Intel has been rethinking the rack and rather than converge all the parts of a server in a system it figures they should be disaggregated so all the compute is together, and all the shared storage is together and all the shared power and cooling is together, all the shared memory is together and everything is tied together with a high-speed optical network starting at 100 Gbps, fast enough that the elements don’t have to be cheek by jowl
This mix-and-match rack-scale vision, geared to the workload, includes both Xeons and Atoms with the Xeons in a different tray from the Atoms. This way the widgetry is easier to service and upgrade. Upgrading the processors can be done separate from the other components.
It’s also supposed to eliminate all unnecessary sheet metal as well as bottlenecks and cost in space and power while increasing density.
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HP’s Hybrid Cloud Solution Leverages OpenStack
«HP provides the industry’s most comprehensive hybrid cloud solution leveraging OpenStack across HP today extended its commitment to the OpenStack community with new and enhanced HP Converged Cloud offerings that enable enterprises to increase agility, speed innovation and lower costs,» said Saar Gillai, senior vice president and general manager, Converged Cloud, at HP as HP announced that it is integrating OpenStack technology to deliver enterprise-grade solutions across its private, public and hybrid cloud portfolio.
It’s Raining Money from the Cloud for Amazon
RW Baird & Co. is projecting $10 billion in revenue for Amazon Web Services by 2016. As Alex Williams of TechCrunch puts it, «The estimates reflect Wall Street’s growing confidence in cloud services and the need that analysts see in letting their customers know that a shift is underway that will lead to continued flat revenues or even losses for enterprise companies and systems integrators.»
Cloud Expo New York: Basics of SSD Technology and Its Use in Cloud
Explore the basics of SSD technology and its application to cloud computing. Learn about common system interfaces from Sata to PCIe, sequential and random performance, latency, Quality of Service, and RAS features for cloud data center application.
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Mark Jackson, Product Marketing Engineer at Intel, and Charles Anyimi, Applications Engineering Data Center Manager at Intel, will cover typical applications of data center SSD storage and review example solutions and ROI benefits.
Three Surprising Cloud Security Threats
Threats to cloud infrastructure are widely discussed, but much of the talk is based on assumptions — the cloud must be less secure — and fears — this is something new, so I don’t quite understand all the implications yet.
OK, we will say it: Security is an issue in the cloud … and in traditional managed hosting, in-house data centers, and desktop endpoints.
What’s important is to understand the specific security issues of each environment.
Alert Logic (Logicworks‘ security partner) recently released the latest “State of Cloud Security” report, which provides and in-depth view on the major issues impacting security in the cloud.
Creating Harmony When Cloud and On-Premise Worlds Collide
In recent years, IT departments have been confronted with the convergence of several highly disruptive trends that have fundamentally altered the enterprise IT landscape, particularly when it comes to how data and applications are managed. Mobility and the rise of BYOD (bring your own device), as well as the growth of social media and the electronic information it generates, have each proved transformative. But perhaps no shift has been more seismic than the adoption of cloud and SaaS-based applications led by CIOs who see the value proposition associated with outsourcing many complex IT operations.
However, integrating data across diverse SaaS applications with existing on-premise solutions has proved exceptionally challenging. To streamline this integration without slowing adoption, IT stakeholders are turning to cloud-based integration solutions that can curtail complexity and IT oversight while enabling organizations to better leverage their information capital to drive business objectives. Indeed, according to a recent report by analyst firm MarketsandMarkets, the global Cloud Brokerage Services (CSB) market is on track to grow from $1.57 billion in 2013 to $10.5 billion by 2018, a compound annual growth rate of more than 45% over the five year period.
Key to Solving New Data Challenges
A data dichotomy has changed the face of information management, bringing with it huge new data challenges for businesses to solve.
The dichotomy means that organizations, both large and small, not only need to manage all of their internal data to provide intelligence about their businesses, they need to manage the growing reams of increasingly external big data that enables them to discover new customers and drive new revenue.
What are the biggest challenges that businesses need to solve now when it comes to data and information management?
Necessary Conversations: Five Steps to a Perfect Cloud
Cloud has arrived. Everyone in the business, from the CEO to the customer relations manager, wants in on a computing model that promises to lower costs while delivering better service and greater efficiency. The business finally sees the potential of IT to add value, yet such high expectations don’t come without risks for failure.
How can you increase the odds of success? By building a firm foundation based on clear communication with the business about their requirements. These conversations should be specific, detailed and, most important, collaborative. The following five steps outline a requirements-gathering process that brings the business and IT together.
Rackspace Offers Developers Mobile Stacks
Having decided that mobile is the place to be, Rackspace is offering developers free purpose-built mobile cloud stacks based on OpenStack to help them “design, build, test, deploy and scale mobile apps” on its cloud.
The stacks are supposed to reduce complexity and save deployment time while Rackspace manages background operations.
The first stack is for PHP and includes LAMP plus the HTTP accelerator Varnishd, Memcache, PHP Memcache extensions and Alternative PHP Cache (APC), all open source code.
Rackspace is also working on stacks for Ruby on Rails and Node.js back-ends.
Cloud Expo New York: Building Clouds for Complex IT Environments
Enterprises that are looking to deploy cloud architectures quickly run into challenges in dealing with complex requirements around resilience, availability, multi-tenant security and data gravity. A naïve «one-size-fits-all» approach to cloud building based on legacy infrastructure is inadequate for such environments, resulting in high costs, inefficiency and needless frustration.
In his general session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Paul Rogers, chief development officer for GE’s Global Software Headquarters, will look at how cloud architects can leverage state-of-the-art colocation facilities, scale-out software-defined storage solutions based on Ethernet storage architectures, and modern open source cloud platforms such as OpenStack to build private data clouds. Adopting this approach allows customers to combine enterprise requirements such as security in multi-tenant environments, high availability and business continuity with the benefits of a cloud architecture.