The 17th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. 17th International Cloud Expo, to be held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, APM, APIs, Microservices, Security, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps and WebRTC to one location.
With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportunity. Submit your speaking proposal today!
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Speaking Opportunities Now Open | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Docker #Containers #Microservices
The 5th International DevOps Summit, co-located with 17th International Cloud Expo – being held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA – announces that its Call for Papers is open. Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss. From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world’s largest enterprises – and delivering real results. Among the proven benefits, DevOps is correlated with 20% faster time-to-market, 22% improvement in quality, and 18% reduction in dev and ops costs, according to research firm Vanson-Bourne. It is changing the way IT works, how businesses interact with customers, and how organizations are buying, building, and delivering software.
Sponsorship Opportunities Announced | @CloudExpo #IoT #DevOps #Docker #Containers #Microservices
17th Cloud Expo, taking place Nov 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday’s debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Meanwhile, 94% of enterprises are using some form of XaaS – software, platform, and infrastructure as a service.
SIAS to Exhibit at @CloudExpo Silicon Valley | #IoT #API #DevOps #Docker #Microservices
SYS-CON Events announced today that Secure Infrastructure & Services will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Secure Infrastructure & Services (SIAS) is a managed services provider of cloud computing solutions for the IBM Power Systems market. The company helps mid-market firms built on IBM hardware platforms to deploy new levels of reliable and cost-effective computing and high availability solutions, leveraging the cloud and the benefits of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
Connecting DevOps to the Business at @DevOpsSummit By @DaliborSiroky | #DevOps
This week we’re attending SYS-CON Event’s DevOps Summit in New York City. It’s a great conference and energy behind DevOps is enormous. Thousands of attendees from every company you can imagine are focused on automation, the challenges of DevOps, and how to bring greater agility to software delivery.
But, even with the energy behind DevOps there’s something missing from the movement. For all the talk of deployment automation, continuous integration, and cloud infrastructure I’m still not seeing an adequate roadmap for how DevOps aligns with the larger organization. DevOps is about delivering software faster, but there’s more to the story than new tools and techniques for developers and operations.
Breaking Down IT Silos By @Jut_Inc | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Containers #Microservices
IT data is typically silo’d by the various tools in place. Unifying all the log, metric and event data in one analytics platform stops finger pointing and provides the end-to-end correlation. Logs, metrics and custom event data can be joined to tell the holistic story of your software and operations. For example, users can correlate code deploys to system performance to application error codes.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Michael Demmer, VP of Engineering at Jut, will discuss how this can only work if the underlying analytics platform is flexible and powerful enough to handle the various workflows of the organization. Come hear how we’ve solved this.
[video blog] DevOps and Hybrid Cloud | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Containers #Microservices
Video Blog: DevOps and Hybrid Cloud – A Solution Overview. Containers and microservices have become topics of intense interest throughout the cloud developer and enterprise IT communities. Microservices focuses on the business and technology of the software architecture design pattern, in which complex applications are composed of small, independent processes communicating with each other using language-agnostic APIs.
Containers are not being considered for the first time by the cloud community, but a current era of re-consideration has pushed them to the top of the cloud agenda.
Cisco to Acquire OpenDNS
Cisco has announced that it plans to buy cloud security company OpenDNS for $635 million. This amount is to be paid in cash and assumed equity awards, plus retention based incentives for OpenDNS, according to information released by Cisco.
OpenDNS provides a cross-platform online threat-protection service that Cisco will utilize to increase its own security, stating, “broad visibility and threat intelligence from the OpenDNS cloud delivered platform.”
Hilton Romanski, leader of business development at Cisco, said, “The acquisition will extend our ability to provide customers enhanced visibility and threat protection for unmonitored and potentially unsecure entry points into the network, and to quickly and efficiently deploy and integrate these capabilities as part of their defense architecture.”
OpenDNS will join the Cisco Security Business Group and the deal is expected to close during the first quarter of fiscal 2016. David Ulevitch, founder and CEO of OpenDNS, said, “We’re not going anywhere and OpenDNS as you know it will continue to work as it does today.” While OpenDNS has over 50 million users, it has only 10,000 paying customers and runs 24 data centers.
Cisco has stated, “The burgeoning digital economy and the Internet of Everything are expected to spur the connection of nearly 50 billion devices by 2020, creating a vast new wave of opportunities for security breaches across networks.”
Hilton Romanski also added “As more people, processes, data and things become connected, opportunities for security breaches and malicious threats grow exponentially when away from secure enterprise networks.”
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Sponsorship Opportunities Open | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Docker #Containers #Microservices
DevOps Summit, taking place Nov 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 17th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch. DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential.
HP tops IDC cloud infrastructure market rankings, ahead of Dell and Cisco
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IDC’s ranking of cloud infrastructure providers is in: HP has hit the top of the charts, with Dell and Cisco making up the top three.
The findings, which arrive in the analyst house’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker report, cover storage, server and Ethernet switch and show HP’s revenue growing 37.4% between 1Q14 and 1Q15, and market share at 15.7% for total 1Q15 revenues of $985 million. Dell, in second, has first quarter revenues of $745m, a market share of 11.9% and year over year revenue growth of 34.2%. Cisco, in third place, has first quarter revenues of $582m, an overall market share of 9.3% but revenue growth year over year of 30.1%.
The two companies positioned in fifth place, NetApp and Lenovo, had contrasting fortunes. NetApp’s revenue went up year on year by 1.5% to capture a 4.4% market share in 2015, down from 5.4% in 2014, while Lenovo’s revenue growth between 2014 and 2015 skyrocketed at 770.3%, moving from 0.5% market share in Q114 to 3.6% in Q115 – not especially surprising given IBM sold the majority of its x86 server business to the company last year. It’s worth noting that IDC declares a statistical tie between two companies when there is less than one percent market share between them.
Cloud infrastructure spending rose to nearly 30% of overall IT infrastructure spending in Q115 according to IDC, moving from 26.4% this time last year. According to Kuba Stolarski, research manager in server virtualisation and workload research at IDC: “Cloud IT infrastructure growth continues to outpace the growth of the overall IT infrastructure market, driven by the transition of workloads onto cloud-based platforms.
“Both private and public cloud infrastructures have been growing at a similar pace, suggesting that customers are open to a broad array of hybrid deployment scenarios as they modernise their IT for the 3rd platform [mobile, big data and social], begin to deploy next-gen software solutions, and embrace modern management processes that enable agile, flexible, and extensible cloud platforms.”
The ranking of cloud infrastructure vendors is not too dissimilar from the various work Synergy Research has undertaken in the area. According to March 2015 figures, Cisco and HP top the charts, ahead of Microsoft, Dell, and IBM; Lenovo just missed out but its huge market share increase due to the IBM sale was also noted.
Richard Davies, the CEO of cloud server provider ElasticHosts, bemoaned the issue of server companies charging the full amount despite half of server capacity in the cloud being underutilised. “A revolution in public cloud is coming,” he said. “Customers need to put the pressure on their providers to implement usage-based billing and stop paying for capacity they’re not using.”
Elsewhere, despite cloud and colocation resources resulting in the closure of many smaller local data centres, the number of premium, centralised data centres for larger migration projects is increasing.
That’s according to 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise (VotE) data centre quarterly survey on data centre trends. The research also found both medium and large organisations expect to increase spending on data centres, with the biggest growth expected to come from the healthcare and financial industries.