The Big Data and Cloud market have been growing at a staggering pace. Data is becoming unmanageable and too big to be handled by relational database systems alone and there is a need to effectively provision, manage elastic scalable systems. Information technology is undergoing a major shift due to new paradigms and a variety of delivery channels. The drivers for these technologies are social networks, proliferation of devices such as tablets and phones. Social business and collaboration are continuing to develop further to enhance productivity and interaction. There has been a big void in the Big data area and a need to come up with solutions that can manage Big Data. Part of the problem has been that there was so much focus on the user interfaces that not many organizations were thinking further about the core – Data. So now with the proliferation of large and unstructured data, it is important to extract and process large data sets from different systems expeditiously. To deliver strategic business value, there should be the capability to process Big data and have the analytics for enhanced decision making. In addition, Big Data can rely on the Cloud to rapidly provision and deploy elastic and scalable systems.
SkyDrive Renamed OneDrive After Microsoft Loses Trademark
Microsoft lost its trademark battle with BSkyB, and as a result is “rebadging” SkyDrive as “OneDrive”.
The service is the same (for now). Microsoft appears to be making some lemonade from the situation with promises of new and improved features, and you can sign up for a preview if interested.
How the PRISM fallout is impacting cloud adoption
The fallout of the Edward Snowden scandal that broke over the summer is being felt globally, with concerns around governments’ ability to access data prompting many organisations to rethink their investment in ICT and the cloud. It is this information that has contributed to analysts estimating that the US cloud computing industry could lose up to $180 million by 2016. This has opened up a debate – has the PRISM project spawned a culture of paranoia?
Why are organisations so worried about data monitoring and is it a justifiable concern?
Following what the business community has learnt about online surveillance, organisations are now asking their cloud provider how they can improve data security. Equally, data sovereignty, the physical location where data is stored and the data centre partner are now wider organisational concerns, not simply just the remit of the CIO. Keeping data in data centres in a country where the …
Alice In Wonderland – Is the Network the Next Frontier for DevOps?
Configuration tools are starting to get more sophisticated on these virtualized systems doing things like automated os hardening, switch configuration, vlan and port mapping, and high order overlay orchestration. Products like Chef and Puppet both have introduced primitives supporting platforms like Arista, Juniper and Cumulus Networks. Please join me to help me start the discussion of what DevOps in the Network really means.
In IaaS and PaaS Convergence, It’s PaaS That Should Lead
Recent commentaries by cloud industry luminaries Reuven Cohen & Krishnan Subramanian address key issues related to relative importance and potential longevity of an independent Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). In his commentary, Reuven poses, “Do consumers really care about the difference between IaaS and PaaS?” The answer to this question is most likely, no, but that doesn’t eliminate the need for distinction, it merely is a matter of how best to deliver the value of cloud computing to users.
In his commentary, Krishnan does an excellent job of exploring one way to classify PaaS as either service or container orchestration. However, in some ways, the distinction introduces more confusion. For example, his use of Docker illustrates how convergence of IaaS and PaaS actually makes sense for the industry and, thus, diminishes his key point that there’s value in the cloud application layer existing as a distinct layer within the cloud stack.
Self-Service IT with Cloud Computing | Part 1
Self-service is a traditional element for humans. A typical and successful example of self-service is vendor machines that dispenses drinks. Coca-Cola (among others) operates a large number of self-service machines all over the world, in public places such as universities, museums, and sport arenas. People are used to dealing with the machines as they are simple to use and easy to find. In today’s world, there is a huge variety of self-service machines that are not limited to soft drinks. There are self-service machines for snacks, chewing gum and you can even buy pizzas from self-service machines.
Self-Service IT with Cloud Computing | Part 1
Self-service is a traditional element for humans. A typical and successful example of self-service is vendor machines that dispenses drinks. Coca-Cola (among others) operates a large number of self-service machines all over the world, in public places such as universities, museums, and sport arenas. People are used to dealing with the machines as they are simple to use and easy to find. In today’s world, there is a huge variety of self-service machines that are not limited to soft drinks. There are self-service machines for snacks, chewing gum and you can even buy pizzas from self-service machines.
Gmail Outage Widespread According to Reports, Google+ Also
Gmail is down for many, based on twitter posts and downrightnow. App Status Dashboard not showing the issue yet. (2:17pm Eastern).
Techcrunch says it’s a widespread outage.
Logentries Releases New Machine to Machine Alerting Capability
Logentries announces that it is adding machine-to-machine communication to its free service for collecting and analyzing machine-generated log data. The new features have implication for both Internet-of-Things and mobile developers. It adds tagging and alerting capabilities to highlight, quickly identify and report on important events.
Now generally available for use, the new event tagging and alerting capabilities provide users of the Logentries service with a simple, yet powerful way for machine-generated log events to be filtered in real-time to identify critical information. In addition, it’s possible for information alerts to be sent automatically to other systems using standardized WebHooks.
Logentries Releases New Machine to Machine Alerting Capability
Logentries announces that it is adding machine-to-machine communication to its free service for collecting and analyzing machine-generated log data. The new features have implication for both Internet-of-Things and mobile developers. It adds tagging and alerting capabilities to highlight, quickly identify and report on important events.
Now generally available for use, the new event tagging and alerting capabilities provide users of the Logentries service with a simple, yet powerful way for machine-generated log events to be filtered in real-time to identify critical information. In addition, it’s possible for information alerts to be sent automatically to other systems using standardized WebHooks.