After a six-month search, CA Technologies, one of the biggest American
software companies, has hired Michael Gregoire, the former CEO of Taleo,
the cloud-based talent management ISV that Oracle bought in April for $1.9
million, to replace its retiring CEO Bill McCracken next year.
McCracken, 70, will leave the board on January 7 and formally retire March
31.
“Companies today have customers and employees that require access to internal applications as well as cloud applications and that creates a challenge for IT. How do you manage the users who want access to those applications across multiple domains and Ping Identity solves that problem – it has a solution that helps you manage identities,” explained Mike Desai, senior director at Ping Identity, 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.
CloudVelocity emerged from stealth mode Wednesday with a new name, a $5 million A round from the Mayfield Fund, and a hybrid cloud automation platform meant to entice the enterprise to push its multi-tier application into the scary public cloud as a seamless extension of its private data center.
It claims it can do it safely and without modification or performance degradation. Heady stuff if true.
Mayfield Fund managing director Navin Chaddha goes further and claims, “CloudVelocity will have the same impact on public cloud adoption as VMware did on the adoption of server virtualization by making public clouds look like internal data centers.” Mayfield incubated the start-up for the last couple of years.
The rise of Big Data and the monolithic systems that are now being built on increasingly cloud-based data models is a reality we cannot ignore.
This reality has popularized discussions relating to the core component mechanics of many firms’ IT stacks.
Key among these technologies is ERP, or Enterprise Resource Planning to afford it its full moniker. The term can be taken to be a relatively broad expression as it encompasses software applications that oversee the management of suppliers, customer service, order tracking and all manner of demand and supply-related indicators…
… or to put it more simply, ERP systems look after companies’ “systems of record” data.
Cloud Computing is finally changing the sound of conference calls. As hard as Skype and Skype alternatives tried, none of the peer-to-peer solutions has kicked the archaic audio bridges in the dust. The quality is just not good enough for important business conversations. Newcomer Voxeet wants to change that with their cloud computing architecture. Already out as kick-butt web app Voxeet is now available on iPhone and Android app stores.
Anyone who’s been on a conference call-of which there are more than 100 billion minutes worth each year-knows firsthand how awful they can be. Voice quality can be muffled and choppy. Background noise can be distracting. If more than one person is speaking at the same time, it can be impossible to tell who is whom, or even worse, the sound can cut out entirely. Voxeet’s Natural Conferencing technology eliminates all of these problems, and more.
“We’ve been at this business for 13 years now, and the types of clients we have been serving want high quality, always-available infrastructure that really outperforms anything else that’s out there” explained Peter Berg, VP of Sales and Marketing at ServerCentral, 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.
“Open is what Red Hat’s DNA is going back to the early days of Linux, and we feel that open is even more fundamental with cloud,” stated Gordon Haff, Cloud Evangelist at Red Hat, 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.
You might have noticed that in general, enterprise-grade networking solutions aren’t always available for general deployment in public cloud environments.
You might also have noticed that when you provision a compute instance in a public cloud environment you get one public (and usually one private) IP address.
I’ll stop for a moment and let you consider the relationship between these two facts.
Many mature enterprise-grade networking solutions require at least two network interfaces – one for traffic (data plane) and one for management (control plane) and often suggest a third for optimal, best-practice deployment. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen mature networking solutions that don’t employ segregated management networks. Those solutions that sit inline and that are in the line of fire, as you will, from concentrated network and application-layer attacks, absolutely need segregated management as a means to control the solution and mitigate an in-progress attack or sudden spike in utilization that might be overwhelming the primary network.
It was nearly a year ago that I authored a post predicting ten hot trends in cloud data for 2012. While there’s a strong temptation to cast old predictions into ancient history and dive into ten predictions for 2013, I felt it more appropriate to first glance back and reflect on how those past predictions fared.
After all, much can transpire over the course of 12 months — hot technologies cool off, fads pass, buzzwords vanish — and, of course, some technologies really stick. So let’s take this opportunity to revel in our success or eat our humble pie. Without much ado, here are the predicted 2012 trends and how they fared:
Like last year, everyone has their Technology predictions with their annual lists for the coming year. Instead of coming up with my own, I figured I’d simply regurgitate what many others are expecting to happen.
Cloud computing in 2013: Two warnings: @DavidLinthicum has his two tragic cloud computing predictions for 2013 (price wars & skills shortage). Nice to see some realism mixed with all the ‘this is the greatest.’
10 Cloud Predictions for 2013: CIO has an interesting slide show covering things like Hybrid Cloud, Management, Brokers, SDN, Outages and a few other critical components.
RSA’s Art Coviello: 8 Computer Security Predictions For 2013: Attacks grow, Hackers grow, business’s not prepared grows along with investment, analysis and intelligence to mitigate threats.
Security Predictions 2013-2014: Emerging Trends in IT and Security: SANS gets some input from various industry folks on what they think. Areas like authentication, mobile devices, Windows 8, geo-forensics, gamification and others are highlighted