“We have serviced the traditional IT marketplace for 23 years and we wanted to extend SHI’s capabilities along what appears to be the logical path of IT. We wanted to be able to offer the complete continuum of products and services from traditional infrastructure build to cloud services,” stated Henry Fastert, Chief Technologist and Managing Partner at SHI, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
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Cloud Computing: The Intersection of Public Cloud, Security and Big Data
“Sensitive data prevents organizations from moving to the public cloud and we obviate that issue through our software,” stated David Canellos, President and CEO of PerspecSys, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Private Cloud Computing Solutions
“We build a piece of software that allows you to build your own private cloud solution, and we have open source components that we use. We were designed and built by the same to guys who actually built Amazon EC2,” explained Reza Malekzadeh, Vice President of Marketing & Sales at Nimbula, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center 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.
This Week in Cloud
A majority of companies reported that they are adding new types of skills and roles to their IT departments to handle their growing cloud requirements, according to this Forbes article. The data comes from a recent CompTIA survey which revealed the current skills that are in demand include private cloud developers and administrators, cloud architects, departmental liaisons, integration specialists, and compliance specialists.
VMWare has acquired Nicira, a privately held company known for its software defined networking technology for $1.26 billion, according to this TechCrunch article. Nicira’s open-source software creates a layer of abstraction between servers and networking gear, and allows for virtualized pools of networking capability.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Moving Big Data into the Cloud
«We provide the storage infrastructure and the I/O performance and capability,» explained David Clark, Director, Product Marketing SSG at QLogic, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center 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.
Decommissioning Legacy to Drive Real Clouds, in the Fast Lane
We can probably all agree that the cloud computing service-based model of application delivery has received more than its fair share of hype, over-embellished hyperbole and hyper-cross-talk in the last few years. Surely now then we have come to a new plateau in cloud, i.e., the time for real-world usage, implementation and deployment.
What does the “real cloud” mean?
The real cloud is located in a place where we start actually using the hosted virtualized environments that are available to us so that “working applications” move to the cloud. That would be working applications – as opposed to the cloud merely and simply being viewed as a test and development environment.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Consuming Security as a Cloud-Based Service
“We help you see what’s exposed on your public-facing infrastructure, and then we help you secure, step-by-step, in a self-service type of approach,” explained Zohar Alon, CEO & Co-Founder of Dome9 Security, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center 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.
Box Raising Money at $1.2 Billion Valuation: WSJ
After reportedly snubbing an acquisition bid from Citrix worth at least $700 million earlier this year, Box, the cloud storage start-up, is raising more money at the tune of a $1.2 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reports.
It supposedly has designs on going public next year at a $2 billion-$3 billion valuation.
The seven-year-old outfit that started in a college dorm has raised about $162 million so far from Mark Cuban, Salesforce.com, SAP, Andreessen Horowitz, Emergence Capital Partners, New Enterprise Associates and DFJ Growth at a valuation of more than $600 million, the paper said.
It is focused now on the paying enterprise as opposed to the consumer, who can use it for free. Box, which lets co-workers collaborate on and edit documents, claims 11 million users at 120.000 companies, including the San Francisco Giants football team and Proctor & Gamble.
Jamaica Emerging as Global Tech Center
Jamaica is emerging as a global technology center. Ya mon, Jamaica. The small island nation of 2.7 million people has relatively high levels of access to high-speed Internet connections, and is working to leverage its English-speaking abilities and location amidst the Americas region. There are no timezone problems for companies in North or South America when doing business with and in Jamaica.
More than a quarter of Jamaica’s people are online, with 4.3% having access to high-speed connections. The latter number may not seem to be a dazzling number, but compare it to 0.8% in Indonesia, 0.9% in India, 1.9% in the Philippines, 4.6% in Thailand, and 6.8% in Brazil. Jamaica’s fast connections are also focused on business.
My ongoing research crunches statistics into the maw of relative income, which takes into account local cost-of-living and the idea of a “pound-for-pound” economic analysis. By this standard, Jamaica is on the rise.
Aggregating and integrating factors such as income, income disparity, Internet connections, corruption, the use of English, and infrastructure development on this pound-for-pound scale finds Jamaica exceeding Mexico, Turkey, all of Southeast Asia except the Philippines, and all of the BRICs except China.
I was excited to see a recent in-depth look at Jamaica published The Sauce, an Australian outsourcing consulting firm. A detailed article written there by David Mullings, a Jamaican investor, states that the country has 13,000 employees in the BPO sector and is planning 10,000 more.
Looks like it’s time to visit Kingston.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Assessing Cloud Requirements
“There are different areas in the cloud, different models in the cloud. I think a lot of that depends on the data. If the data is really sensitive then we want to have a private cloud. If the data is something that can be out there, then we have a public cloud,” observed Ajay Budhraja, CTO at the Department of Justice, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center 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.