Container technology is sending shock waves through the world of cloud computing. Heralded as the ‘next big thing,’ containers provide software owners a consistent way to package their software and dependencies while infrastructure operators benefit from a standard way to deploy and run them. Containers present new challenges for tracking usage due to their dynamic nature. They can also be deployed to bare metal, virtual machines and various cloud platforms. How do software owners track the usage of their services for licensing and billing purposes?
In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Delano Seymour, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
at 6fusion, discussed how to meter and track your services using a consumption-based methodology that keeps pace with this cutting-edge technology.
Monthly Archives: August 2015
How to Tell If Your DevOps Solution Is Working | @DevOpsSummit #APM #DevOps
Unless you fully automate infrastructure and platform provisioning, application build, test and deployment phases and have them working together in sequence, you can’t realize the ideal of continuous delivery. These ‘automation tool chains’ are a mandatory element of each DevOps environment.
The number of manual activities in the application test and release processes can cause a downstream bottleneck. Changes pile up at the end of development and unit test activities in agile development environments like SCRUM or Kanban, therefore rendering them less effective. Automation tool chains significantly improve application delivery and operations performance in DevOps environments.
Alibaba looks to quantum computing for next-gen cloud
Aliyun is looking at fostering quantum computing skills and technology, potentially for future applications in its cloud
Alibaba’s cloud computing unit Aliyun has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) that will see the two set up a quantum computing lab to study the technology’s applications in security, networking and cloud computing.
The lab will focus on experimenting with quantum theory in a bid to develop novel security technologies for e-commerce and datacentres (including, potentially, its own) and bolstering computing performance.
“The CAS – Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory will undertake frontier research on systems that appear the most promising in realizing the practical applications of quantum computing,” said Jianwei Pan, executive vice president of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and a CAS member.
“The laboratory will combine the technical advantages of Aliyun in classical calculation algorithms, structures and cloud computing with those of CAS in quantum computing, quantum analog computing and quantum artificial intelligence, so as to break the bottlenecks of Moore’s Law and classical computing,” Pan said.
The organisations said they want the lab to become a hub for international research in quantum computing and help create local talent in quantum computing.
Jian Wang, chief technology officer of Alibaba Group said: “This investment in the development and application of quantum computing reflects the scale and clarity of our long-term vision to collaborate with partners in an ecosystem model towards the sustained development of the economy and society.”
“New discoveries in information security and computing capacity based on quantum computing could be as significant in the future as big data technologies are today,” he added.
Quantum computing offers a number of benefits – the biggest being its theoretical ability to crunch eye-watering amounts of data extremely quickly, which means security monitoring and defence as well as big data and HPC are looking like the best applications for the technology so far. But quantum computing in practice is still quite nascent and confronted by a range of challenges – cost, lack of software, lack of commercial availability, lack of standards at the processor level are some of the biggest.
NTT Com sets up IoT practice
NTT Com is setting up an IoT practice
NTT Com is setting up an office to target the development, sales and marketing of Internet of Things solutions.
The ICT-focused subsidiary of NTT Group said it will leverage its expertise in cloud computing, software development and telecoms to design and sell IoT solutions to clients, solutions that make use of the company’s 130 cloud datacentres and global network.
It plans to offer a one-stop application platform that can store, analyse and visualise data generated from IoT sensors.
The company is already working with a number of companies in Japan and Indonesia on a series of IoT trials.
In August this year for instance it announced a partnership with Kanazawa Nishi Hospital in Japan to test sensors deployed in electric appliances to help monitor elderly people living alone. In April it announced a partnership with TOCHU Corporation to test a smart streetlighting network at a complex in Indonesia to help optimise power consumption.
Diving Deep into Virtual Machine Performance
Guest blog by Anzhelika Khapaknysh, Parallels Support Team When I buy new software, I expect it to be fast, smooth and reliable. And it is doesn’t matter whether I buy it for my work, for study, or just to play my favorite game. However, sometimes things go wrong and the software becomes slow and unresponsive. […]
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Parallels RAS vs. Microsoft WS 2012
What are the key differentiators of Parallels RAS vs. Microsoft WS 2012? Let’s do a comparison: Key Differentiators of Parallels RAS vs. Microsoft WS2012 Easy installation and implementation. Can create virtual desktops (VDI Solution) from different hypervisors. Publish resources via HTML5. Proprietary scanner redirection, Universal Scanning. Printer redirection on a wide of range of devices […]
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[slides] The Benefits of IBM Power in the Cloud | @CloudExpo #Cloud
Chuck Piluso presented a study of cloud adoption trends and the power and flexibility of IBM Power and Pureflex cloud solutions.
Prior to Secure Infrastructure and Services, Mr. Piluso founded North American Telecommunication Corporation, a facilities-based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier licensed by the Public Service Commission in 10 states, serving as the company’s chairman and president from 1997 to 2000.
Between 1990 and 1997, Mr. Piluso served as chairman & founder of International Telecommunications Corporation, a facilities-based international carrier licensed by the Federal Communications Commission. Mr. Piluso founded ITC in 1990 and grew it from two to 135 employees with $170 million in revenues in 1997. The company had operations and agreements in many countries including Russia, Israel, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Dominican Republic, Chile and Canada. During his tenure, Mr. Piluso grew the company to the fifth largest facilities-based international carrier in the USA within five years. Mr. Piluso’s career in the telecommunications industry began in 1978 when he joined ITT Corporation’s Telephone Equipment Division.
Windows Server 2003 – I’m Late, I’m Late, for a Very Important Date! | @CloudExpo #Cloud
Windows Server 2003 End of Support is here and there is little most enterprises can do at this point to change the fact that they are now dependent on an unsupported operating system. Here we are at Microsoft’s World Wide Partner Conference again, muttering “I’m late, I’m late,” just like the herald-like white rabbit of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, (We have a cool White Rabbit twitter campaign going this week – check it out) except that we cannot manipulate time. This is the event where, last year, there were many sessions highlighting processes, tools and partner ecosystem to help companies migrate off of Windows Server 2003. Analysts, the media and Microsoft were talking in terms of close to 20 million machines in production still running Windows Server 2003. Back then, the opportunity was characterized as a Y2K situation that would result in as much as 45 billion dollars spent helping to remediate this event.
[video] Holistic Network Infrastructure with @Dhiraj_Sehgal | @CloudExpo #Cloud
“PLUMgrid is a software defined networking company – we provide virtual network infrastructure which plugs into any framework you’re using,” explained Dhiraj Sehgal of PLUMgrid in this SYS-CON.tv interview at Cloud Expo (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com), held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Guardians at the Gate: Securing Third-Party Access to Critical Systems | @CloudExpo #Cloud
Access is everything. It is the fundamental pillar that determines whether critical enterprise assets are safe or exposed. Knowing the answers to the questions of who is accessing what, where they are accessing that information from, why they are accessing that information and, finally, what exactly they’re accessing are the basic questions that stand between a breach and brand reputation.