Agility is top of mind for Cloud/Service providers and Enterprises alike. Policy Driven Data Center provides a policy model for application deployment by decoupling application needs from the underlying infrastructure primitives. In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, David Klebanov, a Technical Solutions Architect with Cisco Systems, discussed how it differentiates from the software-defined top-down control by offering a declarative approach to allow faster and simpler application deployment.
David Klebanov is a Technical Solutions Architect with Cisco Systems. In his work David influences strategic development of the industry leading Data Center switching platforms, which lay foundation for the next generation cloud fabrics. David also takes great pride in speaking at industry events, releasing publications and working on patents.
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The Big Benefits of Thinking Small By @Jack_Newton [#Cloud]
It had always been a dream to start a company with my childhood best friend, Rian Gauvreau, but we hadn’t been able to truly find a business model that worked for us. In 2007, cloud computing was just beginning to make waves, and while many recognized the opportunities that the cloud presented for business, most were quick to go for the «one size fits all» model seen in traditional enterprise technology solutions.
That same year, we began to see a need for a platform within the legal industry that could increase efficiency, saving lawyers both time and money.
Ingram Micro Honors Veterans with a $10,000 Gift to Veterans 360
On Veteran’s Day, hundreds of military veterans, active-duty service members and retirees were recognized and celebrated along with family members at the third annual Ingram Micro Veterans Day ceremonies held across three Ingram Micro locations from Santa Ana, California to Indianapolis and Buffalo.
The Philosophy of Network-as-a-Service By @MartenT1999 [#Cloud]
In the world of Anything-as-a-Service (I will leave the acronym to your imagination), Network-as-a-Service is not a new term. In fact, it even has its own wikipedia page which will tell you it has been used for many years now, well before the current set of service related terms in IT have become popular.
Like most high tech industries, we get somewhat carried away when we have some new terminology and quickly overuse and overload them, watering them down to be meaningless or at least highly confusing. But when you cut through the clutter a bit, the as-a-Service terminology most certainly articulates a shift in thought process and behaviors on how we provide and consume IT resources.
It Takes a Village: The Rise of Crowd-Powered IT Services [#Cloud]
When was the last time you went to your favorite office superstore to buy a piece of packaged software?
Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud storage have completely changed the consumer computing market. Other than Microsoft Office and a few resource-intensive applications for photo and video editing, everything else is either running in the cloud, delivered and managed from the cloud, or storing data in the cloud.
The same trend is coming to enterprise IT. While many organizations have moved their packaged software to IaaS providers like AWS and Azure, many more will simply adopt pure SaaS offerings. These new services align with user and organizational demands, and their pay-as-you-go pricing model fits current business budgeting and purchasing needs. They also get IT departments out of the costly business of building, maintaining, and securing datacenters.
Cloud Computing Security Issues and Challenges By @GiladPN [#Cloud]
The US Federal Communications Commission has recently reported that «theft of digital information has become the most commonly reported fraud, surpassing physical theft.» Businesses can do a lot to protect themselves. The FCC issued a Tip Sheet for small businesses to promote employee security training, firewalls, securing of WiFis, and more. But for business operating in (or migrating to) cloud environments; data security, cloud computing security issues, and challenges take on new meanings and require new strategies.
What I Learned at Cloud Expo
The 15th International Cloud Expo and 2nd ThingsExpo finished up last week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. There were many exhibitors, many attendees, and many great sessions. Discussions were lively throughout, continuing after hours after each of the three days of the show.
Here’s what I learned:
Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud are a reality. This may seem obvious to anyone in the industry, and it was confirmed throughout each day last week. Cloud is not going to be a ubiquitous utility anytime soon, as might have been thought a few years ago. The market for private cloud – derided as cloudwashing a few years ago – will continue to grow rapidly, as it turns out that many enterprises have funny ideas about controlling their data and securing it on-site.
Public cloud is just getting started. This statement may seem to contradict my first statement, but it reflects the reality that cloud computing is not a zero-sum game. With only 5 to 10 percent of enterprise IT in the US employing cloud computing in any form so far, there is a limitless horizon for growth, and the instant testability and near-instant scalability provided by the public-cloud companies will benefit from hundreds of billions of dollars of this growth. Now, if only Amazon would tell us how much of its business is from public-cloud services, we can have a real benchmark from which to grow.
Homebrew is back. It was cute how presenters from behemoths such as Google and Cisco showed up with handcrafted things for the Internet of Things. Decades from now, when the world is paved with sensors, these days will be remembered fondly as the time when old-fashioned homemade engineering, the Makers movement, and entrepreneurial ingenuity delivered a number of very clever beacons, monitors, and wearable thingys in forms that reminded one of the days of playing “Daisy, Daisy” on an Altair 8800 in the early days of the PC revolution. Stanley Kubrick and Ed Roberts live!
The IoT is moving at warp speed. Another statement that may seem contradictory to the one preceding it, this observation is based on many conversations I had with attendees. Whereas most new computing waves are greeted first with skepticism then with cautious inquiry, the vibe about the IoT is that of a nascent Gold Rush. The first few years of Cloud Expo were characterized by people asking about the “what” of cloud, then the “why,” and then the “how.” Now, IT managers, representing significant budgets at big companies, have jumped straight to the “how.” They’re ready to deploy; no time to question what or why. At least that’s what I got from talking to people.
Big Data is creating jobs. We’ve struggled a bit with this term, as I guess it’s hard to define. But there was a lot of talk about the need for data scientists—as soon as we can define what a data scientist is. Think of data collection, monitoring, analysis, and actions based on the analysis, and you have the modern data-driven corporation. This has been the case for a long time. In the era of Big Data, everything is just a magnitude or two larger and more intense. Jobs are ensuing.
Oh yes, and DevOps. Because DevOps. That is all.
vOneCloud: The Simplest Alternative to vCloud [#Cloud]
The OpenNebula Project has just announced the Beta release of vOneCloud, a CentOS Linux virtual appliance for vSphere that contains all required OpenNebula services optimized to work on existing VMware vCenter deployments. vOneCloud is for companies that want to create a self-service cloud environment on top of their VMware infrastructure without having to abandon their investment in VMware and retool the entire stack. vOneCloud deploys an enterprise-ready OpenNebula cloud just in a few minutes where the infrastructure is managed by already familiar VMware tools, such as vSphere and vCenter Operations Manager, and the provisioning, elasticity and multi-tenancy cloud features are offered by OpenNebula.
BYOD & the Importance of the Remote Wipe By @RickNotDelgado | @CloudExpo
Long story short, remote wipes aren’t a perfect solution. The original intent had some validity, but it also raises too many concerns. Wiping is really only an effective solution in an ideal world. Unfortunately, thieves don’t play by the rules and find ways around our solutions. For the moment, employees should always ask questions regarding BYOD policies in order to know what the remote wipe procedure is. Also, partition your device, which will increase the likelihood of personal data being protected in the event of a wipe.
New @OpenNebula 4.10 Enables Private Clouds on VMware vCenter [#Cloud]
Code-named “Fox Fur”, the twenty-third release of OpenNebula is available today with complete support to build clouds on existing VMware environments. OpenNebula 4.10 seamlessly integrates vCenter virtualized infrastructures leveraging the advanced features such as vMotion, HA or DRS scheduling provided by the VMware vSphere product family. On top of it, OpenNebula exposes a multi-tenant, cloud-like provisioning layer, including features such as virtual data centers, data center federation or hybrid cloud computing to connect in-house vCenter infrastructures with Amazon EC2, IBM SoftLayer and Microsoft Azure public clouds.