The main evolutionary leap in Cloud services will come from a fusion of both legal and technical maturity.
It’s not enough for CSPs to offer contractual SLAs that dictate how efficiently they will run IT resources or how they will handle outages, they also need to stipulate how they will enable and honor data privacy regulations and best practices.
In short they will need to be able to offer contracting terms that aligns with the buyers controlling privacy laws – What I call ‘Cloud Privacy Contracting.’
How are companies making money on OpenStack today, and where are the best opportunities for new companies to get engaged and serve the growing user base?
The OpenStack community and commercial ecosystem are not mutually exclusive. To build a successful OpenStack company or product line, you need to invest in the community and to build influence organically. In return, a strong commercial ecosystem means more paid developers and better software, and a competitive market that keeps users seeking OpenStack products.
How can we regain control of our data and get a complete view of critical information, while still reaping the many benefits that SaaS has to offer? The explosion in Software as a Service has changed the world of data access dramatically. Business critical information that was once within the four walls of the organization is now locked in a variety of SaaS applications deployed on the public Internet. This presents a serious challenge to business decision makers who are driven to make the right choices for their organizations based on a now incomplete picture of the world.
In his General Session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Michael Benedict, Vice President and Business Line Manager at Progress Software, will look at how you overcome these challenges and regain full visibility to your business data wherever it may live.
Microsoft said Tuesday that it’s going to buy privately held StorSimple and its Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS) solutions to advance its Cloud OS vision and help customers embrace hybrid cloud computing more efficiently.
It did not say what it’s paying.
As a gauge, the start-up raised at least $31.5 million in VC funding from such companies as Ignition, a retreat of ex-Microsofties.
StorSimple is a partner of Microsoft’s and its widgetry works with Windows.
It integrates cloud storage for on-premises applications and offers a single appliance delivering high-performance tiered local and cloud storage, live archiving, cloud-based data protection and disaster recovery.
Ironically, it also supports VMware and OpenStack, the latter by integrating with Rackspace’s underlying Cloud Files.
Who is speaking about what next month at the largest cloud computing and big data event in the world? Here’s a quick reference guide for those working out which sessions they most want to attend November 5-8 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA…once the doors open in under 3 weeks’ time to 11th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Silicon Valley – co-located with 2nd International BigDataExpo.
This fast-moving «CEO Power Panel» at the 11th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan features industry thought leaders and will discuss the business-related issues that are currently front of mind with chief executives of today’s foremost Cloud and Big Data based companies.
Topics include what are the commercial and fiscal benefits of building a business on the cloud? What’s the business potential of real-time Big Data analytics? What Cloud companies will have disappeared by the time we hold 12th Cloud Expo next June…into other, larger players – and why does such consolidation always happen? What industry vertical is least exploited as yet, by Cloud players?
One of the biggest concerns IT managers have about moving business-critical applications into the cloud and away from the data center is the issue of security. What you may not realize, however, is that the same tools for automation and provisioning that function in cloud implementations also offer a significant opportunity to improve security.
The first concern, of course, is whether the cloud in question is private or public. If you’re using a public cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services, you know you’re looking at Level 1 PCI DSS compliance. If you’re running a cloud solution in-house, however, you need to make sure you’re handling all of that security via firewalls and network and storage management.
Amazon Web Services says it’s got more than 300 federal, state and local
government agencies and 1,500 education institutions leveraging its cloud
for Big Data analytics, HPC, web and collaboration applications, archiving
and storage, and disaster relief.
That being so, it’s got new services and features available in the AWS
GovCloud (US) region, including the addition of High Performance
Computing capabilities.
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in just under three weeks’ time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA – co-located with 2nd International BigDataExpo – let’s introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the West Coast conference…
We have technical and strategy sessions for you dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing & Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud and/or Big Data solutions that are transforming the world of Enterprise IT?
IronKey, the seven-year-old Internet security and privacy house, has changed its name to Marble Cloud in celebration of the introduction its new cloud security service.
Marble is meant to protect employee-owned iOS, Android, Windows and Linux mobile devices and desktop/laptop platforms.
The company says any user – contractor, remote worker, customer or supply chain partner – can securely access enterprise-provisioned public and private clouds from anywhere, on any of their own devices.
It’s a hardened multi-layer environment that’s supposed to be invulnerable – repeat, invulnerable – to Trojans, man-in-the-middle, man-in-the-browser, malevolent Wi-Fi networks, DNS poisoning and other state-of-the-threat attacks.
Being a toughie explains its less-than-fluffy new name.