OASIS, the XML open standards body, is quickly establishing a very powerful leadership role in the Cloud standards arena as well.
This includes standards like TOSCA, for Cloud orchestration and therefore a foundation for Cloud Service Brokering, KMIP for unifying enterprise encryption Key Management across these multiple Cloud providers, and SAML for federated Cloud Identity, also for joining up disparate Clouds.
Also new to this mix is ‘CAMP‘ – Cloud Application Management for Platforms, which will focus on developing standards at the PaaS layer.
Cloudy data sovereignty in Europe (part one)
When considering cloud, the inevitable security questions arise: where are your data centres? What happens to my data? How can I ensure the decision I am making does not expose us to risk?
Blatantly ignoring cloud in today’s competitive environment is not a viable option and nor should it be.
There are a multitude of security areas that encroach on cloud solutions, varying based on whether you adopt a public, private or hybrid cloud approach and whether you use SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) or IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service).
In this two-part article we shall focus on the most common public platform in use, Software as a Service (SaaS), expected to be worth 11bn Euros in the next year according to Gartner (compared to expectations of 4.7bn Euros for IaaS and 923m Euros for PaaS).
Security in the cloud should be approached …
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley Speaker Profile: Rich Wolski – Eucalyptus Systems
With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in under six weeks’ time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let’s introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the West Coast conference…
We have technical and strategy sessions for you dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing & Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud and/or Big Data solutions that are transforming the world of Enterprise IT?
A SciQuest Perspective on SaaS
Recently I had the opportunity to meet Max Leisten, market director at SciQuest via email. So I fired a few questions his way about SaaS and thought I would share his answers. I don’t typically publish interviews, but I think SaaS is a very hot trend looking forward into the accelerated evolution of cloud computing
The Cloud Makes Its Way Across Industries
More than ever before, we are seeing cloud-based software and storage slowly becoming the benchmark. It simply cannot be ignored any longer; the concept is here to stay. Companies and certain growing industries that want to expand while also staying safe are turning to the cloud for convenient services and reliability. Modern businesses need dependable and secure options for storing their information and providing web-based applications. So it’s no surprise that in direct relation to this need, we are seeing a trend emerge; throughout all facets of industry, the benefits of the cloud are being embraced and companies are continually looking for ways to save money, streamline processes, and create a better experience for their consumers.
PEER 1 Hosting and Tier 3 Deliver VMware-Based Enterprise Cloud in the UK
PEER 1 Hosting and Tier 3 on Wednesday announced a partnership to deliver VMware-based enterprise cloud to the UK market.
The solution combines hosting services from PEER 1 Hosting with the enterprise-grade cloud platform from Tier 3, and is underpinned by VMware’s vCloud platform; giving customers the ability to easily and successfully manage their businesses in the cloud.
Built with IT and development operations in mind, the enterprise cloud platform drives tangible return on investment, reduces time to market, makes it easier to manage complexity and minimizes operational requirements. Customers will also benefit from local data centres and regionalized disaster recovery along with an expanding global footprint of cloud nodes.
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Enterprise Cloud Adoption Framework
“We’re actually very bullish about PaaS as the architecture for a lot of next generation apps,” noted Brett Adam, Chief Technology Officer at rPath, in this exclusive Q&A. “But,” he continued, “we see true PaaS as it’s been popularized in the market – you may think of it as “Silicon Valley PaaS” – is too constraining for the types of applications that enterprises depend upon today.”
Q: Tell me about the Enterprise Cloud Adoption Framework. What inspired it?
Brett Adam: We’re seeing enterprise IT and traditional service providers under extraordinary pressure to transform to cloud-based delivery and business models, but there are few reliable resources to guide what is a fairly massive architectural transformation. Despite substantial opinions about how to adopt cloud, the issue of standardization wasn’t getting the attention it deserved. We believe standardization is absolutely crucial. Uniquely, this framework looks at the cloud transformation through the lens of standardization as the driver and enabler for achieving on-demand, elastic IT.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Object Storage for Big Data Panel
Object storage is the new storage paradigm that was specifically designed for massive volumes of unstructured data. Object Storage platforms are revolutionary in that they are designed to scale beyond petabytes and they don’t need a file system. Instead, the applications can talk to the storage directly through a REST API. But this is also the weakness of the concept, and the main argument of critics: it might take a long time for object storage to really break through as it depends on the applications. Advocates like to use the Amazon S3 success story and believe companies should implement object storage now to increase efficiency, scalability etc.
Big Data is no longer restricted to analytics projects, several kinds of Big Data are now identified. Big Unstructured Data is getting particularly much attention today because of the growth predictions about unstructured data. Object storage is pushed forward as the only viable long-term solution for many Big Unstructured Data projects (Media and Entertainment, Life Sciences, the Aerospace industry, etc.).
RackWare Delivers Automated Intelligence for the Cloud
Usually start-ups hit the radar with their 1.0 flagship release. RackWare, founded in 2009, waited for the 2.0 release of its Management Module (RMM) on Tuesday.
It’s apparently been too busy helping IT teams at Macy’s, Citi, Reuters, Amazon and SunGard take full advantage of their clouds to publicly enter the cloud infrastructure market, unveiling software that enables users to build any type of cloud – public, private or hybrid – without requiring application or operational changes.
The RMM widgetry is supposed to let users leverage their existing investments in infrastructure and applications and get four times greater availability and reliability in the process.