SYS-CON Events announced today that Peak 10, a leading IT infrastructure and cloud 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.
Peak 10 provides hybrid infrastructure services including data center services, private and public cloud infrastructure, and managed services, primarily for mid-sized enterprises. Peak 10 solutions are designed to be simple, reliable, and secure, enabling customers to increase agility, lower costs, improve performance and focus internal resources on their core competencies.
Driving SaaS Customer Acquisition with Success Metrics
As a SaaS business matures, the importance and value of SaaS metrics increase. Most SaaS businesses begin their journey down the SaaS metrics path by tracking recurring revenue in relation to customer acquisition costs. After building a solid customer base, churn becomes a priority. These fundamental SaaS metrics are all apparent in the standard SaaS profit equation below.
Can CenturyLink take on cloud’s big three?
The much publicised race to the bottom in cloud pricing started with Google, Microsoft and Amazon all slashing their prices for virtual machines, storage and bandwidth. In some instances, these prices reductions saved consumers between 40% and 60% on their cloud bills.
Cloud provider CenturyLink looks to become competitive with these cloud services by following suit by instituting big pricing cuts all across the board on their cloud services. CenturyLink announced their cloud pricing cuts on their blog which notes that a virtual server at CenturyLink will cost nearly 60% less than it previously did.
CenturyLink has several strategic advantages for public cloud hosting versus services such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft. CenturyLink has 56 datacenters located all across the globe. Not all of these are cloud datacenters but the flexibility that CenturyLink can provide to corporate clients gives CenturyLink an advantage that the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft …
Can CenturyLink take on cloud’s big three?
The much publicised race to the bottom in cloud pricing started with Google, Microsoft and Amazon all slashing their prices for virtual machines, storage and bandwidth. In some instances, these prices reductions saved consumers between 40% and 60% on their cloud bills.
Cloud provider CenturyLink looks to become competitive with these cloud services by following suit by instituting big pricing cuts all across the board on their cloud services. CenturyLink announced their cloud pricing cuts on their blog which notes that a virtual server at CenturyLink will cost nearly 60% less than it previously did.
CenturyLink has several strategic advantages for public cloud hosting versus services such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft. CenturyLink has 56 datacenters located all across the globe. Not all of these are cloud datacenters but the flexibility that CenturyLink can provide to corporate clients gives CenturyLink an advantage that the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft …
Can CenturyLink take on cloud’s big three?
The much publicised race to the bottom in cloud pricing started with Google, Microsoft and Amazon all slashing their prices for virtual machines, storage and bandwidth. In some instances, these prices reductions saved consumers between 40% and 60% on their cloud bills.
Cloud provider CenturyLink looks to become competitive with these cloud services by following suit by instituting big pricing cuts all across the board on their cloud services. CenturyLink announced their cloud pricing cuts on their blog which notes that a virtual server at CenturyLink will cost nearly 60% less than it previously did.
CenturyLink has several strategic advantages for public cloud hosting versus services such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft. CenturyLink has 56 datacenters located all across the globe. Not all of these are cloud datacenters but the flexibility that CenturyLink can provide to corporate clients gives CenturyLink an advantage that the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft …
ICH/ITAAC Announces Second Agile Cloud Environment Event
The 2nd Agile Cloud Environment event will be held on May 21, 2014 at TIA Headquarters. This event will focus on development of the Agile Cloud Environment Service Catalog. The meeting will feature a series of 30 minute presentations during which prospective government users of the “Third Rail” will voice their desires and expectations with regard to the postulated cloud services. This event will also serve as an opportunity for industry attendees to offer queries of their own to the government presenters.
Could we have data centres as a commodity?
By Nick Razey, co-founder and CEO, Next Generation Data
For those working in the fast moving world of cloud computing it is easy to take the view that the choice of data centre is irrelevant; that although it is an essential piece of the jigsaw, one data centre is just the same as another when compared to the complexities of differing IaaS and SaaS platforms.
On this basis it is assumed that all the value in the IT chain will migrate to the cloud providers leaving data centres to earn meagre commodity margins.
The data centre however is a very long way from being a commodity. A commodity typically has three characteristics; the product is the same, the quality is the same and the price is the same. And because the products are interchangeable they are usually bought and sold via efficient spot markets which exactly match supply and demand …
Could we have data centres as a commodity?
By Nick Razey, co-founder and CEO, Next Generation Data
For those working in the fast moving world of cloud computing it is easy to take the view that the choice of data centre is irrelevant; that although it is an essential piece of the jigsaw, one data centre is just the same as another when compared to the complexities of differing IaaS and SaaS platforms.
On this basis it is assumed that all the value in the IT chain will migrate to the cloud providers leaving data centres to earn meagre commodity margins.
The data centre however is a very long way from being a commodity. A commodity typically has three characteristics; the product is the same, the quality is the same and the price is the same. And because the products are interchangeable they are usually bought and sold via efficient spot markets which exactly match supply and demand …
How to Ensure Performance and Stability in Your Virtualized Environment
The sharing of resources and capacity within virtualized infrastructure is the single biggest cause of operational and performance issues, and even inefficiencies in these environments. Traditionally IT operations teams have seen this challenge as a “capacity management problem,” something that is left to another group to sort out with the right hardware spend.
But in today’s production environments, these capacity-related challenges and their solutions go well beyond available hardware and are very much integral to the roles and responsibilities of operations teams including virtualization administrators.
Cloudian Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cloudian, Inc., the leading hybrid cloud storage company, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of 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.
Cloudian is a Foster City, Calif.-based software company specializing in cloud storage. Cloudian HyperStore® is an S3-compatible cloud object storage platform that enables service providers and enterprises to build reliable, affordable and scalable hybrid cloud storage solutions. Cloudian actively partners with leading cloud computing environments including Amazon Web Services, Citrix Cloud Platform, Apache CloudStack, OpenStack and the vast ecosystem of S3 compatible tools and applications. Cloudian’s customers include Vodafone, Nextel, NTT, Nifty, and LunaCloud. The company has additional offices in China and Japan.