Cloud consumers need choice because workloads are different.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, M. Srikanth, CTO of ComputeNext, will discuss how with the growth and adoption of cloud, there is a need to provide options for consumers of cloud with the ability to select and federate their workloads across heterogeneous cloud.
M. Srikanth is CTO of ComputeNext. With 13+ years in search and semantic technology and most recently an applied researcher at Microsoft Bing, he is fascinated with how search and discovery can power efficient computing in federated cloud ecosystems.
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Zetta.net Redefines Hybrid Cloud Backup with Smart Cloud
Zetta.net has announced it is redefining traditional hybrid cloud backup with its unique, appliance-free approach featuring Smart Cloud and new Lean Local Copy technology. Zetta.net’s Smart Cloud, which integrates the functionality of backup, snapshot and replication technology, abolishes the need for a local appliance. Smart Cloud, together with the new Lean Local Copy feature, advances the hybrid cloud model to deliver fast, reliable data backup and recovery at a fraction of the cost of backup alone.
Zetta.net delivers enterprise-grade 3-in-1 backup, disaster recovery and archiving. Because the SaaS-based solution eliminates the cost and management complexities associated with appliance hardware, it is particularly attractive to small/medium businesses, enterprises with distributed office locations, and managed service providers (MSPs). Remote offices and MSPs are no longer required to purchase and manage multiple appliances across distributed locations, and any size business can now enjoy enterprise-grade data protection at an affordable price.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Elastic Cloud Infrastructure
Two types of cloud infrastructure have emerged to clearly differentiate the choices enterprises face in their cloud migration strategies: enterprise virtualization clouds versus elastic cloud infrastructure. The former defines infrastructure built to support legacy enterprise applications like those built on SAP and Oracle. The canonical example is a vSphere stack. The second cloud category – elastic cloud – defines infrastructure built to support new, dynamic applications like mobile, gaming, Big Data, and PaaS. The canonical example is public cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS).
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Troy Angrignon, Vice President of Sales & Partnering at Cloudscaling, will explain how enterprise CIOs are increasingly faced with the need to build and support new, dynamic apps built on REST-ful APIs under the devops model. Unfortunately, new apps are ill-suited to their enterprise virtualization stacks. Running them on public clouds like AWS works technically, but this presents regulatory, availability and proprietary issues. CIOs are asking for an elastic cloud infrastructure that’s architecturally and behaviorally consistent with AWS, but they want it in their data center.
Is Your Security Initiative “One Inch into a Mile”?
IT spends untold millions of dollars, thousands of man hours for technology designed to solve solutions, but because of complexity, budget shortfalls, lack of expertise or a myriad of other gremlins, too many initiatives never realize their potential. That was before cloud computing and more specifically, cloud based security provided a flexible option that eliminates Cap Ex and promotes ROI (through immediate realization of functionality) from Day One.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Keys to Service Provider Success
Cordys helps Cloud Service Provider customers deliver differentiated products, services and experiences in an agile and flexible framework.
In their session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Tom Katayama, Sr. Solutions Architect at Cordys, and Glenn Donovan, Regional Director at Cordys, will describe via case study examples, how various Cloud Service Provider business models can be facilitated via this approach. Topics to be discussed include:
Vendor agnostic and unified XaaS provisioning and cloud orchestration
Service aggregation & value add business applications
Cloud broker enablement
Business friendly self-service interaction
Global Cloud Index: Traffic to Grow Sixfold by 2016
In the second annual Cisco Global Cloud Index (2011-2016), Cisco forecasts global data center traffic to grow fourfold and reach a total of 6.6 zettabytes annually by 2016. The company also predicts global cloud traffic, the fastest-growing component of data center traffic, to grow sixfold – a 44 percent combined annual growth rate (CAGR) – from 683 exabytes of annual traffic in 2011 to 4.3 zettabytes by 2016.
For the period 2011-2016, Cisco forecasts that roughly 76 percent of data center traffic will stay within the data center and will be largely generated by storage, production and development data. An additional 7 percent of data center traffic will be generated between data centers, primarily driven by data replication and software/system updates.
The remaining 17 percent of data center traffic will be fueled by end users accessing clouds for Web surfing, emailing and video streaming.
From a regional perspective, the Cisco Global Cloud Index predicts that through 2016, the Middle East and Africa will have the highest cloud traffic growth rate, while the Asia Pacific region will process the most cloud workloads, followed by North America.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Open Cloud at PayPal
PayPal is the faster, safer way to pay and get paid online, via mobile devices and in store. The service allows people to send money without sharing financial information, with the flexibility to pay using their account balances, bank accounts, credit cards or promotional financing. With more than 113 million active accounts in 190 markets and 25 currencies around the world, PayPal enables global commerce. PayPal is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and its international headquarters is located in Singapore.
As a technology leader, PayPal leverages open standards including the rapid pace of cloud innovation evolving from the OpenStack ecosystem. Innovations developed by PayPal’s technologists are given back to the community for the betterment of open clouds everywhere.
ComputeNext to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that ComputeNext 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.
ComputeNext is building the next generation of compute power through the launch and operation of a federated cloud marketplace, leveraging true multi-cloud connectors, to enable consumers and providers of cloud services to effectively participate in the search, purchase, and utilization of the most efficient cloud resources available.
Big Data Security for Apache Hadoop
Big Data takes center stage today at the Strata Conference & Hadoop World in New York, the world’s largest gathering of the Apache Hadoop™ community. A key conversation topic will be how organizations can improve data security for Hadoop and the applications that run on the platform. As you know, Hadoop and similar data stores hold a lot of promise for organizations to finally gain some value out of the immense amount of data they’re capturing. But HDFS, Hive and other nascent NoSQL technologies were not necessarily designed with comprehensive security in mind. Often what happens as big data projects grow is sensitive data like HIPAA data, PII and financial records get captured and stored. It’s important this data remains secure at rest.
I polled my fellow co-workers at Gazzang last week, and asked them to come up with a top ten list for securing Apache Hadoop. Here’s what they delivered. Enjoy:
Cloud Computing: MapR Takes a Run at Taming HBase
MapR Technologies worked for months to make the elephantine curmudgeon known as Hadoop less snappy and irascible.
It dragged it out of the elephant house, scrubbed its hands and face, gave it some manners, told it which fork to use, slicked down its hair, polished its shoes and sent it out to live in civil society.
Then, beguiled by the fact that 45% of Hadoop shops also use HBase, it turned its hand to taming the equally irritable and hard-to-manage database that lets people run NoSQL queries against Hadoop data. This week it put its civilizing influence into public beta. It calls the widgetry M7.
MapR says it’s given HBase enterprise-grade reliability and performance and put Hadoop and NoSQL capabilities together on the same platform capable of Big Data operations ranging from batch analytics to real-time analytics.