice president of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies, will explain how the new digital enterprise can take advantage of this API-centric ‘cloud of clouds’ to deliver new competitive applications faster, cheaper, and safer. Aimed at an architect-level audience, this session will include multiple case studies, implementation advice, execution best practices, and other practical lessons.
Cloud Is All About Simplicity
«For organizations just getting started the move to cloud is about rapidly turning on IT infrastructure,» said Nicos Vekiarides, CEO & Co-Founder of TwinStrata, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. «For mature organizations where IT has started to become unwieldy,» Vekiarides continued, «it is about cost and administrative savings.»
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time – agree or disagree?
Nicos Vekiarides: I would say that it is a combination of both.
Ramp-up time is a very important consideration for organizations deciding whether to deploy IT infrastructure locally or in the cloud. Saving time is particularly compelling for organizations in the midst of new «green field» deployments, where data center space needs to be built out. Without the need to purchase and deploy any infrastructure, cloud reduces the ramp-up cycle dramatically.
Nimble Flashes New Private Cloud Reference Architecture Around
Nimble Storage, one of the darlings of the new storage breed – darling if for no other reason than it’s managed to collect $98 million from the VC crowd since it started in 2008 – that’s pretty darling – has been waving around the plans for a new Microsoft private cloud that’s pre-configured, turnkey and certified as a scalable on-premise infrastructure platform.
The Microsoft reference architecture involves a Nimble SmartStack for Windows Server and System Center running on Cisco’s UCS servers. It’s supposed to be good for 75 virtual machines created by Microsoft’s Hyper-V in a highly available environment.
Scalability – The New Buzzword for Cloud Computing
“I think SMAC will continue to grow and mature and the demand for more sophisticated data like streaming videos and online television will be a real game changer,” stated Barbara P. Aichinger, co-founder of FuturePlus Systems and VP of New Business Development, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair. “Analytics is also very important and will become part of “Big Data,” meaning the data pulled and pushed to and from the cloud will have an analytic associated with it.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time – agree or disagree?
Barbara P. Aichinger: It’s about saving time and money but it can be scary. As someone who really understands how the hardware works and, more important, how it doesn’t work I can understand the apprehension. The cloud needs standards especially in the quality and reliability area so that folks know their data is safe.
Cloud Expo New York: Cloud Architecture and Engineering
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Tony Shan, who was one of the key drivers inside IBM for the cloud reference architecture, and also helped coin «Cloud Engineering,» will discuss lots of valuable best practices and lessons learned in designing cloud architecture and applying cloud engineering disciplines in real-world projects as case studies.
It was Shan who created the first version of the term Cloud Engineering in Wikipedia. Some of the works are shared in his blog – cloudonomic.blogspot.com.
Rethinking Enterprise Networks: Transformative Approach to Fuel the Cloud
It’s clear that cloud computing has transformed the enterprise IT landscape, from the computing infrastructure layer up through enterprise software, as companies move to leverage more efficient and cost-effective service-delivery models and bring new cloud-based products and services to the market. Perhaps less known is the innovation taking place at the network level and how leading companies are transforming their Wide Area Networks (WAN) to more quickly and efficiently fuel their move to the cloud.
Moving to the cloud requires network managers and IT shops to implement scalable solutions that ensure the reliability and performance of cloud-based applications across their extended enterprise. Cloud computing drives the need for more reliability across the WAN and ever-increasing amounts of highly available, secure and reliable bandwidth across all users, locations and geographies. However, many enterprises are constrained by their existing network infrastructure, both from a cost and performance perspective. They can’t cost-effectively scale their networks; and latency, jitter and packet loss impact performance and reliability in the cloud.
Employees Accessing the Cloud
For many organizations, cloud computing has become an integral part of their everyday business. Many companies are relying on cloud applications for fundamental operations such as CRM and email and are looking to increase utilization of the cloud for other functions. For others, adoption of the cloud along with internal communication about proper protocols for usage has perhaps been slower to evolve or implement.
As recently highlighted in this article in Forbes, it’s been widely observed that employees are experiencing the benefits of cloud computing at home and are often times transferring this personal use into the workplace. Popular applications employees are using both places include Gmail, Skype and Dropbox.
ITprenuers to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that ITprenuers, the leading content and instructor provider for IT best practices training and workshops, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
ITpreneurs offers innovative competence development programs for IT best practices to support the educational needs of IT professionals. With expertise in key domains including Cloud Computing, ITSM, IT Governance, Information Security, Process Improvement, and Project Management, ITpreneurs provides guidance on disparate frameworks and integrated solutions.
Open Data Centers to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that Open Data Centers, LLC, a carrier-neutral data center operator in New Jersey and New York City, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Open Data Centers is located in Piscataway, New Jersey in a very high power density area. Located 16 miles south of New York City, the facility offers enterprises, service providers and carriers 8,500 feet of high-quality, cost-effective services in an ideal location for carrier Points of Presence (PoPs), low latency alternatives for colocation of financial services applications, and location for cloud services.