Sometimes clouds are just ground fog.
After more than two years of promising the imminent arrival of Volly, Pitney Bowes – the Fortune 500 that back when there were such things as letters had a vise-like monopoly grip on postage meters – has failed to materialize the cloud that was supposed to replace postal mail, especially posted bills.
Pitney has repeatedly pushed off the Volly launch since at least September of 2011.
It’s now well into 2013 and Australia Post, the one state-owned national post that bought into Pitney’s promises, is still waiting to field a product that was due to be out last October as the latest as part of a A$2 billion investment in digitization.
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Cloud Database Company Xeround, and a Tale of Evolving Business Models
Last night, cloud database company Xeround announced that they’re shutting down the version of their service hosted in public clouds such as Amazon, Rackspace, GreenQloud, and others. Users of the free service have until 8 May to move elsewhere, whilst paying customers have until 15 May. The company describes this as an attempt to “re-focus,” with the implication that other parts of the business remain viable. It’s never easy to admit mistakes and kill products, but the ability to do so is an essential part of running a business that’s viable for the long haul. Xeround’s announcement needn’t be interpreted as the end of the company, or the end of databases running in the public cloud. The challenge now is one of persuading staff, investors and customers to move past the short-term pain and uncertainty, and to get behind the new direction with conviction. Xeround was founded back in 2005, initially delivering scalable data management solutions into the data centres of telcos such as T-Mobile. The company’s work on scaling MySQL and offering it in the cloud brought it to wider attention, and they seemed to maintain momentum by adding additional cloud partners. Last year, the company rolled out a […]
Cloud Expo NY: How Documentation Can Make or Break Your Cloud Platform
Developers are the new kingmakers and it’s a busy job. We want to use your solution but we’re short on time and patience. Reduce the friction of onboarding developers by clearly and succinctly documenting your API, regardless of whether you’re delivering SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Everett Toews, Developer Advocate at Rackspace, will show how developers discover and explore your API. What will make them a permanent user and promoter of your service? What will make them run away screaming, never to return?
Sailing the Seven Cs of Security Monitoring
One of the established best practices in InfoSec is monitoring. People, products and companies get paid a great deal of money and expend a great deal of resources to watch pots. Monitoring simply is the central component to any security initiative. But with all best practices, there are variables. How much to monitor? What priorities matter? Where are my greatest vulnerabilities? To this end, I have boiled down monitoring to 7 best practices…The 7 C’s of security monitoring:
Cloud Expo New York: Predicting the Future of Cloud-Based Data Protection
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Henrik Rosendahl, Senior Vice President, Cloud Solutions, at Quantum Corporation, will explore trends in cloud-based backup and DR, and how current approaches to cloud data protection fall short. He’ll look at in-house vs. subscription cloud backup as a service models, and how on-premise backup for local recovery has advantages. He will also discuss the need for application-specific SLAs for failover and continued operation of applications in the cloud using VMs. He’ll explore how long-term archive and Big Data are converging with cloud providing the potential for seamless backup, repository and archive for all data types and compare cost examples to show the implications of cloud BaaS on CAPEX vs. OPEX.
Dell’s George Newstrom Charts Govt, Enterprise IT Evolution
George Newstrom, head of Dell’s federal government defense and national security business, outlines the evolution of information technology from mainframes and servers to «disruptive» technologies such as cloud computing and mobile devices.
Platform one saw mainframes and terminals hit the market and Newstrom writes this development helped government and other industry end users access thousands of applications, reaching millions of end users.
Many places are in the second platform of client and server offerings, which started nearly 25 years ago according to Newstrom.
Intel Names Krzanich CEO; James President
The company said Thursday morning that the board had unanimously picked Intel COO Brian Krzanich to replace Otellini, who in a surprise move decided to step down early a few months ago apparently with the taste of failure in his mouth given the market’s rejection of the desktop and Intel’s lack of position in mobile.
Intel also did something historic and split Otellini’s CEO and presidential roles apart, naming Renée James its first woman president and CEO heir presumptive.
The pair will take up their new jobs on May 16, the date of company’s annual stockholders’ meeting.
Krzanich, 52, was named COO in January of 2012. Since then, Intel said, he’s been running an organization of more than 50,000 employees consisting of Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group, Intel Custom Foundry, NAND Solutions group, HR, IT and Intel’s China strategy.
10gen Backs Up MongoDB
Big Data projects are notoriously difficult to back up because data volumes
change so quickly and unpredictably.
So 10gen, the open source MongoDB commercializer, put out in limited
release Tuesday what it calls a “critical new tool” that’s supposed to let
companies of all sizes protect their data with a turnkey, pay-as-you-go,
cloud-based back-up service engineered for its NoSQL database.
Day 3 Keynote at Cloud Expo New York | Driving Cloud Innovation
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 4 Keynote at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Robert (Rob) Crooke, corporate vice president and general manager of the Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Solutions Group at Intel Corp, 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.
Topics in Hybrid Cloud Worth Following
I wrote a blog for Cloud Ecosystem last month that talks about the disruption potential of hybrid clouds for disaster recovery. You can read it here: Hybrid Cloud will Transform Disaster Recovery. Within a few days CloudVelocity CTO Anand Iyengar weighed in shortly after with: The Hybrid Cloud is Ideal for Disaster Recovery.
A highlight from both blogs: the on demand pay as you go cloud model is a far superior operating model for DR, if and only if a true hybrid cloud can be deployed.
The issue of how a true hybrid cloud can be deployed was addressed in a great interview at Cloudcast with Brian Gracely and Rajeev Chawla called: Accelerating the Hybrid Cloud. The interview is especially relevant to the demands of deploying traditional multi-tier apps into a hybrid model. It isn’t easy, but it is a powerful game-changer for IT agility, availability and scalability.