“Our goal is to enable enterprises to operate hybrid clouds as seamless extensions of the data center,” said Rajeev Chawla, CEO of CloudVelocity, as the previously stealth-mode company Denali emerged today as CloudVelocity, dedicated to the development of a hybrid cloud automation platform.
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Jonathan Schwartz Launches eHealthcare Start-Up
“Everyone cares about health in a deeply personal way,” blogged former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on Tuesday as he alerted the world to the existence of his new website, PictureofHealth.com.
One in three mission critical apps currently in the cloud, says survey
Research from identity management provider SailPoint has revealed that US and UK based IT leaders see one in three mission critical apps as currently in the cloud, with that figure rising sharply by 2015.
The Market Pulse Survey of 400 IT and business leaders, which defined ‘mission critical’ as apps mainly focused on storage, file-sharing and communications, forecast that the number is expected to grow to one in two in three years.
The figures differed slightly dependent on which side of the Atlantic respondents were based – 32% in the US compared to 30% in the UK for cloudy mission critical apps now – but the consensus was the same.
Another element of the research centred on pain points with moving to the cloud, with the usual suspects present.
Security was the top risk for 73% of US and 74% of UK-based respondents, with compliance and (56% US, 52% UK) and uptime …
SYS-CON.tv Interview: The API Revolution
“The demand for APIs is really all around the mobile device. Mobile devices actually need APIs and that need is driving the advent of the API revolution.” stated Alistair Farquharson, CTO of SOA Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Mobile Cloud and Big Data – Cloud Power to the Next Level
I worked extensively in the telecommunications area to lead large, innovative nationwide mobile application and portal rollouts that included mobile platforms, applications, databases, services and integration mechanisms. With the explosion of the Cloud and Mobile Cloud, the entre digital landscape is changing. With 4G, bandwidth and latency issues are on the path of being progressively addressed. Not just traditional computers, but mobile devices are accessing Cloud and Big Data services like never before. Mobile applications need to run efficiently on various devices such as Androids, iPhones. Mobile applications have forced the push of processing and storage from the devices to the Cloud. The key is to ensure that native application development is minimized and the Cloud handles the backend, heavy lifting functions that can be then rendered on the mobile devices as thin native clients or browsers on the devices. Cloud can handle all the key aspects of managing the data and security in a standard manner for many applications and can provide the on demand and scalability capabilities to support such applications. Cloud computing services can also provide powerful capabilities to process the data and render useful information and hence processing and the deployment time may be significantly reduced.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Cloud Adoption for SMBs
“Cloud adoption has been much more prevalent in SMBs, in small office and home offices, and yet those are the individuals that don’t have the resources to secure themselves when using cloud. So Leeward was created to give assistance and practical advice to those individuals and organizations,” explained Terry Woloszyn, Founder/CTO of Leeward Security Ltd, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Ipanema Technologies Updates Its Autonomic Networking System
Ipanema Technologies today released v7.1 of its Autonomic Networking System (ANS). This new release includes enhancements that improve application visibility, control, and performance, giving large enterprises, particularly those in the cloud, the ability to manage increased data volumes.
With ANS v7.1 using a new software architecture and faster Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), Ipanema triples its high-end device performance (ip|e1800ax) reaching up to 20,000 new connections per second. This results in a throughput of 2Gbps alongside a classification system recognizing over 300 applications out of the box. Intelligent device clustering guarantees business application performance up to 10GBPS. As a result, companies are better placed to cope with the significant year-on-year traffic growth they are now experiencing.
Other additional ANS v7.1 enhancements include:
- Cloud application performance report. The new Cloud
Application Monitoring (CAM) report allows enterprises to understand
and control the cloud applications usage and performance from the user
perspective in the branch offices. - Virtual appliances (virtual|engine) that can be deployed as an
alternative to hardware appliances in virtualized data centers and
branch offices. ANS v7.1 enables hybrid deployments of physical and
virtual devices that work together to measure control and optimize all
application traffic across the enterprise.
For more information, visit: www.ipanematech.com
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Cloud Can Impact Almost Anything, As Same-Day Dailies for Movie Shoots Shows
Aframe, a cloud video production platform company, announced that Laboratory in New York used Aframe’s professional video management service to deliver dailies of the soon to debut indie film “The Birder’s Guide to Everything” literally the same day – a breakthrough for global film and TV production teams. In the fierce competition to achieve stunning creative, Aframe’s ability to ingest, store, transcode, and deliver a link to a full day’s high-res footage to a 20-person team, in just hours let the artists focus on their art. After years of teams tolerating the delivery of raw footage from location shoots via overnight shipments a day or two later, Aframe’s private cloud finally made the term “dailies” true to its name.
A quirky coming of age film featuring Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley, “The Birder’s Guide to Everything” is a feature-length adaptation of the 2008 short “Aquarium” by director Rob Meyer, which won an honorable mention from the Sundance Film Festival. After spotting what he thinks is an extinct duck, a high school sophomore and bird enthusiast persuades two dorky buddies and the “new girl in school” to join him on a quest to locate the mysterious bird. Adventure ensues as the teen comes to terms with painful aspects of his family life.
During 21 days of shooting north of New York City, post house Sixteen19 processed and uploaded dailies to Aframe where they would be securely stored and accessible to all authorized team members. Within hours, a link to an H264 proxy copy of the footage was emailed to 20 collaborators on the film. This avoided the costly, time consuming practice of shipping HD disks overnight would arrive the next day or later, often too late to make fine yet vital adjustments to potential for costly-reshoots.
Using Aframe, Laboratory now had an easy and efficient means for everyone to view each day’s raw footage and make important decisions on production or acting nuances immediately with the next day’s takes. Collaborators could access footage anywhere, anytime, without the need for dedicated, costly on-premises systems, with one co-producer even viewing dailies on his iPad while working in Qatar.
“I’ve been waiting for this type of solution for a decade, and to me Aframe is simply genius,” said Dean Winkler, co-founder of Laboratory and post-production and VFX supervisor for “Birder’s Guide.” “Digital storage is a huge problem, with everyone throwing valuable hard drives into some carton in an insecure back room, which are painful and time-consuming to sift through and store, let alone share. With Aframe, we store the master in a secure cloud and let everyone look at H264 proxies immediately and at their convenience – making better use of otherwise idle time and getting the footage out when it can make the greatest impact.”
“We’re creating this film on a tight budget, and Aframe not only saved us money distributing dailies but was also a far better solution than using physical media,” Winkler continued. “Once you use Aframe, I can’t imagine you’d ever want to go back.”
SYS-CON.tv Interview: The Ever-Changing Cloud
“Most providers know that Intel is supplying the core technologies, infrastructures, and systems to support their cloud infrastructures,” noted Steve Orrin, Sr. Security Architect & Principal Engineer for the Cross Platform Technology group at Intel Corp, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
1024 Words: The (Non)Evolution of Computing Models
Hybrid-mobile #cloud is the latest attempt at modernizing what remains a relatively unchanged, decades old computing model
I was informed via e-mail that the “next big thing” is hybrid mobile-cloud (HMC), which is described as client being a mobile-native application and its server-side component being deployed in the cloud. I swear I’ve seen a fat-client + server model over an IP network before…