If you’re doing business in this era, then you’re dealing with a lot of data. That data is everywhere as well, especially if parts of your business are global. Depending on where you’re doing business, the data your business is generating has to adhere to different data rules, especially where disaster recovery and business continuity are concerned.
There are two ways to look at big data: it either means you have a lot of data, or it means that you’re doing a lot of data processing. Often times, you’re doing both.
Often data is considered secondary (and thus not important), generated out of their primary application, and the company is using it to better understand how an application is working. Generally in cases such as this, the emphasis to protect data is not top priority. All businesses in this situation want are service credits towards when the infrastructure supporting data is down.
Meanwhile, others are using data processing as part of their mission-critical, revenue generating work, so the data becomes a goal in its own right. Some businesses that approach data this way are advertising, natural language processing, finance, and healthcare, among other primary forms of data analytics as well as data gathering focused businesses.
Analysing Google Compute Engine’s integration with RightScale
Google Cloud Platform allows the end users to build their website and applications, analyze and store data on the infrastructure powered by Google.
Google Cloud Platform provides various resources that can be used for specialized purposes. One such resource offered by Google Cloud Platform is Google Compute Engine (GCE) which is an IaaS product. GCE was announced at Google IO by Google in June, 2012.
Google Compute Engine enables any developer or business to use the infrastructure of Google for their applications. GCE possesses several capabilities which make it more economical and easier to use for a wider set of applications. It provides flexible and scalable virtual machine computing capabilities in cloud. GCE provide you the capability of solving large scale analytic and processing problems on Google’s networking, storage or computing platform. It certainly is a powerful yet cost effective solution focused on workload processing on cloud.
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Lew Moorman To Step Away from “Leading the Rack”
“I have taken some time to assess my ability to balance the demands of leading the Rack with the needs of my family,” wrote Rackspace President Lew Moorman in an email to all staff this morning. For a variety of health-related family reasons, he told them, he will be handing off his day-to-day responsibilities to other members of Rackspace’s senior leadership team. The process will take several months, after which – Moorman explained – he will “step down as president and chief strategy officer and assume a much more limited role.”
Intel Wants To Re-Architect the Data Center
Intel wants to re-architect the data center to rapidly deliver new services efficiently and at scale through the cloud in an age of massively growing network connections and scads of real-time unstructured data, not to mention its need to ensure its own continued relevance and growth.
With no real mobile business to offset the global plunge in PC sales, down lately 11% year-over-year, Intel last week reported Q2 revenues down 5% year-over-year to $12.8 billion while returning earnings of $2 billion in line with expectations. It trimmed its Q3 expectations to $13.5 billion plus or minus $500 million.
Cloud Computing, Big Data & Smart Mobile Apps to Drive IT Spending in 2014
Big bucks continue to be spent on hardware and software, with a marked increase in cloud services, according to a new report.
Forrester released the data of its annual survey on IT spending worldwide and detected areas with higher spending, including apps and tablets.
Forrester Research’s annual report on worldwide IT spending split the amount of $2.06 trillion spent this year from businesses and governments between hardware, software and services related to the IT world. CIOs and IT decision-makers plan their biggest software spending increases in mobile applications and middleware, analytics, security, and collaboration software, according to an article on CloudTimes.org.
Software registered the largest share of tech spending in 2013 and companies will continue to spend in this segment particularly on smart and cloud computing in 2014. While investment in legacy applications (both desktop and server) begins to languish, most investment moves towards cloud computing solutions, SaaS solutions development and towards the smart computing, i.e., Big Data and mobile application development.
Ben Golub, Who Sold Gluster to Red Hat, Now Running dotCloud
Ben Golub, the former CEO of Gluster, the storage venture gone to Red Hat for $136 million, is now CEO of another promising venture-backed open source start-up, two-year-old dotCloud.
DotCloud first came to market toting a multi-language Platform-as-a-Service that proved revenue-producing but is now consumed with a project called Docker that has claimed much of its technology.
Docker is an open source engine that quickly wraps up any application and all its peculiar dependencies in a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that can run virtually anywhere on anybody’s infrastructure.
It’s a take on the old Java promise of write once, run anywhere.
CoreSite Reports Second Quarter Results
CoreSite, provider of network dense, cloud enabled data center solutions,has announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2013.
Tom Ray, CoreSite’s Chief Executive Officer, commented, “We are pleased to record a solid quarter of growth for CoreSite, and importantly, one that reflects the continued success we are seeing in our network-centric, differentiated strategy. We remain focused upon continuing to increase the number and quality of customer deployments in our portfolio and enhancing the value proposition of the CoreSite Mesh. We executed 115 new and expansion leases in the quarter including agreements with 33 new customers. Additionally, we are pleased with the continued evolution we saw in our sales mix, recording an increasing number of leases bringing high-value applications to our platform.” Mr. Ray continued, “Regarding growth, we continue to invest to meet customer demand, with four data center projects under way. We believe that we have considerable upside embedded in our portfolio as we increase the utilization of existing and new inventory, positively mark to market expiring capacity, and most importantly, continue to drive increased network density and valuable customer communities across our data centers.”
Cloud Computing: How Can Companies Reduce the Security Risk?
In the last five years, organizations have increasingly embraced cloud applications to help them innovate and transform their business. Applications that automate sales processes, HR management, collaboration, email and file sharing are growing fast and enabling organizations to meet their needs in a shorter timeframe than ever before.
Cloud applications are ubiquitously employed across all industries. However, there are increased concerns about security and compliance of sensitive information, particularly in banking, insurance and in the public sector. A wide range of regulations and privacy laws make organizations directly responsible for protecting regulated information, but when this data is stored in the cloud, they have less direct control over leaks, theft or forced legal disclosure.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: The Hybrid Cloud
“I think 2013 is the year of hybrid cloud – it’s really starting to take off now. It’s the combination of public cloud, private cloud and dedicated infrastructure working seamlessly together to provide the best application platform, but it’s also providing reliability, availability, performance and lowest TCO,” stated Lisa Larson, VP of Enterprise Cloud Solutions for Rackspace, in this in this interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at our Times Square Studio in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley, November 4–7, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Prolexic Raises $30 Million Round
Prolexic Technologies, the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation company, has gotten a $30 million Series C round led by new investors Trident Capital and Intel Capital.
That makes $51.9 million altogether. Its existing shareholders include Kennet Partners, Camden Partners and Medina Capital.
Trident will get a board seat.
The 10-year-old company says its year-over-year revenues are up 65% and its EBITDA is positive.
The company says this year it mitigated the single largest attack in its history (167 gigabits a second), as well as the world’s most powerful attack campaign (144 million packets a second).