Legos have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest, fondest memories involve Legos – starting from a small car made from a couple of simple bricks to very complex spaceships and wild creatures. I’m always amazed at how nicely and cleanly they snap together to create something solid, functional, and – in the case of the Millennium Falcon – amazing. Let’s be honest, I’m not the only one occasionally sneaking down Target’s Lego aisle to discover what new theme they’ve cooked up from the same core concept: clicking bricks together.
It’s magical what happens to the brain when snapping those colorful, simple blocks into place. Visions of larger, cooler creations are conjured and we find ourselves scrambling for additional blocks to connect to create something that has a whole new purpose or function.
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Cloud Computing – The Wave of the Future
“Trust is an ongoing journey and sits at the foundation of any vendor relationship – the companies that don’t consistently earn trust won’t be around long,” noted Henrik Rosendahl, Senior VP of Cloud Solutions at Quantum, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “As they do more with cloud, trust will organically grow – maybe it’s just about meeting SLAs or seeing firsthand that data is there when you need it,” Rosendahl continued.
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time. – Agree or disagree?
Henrik Rosendahl: I believe it is actually both. Time is money, as they say. I typically think in terms of efficiency, which encompasses economics as well as the positive impact on administrative workflows. This is certainly true when we talk about cloud-based backup as a service (BaaS). Typically with BaaS customers, the first question is “How much is this going to cost?” Monthly costs are primarily capacity-driven – store more, pay more; however, you don’t have to buy future capacity that’s not being used for a while so in that sense you save a lot of money. Cloud-based backup and archive solutions enable companies to reduce or eliminate tape, as well as realize the promise of true business continuity. Another benefit of cloud-based solutions, particularly when it comes to backup, is in paying only for the capacity you immediately need, with the ability to scale up as needed, and convert CAPEX to OPEX, which is an important element of flexibility.
Apptio Closes $45 Million E Round
Apptio, which knows how to gauge the total cost of IT services, has gotten a mighty $45 million E round that it means to invest in its platform and its international expansion, immediately in Western Europe.
Counting the new money the company has now seen $136 million in funding since late 2007.
The latest round was led by new investments from funds managed by Janus Capital, the Hillman Company, and a secret unnamed global institutional investor.
Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Madrona Venture Group, Shasta Ventures and T. Rowe Price also kicked in.
Apptio figures “IT costs are moving from fixed to variable, computing assets are shifting from owned to shared, and business executives increasingly expect the CIO to play a more strategic role, spending less resources ‘keeping the lights on’ and more on innovation that drives the business forward.” It positions its TBM widgetry as a “must have” set of business management applications and analytics for the Global 2000.
Cloud Expo New York: Many Clouds and APIs but One OpenStack and jclouds
In an ideal developer/systems administrator’s world, most applications would deploy seamlessly to multiple platforms and scale elastically with minimal effort bringing the unprecedented agility of the cloud within immediate reach of developer teams and IT organizations.
OpenStack, a RackSpace and NASA initiative, is now managed by an independent foundation and is supported by multiple vendors. It defines APIs for compute, storage, networking, services, monitoring, and additional infrastructure services.
jclouds is an open source library that helps you get started in the cloud and utilizes your Java or Clojure development skills. The jclouds API gives you the freedom to use portable abstractions for cloud-specific features. It’s a cross-cloud toolkit that works with both public and private clouds, enabling hybrid cloud workloads.
Cloud Computing and Data Residency Laws
Cloud service providers store data all over the globe, and are constantly moving that data from one datacenter to the next for reasons as wide-ranging as cost considerations and redundancy requirements. Does this mean that the requirements outlined in varying data residency laws and privacy regulations are directly at odds with how cloud computing works?
The question is an especially delicate one when the cloud service provider stores and processes data in a jurisdiction that is perceived to have far less stringent privacy and data protection requirements – or may allow government agencies far broader data subpoena powers. Since the cloud computing model relies on distributed infrastructure to generate cost and flexibility benefits for customers, building a datacenter in each data residency jurisdiction quickly becomes cost-prohibitive. And, applying a set of constraints to the movement of data introduces an additional layer of complexity that further erodes the value proposition of cloud computing for customers.
Cloud Expo New York: Introducing the Open Cloud Exchange
The cloud-enabled data center sits at the center of IT transformation. It facilitates the interconnection and communities that come together, propelling growth for both buyers and sellers.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Gerry Fassig, CoreSite’s Vice President of Sales, will discuss how CoreSite is bringing together best-of-breed partners through the Open Cloud Exchange resulting in public, private, and hybrid cloud interconnection and management as well as connectivity to AWS direct connect.
Gerry Fassig is CoreSite’s Vice President of Sales for the cloud/hosting service provider industry. He possesses more than 20 years of enterprise and start-up sales leadership experience and leads a national team responsible for acquiring, retaining and managing service providers of all sizes. Prior to joining CoreSite, he held senior sales and management positions with Savvis, helping drive strategic growth throughout the organization during the Exodus/Cable and Wireless acquisitions. Before Savvis, he held various leadership roles at Wheelhouse, a CRM strategy consultancy and at Gartner.
Wal-Mart Buys OneOps
@Walmart Labs, the Silicon Valley-based technology arm of Wal-Mart global e-commerce, has bought OneOps, which automates and accelerates processes related to environment management, application deployment and data center operations monitoring.
It’s supposed to have re-imagined application management in the era of cloud computing and comes with a Platform-as-a-Service capability that should accelerate Wal-Mart’s PaaS and private cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) strategies.
Wal-Mart will doubtless get cloud applications out of it. It said, “We are innovating on a very large scale, and OneOps brings us tools that will allow us to move even faster toward a global platform.”
Zyrion Named “Entrance Carpet Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that Zyrion Inc., the leading provider of Cloud and IT Monitoring software solutions, has been named “Entrance Carpet Sponsor” of 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.
Zyrion is the leading provider of integrated Cloud and Network monitoring software for distributed and complex datacenter environments, and offers the most scalable monitoring platform in the industry. Zyrion’s flagship Traverse software provides correlated, end-to-end, application service-oriented views of the IT infrastructure. Zyrion’s monitoring software is used by large enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) worldwide. Zyrion has its corporate offices in Sunnyvale, California.
Part 2 | Understand the Impact of IT on Business
Part 2 of a two part blog series looking at the journey enterprise IT departments take as they increasingly seek to understand the relationships and impact of IT infrastructure performance on application performance and business services.
Through observation, Fred notices that even though his alarms, based on dynamic baselines, catch problems in his environment, they’re also catching busy days, quiet days, and even slightly odd days. He starts to realize that just looking at the level of metrics is necessary, but not sufficient. Fred also needs to look at how the metrics work together – he needs statistical correlation.
Cloud Expo NY: Adopting Cloud Solutions from the Couch to the Corporation
Enterprise cloud adoption revolves around pushing the BYOD movement and focusing on data security.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ross Brouse, COO and President of Solar VPS, will cover how cloud adoption is driven by consumerism, humanity’s need to socialize, our addiction to new gadgets and the ability of data to stay secure in a growing collaborative world. The cloud is a drug and we’re just getting hooked.
Ross Brouse is the COO and President of Solar VPS. He is a true creative thinker. He believes the solution to most challenges involves discipline, positive reinforcement and innovative problem solving. As an industry leader, he draws from decades of experience in film and television production, graphic design and development, and managed IT. A graduate of New York University, Ross founded FortressITX’s subsidiary company, Solar VPS, in 2005.