SYS-CON Events announced today that Dell Inc. has been named “Silver Sponsor” of 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.
For more than 28 years, Dell has empowered countries, communities, customers and people everywhere to use technology to realize their dreams. Customers trust Dell to deliver technology solutions that help them do and achieve more, whether they’re at home, work, school or anywhere in their world. Learn more about Dell’s story, purpose and people behind its customer-centric approach.
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Exploring Demand for Hosted Private Cloud Services
The cloud movement is about much more than the service offerings. It’s a core ingredient of a larger commercial transformation movement — where savvy leaders are using business technology to advance their operations and accelerate their key processes.
According to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide spending on hosted private cloud (HPC) services will be more than $24 billion in 2016. IDC says that they define HPC as an operational model for deploying computing infrastructure services of many types via the cloud.
IDC forecasts that HPC spending will experience a compound annual growth rate of more than 50 percent during the 2012-2016 period, as companies look to managed cloud services in its various forms as a means to transform the ‘how’ of what they provide to their customers.
ICT Modernization Planning
The current technology refresh cycle presents many opportunities, and challenges to both organizations and governments. The potential of service-oriented architectures, interoperability, collaboration, and continuity of operations is an attractive outcome of technologies and business models available today. The challenges are more related to business processes and human factors, both of which require organizational transformations to take best advantage of the collaborative environments enabled through use of cloud computing and access to broadband communications.
Future Proofing the Data Center
More and more of our lives are lived online. Our music collections, bookshelves, vacation memories and more are increasingly digitized and uploaded into the cloud, the vast network of server farms that provide the bulk of online storage today. Research firm Gartner projects that by 2016, 36 percent of consumer content will be stored on the cloud, up from a mere seven percent in 2011.
Service providers, watching these trends with a wary eye, will be required to accommodate ever-increasing demands for storage as consumer appetites for cloud content storage continues to grow. To adapt, many service providers are exploring new options in data center architecture that will permit greater flexibility and control over hardware costs.
Michael May Have To Fight for Dell
Both the Blackstone Group, the big private equity house, and the
indomitable activist investor Carl Icahn met Dell’s midnight deadline Friday
to express interest in the company, setting the stage for a bidding war against
Michael Dell and his partner, the Silver Lake Group.
Parallels Eyes IPO
Ah, this is a story to warm the cockles of the capitalist heart.
Parallels, the originally Russian virtualization company best known for letting Windows run on Macs, is figuring on going public in the second half according to what it told Bloomberg the other day.
It all depends on market conditions of course but it’s planning to use the money raised to expand in the $40 billion cloud services market where it already counts Sprint Nextel, American Movil, Telenor, CenturyLink and Rackspace as clients.
The company, understood to be profitable, reportedly had revenues of $100 million in 2008 and having already made a slew of small acquisitions will doubtless make more.
ownCloud Tackles File Synch and Sharing
ownCloud allows organizations to integrate existing security, storage, monitoring and reporting tools with simplicity and flexibility.
OwnCloud, Inc. recently released the latest version of the ownCloud Community Edition with a number of usability, performance, and integration enhancements.
Based on an open-source project of the same name, the ownCloud file sync and share software, deployed on-premise, not only offers users greater control, but allows organizations to integrate existing security, storage, monitoring and reporting tools, while still taking advantage of the software’s simplicity and flexibility.
File sync and share services like Dropbox, Google Docs, and Box Inc. have revolutionized the way users share information. These cloud-based services make it easy to share files with clean interfaces and seemingly endless amounts of storage. However, not everyone wants to turn over their information to a service provider – for those who prefer to control how and where their data is stored there’s ownCloud.
Cloud Expo New York: NoSQL and Big Data, the No ‘BS’ Edition
A lot of companies are checking the NoSQL conversation box these days but end up getting confused by the sheer amount of information that is available on the Internet.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Sam Bisbee, Director of Technical Business Development at Cloudant, will look at how NoSQL impacts your application building decisions. He will discuss some of the insider baseball in the NoSQL community, cover a few tons of misconceptions, and discuss Cloudant’s views on what all this NoSQL and Big Data hullabaloo is all about. The session will be littered with case studies and examples from clients and previous projects.
Cloud WAN Optimization Holds the Key to Driving Enterprise RaaS Adoption
In a constant effort to improve customers’ cloud experience and increase adoption, cloud providers are starting to introduce WAN optimization capabilities into their service offerings. This technology will allow organizations to realize significant performance improvements for cloud applications. For providers who have global cloud ecosystems, this is an extremely important step forward. One area in particular that will benefit from WAN optimization is Recovery as a Service (RaaS), a cloud-based solution that uses predetermined sets of processes to allow enterprises to implement disaster recovery in the cloud. Traditional disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) solutions, including hot sites and secondary data centers, have commonly been costly to implement, and RaaS solutions have emerged as a better alternative.
Seven-Step Checklist for Evaluating a Cloud Provider
A move to the cloud brings serious benefits, particularly for startups who often need to ramp up their IT capacity quickly without the burden of investing in new hardware or training staff. If your company is ready to offload its applications to the cloud, how do you decide which provider is right for you?
The standard questions about pricing and capacity are fairly obvious. For example, most people would probably think to ask things like: How much will this cost me (i.e. what is the cost per hour)? What hardware specs do we get for the price?
Yet beyond budget and capacity, there are several other factors that can impact your experience. Here are seven other questions every startup should ask a potential cloud provider:
You need to know if a service will be up and running when your business needs it. Of course, all cloud providers will promote their system’s stability. You need to dig beyond the marketing materials to understand the provider’s infrastructure and if it’s backed up with a meaningful Service Level Agreement. Research their outage history: what were the average and maximum downtime lengths? How did the provider respond to past outages?