What are all the requirements for planning, preparing, deploying, monitoring, and managing enterprise private clouds from a cloud builder’s perspective?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Anand Akela, Sr. Principal Product Director at Oracle, will show how Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle VM as well as Oracle’s full range of hardware including engineered systems are utilized to power an enterprise private cloud.
Anand Akela is Sr. Principal Product Director at Oracle, focusing on cloud, virtualization, and infrastructure management offerings within the Oracle Enterprise Manager portfolio. Prior to his current role at Oracle, he worked at HP in various product marketing, product management, and engineering roles in the systems management, servers, data center energy efficiency, and enterprise software areas. Akela serves as the chairman of Data Collection and Analysis workgroup at the Green Grid, an industry consortium developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centers and enterprise systems.
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AppZero Offers One Step Migration from WS2003 to WS2012
With Windows Server 2003 end of life approaching, companies will be faced with moving large numbers of enterprise applications. We provide the only way to upgrade existing server applications from WS2003 to WS2008 or WS2012 in a cost effective and time saving way.
AppZero, the fastest and most flexible way to move server applications from the datacenter to the cloud, has released V5.3 enabling users to «up-level the OS» of their existing server applications to WS2012.
HP’s Moonshot Could Lower Cloud Computing Costs
Hewlett-Packard doesn’t shy away from taking a few cheap shots every now and again, and its latest line of servers, called Moonshot, proves it.
HP has introduced a new line of servers that could be considered a major game changer in terms of power consumption and the cloud.
HP’s new servers consume 89 percent less power and cost 77 percent less to purchase than comparable HP servers. The new line of servers, called Moonshoot, could help CIOs uncover greater savings from cloud computing, according to an article on PCMag.com.
“Finding more cost-efficient servers is key and vital to how we serve up our applications.” said Brent Juelich, vice president of application services for cloud computing provider Savvis.
He has run Hadoop and other analytics software on the new Moonshot servers and said they perform well compared to traditional HP servers. He said he expects Moonshot could help Savvis pass along savings from power, heating and cooling costs to customers.
The HP Moonshot 1500 box delivers a «compelling new infrastructure economics by using up to 89 percent less energy, 80 percent less space, and costing 77 percent less, compared to traditional servers,» according to the company.
Intel to Buy API Maven Mashery
Sometime this quarter Intel expects to close on its just revealed intended purchase of Mashery, a seven-year-old multi-tenant SaaS start-up that manages API technology – APIs being the lingua franca of the Internet.
Intel already has its own Expressway API Manager.
Terms were not disclosed but the rumor is Intel is spending something like $120 million or $180 million on the acquisition.
The ReadWrite Web blog, which says it’s covered Mashery closely for some time, figures the “implications of the deal are huge: it signals Intel’s recognition that the central processing unit is no longer a silicon chip. It is the network.”
And evidently, like IBM, software and services are the place to retreat to. Remember, Intel bought McAfee for $7.7 billion in 2010. Now it’s supposedly appealing more to start-ups than the old-line PC houses.
Day 4 Keynote at Cloud Expo New York | Go Beyond IaaS
Many organizations want to expand upon the IaaS foundation to deliver cloud services in all forms – software, mobility, infrastructure and IT. Understanding the strategy, planning process and tools for this transformation will help catalyze changes in the way the business operates and deliver real value.
In his Day 4 Keynote at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Sheng Liang, CTO Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix Systems, will discuss the new ITaaS model and how to begin the transformation.
Sheng Liang is CTO Cloud Platforms Group, Citrix Systems. Formerly CEO of Cloud.com, he’s a technology visionary who developed the Java Virtual Machine at Sun Microsystems, and a serial entrepreneur. Before Cloud.com he co-founded web application firewall vendor Teros Networks (also acquired by Citrix), and was a member of the senior management team at SEVEN Networks and Openwave Systems, which developed software products for over 100 wireless and wire-line service providers around the world.
Amazon Outage
You don’t have to be a pre-cog to find and deal with infrastructure and application problems; you just need good monitoring. We had quite a day Monday during the EC2 EBS availability incident. Thanks to some early alerts—which started coming in about 2.5 hours before AWS started reporting problems—our ops team was able to intervene and make sure that our customers’ data was safe and sound. I’ll start with screenshots of what we saw and experienced, then get into what metrics to watch and alert on in your environment, as well as how to do so in TraceView.
10:30 AM EST: Increased disk latency, data pipeline backupAround
10am, we started to notice that writes weren’t moving through our pipeline as smoothly as before. Sure enough, pretty soon we started seeing alerts about elevated DB load and disk latency. Here’s what it looked like:
Savage IO to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that Savage IO 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.
Savage IO is a veteran-owned and operated technology company that designs and manufactures innovative, custom-configured, high performance, high capacity converged storage solutions. These solutions are designed by user-engineers that understand the importance of quality, reliability and price.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
You Got Your Governance in My DevOps
Forward-thinking organizations realize that accelerating the speed with which they can deliver new applications and services is critical in making their enterprise more agile – and by extension delivering critical business competitiveness. In order to do so, they must break the cycle that holds many IT organizations captive. In many cases, development bemoans central IT for delays in provisioning development platforms, IT begrudges the Security and Audit teams for the processes and procedures that help create these delays, and these teams are in turn frustrated by the lack of compliance that results in unnecessary audit findings. In the process, Development is often seen as throwing the proverbial pig over the wall – sometimes with more lipstick than other times. When you add to this mix a healthy dose of firefighting and pressure from business units to innovate faster, it’s easy to see how this can become a downward spiral for organizations.
Can Health Care Data Be Secure in the Cloud? (Infographic)
Health care organizations are moving infrastructure and data to the cloud at a fairly rapid pace. A recent study suggests the cloud computing market in health care is expected to reach $5.4 billion by 2017. Enticing as the cloud is, when dealing with highly sensitive and regulated information, it’s important to proceed with caution.
The good news for pharma companies, biotech firms and research hospitals – organizations most likely to move heavy big data payloads to the cloud- is that there are some security best practices that can protect data at rest in the cloud.
Choosing a Cloud Protection Gateway Provider
As the proliferation of the cloud continues, Cloud Protection Gateways are increasingly being discussed as a way to address security issues surrounding cloud adoption. Whatever stage of cloud adoption your organization is in, a thorough vetting of the different gateways available will be important to address key security issues, including data residency concerns, industry compliance and internal security best practices.
Cloud Protection Gateways will be an integral part of your cloud adoption strategy. These gateways are built to intercept sensitive data while it is still physically on the premise of an organization and replace it with a random tokenized or strongly encrypted value. This process renders the data meaningless should anyone attempt to hack the data while it’s in transit, being processed or stored in the cloud. Choosing a provider means trusting that provider’s technological capabilities and soundness.