AT&T has developed the ability to provide virtual private clouds and other computing capabilities as integrated services at scale. To learn more about implementing cloud technology to deliver and commercialize an adaptive and reliable cloud services ecosystem, we sat down with Chris Costello, Assistant Vice President of AT&T Cloud Services.
Why are business cloud services such an important initiative for you?
Costello: AT&T has been in the hosting business for over 15 years, and so it was only a natural extension for us to get into the cloud services business to evolve with customers’ changing business demands and technology needs.
Monthly Archives: January 2013
CiRBA Saves Customers 55% on Data Center Software Licensing Costs
CiRBA on Wednesday announced the general availability of a Software License Control System that enables organizations to reduce the costs associated with processor-based software licensing by an average of 55%.
CiRBA CTO and co-founder Andrew Hillier noted that “with the shift to data center class software licensing for virtual infrastructure, where licensing an entire physical host server allows an unlimited number of instances to be run, licensing optimization is now becoming a capacity management challenge.”
The Software License Control module is an add-on to CiRBA’s Capacity Control Console and optimizes VM placements in virtual and cloud infrastructure.
Market Interest in Elastic Cloud Infrastructure Accelerates
“With enterprises, web application companies and service providers searching for true elastic infrastructure solutions, we are seeing increasing prospect and sales activity surrounding our Open Cloud System,” said Michael Grant, CEO of Cloudscaling. “To support that growth,” he continued, “we’ve made thoughtful additions to the leadership of our channels, engineering, enterprise sales and product management functions.”
ScaleOut Software to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that ScaleOut Software, a leading provider of in-memory data grids (IMDGs), will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
ScaleOut Software develops software products that provide scalable, highly available memory-based storage and analysis for operational data in server farms, compute grids, and the cloud. Since our first products shipped in January 2005, we have consistently developed leading-edge technologies that help our customers solve scalability and performance challenges and gain competitive advantages for their businesses.
AWS Adds Elastic Transcoder
Amazon Web Services is now hawking Amazon Elastic Transcoder, described as a highly scalable service for transcoding video files between different digital media formats that’s supposed to save users a lot of time and money by eliminating complexity.
Amazon said customers can use the stuff to convert their large high-resolution “master” video files into smaller versions optimized for playback on web sites, mobile devices, connected TVs and other video platforms.
Elastic Transcoder apparently removes the need to manage infrastructure and transcoding software, providing scalability and performance by leveraging AWS services.
Innodisk USA to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that Innodisk USA, a leading manufacturer of DRAM and Flash storage products, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Innodisk is a leading manufacturer of DRAM and Flash Storage products, with an emphasis on the Enterprise, Server, Industrial, Military, Networking, and Gaming Markets. At Innodisk, we are dedicated to serving our customers and business partners with a commitment to Absolute Service™. We are widely recognized for our expertise in the custom design of industrial embedded memory, as curated by our in-house hardware, software and firmware development teams. We are dedicated to technical innovation and the revolution of Industrial DRAM and Flash Storage products.
Cloud Expo New York: How to Use Google Apps Script
Google Apps Script is a cloud-based JavaScript environment that allows you to write powerful applications and workflows around Google Apps such as Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Sheets. The development is entirely within a browser and it’s free and easy to get started.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Arun Nagarajan, Senior Developer Advocate at Google, will demonstrate all the capabilities of Google Apps Script. Delegates will walk away being able to write their first script.
Addressing the GRC Market
Startup Convercent builds tools to fill void in GRC market by implementing and measuring compliance to corporate values and culture.
GRC has traditionally provided companies with tools to help customers meet government and industry regulations, enforce corporate policies and better deal with risk. Yet the areas of corporate culture and values — which are becoming increasing important in today’s business climate — were rarely addressed.
“Our platform allows companies to take the fuzzy-wuzzy of ethics –- to take the sign off the wall — and turn it into structured data to measure employee actions against the organization’s stated values and culture,” said Patrick Quinlan, Convercent’s CEO.
PEER 1 Hosting to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that PEER 1 Hosting, the global IT hosting provider, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
PEER 1 Hosting is one of the world’s leading IT hosting providers. The company is built on two obsessions: Ping & People. Ping, represents its commitment to best-in-breed technology, founded on a high performance 10Gbps FastFiber Network™ and 25K miles of fiber, we’re connected by 19 state-of-the-art datacenters, 21 points-of-presence and 10 colocation facilities in 14 cities throughout North America and Europe. People, represents its commitment to delivering outstanding customer service to its more than 10,000 customers worldwide, backed by a 100 percent uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 FirstCall Support™.
Help Define a Standardized Cloud Provider Profile
As discussed on this thread in one of our Linkedin groups, we are starting the process of building a directory of Cloud Providers and also facilitating competitive assessment of the services they offer. Here’s a quick draft to get the dialogue started, that we`d like to refine with crowd inputs.. Cloud Provider Profile Data Centres […]