“The cloud adoption isn’t completely done. People who are coming into the cloud are realizing that they still have compliance requirements regardless of where their data lives,” stated Dan Rojas, Director of Strategic Development at Coalfire, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
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Era of Analytic Applications – Part 1
I was talking to one of the prominent General Partners at a Venture Capital firm here in Silicon Valley over the holidays…discussing how the Cloud market is evolving. We both agreed that 2013 will mark yet another shift in the evolution of web applications.
I personally simplified this view of cloud evolution by defining its progression in the following periods…dating back to these noteworthy events.
Sure, Apache Hadoop was technically released on December 27, 2011…but most of us were out drinking brandy eggnog then (just as I am now).
Let’s just look at the beginning…when The World operated by Software Tool & Die started the first ISP. Pretty cool to think that they were the first dial-up service provider that offered direct access of the Internet to the general public.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: The Distributed Computing World
“We are a scale-out SQL database, perfect for Big Data and the cloud. People are here to try to figure out how to deal with Big Data and the cloud together,” stated Mark Sarbiewski, CMO of Clustrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
All for the Want of a Global Load Balancer
Christmas Eve and the AWS/Netflix outage to me aren’t so much about whether or not the Cloud is viable or scary or dangerous. Rather, the event resonated with users across the United States because the Cloud delivers so much utility to each of us. And regardless of who was at fault–Netflix or Amazon Web Services, the event made it clear that there’s no going back and that the Cloud has quickly become a part of our culture and our everyday lives. This is significant because while the Internet itself is a technology consumers have grown to love, Cloud is a way of delivering service that makes a service like Netflix streaming possible, and at a measly $8 bucks a month. The Netflix business model of delivering outsize utility for a low price point makes the business of streaming video all the more difficult. HBO, Cinemax, and the networks for me are unusable. I sense something beyond just making money remains in play at Netflix. Somewhere in that organization seems to beat a heart that quickens for humanity.
Cloud First May Be Cloud Lost
The days are growing longer as I sit in a second-floor office in northern Illinois, but barely. A rare clear, but very cold day is ending shortly after 4pm as a bright orange sun sets in the southwest outside my frosted window.
The year ends tomorrow. So may Congressional negotiations over the so-called fiscal cliff. Whether they result in an agreement or not, we now know that they will address taxation and fixed benefits (eg, Social Security) only; our “leaders” long ago abandoned any pretense of settling the tails side of the coin – fixed, dramatic cuts in spending.
The “sequestration,” as it’s called, involves an immediate cut of $110 billion in this year’s federal budget. Expect cuts of between 8 and 9 percent across the board.
The federal government has an IT budget of about $85 billion per year, so sequestration could mean cuts of around $7 billion, perhaps more. This is a big number.
Meanwhile, the government’s cloud-computing initiative seems to be as docile and inactive as it could possibly be. I wrote less than two years ago about how “stunning” the government’s Cloud First strategy was.
Meanwhile, the administration official behind it, Vivek Kundra, gathered a bunch of accolades and moved into the private sector. His replacement has been very quiet; the last missive from his office was issued in February. He tweets, but not often and not about cloud, or IT, for that matter.
I’ll keep an eye on this sequestration business and how it will in reality affect federal IT spending next year. For now, things look bleak for IT in general, and Cloud First may have become Cloud Lost.
Big Data Defined for 2013
We have previously written about the importance of discipline in terms of art like Big Data. There are plenty of indications that more discipline and rigor is required on how we use the term. To date, our key message has been that it is the enterprise CTO who is responsible for defining how the term should be used. We still believe that.
We have also always supported using the community-edited site Wikipedia’s entry on Big Data as a starting point for a Big Data definition. The definition I put there was morphed and edited by the community pretty significantly, but that is just the nature of the beast. The end result of a collaborative site like that is usually far better than if a single person had created a definition so it is definitely worth checking out as you determine how to use the Big Data term in your enterprise.
Privacy, Cloud, Kafka & 2013
No, I don’t see black helicopters in the sky. And I don’t believe in global conspiracies – I think we humans are far too inept at operating anything complex over the long haul – and at keeping secrets – to somehow build vast, global ruling structures.
But I remain highly concerned about privacy, it’s alleged absence in the U.S. Constitution (RIP, Robert Bork, you scoundrel), and how it’s been steadily taken away from us in the era of the web and social media.
I laughed along with the rest of the connected world at the poor young Facebook-family lass who felt her human dignity was impugned when one of her pictures got tweeted recently. What a preposterous self-aggrandizement of an inconsequential person’s trivial first-world problem, I thought.
But let’s hope the incident can help us all re-focus on privacy and the implications of its loss. After our politicians in Washington take us over what will prove to be a non-existent fiscal cliff, let’s hope they spend minimal time on resurrecting SOPA/PIPA/Internet Kill Switch nonsense.
Let’s hope this is so, knowing that it won’t be so. The Obama Administration has shown an alarming continuity with continuing to enforce the police-state policies of its predecessor. The recent acknowledgement by the FBI that last year’s Occupy movement drew its concerted attention is just the latest dispiriting revelation of the Obama administrations illiberal tendencies.
We have to fight the good fight this year, push Cloud Computing while supporting groups like the EFF, to keep the IT industry strong and to try to restore some glory and higher ground to the reputation of the United States.
I know this may seem a little grandiose during our day-to-day activities – and I’m heading a cloud-app development team right now, so I don’t like to be distracted either. But if we’re not distracted by the big stuff, we’ll soon find ourselves living in an evermore Kafkaesque place in which quaint First Amendment notions seem as anachronistic as CP/M.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Choices in the Cloud
“We’re a full solution provider so even before cloud was a hot term we were doing managed hosting, dedicated hosting, and co-location – we’ve been doing that for 13 years in the hosting space,” stated Robert Miggins, SVP of Business Development for PEER 1 Hosting, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Plumbing for the Cloud
“We are the plumbing for the cloud – we provide a whole pedigree of products all the way from the storage subsystems to the servers,” explained Ilker Cebeli, Director of Cloud Computing at QLogic, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: The Safe Cloud
“Symantec has been in the cloud for quite a while – we have been helping companies build highly resilient clouds for many years,” explained Dave Elliott, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Global Cloud Marketing at Symantec, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.