Thinking about venturing into the cloud? Where would you start? What you should absolutely not do is approach your transition to the cloud the same way you planned your traditional storage. You should start with understanding the value of your data; take a ‘data centric’ approach.
With the promise of improving business efficiencies and reducing overall storage costs, organizations are considering the many options available to transition from traditional storage environments into public, private and hybrid clouds. While bring your own device (BYOD) and mobility initiatives through cloud services continue to rise, modern organizations need to manage costs and provide secure data access to the right person at the right time to satisfy geographically dispersed workforces and improve business agility.
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DevOps on Hybrid Cloud By @SD_Architect | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
In a world of ever-accelerating business cycles and fast-changing client expectations, the cloud increasingly serves as a growth engine and a path to new business models. Dynamic clouds enable businesses to continuously reinvent themselves, adapting their business processes, their service and software delivery and their operations to achieve speed-to-market and quick response to customer feedback. As the cloud evolves, the industry has multiple competing cloud technologies, offering on-premises and off-premises cloud platforms for both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). In parallel, cloud standards are also evolving, including community standards like OpenStack and CloudFoundry. Most organizations who are adopting the Cloud today are ending up adopting it in complex ‘dynamic-hybrid’ environments. There is physical infrastructure that now co-exists along with the new dynamic-hybrid on-premises and off-premises Cloud hosted environments.
PCI DSS: What You Need to Know By @GiladPN | @CloudExpo
Every organization should follow a proactive rather than a reactive approach to protect against threats, risks, and vulnerabilities to which if their IT infrastructure is exposed can lead to data loss, regulatory penalties, lawsuits, and damaged reputation. Moving on the same lines, to reduce credit card fraud via its exposure, a standard known as Payment […]
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More Mainstream Businesses Depend on Open Source
If you’re an executive that’s concerned about the high-cost of proprietary software, you’re not alone. If your IT team pushes back whenever Line of Business leaders ask them for feature enhancements that goes beyond the limits of the commercial software packages they’ve licensed, then you already know that frustration.
Are you wondering if there’s an alternative to this legacy business technology scenario? Consider Open Source Software (OSS) and follow in the footsteps of the previously enlightened.
North Bridge Venture Partners recently announced the results of the eighth annual investigation into OSS trends. The latest market study findings point toward the increased role that OSS solutions have in today’s enterprises.
Why Cloud Computing May Fail Miserably
Without wasting any of your time, let me be just as straightforward as I can. Cloud computing may fail miserably and all the hype associated with it may just disappoint all the technology pundits, and although it may not seem something that is going to happen anytime soon, let me give you just five reasons why i think this is a likelihood
Burden of Security at ‘Dev’ in #DevOps By @Parasoft | @DevOpsSummit
The move to the cloud brings a number of new security challenges, but the application remains your last line of defense.
In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Arthur Hicken, Evangelist at Parasoft, to discuss how developers are extremely well-poised to perform tasks critical for securing the application – provided that certain key obstacles are overcome.
Meet @CloudianStorage November 4-6 at @CloudExpo Silicon Valley [#Cloud]
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudian, Inc., the leading provider of hybrid cloud storage solutions, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloudian is a Foster City, Calif.-based software company specializing in cloud storage. Cloudian HyperStore® is an S3-compatible cloud object storage platform that enables service providers and enterprises to build reliable, affordable and scalable hybrid cloud storage solutions. Cloudian actively partners with leading cloud computing environments including Amazon Web Services, Citrix Cloud Platform, Apache CloudStack, OpenStack and the vast ecosystem of S3 compatible tools and applications. Cloudian’s customers include Vodafone, Nextel, NTT, Nifty, and LunaCloud. The company has additional offices in China and Japan.
Your Open Source Cloud Cocktail By @MRHinkle | @CloudExpo [@CitrixCloud]
Here’s the presentation I gave at the Linux Foundation’s CloudOpen in Dusseldorf on October 13, 2014 titled Mixing Your Open Source Cloud Cocktail Add two parts virtualization, one part orchestration add a little networking shake and pour. Unfortunately cloud computing isn’t that easy but then again not all clouds are the same and tastes may vary. This…
DevTest Clouds on Cloud 9 By @Parasoft | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
By Wayne Ariola, Parasoft Chief Strategy Officer
From the point of view of a developer or tester, the dependent architecture associated with the application they’re working on is extremely complex—and only growing more so. This begs the question: How do you create a test environment in order to validate the features the company wants to release as rapidly as possible?
As the just-released voke report on Virtual & Cloud Based Labs outlines, various technologies over the past decade have matured to a point where they can reduce this complexity. For example, the report highlights:
- «Virtual or cloud-based labs to enable on-demand access to development and test environments
- Service virtualization to simulate services, components, or applications regardless of their state of completeness or accessibility
- Network virtualization to model and simulate networks to assess the impact of the network on the user experience»
Cloud Based Healthcare Records By @HarbingerSys | @CloudExpo
Over the last few years the healthcare ecosystem has revolved around innovations in Electronic Health Record (HER) based systems. This evolution has helped us achieve much desired interoperability. Now the focus is shifting to other equally important aspects – scalability and performance. While applying cloud computing environments to the EHR systems, a special consideration needs to be given to the cloud enablement of Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA), i.e., the largest single medical system in the United States.