Many organizations say they rely on real-time processing of big data to fuel their business, and many of them say they are thinking about taking their big data to the cloud.
It’s no surprise that most enterprises are now taking big data more seriously. But what might raise an eyebrow is how many organizations say they rely on real-time processing of big data to fuel their business, as well as the number of companies who say they’re thinking about taking their big data to the cloud.
These findings come from a recent survey conducted by GigaSpaces, which asked 243 IT executives in various industries about their big data perceptions and plans. GigaSpaces, a provider of end-to-end scaling solutions for distributed application environments and an open platform-as-a-service (PaaS) stack for cloud deployment, conducted the survey online during the fall of 2012.
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SYS-CON.tv Interview: Service Virtualization Technology
“One of the last things always addressed on every wave of technology is quality and testing and this is where service virtualization, a type of virtualization that resides in the API level, comes in really handy,” explained Wayne Ariola, VP of Strategy & Corporate Development at Parasoft, talks to SYS-CON.tv at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, 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.
Security Posture Management Enters the Cloud
When eGestalt of Santa Clara, CA, announced in November they were launching a cloud-based security and compliance solution, it set the stage to change the way enterprise businesses could cope with complex compliance and security issues.
The solution, powered by Rapid7 scanning technology, was to deliver a “pure” cloud-based IT security monitoring and compliance management product that worked in real time without requiring any hardware, “a first of its kind solution,” say the vendors.
Called Aegify, the technology delivers Security Posture Management (SPM), which first measures the security status of all assets within a network, then delivers a report that can be used to remediate problems, strengthen security, and create and manage compliance policies. It leverages the compliance and security engine of eGestalt’s SecureGRC (governance, risk management and compliance) product with Rapid7’s Nexpose vulnerability management technology.
Citrix Buys Zenprise
Citrix is buying mobile device management (MDM) house Zenprise.
Terms weren’t disclosed but Fortune says it’s paying $355 million.
The company, founded in 2003, raised $64.5 million from Bay Partners, Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures.
When the deal closes in Q1, Citrix means to integrate Zenprise’s solution with its CloudGateway and Me@Work widgetry.
CloudGateway offers a single control point to manage and securely deliver native mobile apps, as well as Windows, web and SaaS apps to any corporate or personal device.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Accessing the Power of the Cloud
“Green Button is a multi-cloud management environment. It makes it very simple for users to access the power of the cloud,” explained Scott Houston, CEO of Green Button, 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.
New Cloud Ecosystem
I was touring what reminded me of the Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker – one of the safest places on earth. Except in this case, this was one of the safest places for your enterprise data on earth. “The entrance will open, you will drive in, and an armed guard will be out to escort you.”
That was the beginning of my tour of a Tier 4 datacenter, furthest from any natural disaster. 100% guaranteed up time.
I was staking out where we would launch our newest version of the Infochimps Big Data cloud service – our enterprise cloud service would soon be launched in the most trusted datacenter in the world, along side the largest enterprise data installations in the world.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Big Data Storage and the Cloud
“Big Data is everywhere these days and what we’ve been explaining to people at Cloud Expo is that Big Data is not a marketing hype. Big Data feeds the cloud,” stated Tom Leyden, CMO of Amplidata, 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.
A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates!
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.
The Cloud Cost Question and What Doesn’t Fit into the Usual Debates
The cloud community and anyone with an opinion if not immediately, periodically and frequently gravitate to the question of cost. Is it more? Is it less? Are we being wasteful? Are we being too frugal? Will Google and AWS drive the price of storage to zero? Can we scrunch the market forces of Cloud into a theoretical framework we already understand?
And yet just as cost of computing has been accounted for poorly when assessed in the corporate datacenter, when similar measures are applied to Cloud, Cloud becomes subject to the same Procrustean Bed as the corporate datacenter.
Deploying Cloud Security for Shifting and Evolving Defenses
Most attacks, like the recent DDoS attacks on banks, show most hackers do not use brute force to gain entry to sensitive data. And as organizations expand the perimeter of their networks,, there are so many more opportunities for data leakage and theft. To control it, a more nimble, flexible and agile strategy of defense is necessary…and that can come from the cloud.
A few weeks back I was watching my beloved San Diego Chargers lose in a most embarrassing way on Monday night. And in the waning seconds of blaming the quarterback for such ineffectual 2nd half play, it occurred to me, it wasn’t his fault. It was the coach. It was the lack of planning for the type of attack the Denver Broncos would bring. It was the lack of leadership that should have easily closed the deal. In short, it was sticking to the status quo while everything around was changing.
Cloud Computing: Cloudera Gets Another $65 Million to Grow On
Cloudera, the four-year-old Hadoop and Big Data pioneer, has closed a massive $65 million E round led by Accel Partners, which participated in all four of the start-up’s previous rounds raising an initial $76 million.
Existing backers Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners, In-Q-Tel and Meritech Capital Partners also kicked in. They valued Cloudera at $700 million according to All Things Digital, which figures it’s warming up for an IPO given the huge market it’s addressing.
The money will be used to fund global sales growth and continued development of the company’s platform. It expects to open a European headquarters in the UK in the first quarter.
Accel says Cloudera is “well positioned to expand its revenue and global customer footprint.”