SYS-CON Events announced today that Lyatiss, an innovative Cloud network software company, 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.
At Lyatiss we are changing the way users leverage the power of Cloud Infrastructure as a Service by drastically improving their experience, generating outstanding performance and stimulating exceptional creativity. We are an innovative Cloud network software company with deep engineering roots and a revolutionary approach to Cloud computing and networking. Our powerful and unique software-defined networking (SDN) solutions, based on our CloudWeaver product line, are at the forefront of innovation, providing superior and intelligent infrastructure control and agility.
Cloud Computing: Clustrix Claims New Cloud Economics for Big Data Apps
Clustrix, the scale-out SQL database for Big Data apps, has new high-performance widgetry that’s supposed to deliver new cloud economics while addressing the real-time needs of customers building applications at the intersection of Big Data, the cloud and agile development.
The start-up has released a high-performance SQL DataBase-as-a-Service (DBaaS) that extends the database’s scalability, performance and availability to the cloud. It comes with simple, transparent pricing with no meters or limits on transactions, data size or number of users.
Does Cloud Matter?
What to do, what to do, what to do? I write about cloud computing for a living, but wonder how effective that can be.
Shall I create a 10-point list of what you need to know as you move to the cloud? Oh, there are already several out there? And they don’t tell you anything you don’t already know? Check.
Shall I talk about cloud myths and why you should destroy them? No, already wrote about that – and the only myth is that there are myths.
Shall I write a sneering piece about the superiority of the iPhone and iPad? Well, it turns out plenty of people specialize in this. Or maybe take the contrarian view that Android will rule in the long run? Hmm, there are many writers taking this view as well.
Maybe I’ll write one of those Hitler parrody videos. Nah, I’m just not that funny, and find Hitler to be a delicate, even unfunny, topic.
What to do, what to do, what to do? I know, how about a piece that claims the cloud is the least important thing about cloud computing? Because I believe this to be true.
You know, “Does Cloud Matter?”
Cloud computing is routinely described as transformational (something of which I’m guilty, too). It already exists in semi-massive amounts, assuming its heavy background use by the big email hosts (yahoo, google, msn, even aol), the big online stores (amazon, ebay, and maybe every department store and speciality merchant in the world today), and the big social sites (especially facebook). It’s grown enough in just a few years to support $4 billion in annual VMware revenue, and has created a nice-sized industry (witness Cloud Expo exhibitors, for example).
But as the line in the movie goes, “it’s just a man on a horse.” Cloud is not a new paradigm so much as a (vastly) expanded use of our networks, including the Internet. I remember, as the Barcelona Olympics opened in 1992, talking with writer and analyst friends of mine about how 90% of the PCs in the United States were still not networked – and the US was the technology-adoption leader in those days.
Two decades later, as the London Olympics loom, every device you use might be hooked up to at three or four networks (Internet, LAN, bluetooth, and telco). But you still as if there aren’t enough hours in the day, you aren’t really better informed about the important stuff (how many people had radios in the office back when), and the real, analog arrow fired over the Barcelona cauldron in 1992 to light the Olympic torch will always be the coolest opening ever.
Fundamentally speaking, the cloud changes nothing. The Internet changed nothing. But if you’re not up to speed and doing everything you can to get your private/public/hybrid strategy straight, your PaaS in place, and the rest of your XaaS plan designed if not deployed, then you’ll need to read some of those “10-point” articles I so baldly dismissed earlier.
Because if for no other reasons than keeping up with the Jones’s, cloud matters.
Vyatta to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Vyatta, the leader in software-based networking for virtual and cloud environments, 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.
Vyatta is disrupting the networking industry by delivering a software-based network operating system that leverages cost-effective x86 servers as well as common virtualization and cloud computing platforms. Vyatta software provides a complete enterprise-class routing and security suite capable of uniquely addressing the next-generation infrastructure requirements of flexibility, on-demand delivery and platform independence. Thousands of physical and virtual infrastructures around the world, from small enterprise to Fortune 500 customers, are connected and protected by Vyatta.
Adaptive Computing Named “Silver Sponsor” of Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Adaptive Computing, the largest provider of cloud management and High-Performance Computing (HPC) workload management software, has been named “Silver Sponsor” of 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.
Adaptive Computing is the largest provider of High-Performance Computing (HPC) workload management software and manages the world’s largest cloud computing environment with Moab, a self-optimizing dynamic cloud management solution and HPC workload management system. Moab®, a patented multi-dimensional intelligence engine, delivers policy-based governance, allowing customers to consolidate and virtualize resources, allocate and manage applications, optimize service levels and reduce operational costs. Adaptive Computing offers a portfolio of Moab cloud management and Moab HPC workload management products and services that accelerate, automate, and self-optimize IT workloads, resources, and services in large, complex heterogeneous computing environments such as HPC, data centers and cloud.
Has Cloud Computing Matured? (Infographic)
Simplify Hybrid Cloud Deployments with Overlay Networking
IT networks have reached a juncture where they must transition from static, host-centric, vLAN centric infrastructures, to modern, efficient programmable network fabrics that allow enterprises to leverage capacity on demand. They must also have the ability to move virtual machine (VM) workloads within the data center, between data centers, and into the external cloud. However, this VM mobility places new requirements on data center networks to efficiently support multi-tenant environments.
As organizations make the shift from a virtualization-driven data center toward an infrastructure designed for cloud computing, they must shift their focus to application consolidation at scale for multiple customers in multi-tenant data centers. While virtualization has reduced the cost and time required to deploy a new application from weeks to minutes, driving costs down from thousands of dollars to a few hundred, reconfiguring the network for a new or migrated virtual workload still takes approximately a week and can cost thousands of dollars.
dbShards to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that CodeFutures Corporation, the company behind dbShards, 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.
CodeFutures Corporation, the company behind dbShards, is a leading supplier of database performance tools that reduce the time and effort required to develop database applications and dramatically increase deployed database scalability and performance.
dbShards economically scales Big Data, high transaction volume databases using database sharding, the database scalability architecture used by Internet leaders such as Flickr, YouTube, and Google. Going beyond traditional Data Warehouse Appliances, dbShards dramatically improves the response times and scalability of OLTP databases, online services and Software as a Service applications, and any database application with many concurrent users – both in cloud environments or running on cost-effective commodity hardware.
AppNeta Enhances Web Application Performance Monitoring
AppNeta today announced the launch of PathView Cloud with AppView Web for insight into Web application performance for end users. PathView Cloud automatically delivers Web performance visibility from the perspective of remote enterprise users, and also delivers network performance insight.
“When the Electronic Health Record (EHR) applications don’t perform well, end users get frustrated, adoption decreases, and the value of the application is never realized,” said Bob Dupuis, Director, Technical Services, Arcadia Solutions. “By using PathView Cloud with AppView Web as part of our EHR optimization services we can quickly determine root cause and resolution to performance problems. AppView Web also enables our managed services team to proactively manage EHR infrastructures, increasing physician satisfaction and adoption. This results in more meaningful use of the critical application.”
As more and more organizations transition to Web-based technology for business critical applications, it is necessary for IT teams to have 24/7 visibility from the end user’s perspective, and be able to understand and troubleshoot performance issues wherever they are occurring in the network or the application. When critical business applications such as CRM systems, hosted email, collaboration tools or healthcare and financial record services stop working, so do the employees.
“Poor end-user performance of critical Web applications like Netsuite, Salesforce.com, Google Apps and hosted email seriously disrupts business operations,” said Jim Melvin, CEO of AppNeta. “Unlike traditional Web performance tools available today, PathView Cloud with AppView Web enables you to see the performance of these applications within your own network and how they are impacting service delivery to your end users.”
With the newest AppView Web enhancements, PathView Cloud now provides a continuous view of the actual application performance with unprecedented network performance insight. This integrated performance visibility enables IT operations teams to monitor and troubleshoot performance of Web applications more quickly and easily than ever before. With a simple click within the PathView Cloud reporting interface, users can drill down from the overall performance of their Web application into the specific application steps and a detailed view of the Web pages involved to understand the cause of poor performance. AppView Web is compatible with Web applications that require authentication and performs multi-step scripted actions to accurately assess the application performance experienced by the user.
Amplidata to Exhibit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
SYS-CON Events announced today that Amplidata, a provider of Optimized Object Storage systems for Big Data, 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.
Amplidata provides Optimized Object Storage systems for Big Data. It enables customers to deploy turnkey large-storage infrastructures that meet the highest reliability and availability requirements at the lowest possible cost.
Amplidata responds to the market’s need by solving the problems traditional technologies face and guarantees ultimate availability on all storage tiers. Leveraging their BitSpread technology, Amplidata enables customers to build highly available storage infrastructures at significantly reduced cost. The company is addressing some of the inherent weaknesses of high capacity disk systems, such as performance, bit error rates, mean time between failures and RAID rebuild times which have not improved sufficiently to keep up with the explosion of digital storage needs.