For years, IT departments have organized their processes, employees, and business relationships around owning and operating the core IT assets in an enterprise. The current wave of cloud services can have a powerful effect on enterprise IT, with the potential for significant cost savings and operational efficiencies. To achieve these benefits, IT departments will have to integrate new ways of thinking about how IT resources are delivered.
In his General Session at Cloud Expo New York, Scott Thomas, Vice President, Sales Engagement at Terremark, a Verizon Company, discusses the major factors driving cloud adoption for the enterprise, relating how the adoption of cloud technologies is changing the way IT departments will operate, and reviewing case studies showing how businesses have used cloud services to achieve these benefits.
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2011: $6.9 Billion Invested in Cloud Startups
Venture capitalists are currently enamored with cloud-based startups, and are investing heavily in the cloud computing industry, according to a post on Cloudtimes.org.
According to statistics shared by PricewaterhouseCoopers, venture capitalists invested as much as $6.9 billion on «Internet-specific» startups in 2011 alone, with «Internet-specific» being a proxy term for «cloud» because that’s what most of them are doing. The $6.9 billion investment is a 68% increase from last year.
In Q4 alone, investments related to cloud amounted to $1.8 billion, which is above the $1.3 billion invested on biotech, and the $883 million invested into cleantech in the same year. It’s more than just the amount, anyway. The amount of deals is also increasing – VCs funded as many as 1,004 software startups related to the cloud last 2011.
Cloud Computing: Here Comes Microsoft’s Cloud OS & Trouble for VMware
Microsoft said it would push Windows Server 2012 out the door in early September and it did on Tuesday, after a year of public test builds. It positioned it as the “cornerstone” of its cloud strategy, its “Cloud OS” for private and hosted clouds and a building block for Windows Azure.
It said “the Cloud OS does what operating systems have always done: manage hardware and provide a platform for applications. But it also expands to include services and technologies that have not previously been considered part of an operating system.”
In the case of Windows Server, the 2012 model works independently and connects to 200 or so online services available through Azure, stuff like bursting or analytics.
Microsoft says the widgetry is “built from the cloud up.”
Racemi Announces Software-as-a-Service to Migrate Servers to Public Clouds
Racemi, the moving company for the cloud, announced that its Cloud Path software as a service is now generally available for migrating Windows and Linux server images to public clouds with no infrastructure to buy or maintain and no upfront costs or fees.
The fully-automated migration can be controlled from a web browser, with cost savings on average of $800 per server versus a manual migration to a public cloud provider, like Amazon EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace or Terremark.
In addition, Racemi Cloud Path’s zero-risk, pay-as-you-go licensing plan ensures that customers are only billed for successful migrations. There is no faster or lower risk way to migrate to the cloud.
«We’re taking ease of use to a new level for any administrator that wants to migrate existing physical or virtual workloads to a public cloud resource,» said James Strayer, vice president of product management at Racemi. «There is no need to rebuild from scratch or use templates and scripts, which saves administrators time and translates to significant cost savings versus migrating a server manually.»
Oracle’s Cloud – An Enterprise Cloud for Business-Critical Applications
For enterprise class cloud services, companies need a broad, comprehensive and flexible platform for their applications. The Oracle Cloud, which offers a broad set of best-in-class, integrated services that are secure, elastic, and 100% open standards-based, offering organizations choice in development and deployment of business critical applications. In his General Session at Cloud Expo New York, Sandeep Banerjie, Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle Public Cloud, discusses how these subscription-based services can speed your application development and deployment time, offer the flexibility of application portability, and the ease with which you can access, use, and manage them.
Announcing the Cloud Maturity Model for RFPs
Following a number of months of work with a team effort of industry experts and requirements from key user groups like government agencies here in Canada, version 1.00 of our Cloud Maturity Model for RFPs is now complete and available for purchase.
Many businesses are at the point they believe the Cloud does indeed offer them considerable ROI potential but are finding that the supplier landscape and multitude of industry terminology is confusing and daunting.
This means it will slow their procurement and so both customers and suppliers lose out.
NuoDB Releases New Beta
«A major goal in developing NuoDB has been the ability to scale elastically on hundreds of cores while also providing better performance than traditional centralized OLTP databases like MySQL,” said Barry Morris, CEO and Founder of NuoDB, as his latest start-up recently released Beta 8 of its groundbreaking web-scale SQL database.
EAT Signs Contract with NaviSite
NaviSite, Inc., a provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging and managed cloud services, has been selected by EAT, a high street food retailer, to provide the NaviCloud platform Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) for its new customer facing web system.
Following a period involving continuous expansion, EAT decided to launch a new customer facing web application. An external host facility was sought to meet high availability and flexible resource demands, whilst providing advanced security for customer transactions. EAT has long operated on a private cloud platform, allowing its 2000+ employees across 120 stores to work on a secure private network, but in order to launch the customer facing application, the hosting solution had to meet a strict set of requirements including full PCI Compliance, VMware compatibility, high availability and private VPN capabilities. All of this had to be achievable in a very short time scale. Navisite accepted the challenge and delivered.
Since the launch of the first EAT shop in 1996, EAT is now able to offer a full range of good, fresh and handmade food and drinks to customers online. With the new web application, customers can order their food to be delivered directly, Monday to Friday. The new platform also enables customers to place lunch orders on the same day as delivery, before 10am.
Cloud Still Not So Clear to All
Here is an article published in MSPNews about Cloud Confusion. I think we have a long way to go educating people what Cloud is all about. The challenge is that there are many aspects of cloud computing such as backup and disaster recovery, saas. data storage to name a few. The driving factor for the […]
Database Scalability Needed for Full-Blown Cloud Applications
“We have seen excellent strength in social networking and gaming apps, the growth has been phenomenal,” observed Cory Isaacson, CEO of CodeFutures Corporation, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Most consumers have no idea they are ‘playing in the cloud,’” Isaacson continued, “but that is where a majority of these apps are hosted – and very successfully so.”
Cloud Computing Journal: How fast will the last remaining barriers to enterprise-wide cloud adoption melt away – are secure public clouds feasible, for example, or only private ones?
Cory Isaacson: The barriers are evaporating quickly, but the database tier still remains a big issue. The reliability and performance need to improve so that enterprise customers feel comfortable trusting their environment to the cloud. Another factor that will help is using the cloud as a disaster recovery (DR) backup – that will be a smart strategy and a good early move for many enterprise organizations.