Enterprise collaboration and document management are being transformed by new cloud and mobile requirements, deeply impacting one of the most broadly deployed collaboration platforms, Microsoft SharePoint.
Delivering information as an actionable asset in a widely collaborative and increasingly mobile environment has clearly become a top business priority. Business architects need the agility enabled by such unshackled information sharing and contextual collaboration to keep pace with distributed services and a boundaryless enterprise approach to their operations and commerce.
Seven Changes Driving the Future of IT
A recent global survey commissioned by CA Technologies and conducted by Vanson Bourne illustrates how radically the role of IT is changing in today’s business — and not always to the benefit of IT leaders and staffers. The survey of 1,300 senior IT leaders from large organizations in 21 countries explored the IT department as it is today and what it might become in the future.
The research highlights seven big changes that are driving the future of IT, as seen in this SlideShare deck that summarizes the key findings of the research.
Implementing Hadoop and Elastic Map Reduce on Scale-out Object Storage
Why bother promoting data into HDFS to run Hadoop analytics? Can’t I just run Hadoop on the data in place? – after all, HDFS and object storage have the same underpinnings.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Paul Turner, chief marketing officer at Cloudian, will present a unique case study showing Hadoop running directly on object storage and dive into the myriad of benefits that derive from this approach. He will explore the importance of this breakthrough for users and discuss current implementation strategies and project on future work planned.
PEER 1 Hosting to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that PEER 1 Hosting, the global web infrastructure and cloud hosting provider, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10–12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
PEER 1 Hosting, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cogeco Cable Inc. (TSX: CCA), is a global web infrastructure and cloud company where dreamers, innovators, and disruptors go to harness the untapped power of the Internet, to change the world for the better. PEER 1 makes this a reality with every interaction, using innovative technology to deliver an exceptionally responsive, reliable and secure hosting experience. The PEER 1 commitment “where every interaction matters,” represents the company’s dedication to powering human potential online, through its personal interactions and connections with customers, partners, people, resources, and technology.
Day 2 Keynote at Cloud Expo | Cloud Odyssey: A Hero’s Quest
The time has come for humanity’s first interstellar trek to Terranuvem, the cloud planet, and Chief Engineer Cyrus Agarwal has been chosen to ready a ship for the voyage. He must make the right architectural choices to transform the ship for the long journey and be prepared for the unknown. He will be tested and overcome challenges during the mission.
Join Cyrus and the crew of the Stratus at Oracle Principal Product Director Sandra Cheevers’ Day 2 Keynote at 14th Cloud Expo for a unique, sci-fi movie experience while learning key success factors for your own journey to cloud.
Tech News Recap for the Week of 5/12/2014
Were you busy last week? Here’s a quick recap of tech news and stories you may have missed!
- Hybrid cloud: The new normal for federal IT
- New cassette tape could hold 47 million songs
- Nearly Half of All Organizations Are Begging for a Data Breach
- A Tale of Two Data Centers
- Google testing what could be ‘dramatic’ Gmail redesign Gmail redesign
- Ira Winkler: My run-in with the Syrian Electronic Army
- Top 4 Reasons Why Visibility and Control Are Key to Virtualization
- Hospital adopts virtual desktops
- Key Announcements from Citrix Synergy 2014 – Part 1
- Key Announcements from Citrix Synergy 2014 – Part 2
- Have You Met My Friend, Cloud Sprawl?
- Gartner Survey Shows U.S. Consumers Have Little Security Concern With BYOD
- Prepare Your Network for Private and Hybrid Cloud
- You Can Now Text 911 in an Emergency
- Cloud Solutions’ Benefits For Healthcare Extend Beyond Computing — To Safety
Register for our 5/22 webinar, “The Rise of Unauthorized AWS Use. How to Address Risks Created by Shadow IT.
The cloud skills gap is getting wider, argues Interoute exec
“Anyone starting a company right now would have to be completely bonkers to build their own infrastructure,” roars Interoute chief technical officer Matthew Finnie.
Finnie is a man never short of an opinion or two, and with the number of born in the cloud companies increasing, this seems like a pretty safe bet. But here’s another view: the skills gap in the industry continues to get bigger.
“You’ve almost got two- or three-speed adoption to the cloud,” he tells CloudTech. “You’ve got a bunch of early adopters, guys at Dropbox, Netflix who’ve embraced it and done very well on the back of it. You’ve then got a middle tier, and then you’ve got a group of, more generally speaking, enterprise guys, who are circumspect about the cloud.
“And I think to some extent, what you’re looking at is some of the cynicism, or …
The Outside-In Battle for the Soul of the Cloud
Whether they admit it or not, the emergence of public cloud providers has dramatically altered the playing field for hardware vendors of every type. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its competitors opened Pandora’s box by introducing the world to a completely programmatic, scalable, evolving, and pay-as-you-go way to procure and utilize network, compute and storage resources on a global scale. They have disrupted many layers of the technology industry from the applications being written to the way companies interact with the infrastructure being used to support those applications.
Nowhere is this disruption easier to see than in the virtualization ecosystem. For the better part of the last decade, hypervisor companies like VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and Red Hat worked hand-in-hand with hardware manufacturers like Cisco, NetApp, EMC, HP and Dell to define both the infrastructure foundation as well as the virtualized abstraction layer that sat underneath the entirety of the client/server era. These companies provided a direct link between the enterprise applications, the hypervisor and the hardware. They owned the traditional datacenter construct.
Cloud Wars – Can the Force Disrupt the Battlefield?
The cloud wars battle rages on. Gartner predicts that one in four cloud providers will be gone by 2015, making this a very high stakes battle for all concerned. The 800lb gorillas, AWS, IBM, Google, Microsoft, et al. continue their efforts for dominance. The latest salvo has been a price war between Google, AWS and Microsoft for their services. Pricing is spiraling downward at breakneck speeds. The others are sure to follow. Into this fog of war, another player has been working on winning the hearts and minds of customers and developers. SalesForce.com, one of the first and best known Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors, has set its sights on becoming the platform of choice for cloud development and deployments.
Will they succeed? They definitely can be considered a gorilla in their own right, approaching $5B in sales, and with a reported 1.5M developers, should not be taken lightly. Their approach is having an impact in the battle, forcing the other vendors and the industry to re-think how they look at cloud services, and could ultimately change the battlefield tactics in the ongoing cloud wars. To understand how a CRM vendor rose to that level of impact, becoming a contender in the cloud wars, one must trace their roots.
Learn How You Can Easily Extend Your Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure
As infrastructure needs grow so does the need to be able to deal with it in a quick and cost-efficient manner. With Azure, you can spin up new Windows Server and Linux virtual machines in minutes and adjust your usage as your needs change.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Drew McDaniel, Principal Program Manager Lead – Windows Azure Division at Microsoft, will explain how with Microsoft’s pay-as-you-go approach, you only pay for what you use and there are never any penalties for changing your virtual machine configurations. It includes full support for Microsoft applications including SQL, SharePoint and even third-party software such as Oracle databases and WebLogic. Whether you are using IaaS for development and test or extending your production capacity to the cloud, Azure can help.