If zettabytes of data exist, why is less than 1% of the world’s data being analyzed today? Seasoned entrepreneur and startup CEO Radhika Subramanian believes that the inability to analyze and gain value from Big Data is because organizations are taking a services-centered approach. As the title of the session implies, Subramanian believes that the data needs to do the talking, not armies of analysts searching and querying databases. Her company has developed high-speed, advanced algorithms to automate pattern detection for rapid, real-time discovery of the “unknown unknowns” in structured and unstructured data.
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Radhika Subramanian, CEO of Emcien, teams up with internationally renowned High-Performance Computing luminary Dr. David Bader to tackle Big Data’s biggest challenges. Together they will ask, “What if you didn’t have to analyze data at all?
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Big Time – Introducing Hadoop on Azure
In the last couple of years Hadoop has become synonymous with Big Data. This framework is so vast and popular that Microsoft recently announced, for the first time in its history, that it is going to invest in this large-scale, open-source project as its solution for Big Data.
In his session at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13, 2013], delegates will be able to learn how Hadoop works on Windows Azure including an exploration of different storage options, e.g., AVS and S3, how Hadoop on Azure integrates with other cloud services, understanding key scenarios for Hadoop in the Microsoft ecosystem, and discovering Hadoop’s role in a cloud environment.
How to make cloud computing pay
Relying on cloud computing strategies to free up dollars and time that can quickly be re-invested in product and service innovation emerged as the highest priority for respondents in a recent Rackspace survey.
While cost reductions were significant, the greatest contributions were seen in investments in innovation (48%), new product & service development (45%), and boosting sale efforts (38%).
Rackspace recently commissioned a study with market research firm Vanson Bourne, who surveyed 1,300 organizations in the UK and the U.S., including 1,000 Small & Medium Enterprises (SME) and 300 enterprises with 1,000 employees or more. The methodology included coverage of Financial Services, Retail, IT/Technology, Manufacturing, Business and Professional Services, Media, Logistics, and Mobile Telecommunications sectors, with a further small representative group from other sectors.
Rackspace also partners often with the Manchester Business School to complete qualitative research, which they also did on this project. You can find …
Sizing up collaboration: how to measure ROI on your Unified Communications
By Adrian Thirkill, Easynet UK MD
Dust off the bunting and hang the flags out: global IT spending is forecast to increase by 4.1% in 2013 according to Gartner’s latest worldwide IT spending forecast published in March.
This is great news, but when considered within the still-quaking economy it also comes with a caution: it’s more important than ever to make carefully-planned IT investments which add value to a business and create a Return on Investment in a defined time period. Now is not the time for IT Supermarket Sweeps, or for keeping up with the Jones’.
Unified Communications (UC) is one particular investment which brings about an improved way of working with immediate, tangible business benefits. When securing board buy-in, a commitment to how quickly companies can see a Return on Investment (ROI) from its rollout is often one of the deciding factors.
To make the …
Cloud Expo New York: See Inside Your Cloud
Tools used by data center and cloud operations teams to manage infrastructure have zero visibility of network traffic in the public cloud or virtual network. And what you can’t see, you can’t manage or secure. A new approach is required to gain visibility to traffic in virtual networks, remote data centers or public cloud infrastructure.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, David Reoch, Senior Director of Cloud Solutions at Gigamon, will show new techniques that enable existing monitoring, analysis and security tools to gain pervasive visibility into the ever-expanding network fabric.
Healthcare Data on the Cloud – The Reality of Sensitive Information Online
The convenience, efficiency and cost benefits cloud computing offers organizations has made moving healthcare data and records to the cloud make sense for hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers. Security and data breaches are a concern for any industry utilizing the cloud, but healthcare unfortunately seems to be particularly vulnerable to attacks. The Washington Post recently reported that The Department of Homeland Security is fearful that the health industry is “inviting” an attack with its out-of-date policies and lack of oversight.
A recent WIRED article discussed the current state of healthcare information in the cloud, including specifics on the vulnerabilities facing healthcare providers using cloud applications and why consumers should be concerned about their healthcare data being on the cloud.
According to the article, hackers are particularly interested in healthcare information because of its comparatively substantial dollar value. An individual’s medical identity can be worth as much as $50, a significant amount considering a social security number is worth just $1. With personal medical information in hand, thieves are able to commit medical identity theft by using someone else’s personal information to receive goods or services, potentially wreaking havoc on that person’s records and creating liabilities for service providers and increasing costs for everyone.
Cloud Expo NY | How Private Cloud Works in Real Life: Deployment Examples
Companies around the world are moving into on-premise private cloud environments. Many connect their private cloud to their public cloud service providers.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Brian Patrick Donaghy, CEO of Appcore, will talk about examples of what worked, what failed and why we should think about this evolution. Questions covered will include:
Can you really move from virtualization into automated and orchestrated private cloud?
What are the benefits? Costs in money and time? Risks?
Most operators to opt for cloud-based RCS
Despite the operator support behind Rich Communications Services (RCS), it will only be the very biggest international players that deploy the technology in their own networks. The rest will look to cloud-based offerings to fulfil their needs, according to business systems firm SAP Mobile Services.
John Sims, president of SAP Mobile Services, recently told telecoms.com that “only the biggest operators in world will deploy RCS in their networks. But beyond the top five or ten operators globally, the rest of the industry will look for a hosted solution.”
Open source cloud tools show signs of maturity
Open source cloud computing software CloudStack, which is developed by all-volunteer association the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), has this week graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top level project. The move signifies the maturity of CloudStack as an open source tool for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services.
CloudStack uses existing hypervisors such as KVM, vSphere, and XenServer/XCP for virtualisation and supports the Amazon Web Services (AWS) API as well as offering its own. Target environments include service providers and enterprises where it can be used to set up on-demand cloud computing services or a private cloud for use by internal employees.
IBM to Present Opening Keynote at Cloud Expo New York
Our more interconnected planet is accelerating the adoption and convergence of next-generation architectures, in the form of cloud, mobile and instrumented physical assets. Organizations that can effectively balance optimization and innovation, will be in a position to leverage new systems of engagement, out maneuver their peers and achieve desired outcomes.
In his Opening Keynote at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Danny Sabbah, CTO and General Manager Next Generation Platform at IBM, will detail the critical architectural considerations and success factors organizations must internalize to successfully implement, optimize and innovate using next generation architectures.