Technology companies need to target the enterprise to get big benefits for themselves as well as this customer segment. While there are a number of obstacles, proper messaging will help overcome these hurdles.
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Cutting Through the Fog: Application Performance in the Cloud
IT professionals spend 35 percent of their time firefighting, according to analyst firm Research in Action. Moving applications to the cloud, instrumenting them, and enforcing end-to-end performance service level agreements (SLAs) can significantly make things better, reducing friction between teams and increasing operational agility.
However, to manage applications in the cloud, old tooling won’t cut it. You need new solutions to see through the extra complexity: solutions that are predictive, business-smart, and capture the details of how every single user interacts with your applications.
Cloud Computing: SnapLogic Gets $20 Million
SnapLogic, the enterprise cloud integration outfit that’s supposed to bestride cloud computing and Big Data, has gotten a $20 million C round led by Ignition, a new investor, as well as Triangle Peak Partners and existing backer Andreessen Horowitz.
That makes $32.5 million altogether.
SnapLogic claims to be a “standard for Global 2000 companies” in helping them integrate the cloud while ensuring interoperability across a complex range of on-premise legacy apps. It also caters to federal agencies.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Cloud Application Black Magic
Traditional methods of writing applications do not completely change when you adopt cloud, but are you using cloud to its fullest potential? What are some best practices and tools that can help your move to the cloud as painless as possible? Are you maximizing the products you’re using to get the most out of every server to realize cost savings that cloud can bring?
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Wayne Walls, an OpenStack Developer Advocate at Rackspace Hosting, will explore these questions and get practical answers that you can use today.
The Rise of the Cloud
Few phrases are generating more buzz in the business world today than cloud computing. This concept has been rapidly embraced by companies in every industry because of the obvious opportunities to save money and other valuable resources. In fact, Forrester Research projects that the global cloud computing industry will grow from $40.7 billion in 2010 to more than $241 billion by 2020.1
It’s easy to see what is fueling this incredible growth. For many companies, off-site clouds simplify their everyday IT decisions and maintenance issues. Technology hosting, 24-7 system availability, secure data storage and other practical considerations can be easily delegated to a new cloud team, charged with managing daily technology and data management.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Big Data Is at the Heart of Cloud Computing
Dealing with the influx of massive amounts of unstructured data is becoming a major challenge for enterprises. Object Storage is what brings Big Data and Cloud Computing together.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Tom Leyden, Director of Alliances and Marketing at Amplidata, will run through the recent evolution of those paradigms, explain how they are related, affected each other and he will show you how your business can benefit from these recent innovations. Big Data at the heart of Cloud Computing is a “best of” of 10 years of innovation. Tom’s sessions attract full rooms, so make sure to be on time if you want a good seat.
Public, Private Cloud Markets Set to Soar as Enterprise Adoption Grows
The public and private cloud markets continue to experience growth, with the public cloud market expected to reach $100 billion by 2016, according to analysts.
With enterprises continuing to adopt cloud computing, analysts see continued growth in both public and private cloud investment – with worldwide spending on public IT cloud services set to exceed $40 billion in 2012 and reach nearly $100 billion by 2016, according to IDC.
«The IT industry is in the midst of an important transformative period as companies invest in the technologies that will drive growth and innovation over the next two to three decades,» Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC, said in a statement. «By the end of the decade, IDC expects at least 80 percent of the industry’s growth, and enterprises’ highest-value leverage of IT, will be driven by cloud services and the other third-platform technologies.»
By 2016, public IT cloud services will account for 16 percent of IT revenue in five key technology categories: applications, system infrastructure software, platform as a service (PaaS), servers and basic storage, IDC said. More significantly, cloud services will generate 41 percent of all growth in these categories by 2016.
Simplifying Cloud Development
Heroku has announced Heroku Enterprise for Java, a new service for companies and IT organizations to build and run Java applications in the cloud.
Enterprise for Java is designed to enable quick creation and deployment of enterprise Java applications. It also greases the skids to move development processes to a continuous delivery model, all without traditional, on-premises software or IT infrastructure. Enterprise for Java is part of the Salesforce Platform, which is being updated and expanded this week at Dreamforce in San Francisco.
Traditionally, creating Java applications applications has required piecing together both a range of development and runtime infrastructure tools — such as source-code control systems, continuous integration servers, testing and staging environments, load balancers, application server clusters, databases and in-memory caching systems.
Day 2 Keynote at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley | An Open Cloud Discussion
There is a vast new movement developing at a breathtaking pace that is changing the way the world utilizes cloud computing. Specifically, open source cloud computing. Rackspace is helping lead the global discussion about the benefits of building a business on an open cloud.
In his Day 2 Keynote at the 11th International Cloud Expo, John Engates, CTO of Rackspace, will provide insight on the difference between an open cloud and a closed, proprietary cloud. He will also explain the hidden dangers of vendor lock in and where the open cloud is headed into the future.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: How Clouds Will Be Safer than Your Datacenter
Cloud adoption continues to be hampered by concerns about security and availability. Fast forward to the future where the IT landscape will support thousands of clouds that are protected in a seamless, consistent fashion.
In his General Session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Sean Doherty, Vice President and CTO for the Enterprise Security Group at Symantec, will discuss how in this future of cloud computing, today’s adoption concerns will be in the past and your clouds will be safer than many data center operations.