Software Defined Networking (SNA) is still only a baby buzzword barely
plumbed – although it may have already caused bad blood between a couple
of giants in the trade – when along comes a French start-up called Lyatiss
repotted to Silicon Valley and not yet out of beta that says that – however
chi-chi – Software Defined Networking is a limp, insufficient technology
compared to the more evolved Application Defined Networking (ADN)
widgetry it’s inventing.
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Cloud Spectator “Media Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York & Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Spectator has been named “Media 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, and the 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Spectator offers cloud computing education to an enterprise audience; constantly analyzing this dynamic industry to keep information up-to-date, as well as providing custom reports to cloud providers.
Cloud Expo NY: Calculating the True Value of Industry-Specific Clouds
Industry-specific clouds are those PaaS, IaaS, and PaaS services that are tailored for a specific vertical, such as transportation, retail, finance, and health care. IDC sees a $65 billion market in these industry solutions for 2013, rising to $100 billion in 2016.
The value of industry-specific clouds is that businesses within a vertical can connect to applications, processes, and databases that are pre-defined for that vertical within a public or private cloud. They can extend processes and databases into the business domain, versus defining the data and processes within a generic cloud-based platform.
So, are industry specific clouds right for your business? What options are out there? How do you figure out the ROI?
NewVoiceMedia Secures $20M Series B Funding
NewVoiceMedia,a provider of Cloud contact centre services, today announced that it has secured $20m funding from new investors Highland Capital Partners Europe and MMC Ventures, as well as existing shareholders Notion Capital and Eden Ventures.
NewVoiceMedia’s cloud service is instantly deployable and provides unique and patented routing capabilities designed to enhance the customer experience. The company is growing by more than 200% a year and now serves more than 8000 agents in 30 countries including Parcelforce, PhotoBox, QlikTech and SHL.
The additional investment will help accelerate the Company’s global ambitions including opening new offices in North America, where the solution is already widely used. Its platform, ContactWorld, integrates natively with salesforce.com Service Cloud and Sales Cloud, enabling customers to quickly and easily deploy world-class contact centres.
Cloud Expo New York: Requirements of a Cloud Database
The traditional databases of the 20th century were never designed to scale to meet 21st century data demands. Google alone processes about 24 petabytes of data/day. With the added complexity of heavily virtualized hardware and storage plus apps being moved in and out of private, hybrid and public clouds, application developers, SaaS vendors, ISVs and enterprise IT all need a better answer.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Barry Morris, CEO & Co-Founder of NuoDB, Inc., will through customer examples and performance benchmarks explore the new rules for a 21st century Cloud Data Management System and discuss the critical new roles databases play in customers’ strategies and how to resolve today’s web-scale challenges.
AMD Micro Servers Certified on Rackspace, Validated on OpenStack
AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 x86-based micro server has been certified for the Rackspace Private Cloud, which simplifies the management of large pools of compute, storage and networking resources using OpenStack.
The so-called “Nova in a Box” and “Swift in a Rack” reference architectures are respectively supposed to be the most efficient compute and highest storage capacity solutions validated for OpenStack.
Product Certification means that enterprise deployments of Rackspace Private Cloud on SeaMicro SM15000 micro servers are a proven and rigorously tested solution.
Managing IT in an Environment of Change
Social interactions driven by mobile devices are causing a huge growth in infrastructure needs by enterprises. This write-up is about an event held for enterprise users.
The growth of mobile devices generated by smartphones and tablets is driving universal access to information in the multi-channel era. Similarly, social networking is a disruptive change that influences many aspects of consumer behavior. The large amount of data created through these means requires analytics to help enterprises respond to market dynamics. Cloud technologies help enterprises analyze this data in a timely manner, enabling enterprises to deliver significant advantages over their competition.
On January 22, 2013, Oracle hosted an executive roundtable in Cincinnati for enterprise IT users to discuss these changes and associated challenges. Attendees represented a variety of industries, so their requirements varied, but the fundamental need to transform how enterprise IT adapts to these changes was the same.
Cloud Conversations: Public, Private, Hybrid & Community Clouds? | Part 2
Common community cloud conversation questions include among others:
Who defines the standards for community clouds?
The members or participants, or whoever they hire or get to volunteer to do it.
Who pays for the community cloud?
The members or participants do, think about a co-op or other resource sharing consortium with multi-tenant (shared) capabilities to isolate and keep members along with what they are doing separate.
Cloud Expo New York: Cloud Is Changing the Economics of Business
The economics of business are radically changing due to the way in which software and services are being delivered thanks to cloud computing.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Mike Kavis, Chief Technologist at Kavis Technology Consulting, will cover the following six reasons for the disruption:
Cloud Culture
Investing in Reality
Changing Labor Pool
New business models
Founder’s dilemma
PaaS is the game changer
The Benefits of Cloud Networking
The pressure for organizations, in the public or private sector, to reduce costs is constant. At the same time, organizations have to remain or improve user productivity in all their departments to stay competitive. This is even further magnified during a recovering economy as organizations face challenges of sustaining or growing revenue from customers or even government. Management and shareholders are always on the lookout to reduce their expenses. Innovative technology is one area where companies can look into to help to lower expenses with efficiency gains.
Specifically with respect to technology, many companies are taking advantage of the cloud to help with reducing expenditures while simultaneously improving productivity.