As an exhibitor at Cloud Expo New York, Jaspersoft is offering special passes to SYS-CON’s 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost-effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence (BI) suite in the world, enabling better decision-making through highly interactive reports, dashboards and analytics. By leading in support for cloud, Big Data, and mobile deployments, Jaspersoft helps its customers deliver on the promise of self-service BI at scale. Leveraging a commercial open source business model and a community of over 275,000 registered members, Jaspersoft’s open source BI software has been downloaded over 16 million times. Jaspersoft production deployments, in excess of 175,000, power 130,000 data-driven applications spanning 15,000 commercial customers. Jaspersoft is privately held and has locations around the world.
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As an exhibitor of Cloud Expo New York, PubNub is offering special passes to SYS-CON’s 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
To obtain this special pass, here is a quick summary of all anyone needs to do – feel free to cut and paste these instructions into any email blast you might be sending out.
PubNub is a blazingly fast cloud-hosted data push service for building real-time web and mobile apps. Hundreds of apps and thousands of developers rely on PubNub for delivering “human-perceptive” real-time experiences that scale to millions of users worldwide. PubNub delivers the infrastructure needed to build amazing MMO games, social apps, business collaborative solutions, and more.
Who’s Winning the High-Speed Connection Race?
If (er, I mean when) you attend Cloud Expo in New York in a couple of weeks, where does your thinking lead you beyond the United States?
If you’re solely focused on a local challenge – whether building and deploying a cloud project or initiative, or selling technology – then perhaps you don’t think much beyond our shores. But given the globalized nature of much of business today, perhaps you have to.
We’re far from the era of ubiquitous, global cloud-computing structures. Hardware bottlenecks, pesky national governments, and sheer distance forestall the day when your real-time global cloud empire may be virtualizing in Johannesburg, mirroring in Doha, and processing data in Sofia and Jakarta to zap to users in Chicago and San Francisco. Nevertheless, a map of the world can be useful in determining your best sources, office locations, investments, and potential new customers.
I’ve endeavored through my research these past 18 months to locate the most dynamic IT (or ICT) nations on the planet.
My initial research focused on raw dynamism – which countries seemed to be accelerating most quickly, even if they were accelerating from a previously very low speed? Using raw economic data, I found places like Bangladesh, Morocco, Senegal, and Ukraine were on a course to emerge from the pack. These were countries that seemed to be doing the most with what they had, even if they don’t have very much.
Since my initial look, I’ve layered in several other economic, technological, and social parameters to locate the countries that not only were doing the most with what they had – which were not only accelerating – but were also making great strides in establishing themselves as ICT powers.
Now, as I prepare for New York, I’ve been looking at bandwidth. I looked at average Internet speeds and access to high-speed connections, then integrated this data into measures of local cost-of-living and income disparity.
Looking at things this way shows South Korea once again leading the world. The remaining Top 10 are Lithuania, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Ukraine, Singapore, Estonia, and Hungary. As we can see, the nations of Central and Eastern Europe are doing a spectacular job of deploying high-speed connnections – and making them accessible to their people.
Regional leaders include Canada, Chile, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Israel, Singapore, South Korea, and South Africa, although there is some disparity amongst the regions themselves.
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EVault Partners with EverGreen Data Continuity to Deliver Disaster Recovery Solutions
EVault, Inc., a Seagate Company, and EverGreen Data Continuity today announced that EverGreen has joined the EVault Partner Program, and will be promoting and selling EVault cloud-connected backup and recovery products and services in the United States. As part of its risk assessment and mitigation service, EverGreen will offer EVault Cloud Disaster Recovery Service (EVault CDR) to further help customers prepare for and respond to disasters and unexpected outages.
EVault CDR is a cloud-based managed service that enables midmarket organizations and enterprise remote or branch offices to securely recover critical systems and data after a disaster. Customers can choose 4, 24 or 48 hour SLAs.
“As a trusted advisor to some of the world’s largest brands and agencies, Evergreen deploys our award-winning Mitigator Business Continuity Management (BCM) software along with our front-end professional services to help customers adequately prepare for any unforeseen event, offering them best-in-class solutions that will meet their needs and mitigate risk,” says Steve Burns, president of EverGreen. “With EVault CDR, we can confidently offer the best disaster recovery service that will help our clients get back to work shortly after a disaster. EVault’s guaranteed SLAs and quality customer service make it a perfect solution for our clients that cannot be without critical systems for an extended period of time.”
All EVault CDR customers work closely with a dedicated, experienced team of EverGreen and EVault DR experts, on call 24/7/365, to guide them through the entire process — from implementation, disaster recovery planning and testing through the execution of system and data recovery processes.
“Building strategic partnerships with industry leaders like EverGreen is critical to EVault’s success,” said Dave Hallmen, vice president of marketing and sales for EVault. “By leveraging EverGreen’s front-line expertise in business continuity coupled with our leadership in the backup and disaster recovery space, together we can help customers mitigate risk, and give them peace of mind that their vital company data is protected at all times.”
Genpact, Ariba Expand Alliance to Deliver Procure-to-Pay Solution
Genpact Limited and Ariba, Inc. today announced that they have expanded their alliance beyond invoice solutions to encompass the full suite of Ariba’s cloud-based collaborative business commerce solutions into Genpact’s source-to-pay offering. Genpact will combine Ariba’s solutions with its comprehensive service offerings to create a new turnkey offering that will enable medium to large enterprises to improve their visibility into the procurement process and drive greater cost savings. The news came during Ariba LIVE Barcelona, the business commerce event of the year.
This collaboration brings to market a powerful services and technology offering that allows enterprises to fully realize the potential of the source-to-pay cycle. Utilizing Genpact’s unique Smart Enterprise Process (SEPSM) methodology, in conjunction with the Ariba’s cloud-based collaborative commerce applications, will give companies access to industry-leading technologies, standardized practices and strong global relationships. Genpact will leverage its global delivery network to support strategic, transactional and operational source-to-pay processes for companies in multiple industries including life sciences, banking and financial services, consumer product goods (CPG), and manufacturing.
The joint solution will provide clients with access to all aspects of the Ariba Collaborative Commerce Platform including:
- Cloud-based applications for spend analytics, eProcurement, eSourcing,
supplier performance management, contract management, working capital
management and eInvoicing; - A community of partners through which they can quickly discover,
qualify, connect, and collaborate with trading partners; and - Capabilities in the form of best practices, community-derived
intelligence and other unique features or services that are only
available to members of the community, such as unique analytics,
preferred financing, and ratings.
“Genpact is excited to expand our alliance with Ariba, as this significantly enhanced offering combines the full range of Ariba’s collaborative commerce solutions with Genpact’s procurement services led by our SEP framework for making business processes much more effective,” said Shantanu Ghosh, senior vice president, Practices, Solutions and Transitions, Genpact. “Our offering not only rapidly reduces the total sourcing and procurement costs, but enables companies to have a high level of visibility and control of their sourcing and procurement process. The combination of these smart processes and smart technologies will result in substantially better business outcomes.”
“Social networks have revolutionized our personal lives, and the technologies underlying them are now helping to transform business,” said Jon Stevens, senior vice president of Global Channels and Alliances, Ariba. “As partners like Genpact recognize, the Ariba Network is an ideal platform through which companies can discover, connect and collaborate with their trading partners and drive process improvements that positively impact their performance and bottom line.”
Genpact employs its unique SEPSM methodology to implement best-in-class practices across sourcing and procurement organizations for both direct and indirect materials. SEPSM is driven by Lean and Six Sigma-based reengineering, analytics, domain expertise, and smart technology execution and delivers 2-5 times higher impact on key business outcomes like reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO), working capital optimization, and availability of material and services. SEPSM provides clear linkages between performance measures, drivers and business outcomes, as well as a clear roadmap for improvements.
Ariba combines industry-leading cloud-based applications with the world’s largest web-based trading community to help companies discover and collaborate with a global network of partners. Using the Ariba® Network, businesses of all sizes can connect to their trading partners anywhere, at any time from any application or device to buy, sell and manage their cash more efficiently and effectively than ever before. Companies around the world use the Ariba Network to simplify inter-enterprise commerce and enhance the results that they deliver.
Online Tech Offers Data Security Scholarship to College Students
Online Tech is awarding two $1,000 scholarships to students interested in pursuing a career in information technology, computer sciences and healthcare information technology. The 2012 Data Security Scholarship will be available for the Fall semester of the 2012-2013 academic year.
Applicants should show an interest in cloud computing, data computing, disaster recovery, colocation and similar topics as it relates to the ever-changing fields of information technology and healthcare IT.
“Online Tech feels strongly about offering the scholarship in order to encourage tomorrow’s technology leaders to pursue higher education in their respective fields,” said April Sage, Online Tech’s Director of Healthcare Vertical and Marketing.
Scholarships awarded by Online Tech will be based on the applicant’s response to one of the following questions:
1. Healthcare: “What do you see as the best technology for improving healthcare and health IT?”
2. Mobile Security: “What do you see as the most serious mobile security threat facing consumers and/or companies and why?”
While the traditional essay submission is one option, Online Tech has also opened up the submissions to take the form of a short, 10-minute video or an infographic complete with a brief explanation.
All interested students can apply on Online Tech’s website by clicking here. Submissions should submitted no later than July 8, 2012. Winners for the award will be announced by August 10, 2012.
Cloud Computing: 10gen Scores $42 Million in Big Data Funding
10gen, which wrote the open source NoSQL MongoDB database, has pulled in $42 million in financing to add to the $31.4 million it’s gotten since it started.
It’s unclear what round this is since it got a $20 million D round last September, but Business Insider heard it was valued at $500 million–$550 million this time through.
The new money is coming mostly from new investor New Enterprise Associates with existing investors Sequoia Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners and Union Square Ventures kicking in.
The company says it means to use the money to develop MongoDB and the MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS) and support its user base and community better. “We want to change the database market, to make MongoDB the best way for companies to build new applications,” said CEO Dwight Merriman, the founder of DoubleClick, in a statement. “Our goal is to give tech teams not only a database that scales to any Big Data level required but also helps developers be productive and more nimble.”
PubNub to Exhibit at Cloud Expo 2012 New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that PubNub, a provider of real-time data push services for web and mobile apps, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 10th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 11–14, 2012, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
PubNub is a blazingly fast cloud-hosted data push service for building real-time web and mobile apps. Hundreds of apps and thousands of developers rely on PubNub for delivering “human-perceptive” real-time experiences that scale to millions of users worldwide. PubNub delivers the infrastructure needed to build amazing MMO games, social apps, business collaborative solutions, and more.
Cloud Computing: GoGrid Private Cloud Now Available in Amsterdam
GoGrid on Tuesday announced the availability of its Private Cloud service in the company’s newest data center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. “We’re excited to bring our Private Cloud to Amsterdam,” stated John Keagy, CEO, GoGrid. “The new solutions make it easy for companies to create the secure environments their business requires, including full isolation of end-user infrastructure to ensure regulatory or industry compliance.”
To satisfy demand, GoGrid has created three new Private Cloud offerings to help customers worldwide take advantage of scalable compute power, virtual server images, load-balanced infrastructure, private networking, and elastic storage in a completely dedicated and secure environment—without hardware procurement or resource sharing.
Are Conference Calls the New Coffeehouses of Idea Enlightenment?
Edison is believed to have said “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”, and 9 out of 10 times “implementation trumps innovation” when it comes to achieving commercial success, but is it just me, or has the well of new ideas around cloud computing run a bit dry recently?
Big Data is rapid gaining ground on cloud computing when it comes to search popularity on gartner.com. And SDN (Software Defined Networking) may be flavor of the month in cloud blogs, but although there is a succinct impact on cloud computing, this is really more a networking idea. Now off course, cloud computing is only one force – and mainly an enabling one – in the nexus of cloud, information, social and mobile, but when monitoring the various publicly available industry news feeds, I get a bit of a groundhog day (the movie) feeling. You might even say we have taken a step back in some cases, with enterprises implementing older concepts – such as managed hosting – under the moniker of cloud, as my colleague David Mitchel Smith described in a recent post on reverse cloudwashing.