Is your organization interested in public cloud but needs the added security and compliance of a cloud dedicated to your data? Managed private cloud, located in a secure Dell data center, on-site at your location, or in a co-location facility, could be the answer.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ed Conzel, Director of Product Management, Open Source Cloud at Dell, will discuss a managed single-tenant cloud based on OpenStack and how it provides public cloud attributes: usage metering, quotas/limits, API access, and self-service, but with a cloud that is solely dedicated to your organization. Learn how to simplify the provision of cloud services to your workforce while focusing on driving company strategy.
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Cloud Expo New York: Big Data on OpenStack
The massive computing and storage resources that are needed to support Big Data applications make cloud environments an ideal fit.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Nati Shalom, CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces, will show how to build your Big Data «database on-demand» using MongoDB, Cassandra, Solr, MySQL, or any other Big Data solution, as well as manage your Big Data application using a new open source framework called “Cloudify.” All this, on top of the OpenStack cloud.
The Cloud Delivers a New American Workforce
A new American workforce is emerging. A recent report from Accenture says the number of U.S. workers who are independent (such as freelancers, contractors or temps) is up 6 percent from 1989. Work as we know it is changing. Because of constant connectivity, companies across the globe no longer need their employees in the same building – or the same state – in order to do their jobs well.
The rise in smartphones and cloud-based platforms has made it easier for businesses to tap into contractor networks to expand their workforces. For many companies, using a contractor or temporary employee helps them manage busy seasons and scale when demand rises unexpectedly. For instance, an air conditioning company may need extra employees in the spring and early summer to do seasonal cleaning and updates. Or during hurricane season in Florida, a home improvement store may need extra technicians to install storm shutters.
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According to a research report by 451 Market Monitor, the Cloud Computing marketplace will reach $16.7 billion in revenue this year, including the large and well-established SaaS category, compared to a revenue of $8.7 billion in 2010.
As for Big Data, the total Big Data market reached $11.4 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach $18.2 billion this year, according to a report published recently by Wikibon. IDC says Big Data will be $24B market by 2016.
Put simply, there’s a massive transformation under way from buying IT to IT being a broker for service providers and IT consumed on demand.
Then comes Software-Defined Networking. Like Big Data, SDN is a trend that is changing the landscape of the networking industry today. Enterprises are expecting more agility from their data center plumbing to properly accommodate innovation that’s going on in other departments.
Ignoring the Harmless Looking “Force Majeure” Clause in a Cloud Agreement?
The «Force Majeure» provision, a Latin term roughly meaning an «Act of God» is commonly found in most services agreements. But should it be included in your cloud services contract?
This nugget is a common clause in contracts that essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties, such as a war, strike, riot, crime, or an event described by the legal term “act of God” (such as hurricane, flooding, earthquake, volcanic eruption, etc.), prevents one or both parties from fulfilling their obligations under the contract.
Having a landscaper or electrician be excused from performing his services due to a hurricane is reasonable, and not an objectionable use of a force majeure clause in a contract with one of these types of service providers. Many cloud service providers would also want you to believe that it’s reasonable for them too, along with their uptime service level guarantees. Should you?
From Rent to Buy with Cloud? Wait a Minute
Piston CTO Josh McKenty predicts a radical shift in the cloud computing space. Building off of his firm’s recent product launch, McKenty — who cofounded Piston in January 2011 — tells IT World that he expects to see a “giant explosion of businesses moving off Amazon Web Services.” Going forward, McKenty says many companies will opt to build their own OpenStack clouds, for example, rather than purchase cloud services.
But as IT World’s Nancy Gohring (rightly) notes, that scenario is unlikely to be the case — or is, at the very least, an over-exaggeration. “McKenty obviously has reason to hope that businesses are moving away from AWS since it could mean more customers for Piston,” Gohring writes.
Cloud Computing Is Smart
“The open development business model positively impacts the cloud ecosystem by fostering much-needed cloud standards and removing the fear of “lock-in” for cloud customers,” stated Joan Rothman, CMO at CoreMatrix Systems LLC, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “The open model also creates a cross-cloud environment where innovative development can occur at a speed and cost that only a few companies can do on their own today.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it’s about saving time – agree or disagree?
Joan Rothman: Disagree. The move to the cloud is about saving time and saving money – along with gaining an opportunity to immediately improve processes. We’ve helped companies in several industries move their systems to the cloud in just a few weeks. Of course, for complex and global implementations, it takes longer due to the number of requirements, different groups, disparate databases and existing systems involved in the design, build and deploy process. But the time and cost savings are there for organizations of any size.
Rackspace Planning a ‘Networked Cloud of Clouds’
Rackspace said Monday that it’s going to build and run a global cloud network for service providers like telcos.
It blogged that “This cloud network will run the Rackspace public cloud – the largest OpenStack-based public cloud in the world – at global scale, creating a networked cloud of clouds through which service providers are linked together behind the scenes.”
It figures that as the founder of OpenStack, it’s “perfectly positioned to help speed a partner’s successful entry as a cloud provider in the OpenStack ecosystem with proven Rackspace technology, operations and go to market expertise.”
The Growing Cloud Ecosystem
“Trusted infrastructure providers are transparent and comply with industry security standards and practices,” observed Sheji Jacob-Brettle, Head of Marketing at TelecityGroup, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “As an end user you want to know that your cloud provider’s own infrastructure is robust, resilient and secure,” concluded Jacob-Brettle.
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time – Agree or disagree?
Sheji Jacob-Brettle: It’s about both – the cloud saves money because you use what you need and time because you can provision and deploy services fast.
Cloud Expo New York: Utilizing a Pod Architecture to Scale
Building solutions that process Big Data are complex in general, particularly when dealing with a constant stream of data – not data resulting from interactive sessions, but a continuous stream of data. Design for infinite scale is a huge struggle. Given a design that functions well with a given load, will it function with 10x or 100x that load?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Donn Rochette, CTO at AppFirst, will discuss a pod architecture solution for scale – a design approach that allows you to scale to very large numbers with predictable results.