Hewlett-Packard Monday distracted the press and the market from its executive suite dramas by putting out its promised Project Moonshot, the energy-sipping Atom-based microserver it expects to change its flagging server fortunes and be altogether disruptive.
The widgetry, cast as a new class of server for social, mobile, cloud, Big Data and general scale-out use cases, is supposed to sell into the new hyper-scale data center, where HP claims the traditional 25-year-old server architecture doesn’t suit and has, in fact, created a crisis of economics.
“With nearly 10 billion devices connected to the Internet and predictions for exponential growth, we’ve reached a point where the space, power and cost demands of traditional technology are no longer sustainable,” CEO Meg Whitman said. “HP Moonshot marks the beginning of a new style of IT that will change the infrastructure economics and lay the foundation for the next 20 billion devices.”
Cloud Expo New York: Scaling Big Data in the Cloud
Need to scale your data tier? The foundation of every application is the database layer, and today application architects have more choices than ever. With these choices come new questions: Which database technology is best for your application? How can your application take advantage of Big Data technology? Can you run your relational database at Big Data scale? What does it take to implement a comprehensive data infrastructure, including your core database, incorporating SQL, No SQL and Big Data platforms?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Cory Isaacson, CEO/CTO of CodeFutures Corporation, will answer these questions and more. You will learn exactly what it takes to scale your data tier, and how to keep it reliable – despite the challenges presented in Cloud environments. You will also enjoy a quick review of the primary types of database platforms, enabling you to choose the best technology for your application challenges. We will close with a high volume social application/gaming case study, showing exactly what it takes to run a high-volume, multi-terabyte database infrastructure in the cloud.
Cloud Expo NY: Interconnected Machines and the Future of Energy
In the face of rapidly increasing amounts of unstructured data, industry is investing heavily to turn machines into services and connect them to analytics engines that will extract an extraordinary amount of value and unleash a productivity revolution for both businesses and consumers.
In the health care, transportation and energy sectors alone, the combination of machine diagnostics software and analytics will eliminate as much as $150 billion in waste.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Paul Rogers, chief development officer for GE’s Global Software Headquarters, will discuss how we can harness the interconnectivity of machines to increase efficiency of the energy market, and promote a cleaner world for the future.
An Intelligent Network Is Critical to Achieve Optimal Cloud Performance
The success or failure of public cloud services can be measured by whether they deliver high levels of performance, security and reliability that are on par with, or better than, those available within enterprise-owned data centers.
Gartner predicts that the global public cloud computing market is set to reach US$131 billion in 2013, up from $111 billion last year. To serve this market with the performance, security and reliability needed, cloud providers are moving quickly to build a virtualized multi-data center service architecture, or a “data center without walls.”
Cloud Expo New York: Lessons Learned Managing Large AWS Environments
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Ronald Bradford, Founder & CEO of Effective MySQL, will cover experiences from consulting with many clients that (mis-)use AWS. Topics include managing and optimizing AWS costs, evaluating new AWS features, CLI automation for web scale, knowing about and improving security for your application and data, what is important to monitor and limitations of existing monitoring systems and dealing with failures in AWS understanding regions and zones.
Ronald Bradford is Founder & CEO of Effective MySQL. He has 23 years of professional RDBMS experience. He works with AWS deployments and technologies and provides independent MySQL, LAMP and cloud-based consulting in architecture, performance, scalability and business continuity. He is a former employee of the MySQL Inc consulting team (06-08) and Oracle Corporation (96-99).
Unify Cloud, Big Data and Enterprise Data with Ease
CIOs understand the importance of analytics and BI. According to a 2012 survey of 2300 CIO by Gartner, analytics and BI are their number one technology priority. Analytics and BI can make bigger business impact when they can access more data. With data in the cloud and Big Data silos, accessing and integrating these new sources can be a challenge for enterprises used to a traditional enterprise data warehouse centric data integration approach. Data virtualization enables integration of cloud, Big Data and enterprise data warehouse sources with ease and agility.
VMware Joins the Cloud Credential Council
“The CCC certification cloud courses provide an excellent foundation for VMware courses, and we look forward to offering these initially as part of our Americas curriculum,” said Michael Yakiemchuk, Director, Education and Training, VMware, as the Cloud Credential Council today announced that VMware has joined the council.
“We are excited to be a part of the Cloud Credential Council,” said Yakiemchuk. “Various VMware cloud experts have contributed to the development of the CCC syllabi in a collaborative way with cloud experts from other organizations, and we believe this joint effort will accelerate the overall industry adoption of cloud,” he added.
Cloud Expo New York: OpenFlow Is SDN Yet SDN Is Not Only OpenFlow
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a new approach to networking, both to the data centre, and as a connection across data centers. SDN defines the networks in software, meaning designers can operate, control, and configure networks without physical access to the hardware. Effectively, SDN frees the network and applications from underlying hardware. New technologies are making it possible for enterprises to use virtualized networks over any type of hardware in any physical location – including unifying physical data centers and federating cloud-based data centers.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Patrick Kerpan, the CEO and co-founder of CohesiveFT, will highlight customer use cases to demonstrate a broader SDN definition.
Icahn Hangs Tough on Dell
Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, has refused to drop his threat of
setting off a proxy fight for control of Dell’s board unless the company pays
out a whopping big dividend as he originally proposed.
Dell’s board wants him to make a formal bid for the company.
Before he even thinks about that, he wants Dell to pledge to reimburse his
out-of-pocket expenses for doing due diligence on the company.
The board’s special committee has already agreed to repay Silver Lake and
Blackstone.
It said Friday it would consider Icahn’s request if he dropped his proxy fight
intentions and his threat of “years of litigation.”
Icahn told the Wall Street
Avaya’s cloud UC strategy continues to evolve
Brian Riggs, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Telecoms
At Enterprise Connect in March 2013 Avaya introduced a set of platforms on which its partners – which include operators, systems integrators, and resellers – can build to offer fully hosted communications services. The move is a marked departure for the company, whose revenues are derived mainly from selling communications software and solutions that enterprises deploy on-premise.
Avaya also has a services business that sells managed and hosted communications services to a highly restricted set of business customers. Last month’s announcement, however, represented something new for the company.
In addition to selling its communications solutions and services to businesses, Avaya will now sell them to service providers, which will use them as the basis for the cloud-based unified communications (UC), video conferencing, and contact center services that they sell to enterprises.
This is a good move on the part of Avaya, which has lagged behind …