Yottabyte, a two-year-old Michigan start-up with awfully big shoes to fill given its very big name, claims to have what every boy wants these days, a cloud operating system.
It says the widgetry lets it create cloud-based data centers that incorporate storage, compute and network using a public, private or hybrid cloud model, a claim that sounds vaguely familiar.
It fancies that unlike competitive point solutions, it may be the first provider to really embrace the scope of what it calls the data center challenge. It figures customers want compute, network and storage in a single solution; they want to virtualize machines and applications; and they want to deploy hybrid clouds.
It says that’s a tall order, historically requiring multi-vendor solutions and typically resulting in tough compromises in performance or scalability.
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Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: App Performance in the Clouds – Lessons Learned
We face the challenge of monitoring and managing performance in clouds every other day. Not only is application performance management different in a cloud, but all clouds are not equal either.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Michael Kopp, technology strategist at Compuware, will show how to do APM in several different Clouds (Azure, EC2, VMware private Clouds) and how it differs from more traditional environments. He will cover performance monitoring, troubleshooting and tuning. Finally he will explain why the very goals for optimizing performance are no longer the same when talking about public clouds.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Deep Dive on Building and Architecting Your Cloud
Clouds have what you need: reliable and highly resilient compute, networks and storage. But achieving true scale and efficiency requires designing and building your cloud from the ground up.
In their session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Kedar Poduri, Director of Product Management, Cloud Platform Group, at Citrix Systems, and Anantha Kasetty, Senior Sales Engineer, Cloud Platform Group, at Citrix Systems, will discuss the core capabilities and newest innovations in the Citrix CloudPlatform and the best practices for deployment of your cloud.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Lessons Learned from 100 IaaS Cloud Deployments
Citrix CloudPlatform, powered by Apache CloudStack, has been the platform of choice for more than 100 public and private production clouds.
In his Lunchtime Focus Keynote at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Shannon Williams, VP Cloud Market Development at Citrix, will provide an insider view as one of the co-founders of Cloud.com and will talk about his deployment experiences and provide tips for designing an open, scalable and highly efficient cloud that can support both traditional and purpose-built cloud workloads from a single solution.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Building a Software-Defined Datacenter
The Software-Defined Datacenter is a unified datacenter platform that will help you transform the way you deliver IT with unprecedented automation, flexibility, and efficiency. VMware’s unique software-defined approach moves beyond traditional IT complexity and rigidity by liberating datacenter services from the constraints of specialized hardware. Compute, storage, networking, security, and availability services are pooled, aggregated, and delivered as software, and managed by intelligent, policy-driven software. The result is a datacenter optimized for the cloud era, providing unmatched business agility, the highest SLAs for all applications, dramatically simpler operations, and lower costs.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Secure Cloud and Network Unification
While the cloud provides businesses with a more secure IT investment, many don’t realize the data-protection risks of public networks until it’s too late. As a result, CIOs and business owners are kept up at night worrying about the security of their mission-critical data, not realizing that a private, secure intersection of network and cloud services can provide a cost-efficient elixir to help them sleep easier.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Christopher K. Ortbals, Cbeyond’s Vice President, Cloud Services, will outline how businesses can successfully connect cloud services to a secure network and realize a “better night’s sleep” thanks to unparalleled performance, cost improvement, and, most importantly, data protection and reliability.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: The SDN (R)evolution
Software-Defined Networking has the potential to revolutionize the networking world.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Scott Sneddon is Chief Solutions Architect at Vyatta, will discuss the SDN and network virtualization landscape and how this new technology can enable a whole new way of operating your network. He will also discuss a pragmatic and evolutionary approach to adopting SDN technologies in your environment.
Scott Sneddon is Chief Solutions Architect at Vyatta.
Rackspace Launches OpenStack-Powered Block Storage
Rivals are gonna have to stop sniping at OpenStack for only having object storage.
Rackspace, which originally put the open source cloud platform in play, filled the gaping hole Tuesday with its new Cloud Block Storage solution. The rest of the OpenStack community will catch up eventually thanks to the Cinder Project.
Cloud: I Like Renting a Piece of Cyberspace
I read a story by one respected writer who said that “cloud computing” will equal “computing” within five years. A day later, I saw a story by another respected writer who said that cloudwashing and a lack of standards means that most enterprises don’t yet even had a cloud-computing strategy, let alone deployment.
These statements can’t both be true; I think neither of them are.
Then there’s a recent survey commissioned by Citrix in which 51% of respondents in the US thought that bad weather could disrupt cloud computing. I suppose that’s literally true, if a bad storm keeps people from coming to work.
More hopeful – and more accurate, I think – are survey results released from The Future of Cloud, a group backed by venture capitalist Michael Skok, which find that 82% of enteprises are using SaaS and 75% say they’ll be building apps via PaaS within five years.
That software-as-a-service number may still be driven by a lot of email and/or collaboration rather than more complex application, but it shows that enterprise IT managers are savvy about cloud computing, or at least think they’re savvy in using the term.
The perceived lack of standards comes from the VMware vs. The World competition, with the separate open-source stacks competition within that. I don’t see this as an impediment, as there’s been a lack of standards – aka competing platforms – in this industry since its inception. The ostensible concern is a concern about vendor lock-in, and the lack of interoperability among the cloud stacks.
Pro tip: said interoperability will never happen, and concern about this is just a stalling tactic. Cloud computing is still new and most enterprise shops will proceed cautiously, if not show outright defiance against it.
The cloudwashing issue doesn’t bother me as much as it does some people, although I know I would be terribly annoyed by it if I worked for a company that smashes into Oracle and other big-iron vendors every day. I will be proven wrong on this if, ultimately, innovation is killed off by old wine in new bottles.
I also saw a tweet the other day by someone who questioned how many cloud analysts/pundits/etc. have fired up cloud instances on their own. I have.
I’m involved in a few projects in which cloud is present, one as a simple thin-client user, one instance (so to speak) of PaaS, and two others where we’re working to stage our stuff via IaaS. It’s damned difficult work, but something that simply wasn’t possible a few years ago. I like renting pieces of cyberspace rather than scrounging for the capital to buy it.
Making the Move to the Cloud: Best Practices and Advice
CIOs face bigger IT challenges today than they did just 5 years ago as tightening regulations and shrinking budgets up the ante. Compounding the pressure, data is exploding in size and diversity, business is more mobile, and social media is pervasive. For these reasons, some organizations are opting for cloud computing to reduce risk, streamline information management, and rein in costs.
Answering the questions on every CIO’s mind, “Best Practices for Cloud-Based Information Governance” explores the latest ideas on evaluating cloud deployment: public or private clouds, data location and privacy, data ownership and access, and cloud technology ownership, to name a few.