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2014-15 Bridge Group SaaS Inside Sales Research Survey
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For more than a decade we have heard constant warnings about the coming of “cyber war” and “cyber terrorism.” The prophets of cyber doom have promised that cyber attacks are just around the corner that will be on par with natural disasters or the use of weapons of mass destruction. With every new report of a cyber attack, the prophets exclaim that their visions have finally come to pass, and so it is with the most recent attack against Sony. But in most prior cases, after the dust has settled, the belated arrival of cyber war, terrorism, or doom has failed to live up to the initial hype. The same will be the case with the Sony hack. It is neither war nor terrorism as those terms are commonly defined. It certainly is not cyber doom.
What I thought was the best definition, had a line about how “communication was the responsibility of both Dev and Ops.” I know sounds really simple, but if you extend that definition of “communication” I thought that did a good job of showing that DevOps is absolutely both departments’ responsibility. It’s not just relying on one team to change culturally. I’d love to get your short definition of how you define DevOps today.
The Log Shipper Poll results are in! We run Logsene here at Sematext, so we wanted to know what people like to use to ship their logs. Before we share the results, a few words about the poll:
We published it here on our blog on September 22, 2014
We automatically tweeted it and posted it to several Devops and similar LinkedIn groups
We did not post it to groups or mailing lists for various log shippers we included in the poll to avoid bias
We collected 115 votes until now
That said, let’s see how log shipper popularity breaks down.
You can tweet the results of this poll here: Top 5 Most Popular Log Shippers
Many projected use cases for IoT won’t directly generate revenues. To achieve greater efficiency, companies are deploying IoT sensors internally throughout their organizations to optimize their use of everything from computer servers to lighting to HVAC systems to employee productivity.
“Smart cities” are doing the same, only on a much higher scale. Amsterdam is leading the way. It’s employing IoT technology in everything from improving traffic flows in real time, to emergency response, to optimizing public transit use and maintenance.
On the surface, these particular applications of IoT are primarily cost saving in nature and not revenue producing. However, they represent significant indirect revenue opportunities for savvy companies that can provide the many moving parts required to make IoT magic happen.
When moving to cloud or deploying a new application it is important to understand the concept of a cloud enabled and cloud centric application.
Cloud computing technologies allow organizations to leverage the cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) and cloud deployment models (Public, Private and Hybrid) to deploy their applications.These applications can be categorized in two classes: a cloud-enabled or a cloud-centric applications.
A cloud-enabled application is an application that was moved to cloud, but it was originally developed to be deployed in a traditional data center. Some characteristics of the application had to be changed or customized to the cloud.
SYS-CON Events announced today that AIC, a leading provider of OEM/ODM server and storage solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
AIC is a leading provider of both standard OTS, off-the-shelf, and OEM/ODM server and storage solutions. With expert in-house design capabilities, validation, manufacturing and production, AIC’s broad selection of products are highly flexible and are configurable to any form factor or custom configuration. AIC leads the industry with nearly 20 years of experience in mechanical, electronic, system-level engineering as well as a dedication to product innovation and customer support. Headquartered in Taiwan, AIC has offices and operations throughout the United States, Asia and Europe.
Several current trends in cloud computing leading into 2015 actually exhibit a tension between themselves. One trend, a well-known fact that will continue in the New Year to a greater extent, is that enterprises are rapidly moving to the cloud because of its operational efficiencies. This now includes enterprise projects that have sensitive data. Unlike the early days of “The Cloud,” enterprises are now stepping up with some of their crown jewels. Industries that will accelerate adoption in the New Year are Healthcare, Insurance, Utilities, Finance, and to some extent Banking.
The premise of cloud is based, like other emergent technologies, at least partially on the notion of abstraction. Cloud providers are able to achieve what appears to be boundless compute, limitless storage and never-ending network capacity by being able to simply «plug and play» the hardware necessary to expand capacity when needed. Enterprises, too, looking to achieve similar capabilities are desirous of a means to achieve this level of simplicity of scale.
And by desirous I mean «really, really, REALLY want» it. At least that’s how I read the fact that the number one «emerging trend» identified by our State of Application Delivery in 2014 survey was – you guessed it – private cloud. In case that’s not enough to convince of its significance, when asked for which initiatives organizations had purchased technology in the past 12 months the number one answer (with 45% of respondents) was – you guessed it – private cloud.
So getting a «plug and play» or Lego-like infrastructure building blocks that can improve the time to deploy and reduce costs while adding value is pretty important to a whole lot of organizations today.
Recently Arista released a white paper surrounding the idea that having deeper buffers running within the network can help to alleviate the incast congestion patterns that can present when a large number of many-to-one connections are happening within a network. Also known as the TCP incast problem. They pointedly targeted Hadoop clusters, as the incast […]