“We started in the high-performance computing area and have been focusing on Big Data for a while,” stated Michael King, Director of Cloud Content & Media at DataDirect Networks, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 10th International Cloud Expo, held June 11-14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5–8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Conan Video Highlights Samsung Versus Apple With a Bit of Humor
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Cloud Research — Recent Reports
IDC Health Insights Releases MarketScape Report on Top U.S. Care Management Vendors for Healthcare Payers
IDC Health Insights released a new MarketScape report that evaluates the top nine U.S. Care Management vendors for healthcare payers. The comprehensive study, IDC MarketScape: U.S. Care Management 2012 Vendor Assessment for Healthcare Payers (Doc #HI235803), evaluates the post-reform era market landscape and profiles the following vendors: Casenet, Inc., Click4care, Inc., DST Health Solutions, Landacorp, IkaSystems, Medecision, McKesson, TriZetto, and ZeOmega.
The IDC Health Insights report found the care management market will be a highly volatile and evolving market through at least 2015. As vendors position for new opportunities in the post-reform era, there will be an unprecedented expansion of functionality and services. Key solution investments include embedded and integrated analytics, provider and consumer engagement strategies and technologies, real time triggers and alerts, integration of clinical data, and multi-platform channel delivery including cloud and iPad initiatives.
Digital River’s New White Paper Helps Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Address Complex Global Recycling and Copyright Regulations
Digital River released its latest white paper, Regulatory Fee Management: Navigating the Complex World of Global Compliance. The white paper offers consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers insights into the complicated recycling and copyright regulations that govern the manufacture, use and end-of-life handling of electronics and electric devices. The paper also helps manufacturers weigh some of the important considerations that go into building and maintaining a successful compliance management solution. A complimentary copy of the white paper is available for free download.
Gartner on SAP Implementation: Accenture in Leaders Quadrant
Accenture has been positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant in Gartner Inc.’s recently published “Magic Quadrant for SAP Implementation Service Providers, North America.”
Gartner assessed 20 of the leading service providers for the Magic Quadrant, which focused on the implementation services of SAP solutions for each company across consulting, system integration and implementation in North America.
Research and Markets: Mobile Content Market – Size, Share, Trends And Forecasts 2011 – 2017
The mobile content industry comprises of mobile games, mobile music and mobile video. In the overall mobile content industry, mobile games were the largest market segment with a revenue share of 53.3% in 2011. The segment will further consolidate its position with 61.7% market share in 2017. The global mobile games market was worth USD 3.5 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach USD 11.4 billion in 2017 with a CAGR of 21.9% from 2011 to 2017.
Research and Markets: Cloud Messaging Market Trends, 2011-2014
This report presents the results of a detailed research program into preferences and plans for cloud-based messaging and related capabilities among North American organizations over the period 2011-2014. It focuses on various types of cloud messaging-related capabilities, including complete messaging services, messaging security services and archiving services, among others.
“Cloud Messaging Market Trends, 2011-2014”
Storage Gets Smarter with Release of IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 5.1
Delivering on its vision of integrating hardware and software product lines to improve efficiencies wherever possible across its solutions portfolio, IBM announced several new features and capabilities for its already industry-leading Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) product line. A new GUI interface, additional NAS and cloud support, enhanced reporting, tiering optimization along with simplified packaging and pricing are welcome additions. With the release and general availability of TPC 5.1, EMA believes IBM has made significant strides in fulfilling its promise to simplify storage resource management and lower the total cost of storage.
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/764x6s/storage_gets_smart
Latency Will Make or Break the Cloud Economy
The holy grail of having anywhere, anytime access to services in the cloud is becoming a reality. Ubiquitous broadband, both fixed and mobile, will be the enabler of this transformation in the way we use computing resources. This report examines why latency rather than bandwidth dominates the user experience, and what opportunities this presents for operators to differentiate themselves.
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8m82lm/latency_will_make
Cloud People in the News This Week (August 10, 2012)
Sorenson Media Promotes Video Transcoding Veteran Mitchell Holyoak to Head of Salt Lake City Office
Sorenson Media appointed Mitchell Holyoak, director of software development, as head of the company’s Salt Lake City office. In conjunction with his elevated managerial role, Holyoak will oversee the full Sorenson Squeeze and Squeeze Server development teams.
As head of the Salt Lake office, Holyoak brings more than 15 years of digital video software development to his role, including leadership in video encoding and decoding, video streaming, video conferencing, and video instruction software. Beginning with the launch of the original version of Sorenson Squeeze, Holyoak’s expertise has been instrumental in developing the industry’s gold-standard video encoding application, Sorenson Squeeze, and the company’s enterprise-grade video encoding solution, Squeeze Server.
ProfitBricks Appoints William Toll VP of Marketing, Clint Miller VP of Sales
ProfitBricks, the cloud computing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider, announced today the appointment of web hosting and Internet infrastructure industry veteran William Toll as Vice President of Marketing and Clint Miller as Vice President of Sales.
As the vice president of marketing at ProfitBricks, Toll will oversee the company’s North American marketing programs. Miller will leverage his twenty-five years of sales experience at hosting, content delivery and infrastructure technology companies to lead the North and South American sales team.
CareCloud Appoints Edwin Miller VP of Product Management
CareCloud, a provider of web-based practice management, electronic healthcare record (EHR), revenue cycle management and medical billing software and services, has hired Edwin Miller as its new Vice President of Product Management. In his new role, Mr. Miller will oversee all development of CareCloud’s existing EHR and forthcoming mobile offerings for the physician practice market. He brings decades of product development and engineering experience to CareCloud, most recently through leadership positions at Practice Fusion and athenahealth.
Avoiding Turbulence in the Cloud
According to a recent survey by the Ponemon Institute, many agencies still have significant
reservations about moving essential information and functions to the public cloud. According
to the poll, nearly half of respondents indicated that worries about security were the primary
factor keeping them from fully migrating to the cloud.
Oracle’s Acquisition of Xsigo: The Drive to Integrated Stacks
Network management is important to cloud computing success. Software defined networks and data center fabrics all help in helping manage cloud initiatives better.
Acquisitions in the cloud computing space have been picking up recently as technology companies look to offer end-to-end solutions. It also shows that for large companies, innovation through acquisition is becoming more popular as a way to adapt to changing technology trends. Cloud acquisitions typically fall into the Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) category.
Oracle has been a voracious cloud acquirer with a number of SaaS acquisitions like RightNow, Taleo and Vitrue. SAP has also been adding to their SaaS portfolio with purchases of Ariba and SuccessFactors. IBM, which typically claims that it is not in the “application” space, has been adding to its SaaS portfolio with business analytics solutions like DemandTec and Emptoris. SaaS solutions are a great way to open cloud markets to large technology companies as the subscription model allows a low entry point for new customers.
Oracle Exalogic 2.0 adds cloud management feature
By Tony Baer, Prinicpal Analyst, Ovum Enterprise Solutions
Summary
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud 2.0 (“Exalogic”) adds features that will make the system better suited for its role as a cloud deployment target. It adds server virtualisation capabilities that accelerate provisioning and deliver the expected elasticity.
A new lightweight virtualisation engine optimised for Oracle workloads improves application performance. This comes atop incremental enhancements to existing features such as Oracle Exabus.
The importance of the 2.0 release is not necessarily in the individual improvements, but rather in how they help the system live up to its original “elastic cloud” branding.
So far, Oracle has successfully sold Exalogic to its installed base, primarily as the middleware complement to the Exadata database platform and as the infrastructure for its business applications.
Oracle has promoted the “soft” business benefits, such as improved responsiveness and efficiency that comes from its engineered systems, but it …
"Dallas" & The Cloud Drive – Wow!
The words “cloud drive” in the revival of “Dallas” jumped screaming from my TV screen. Said drive was mentioned twice in the season’s recent finale, and once the week prior. The prop was used, among other things, to send a guy to jail, charged with murder (among other things).
No specific product was mentioned, but as the storyline had video that was said to be transmitted automatically from a character’s phone to other devices, I’ll assume the character used Apple’s iCloud.
In any case, this must be the fastest transition ever for an IT industry term to make that leap from geek reporting to big-time Hollywood production. (And yes, I’m putting the “Dallas” revival in the latter category, as it has apparently drawn pretty strong ratings from its location on TNT, and will definitely be back in January.)
I was further astonished that cloud computing made it onto a self-consciously retro show like this “Dallas” revival, which took pains to recreate the original show opening, featured almost every key actor still alive from when the original ended more than 20 years ago, and had a truly merciful lack of whiz-bang technology featured throughout the show.
Oh yes, an email played a key role in driving the plot. But hey, we had email in the 80s. And there was some texting. But I don’t recall Facebook being mentioned, or Google, or YouTube. No ostentatious display of WiFi. No “gesture” interface, no biometric security, no yammering about pods and pads.
A thumb drive seemed to be the most leading-edge tech on the show – until that initial, breathtaking mention of the “cloud drive.”
I mean, one of the show’s main plot devices was the use of an old-fashioned, sleazy Private Eye poking his nose into things, for crying out loud. Another key plot twist involved a microphone strategically placed on one of the character’s bodies and what looked like a Soviet-era recording device.
And then – a “cloud drive.” Wow.
I count “Dallas” as one of my guilty pleasures, and can seriously say that JR Ewing, as created by Larry Hagman is one of the two or three greatest characters in the history of television. Mr. Hagman is 80 years old now, and has had some serious health scares in real life. Without him, the show simply cannot exist.
So come to think of it: How great is it, that even today in 2012, acting, an ancient human talent, can still trump technology?
Oh, rule you cloud drive! Sing your siren song! Dance your delirious dance! But remember, in the end, you just can’t beat JR. Nobody can.
Getting Smart About Webhosting Bundles (Guest Blog)
Parallels is happy to present a guest blog post from Infratel CEO, Bryan Goode. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
All Add-Ons Are Not Created the Same
It is now common to hear industry leaders urge hosting companies to bundle additional services with hosting packages. Research has consistently shown that adding new services to hosting plans increases average revenue per user [ARPU] and has a positive effect on customer churn rates.
But wait, you say – where do I start? How do I decide what services to bundle with my hosting packages? Which add-ons best help me increase ARPU and reduce churn?
At Infratel, we believe that you should consider two criteria when deciding which add-ons to include in a bundle:
- 1) Is this add-on related to the main, anchor product in my hosting plan?
- 2) Is this add-on relevant to customers who buy my hosting plans?
With these criteria in mind, we’re pleased to announce Infratel ClickConnect for Websites, the ideal add-on for webhosting bundles.
Infratel ClickConnect for Websites is built specifically to be bundled with webhosting plans and allows your users to add ‘Click to Call’ functionality to a site in 30 seconds or less – helping your small business users convert more website visitors into customers!
To make the opportunity even better, Infratel ClickConnect is the entryway into additional telephony services for your customers.
Recent research shows that small businesses truly need a professional phone presence and fewer than 30% of your small business webhosting users have this type of a presence – representing a huge untapped market for the webhosting industry.
Get started today bundling Infratel ClickConnect for Websites with your webhosting plans. To celebrate the Plesk 11 launch, for a limited time we’re offering you a FREE subscription for your own use when you bundle Infratel ClickConnect for Websites with your webhosting plans. Click here to contact us today!
Bryan Goode
Applications in the Cloud
“We have a silo-free development, a runtime environment that allows you to build new applications in the cloud,” noted Ash Massoudi, CEO of NextAxiom Technology, in this interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at our Times Square Studio in New York City.
Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley, November 5-8, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world