Actuate Corporation has announced an alliance with DataStax, the commercial leader in Apache Cassandra™. The partnership will make it easier for IT departments to organize and analyze data from Big Data workloads and traditional data sources. This approach will accelerate time to insight for business decision makers.
Both companies offer commercial products and services to support specific open source projects. Actuate supports, enhances and scales BIRT with ActuateOne to deliver business and consumer insights to the desktop and to touch devices. DataStax Enterprise (DSE) combines the performance of Cassandra with analytics powered by Apache Hadoop and enterprise search with Apache Solr, creating a smartly integrated, Big Data platform.
Ponemon study: trends with transferring data to the cloud
A new report from Ponemon Institute has shown that 82% of companies have already transferred, or plan to transfer confidential data into the cloud.
The report, entitled ‘Encryption in the Cloud’ and sponsored by security experts Thales, aims to examine current trends and perceptions with storing sensitive information in the cloud.
Broken down, the survey of over 4000 IT professionals across five continents revealed that 49% of respondents had already overseen a transfer of data to the cloud; 33% were “likely over the next 24 months” to migrate; and 19% replied that they didn’t have any plans to move.
Similarly, there is an intriguing balance with regard to liability for secure confidential data in the cloud.
According to the survey, more IT professionals believed that it was the job of the cloud provider (44%) than the consumer (30%) for liability, but could it be argued that these numbers are …
Kaazing Announces Private PaaS
Kaazing announced the availability of a new Platform as a Service, offering the fastest, most reliable, and most efficient mobile Web experience. Here’s a quote from the press release:
The Kaazing Private PaaS is a web-enabled full-duplex, real-time data solution based on the new HTML5 WebSocket standard. It is a fully managed PaaS solution that provides companies with the freedom to communicate any data, at any time, to any device, anywhere using their client technology of choice – JS, Java, Flash, .NET/Silverlight, and others. With Kaazing’s Private PaaS, companies can run a robust and secure enterprise grade and full-duplex real-time data service in the Cloud virtually instantaneously without any infrastructure investment, setup, or IT management.
VCOPs – VMware’s Move into Cloud Monitoring
Is VMware slowly becoming the new Oracle? That was the question being asked after the backlash to their initial vRAM licensing model at the launch of vSphere 5. With VMware’s somewhat quick retraction, it was ensured that any unsavoury Larry Ellison comparisons were quickly put to bed. Despite this it was still a signal of intent and an indication of VMware’s recognition of its ever growing influence and clout. Now as VMware make serious manoeuvers into the PaaS space, a VMware based Cloud monitoring solution is a must. So with this in mind what is to be made of the huge marketing and push for their customers to adopt their VM monitoring tool vCenter Operations 5.0?
#London2012 Olympics test the cloud out
This year, the London Olympics Committee used cloud computing muscle to simulate the predicted traffic that would hit its servers during the games.
Engineers spent six months running scenarios of swarms and spikes against the official Olympic websites and mobile apps. SOASTA, an American company, employed the cloud power of Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure to simulate both patterns of individual users and business applications.
Cloud services have been able to instantly access a vast amount of virtual servers from anywhere on the globe. SOASTA provided results to assured organisers that their servers would survive hits from up to 1 billion people over the 17 days that the games are scheduled.
What they didn’t count on was the opposite effect – that the Olympic Games might take down the cloud.
On July 26 the Dublin-based Microsoft Azure cloud went down for about the length of the new Batman movie. No …
The State of Cloud Computing
In this Cloud Expo Power Panel moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan in our Times Square studio, Ash Massoudi, CEO at NextAxiom Technology; Henry Fastert, Chief Technologist & Managing Partner at SHI International; Allyson Klein, Director of Leadership Marketing at Intel and Technical Advisor to the Open Data Center Alliance; and Andy Schroepfer, Vice President of Strategy at Rackspace Hosting discuss “The State of Cloud Computing June 2012.”
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.
What’s Driving Big Data – and Why Now?
In this Big Data Power Panel at the 10th International Cloud Expo, moderated by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, Govind Rangasamy, Director of Product Management at Eucalyptus Systems; Kevin Brown; CEO of Coraid, Inc.; Christos Tryfonas, CTO and Co-Founder of Cetas; and Max Riggsbee, CMO and VP of Products for WhipTail, discussed such topics as: Big Data has existed since the early days of computing; why, then, do you think there is such an industry buzz around it right now? How is Big Data impacting storage and networking architecture in data centers? How about the intersection of Big Data Analytics and Cloud Computing – how big a sector is that and why? What’s the difference between Big Data and Fast Data?
Google Ventures Backs DocuSign
DocuSign announced today that Google Ventures has joined in the company’s most recent financing round, bringing the total Series D funding to $55.7 million. Google Ventures joins investment lead Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, along with Accel Partners, Comcast Ventures, SAP Ventures, and a large global institutional investor in this round. The company will use the funds to accelerate growth of the DocuSign Global Network via increased customer-focused R&D, deeper vertical industry solutions, and faster international expansion.
DocuSign’s secure, cloud-based platform helps consumers and businesses of all sizes and industries to complete transactions faster by eliminating the hassles, costs, and lack of security inherent in printing, faxing, scanning, and overnighting documents to capture information, payments and signatures. Companies use DocuSign to create better customer experiences and save money by automating and streamlining their business processes.
“The investment by Google Ventures highlights DocuSign’s value as a tech disruptor across the web and mobile platforms, from consumers to global enterprises,” said Keith Krach, DocuSign chairman and CEO. “DocuSign has become the global standard for eSignature by building a viral network of more than 20 million users that attracts 60,000 new users every day.”
“Electronic signatures are being rapidly adopted by enterprises, small businesses and consumers worldwide due to their convenience, security and ease of use,” said Karim Faris, partner, Google Ventures. “DocuSign’s market momentum, deep technology and strong team attracted us to them and we are excited to be working with the company as they scale their business worldwide extending their reach to hundreds millions of consumers.”
Global enterprises, business departments, individual professionals and consumers are standardizing on DocuSign, with 60,000 new users joining the DocuSign Global Network every day. Today, that network includes 20 million users who have DocuSigned more than 150 million documents in 188 countries – including employees at 90 percent of the Fortune 500. DocuSign is used to finish business faster across nearly every industry – from financial services, insurance, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, communications, real estate, consumer goods to higher education and others – as well every business department, including sales, finance, operations, procurement, HR/staffing, legal, and customer support.
Infosys Launches Cloud Ecosystem Hub
Infosys on Tuesday launched the Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub. It enables enterprises to create, adopt and govern cloud services across the ecosystem. Businesses can now accelerate time-to-market of Cloud services by up to 40 percent, improve productivity by up to 20 percent and achieve cost-savings of up to 30 percent.
According to Daryl C. Plummer, Group Vice President and Chief Gartner Fellow: “As hybrid Cloud ecosystems are a reality today, there is a need for enterprises to work with Cloud services brokers for smartly assessing and brokering Cloud services. To truly unlock the challenges of managing a fragmented IT environment, it would be critical for enterprises to embrace Cloud services brokerages.”
Accedian Updates MetroNID and MetroNODE 10GE Solutions
Accedian Networks today announced the release of its Version 5.5 software, which is now available on its MetroNID® and MetroNODE 10GE™ solutions.
This latest release embedded in Accedian’s MetroNID and MetroNODE 10GE solutions enables operators to perform Y.1564 testing with multiple simultaneous flows from a single device directly from the cell site. By using multiple flows to different destinations, service providers can test different services at the same time and thereby save time, money and OPEX.
The addition of TWAMP-Lite as a second Layer 3 testing option provides further flexibility to the operators and allows Layer 3 performance monitoring with any standards compliant monitoring tools.
“This release validates our leadership position in the market and affirms our commitment to continually be bold and innovative,” said Patrick Ostiguy, CEO of Accedian Networks. “As consumers insatiable demand for all things mobile continues to put pressure on the network, and as carrier Ethernet is the technology of choice for mobile operators and service providers, we are pleased to deliver the most innovative and effective solution to meet, and exceed, the needs of our global customers.”
