GridIron Systems, a pioneer in Big Data acceleration, has announced record performance and substantial energy savings for a new reference architecture that combines its OneAppliance FlashCube ultra-high bandwidth solid state storage appliances with Brocade 16 Gigabits per second (Gbps) Fibre Channel storage area networking (SAN) technologies in validated tests running a cloud-enabled MySQL clustered database application.
The new reference architecture overcomes the challenges many organizations face in scaling and enabling concurrent access to databases, while also reducing costs and data center hardware requirements. The architecture, which was validated by Demartek, an independent analyst firm, is an important development for enterprises that depend on MySQL clusters for mission-critical business applications.
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Global Cloud Solution Serves SMEs
The idea of serving global cloud customers is coming to fruition, an example being a Philippine BPO-technology vendor serving local customers with servers based in Phoenix, AZ. Goautodial.com is based in Pasig City, Metro Manila, serving small and medium-sized call centers and BPO firms.
“SMEs are beginning to embrace cloud technology to boost the growth of their businesses at a low cost,” according to Raffy Pekson II, Goautodial’s country manager. The company’s software can be downloaded free of charge, and there are no set-up fees, deposits, or long-term contracts, according to Pekson.
The company services centers with between 5 and 500 seats, in the country that has emerged as the major force in the BPO industry, with close to 500,000 employees and more than $11 billion in annual revenue. The government is supporting business initiatives aimed at driving the revenue figure to $25 billion within a few years.
Pekson says Goautodial offers solutions featuring on-site, off-site, and hybrid approaches, and is planning mobile applications as well.
The New Paradigm: Cloud Services, Cloud Tools
In the past year or so, we have witnessed a major shift from client-server to client-cloud. This shift is primarily fueled by two factors: mobile devices exceeding desktop computers and the thousands of different APIs available on the Internet today. What started in early 2000 on eBay and Amazon has become a real revolution in 2012 with thousands of companies, from Twitter and Facebook to AT&T, offering cloud-based services.
In the client-server approach an organization builds applications that consume its own internal content and
resources. However, even large IT organizations such as AT&T, Verizon and Amazon have come to realize that
they are no match for the social consumer and social enterprise developers out there. By making APIs publicly
available, these organizations hope that developers and “citizen developers” will come and build applications
and mobile apps on top of their services.
Cloud Computing: Network Janitors
If Cloud Computing is going to be part of the critical network infrastructure of an enterprise, senior executives better realize that no technology runs by itself. You need people that are very skilled in all aspects of planning, designing, implementing and managing these systems. There are dynamic people and there are also caretakers that can only do minimum maintenance on systems.
The idea that you can run Cloud Computing applications with a bare minimum of skilled people is a nice sales pitch, but in reality organizations better make sure they have skills on staff or skills readily available in times of emergencies as well as day-to-day operations.
Cloud Computing: Network Encryption for the IaaS Cloud at Cloud Expo NY
The Cloud Security Alliance, NIST SP 800-53 and other security frameworks recommend or require encrypting sensitive data in motion in shared cloud environments while delegating control of the encryption keys to the tenant. While many IaaS providers offer secure VPN connections to the cloud, the VPN tunnel often terminates at the “front door” of the cloud infrastructure, leaving data unprotected within the cloud network. This approach also leaves virtual servers in the cloud vulnerable to attacks from other tenants, and applications architected for LAN environments are not typically designed to operate securely in a shared cloud network.
In his session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Todd Cignetti, vice president of product management with Certes Networks, will review security best practices for encrypting sensitive data in motion in the IaaS cloud while describing Group Encryption, a novel approach to encrypting network traffic without point-to-point tunnels that puts the control of keys and policies in the hands of the tenant.
Cloud Computing: Amplidata Defines Big Data Best Practices at Cloud Expo
Amplidata, an innovator in optimized object-based storage technology, will define best practices for storing Big Unstructured Data at Cloud Expo next week in New York City, on June 11– 14.
Big Data has come a long way to encompass a variety of subsets, including the fast growing Big Unstructured Data domain, where Big Entertainment, Big Science, and many other Big Demands are quickly overwhelming enterprise data stores.
At Cloud Expo, Amplidata’s Tom Leyden will discuss Big Unstructured Data as the increasingly prevalent data where organizations generate Petabytes of large, unstructured files. Leyden will explain a major constraint of traditional data storage approaches – the file system – and how it limits many organizations, particularly those with cloud computing deployments.
Cloud Computing: If a Tree Falls in Your Network, Does Anybody Hear?
Using cloud based security to separate log data from actionable events. The ability to employ situational awareness across all the silos of an enterprise creates the necessary context to break through the white noise of network traffic.
I recently came across an article regarding the difficulty of separating log data from actionable events. The issue at hand is a network is pinged potentially millions of times a day. Most of it innocuous-the legitimate log on and off of employees, genuine transactions of data, etc… But what gets lost amidst all this “white noise,” are the red flags that indicate breaches or worse malicious activities.
It can be overwhelming. In fact, the article Struggling to Make Sense of Log Data, points out a study by the SANS Institute that the biggest critical concern for security is the ability to discern usable and actionable data from log files.
Cloud Computing: Appcara Debuts AppStack Release 2 Platform
Appcara announced a major new version of its AppStack application and portability platform that helps enterprises and service providers accelerate complex applications into the cloud and deliver new application-based revenue sources. Incorporating a real time Dynamic Application Environment layer that eliminates the need for server templates or scripting, AppStack Release 2 changes the rules of cloud computing. With AppStack 2, enterprises and service providers gain exceptionally fast time-to-market for key business applications – maximizing time, knowledge and profitability.
CDW Demonstrates Cloud Computing Options for HP CloudSystem Solutions
CDW LLC (CDW), a provider of technology solutions to business, government, education and healthcare, announced it has been designated an HP Cloud Center of Excellence, based upon the expertise of its solution architects and integration of HP systems into CDW’s newly opened Technology Experience Center. The center offers customers live cloud computing demonstrations, which may be viewed real-time from any CDW or customer location, as well as in person at the center.
CDW’s HP Cloud Center of Excellence features HP CloudSystem, a complete and integrated solution to build and manage services across private, public and hybrid cloud environments. In addition to HP servers, the center also includes HP storage and networking solutions, including HP Tipping Point network security offerings.
HP Names Veghte COO; Imports New Software Savior
HP Wednesday named Bill Veghte chief operating officer, a newly created position that relieves the former Windows executive of running the company’s poorly functioning software operation two years and three CEOs after he got the job.
Veghte is keeping the corporate strategy charter he was given a few months ago as well as responsibility for Autonomy, HP’s great problematic British acquisition that he was given last week when Autonomy founder Mike Lynch was fired.
HP doesn’t have much of a strategy, at least nothing that doesn’t resemble what everybody else is doing and that – as of last week – is to focus on Big Data, cloud and security – all of which depend on software.