The Akamai Board of Directors announced Monday that Dr. Tom Leighton will succeed Paul Sagan as CEO of Akamai effective January 1, 2013. Sagan announced earlier this year that he intended to step down as chief executive by the end of 2013. Leighton and Sagan will remain Akamai directors, and Sagan will become a senior advisor to the company, working with the new CEO on business strategy and to ensure a smooth management transition.
Enterprise Big Data Cloud Launched: Infochimps Enterprise Cloud
Big Data is confusing to most executives. It’s this nebulous concept of applying technologies from Yahoo!, Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter in such a way that the organization will truly become data-driven and, equally as important, be able to do so quickly. Unfortunately, only a few companies are really realizing its full potential.
Public Cloud Services Will Gain New Momentum in 2013
As 2012 draws to a close, a growing number of savvy enterprise CIOs — and perhaps even more Line of Business leaders — are joining the momentum towards an increase in the mainstream adoption of managed cloud services.
Furthermore, the near-term market outlook for 2013 is particularly bright and the long-term expectations are equally promising — due mostly to the reported positive experience and results from the early adopters of cloud services across the globe.
Peer recommendations are clearly driving this change in the marketplace.
Worldwide spending on public IT cloud services will be more than $40 billion in 2012 and is expected to approach $100 billion in 2016, according to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC).
Over the 2012–2016 forecast reporting period, IDC believes that public IT cloud services will enjoy a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.4 percent, that’s five times the traditional IT industry, as more business leaders accelerate their shift to the cloud services model for IT applications.
Forward-Looking Transformation in Action
“The IT industry is in the midst of an important transformative period as companies invest in the technologies that will drive growth and innovation over the next two to three decades,” said Frank Gens, senior vice president and chief analyst at IDC.
By the end of the decade, IDC anticipates at least 80 percent of the evolving IT industry’s growth, and the highest-value gained from business technology overall, will be driven by cloud services and the other third platform technologies.
By 2016, public IT cloud services will account for 16 percent of IT revenue in five key technology categories: applications, system infrastructure software, platform as a service (PaaS), servers, and basic storage.
More significantly, cloud services will generate 41 percent of all growth in these categories by 2016.
Software as a service (SaaS), which is the combination of applications as a service and system infrastructure software as a service, will claim the largest share of public IT cloud services spending over the next five years.
But other categories, notably basic storage and platform as a service (PaaS), will show faster growth. Accelerating PaaS deployments over the next 12-18 months will be critical to maintaining the continued managed cloud services momentum.
Focus Areas for Incremental Service Adoption
Geographically, according to the IDC assessment, the United States will remain the largest public cloud services market, followed by Western Europe and Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan).
But the fastest growth in public IT services spending will be in the emerging markets, which will see its collective share nearly double by 2016 when it will account for almost 30 percent of net-new public IT cloud services spending growth.
IDC defines public IT cloud computing services as those offerings designed for, and commercially offered to, a largely unrestricted marketplace of potential users. Note, this IDC forecast does not include revenue from private cloud deployments, which are dedicated to a specific customer.
While private clouds provide the customer with the ability to specify access limitations and the level of resource dedication beyond what is currently available in public cloud offerings, IDC’s expectation is that public clouds will mature and eventually incorporate many of the capabilities — particularly security and availability.
Public cloud services will gain new momentum in 2013
As 2012 draws to a close, a growing number of savvy enterprise CIOs — and perhaps even more Line of Business leaders — are joining the momentum towards an increase in the mainstream adoption of managed cloud services.
Furthermore, the near-term market outlook for 2013 is particularly bright and the long-term expectations are equally promising — due mostly to the reported positive experience and results from the early adopters of cloud services across the globe.
Peer recommendations are clearly driving this change in the marketplace.
Worldwide spending on public IT cloud services will be more than $40 billion in 2012 and is expected to approach $100 billion in 2016, according to the latest market study by International Data Corporation (IDC).
Over the 2012–2016 forecast reporting period, IDC believes that public IT cloud services will enjoy a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.4 percent, that’s five times the traditional IT …
Saving Money with Cloud Solutions
According to recent research conducted by the London School of Economics, cloud computing as an IT service not only assists organizations to cut costs, but also spurs innovation. Despite the criticism that cloud computing often receives, as a technological innovation it suits the needs and interests of both tech-enthusiasts and businesses alike.
Cloud computing as an IT service not only assists organizations to cut costs, but also spurs innovation, according to recent research conducted by the London School of Economics. Since its inception, cloud computing has attracted attention and criticism in equal measures. Nevertheless, one thing is for certain – as a technological innovation it suits the needs and interests of both tech-enthusiasts and businesses alike.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Application-Defined Networking
“This year was huge because of all the regulations on software-defined networking. We are focused on application-defined networking,” explained Pascale Vicat-Blanc, Co-Founder of Lyatiss, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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.
Greater NY Chamber of Commerce Named “Association Sponsor” of Cloud Expo
SYS-CON Events announced today that the Greater NY Chamber of Commerce has been named “Association 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.
The mission of the Chamber is to improve the business climate and quality of living in the New York Metropolitan Area for residents, workers and visitors. It provides valuable services to over 20,000 business and civic leaders who represent the backbone of the Greater New York business community.
The Green Green Grasp of Cloud
I’ve been in London this week, meeting with several people and organizations about cloud computing and its potential to drive the global economy by bringing efficiencies to IT – in short, about its potential to be “green.”
The topic of green quickly devolved into an asinine political discussion in the United States, with very little movement. In Europe, Green parties have more power than in the US, but would certainly like to have more. Meanwhile, writers such as Bjorn Lonborg, who try to strike a practical middle ground, seem to be scorned by both sides of the debate.
But I must ask, what is the debate? The root of the problem is the modern-day proclivity to tie green to climate change, immediately and inextricably. But those with long memories will know that when the modern ecological movement first got off the ground in 1970, the consensus was that the earth was cooling. Green in those days meant cleaning things up, not cooling things down.
If we can uncouple greenn with climate change, and focus it in an economics-driven manner, it seems we might make better progress. The fun fact that I like to roll out is this: the Philippines (with 90 million people) uses 3% of the electricity per capita used by the United States.
How will it ever be possible for the country to begin to approach developed-country living standards with a gap of this size? Looking at things in the simplest terms, it will simply not be possible for the country to produce 33X its current level of electricity.
Many people I spoke to this week said the global electrical grid would improve if humankind can solve the problem of capturing and storing electricity. This enormous problem merits the highest priority in research and development, it seems.
Meanwhile, the global movement toward a green grid and more efficient datacenters – epitomized by the Data Center Maturity Model pioneered by London-based Thomson Reuters executive Harkeeret “Harqs” Singh – is moving forward.
I think that all members of the IT community can be thinking about not only the efficiency of their datacenters and the datacenters they use by proxy through public-cloud services, but also the devices they are bringing into their organizations, and the focus of the products and services they’re developing. I’m working to produce a green IT event in Manila in a few months, and will keep everyone in the loop about it!
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Legacy to Cloud Migration
“We announced our version 3 product that has two very important capabilities. One is the legacy to cloud migration and the other is the self-publishing capability,” explained John Yung, CEO at Appcara, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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.
Centrify Wheels Out Identity-as-a-Service
Centrify, the ISV that makes its living leveraging Microsoft’s Active Directory, has got some new cloud-based widgetry that lets organizations centrally secure and control access to their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deployments.
The adoption of SaaS apps combined with the Bring-Your-Own Device (BYOD) trend means that IT organizations don’t own the endpoint devices or back-end application resources. (Pass the aspirin.)
Centralized management of users’ digital identities across on-premise and cloud resources provides the visibility and control organizations need to achieve compliance, reduce costs and mitigate risks while enabling secure access and productivity for their user-centric mobile workforce.