VMware has applied to join the OpenStack Foundation, potentially giving the burgeoning open source cloud stack movement a huge dose of credibility in the enterprise. There are risks to the community in VMware’s involvement, of course, but on the balance this could be a pivotal event. There is an alternative explanation, which I will hit at the end, but it’s a pretty exciting development no matter VMware’s true motivations.
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HP Expands Converged Cloud Portfolio
HP has announced that it’s expanding its HP Converged Cloud portfolio with new solutions for VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, enabling clients to transform traditional virtualization deployments into private and hybrid cloud environments with less risk and complexity.
Combined with VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, HP CloudSystem doubles VM density, reduces network complexity, and provides added flexibility to support almost any workload, says HP.
Introduced in April, HP Converged Cloud extends the power of the cloud across infrastructure, data and applications. Based on a single architecture, HP Converged Cloud helps integrate many combinations of private, managed and public clouds, as well as traditional IT, providing workload portability as well as dynamic scaling.
Ways Cloud Computing Will Change by 2020
Think cloud computing is just the latest IT fad? Think again.
According to an article on ZDNet, by 2020 cloud is going to be a major – and permanent – part of the enterprise computing infrastructure.
Forrester predicts the global cloud computing market will grow from $35 billion in 2011 to around $150 billion by 2020 as it becomes key to many organizations’ IT infrastructures.
By 2020, a generational shift will have occurred in organizations. A new generation of CIOs will be in charge that have grown up using cloud-based tools, making them far more willing to adopt cloud on an enterprise scale.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: The Cloud Service Broker
Next-generation cloud service management software will offer service brokering capabilities. A broker allows the federation of resources across heterogeneous Cloud Service Providers and thus plays an important role in avoiding vendor lock-in.
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Jamie Marshall, the CTO of Prologue (France), will provide an overview of the architecture of an open source cloud service broker that would allow for the description, provision, deployment and management of any type or configuration of cloud services delivered by heterogeneous cloud service providers in accordance with a consumer’s SLA. He will end with a live demonstration showing how a federation of multiple OpenStack providers can be managed by CompatibleOne, an open source cloud service broker, in a multi-cloud environment.
Cloud and Change Management
Change management is important for any Technology initiative and since many Cloud services focus on rapid deployments, this area is sometimes forgotten. The move to Cloud has not only technology implications but also business implications. Business processes and operations can be encapsulated as services and delivered expeditiously. Change management for the Cloud should look into the strategic, technology and development changes and related impacts. If you need new tires for your car do you just go and buy the first set of tires you see or do you check specifications, compatibility, price etc to determine how this change will impact your vehicle. This may appear to be common sense but in the excitement of moving to the Cloud it is easy to get carried away and not think about all aspects of change management.
Cloud Computing: Rackspace Buys E-Mail Start-Up for Cloud
Rackspace is going to acquire a two-year-old Y Combinator e-mail start-up called Mailgun.
Terms were not disclosed but, aside from Y’s seeding, it looks like the fledgling only raised $1.1 million last year.
Mailgun provides a web service for integrating e-mail inboxes into apps like Twilio lets developers build voice and SMS in their apps.
It says it enables functionality like private user mailboxes, photo uploads from cell phones, e-mail-driven comments and discussion groups.
Rackspace says the deal will let it offer cloud-based e-mail services in applications and web sites.
The Human Factor in Cloud’s Next Big Thing
Where will the cloud computing model of service-based virtualized computing resources for data storage and processing grow next? This is arguably the biggest question facing technology analysts today – and if we knew the answer we could all probably sleep a little more soundly.
Before we can answer this question, perhaps we need to break it down and determine what exactly we are really trying to clarify.
Migrating E-Commerce Applications to the Cloud
The e-commerce industry is experiencing a sudden spurt in their sales in India and thus we can see an explosion in the e-commerce business in near future. The e-retail industry in India is expected to touch USD 70 billion revenue by 2020. It’s a huge market and certainly would be a game changer in the way the IT industry is perceived in India. Indian IT industry would no longer be just a back office for outsourced software development work for US companies. This would certainly be a big push for MNCs such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft to re-think about their existing business strategies around India. Probably the technology centers they have in India would be given business targets and would not be treated just as cost-lowering technology centers.
Clustrix to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Clustrix, provider of a radically simple SQL database, 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.
Clustrix is the scale-out SQL database for Big Data applications. Clustrix provides a radically simple SQL database that enables applications to scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, while eliminating database sharding and automating fault tolerance. Customers include Symantec, AOL, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, and Massive Media.
On Dog Years, Cloud Years, and A-years
Innovations are commonly judged by how fast they reached 50 million users (Radio, 38 years; TV, 13 years; Internet, 4 years; iPod, 3 years, etc.). Another way to look at this is by time equivalents: If one Dog Year equals 7 human years than how many years of traditional IT do we travel in one Cloud Year?
This cloud year we saw quit a lot of change – also from existing mega vendors entering the cloud market – but did it match 7 years of progress in traditional IT (taking us roughly from SOA till today)? And do we really expect the next three years to bring as much change as we saw since the days of client-server or the next seven years to be the equivalent of the journey from the days of the mainframe to today?