Some apps are in the cloud. Some are not. Some components of an app are in the cloud, some components are not. Some code is in Java, some is in Ruby, and some is in Python. Some data is relational. Some is not.
You used the best language, best framework, best database, and best deployment platform for the job. Great. Now what?
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Bill Hodak, Director of Product Marketing at New Relic, will explain how you have to manage it, monitor it, and scale it.
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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Building Customer-Centric Software-as-a-Service Applications
Learn how SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere, on-demand edition, helps independent software vendors (ISVs) easily manage multitenant data architectures while providing the data security, scalability, and cloud availability their end customers demand. The on-demand edition can be hosted in private, public, or hybrid cloud environments. It helps you easily develop, deploy, and manage powerful data-driven Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Additionally, with more efficient access to and administration of your databases, it can reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of IT infrastructure and operations related to your SaaS applications.
Cloud Computing: Private Bankers May Move to Take Over BMC
Private equity houses KKR, TPG Capital or Bain Capital Partners may be persuaded to take BMC private.
Bloomberg says the company, which has a market cap of $6.5 billion, met with potential buyers last week. It also approached Oracle, Cisco, Dell, EMC and CA.
Bloomberg says those strategic investors are unlikely to bite because they’re not interested in BMC’s old-line mainframe software and breaking up the company would be expensive.
The Texas company also sells software for storage management, database performance and data recovery.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Investing in a Sound Cloud Education Strategy
As organizations are investing hundreds of millions of dollars on cloud-related technologies and services, many within the organization have no clue what cloud is and the derived value and benefit of embracing a sound cloud strategy. With new cloud solutions that impact non-IT folks like iCloud, Facebook, etc., more and more people are wondering and asking the questions: What is cloud computing and what is my organization doing to leverage the latest cloud technologies?
When the organization is not transparent about such initiatives, people will start to leverage other cloud solutions as they are much easier to access in the market than in the past, are available at a lower cost, however, much more vulnerable than the IT services delivered by the IT organization. As the implications of cloud computing touch so many within the organization even outside of IT, it is imperative to have a sound cloud education strategy in place to ensure alignment within the organization to optimize cloud-related investments.
Cloud Expo: Managing Virtualization in Private and Hybrid Clouds
In his session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Thomas Anderson, VP of Field Operations at ManageIQ, will review dynamic, policy-based private and hybrid cloud management and optimization strategies. He will discuss how ManageIQ’s EVM solution enforces policies on IT services, workload placements and resource optimization across Red Hat, VMware, Microsoft and Amazon cloud infrastructures through a ‘single pane of glass,’ to meet service levels and business priorities.
Thomas Anderson is VP of Field Operations at ManageIQ. He has 25 years of software industry experience building and leading teams focused on delivering value to enterprise IT customers through repeatable processes and measured results. At ManageIQ Tom is responsible for global service delivery as well as services and systems support. He previously led HP Software’s Americas Presales Organization, where he supported a billion dollar software and maintenance program through both direct and indirect channels.
Global Industry Leaders to Discuss Latest Technology Trends at Santa Clara Technical Symposium 2012
The Technical Symposium today announced that speakers from industry leaders like Sony, Google, VMWARE, eBay, IBM, Microsoft, 3VR , Lightspeed Ventures and others will participate in a one-day event Monday, October 29 at the Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Attendees will hear global technology thought leaders on various areas of technology including Cloud Computing, Big Data, Mobile, Information Security and BYOD, among others. The keynote address, “Enterprise Trifecta: Data, Security, and Mobility. Which combination are you playing?” by Bipul Sinha, Partner, Lightspeed Ventures will focus on how emerging opportunities can be leveraged to build the technology giants of tomorrow.
More than 2000 candidates are expected to attend the event with more than 50 leading companies of the Valley participating. This will be the fifth Global Career Fair with Technical Symposium event, with the most recent having attracted more than 1500 attendees.
Prestigious companies like Google, Microsoft, eBay, Infosys, Sony, IBM, WIPRO, Tech Mahindra, Scopus, SPhata, eGrabber, 3VR, Seclore, Skytree, Appdynamics, 2600hz, Mapr, Bitzer Mobile, Couchbase, Reliable Coders, NewzSocial, Syfx Tekworks, Vilynx, Appception, Gushcloud, Pintrips, PapayaMobile, Mutu, Verbble, TotalCoach, SportYourself, Rendewoo, Offerbus, Visual Stager and Streetline are exhibiting their products, speaking or hiring at the event.
Highlights of the Events
- Scott Collison of Salesforce.com will discuss “Doing Deals in the
Cloud Ecosystem” and how companies on both sides of any partnership or
transaction now expect “light and fast” deals and also, what is the
optimal path to productive partnerships, and are traditional venture
capital deals still relevant? - Vishal Gupta, CEO, Seclore will discuss, “Information Security in the
Social, BYOD World?” and share how companies can bring much needed
security in an increasingly BYOD, social and collaboration driven
world. With Seclore technology, not just emails but any document or
presentation can be remote controlled so it cannot be copied,
replicated, or shared without permission. - In his session “Big Data: from Big Picture to Reality”, Al Shipp, CEO
of 3VR, will discuss how video intelligence tied to big data analytics
will be the game changer across industries from retail to banking, to
crime prevention. - Jack Norris of MapR will talk about “Thinking Big with Hadoop” and how
the combination of scale, efficiency, and analytic flexibility creates
the power to expand the applications for Hadoop and can transform
companies. - Anil Vasudeva of IMEXResearch will discuss, “State of the Industry –
Big Data Infrastructure” and where the industry is heading as a whole.
For more information, please click on the links below:
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Recent Developments in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing continues to hold a great deal of promise for a variety of business and personal implementations. A lot of buzz has been generated this year with regards to the potential of cloud-based applications and web services as well as a few recent developments that highlight the direction in which the cloud computing phenomenon is moving.
Cloud computing becomes more attractive to businesses as companies are able to create their own private clouds, as well as hybrid clouds, and clouds including private and public space. As businesses realize that private and hybrid clouds can be built to the company’s specifications, cloud computing becomes a more valued asset to the enterprise.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Is There a Silver Lining to Cloud?
Massive data growth. An aging and inefficient data center infrastructure. A proliferation of new software and a host of costly legacy applications. These are the challenges that business and IT organizations face every day – and cloud computing is often touted as the “magic bullet” that can help businesses cuts costs, generate revenue and create new value. But if cloud is the path to business utopia, what’s stopping more organizations from making the move?
At Dell, we see the tremendous potential of the cloud – but we also know that it doesn’t mean anything if you can’t get there easily and with the least disruption to your organization. We start from one simple question: What is the business problem you’re trying to solve? From there, we help you create simple path to cloud that’s based on your strategy and goals – and that leverages your existing technology investments.
Cloud Computing: Platfora Delivers ‘Hadoop for Dummies’
Platfora, a start-up with an ace or two in the hole, came out of stealth mode this week with the intention of taking the finicky, balky, ornery Hadoop mainstream and disrupting the $35 billion business analytics market.
The company’s aces include Andreessen Horowitz, the young VC with the seemingly Midas touch, and In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, which together put $7.18 million into the new venture. Both, shall we say, have some pretty interesting contacts.
Platfora describes its user-friendly widgetry as the first scale-out in-memory business intelligence platform for Hadoop.
That’s the fancy geek description.
Its founder Ben Werther, a former Apache Cassandra and Greenplum product strategy guy, describes the solution more trenchantly.
Hadoop, he says, is like a big cardboard box carelessly filled with Big Data. His widgetry can figure out what the data is and what it means and turn it into pictures without teams of IT staff reorganizing a data warehouse. In fact it eliminates data warehouses and ETL (extract, transform, and load) software altogether. Users can question the data right after it’s collected.
Disaster Recovery Ascends to the Cloud | Part 2: Deployment Considerations
As mentioned in Part I of this series, cloud technology has introduced a viable alternative to the practice of creating secondary sites for disaster recovery (DR), promising to save IT organizations hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in infrastructure and maintenance. While the cost reduction associated with replacing dedicated DR infrastructure is intuitive, the ability of cloud solutions to meet the recovery times (RTOs and RPOs) dictated by businesses is often less well understood.
Part I suggested two key considerations in recovering IT operations from a disaster are (1) regaining access to data and (2) regaining access to applications. Today’s cloud integrated storage or cloud storage gateways can push backups or live data sets to the cloud easily and securely, enabling the first element of a cloud DR solution. With this in mind, let’s examine two strategies for application recovery using cloud-based DR:Realizing an economical alternative to traditional DR