SYS-CON Events announced today that Telematics Update has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Telematics Update is the reference point for automotive telematics, mobile and web industries and a cornerstone for communications within the industry. We aim to provide you with industry focused news, events, reports, updates and information.
Online Storage Provider Nirvanix Reportedly Two Weeks From Shutdown
According to a report today in Information Age:
“US-based cloud storage provider Nirvanix tells employees it has “gone to the wall”, gives customers until the end of the month to move their data elsewhere .”
The company was founded in 2007 after an online storage company called StreamLoad split into consumer and business units. Not longer after, the consumer arm – MediaMax – gave customers one month to relocate their data following a botched migration onto the Nirvanix platform.
Aria Systems to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Aria Systems, powering recurring revenue for the enterprise, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 13th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 4–7, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Aria Systems powers recurring revenue for the enterprise enabling market expansion, improving customer relationships, and providing more revenue predictability. The Aria Cloud Billing platform is used by brand name companies such as Pitney Bowes, AAA NCNU, Experian, Red Hat, Ingersoll Rand, EMC, VMware, and HootSuite to evolve their recurring businesses while delivering outstanding customer experiences.
Racemi Automates Migrations to IBM Cloud Services
Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software that streamlines the process of migrating workloads to public, private, and hybrid clouds, has announced global support for IBM public cloud offerings, providing clients an automated migration path to their IBM cloud of choice, at no charge for a limited time.
Racemi’s Cloud Path software as a service (SaaS) enables IBM customers to migrate server workloads to IBM’s SoftLayer cloud services at no charge (see terms and conditions here).
“Working closely with IBM, we are offering customers free migrations to IBM SoftLayer’s public cloud services,” said James Strayer, vice president of product management, Racemi. “This ensures there a fast, easy way to move existing workloads to IBM’s cloud computing platforms.”
When to Make the Move to Managed Services
At some level, every business is utilizing outsourced platforms. But where infrastructure as a service is concerned, what are some key indicators that managed services is the next logical step?
Most companies are comfortable with outsourcing some portion of their infrastructure and applications (think about the degree you use AWS, or Salesforce.com). But outsourcing isn’t simply an option for super large businesses who want to consolidate costs or increase agility. For businesses that are looking to grow, at whatever scale, managed services presents a path that can enable greater market impact, performance, and cost benefits than the simple promise of underlying cloud infrastructure.
When to Make the Move to Managed Services
At some level, every business is utilizing outsourced platforms. But where infrastructure as a service is concerned, what are some key indicators that managed services is the next logical step?
Most companies are comfortable with outsourcing some portion of their infrastructure and applications (think about the degree you use AWS, or Salesforce.com). But outsourcing isn’t simply an option for super large businesses who want to consolidate costs or increase agility. For businesses that are looking to grow, at whatever scale, managed services presents a path that can enable greater market impact, performance, and cost benefits than the simple promise of underlying cloud infrastructure.
Tech Fractals: Technology Trends and Integration
First, the paragraph that spawned this post:
The increasing use of cloud-based services is driving the need for better and more interactive single sign-on (SSO) and federated identity management (FIM) services. It is building relationship dependencies between businesses, their partners and suppliers, and customers.
— Ovum Research, “Cloud: Transforming the IAM Industry”
First, I beg to differ on the conclusion that cloud is “transforming” the IAM industry. It’s pretty much the same as it’s ever been. Single-sign on (SSO) is still about protocol transitioning; it’s just the case that protocols have been abstracted into APIs. Federated Identity Management (FIM) is SAML wrapped up in a nice name. This is not transformational. Organizations have been integrating authentication and authorization across the Internet since after the dot com bust. XML gateways, anyone? WS-SEC? Seriously, this is not transformational. At best it’s evolutionary.
Tech Fractals: Technology Trends and Integration
First, the paragraph that spawned this post:
The increasing use of cloud-based services is driving the need for better and more interactive single sign-on (SSO) and federated identity management (FIM) services. It is building relationship dependencies between businesses, their partners and suppliers, and customers.
— Ovum Research, “Cloud: Transforming the IAM Industry”
First, I beg to differ on the conclusion that cloud is “transforming” the IAM industry. It’s pretty much the same as it’s ever been. Single-sign on (SSO) is still about protocol transitioning; it’s just the case that protocols have been abstracted into APIs. Federated Identity Management (FIM) is SAML wrapped up in a nice name. This is not transformational. Organizations have been integrating authentication and authorization across the Internet since after the dot com bust. XML gateways, anyone? WS-SEC? Seriously, this is not transformational. At best it’s evolutionary.
Cloud Foundry and Windows Azure Myths Dispelled
Enterprises are looking for Cloud to move their Development and Testing activities which deviates the core goals of the enterprise towards setting up middle ware and configuring servers.
PaaS (Platform As A Service) grows into popularity mainly from the fact that Developers can concentrate more on the functionality rather than the infrastructure aspects.
New PaaS offering called Cloud Foundry from VMware is exiting, however there are some feeling about how Cloud Foundry would be a Windows Azure Killer and game changer. We tried to analyze those points against Windows Azure and found them to be not true and these platforms together can serve enterprises depending how the existing landscape of enterprises are laid.
Why China’s cloud computing ecosystem is at a vital crossroads
Due to its sheer size and economic power, China has the potential to be a huge cloud computing market.
But there are many obstacles to overcome. A new report examines these problems and the relationship between China and the US, whilst a big Chinese telco has announced overseas cloud expansion. Where now for China and the cloud?
A report released earlier this month on behalf of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCESRC) has warned of potential security concerns if the US consumer market for Chinese cloud computing services grows.
The paper, prepared by Defense Group Incorporated, noted in particular the inherent risks of collaboration between foreign firms and Chinese companies offering cloud services, jeopardising the foreign partner’s information security.
Yet the report is quick to ensure the security problems of public clouds aren’t used as a brush to tar China unnecessarily.
“If Chinese public cloud infrastructure …