“Today we announced the availability of our HPC cloud product, which is the next part of our cloud roadmap,” stated Robert Miggins, Senior VP, Business Development at PEER 1 Hosting, 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.
How the Cloud Will Displace Human Trust
We are witnessing the large-scale industrialization of the data center, owned and operated by the ICT operators who specialize in that task, with security technologies in the hands of the end user to remove any need to trust their human operators.
The traditional “protect the perimeter” model of enterprise data security, one where layers of security are added around enterprise data, access to which is limited to trusted insiders, clearly has challenges in a cloud model when outsiders (the folks running the cloud) have access to all your data and can monitor everything that you do in their environment.
The solution is not, as some would tell you in the security profession, better certification of cloud providers and external vetting of the human operators. Certification has a role but the ultimate answer will be the invention of technologies that completely remove the need for trusting the human operators.
Cloud Computing: Taking the Message of Restore to the Cloud
“We launched a product called ShadowProtect. It takes backup snapshots every 15 minutes and giving the customer those recovery points for customers to decide when and where they want to do that restore,” explained Matt Urmston, Product Manager at StorageCraft, 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.
eMix integrates PACSGEAR API to Enable Medical Image Sharing
PACSGEAR today announced an agreement with eMix, a cloud-based virtualized electronic medical information exchange, to participate in the Open Image Exchange, a cloud-based network designed to securely share medical images and information. PACSGEAR will incorporate the application programming interface (API) from eMix to upload images and reports for cloud-based sharing and storage.
“We are pleased to have eMix join the network,” said Eli Rapaich, PACSGEAR’s CEO. “The success of the Open Image Exchange continues to be based on incorporating open APIs, which improves access to medical images and other health information,” Rapaich said.
“Being part of the Open Image Exchange improves access between healthcare institutions, physicians, and patients,” said Florent Saint-Clair, eMix general manager. “Our anytime, anywhere approach to securely sending patient information with eMix has now been adopted by over 450 customers. Open Image Exchange broadens our ability to connect with even great numbers of customers.”
Box Gets a $125 Million Round
Box, the cloud storage and file-sharing start-up, has gotten a massive $125 million E round. That makes roughly $284 million since Box started in 2005.
Most of the new money – $100 million, in fact – is coming from General Atlantic, which is also contributing one of the operating partners, former GE CIO Gary Reiner, to the Box board. Reiner is also on HP’s board.
It’s believed Box was valued at $1.2 billion as the Wall Street Journal suggested last week. It’s expected to go public next year, but could delay to burnish its P&L.
Current Box investors Bessemer Venture Partners, DFJ Growth, New Enterprise Associates, SAP Ventures and Scale Venture Partners, as well as new investor Social+Capital Partnership also kicked in. All Things Digital thinks there are also two undisclosed institutional investors.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: The Decentralized Cloud
“We are at Cloud Expo to talk about how people can use the cloud for data backup, for better data protection in a little bit of a different way,” noted Margaret Dawson, VP of Product Management & Marketing at Symform, 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.
Convert Local Storage to Cloud Storage
There are many ways to convert local storage to cloud storage. For small data size, some will just do a simple drag and drop upload. For medium data size, some will setup two-way sync to cloud storage.
For large data set, above methods are not
Savvis to Buy Ciber Global ITO Business
Savvis and Ciber have entered into an agreement under which Savvis will purchase certain assets of Ciber’s global IT Outsourcing (ITO) business for $7 million in cash at the time of closing, plus additional future consideration in the form of a cash earn-out payment based on results through December 2013.
According to Jim Ousley, CEO of Savvis and president of CenturyLink’s Enterprise Markets Group, “The acquisition of Ciber’s global ITO business will complement Savvis’ existing ITO assets by expanding the organization’s capabilities for application management services and help desk support.”
For VMware and Nicira, software trumps hardware
By David Krozier, Principal Analyst, Network Infrastructure Practice
On July 23 VMware, the server virtualisation powerhouse, agreed to acquire software-defined networking pioneer Nicira for $1.26bn; both parties expect the transaction to close in 2012.
VMware, a subsidiary of EMC, expects the acquisition to advance its progress towards programmatic control of virtualised compute, storage, and network resources – what it calls software-defined data centres.
Although Nicira’s current annual revenues are only in the $10m range, its technology complements VMware’s cloud strategy and will allow the combined entity to attack data networks with a comprehensive software-based cloud solution that is completely hardware-agnostic.
The acquisition certainly complicates the relationship between EMC, VMware, and longtime ally Cisco in providing virtualised infrastructure for cloud data centres.
While the companies have been long-term partners they also compete in the market, and Ovum expects the acquisition will end up polarising the EMC and Cisco camps …
SaaSID partners with EMC Greenplum
Cloud application auditing and security company, SaaSID, has announced its partnership with big data and business analytics company, EMC Greenplum.
EMC is a global leader in cloud computing, enabling the world’s largest organisations to store, manage, protect and analyse their information: transforming their operations. In July 2010, EMC acquired Greenplum, a vendor of database technology that is optimised for large scale data warehousing and business analytics.
SaaSID’s software provides organisations with a simple way of provisioning, controlling and reporting on cloud-based application use, to extend corporate information security, identity management and governance to the browser. All user interaction with applications managed by SaaSID is provided in a detailed audit trail, to help organisations to maintain regulatory compliance when they adopt cloud-based applications.