SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudscaling, the leading elastic cloud infrastructure company, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloudscaling is the leading elastic cloud infrastructure company. Its Open Cloud System is the most reliable, scalable and production-grade solution available for building elastic clouds powered by OpenStack technology. Open Cloud System delivers the agility, performance and economic benefits of leading public cloud providers, but deployable in the customer’s datacenter and under their IT team’s control. Cloudscaling is backed by Trinity Ventures and is headquartered in San Francisco.
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Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Production Clouds Powered by OpenStack
OpenStack is powering production clouds. In this General Session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Nebula CEO Chris C. Kemp will outline the open source cloud platform’s path to maturity, leading to production use in some of today’s most popular companies. He will moderate a panel discussion among featured OpenStack users PayPal, Cisco WebEx and eBay, asking the questions that are top of mind as your organization considers implementing OpenStack. The group will discuss how they’re using OpenStack today, ways the cloud platform is delivering real business value, and best practices for effective planning and implementation.
Objectivity to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Objectivity, Inc., makers of InfiniteGraph, The Distributed Graph Database™, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. View demos of InfiniteGraph in the Big Data Pavilion, learn about InfiniteGraph’s complementary solution at Brian Clark, VP Field Services, technical session Thursday 11/8 and check out Objectivity’s CEO Jay Jarrell participate in the Thursday 11/8 Lunchtime Power Panel!
As the only NoSQL distributed graph database, InfiniteGraph is a complementary technology to any polyglot Big Data strategy. The power of InfiniteGraph is its performance and scalability within distributed environments. In recent testing InfiniteGraph scaled to more than a billion nodes and edges in less than 30 minutes. Companies including, Deloitte, US Government, the world’s largest telecom carrier, Osaka Gas Information Systems (OGIS), Nippon Systemware Co. LTD (NSW), and Software Research Associates (SRA) are leveraging InfiniteGraph for real-time analysis in multiple industries including HealthCare, network security, and homeland defense.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: OpenStack Momentum: Adopters Speak Up
A founding member of the OpenStack Community, Dell has driven significant interest in and adoption of OpenStack-powered cloud solutions among cloud service providers.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Mike Fountaine, National Director, Cloud Solutions, at Dell, to discuss why DreamHost, a pioneer in OpenStack use, made this choice, what products and services they’re creating with it, and the upcoming Grizzly release with the new Horizon and Keystone components.
Mike Fountaine is National Director, Cloud Solutions, at Dell. He leads the Sales organization responsible for Dell’s OpenStack and Hadoop solutions for the Americas. His 25-year career in high-tech has spanned engineering, marketing and sales roles focused on delivering innovative computing and storage solutions to the smallest startups, the largest global companies, and everyone in between. With Dell for the better part of 13 years, Fountaine has spent the last three years with the Data Center Solutions team focused on architecting and delivering hyper-scale computing infrastructure, big-data solutions based on Hadoop, and revolutionary cloud solutions based on Openstack.
Cloud: Where’s My Spigot?
I enjoyed reading Nicholas Carr’s “The Big Switch” when it came out a few years ago. It compared cloud services to water and electricity, and set me on course to write about cloud computing and its potential on a regular basis.
Now, as I consult with three different software development teams to develop and deploy their ideas via cloud computing, I have to ask, “when can I simply turn the spigot on and off?”
With public-cloud options, we still face buying instances, aka chunks of compute power. There are gaps we have to leap as we approach the limit of a specific instance, with proportional price jumps.
One blinding revelation I got from putting on my Captain Obvious hat was that buying compute power is more like construction than manufacturing; there are precious few economies of scale. So, one project, as we project growing from 100 users to 1,000 and then 100,000, our cost/customer barely drops.
With private-cloud options, we face the normal IT challenge of captial expenditure. We don’t have an existing datacenter, so we’d be buying iron and software licenses the same as in the past. Sure, we should get higher usage from our resources, but we’d also need full-time people to keep our virtualization, stack, and UI running in joyful harmony around the clock.
One of our projects involves a presentation-driven business that has facilities that are open only a few hours per month. Why even put in a broadband connection at almost $1,000 a year if we can provide almost the same experience to our customers with a laptop, monitor, and DVD? Then after that, provision cloud on an irregular basis?
When can we simply turn the spigot on and off, and get a good “laminar flow,” as the engineers say?
Awkward Questions for Microsoft & Apple
A few big industry changes happened this week. Windows 8 and Microsoft Surface are now part of our world; the two Apple executives who were committed to, respectively, poor customer service in Apple’s stores and an even poorer Maps product are no longer part of our world.
The Surface was previewed with a clumsy “kickstand” that drew a few hoots and catcalls from the peanut gallery. Doubling down, Microsoft now brings new meaning to the phrase “it’s a feature, not a bug” by making the kickstand the central feature of the Surface’s initial advertising campaign.
Windows 8, meanwhile, has drawn praise for its all-new look and condemnation for an interface that seems better designed for mobile rather than laptop/desktop systems. Again doubling down, Microsoft shows people pointing at Windows 8 on traditional systems, bringing back the disastrous notion of gorilla arms.
It’s hard to know what to make of all this. A few basic questions:
What was the highest level at which Maps was tested? Did Tim Cook see it before it launched? Did Scott Forstall? Who knew what about Maps and when did they know it?
What was Tim Cook thinking in hiring a downmarket slash-and-burner to run Apple’s stores? Will John Browett’s replacement come from Walmart?
Will Microsoft’s “kickstand” some day take its place in the IT Hall of Shame alongside IBM’s “chiclets”?
Why would Steve Ballmer revive a definitively failed idea like pointing at computer screens? Is Microsoft Bob 2.0 next?
The good news for the cloud computing industry is that the real innovation continues to come from the dozens, perhaps hundreds, of companies who are building out stacks, frameworks, and enterprise ecosystems.
As I prepare for Cloud Expo next week in Santa Clara, I’m glad that the awkward peregrinations of the current failures of industry’s two most iconic consumer brands has little effect on what’s really going on in the IT industry today.
New OpenNebula Public and Private Training Classes by C12G
C12G Labs has just updated its public and private training sessions offering, to adjust to customers and users demands.
Public training sessions will be offered on a regular basis. A schedule for public classes at C12G Labs Headquarters in Madrid has just been published. The first scheduled one, due next 11th of December, is called “OpenNebula Fundamentals: Cloud Operator and Architect Course” and covers the process of installing, configuring and operating private, public and hybrid clouds using OpenNebula. Other locations in Europe and United States to hold the training are also being considered. Please contact us if your would like to request training near you.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Reducing Delivery Time of New Apps with Nimbula
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Vlad Seliverstov, Chief of Advertising Services Operation at Yandex.ru, will explain how Yandex uses Nimbula Director to run a private cloud for development and testing. With Nimbula’s APIs for elastic setup and teardown of instances, they were able to parallelize the QA process for a 90% time savings. Using the self-service capabilities of Nimbula Director, they have reduced the time for a developer to get access to a sandbox from a couple of days down to minutes.
Vlad Seliverstov is Chief of Advertising Services Operation at Yandex.ru, which uses Nimbula Director to run a private cloud for development and testing.
Taking Advantage of the Advancements in Cloud Computing
“We’ll continue to see the long tail of legacy technology in use for years,” observed Brian Patrick Donaghy, CEO of Appcore, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. Donaghy continued, “New applications are being written today that are much more efficient, fast and cost-effective that take advantage of advancements in massive processing and scale out infrastructure.”
Cloud Computing Journal: Just having the enterprise data is good. Extracting meaningful information out of this data is priceless. Agree or disagree?
Brian Patrick Donaghy: It’s the difference between wisdom and knowledge. Collecting, maintaining, and accessing large datasets is the prerequisite to then running analytical processes – or extracting the wisdom from the knowledge. Asking the right questions is the trick.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Interacting with a Cloud
From the command line to web APIs to dashboards, how you interact with your cloud shapes the potential it holds for you. Current industry trends favor arcane CLI tools, resource-oriented dashboards, and orchestration driven by hand-written recipes. How do average users accomplish anything in this paradigm? They copy-and-paste from Google to get their jobs done. We can all do so much better.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Gabriel Hurley, Senior Developer at Nebula, Inc., will cover the current state of cloud interaction and the potential of new interaction paradigms. Topics will cover cloud-scale workload-centric dashboards, real-time event-driven interactions, intelligent CLIs, and APIs that empower every level of cloud consumer, all in the context of modern distributed (and even federated) architectures. Come see where we are, where we’re going, and what currently stands in the way.