Traditional middleware is not suitable for the Cloud: it’s simply too complex and it does not provide a pay-per-use charge model.
In their General Session at Cloud Expo New York, Ash Massoudi, CEO & Co-Founder of NextAxiom Technology, and Sandy Zylka, co-founder of NextAxiom, discuss a new middleware paradigm for developing and integrating applications: metered, virtualized middleware. The virtualized attribute allows you to easily build and run new applications in the cloud reusing existing on-premise application functionality. The metered attribute has two aspects: it provides a usage-based charge model for the middleware itself and it provides a built-in, metered charge model, much like electricity, for your new applications.
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Proact supplies virtualised infrastructure, cloud backup to Grafia
Proact has implemented a new, virtualised infrastructure and a new storage environment for Grafia. The contract also includes backup to Proact’s secure cloud and consecutive support. The implementation project commenced and was completed in the summer of 2012.
Grafia is one of Sweden’s most sought-after companies in the field of model and product photography, supplying photos to companies such as clothing giants Kappahl, Brothers, Lindex and MQ. To enhance the performance and flexibility of the business, Proact has implemented a new, virtualised infrastructure and a new storage environment.
“Of course, our success is based on the fact that we supply high-quality images, but the fact that we supply technical solutions that allow our end-clients to receive and manage our images with ease is also a factor. These technical solutions, which make us highly competitive, are entirely dependent on a flexible, high-performance IT infrastructure and storage environment,” says Martin Gårdmark, CIO of Grafia.
To meet Grafia’s demands for outstanding flexibility and performance, Proact presented a solution comprising a new, virtualised infrastructure and a storage and backup environment. The Proact solution also includes the backup of vital applications to Proact’s own cloud, thereby giving Grafia greater access and reliability if anything were to affect the local infrastructure.
“Grafia has a clear vision regarding what its IT environment has to supply to the business and what it should facilitate. The solution which we have devised and implemented gives Grafia outstanding performance, reliability and, above all, the flexibility the company needs for its business,” says Martin Ödman, Regional Manager at Proact.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Intel IT’s Approach to the Open Private Cloud
Cloud technologies are moving at a rapid pace. The compelling drivers are the need for on-demand business solutions, lower cost for IT and the ability to deliver the rich experience that users need and expect. Enterprises are wrestling with private vs. public vs. hybrid cloud solutions. The need for high levels of customizability, flexibility, and agility will drive many enterprises to the public cloud. The foundation for this vision will be defined by an open approach that delivers best of breed technologies + flexibility + choice from data center to client.
Intel is bringing together a broad network of leading hardware and solution providers to build and enhance cloud solutions that are interoperable, multi-vendor and embrace standards. This addresses the initial limiters such as security, standards, governance and legacy apps which are increasingly less of an issue.
Veteran CIO Frank Fanzilli Joins 1010data Board of Directors
1010data, Inc., a market leader in sharing, analyzing, and monetizing Big Data, today announced that Frank Fanzilli has joined the company’s Board of Directors. As the first global CIO for Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), Fanzilli has extensive, first-hand experience evaluating, purchasing and implementing ground breaking technology at global organizations. This expertise will be vital as 1010data looks to continue its rapid growth in new global vertical markets such as retail, consumer packaged goods, telecom and financial services with its unique, cloud-based analytics solution.
The World According to Cloud
Are you aware of the new reality that cloud computing is bringing? Cloud is not as global as you might think. Even heaven needs a place on earth and for the cloud to touch base it needs to find the right data center.
In his General Session, Jelle Frank van der Zwet, Manager Cloud Segment at Interxion, introduces some of their customers, case studies and shares insights on key trends in cloud usage and adoption in the US and Europe.
Jelle Frank van der Zwet is Manager Cloud Segment at Interxion. He manages the go-to-market of Interxion’s Cloud Hubs – the pan-European marketing and product development program for Interxion’s sizeable and fast-growing cloud community.
How to Put the Cloud on Your Device
The core realization behind Cloud-Oriented Architecture (COA) is that everything is potentially part of the Cloud. There’s nothing in the NIST definition of Cloud Computing that requires Cloud resources to live in data centers, after all. We don’t mean to say that mobile devices are inherently part of the Cloud, however. To qualify as Cloud resources, it must be possible to provision and deprovision them automatically, with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. We have the technology to dynamically provision and deprovision VM instances on mobile devices, since that’s what remote virtual desktops are all about.
Amazon Delivers Cloud Archive Storage with Glacier
At the end of August 2012, Amazon Web Services released their latest service offering – a long-term archive service called Glacier. As a complement to their existing active data access service S3, Glacier provides long term storage for “cold” data – information that has to be retained for a long time but doesn’t require frequent access.
Is there still a place for the virtual tape library?
Today, a great number of different storage mediums exist whose purpose is to retain information in some manner. One of the oldest data storage mediums, the tape, is a linear storage system that still has great application with today’s revisions to this long standing technology.
Implementing tape storage within virtual storage infrastructure can be a great asset to a backup and recovery solution for many industries.
The tape storage system sequentially stores data on drives that utilise a magnet tape as a storage medium. The core design of tape has existed for many years but has been refined to operate more efficiently and reliably while sustaining the immense amount of information needed in today’s storage solutions.
Most of today’s tape drives resemble the form factor of a cassette tape rather than the big projector-like reels which slowly rotated in the computing labs, seen in early science fiction …
OpenStack Keeps VMware Waiting
VMware, Intel and NEC are still waiting to hear if their applications to join
the open source OpenStack Foundation as dues-paying Gold members have
been accepted.
VMware’s surprise application is considered a particular coup for the
fledgling organization since it was positioned as OpenStack’s proprietary
opposition.
Cloud Archiving and Compliance
This is such a hugely important area for Cloud Providers to develop new services because of the double impact it represents.
First there is the simple facet of the business opportunity. Clients like governments and the finance industry have extensive requirements for archiving and e-discovery.
Secondly and the accelerating factor is that the biggest hold up to Cloud adoption is the lack of maturity in this area. Typically the fears all centre on issues like data residency, where is the data hosted, and what protections are in place to ensure this data is not tampered with and so on.
These are requirements that archiving solutions deal with straight off the bat.