You may be the CIO or IT manager for a fairly complex IT environment. You also may already have begun moving your data center to a private cloud paradigm that offers greater efficiency and agility to meet your company’s needs.
While there are still a few challenges to work through, most days seem to run fairly smoothly. In the course of a week, however, the landscape changes. You are suddenly drawn into discussions with company management about a potential acquisition or merger in the works.
How do you advise your company on the impact of bringing both IT worlds together, let alone how best to navigate, post-M&A, the smooth integration of the other company’s IT assets with yours?
As it turns out, a hybrid cloud paradigm – used in what I call ‘swing-shift’ mode – may be one way to mitigate risk when integrating IT worlds after a corporate merger or acquisition.
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CIOs: Ready or Not, Here Comes the Cloud
For several years now, prognosticators have insisted that cloud computing would take over the enterprise. And, for several years, we’ve seen growing adoption of cloud computing technologies, but nothing to indicate massive acceptance.
A recent study from Brocade, however, suggests that that phenomenon is about to change. Here are some of the most interesting statistics to come from the CIO survey, which included 100 CIOs from around the world:
A third of CIOs report that they’re already implementing cloud computing. Interestingly enough, this adoption of cloud technology has rarely come as a result of a push from IT. It’s been demand from business units, rather than a move from the center outward.
A Preview of the Brand New Sunstone in OpenNebula 4.0
Following a series of posts about the new OpenNebula 4.0 features, the OpenNebula project has published a preview of the the brand new Sunstone. OpenNebula 4.0 Sunstone has some beautiful new looks, but it’s not only about the external appearance there has also been a major boost for the user experience by redefining the users workflow.
In this post we will show a few snapshots of some new Sunstone key features. The new wizard screen eases the task of creating and updating Virtual Machines. There’s also new functionality to update very easily existing resources using the extended info panel.
Cloud Expo New York | Danger Ahead: Why File Sync Is NOT Endpoint Backup
Some cloud-based file sync vendors tout their solutions as viable alternatives for the online backup of business information stored on laptops and desktops. But existing sync products lack a variety of critical backup capabilities, including those required to secure enterprise data. Understanding the differences between cloud-based sync and cloud-based endpoint backup is critical to properly protecting sensitive business information.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Andrew Renz, Principal Enterprise Engineer at Code 42, will define cloud-based sync and cloud-based endpoint backup, and provide recommendations for which solution type best meets your data needs. He will share wisdom gained from his experience selecting and/or deploying enterprise backup solutions for Apple, Oracle, Expedia and Intuit.
Strategies for Big Data, Cloud, and Mobile
Large enterprises should not just wade into big data as an isolated function, but should anticipate the strategic effects and impacts of big data — as well the simultaneous complicating factors of cloud computing and mobile — as soon as possible.
When we collect data, we have some sort of goal in minds of what we might get out of it. When we put the pieces from the data together, it either maybe doesn’t fit as well as you thought or you are successful and you continue to do the same thing, gathering archives of information.
Strategies for Big Data, Cloud, and Mobile
Large enterprises should not just wade into big data as an isolated function, but should anticipate the strategic effects and impacts of big data — as well the simultaneous complicating factors of cloud computing and mobile — as soon as possible.
When we collect data, we have some sort of goal in minds of what we might get out of it. When we put the pieces from the data together, it either maybe doesn’t fit as well as you thought or you are successful and you continue to do the same thing, gathering archives of information.
Cloud Expo New York | CEO Insider: Overcoming Cloud Barriers
Bring the solution to your CEO. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Rob LaMear, CEO & Founder of Fpweb.net, shares his findings while talking cloud with over 1,000 CEOs around the globe. Delegates will learn what cloud barriers exist and how to remove them.
Rob LaMear IV is CEO & Founder of Fpweb.net. He started Fpweb.net from scratch and believes that the key to success has been its people and the energy they bring, hands down. He has been with SharePoint since its inception and his passion for customer care and delivering a premium product has set a new standard in SharePoint Hosting. As much as he likes work and technology, LaMear loves spending time with his family completely unplugged and has never missed an opportunity to join a pickup game of soccer in the park.
Does Your Cloud Quiesce? It Should
Quiescence, in a nutshell, is your mom telling you to «finish what you’re doing but don’t start anything new, we’re getting ready to go».
It’s an integral capability of load balancers (of enterprise-class load balancers, at least) that enables the graceful shutdown of application instances for a variety of purposes (patches, scheduled maintenance, etc… ).
In more modern architectures this capability forms the foundation for non-disruptive (and thus live) migration of virtual machines.During the process the VM is moved and launched in location Y, the load balancer continues to send requests to the same VM in location X. Once the VM is available in location Y, the load balancer will no longer send new requests to location X but will continue to manage existing connections until they are complete.
Cloud bursting, too, is enabled by the ability of a load balancer to quiesce connections at a global layer (virtual pattern) and at the local layer (bridged pattern).
Load balancers must be able to support a «finish what’s been started but don’t start anything new» mode of operation on any given application.
Samsung Uses Centrify for Safer Android Platform
Centrify has signed its biggest contract ever.
Samsung has OEM’d Centrify’s Active Directory-based security and cloud identity technology intending to put the widgetry on millions of its notoriously insecure Android-based smartphones and tablets to out BlackBerry.
BlackBerry is generally acknowledged to have the most secure mobile devices and, having made its bones in the consumer space, where it’s now far and away the leader, Samsung is out to woo the enterprise customer helped along by the problems besetting BlackBerry and spooking its users.
HP Sells webOS to LG; Uses Android Itself
HP is selling webOS, the last vestige of its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in 2010. The once promising operating system is going to LG, the giant Korean electronics firm, which means to use it in smart TVs.
According to CNET, which broke the story, LG is getting the webOS source code, licenses from HP, patents from Palm, related documentation, engineering talent and related webOS web sites on undisclosed terms.
LG said it was definitely not using the widgetry in a smartphone. It’s got Android for that.
LG also said webOS will remain open source and supposedly it won’t be forked.
HP is retaining rights to webOS solutions and to webOS cloud technologies, including its apps catalogue and updating service.