Businesses have been looking to move more than just their back office applications to the cloud. Yet up to now, mission-critical applications have not been cloud-ready – it’s been a world of point solutions from multiple vendors requiring extensive integration, or cloud applications simply lacked the deep functionality required to meet the unique needs of manufacturers, hospitals, banks, or hotels.
In his Day 3 Keynote at 14th Cloud Expo, Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor, will discuss how enterprise application suites, technology, and economics have finally evolved to realize the vision of the cloud for running the full business – today.

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The concept of cloud computing, or running multiple computational systems on a network, is not a new one, of course. But it’s often fascinating to note the history of computing, from IBM’s 50th anniversary of the mainframe earlier this year to time-sharing on a CPU mainframe.

As a result, a video posted by renowned filmmaker David Hoffman has brought about a fascinating insight on AT&T’s vision of cloud computing as far back as 1993.

“You can think of our electronic meeting place as the cloud”, the video tells AT&T customers.

The video was put up in April last year but came to wider attention after Salesforce.com chief exec Marc Benioff tweeted it out last night:

If you want to know who invented the cloud take a look at this: https://t.co/8VPDgKPbO5 @marcporat

— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) May 6, 2014

The technology which arises …

The concept of cloud computing, or running multiple computational systems on a network, is not a new one, of course. But it’s often fascinating to note the history of computing, from IBM’s 50th anniversary of the mainframe earlier this year to time-sharing on a CPU mainframe.

As a result, a video posted by renowned filmmaker David Hoffman has brought about a fascinating insight on AT&T’s vision of cloud computing as far back as 1993.

“You can think of our electronic meeting place as the cloud”, the video tells AT&T customers.

The video was put up in April last year but came to wider attention after Salesforce.com chief exec Marc Benioff tweeted it out last night:

If you want to know who invented the cloud take a look at this: https://t.co/8VPDgKPbO5 @marcporat

— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) May 6, 2014

The technology which arises …

Cloudian’s HyperStore® cloud storage solution is now certified for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. This certification ensures that HyperStore has been tested, certified, and integrates well with Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution and infrastructure solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure. It provides enterprise storage for OpenStack with consistent performance, supportability, and compatibility to deliver tightly integrated on-premise and hybrid S3 cloud storage.
“OpenStack is quickly becoming the preferred cloud stack for on-premise enterprise cloud deployments, and now with Cloudian on-premise storage, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform has a scalable and enterprise-proven storage platform which integrates seamlessly,” said Paul Turner, chief marketing officer, Cloudian. “We look forward to supplying the essential storage infrastructure to the innovative private and hybrid cloud solutions made possible by certifying with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform.”

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As public and private cloud adoption continues to skyrocket, it’s becoming more and more clear that Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is hugely important to users. This isn’t really news, as much as it’s a confirmation of what many were seeing much earlier in the cloud industry’s maturation. DBaaS is the next killer app for cloud services.

As an example, consider that DynamoDB from AWS was, after only five months in production, the fastest growing AWS service all the way back in 2012. Also consider the 451 Research report authored by Matt Aslett back in August of 2013. By Matt’s estimation, DBaaS services based on MySQL will grow at a CAGR of 81% from 2012 to 2016. That’s some serious growth, representing a clear user demand.

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Cloud computing and DevOps are certainly taking the world by storm with promises of transforming the way that business will access and use technology. Cloud computing represents the consolidation of compute resources inside the data center and the use of all applications and infrastructure outside the data center. DevOps is transforming the processes around delivery of applications and data to its user base by instituting more automation and collaboration between the parties responsible for building and deploying.

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Solidifying its position as a leading IT infrastructure and cloud provider, Peak 10 has been named the first provider in the Americas to achieve the Cisco Powered Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) designation under the Cisco® Cloud and Managed Services Advanced Certification. This certification recognizes Peak 10 as a provider with the capability to sell and deliver cloud and managed services for companies needing to accelerate time to market and time to revenue.

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To help maintain control and remain ever-ready for improvements, healthcare SaaS application developer PointClickCare recently adopted a cloud-based IT service management solution.
Whether it’s monitoring medication management in a closed-loop integration with pharmacies, or managing weekly release schedules for their software, the change is constant at PointClickCare, based in Toronto.
The discussion, conducted at the recent HP Discover 2013 Conference in Barcelona, is moderated by me, Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

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This infographic is the outcome of an IDG Connect survey of 200 US enterprise decision makers that includes adoption plans for OpenStack, the platform of choice for private cloud development and deployment.

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