SYS-CON Events announced today that Precog, the leading developer of infrastructure for data warehousing and analysis, 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.
Precog is the leading developer of data warehousing and analysis infrastructure designed to help developers build sophisticated Big Data capabilities into their applications. Precog’s family of warehousing, analysis and reporting products empower developers to quickly build Big Data applications without the headache of custom data infrastructure development and maintenance. Precog is the author of the Quirrel declarative query language and has developed the industry’s most complete and heavily optimized execution stack for Quirrel. A 2011 TechStars graduate, Precog is backed by RTP Ventures, Resonant Venture Partners, David Cohen and several notable individual investors.
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Consolidation as Cloud Expo Approaches
Citrix has announced a XenServer upgrade, featuring what it calls “enhanced integration” with Apache OpenStack. Its goals are facilitated load balancing and security.
Meanwhile, a recent report from one of those big analyst companies cautions buyers to beware of OpenStack, as it may just be a front for a new era of vendor lock-in.
Oh, and Oracle just bought another company and has announced its latest cloud strategy, which appears to be of the all-in, metered, and efficient nature.
I’m reminded once again of the location at the tip of my home state of Illinois where the mighty, brown Mississippi meets the slightly less mighty, blue Ohio River. The two co-exist side by side for a short distance, gradually browning, before the Mississippi takes over a short distance further downstream.
In my metaphor here, the Mississippi plays the role of traditional enterprise IT, with the Ohio playing the role of cloud computing. Everything appears to be merging into one large stream, in which all the cool new stuff is gradually being submerged.
But what’s the alternative? A couple of years ago, cloud computing proponents promised the age of the grid, in which IT would be delivered and measured like electricity or water. Now, it seems we may settle for a more efficient use of processors and storage, and even in that case at the literal and physical expense of running these machines hotter than what’s been normal for decades.
I’ll be checking my theory out at the upcoming Cloud Expo in Santa Clara. I know I’ll talk to people who remain fiercely resolute about their cloud-computing strategy and offerings, and committed to changing the norms of enterprise IT. Others will be continuing to work to deliver cloud-as-a-utility to companies of all sizes, including the SMBs for whom cloud is a potential field-leveler.
But what’s really happening? Are we already deep into an era of industry consolidation? Will enterprise IT really look dramatically different 20 years from now than it does today?
OpenStack Foundation Exec Director to Keynote at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
Jonathan Bryce, the Executive Director of the newly-formed OpenStack Foundation, and who has spent his entire career building the cloud, is to give the opening keynote at 11th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, November 5-8, 2012.
The OpenStack Foundation promotes the development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud operating system. As the independent home for OpenStack, the Foundation has already attracted more than 5,600 individual members from 87 countries and 850 different organizations, secured more than $10 million in funding and is ready to fulfill the OpenStack mission of becoming the ubiquitous cloud computing platform.
RightScale to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that RightScale Inc, the leader in cloud computing management, 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.
RightScale Inc., cloud management enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business-critical applications across public, private, and hybrid clouds. RightScale provides efficient configuration, monitoring, automation, and governance of cloud computing infrastructure and applications. Since 2006, millions of servers have been launched with the RightScale solution by leading enterprises including the Associated Press, CBS Interactive, Intercontinental Hotels Group, PBS, and Zynga.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: B2B Transaction Cloud Meets B2B Social Media
The open B2B transaction cloud integrates social media, business intelligence and open system-to-system connectivity. Social media becomes a common part of day-to-day business transactions. Buyers and suppliers are influenced by each other, learn best practices and save money by being a part of a community.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Vilayat William, Chief Business Development Officer at TBlox, will show how the key to success of the transaction cloud is the self-connectivity of any IT system, access to all data in your business life and ability to share with anybody at any time on any device.
Cisco Acquires vCider
Cisco has bought start-up vCider for its expertise in developing virtual network overlay technology for secure data center infrastructure. The price wasn’t disclosed.
GigaOm rates it as a counter to VMware buying Nicira, which, it says, “has strained the once close partnership between Cisco and VMware.” It figures it’ll be used “to build a unified yet distributed Cisco-based cloud.”
The new prize will be integrated into Cisco’s Cloud Computing organization, reporting to cloud CTO Lew Tucker, the vice-chairman of the new OpenStack Foundation.
In a blog posting Cisco said it expects vCider to play an important part in its Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy, particularly in support of OpenStack, a key pillar of Cisco’s open, multi-hypervisor, multi-stack cloud computing strategy.
Why Security Matters for Big Data and Health Care
Data is quickly becoming one of those certainties in life, like death and taxes. It’ll always be there, and like the Once-ler’s Thneed factory from The Lorax (sorry, I have kids), data figures to keep on biggering, and biggering, and biggering and biggering.
More data means more knowledge, greater insights, smarter ideas and expanded opportunities for organizations to harness and learn from their data. Banks, retailers and even government are embracing big data, but while IDC estimated the big data market at $2.2 billion in 2011, only 6% of that investment came from health care.
On the flip side, a 2011 report from McKinsey Global Institute suggests if health care in the U.S. used big data to drive efficiency and quality, the potential could be more than $300 billion in value every year.
A Preposition Makes All the Difference in / of / for / from the Cloud
There is truly a difference in terms of scope, application and business need between security «in» the cloud and security «from» the cloud.
No, this isn’t 7th grade English…I promise.
With all the important decisions IT departments make, what’s the big deal whether cloud security means from the cloud, in the cloud, of the cloud or for the cloud. Well, a lot. Amongst the various media, blogs, professional chatter, webinars, conferences and the like, the concept of cloud security is getting a significant amount of airplay. However, the difference in the application of a simple preposition completely alters the scope and meaning of these conversations to that of a problem or a solution.
Cloud Computing: SOASTA Measures Real Mobile & Web Users in Real-Time
Somebody oughta buy Facebook one of these.
SOASTA, a big cheese in cloud and mobile testing, has come out with mPulse.
It’s supposed to be the first and only Real User Measurement (RUM) data analysis solution to deliver real-time information based on actual mobile user behavior. Naturally it’s cloud-ified and the analytics are patented.
The company has also made its very first acquisition, picking up LogNormal, which, as you might suspect, does real user measurement and monitoring for mobile and web applications.
Anyway, the company says existing tools collect data about the past, not the present, and hence fail to capture the real mobile users’ experience. mPulse, on the other hand, “instantly delivers actionable intelligence to operations and marketing professionals.”
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Simplify Enterprise Deployments of OpenStack
OpenStack delivers powerful capabilities for deploying an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud, but getting up and running can take time and effort you can’t afford. SUSE Cloud delivers an enterprise ready OpenStack-based solution that eases your cloud deployment.
In their session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Peter Linnell, SUSE Linux Technical Specialist for the West Coast at SUSE, and Cameron Seader, a SUSE Sales Engineer, will discuss the dos and don’ts of deploying OpenStack and show how SUSE Cloud speeds your journey to the cloud.