«Our goal is to enable enterprises to operate hybrid clouds as seamless extensions of the data center,» said Rajeev Chawla, CEO of CloudVelocity, as the previously stealth-mode company Denali emerged today as CloudVelocity, dedicated to the development of a hybrid cloud automation platform.
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Jonathan Schwartz Launches eHealthcare Start-Up
«Everyone cares about health in a deeply personal way,» blogged former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Tuesday as he alerted the world to the existence of his new website, PictureofHealth.com.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: The API Revolution
“The demand for APIs is really all around the mobile device. Mobile devices actually need APIs and that need is driving the advent of the API revolution.” stated Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, 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.
Mobile Cloud and Big Data – Cloud Power to the Next Level
I worked extensively in the telecommunications area to lead large, innovative nationwide mobile application and portal rollouts that included mobile platforms, applications, databases, services and integration mechanisms. With the explosion of the Cloud and Mobile Cloud, the entre digital landscape is changing. With 4G, bandwidth and latency issues are on the path of being progressively addressed. Not just traditional computers, but mobile devices are accessing Cloud and Big Data services like never before. Mobile applications need to run efficiently on various devices such as Androids, iPhones. Mobile applications have forced the push of processing and storage from the devices to the Cloud. The key is to ensure that native application development is minimized and the Cloud handles the backend, heavy lifting functions that can be then rendered on the mobile devices as thin native clients or browsers on the devices. Cloud can handle all the key aspects of managing the data and security in a standard manner for many applications and can provide the on demand and scalability capabilities to support such applications. Cloud computing services can also provide powerful capabilities to process the data and render useful information and hence processing and the deployment time may be significantly reduced.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Cloud Adoption for SMBs
“Cloud adoption has been much more prevalent in SMBs, in small office and home offices, and yet those are the individuals that don’t have the resources to secure themselves when using cloud. So Leeward was created to give assistance and practical advice to those individuals and organizations,” explained Terry Woloszyn, Founder/CTO of Leeward Security Ltd, 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 Ever-Changing Cloud
“Most providers know that Intel is supplying the core technologies, infrastructures, and systems to support their cloud infrastructures,” noted Steve Orrin, Sr. Security Architect & Principal Engineer for the Cross Platform Technology group at Intel Corp, 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.
1024 Words: The (Non)Evolution of Computing Models
Hybrid-mobile #cloud is the latest attempt at modernizing what remains a relatively unchanged, decades old computing model
I was informed via e-mail that the «next big thing» is hybrid mobile-cloud (HMC), which is described as client being a mobile-native application and its server-side component being deployed in the cloud. I swear I’ve seen a fat-client + server model over an IP network before…
MapR Goes to Europe
MapR Technologies, the Hadoop outfit, is launching European operations in
support of its growing community of customers and partners there.
Its new headquarters in London will provide MapR with a base for sales to
accelerate the adoption of its high-performance enterprise-grade Hadoop
distribution.
MapR CEO John Schroeder says, “There has been phenomenal Hadoop
demand across Europe.”
The new office will help support existing strategic agreements between
MapR and EMC, Google, Cisco and Amazon as well as system integration
partners across the region.
Cloud Bridges Gap Between Your Mobile’s SIM Card and Your Money
What happens when you cross a SIM Card and a Credit Card? You get SmartPass the new cloud based NFC-based payment system that allows cashless payments via the users smartphone.
Developed as as a joint venture of both Visa and Vodafone and recently unveiled in Australia, SmartPass is essentially an app. It is available to all smartphones on the Vodafone network that are equipped with Near Field Communication (NFC) capability. Most mid to high end smartphones purchased over the past year would have NFC.
You get SmartPass the new cloud based NFC-based payment system that allows cashless payments via the users smartphone.
Developed as a joint venture of both Visa and Vodafone and recently unveiled in Australia, SmartPass is essentially an app. It is available to all smartphones on the Vodafone network that are equipped with Near Field Communication (NFC) capability. Most mid to high end smartphones purchased over the past year would have NFC.
In addition to downloading the app you would need to order an NFC SIM card from Vodafone. The SIM card and the App work together with a cloud based user account that tops itself up from the users Visa or MasterCard before a payment.
Headed to Foggy London To Talk Cloud
I’m headed to London this week, to talk to people about the future of cloud computing. Although innovation and progress today spread more uniformly throughout the world more quickly than in the past, there are still some severe discrepancies in technology adoption.
For example, the United States will be the site of more than half of all global cloud budgets in 2013, according to different reports I’ve read, even though it has less than 5% of the world’s population and about 25% of the world’s IT budget.
Our research at the Tau Institute over these past few months has shown differences of 10X among how nations score on a logarithmic scale – a difference of 1,000 times on an unadjusted numerica scale. Broadband connectivity ranges from close to zero percent to more than 40 percent. The highest average speeds are more than 30X the slowest. And the difference in the number of dataservers per capita has a range of several-thousand-X.
Open for Business
Yet the world is your technology marketplace today. It’s not uncommon for large enterprises have sources, contractors, and locations in 100+ countries. I knew an open-source software entrpreneur who had developers in Pakistan several years ago. Today, I’m working with a small developer who has a small team in the fifth-largest tech area in the Philippines – not the primary area in Metro Manile, or even in the country’s “second city” in Cebu, but in an emerging area in the south of the country.
I’ve met several entrepreneurs who are now working in Tanzania, others who are focusing on Ghana.
Our own research shows strong potential in such far-flung areas as Ukraine, Jordan, Uganda, and Mongolia.
As I’ve written before, the United States does not score especially well in our research. Rising income equality, a worsening primary and secondary educational system, and a lack of commitment to customer service by the major telcos are all conspiring to make the US a laggard compared to Canada in its own region, and to a few dozen other countries throughout the world. Cloud technology is being pioneered in the US, and being adopted here more quickly on an absolute basis.
But I’m looking forward to returning to Southeast Asia next year, and traveling to other parts of the world in search of true dynamism within the world of ICT. I’ll report back on what my colleagues in London have to say. London is among the most global of cities, and still in the absolute top tier of economic influence in the world. The UK, by the way, does well in our research, especially in comparison to its Western European neighbors. It will be fun to hear what people think when I meet up with them.