«We have a silo-free development, a runtime environment that allows you to build new applications in the cloud,» noted Ash Massoudi, CEO of NextAxiom Technology, in this interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at our Times Square Studio in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5-8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world
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Infosys Unveils Cloud Ecosystem Hub
New solution helps businesses accelerate time to market of cloud services by 40 percent.
Infosys has launched the Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub so enterprises can better create, adopt and govern cloud services across a business ecosystem.
The move shows the demand for managing «cloud of cloud» services, and the rapidly growing need for gaining better control over hybrid services delivery — for both businesses and cloud services providers. I think Infosys’s move also shows that one-size-fits-all public clouds will become behind-the-scenes utilities, and that managing services in a business ecosystem context is where the real value will be in cloud adoption.
Infosys says that businesses can accelerate time to market of cloud services by up to 40 percent, improve productivity by up to 20 percent, and achieve cost-savings of up to 30 percent by using it’s Cloud Ecosystem Hub.
Cloud Computing: What’s Working, What’s New, What’s Next?
In this CTO Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, Vineet Tyagi; Head of Impetus Labs at Impetus Technologies; Darryl Brown, CMO at Appcore; Govind Rangasamy, Director of Product Management at Eucalyptus Systems; Frank Martinez, CTO of ServiceMesh; Wayne Ariola, VP of Strategy and Corporate Development at Parasoft; Bob Wicklund, Enterprise Solution Architect for McAfee Cloud and Content Security; and Ken Guiberson, CTO at EffectiveUI discussed such topics as which do you think is the most important cloud computing standard still to tackle and who should and shouldn’t be using a PaaS product today, and why?
The Cloud Integration Stack
We use the term “hybrid cloud” to indicate a joining together of two disparate environments. We often simplify the “cloud” to encompass public IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and private cloud. But even though the adoption of such hybrid architectures may be a foregone conclusion, the devil is, as they say, in the details and how that adoption will be executed is not so easily concluded.
At its core, cloud is about integrating infrastructure. We integrate infrastructure from the application and networking domains to enable elasticity and scalability. We integrate infrastructure from security and delivery realms to ensure a comprehensive, secure delivery chain that promises performance and reliability. We integrate infrastructure to manage these disparate worlds in a unified way, to reduce the burden on operations imposed by necessarily disconnected systems created by integrating environments.
Cloud Computing: Rackspace Cloud Revenues Up 69%
Rackspace revenues were up 29% year-over-year in the June quarter to roughly $319 million, passing lowered expectations. Earnings soared 43.1% to $25.1 million, or 16 cents a share, despite substantial investments in servers, storage and software related to OpenStack.
The company is hopeful but not convinced that OpenStack will start contributing in Q4, its first full quarter, increasing next year after customers kick the tires and see some performance metrics.
Cloud computing revenues were $72.6 million in Q2, up 69% year-over-year, while managed hosting revenue rose 21% to $246 million.
The company said it saw demand from SMBs for cloud hosting and European business is hanging in there maybe because it’s mostly in the UK.
Gross margin was 71.8%. Operating margin was 12.8%. Net margin was 7.9%.
BMC Buys Another DevOps Start-Up
BMC just bought Varalogix, a two-year-old self-funded start-up and near neighbor located in Austin, Texas, where BMC has acquired a couple of other DevOps companies in the last couple of years that mesh with its latest prize.
Varalogix and its purpose-built VaraLogix Q widgetry does automated application deployment and configuration management for Java and .NET applications and just about everything they might need (think plug-ins) ‘cause it’s got “application awareness” ensuring that the app’s dependencies are covered.
From Cloud Computing to Virtualization
“Cloud will provide the technology to allow virtualization of mainframe workloads,” observed Scott Morrison, CTO at Layer 7 Technologies, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “But,” Morrison continued, “the organizational inertia in large enterprises will keep many mainframes operating for the foreseeable future.”
Cloud Computing Journal: Just having the enterprise data is good. Extracting meaningful information out of this data is priceless. Agree or disagree?
Scott Morrison: Strongly agree. Data has no inherent value; it’s the interpretation we place on it that creates value. Over the years, we’ve gradually improved in how we handle the ever-increasing volumes of enterprise data, but there is a big new challenge on the horizon. This challenge is the interpretation of API transaction data, which captures the timeline of who is doing what and when. We need more advanced tools to capture and understand this new mine of data in the context of existing enterprise data sources.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: The Production Quality Cloud
“We wanted to create a cloud that is specifically targeted at our IT customers, and IT customers would like to put production applications into the cloud, including mission-critical applications,” noted Henry Fastert, Chief Technologist & Managing Partner at SHI International, in this interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at our Times Square Studio in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
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“It’s a wonderful industry and it’s easy to see the future. The move to the cloud is only going to take a couple of years. Enterprises are saying here’s my roadmap and by 2020 all these applications will be running on the cloud,” noted Andy Schroepfer, Vice President of Strategy at Rackspace Hosting, in this interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at our Times Square Studio in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Microsoft Digital Government
With the upcoming OASIS conference being held at the Microsoft HQ in Washington DC, and my first session being focused on “Digital Government”, it’s helpful to showcase what their offering is. Cloud Connected Government Digital Government is the headline program recently announced by the new White House CIO, Steven VanRoekel. It describes a number of technical […]