SYS-CON Events announced today that Nimbo will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Nimbo helps medium to large organizations discover, create, integrate and manage their IT environment using public and hybrid cloud technologies. Nimbo is headquartered in New York City with offices in Austin, TX, and Tampa, FL.
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10–13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Cloud Expo NY: Enterprise Bare Metal & Virtualization Move to CloudStack
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Chris Swenson, Director, Platform Operations at WebMD Health Services, and Ilya Musayev, a CloudStack Contributor at The Apache Software Foundation, will explain how the most common enterprise setups of bare metal and some virtualization can go to Private Cloud using CloudStack and other tools to solve common business and technical problems.
Chris Swenson is Director, Platform Operations at WebMD Health Services. He works with technology teams in all areas to collaborate and move from clunky non-scalable bare metal to flexible auto scaling cloud solutions.
Cloud Expo NY: Enterprise Bare Metal & Virtualization Move to CloudStack
In their session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Chris Swenson, Director, Platform Operations at WebMD Health Services, and Ilya Musayev, a CloudStack Contributor at The Apache Software Foundation, will explain how the most common enterprise setups of bare metal and some virtualization can go to Private Cloud using CloudStack and other tools to solve common business and technical problems.
Chris Swenson is Director, Platform Operations at WebMD Health Services. He works with technology teams in all areas to collaborate and move from clunky non-scalable bare metal to flexible auto scaling cloud solutions.
Cloud Expo New York: Harnessing APIs to Deliver Competitive Applications
With the rapid rise of open cloud services, organizations face a future of sourcing and integrating functionality from multiple open APIs. But harnessing this API-centric ‘cloud of clouds’ to deliver competitive applications is not simple. You will need to understand and adopt new disciplines, processes, and technologies – like service analysis, cloud brokering, process orchestration, service integration, agile development, accelerated testing, devops collaboration, continuous delivery, and of course, API management and security.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Andi Mann, vice president of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies, will explain how the new digital enterprise can take advantage of this API-centric ‘cloud of clouds’ to deliver new competitive applications faster, cheaper, and safer. Aimed at an architect-level audience, this session will include multiple case studies, implementation advice, execution best practices, and other practical lessons.
The Trouble with Clouds Is the Darn Hypervisor
Parallels’ CTO of server virtualization James Bottomley claims there’s an inherent tenancy problem with PaaS and SaaS clouds because most applications are designed for single occupancy.
And they’re designed for single occupancy mostly because it’s easier to write them that way, ignoring the fact that their data can leak or they can hog resources – or maybe not get enough resources – if they’re deployed in a multitenant cloud.
He figures the software industry will pretty much treat the problem the way it did the need for high availability some years back and stick its head in the sand. Single-occupancy applications won’t get rewritten to oblige multitenant clouds. ISVs are unwilling to make the investment.
Cloud Is All About Simplicity
“For organizations just getting started the move to cloud is about rapidly turning on IT infrastructure,” said Nicos Vekiarides, CEO & Co-Founder of TwinStrata, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “For mature organizations where IT has started to become unwieldy,” Vekiarides continued, “it is about cost and administrative savings.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time – agree or disagree?
Nicos Vekiarides: I would say that it is a combination of both.
Ramp-up time is a very important consideration for organizations deciding whether to deploy IT infrastructure locally or in the cloud. Saving time is particularly compelling for organizations in the midst of new “green field” deployments, where data center space needs to be built out. Without the need to purchase and deploy any infrastructure, cloud reduces the ramp-up cycle dramatically.
Scalability – The New Buzzword for Cloud Computing
“I think SMAC will continue to grow and mature and the demand for more sophisticated data like streaming videos and online television will be a real game changer,” stated Barbara P. Aichinger, co-founder of FuturePlus Systems and VP of New Business Development, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair. “Analytics is also very important and will become part of “Big Data,” meaning the data pulled and pushed to and from the cloud will have an analytic associated with it.”
Cloud Computing Journal: The move to cloud isn’t about saving money, it is about saving time – agree or disagree?
Barbara P. Aichinger: It’s about saving time and money but it can be scary. As someone who really understands how the hardware works and, more important, how it doesn’t work I can understand the apprehension. The cloud needs standards especially in the quality and reliability area so that folks know their data is safe.
Nimble Flashes New Private Cloud Reference Architecture Around
Nimble Storage, one of the darlings of the new storage breed – darling if for no other reason than it’s managed to collect $98 million from the VC crowd since it started in 2008 – that’s pretty darling – has been waving around the plans for a new Microsoft private cloud that’s pre-configured, turnkey and certified as a scalable on-premise infrastructure platform.
The Microsoft reference architecture involves a Nimble SmartStack for Windows Server and System Center running on Cisco’s UCS servers. It’s supposed to be good for 75 virtual machines created by Microsoft’s Hyper-V in a highly available environment.
Cloud Expo New York: Cloud Architecture and Engineering
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Tony Shan, who was one of the key drivers inside IBM for the cloud reference architecture, and also helped coin “Cloud Engineering,” will discuss lots of valuable best practices and lessons learned in designing cloud architecture and applying cloud engineering disciplines in real-world projects as case studies.
It was Shan who created the first version of the term Cloud Engineering in Wikipedia. Some of the works are shared in his blog – cloudonomic.blogspot.com.
IaaS and PaaS service revenues go up and up, beat $2bn in first quarter
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) service revenues surpassed $2bn in the first quarter of 2013, according to the Synergy Research Group.
This number is up 56% from last year’s figure, providing yet more evidence of the increasing numbers in cloud computing.
And it will come as no surprise as to which company is leading the way in revenues. Amazon’s overall share of the market, according to the research, stands at a whopping 27% – this was exactly the same number for the whole of last year.
Synergy calls Amazon “in a league of its own”, and it’s hard to disagree based on the research. Salesforce.com, Microsoft, IBM and Google comprise the top five, but they appear mere drops in the ocean compared to the dominance of AWS:
So 2013’s results still show a clear market share for Amazon. But that …