SYS-CON Events announced today that the 1st International Software Defined Networking Conference will take place June 10-13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City. Software Defined Networking Conference is co-located with 12th Cloud Expo and 3rd Big Data Expo.
According to a recent report by Deloitte Consulting, firms using Software-Defined Networking (SDN) can save,up to 50% on their networking bills. Since those bills currently add up to about 10-15% of IT budgets, that’s a huge amount of cost driven out of the business. That makes it very much the right new technology at the right time.
Put simply, SDN is the use of software to create networks that can be reconfigured quickly and centrally without the need for any costly or time-consuming adjustment of individual routers and switches.
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Private Cloud… Really?
Surveys report that companies fear the Public Cloud. Sure enough there’s much to fear. Those of us who follow the media know how in a movie like Caddyshack even at a fancy private golf club an innocent little candy bar can result in a stampede of people desperate to exit the pool and a punch line depicting Bill Murray all decked out in a Hazmat suit. So if something like that can happen in a private club pool, imagine where a public pool event might lead? Fukushima comes to mind. Oh, wait, I’m sorry. Tokyo Electric was a Private company. Bad example.
Open SDN Reference Architecture for Cloud Developers
“Cloud service providers are drawn to Software Defined Networking for its technological, operational, and business benefits,” said Brad Casemore, Research Director, Data Center Networks at IDC, as Pica8 Inc. recently announced the industry’s first open SDN reference architecture.
“In offering integrated SDN components, Pica8 and other vendors are trying to make it easier for cloud providers to quickly test, validate, and deploy SDN for cloud-service delivery,” Casemore continued.
SYS-CON Launches SDN Journal
SYS-CON Media has launched SDN Journal on Ulitzer.com featuring over 300 original articles, news stories, features, and blog entries. Software-defined networking (SDN) is an approach to networking in which control is decoupled from hardware and given to a software application called a controller. In a software-defined network, a network administrator can shape traffic from a centralized control console without having to touch individual switches.
SDN Journal premier issue authors include Lori MacVittie, Bob Gourley, Dan MacVittie, Greg Schulz, Patrick Kerpan, Larry Carvalho, Maureen O’Gara, Dana Gardner, Adrian Bridgwater, BrianGracely, Brandon Hoff, Kapil Raval, Patrick Burke, Greg Ness, Keith Mayer, Bill Roth, and Gregor Petri.
Sound Off: IPSec versus SSL for Cloud Bridging
I asked this on Twitter as a general question after reviewing the results in the Completely Unscientific Hybrid Cloud Survey Results from Gartner DC 2012 and continued to wonder why IPSec VPN was specifically noted but SSL VPN was not. Certainly a VPN of some kind is a requirement, no argument there, but why IPSec? Why not SSL? Is there some bias against SSL or is it perhaps just that the presenter at the conference failed to offer it as an option?
Then I thought this is just one of many questions I’d like to hear more opinions on. Blogs are good for asking questions. Blogs are good at aggregating answers and opinions in one place. By golly, a blog is a good place to ask this question too!
Akamai Elects Company Co-Founder and Chief Scientist as New CEO
The Akamai Board of Directors announced Monday that Dr. Tom Leighton will succeed Paul Sagan as CEO of Akamai effective January 1, 2013. Sagan announced earlier this year that he intended to step down as chief executive by the end of 2013. Leighton and Sagan will remain Akamai directors, and Sagan will become a senior advisor to the company, working with the new CEO on business strategy and to ensure a smooth management transition.
Enterprise Big Data Cloud Launched: Infochimps Enterprise Cloud
Big Data is confusing to most executives. It’s this nebulous concept of applying technologies from Yahoo!, Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter in such a way that the organization will truly become data-driven and, equally as important, be able to do so quickly. Unfortunately, only a few companies are really realizing its full potential.
Public Cloud Services Will Gain New Momentum in 2013
As 2012 draws to a close, a growing number of savvy enterprise CIOs — and perhaps even more Line of Business leaders — are joining the momentum towards an increase in the mainstream adoption of managed cloud services.
Furthermore, the near-term market outlook for 2013 is particularly bright and the long-term expectations are equally promising — due mostly to the reported positive experience and results from the early adopters of cloud services across the globe.
Peer recommendations are clearly driving this change in the marketplace.
Worldwide spending on public IT cloud services will be more than $40 billion in 2012 and is expected to approach $100 billion in 2016, according to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC).
Over the 2012–2016 forecast reporting period, IDC believes that public IT cloud services will enjoy a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.4 percent, that’s five times the traditional IT industry, as more business leaders accelerate their shift to the cloud services model for IT applications.
Forward-Looking Transformation in Action
«The IT industry is in the midst of an important transformative period as companies invest in the technologies that will drive growth and innovation over the next two to three decades,» said Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC.
By the end of the decade, IDC anticipates at least 80 percent of the evolving IT industry’s growth, and the highest-value gained from business technology overall, will be driven by cloud services and the other third platform technologies.
By 2016, public IT cloud services will account for 16 percent of IT revenue in five key technology categories: applications, system infrastructure software, platform as a service (PaaS), servers, and basic storage.
More significantly, cloud services will generate 41 percent of all growth in these categories by 2016.
Software as a service (SaaS), which is the combination of applications as a service and system infrastructure software as a service, will claim the largest share of public IT cloud services spending over the next five years.
But other categories, notably basic storage and platform as a service (PaaS), will show faster growth. Accelerating PaaS deployments over the next 12-18 months will be critical to maintaining the continued managed cloud services momentum.
Focus Areas for Incremental Service Adoption
Geographically, according to the IDC assessment, the United States will remain the largest public cloud services market, followed by Western Europe and Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan).
But the fastest growth in public IT services spending will be in the emerging markets, which will see its collective share nearly double by 2016 when it will account for almost 30 percent of net-new public IT cloud services spending growth.
IDC defines public IT cloud computing services as those offerings designed for, and commercially offered to, a largely unrestricted marketplace of potential users. Note, this IDC forecast does not include revenue from private cloud deployments, which are dedicated to a specific customer.
While private clouds provide the customer with the ability to specify access limitations and the level of resource dedication beyond what is currently available in public cloud offerings, IDC’s expectation is that public clouds will mature and eventually incorporate many of the capabilities — particularly security and availability.
Saving Money with Cloud Solutions
According to recent research conducted by the London School of Economics, cloud computing as an IT service not only assists organizations to cut costs, but also spurs innovation. Despite the criticism that cloud computing often receives, as a technological innovation it suits the needs and interests of both tech-enthusiasts and businesses alike.
Cloud computing as an IT service not only assists organizations to cut costs, but also spurs innovation, according to recent research conducted by the London School of Economics. Since its inception, cloud computing has attracted attention and criticism in equal measures. Nevertheless, one thing is for certain – as a technological innovation it suits the needs and interests of both tech-enthusiasts and businesses alike.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Application-Defined Networking
“This year was huge because of all the regulations on software-defined networking. We are focused on application-defined networking,” explained Pascale Vicat-Blanc, Co-Founder of Lyatiss, 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.