“Sensitive data prevents organizations from moving to the public cloud and we obviate that issue through our software,” stated David Canellos, President and CEO of PerspecSys, 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.
Private Cloud Computing Solutions
“We build a piece of software that allows you to build your own private cloud solution, and we have open source components that we use. We were designed and built by the same to guys who actually built Amazon EC2,” explained Reza Malekzadeh, Vice President of Marketing & Sales at Nimbula, 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.
Oops! Twitter Down for… What “Reason”?
Amusing glitch shows a programmer’s well-intentioned variable substitution. I think I’ll tweet about this. No, wait…. Um, if I can’t tweet about it it’s like it didn’t happen!
Genomics Plus Big Data Leveraged for Customized Pediatric Cancer Treatment
Dell is providing computing power for two research centers to try and treat a particular form of pediatric cancer based on each child’s specific genetic profile. This diagram from a GigaOm post on the intersection of medicine and big data shows what is being attempted.
Read the full post for other insights.
This Week in Cloud
A majority of companies reported that they are adding new types of skills and roles to their IT departments to handle their growing cloud requirements, according to this Forbes article. The data comes from a recent CompTIA survey which revealed the current skills that are in demand include private cloud developers and administrators, cloud architects, departmental liaisons, integration specialists, and compliance specialists.
VMWare has acquired Nicira, a privately held company known for its software defined networking technology for $1.26 billion, according to this TechCrunch article. Nicira’s open-source software creates a layer of abstraction between servers and networking gear, and allows for virtualized pools of networking capability.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Moving Big Data into the Cloud
“We provide the storage infrastructure and the I/O performance and capability,” explained David Clark, Director, Product Marketing SSG at QLogic, 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.
Decommissioning Legacy to Drive Real Clouds, in the Fast Lane
We can probably all agree that the cloud computing service-based model of application delivery has received more than its fair share of hype, over-embellished hyperbole and hyper-cross-talk in the last few years. Surely now then we have come to a new plateau in cloud, i.e., the time for real-world usage, implementation and deployment.
What does the “real cloud” mean?
The real cloud is located in a place where we start actually using the hosted virtualized environments that are available to us so that “working applications” move to the cloud. That would be working applications – as opposed to the cloud merely and simply being viewed as a test and development environment.
Parallels and Dell Make the Microsoft Cloud Easy for Small and Medium Businesses
Dell has a long history of making it easy for customers to get what they need. I remember helping a friend’s father get a new Dell PC at an Austin direct retail shop in 1990. I was amazed at how easy they made it to get up and running. Dell had taken out so much friction of what was then usually a convoluted and long value chain. At Parallels, we pride ourselves on being the hosting and cloud services enablement market leader. We work with service providers to meet the IT needs of small and medium businesses – and just like Dell, we are obsessed with making it easy, with eliminating friction. So when Dell is moving to serve its customers in the cloud, we feel there’s a natural fit. Together, we make it easy for Dell’s business customers to purchase and use the cloud services they need.
In fact, we work so well together that in a matter of weeks, Parallels and Dell were able to deploy Parallels Automation and launch Microsoft Office 365.
Of course, this is only the beginning. Now that Dell has deployed Parallels Automation, it’s easy for them to add more cloud services. Parallels Automation software includes delivery capabilities for Microsoft applications and other services that have been certified with the Application Packaging Standard (APS), a “pluggable” approach to enabling hosted and cloud applications and services. With over 400 cloud applications for Dell to choose from and more being added every day, Dell will be able to give their customers exactly what they need for their business.
Try it out and let me know what you think.
Birger Steen
CEO Parallels
b@parallels.com
Teenagers leaving businesses behind in the cloud?
27th July 2012
In the world of big business, what can a teenager’s opinion towards consumer share and sync services tell us about how we should approach the cloud adoption process in the workplace? A lot more than you think, according to iTrinegy’s Debra Wilkins.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Consuming Security as a Cloud-Based Service
“We help you see what’s exposed on your public-facing infrastructure, and then we help you secure, step-by-step, in a self-service type of approach,” explained Zohar Alon, CEO & Co-Founder of Dome9 Security, 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.