451 Research recently published its 2016 Enterprise Storage Outlook in which both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft become top 5 enterprise storage vendors by 2017. Further, AWS surges from 6th place to 2nd place while NetApp plummets from 2nd place to 6th place. Spending on public cloud storage over doubles between 2015 and 2017 while spending on on-premises storage falls over 17%.
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Digital Transformation and Its Role in Mobility and Competition By @KRBenedict | @ThingsExpo #IoT
I don’t think we take competition serious enough. I don’t think we fully understand how important digital transformation is, and the far-reaching economic implications of not competing effectively. In 2014 in a discussion about the struggling Finnish economy, Mr Stubb, the former prime minister of Finland, told a newspaper, «Steve Jobs took our [country’s] jobs.» His words describe the severe impact of not competing effectively on a nation’s economy. In a global market innovation and competition from the other side of the world can powerfully and rapidly impact the local economy for good or bad.
Rackspace Expands OpenStack Leadership | @CloudExpo @Rackspace #Cloud
“The demands of modern cloud architecture and workloads like Cassandra are pushing the industry to find performance anywhere it can,” said Jonathan Ellis, co-founder at DataStax. “Running core infrastructure on hardware like Rackspace’s OnMetal is the closest thing we have to an assured advantage: lower latency and more requests served with no changes to the code.”
Coalfire Joins Cloud Security Alliance | @CloudExpo @CoalfireSys #Cloud
Coalfire has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment.
Coalfire has extensive experience advising and assessing cloud services providers, solution developers and end-users who have moved their businesses to the cloud, helping them to better understand and manage their risks by providing comprehensive assessment, testing and compliance-related services.
Moving to a Disaggregated Storage Model in Modern Data Centers | @CloudExpo #Cloud
Today, in most data centers, cloud, no Structured Query Language (No-SQL) and analytics infrastructures have been largely deployed on a direct-attached storage (DAS) architecture and is generally a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) -driven deployment.
The DAS approach binds the compute and storage resources together, preventing independent scaling and tech refresh cycles. The converged DAS model works very well at smaller scale, but as the infrastructure grows to a substantial size, wasted compute or storage can greatly affect the TCO of the environment. Since the DAS model is constrained by the available slots in a server, scale is limited and often quickly outgrown. In some compute heavy environments, there may be enough DAS allocated to the servers, but the work load needs more Central Processing Units (CPUs), therefore some of the allocated DAS stays unused when additional nodes are added. In addition, since the compute infrastructure is usually on a more aggressive tech-refresh cycle than the storage, converging them together in a single solution limits the flexibility for the tech-refresh. There is a trend to disaggregate at least the warm, cold, and archive data from the compute capacity, and use storage servers in separate racks as Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) targets to carve out the storage capacity. Hot data, especially if it resides on Solid State Disks (SSDs), is not easily moved to a disaggregated model because of network bandwidth and throughput requirements.
TOP500 Ranks @DDN_Limitless in Global Supercomputer Sites List | @CloudExpo #Cloud
SYS-CON Events announced today that DDN Storage has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 18th Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7-9, 2015 at the Javits Center in New York, New York.
DataDirect Networks (DDN) has announced it has continued its leadership as the dominant storage provider of the world’s fastest supercomputers for the seventh consecutive year with storage solutions that power two-thirds of identifiable sites on the most recent TOP500.org rankings list. The Top500 list ranks the largest supercomputing environments by performance capabilities, highlighting the vendors and technologies that can uniquely deliver the capabilities to power the most data intensive environments on the globe.
Monitoring Your APIs | @DevOpsSummit #API #DevOps #Microservices
Gone are the days when SOAP, REST and microservices were buzzwords that did not apply to you.
Gone are also the days when monolithic applications were built by organizations end-end.
The availability of specialized components and services from different organizations and the access to these components through RESTful services has resulted in a major inflexion point with APIs becoming the mechanism for data interchange and systems to interact.
Most organizations are familiar with the benefits of developing APIs that can be shared publicly and used by other third-party applications.
Commvault Clinical Archive Launched | @CloudExpo @Commvault #Cloud
SYS-CON Events announced today that Commvault, a global leader in enterprise data protection and information management, has been named «Bronze Sponsor» of SYS-CON’s 18th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Commvault has launched Commvault Clinical Archive to modernize the way healthcare organizations manage, migrate and share clinical data.
How to Build Mind Share Among Your Audience | @CloudExpo #Cloud
You may have been hearing the term «mind share» (or «mindshare,» depending on whom you ask) a lot over the past year. While it’s being talked about more often, the concept goes back a millennium to the very first businesses. Think about searching the internet. Do you simply search the internet or do ‘google it’? How about when you get injured? If you’re like the vast majority of people, you ask for a Band-Aid, not a bandage. These are two prime examples of successful mind share. Google and Band-Aid established their names so thoroughly in the minds of consumers that the brands became synonymous with the products they represented.
Easing the Path to Cloud-Based Backup By @NegrashS | @CloudExpo #Cloud
Many organizations today require 24×7 access to the data they need to run their operations. According to a recent survey, when IT teams modernize their data centers, high-speed recovery and data loss avoidance are the two most sought-after capabilities. Eliminating any “availability gap” is the aim; however, cost and lack of skills are often a roadblock.