SYS-CON Events announced today that AIC, a leading provider of OEM/ODM server and storage solutions, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
AIC is a leading provider of both standard OTS, off-the-shelf, and OEM/ODM server and storage solutions. With expert in-house design capabilities, validation, manufacturing and production, AIC’s broad selection of products are highly flexible and are configurable to any form factor or custom configuration. AIC leads the industry with nearly 20 years of experience in mechanical, electronic, system-level engineering as well as a dedication to product innovation and customer support. Headquartered in Taiwan, AIC has offices and operations throughout the United States, Asia and Europe.
Monthly Archives: December 2014
2015 Will Be The Year of ‘Encrypt Everything’ By @Porticor | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Several current trends in cloud computing leading into 2015 actually exhibit a tension between themselves. One trend, a well-known fact that will continue in the New Year to a greater extent, is that enterprises are rapidly moving to the cloud because of its operational efficiencies. This now includes enterprise projects that have sensitive data. Unlike the early days of “The Cloud,” enterprises are now stepping up with some of their crown jewels. Industries that will accelerate adoption in the New Year are Healthcare, Insurance, Utilities, Finance, and to some extent Banking.
How SDAS are Delivered | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
The premise of cloud is based, like other emergent technologies, at least partially on the notion of abstraction. Cloud providers are able to achieve what appears to be boundless compute, limitless storage and never-ending network capacity by being able to simply “plug and play” the hardware necessary to expand capacity when needed. Enterprises, too, looking to achieve similar capabilities are desirous of a means to achieve this level of simplicity of scale.
And by desirous I mean “really, really, REALLY want” it. At least that’s how I read the fact that the number one “emerging trend” identified by our State of Application Delivery in 2014 survey was – you guessed it – private cloud. In case that’s not enough to convince of its significance, when asked for which initiatives organizations had purchased technology in the past 12 months the number one answer (with 45% of respondents) was – you guessed it – private cloud.
So getting a “plug and play” or Lego-like infrastructure building blocks that can improve the time to deploy and reduce costs while adding value is pretty important to a whole lot of organizations today.
I (don’t) Like Big Buffers By @PlexxiInc | @CloudExpo [#SDN #Cloud #BigData]
Recently Arista released a white paper surrounding the idea that having deeper buffers running within the network can help to alleviate the incast congestion patterns that can present when a large number of many-to-one connections are happening within a network. Also known as the TCP incast problem. They pointedly targeted Hadoop clusters, as the incast […]
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The Object Storage Paradox By @Scality | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
(article written for the Scality blog) It has been six years since I wrote my first object storage blog, even though I didn’t mention object storage in that specific article. I had my head in the clouds as our early cloud startup was being acquired by Sun Microsystem when someone asked me to write a […]
Integrating SPM Performance Monitoring with HipChat By @Sematext | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
Many agile DevOps teams rely on communication via HipChat, which provides an API and mobile apps to receive messages while being away from one’s desktop. SPM Performance Monitoring‘s new integration via WebHooks provides the capability to forward alerts to many services, including HipChat.
The integration of both services can be achieved by collecting the room_id and an access token from HipChat and then building a WebHook in SPM. The SPM Wiki explains how to get this information from HipChat and build the WebHook in SPM: Alerts – HipChat integration
Aruna Ravichandran Joins ‘DevOps Journal’ | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
SYS-CON Media announced today that Aruna Ravichandran, VP of Marketing, Application Performance Management and DevOps at CA Technologies, has joined DevOps Journal’s authors. DevOps Journal is focused on this critical enterprise IT topic in the world of cloud computing. DevOps Journal brings valuable information to DevOps professionals who are transforming the way enterprise IT is done.
Aruna’s inaugural article “Four Essential Cultural Hacks for DevOps Newbies” discusses how to demonstrate the value of DevOps behaviors, tools and processes. She states: “DevOps is not only hot it’s the approach many enterprises are now exploring as the means to help accelerate the delivery of high quality software.”
Announcing @AppZero_Inc Migration Software Now @Azure Certified [#Cloud]
AppZero has announced that its award-winning application migration software is now fully qualified within the Microsoft Azure Certified program. AppZero has undergone extensive technical evaluation with Microsoft Corp., earning its designation as Microsoft Azure Certified. As a result of AppZero’s work with Microsoft, customers are able to easily find, purchase and deploy AppZero from the Azure Marketplace. With just a few clicks, users have an Azure-based solution for moving applications to the cloud.
‘Web Site Security’ By @VZCloud | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
The cloud is becoming the de-facto way for enterprises to leverage common infrastructure while innovating and one of the biggest obstacles facing public cloud computing is security. In his session at 15th Cloud Expo, Jeff Aliber, a global marketing executive at Verizon, discussed how the best place for web security is in the cloud. Benefits include:
Functions as the first layer of defense
Easy operation –CNAME change
Implement an integrated solution
Best architecture for addressing network-layer DDoS attacks
Concerns about availability not an issue
Enable customers to focus technical & financial resources on other needs
IBM: Capitalizing On Cloud Disruption
When we talk about the disruption that results from digital transformation, we usually focus on enterprise consumers of technology. However, it’s also shaking up the enterprise software and hardware marketplace as well – and every large incumbent vendor is feeling the pinch.
Leading the pack of transform-or-die incumbents is IBM. This 103-year-old behemoth has a market cap of about $160 billion, although recent earnings have disappointed investors. Nevertheless, as a result of several key decisions they have made over the last twenty years, they are perhaps better suited to weather the current storm than any of their competitors.