A recent survey revealed user attitudes and adoption plans for cloud storage.
Nearly three-quarters of cloud storage users estimated they could recover their data within 24 hours
One out of every eight organizations that do not use cloud storage responded that it would take “more than a week” to recover their data
Respondents were attendees at the recent Cloud Expo at the Javits Center in New York June 11-14, an audience expected to offer more sophisticated insight into the use of cloud computing than a general IT audience. Seventy-three percent of respondents have implemented some form of cloud computing already, with more than a quarter (28 percent) having done so for three or more years.
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Cloud Security Alliance “Association Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Security Alliance has been named “Association Sponsor” of 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.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders.
Next Stop in Cloud Computing: How Can It Be Implemented?
First there was «what.» Then there was «why.» Now there is «how.»
Cloud computing is being embraced by most enterprise IT shops – at least according to attendees and vendors at the 10th Cloud Expo in New York, writes Roger Strukhoff of Cloud Computing Journal. Many organizations now want to know how to harness the strengths of cloud computing.
The word of the day at Cloud Expo was «multi-cloud,» Strukhoff explained:
«It turns out that enterprise IT is complex, and that cloud is not going to eliminate that complexity, at least with larger shops. However, it will continue the push in recent years to eliminate silos, decouple and loosely recouple services, get a grip on measuring things, and provide the vaunted ‘single pane of glass’ through which IT management can view and manage what’s going on,» he writes.
Red Hat’s Buying FuseSource Off Progress Software
Red Hat said Wednesday that it’s arranged to buy FuseSource from Progress
Software. Terms were not disclosed but they’re not material.
FuseSource evidently has some open source integration and messaging
widgetry that Red Hat thinks is valuable. Red Hat’s plans are fixated on
applications. FuseSource is supposed to let it “accelerate the delivery of
application integration products and services to enterprise customers.”
E-signature and Cloud Service Myths
E-signature services offer an innovative and convenient way for businesses of any size to help cut costs, improve efficiency and offer convenience to customers or clients. Delivery of documents and forms through the Internet or cloud-based services takes just seconds. This means less waiting, more working and quicker processing. The technology has matured and grown […]
Private Clouds and the 500kW Threshold
I’ve been intrigued by two recent and fairly consistent comments made by cloud thought leaders about the power and significance of the under-hyped private cloud. Zynga CTO Debra Chrapaty recently commented about the Zynga migration from public to private cloud centricity.
Zynga owns the base and rents the spike; see The Power of the Private Cloud for a link to the GigaOm Research interview.
Time to Rain on the “Cloud Service Model” Parade
The Cloud community have been talking recently about Everything as a Service; they call it EaaS. At first hearing it’s an interesting idea, another acronym to complement IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Unfortunately it’s rather like the tail wagging the dog! The Cloud community use the term Service liberally but with minimal consistency.
Veddio Moves with Independence IT
ndependenceIT (iIT), provider of the complete Cloud Workspace, has announced its acquisition of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Veddio Cloud Solutions, a cloud services management platform and aggregator for managed services providers (MSP). The acquisition broadens independenceIT’s customer base and enables channel partners of all sizes to reap the business-enabling benefits of the cloud through simple, intuitive management tools. The terms of the acquisition were not publicly disclosed.
«This is an exciting opportunity as Veddio’s platform has been validated by an industry leader in independenceIT,» said Todd B. Myers, Veddio’s co-founder and CEO, who will now take the position of chief operating officer with independenceIT. «An integrated solution from the two companies will provide the marketplace with the means to easily control all of their cloud services from an intuitive dashboard.»
ActiveState Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that ActiveState, whose software enables developers and enterprises to innovate from code to cloud, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of 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.
ActiveState empowers innovation from code to cloud smarter, safer, and faster. ActiveState’s cutting-edge solutions give developers and enterprises the power and flexibility to develop in Java, Ruby, Python, Perl, Node.js, PHP, Tcl, and more. Stackato is ActiveState’s groundbreaking application platform for creating a private platform as a service (PaaS), and is the cost-effective, secure, and portable way to develop and deploy apps to the cloud.
Architecture-Agnosticism for Application Transformation
The problem with cloud computing is that the adoption challenge is firmly rooted on the ground.
All too often we hear vendors talk about the need for «management and usability» as key must-have characteristics in cloud application platforms, but these over-used generic marketing terms now have arguably less value in terms of real-world real-time real-data deployments.
At a more granular level we need to know what programmers need to a) migrate existing application structures to new hosted virtualized environments and b) initiative new cloud application and database builds that are architected in such as way that they can migrate across different cloud formations (i.e., private, public and hybrid) as and when this shift is needed.