SYS-CON Events announced today that Skyera Inc., an emerging provider of enterprise solid-state storage systems, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of 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.
Skyera Inc. is an emerging provider of enterprise solid-state storage systems designed to enable a large class of applications with extraordinarily high performance, exceptionally lower power consumption and cost effectiveness relative to existing enterprise storage systems. Founded by the executives who previously developed the world’s most-advanced flash memory controller, Skyera is backed by key technology and financial partnerships designed to position it at the forefront of the hyper growth in the solid-state storage sector. The company was featured in the Gartner report “Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2012,” was chosen by Flash Memory Summit as a Best of Show award winner for 2012 in the category of Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application, and won the Visionary Product Award at Storage Visions, 2013.
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Private Cloud Without Internet Connectivity
Back in 2007, the title of this article probably didn’t make any sense. The cloud was a diagram to represent the Internet. Cloud Services == Services from the Internet.
Now, when someone told you they need a private cloud solution without
Private Cloud Without Internet Connectivity
Back in 2007, the title of this article probably didn’t make any sense. The cloud was a diagram to represent the Internet. Cloud Services == Services from the Internet.
Now, when someone told you they need a private cloud solution without
Will CPR significantly increase cloud survival rates?
IT is an acronym crazed world. So crazy that sometimes – when running out of three letter ones – we simply recycle them or add sequence numbers. Remember MRP, which used to mean Material Requirements Planning, but then became Manufacturing Resource Planning (called MRP II to avoid confusion), to only a couple of years – and a few trillion of investments – later, resurface as ERP.
In that era the term BPR also became popular. BPR stood for Business Process Re-engineering (see for example Hammer, M. and Champy, J. A.: (1993) Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution), a movement that in my perspective* really gained steam from the realisation that throwing new technology (ERP) at existing processes, only offered limited improvement potential.
As Business Process Re-engineering often resulted in massive redundancies and layoffs, BPR got kind of a bad rap, especially among employees and unions (remember those?)
Today the term Business Process …
Software Development, the Cloud, & SYOD
As I continue to meander through the early stages of our software-development project, I’ve encountered a large measure of scope creep. Scope jog or scope sprint might be a more accurate term. What started as a modest, internal workflow project has been intertwined with a more ambitious, external content delivery system.
One company, one vision, two seemingly unrelated projects. As I’ve written before, we’re hosting and streaming content for the content system from the cloud, with one of the big public vendors. Separately, our internal data workflows are also being considered for the cloud, but we’ve been stopped dead in our tracks by concerns about Vendor Lock-in 2.0 in this case.
We don’t mind being locked into a vendor to handle what may be terabytes of data from the external project’s customers, but we fear lock-in of our modest amount of internal data.
However we proceed, we’re also not concerned about performance per se. Content is flowing freely without noticeable delay on the external project, and the internal project won’t be in anything nearing real-time.
However, we proceed with some trepidation about delivering content from the external system in venue-level performances. That is, we are building what may be a next-generation social-media company, with content flowing through our website but also in specific live performances in venues ranging from 20 people to 1,000.
It is in this area where we are losing sleep. We are delivering sound, pictures, and video in the external project, and are now looking at any number of alternatives in doing it in the venues. We started by building a rather massive, rack-mounted PC and AV system. It’s powerful, but heavy and expensive, and includes lots of hardwiring to projectors, HDTVs, and cameras. We’re now looking at what can be achieved on a laptop, but also on a tablet or phone, perhaps using Bluetooth 4.0 to send data throughout the venues.
These are not cloud-related issues, but they are certainly mobile and BYOD issues – and we are in any case relying on transmitting our data from our massive, cloud-based resource.
So here we are, with what is verifiably a small business with a small staff and budget, yet tackling complex issues that on the one hand scream for a unified approach but on the other will require several hardware and services vendors.
Oh, and in our rollout later this year, we’ll be serving our own devices (SYOD) to our customers as well. Our massive system comes in any color you want as long as it’s black, and we may have to settle on a single vendor for the OS and tablet as well.
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Software Development, the Cloud, & SYOD
As I continue to meander through the early stages of our software-development project, I’ve encountered a large measure of scope creep. Scope jog or scope sprint might be a more accurate term. What started as a modest, internal workflow project has been intertwined with a more ambitious, external content delivery system.
One company, one vision, two seemingly unrelated projects. As I’ve written before, we’re hosting and streaming content for the content system from the cloud, with one of the big public vendors. Separately, our internal data workflows are also being considered for the cloud, but we’ve been stopped dead in our tracks by concerns about Vendor Lock-in 2.0 in this case.
We don’t mind being locked into a vendor to handle what may be terabytes of data from the external project’s customers, but we fear lock-in of our modest amount of internal data.
However we proceed, we’re also not concerned about performance per se. Content is flowing freely without noticeable delay on the external project, and the internal project won’t be in anything nearing real-time.
However, we proceed with some trepidation about delivering content from the external system in venue-level performances. That is, we are building what may be a next-generation social-media company, with content flowing through our website but also in specific live performances in venues ranging from 20 people to 1,000.
It is in this area where we are losing sleep. We are delivering sound, pictures, and video in the external project, and are now looking at any number of alternatives in doing it in the venues. We started by building a rather massive, rack-mounted PC and AV system. It’s powerful, but heavy and expensive, and includes lots of hardwiring to projectors, HDTVs, and cameras. We’re now looking at what can be achieved on a laptop, but also on a tablet or phone, perhaps using Bluetooth 4.0 to send data throughout the venues.
These are not cloud-related issues, but they are certainly mobile and BYOD issues – and we are in any case relying on transmitting our data from our massive, cloud-based resource.
So here we are, with what is verifiably a small business with a small staff and budget, yet tackling complex issues that on the one hand scream for a unified approach but on the other will require several hardware and services vendors.
Oh, and in our rollout later this year, we’ll be serving our own devices (SYOD) to our customers as well. Our massive system comes in any color you want as long as it’s black, and we may have to settle on a single vendor for the OS and tablet as well.
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Google Cloud Ventures – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
To best capture the primary value of Cloud Computing I always recommend looking at the scenario of a new entrepreneur launching their online business.
The Cloud has made entrepreneurism itself more accessible to more people, lowering the barrier to entry by lowering the costs it takes to launch a new online venture by a magnitude, while simultaneously improving the quality of the apps you can produce, and how quickly you can produce them.
Combined with the continuing explosion of online users and how much they grow their daily use of social media, e-commerce etc., this is a massively potent combination.
Dell’s Leveraged Buyout Meets Resistance
Southeastern Asset Management Inc., Dell’s biggest stockholder next to
its founder with an 8.5% piece of the action, said Friday that it’s violently
opposed to the leveraged buyout Dell’s board has agreed to.
The deal would see the company knocked down for $24.4 billion, a sum that
works out to $13.65 a share.
Dell’s Leveraged Buyout Meets Resistance
Southeastern Asset Management Inc., Dell’s biggest stockholder next to
its founder with an 8.5% piece of the action, said Friday that it’s violently
opposed to the leveraged buyout Dell’s board has agreed to.
The deal would see the company knocked down for $24.4 billion, a sum that
works out to $13.65 a share.
HP Forms New Cloud Unit
HP has hired Margaret Dawson out of Symform to be VP of product
marketing and cloud evangelist for HP Cloud Services, a new start-up unit
inside HP.
She claims that “much of the negative hype reported around HP does not
match reality. HP has a strong foundation to compete and win in the cloud
and is building out the right leadership team, ecosystem, cloud platform and
solutions to escalate that process.”
It’s unclear how many people will believe her.