In the last year or so, we have seen burgeoning trends like software-defined networking (SDN), open source-based automation, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the continuing rise of hybrid IT dramatically impact traditional networking. Long gone are the days of being a router jockey. We’re now more focused on delivering services rather than just configuring packet traversal across ports. Especially as the modern data center continues to converge, network administrators are dealing with complex networks and associated technologies, and it is critical to be well versed and trained across various network functions.
Which Cloud Migration Option Is Right for You? | @CloudExpo #SaaS #IaaS #PaaS #Cloud
Can you believe it’s only been four years since cloud computing really went mainstream? It feels like our businesses have been relying on the cloud for so much longer. However, companies still aren’t 100% in the cloud, and hybrid and multicloud deployments are becoming popular, so choosing the right cloud technology is a constant consideration for IT.
When you look at your migration options, you’re bombarded with all kinds of “as a service” offerings. You have to know the basics of SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS if you want to make the best decision-and no matter what, monitoring has to be your migration foundation.
Digital Transformation in the Construction Industry | @CloudExpo #Cloud #DevOps #DigitalTransformation
Construction has been called the science of the practical. While designers and governmental bodies argue over the limits of the possible, leaders in the construction industry have simply continued to build along the most efficient path.
Construction was one of the last industries to get onboard with digital transformation, according to McKinsey’s study on “Imagining Construction’s Digital Future.” That caution serves as more evidence of the industry’s ingrained practicality. There’s no time to waste on chasing after technology that doesn’t perform better than existing methods.
[session] #DevOps and #Microservices | @DevOpsSummit @OnQuality #AI
For organizations that have amassed large sums of software complexity, taking a microservices approach is the first step toward DevOps and continuous improvement / development. Integrating system-level analysis with microservices makes it easier to change and add functionality to applications at any time without the increase of risk. Before you start big transformation projects or a cloud migration, make sure these changes won’t take down your entire organization.
Microservices Sprawl | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Containers #Microservices
The rise of containers and microservices has skyrocketed the rate at which new applications are moved into production environments today. While developers have been deploying containers to speed up the development processes for some time, there still remain challenges with running microservices efficiently. Most existing IT monitoring tools don’t actually maintain visibility into the containers that make up microservices. As those container applications move into production, some IT operations teams are suddenly finding themselves flying blind. Unless IT operations upgrade to new approaches to managing DevOps by using more modern monitoring solutions, containers and microservices will wind up doing more to troubleshoot issues than actually speeding up development processes.
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[slides] Multi-Cloud #DevOps | @CloudExpo @Valb00 @NetApp @SolidFire #AI
All clouds are not equal. To succeed in a DevOps context, organizations should plan to develop/deploy apps across a choice of on-premise and public clouds simultaneously depending on the business needs. This is where the concept of the Lean Cloud comes in – resting on the idea that you often need to relocate your app modules over their life cycles for both innovation and operational efficiency in the cloud.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at19th Cloud Expo, Valentin (Val) Bercovici, CTO of SolidFire, discussed how to leverage this concept to seize on the creativity and business agility to make it real.
Software Defined Management Dashboards | @CloudExpo #SDN #Cloud #DataCenter
Recently I found in my inbox a link to a piece 6 Dashboards for Managing Every Modern Data Center that caught my attention. I was hoping to see who the six different dashboard solutions were instead of finding list of dashboard considerations for modern data centers and data infrastructures.
Turns out the piece was nothing more than a list of six items featured as part of the vendors (Sunbird) piece about what to look for in a dashboard (e.g. their product). Sure there were some of the usual key performance indicator (KPI) associated with or related to IT Service Management (ITSM), Data Center Infrastructure (Insight/Information) Management (DCIM), Configuration and Change management databases (CMDB), availability, capacity and Performance Management Databases (PMDB) among others.
Cloud Drives Data#3’s Growth
Data#3, a business solutions provider, has released an impressive result for the first half of 2017. It reported a revenue of AU$506 million, and a net profit of AU$5.8 million. These numbers reflect a 34 percent increase when compared to the same time last year.
Revenue for the first six months that ended on December 31, 2016 included a revenue of AU$58 million from the cloud. This represents almost 11.6 percent of the total revenues of the company, and it reflects the growing contribution of cloud to its overall business.
Out of this, Data#3’s public cloud solutions accounted for AU$53.3 million, representing a 32.5 percent increase. It’s on-premise solutions also saw a steady growth, as it registered a nine percent growth to contribute AU$360.7 million. Product revenue from hardware and software sales grew by 11.5 percent, as it increased from AU$37.1 million to AU$413.9 million.
Data#3 is a publicly traded company in the information and communication (ICT) sector of Australia. It is headquartered in Brisbane, but its operations span across entire Australia. it was founded in 1977 and was established by Powell, Clark and Associates (PCA). With about 900 employees, this company has a firm presence in Australia’s IT market.
Data#3’s result brings up many interesting aspects of its business. Firstly, it reflects the growth of the company from a product-centric company to that of a service-centric one, to meet the changing needs of the IT environment. According to Laurence Baynham, the CEO of Data#3, this company has a strategic growth comprising of three long-term objectives, which are to deliver sustained growth, increase services and grow cloud services revenues.
These objectives show the importance given by Data#3 to its cloud businesses, as the company firmly believes that cloud is an important component of its future business strategies. Already, the company has a list of impressive clients in the cloud market. An example is the Victoria State Emergency Services, for which Data#3 built an emergency solution using Microsoft Azure. With this, Victoria became the first emergency organization in Australia to tap into the power of public cloud.
Secondly, cloud can become an integral part of Data#3’s future operations as the company has opined that it is witnessing a rapid increase in the demand for cloud-based services, and it wants to position itself to meet this demand. In this sense, we can expect the company to make heavy investment in cloud infrastructure over the next few years as it transitions itself to a cloud-based company.
These numbers also show the growing importance of cloud, as companies position themselves to make the most of it. In many ways, it also reflects the penetration of cloud in Australian markets, as much of the clients of this Brisbane-based company is in Australia. Recently, Alibaba also expanded its operations to cater to the growing demands of the Australian cloud market.
Lastly, the company has announced that it will be establishing a health sector practice, similar to the investments it has made in education. We can expect many practices in health sector to be driven by cloud.
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Gartner: Public cloud market to reach $246bn in 2017 with IaaS and SaaS at forefront
First IDC made its forecast on the public cloud, and now Gartner has done likewise, predicting that public cloud services market will grow 18% in 2017 to total $246.8 billion (£198.1bn).
IDC’, by comparison, said global spending on public cloud services and infrastructure would reach $122.5bn by the end of this year with seven out of eight primary geographic regions to record CAGRs of more than 20% in the next five years.
Outside of ‘cloud advertising’ – “cloud-based services that support the selection, transaction and delivery of advertising and ad-related data”, according to the analysts – the largest market in 2017 will be software as a service (SaaS), in line with IDC’s predictions. SaaS will overtake BPaaS, cloud business process services this year, while infrastructure as a service (IaaS) will grow to $34bn this year.
By 2020, SaaS will be at $75.7bn, IaaS at $71.5bn, and PaaS at $56.1bn, comprising a total market of $383.3bn, Gartner adds. Growth in the infrastructure compute service space will be enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI), analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT), while the growth of PaaS will also drive the growth of IaaS.
Again, as IDC mentioned, North America is the primary market; more than half of application adoption in the continent will be SaaS or otherwise cloud-related. Gartner also focused on China at a national level, whose forecast was increased to account for anticipated higher buyer demand, saying that ‘while it was nascent and several years behind the US and European markets, it is expected to maintain high levels of growth as digital transformation becomes more mainstream over the next five years.’
“Organisations are pursuing strategies because of the multidimensional value of cloud services, including values such as agility, scalability, cost benefits, innovation and business growth,” said Sid Nag, Gartner research director. “While all external-sourcing decisions will not result in a virtually automatic move to the cloud, buyers are looking to the ‘cloud first’ in their decisions, in support of time to value impact via speed of implementation.”
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Gartner: Public cloud market to reach $246bn in 2017 with IaaS and SaaS at forefront
First IDC made its forecast on the public cloud, and now Gartner has done likewise, predicting that public cloud services market will grow 18% in 2017 to total $246.8 billion (£198.1bn).
IDC’, by comparison, said global spending on public cloud services and infrastructure would reach $122.5bn by the end of this year with seven out of eight primary geographic regions to record CAGRs of more than 20% in the next five years.
Outside of ‘cloud advertising’ – “cloud-based services that support the selection, transaction and delivery of advertising and ad-related data”, according to the analysts – the largest market in 2017 will be software as a service (SaaS), in line with IDC’s predictions. SaaS will overtake BPaaS, cloud business process services this year, while infrastructure as a service (IaaS) will grow to $34bn this year.
By 2020, SaaS will be at $75.7bn, IaaS at $71.5bn, and PaaS at $56.1bn, comprising a total market of $383.3bn, Gartner adds. Growth in the infrastructure compute service space will be enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI), analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT), while the growth of PaaS will also drive the growth of IaaS.
Again, as IDC mentioned, North America is the primary market; more than half of application adoption in the continent will be SaaS or otherwise cloud-related. Gartner also focused on China at a national level, whose forecast was increased to account for anticipated higher buyer demand, saying that ‘while it was nascent and several years behind the US and European markets, it is expected to maintain high levels of growth as digital transformation becomes more mainstream over the next five years.’
“Organisations are pursuing strategies because of the multidimensional value of cloud services, including values such as agility, scalability, cost benefits, innovation and business growth,” said Sid Nag, Gartner research director. “While all external-sourcing decisions will not result in a virtually automatic move to the cloud, buyers are looking to the ‘cloud first’ in their decisions, in support of time to value impact via speed of implementation.”
You can find out more here.