We were serious about getting serious about managing hybrid cloud and federating application network services
Last month I brought up the need to manage application network services – load balancing, acceleration, optimization, application security.. you know, application services that live in the data path.
These services are what address concerns that Our customers (and I’m sure the market at large) are having regarding application deployments. It’s not the case that these services are any less needed or desired to address concerns related to cloud and emerging architectures, it’s that they need to be more automated, more elastically scaled, and more broadly deployed across a variety of environments.
That’s where BIG-IQ Cloud comes in. It’s the first application available on our new BIG-IQ platform and its focus is on (as you might guess from the name) cloud.
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12th Cloud Expo | Speaker Faculty A–Z
With Cloud Expo New York (12th Cloud Expo) now under six weeks away, let’s remind you in greater detail about all the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference…
Why Cloud Computing Is Booming
That boom you hear? That’s the cloud.
Cloud computing is experiencing serious growth – even the Department of Defense is joining the party. However, some people are a little concerned about giving up hard copies and going completely virtual. Getting on this bandwagon is a great idea that can save money and time (assuming the cloud server chosen has a solid reputation). Here are some reasons, posted on an article on HuffingtonPost.com, cloud computing is gaining in popularity.
It Saves Money (and the Environment)
Keeping paper copies, updating them, making more copies to distribute, shredding them, ordering more paper and ink – it’s a vicious cycle. Many companies waste serious cash on this process, not to mention the leg work of employees whose sole responsibility is to keep up with the filing. Switching to cloud computing can save a lot of money and trees, which is why many companies are going green and upping the bottom line at the same time.
12th Cloud Expo | Speaker Faculty A–Z
With Cloud Expo New York (12th Cloud Expo) now under six weeks away, let’s remind you in greater detail about all the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference…
12th Cloud Expo | Speaker Faculty A–Z
With Cloud Expo New York (12th Cloud Expo) now under six weeks away, let’s remind you in greater detail about all the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference…
The Spring of 2013 Is Off to a Cool Start
Even though today’s crowning ceremony in Amsterdam enjoyed some modest sunshine, the temperatures across Europe are at an all time low. A more reliable indication that spring has started, are the annual Cool Vendor reports being published.
For the first time this series includes a note dedicated to cloud activity in Europe. The «Cool Vendors in the European Cloud Computing Market, 2013» note describes four European vendor making a difference in the local and global cloud market. The report also points to several other European cool vendors featured in other notes. Such as in the «Cool Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerage Enablers, 2013», «Cool Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerages, 2013» and «Cool Vendors in Cloud Management, 2013».
A Roadmap to High-Value Cloud Infrastructure: Data Storage Expansion
As discussed in our prior installment, while there is no “one-size fits all” path to cloud infrastructure adoption, a roadmap can ease and simplify the transition to cloud while minimizing IT disruption. More importantly, a phased approach (as shown in the figure below) enables organizations to take advantage of on-demand infrastructure sooner than later, leveraging scalability, cost advantages and rapid deployment capabilities of cloud.
Data storage expansion may be one of the easiest ways to leverage cloud infrastructure, which is why we list it as phase 1 of our roadmap. Besides the simple integration path, storage is a foundational building block of a cloud-based IT strategy – once data is in the cloud, more cloud services can be rolled in. Need another reason to begin with storage? Storage is growing rapidly, with the digital universe set to exceed 40,000 exabytes (40 billion terabytes) by 2020. With a data explosion looming, nearly every organization needs to formulate a plan for dealing with storage capacity sprawl.
Global Interoperability Consortium’s Cloud Computing Project
Managing and disseminating the rapidly increasing amount of geospatial data will be a huge challenge for governments and civilians responding to the world’s next big disaster, Eric Vollmecke of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) told 350 global leaders at the NATO Network Enabled Capability conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, April 23-25.
«From an operational perspective, there is an insatiable appetite for overhead imagery to build situational awareness. Currently, platforms keep growing to collect and disseminate the necessary information. This information is not timely in its response, it’s unwieldy in its deployment and it lacks the flexibility to enable cross-domain interoperability,» said Vollmecke. «Unless we get our arms around all of this, the amount of data will be overwhelming and we will miss precious days trying to get the right information to the right international stakeholders so they can do their work and not sit waiting on the sidelines.»
Eric Vollmecke of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium reports
the proliferation of geospatial information will pose problems for disaster
responders and describes a project designed to move critical data more
efficiently using an open cloud-based infrastructure
WASHINGTON, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Managing and
disseminating the rapidly increasing amount of geospatial data will be a
huge challenge for governments and civilians responding to the world’s
next big disaster, Eric Vollmecke of the Network Centric Operations
Industry Consortium (NCOIC) told 350 global leaders at the NATO Network
Enabled Capability conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, April 23-25.
«From an operational perspective, there is an insatiable appetite for
overhead imagery to build situational awareness. Currently, platforms
keep growing to collect and disseminate the necessary information. This
information is not timely in its response, it’s unwieldy in its
deployment and it lacks the flexibility to enable cross-domain
interoperability,» said Vollmecke. «Unless we get our arms around all of
this, the amount of data will be overwhelming and we will miss precious
days trying to get the right information to the right international
stakeholders so they can do their work and not sit waiting on the
sidelines.»
Vollmecke said the use of a cloud computing environment will improve
the ability to quickly share critical information between nations and
non-governmental organizations. He described the Cloud Concept and
Demonstration project that NCOIC is working on for the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
The NGA project is a collaborative effort by NCOIC and its
member-companies to show the interoperability and movement of data in an
open cloud-based infrastructure. NGA is providing unclassified data
that supports a scenario depicting the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The
project builds on a series of successful lab interoperability
demonstrations based on Haiti that NCOIC conducted in 2010.
«In Haiti, we collected a huge amount of data compared to the
Tasmanian tsunami of 2004. Tomorrow the amount of data could be 100 fold
and one organization alone will not be able to manage the inputs,» said
Vollmecke, who is also a major general in the U.S. Air National Guard
and, while on active duty, commanded two airlift wings during the 2010
Haitian crisis. «With the NGA community cloud project, NCOIC is testing a
collaborative, real-time environment that has both suppliers and
consumers of data at different security levels.»
Information technology solutions provider NJVC is serving as team
leader of the NGA project and participants include Boeing, The Aerospace
Corporation and Open Geospatial Consortium. «NCOIC has assembled a team
you would not normally see on a government-led project,» Vollmecke told
the NATO audience. «Using a consortium is the most rapid and effective
way to facilitate the advancement and deployment of technology. The
parties can set aside their traditional roles and aren’t subject to the
contractual and legal walls that typically are put up between government
and contractors. The exchange of information and ideas is more
free-flowing.»
Vollmecke, who is NCOIC program director, reported that Cycle One of
the NGA project is complete and the cloud infrastructure has been
defined and built, with the team establishing standards and processes,
utilizing best practices, and addressing potential problems such as
ownership, bandwidth, latency, availability, access and security.
In Cycle Two, set to begin in May, NCOIC member-companies will test
out the infrastructure. They will function as «actors» — information
consumers and providers like police, firefighters, rescue workers,
medical personnel, etc. — who plug into the clouds and use the
geospatial data to activate unique, sometimes proprietary, applications
that demonstrate end-user capabilities.
«The key is to have a core or resident capability in the cloud that
can be rapidly expanded on demand, when there is an event or disaster,»
said Vollmecke. «This will free up intelligence analysts to work their
problems, while putting geospatial information into the hands of other
users. Cloud technology can improve everyone’s capability and
effectiveness, while reducing cost, time and risk.»
About NCOIC
The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium’s core capability
is enabling cross-domain interoperability among and between such areas
as aerospace, civil and military operations, air traffic management,
health care and more. NCOIC is a global not-for-profit organization with
more than 60 members representing 12 countries. It has an eight-year
history of developing net-centric skills and tools that help its members
and customers to operate effectively across diverse global market
sectors and domains. For more information, visit www.ncoic.org
SOURCE Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium
/Web site: www.ncoic.org
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Stackdriver’s AWS & Rackspace Cloud Monitor Betas
Bain Capital-backed Stackdriver, a public cloud monitoring start-up, pushed its widgetry out into public beta Tuesday.
The SaaS stuff currently works on Amazon Web Services and the Rackspace Cloud.
The year-old company says it’s got close to 100 AWS customers using its eponymous Stackdriver Intelligent Monitoring to reduce the complexity of managing their cloud-powered applications.
Market research done by Stackdriver’s founders Dan Belcher and Izzy Azeri, both veterans of VMware, found the cloud wasn’t delivering all the elasticity, performance and security it’s cracked up to, forcing users to hire DevOps engineers and write their own scripts, especially as their cloud environments grew larger and more complex.
It also found that the tools to hand weren’t designed with the cloud’s dynamic nature in mind.
NETWAYS Becomes First OpenNebula Premium Partner
As OpenNebula Premium Partner, NETWAYS continues years of collaboration with C12G Labs. From sharing a stand at CeBIT to joint training courses and troubleshooting in customer projects, the two companies enjoy a longstanding partnership. Their work together strengthens OpenNebula development and its continued relevance to operations in production environments. As Ignacio Martin Manager of C12G Labs notes:
«Getting feedback from partners like NETWAYS on OpenNebula in production helps us to stay on top of the growing needs of cloud operators and systems integrators.»