Machine-to-machine (M2M) technology and the resulting Internet of Things are leading us inexorably toward everything-as-a-service (XaaS). As more things get connected, the range of service opportunities expands. And as those services are presented online, they become available for use, re-use and re-purposing.
At first thought, the idea of more connected devices suggests simply that there will be more devices around, and as such, more products for manufacturers to make and sell. That’s true, but as I suggested in an earlier blog, even the manufacturers will realize that there is actually more value in services related to those connected things than in the things themselves.
Monthly Archives: December 2013
SecurityStockWatch.com “Media Sponsor” of Cloud Expo NY & Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that SecurityStockWatch.com has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10–12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and the 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
SecurityStockWatch.com is the #1 security solutions portal for “Secure ID Solutions” and “Fraud Prevention Solutions.” We invite you to visit Google to verify our top rankings first hand. Our B2B and B2Gov channel reaches your target markets and based on our demographics and traffic, we can assure your company of an excellent business development opportunity. What is YOUR cloud computing solution?
OpenNebula Enhances Its Amazon API Implementation
OpenNebula has enhanced the Amazon EC2 and EBS API implementation exposed by the econe-server. The econe-server is a component on top of the OpenNebula core that translates Amazon API calls into OpenNebula actions, therefore a user will be able to interact with an OpenNebula cloud using any of the available EC2 clients or tool such as euca2ools, ElasticFox to interact with the econe-server.
Now instance types are based on OpenNebula templates instead of files. Users can create different base templates from Sunstone or the CLI and then make them available as instance types for users interacting with OpenNebula through the EC2 interface. These templates will be merged with the information provided by the user (i.e., AMI, user data, keypairs…) when a new instance is created. This allows us to use restricted attributes inside the templates or set permissions like any other OpenNebula resource. The describe functions have also been improved , for example users can query any of the resource pools providing a list of IDs, and now the describe-instances response includes instances that have been terminated recently.
Now instance types are based on OpenNebula templates instead of files. Users can create different base templates from Sunstone or the CLI and then make them available as instance types for users interacting with OpenNebula through the EC2 interface. These templates will be merged with the information provided by the user (i.e., AMI, user data, keypairs…) when a new instance is created. This allows us to use restricted attributes inside the templates or set permissions like any other OpenNebula resource. The describe functions have also been improved , for example users can query any of the resource pools providing a list of IDs, and now the describe-instances response includes instances that have been terminated recently.
How to Prepare for a Successful Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday commerce sales are expected to reach $2.2 billion this year, according to the Adobe Digital Index 2013 Online Shopping Forecast, making the Monday after Thanksgiving one of the most important days of the year for online retailers. Adobe also estimates that Cyber Monday sales would be up about 14 percent to the aforementioned $2.2 billion.
With online retailers betting a large portion of annual revenue on this widely anticipated mega-shopping day, it’s not enough to just plan for just server, storage or network capacity planning based on anticipated traffic for Cyber Monday, or any other high traffic day.
Too often companies approach Cyber Monday from an inside-out perspective, with a network-centric mindset but then miss the big picture. In short, companies must break down the silos between server, storage, networking, software, etc., to better understand what is happening at the end-user level.
How to Prepare for a Successful Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday commerce sales are expected to reach $2.2 billion this year, according to the Adobe Digital Index 2013 Online Shopping Forecast, making the Monday after Thanksgiving one of the most important days of the year for online retailers. Adobe also estimates that Cyber Monday sales would be up about 14 percent to the aforementioned $2.2 billion.
With online retailers betting a large portion of annual revenue on this widely anticipated mega-shopping day, it’s not enough to just plan for just server, storage or network capacity planning based on anticipated traffic for Cyber Monday, or any other high traffic day.
Too often companies approach Cyber Monday from an inside-out perspective, with a network-centric mindset but then miss the big picture. In short, companies must break down the silos between server, storage, networking, software, etc., to better understand what is happening at the end-user level.
Ebook: Hybrid Cloud Management with System Center 2012 R2 App Controller
This month, Yung Chou, Mitch Tulloch and I have published a new book on Hybrid Cloud Management with System Center 2012 R2 App Controller, titled Microsoft System Center: Cloud Management with App Controller. As part of a series of specialized guides on System Center, this book focuses on using App Controller to manage virtual machines and services across private and public clouds.
Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 App Controller is uniquely positioned as both an enabler and a self-service vehicle for connecting clouds and implementing the hybrid computing model. In Microsoft’s cloud computing solutions, both System Center and Windows Azure play critical roles. System Center can be used to transform enterprise IT from a device-based infrastructure and deployment strategy to a service-based user-centric consumption model based on private cloud computing. Windows Azure on the other hand is a subscription-based public cloud platform that enables the development, deployment, and management of cloud solutions. App Controller is the glue that unifies these two platforms by providing a single interface that enables administrators to perform complex operations without overwhelming them with the underlying technical complexities involved.
In this article, I’ll provide an introduction to this book as well as the details for downloading your FREE copy …
New Massively Scalable Monitoring in OpenNebula 4.4
This is the fifth entry in a blog post series explaining how to make the most out of your OpenNebula 4.4 cloud. In previous posts we explained the new multiple datastore system with storage load balancing, the enhanced cloud bursting to Amazon features, the multiple groups functionality and the enhanced Amazon API implementation.
OpenNebula is aimed at extremely large production clouds and it’s continuously evolving to become more and more scalable. We are excited to announce that the upcoming OpenNebula 4.4 release features a brand new monitoring system that delivers more performance and scalability.
The old monitoring system divided the hosts into chunks, and for each monitoring cycle it executed a set of static probes on that chunk of hosts via ssh, collecting the monitoring information (including Virtual Machines running in the hosts). The following monitoring cycle would do the same thing with the next chunk of hosts. As a consequence, when the number of hosts was very large the system took a large amount of time to monitor all the hosts. It was possible to increase the number of monitored hosts per cycle, but beyond a certain amount the system got overloaded with ssh connections.