SYS-CON Events announced today that Dell Inc. has been named “Silver Sponsor” of 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.
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Exploring Demand for Hosted Private Cloud Services
The cloud movement is about much more than the service offerings. It’s a core ingredient of a larger commercial transformation movement — where savvy leaders are using business technology to advance their operations and accelerate their key processes.
According to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide spending on hosted private cloud (HPC) services will be more than $24 billion in 2016. IDC says that they define HPC as an operational model for deploying computing infrastructure services of many types via the cloud.
IDC forecasts that HPC spending will experience a compound annual growth rate of more than 50 percent during the 2012-2016 period, as companies look to managed cloud services in its various forms as a means to transform the ‘how’ of what they provide to their customers.
ICT Modernization Planning
The current technology refresh cycle presents many opportunities, and challenges to both organizations and governments. The potential of service-oriented architectures, interoperability, collaboration, and continuity of operations is an attractive outcome of technologies and business models available today. The challenges are more related to business processes and human factors, both of which require organizational transformations to take best advantage of the collaborative environments enabled through use of cloud computing and access to broadband communications.
Breaking down management barriers to adopting hybrid cloud technologies
By Geoff Smith, Sr. Solutions Architect
It is inarguable that change is sweeping the IT industry. Over the last five years a number of new technologies that provide huge technological advantages (and create management headaches) have been developed. We have attempted to leverage these advances to the benefit of our organizations, while at the same time struggling with how to incorporate them into our established IT management methodologies.
Do we need to throw out our mature management protocols in order to partake in the advantages provided by these new technologies, or can we modify our core management approaches and leverage similar advances in management methodologies to provide a more extensible platform that enables adoption of advanced computing architectures?
Cloud computing is one such advance. One barrier to adopting cloud as a part of an IT strategy is how we will manage the resources it provides us. Technically, cloud services are …
Apple’s iCloud most widely used cloud storage platform, beats Dropbox
According to the latest report published by Strategy Analytics, Apple is moving ahead of competitors Dropbox, Google and Amazon in the battle for cloud storage supremacy.
Over a quarter (27%) of Americans polled said they had used iCloud, compared with 17% for Dropbox, with Amazon Cloud Drive (15%) and Google Drive (10%) trailing behind.
Interestingly, over half of respondents (55%) had never used a cloud storage service, but 33% had first used one within the past week.
The report noted the key battleground in the cloud storage wars was music, with nine in 10 users storing music, although movie content has the potential to become a huge player in the space.
“The growth of video streaming and the desire to access content via a growing range of devices will see services such as the Hollywood-backed digital movie initiative Ultraviolet – currently used by 4% of Americans – increase market share,” noted Strategy …
Future Proofing the Data Center
More and more of our lives are lived online. Our music collections, bookshelves, vacation memories and more are increasingly digitized and uploaded into the cloud, the vast network of server farms that provide the bulk of online storage today. Research firm Gartner projects that by 2016, 36 percent of consumer content will be stored on the cloud, up from a mere seven percent in 2011.
Service providers, watching these trends with a wary eye, will be required to accommodate ever-increasing demands for storage as consumer appetites for cloud content storage continues to grow. To adapt, many service providers are exploring new options in data center architecture that will permit greater flexibility and control over hardware costs.
Michael May Have To Fight for Dell
Both the Blackstone Group, the big private equity house, and the
indomitable activist investor Carl Icahn met Dell’s midnight deadline Friday
to express interest in the company, setting the stage for a bidding war against
Michael Dell and his partner, the Silver Lake Group.
Parallels Eyes IPO
Ah, this is a story to warm the cockles of the capitalist heart.
Parallels, the originally Russian virtualization company best known for letting Windows run on Macs, is figuring on going public in the second half according to what it told Bloomberg the other day.
It all depends on market conditions of course but it’s planning to use the money raised to expand in the $40 billion cloud services market where it already counts Sprint Nextel, American Movil, Telenor, CenturyLink and Rackspace as clients.
The company, understood to be profitable, reportedly had revenues of $100 million in 2008 and having already made a slew of small acquisitions will doubtless make more.
ownCloud Tackles File Synch and Sharing
ownCloud allows organizations to integrate existing security, storage, monitoring and reporting tools with simplicity and flexibility.
OwnCloud, Inc. recently released the latest version of the ownCloud Community Edition with a number of usability, performance, and integration enhancements.
Based on an open-source project of the same name, the ownCloud file sync and share software, deployed on-premise, not only offers users greater control, but allows organizations to integrate existing security, storage, monitoring and reporting tools, while still taking advantage of the software’s simplicity and flexibility.
File sync and share services like Dropbox, Google Docs, and Box Inc. have revolutionized the way users share information. These cloud-based services make it easy to share files with clean interfaces and seemingly endless amounts of storage. However, not everyone wants to turn over their information to a service provider – for those who prefer to control how and where their data is stored there’s ownCloud.
Cloud Expo New York: NoSQL and Big Data, the No ‘BS’ Edition
A lot of companies are checking the NoSQL conversation box these days but end up getting confused by the sheer amount of information that is available on the Internet.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Sam Bisbee, Director of Technical Business Development at Cloudant, will look at how NoSQL impacts your application building decisions. He will discuss some of the insider baseball in the NoSQL community, cover a few tons of misconceptions, and discuss Cloudant’s views on what all this NoSQL and Big Data hullabaloo is all about. The session will be littered with case studies and examples from clients and previous projects.