SYS-CON Events announced today that Loggly, a San Francisco startup developing a cloud-based logging platform, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
With over 2,500 customers, Loggly is the world’s most popular online log management service. It’s simple, scalable and fast. Growing online businesses rely on Loggly to simplify log management and investigate brewing issues and trends.
Cloud – Vision to Reality
Understanding the impact of factors such as security/compliance, application architecture, integration, the pattern of demand and operational maturity is crucial when performing a cloud feasibility assessment. Additionally, many organizations perceive cost-reduction as one of the primary benefits of adopting a cloud hosting model. In practice however, this is not always an accurate assumption. There are nuances to the financial analysis: public cloud computing is not necessarily cheaper than traditional dedicated hosting. Furthermore, there are considerations around the impact on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), transformation/migration costs and the position of an organization with the IT lifecycle.
During his general session, Rackspace VP Andrew Schroepfer explores each of these areas in order to illustrate some of the factors an organization needs to consider when contemplating a migration to the cloud.
Zscaler gets £24m VC fund for increased cloud security
Zscaler, the SaaS cloud security company, has for the first time received venture capital investment to the tune of £24 million ($38m), mainly from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
The San Jose startup was traditionally funded internally, but according to Zscaler the money will be used to “further accelerate its go-to-market strategy, and further develop its cloud security offering with a high emphasis on mobility”.
In other words: it’s not because Zscaler needs the cash, more upgrading what it already has.
And according to CEO Jay Chaudhry, it represents a shift in company policy.
“To date, we have resisted outside investment despite inquiries from top-tier investors,” he said, adding: “Our new strategic partners share our vision and are committed to helping Zscaler build a long-lasting business”.
Zscaler’s security solution revolves around a unified SCG (Secure Cloud Gateway) and famously requires no hardware or software to enforce multiple security policies. As …
FFIEC’s Recognition of Cloud Security Advantages
With the endorsement by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), smaller financial institutions which a beholden to many compliance audits and security issues can now explore the possibility of outsourcing security features from the cloud. Now these organizations can get the same level of security afforded by the major banks.
Google BigQuery Gets Two New Features
As of this week, Google BigQuery is offering Big Data developers new ways to work with data by adding two new features. Introduced in limited preview in November 2011 and made publicly available May 1, 2012, BigQuery is Google’s chosen way to “bring Big Data analytics to all businesses via the cloud.”
Nutanix Raises $33 Million C Round
Nutanix, the start-up that came out of stealth mode last year claiming to be the first company to offer software-defined storage wrapped in off-the-shelf x86 servers, has raised $33 million in Series C funding.
It got the reportedly “massively oversubscribed” round from current investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures as well as new investors Battery Ventures and Goldman Sachs.
It brings total financing to $71.2 million.
The company is going to use the money to expand sales, marketing and support, and double up on R&D.
The start-up doesn’t waste its time on modesty. It claims to be the fastest-growing infrastructure start-up in the last decade with record growth and revenue in the fiscal year ending in July. It says it’s shipped 150 systems, including 600 servers attached to more than 3.3PB of spindle and Fusion-io storage. It claims the fastest R&D to 50-node clusters, fastest to 100 paid units, fastest to 50 reseller partners and fastest to distribution in Europe and Japan, all in the two years since it got its A round.
Meeting Cloud Needs: Automating Out Complexity and Adding Efficiency
Using a range of performance, operations orchestration and Business Service Automation solutions from HP, services provider Savvis has improved its incident resolution and sped the delivery of new cloud services to its enterprise clients.
Savvis is recognized as a global IT leader in providing IT as a service (ITaaS) to many of today’s most recognizable enterprise customers around the world. We offer cloud services and hosting infrastructure services to those customers.
Being an IT department of IT departments, or a dynamic service provider, has a lot of unique challenges that you don’t face in every IT shop that you run into. In fact, we have thousands of customers that we have to support with their own IT departments. So our solutions have to be able to scale beyond what you would find in a typical IT organization.
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley: Flow-Based Network Elasticity in the Cloud
The goal of cloud infrastructure provisioning is to ensure infrastructure elasticity and business agility to cloud users. The expected ROI comes as a result of lower infrastructure costs but also as time savings and better productivity. However, ensuring true application fluidity and high scalability often adds an additional burden to the operations teams as well as incremental costs. To avoid this situation, cloud solution providers need to take a critical but straightforward step by integrating the network in the picture.
In her session at the 11th International Cloud Expo, Pascale Vicat-Blanc, co-founder of Lyatiss, will review the four key requirements that this implies.
Galaxy – the Cloud-Based Platform of Platforms
In his General Session, Pacific Controls’ Executive Chairman Dilip Rahulan discusses Galaxy, the end-to-end platform that Pacific Controls has delivered to the global market, where smart grid and the building infrastructure are managed in real time delivering integrated ERP.
Dilip Rahulan is Executive Chairman of Pacific Controls, one of the leading information and communication technology (ICT) enabled machine-to-machine (M2M) automation and control solutions providers globally.
DMTF Releases Specification for Simplifying Cloud Infrastructure Management
The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), the organization bringing the IT industry together to collaborate on systems management standards development, validation, promotion and adoption, today announced the release of the new Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI) specification. The new specification standardizes interactions between cloud environments to achieve interoperable cloud infrastructure management between service providers and their consumers and developers, enabling users to manage their cloud infrastructure use easily and without complexity.
Cloud computing allows customers to improve the efficiency, availability and flexibility of their IT systems over time. As companies have adopted cloud computing, vendors have embraced the need to provide interoperability between enterprise computing and cloud services. DMTF developed CIMI as a self-service interface for infrastructure clouds, allowing users to dynamically provision, configure and administer their cloud usage with a high-level interface that greatly simplifies cloud systems management.
“The CIMI standard is a critical piece for cloud infrastructure management because it alleviates complexity while improving flexibility, portability and security,” said Winston Bumpus, Chairman of the Board, DMTF. “With the release of the CIMI v1.0 specification, DMTF offers a well-rounded, industry-wide solution for simplifying cloud infrastructure management.”
Today’s release includes two components:
- Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface – (CIMI) Model and REST
Interface over HTTP Specification - Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface – (CIMI) Primer
The CIMI specification is the centerpiece of DMTF’s Cloud Management Initiative, and is the first standard created by the Cloud Management Working Group (CMWG). DMTF’s Cloud Management Initiative includes contributions from additional working groups including the Cloud Auditing Data Federation Working Group (CADF WG), the Network Services Management Working Group (NSM WG), the Software License Management (SLM) Incubator and the System Virtualization, Partitioning, and Clustering Working Group (SVPC WG). Additional announcements are expected from DMTF cloud-related working groups early next year.
DMTF working groups and incubators collaborate with a number of industry organizations in an effort to unify their cloud management initiatives. These organizations include the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA), the China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI), the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the Open Grid Forum (OGF), the Object Management Group (OMG), The Open Group (TOG), the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), the Global Inter-Cloud Technology Forum (GICTF) and the TeleManagement Forum (TMF).
For additional information on DMTF’s cloud efforts, including specifications, whitepapers and charters, visit www.dmtf.org/cloud.
