In the face of rapidly increasing amounts of unstructured data, industry is investing heavily to turn machines into services and connect them to analytics engines that will extract an extraordinary amount of value and unleash a productivity revolution for both businesses and consumers.
In the health care, transportation and energy sectors alone, the combination of machine diagnostics software and analytics will eliminate as much as $150 billion in waste.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Paul Rogers, chief development officer for GE’s Global Software Headquarters, will discuss how we can harness the interconnectivity of machines to increase efficiency of the energy market, and promote a cleaner world for the future.
Monthly Archives: April 2013
An Intelligent Network Is Critical to Achieve Optimal Cloud Performance
The success or failure of public cloud services can be measured by whether they deliver high levels of performance, security and reliability that are on par with, or better than, those available within enterprise-owned data centers.
Gartner predicts that the global public cloud computing market is set to reach US$131 billion in 2013, up from $111 billion last year. To serve this market with the performance, security and reliability needed, cloud providers are moving quickly to build a virtualized multi-data center service architecture, or a “data center without walls.”
Cloud Expo New York: Lessons Learned Managing Large AWS Environments
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ronald Bradford, Founder & CEO of Effective MySQL, will cover experiences from consulting with many clients that (mis-)use AWS. Topics include managing and optimizing AWS costs, evaluating new AWS features, CLI automation for web scale, knowing about and improving security for your application and data, what is important to monitor and limitations of existing monitoring systems and dealing with failures in AWS understanding regions and zones.
Ronald Bradford is Founder & CEO of Effective MySQL. He has 23 years of professional RDBMS experience. He works with AWS deployments and technologies and provides independent MySQL, LAMP and cloud-based consulting in architecture, performance, scalability and business continuity. He is a former employee of the MySQL Inc consulting team (06-08) and Oracle Corporation (96-99).
Unify Cloud, Big Data and Enterprise Data with Ease
CIOs understand the importance of analytics and BI. According to a 2012 survey of 2300 CIO by Gartner, analytics and BI are their number one technology priority. Analytics and BI can make bigger business impact when they can access more data. With data in the cloud and Big Data silos, accessing and integrating these new sources can be a challenge for enterprises used to a traditional enterprise data warehouse centric data integration approach. Data virtualization enables integration of cloud, Big Data and enterprise data warehouse sources with ease and agility.
VMware Joins the Cloud Credential Council
“The CCC certification cloud courses provide an excellent foundation for VMware courses, and we look forward to offering these initially as part of our Americas curriculum,” said Michael Yakiemchuk, Director, Education and Training, VMware, as the Cloud Credential Council today announced that VMware has joined the council.
“We are excited to be a part of the Cloud Credential Council,” said Yakiemchuk. “Various VMware cloud experts have contributed to the development of the CCC syllabi in a collaborative way with cloud experts from other organizations, and we believe this joint effort will accelerate the overall industry adoption of cloud,” he added.
Cloud Expo New York: OpenFlow Is SDN Yet SDN Is Not Only OpenFlow
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a new approach to networking, both to the data centre, and as a connection across data centers. SDN defines the networks in software, meaning designers can operate, control, and configure networks without physical access to the hardware. Effectively, SDN frees the network and applications from underlying hardware. New technologies are making it possible for enterprises to use virtualized networks over any type of hardware in any physical location – including unifying physical data centers and federating cloud-based data centers.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Patrick Kerpan, the CEO and co-founder of CohesiveFT, will highlight customer use cases to demonstrate a broader SDN definition.
Icahn Hangs Tough on Dell
Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, has refused to drop his threat of
setting off a proxy fight for control of Dell’s board unless the company pays
out a whopping big dividend as he originally proposed.
Dell’s board wants him to make a formal bid for the company.
Before he even thinks about that, he wants Dell to pledge to reimburse his
out-of-pocket expenses for doing due diligence on the company.
The board’s special committee has already agreed to repay Silver Lake and
Blackstone.
It said Friday it would consider Icahn’s request if he dropped his proxy fight
intentions and his threat of “years of litigation.”
Icahn told the Wall Street
Avaya’s cloud UC strategy continues to evolve
Brian Riggs, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Telecoms
At Enterprise Connect in March 2013 Avaya introduced a set of platforms on which its partners – which include operators, systems integrators, and resellers – can build to offer fully hosted communications services. The move is a marked departure for the company, whose revenues are derived mainly from selling communications software and solutions that enterprises deploy on-premise.
Avaya also has a services business that sells managed and hosted communications services to a highly restricted set of business customers. Last month’s announcement, however, represented something new for the company.
In addition to selling its communications solutions and services to businesses, Avaya will now sell them to service providers, which will use them as the basis for the cloud-based unified communications (UC), video conferencing, and contact center services that they sell to enterprises.
This is a good move on the part of Avaya, which has lagged behind …
Analysing the importance of cloud’s role in the enterprise
Aryaka, a company which offers wide area network optimisation in the cloud, has collated together several pieces of research emphasising the importance of cloud in a modern enterprise.
Pooling together studies from the likes of CIO Insight, Forrester and IDC, Aryaka has examined cloud strategies at different points of the enterprise, predominantly assessing the UK market.
Among the statistics cited in the infographic include an interesting summation of the top cloudy growth areas. According to the 1300 people surveyed, IaaS (infrastructure as a service) is predicted as the key growth area in cloud computing by 41% of respondents, followed by management and security (27%) and PaaS (platform as a service (26.6%).
This arguably goes against current wisdom that PaaS is the quickest growing (albeit still smallest) cloud market, SaaS (software as a service) – which trailed behind on 17.4% – will still increase healthily whilst IaaS will flatten out.
Last …
In Big Data We Hope and Distrust
Big data helped re-elect a President, find Osama bin Laden, and contributed to the melt-down of our financial system. We are in the midst of a data revolution where social media introduces new terms like Arab Spring, Facebook Depression and Twitter anxiety that reflect a new reality: big data is changing the social and relationship fabric of our culture.