The traditional databases of the 20th century were never designed to scale to meet 21st century data demands. Google alone processes about 24 petabytes of data/day. With the added complexity of heavily virtualized hardware and storage plus apps being moved in and out of private, hybrid and public clouds, application developers, SaaS vendors, ISVs and enterprise IT all need a better answer.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Barry Morris, CEO & Co-Founder of NuoDB, Inc., will through customer examples and performance benchmarks explore the new rules for a 21st century Cloud Data Management System and discuss the critical new roles databases play in customers’ strategies and how to resolve today’s web-scale challenges.
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Managing IT in an Environment of Change
Social interactions driven by mobile devices are causing a huge growth in infrastructure needs by enterprises. This write-up is about an event held for enterprise users.
The growth of mobile devices generated by smartphones and tablets is driving universal access to information in the multi-channel era. Similarly, social networking is a disruptive change that influences many aspects of consumer behavior. The large amount of data created through these means requires analytics to help enterprises respond to market dynamics. Cloud technologies help enterprises analyze this data in a timely manner, enabling enterprises to deliver significant advantages over their competition.
On January 22, 2013, Oracle hosted an executive roundtable in Cincinnati for enterprise IT users to discuss these changes and associated challenges. Attendees represented a variety of industries, so their requirements varied, but the fundamental need to transform how enterprise IT adapts to these changes was the same.
Cloud Expo New York: Cloud Is Changing the Economics of Business
The economics of business are radically changing due to the way in which software and services are being delivered thanks to cloud computing.
In his upcoming session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Mike Kavis, Chief Technologist at Kavis Technology Consulting, will cover the following six reasons for the disruption:
Cloud Culture
Investing in Reality
Changing Labor Pool
New business models
Founder’s dilemma
PaaS is the game changer
Why the Cloud Will Shake Markets
“Recently, I predicted that in 2013, cloud computing will provide the biggest disruption information technology has experienced in 25 years. These impacts extend to the $128 billion data center industry, which will never be the same as the traditional business model is disrupted, and new rules for success are written.”
This is how I started my most recent article for SC Magazine In it, I address the how the datacenter marketplace is bifrucating and how operators need to rethink their current business model in order to survive. Data centers that do not evolve – quickly – will face plummeting profit margins as more and more information moves to the cloud.
Please read the article (http://www.scmagazine.com/the-cloud-will-shake-markets/article/276463/) and comment. The industry is currently undergoing an inflexion which will require agressive changes by many.
( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article, get free updates by email or RSS – © Copyright Kevin L. Jackson 2012)
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Why the Cloud Will Shake Markets
“Recently, I predicted that in 2013, cloud computing will provide the biggest disruption information technology has experienced in 25 years. These impacts extend to the $128 billion data center industry, which will never be the same as the traditional business model is disrupted, and new rules for success are written.”
This is how I started my most recent article for SC Magazine In it, I address the how the datacenter marketplace is bifrucating and how operators need to rethink their current business model in order to survive. Data centers that do not evolve – quickly – will face plummeting profit margins as more and more information moves to the cloud.
Please read the article (http://www.scmagazine.com/the-cloud-will-shake-markets/article/276463/) and comment. The industry is currently undergoing an inflexion which will require agressive changes by many.
( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article, get free updates by email or RSS – © Copyright Kevin L. Jackson 2012)
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Microsoft Called a ‘Sticking Point’ in Dell Buyout
The Financial Times claims that Silver Lake’s buyout offer for Dell has gone to $15 a share, up from somewhere between $13 and $14.25, if a tablet-induced leveraged buyout can be put together.
Barron’s thinks large stockholders are pressing for $20 and the Wall Street Journal says Microsoft’s role in the affair is a “sticking point” and “one of several issues being hashed out ahead of a final buyout agreement.”
Microsoft has offered to kick in $2 billion or more for equity in the form of convertible preferred securities to take Dell private and is expected to have a say in Dell operations.
The parties are evidently trying to figure how big a sway Redmond would have.
Newfangled ADN Trumps Software Defined Networking
Software Defined Networking (SNA) is still only a baby buzzword barely
plumbed – although it may have already caused bad blood between a couple
of giants in the trade – when along comes a French start-up called Lyatiss
repotted to Silicon Valley and not yet out of beta that says that – however
chi-chi – Software Defined Networking is a limp, insufficient technology
compared to the more evolved Application Defined Networking (ADN)
widgetry it’s inventing.
What’s the BIG Deal? DATA On the Origin of the Term
NY Times BITS (Steve Lohr) today: An interesting “detective story” seeking the coiner of the phrase “Big Data”.
The unruly digital data of the Web is a big ingredient in what is now being called “Big Data.” And as it turns out, the term Big Data seems to be most accurately traced not to references in news or journal archives, but to digital artifacts now posted on technical Web sites, appropriately enough.
Cloud Spectator “Media Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York & Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloud Spectator has been named “Media 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, and the 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cloud Spectator offers cloud computing education to an enterprise audience; constantly analyzing this dynamic industry to keep information up-to-date, as well as providing custom reports to cloud providers.
Evolution of the Email Archiving market in 2013: Cloud Computing or Hybrid Solutions?
By, Marilena Dobre, Marketing Coordinator, SpamExperts
The end of last year has brought exciting predictions for the cloud environment in 2013. Service capabilities involving cloud computing are now setting the benchmark in every aspect of the IT industry. In the email security market where SpamExperts activates, Email Archiving for back-up and compliance is an equally hot topic of debate. The question hence arises what the opinions are around having email archived in the cloud and where this market is moving towards.
The immediate benefits of cloud-based email archiving are straightforward: no hardware required, free up local resources, and “infinite” redundant storage capacity. However, once you dive into the subject, dilemmas around privacy and security arise.
Email can concern sensitive data and information. Company contracts, trademarks, patents, upgrades, discoveries, pricing, employees data, third parties information, and more are now circulated via email. Are traditional enterprise buyers ready to let all this crucial data moved away from their premises to the cloud, into the “hands” of a 3rd party? How about data storage legislation and location?
To answer these questions, let us look at who is using email archiving and for what purpose. In general, we can distinct email archiving users between users for compliance reasons and for back-up reasons. Typically the larger organizations, institutes, and companies operating in regulated industries look at email archiving from a compliance perspective where questions around storage location and eDiscovery are dominating deployment and product choices. Email archiving offered by hosting providers to the ‘store around the corner’/ typical SMB client tend to be focused around the back-up nature of email archiving and hence deployment and product choices are often depending on price, convenience, and availability. Typically, cloud solutions fit nicely to this latter group of email archiving adopters.
According to Symantec’s “Avoiding the Hidden Costs of Cloud 2013 survey“, cloud compliance is quite complicated for organizations. The study included business and IT executives at 3,236 organizations in 29 countries and revealed that nearly a quarter of these organizations have been fined for privacy violations in the cloud within the past 12 months. One-third of those surveyed have received eDiscovery requests for cloud information, out of which two-thirds were unable to timely respond and have missed the deadlines, potentially leading to fines or compromised legal actions. These findings suggest a local deployment under full control and management of the organization in question may be a preferred deployment method for an email archiving solution.
According to Gartner’s “Predicts 2013: Cloud Computing Becomes an Integral Part of IT“, cloud computing has fragmented public opinion into two viewpoints, and this is getting worse. The fragmentation is a split between the desire for enterprise-grade cloud computing (favored by IT departments) versus consumer-grade cloud computing (favored by business and individual users).
We can therefore conclude at this point that Cloud is new and sexy, but, as far as the Email Archiving market is concerned, it is not (yet?) for everyone. A cloud based email archiving solution is not yet a sure win. The key differentiators amongst email archiving providers will remain hybrid deployment solutions, security, compliance, and easy access to the archived data. Furthermore, for hosting providers in particular that are looking to serve the general SMB market, integration with their current infrastructure and backend are key decision making factors.