In the Enterprise 2.0 white paper I wrote a few years ago, I built on the core concepts of what Andrew McAfee had introduced, primarily the integrated role of Cloud Computing and also the overlap with BPM (Business Process Management). I have started bringing this up to date for 2012 through the concept of Private Cloud 2.0
Architecting Your Cloud: Lessons Learned from 100 CloudStack Deployments
CloudStack has been the platform of choice for more than a hundred public and private production clouds. In his General Session at Cloud New York, Citrix VP Shannon Williams provides an insider view as one of the co-founders of Cloud.com talks about experiences in designing the right architecture for your cloud.
Shannon Williams is VP of Market Development, Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix, where he oversees the team responsible for working with enterprise and service provider customers to understand the capabilities of Citrix cloud infrastructure solutions, as well as architect and deploy them. Williams joined Citrix in 2011 when the company acquired Cloud.com, where he served as vice president of worldwide sales. He has more than 10 years of experience in sales and marketing and has held management positions at technology companies such as Solidcore Systems, SeeCommerce and Teros. Williams has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science.
Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Understanding the Differences
For years, there has been a feature battle between VMware® vSphere™ and Microsoft® Hyper-V®. In general, vSphere has won the feature battle, although Hyper-V is certainly no slouch.Ultimately, the feature gap will shrink and Hyper-V will become a “good enough” solution for more and more organizations.
In order to help vSphere administrators make the knowledge leap between the two platforms, this whitepaper will introduce you to:
Feature deltas that may exist
Key features in both products
VM mobility and availability
Differences in hypervisor management
AWS Simple Email Service Explained
Amazon’s SES service may not be the hottest of cloud topics, but email is still fundamental, and SES a tool as useful as any. The focus is on “deliverability”.
Convirture Brings Open Source-Based VM & Cloud Management to VMware
The beta of the new version of ConVirt Enterprise Cloud provides a single tool to manage all current and future virtual and cloud infrastructures, including those based on KVM, Xen, OpenStack, Amazon EC2 and now VMware.
ConVirt is used by IT professionals worldwide to manage virtual data centers and cloud infrastructures. This new version adds VMware to the list of supported technologies. It is based on open source and provides sophisticated management capabilities to operators of heterogeneous data centers that employ multiple technologies and platforms, including major public and private clouds.
Implement a Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Solution with EVault CDR 4.0
When it seems like every technology company in the world is throwing the term “Cloud Computing” around it’s refreshing when you can get past the 50,000 foot view of a solution and understand what is really happening. I’ve tried to create a walkthrough of building a cloud disaster recovery from scratch using a real product stack from EVault, a Seagate company.
Perhaps you’ve heard of this new technology floating around the internet called “Cloud Computing” and maybe, just maybe you’ve even thought about using this to satisfy some of your IT needs. Sarcasm aside, leveraging cloud computing services for disaster recovery is an example for how cloud computing can be applied to the business. EVault, a Seagate Company, has a product that helps you create an automated cloud based disaster recovery solution that includes the backup and recovery of your critical applications and data.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Are Enterprises Ready for Private SaaS & PaaS?
A dedicated SaaS and PaaS deployment model can support more sophisticated and multi-tiered business apps with highly customizable components. Enterprises are poised to run their key business apps in the cloud but today’s solutions are designed for simple and fixed stacks. Enterprise apps that are multi-tiered and multi-languages still require manual operations.
SaaS and PaaS have been gaining popularity in recent years. Why aren’t all enterprises ready to adopt them? The reason is that most enterprise apps don’t fit into standard SaaS and PaaS offerings due to the inflexibility of choosing components and lack of customization. As a result, thousands of enterprise apps are still running in their legacy environments, leading to inefficiency, lack of agility and higher cost.
The Rebirth of SOA on the Wings of SaaS and Cloud Computing
Service Oriented Architecture was hailed as the next major leap ahead in the ICT industry and was predicted by many to be as big a leap forward as that achieved with Object-Oriented software design patterns. For example, in 2006, Joseph Bih introduced SOA in a research article as an innovative new way to conduct e-business . While much published and promoted in the marketplace, SOA adoption has been the subject of significant controversy, not least of which is the publication of a landmark article by now Gartner Fellow Anne Thomas Manes in January 2009 in which SOA was declared “dead”. This publication examines the health of SOA as a relevant paradigm in the ICT industry three years after some market opinion leaders declared SOA dead.
Research and Markets: IBM IBM SmartCloud Workload Automation and TWS Fix Pack 1
On June 14, 2012, IBM released Fix Pack 1 (FP1) for Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS). On the same day, the company also launched SmartCloud Workload Automation (SCWA). SCWA combines TWS and TWS for Applications into one platform, belonging to IBM SmartCloud Foundation. At the same time, IBM announced a fundamental change of its pricing structure, away from its traditional resource-based approach and toward a per-job pricing model. This new usage-based pricing scheme was launched to make SCWA more attractive for today’s cloud-centric data center.
In this impact brief, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) will evaluate the importance of TWS FP1, SCWA, and the new pricing model for the overall workload automation marketplace, as well as for the market for cloud platforms. For more details on IBM Tivoli SmartCloud’s ability to provide the necessary management capabilities for multi-hypervisor cloud deployments, please review EMA’s whitepaper on this topic.
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ltjk95/ibm_releases_ibm_s
Cloud Brings Foreign IT Spending to U.S.
U.S.-based corporations and government agencies have been shipping application development work to offshore IT services providers for years.
Now, thanks to cloud computing, foreign companies are starting to bring their business to providers of data center services located in this country, according to an article at ComputerWorld.com.
Case in point: Grupo Posadas, a hotel company in Mexico that relies on five data centers to support more than 17,000 guest rooms in over 100 hotels. Grupo Posadas IT personnel run three of those data centers. The other two are run by outsourcing partners.
By moving some operations to the cloud, the Posadas IT group will have more time to focus on developing mobile and social networking tools that could help the business grow, he added.
“Our IT strategy is aligned to our growth, and our growth means that we need to be flexible and agile,” he said. Cloud computing makes it possible to deploy new services in a matter of weeks. “That is the type of capability that we were lacking – that agility,” said Toro Bala.