The Parallels team will be at the MIDTECH Spring Summit to showcase our cross-platform solutions Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition and Parallels Mac Management for Microsoft SCCM. In addition, we will have information about Parallels Remote Application Server. The MIDTECH Spring Summit will take place at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas, NV, […]
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Even for the most seasoned IT pros, the cloud is complicated. It can be difficult just to wrap your head around the many terms and acronyms that make up the cloud dictionary-not to mention actually mastering the technology.
Unfortunately, complicated cloud terms are often combined to the point that their meanings are lost in a sea of conflicting opinions.
Two terms that are used interchangeably (but shouldn’t be) are hybrid cloud and multicloud. If you want to be the cloud expert your company needs, you have to lock down the differences between these terms-and understand how to manage a mix of these environments.
Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products for cloud IT, including server, storage and Ethernet switch, grew to $32.6 billion in 2016 at a 9.2% year on year climb, according to the latest note from IDC.
The missive, which appears in the company’s latest quarterly cloud IT infrastructure tracker, found that cloud IT infrastructure sales, as a share of overall global IT spending, was at 37.2% in Q416, up from 33.4% this time last year.
Private cloud infrastructure growth was led by Ethernet switch at 52.7% year on year, ahead of server (9.3% growth) and storage (3.6%). For public cloud, it was a similar story; Ethernet switch (30%) and server (2.4%) grew, while storage declined by 2.1%. Revenue in traditional IT infrastructure – in other words, not cloud – decreased 9% year over year in the fourth quarter.
Looking at the leading vendors, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Cisco remain top, albeit with the former two losing market share and revenue year over year, finishing at 17.3% and 14.6% share respectively. Cisco grew 23.1% in revenue and 1.5% market share to 11.3%, while the biggest climbers were Huawei, moving ahead of IBM with a 61.4% revenue growth year on year. IBM, Lenovo and NetApp were tied for fifth.
“Growth slowed to single digits in 2016 in the cloud infrastructure market as hyperscale cloud data centre growth continued its pause,” said Kuba Stolarski, IDC research director for computing platforms in a statement. “Network upgrades continue to be the focus of public cloud deployments, as network bandwidth has become by far the largest bottleneck in cloud data centres.
“After some delays for a few hyperscalers, data centre buildouts and refresh are expected to accelerate throughout 2017, built on newer generation hardware, primarily using Intel’s Skylake architecture,” Stolarski added.
Technology has always driven massive changes in the business of television. The movement from the Broadcast era to the Pay TV era was powered by the new technologies of cable and satellite. And the engine of the next major shift — from cable to OTT (over the top) — is powered by broadband video technology.
For the first ten years of the consumer web — circa 1994 to 2004 — internet video quality was laughable. Those of us who predicted that the Net would disrupt television were laughed at. How could a video the size of a postage stamp compete with ESPN? We queued up tiny videos to buffer on our desktops and waited, and waited for a 15-frame-per-second video that usually sputtered and died. As recently as 2006, video made up just 12% of internet traffic.
We’ve heard of many new jargons in the world of cloud such as Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The latest to join this list is Identity as a Service (IDaaS).
First off, why do we need IDaaS? As more companies adopt the cloud in a big way, there is a need to strike a balance between cloud identity and on-premise identity, not to mention the management of both. This need can be filled by IDaaS.
In addition, it can also lower the cost of owning Identity Access and Management (IAM) solutions. And that’s not all. IAM faces many challenges with respect to both business and technology. For example, the concept of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is catching up around the world. Under this idea, users can log in from any personal device into the office network to work. Obviously, this has raised many concerns about security and identity management.
Other segments such as administration, auditing and authentication are creating their own technologies to provide accuracy and cost efficiency. These technologies have also contributed to challenges in IAM because poor identity management practices open the chances for hackers to enter into the system and compromise the company in a big way.
There have already been a few incidents that have cost the respective companies thousands of dollars in loss and a ruined reputation. A case in point is Dropbox. In 2012, an employee had reused a password on an internal system that was earlier used on LinkedIn. This was cracked by hackers and they entered the company’s network with this employee’s credentials. It is estimated that they stole 68 million records along with their passwords, all of which was sold in the black market. In 2016, it came to light that all these Dropbox accounts and their passwords were posted online.
This incident goes to show how an employee’s login credentials, and the identity management as a whole, can protect a company’s assets from hacking and possible misuse by hackers. Since 2012, cloud adoption has grown in a big way, thereby raising the bar for identity management.
All these aspects have together led to the emergence of IDaaS. Already, it’s proving beneficial to companies as it not only adds an extra layer of protection to the overall authentication network, but also helps with regulatory compliance. Since the standards for compliance have become stricter than before due to many hacking incidents, this IDaaS can take the burden off a particular team since they are in tune with most compliance standards.
In addition, the cost of extending an on-premise solution to the cloud has come down as these modules can be applied separately on the resources that are in the cloud and on-premise.
From a service provider point of view, these above features are the baseline of any IDaaS platform. They have to innovate and come up with additional features that will make these platforms more appealing to clients. Also, these solutions should support cross-platform authentication such as portable biometric technologies to make it truly useful for end-clients.
It’ll be interesting to see how IDaaS shapes up over the next few years.
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Silicon Valley may be the epicentre of the vast majority of technological innovation – yet according to the latest note from Synergy Research, Dallas and Washington DC are the leading growth markets for colocation, headed by Digital Realty and Equinix.
The analyst firm noted that Dallas and Washington both grew at almost twice the rate of the national market, with revenue growth in those two areas, alongside Chicago, picking up ‘strongly’ in 2016. The top 10 metro areas accounted for almost three quarters (74%) of US retail and wholesale colocation revenues last year.
Alongside Digital Realty and Equinix, other vendors at the sharp end of the market include DuPont Fabros (Washington and North Virginia), QTS (Atlanta), and CyrusOne (Austin), with AT&T, CenturyLink, Coresite, Infomart, NTT, SunGard and Verizon also mentioned in dispatches.
“Colocation is an increasingly global market but also demands highly localised services focused on data centre facilities close to clients in key economic hubs,” said John Dinsdale, research director and a chief analyst at Synergy. “This combination of global and local factors has been a major factor in driving the ongoing industry consolidation. Another key feature in the market is the aggressive growth of cloud, which has helped the US wholesale market to grow twice as rapidly as retail colocation.”
Looking at the global perspective, a note from Synergy in January found that Equinix, Digital Realty and NTT are by some distance the three main players in the market, growing three times as fast as the overall market over the last four quarters.
The jockeying for position between the top three has also been of interest in recent months; Equinix purchased Digital Realty’s Paris operations – real estate and data centre facility – for approximately $211 million in August, as well as buying 29 data centres from Verizon for $3.6 billion in December. The previous month saw CenturyLink buying Level 3 Communications, as well as selling off 57 of its data centres to a consortium.
Experienced web developers test their websites on lots of browsers before the sites are deployed. Unfortunately, this can be a real hassle. Some browsers run only on a few operating systems. There is no recent version of Safari, for example, that runs on Windows. Edge, the new browser from Microsoft, runs only on Windows 10 […]
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What do Delta, United, Marriott and National Car Rental all have in common? They’re some of the most popular and highest-rated brands among business travelers, according to Certify, and companies are working hard to ensure that their business clientele – and their tourism and leisure travel guests – are having the customer experience that boosts their brand and bottom line.
The same goes for travel booking companies too, and they’re increasingly turning to cloud-based services and mobile technologies to keep their customer satisfaction and brand reputation first in a competitive marketplace. What companies like TripAdvisor, HotelsCombined or AirBnb have in common is a strong online presence boosted by technology investments.
Di you have a busy week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 04/03/2017!
VMware sells vCloudAir to OVH. Azure and AWS services compared. Top 5 email security practices. Taming the SaaS security wilderness. How to protect your internet privacy with a VPN. Azure surpasses AWS as public cloud of choice and more tops news this week you may have missed!
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In this brave new world of running businesses with cloud and SaaS technology, who’s buying hardware anymore? Well, cloud providers, that’s who. Financial filings from AWS, Microsoft and Google show they spent a combined $31.54 billion on capital expenditures and capital leases in 2016. Amazon is building a new cloud region in Sweden, and analysts say one region alone can cost several hundred million dollars. This kind of spending clearly reflects the way businesses are adopting cloud, and also makes it a lot harder for other wannabe providers to get in the game.