We’ve seen the statistics about the continued growth of cloud adoption in the enterprise in 2016 (not surprising). What some people might not realize is the projected growth of hybrid cloud adoption – what experts believe to be the next phase in the evolution of the cloud. The global market for hybrid cloud adoption was over $25 billion in 2014, and analyst firm IDC predicts the same market to reach $84 billion by 2019. The model is growing so rapidly because organizations want to take advantage of the cost-savings enabled by the public cloud, but they realize the model can’t provide the levels of security and regulatory compliance needed to protect sensitive or mission-critical on-premise data. A hybrid solution is the most secure and cost-effective approach for many organizations.
Node.js 4 Support with Heap & GC Metrics | @CloudExpo #Cloud
Beginning with Ruxit Agent v1.83, Ruxit now supports Node.js 4. But that’s not all! With Ruxit Agent v1.85 we also show you the heap spaces and GCs of all Node.js 4.x processes.
Click the Further details tab to view details about V8 heap spaces and garbage collection runs.
For full details of our Node.js support, see Ruxit Node.js monitoring overview. Node.js 5.x will follow soon, so stay tuned!
Enterprise PaaS – Agile Architecture for Continuous Innovation | @CloudExpo #Cloud
Although MIT makes the specific point that the Platform Business Model is exactly that, a business model not a technology, there is naturally a clear and powerful link with the Cloud model ‘PaaS’ – Platform as a Service.
This offers literally that, a Platform as a service, and so it can play a central component part in enabling the Platform Business Model.
A Realistic Approach to Achieving Flexible Networks for Today and Tomorrow By @LeonAdato | @CloudExpo #Cloud
With another New Year upon us, I’ve found that as an industry we’re once again spending a lot of time looking forward, which is a good thing, but also not enough time grounded in the present or even the past, which absolutely can be a bad thing, especially for network administrators. After all, as the old adage goes: “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
Remember when the Internet became ubiquitous in the workplace? We weren’t prepared for that spike in capacity and had to scramble to fix existing issues to accommodate the influx of network usage. The same thing happened with BYOD – once people started sharing resources among an explosion of new devices, it exposed existing problems within our networks that needed to be resolved before BYOD could really be successful.
Public cloud spending predicted to double by 2019 with storage booming
The boom in public cloud service spending will propel AWS and Microsoft into the top five of the world’s biggest storage vendors, according to analysts.
Separate reports from IDC and the 451 Group suggest that the public cloud will growth overshadow the rest of IT and change the power balance.
The latest Public Cloud Services Spending Guide from IDC predicts that global spending on public cloud services will grow at six times the rate of the rest of the IT industry. With a 19.4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) public cloud spending will double from last year’s $70 billion to $141 billion in 2019.
The popularity of Software as a Service (SaaS) will continue as it makes up two thirds of all public cloud spending in the forecast period. However Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) will grow faster, with spending on each rising by 27.0% and 30.6% respectively.
By 2018, most software vendors will have fully shifted to a SaaS/PaaS code base, predicted Frank Gens, Chief Analyst at IDC. This means the software industry is at a tipping point where SaaS becomes the preferred option.
The industries with the largest public cloud services expenditures in 2015 were discrete manufacturing at $8.6 billion, followed by banking and professional services at $6.8 billion and $6.6 billion, respectively. Telecommunications will be the fastest-growing vertical industry over the 2014-2019 forecast period with a worldwide CAGR of 22.2%. Other industries expecting a five-year CAGRs of over 20% are the media, government, education, retail, transport and utilities.
“The cloud is the future of IT but every organisation’s journey to the cloud is different and won’t always result in moving to a public cloud,” said Mark Ebden, strategic consultant at Trustmarque. However, he warned that companies need to assess the functions that can be moved to the cloud with the least disruption.
The fast growth of public cloud service companies is already disrupting the storage market, according to a 451 Research study. It found that public cloud storage will account for 17% of enterprise storage spending by 2017, up from 8% today. In some verticals like retail the public cloud will account for 25% of total storage spending by 2017.
Public cloud will shift the IT budget so that more money is spent on storage, according to the report. In addition, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft will become top five storage vendors by 2017. While the traditional storage players like leader EMC can dominate now, in two years spending on traditional SAN and NAS products will be more muted, said the report. Dealing with data and storage capacity growth is by far the single greatest pain point for storage managers and improving backup and disaster recovery will be the top storage objectives for 2016, according to 451 analyst Simon Robinson.
GSX Solutions Launches GSX Monitor and Analyzer for IronPort By @xeniar | @CloudExpo #Cloud
The ability to check the status of IronPort’s health and usage is critical — and we allow you to do so from the same dashboard that also monitors the messaging servers. When IronPort fails, the entire email flow is shut down, meaning nobody in your organization can send or receive emails.
JF Piot, VP Product Management of GSX Solutions: The original IronPort Systems, Inc., was a company that designed and sold products and services to protect enterprises against internet threats. IronPort is now owned by Cisco Systems and called ESA (Email Security Appliance), and is mainly used for mail security such as email encryption, anti-spam, and antivirus.
Tech News Recap for the Week of 1/18/2016
Were you busy last week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 1/18/2016!
Microsoft is cutting Azure prices by up to 17%. Citrix has hired a new CEO. Microsoft is donating $1B in cloud services to nonprofits. Wal-Mart is pushing for a greater online presence. Cloud infrastructure spend continues to grow. There were also a couple of good interviews that came out with new VMware CIO Bask Iyer and FCC CIO Dr. David Bray, as well as some good articles around wearables, app security, and the worst passwords of 2015.
Tech News Recap
- Microsoft Azure Prices Being Cut by up to 17%
- Ex-Microsoft, BMC Exec Tapped for Citrix CEO
- New VMware CIO Explains Approach to Containers
- Cloud infrastructure spend grew by 23% in the third quarter of 2015
- Google paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 to remain the default iOS search option
- Which CFO Personality Is Right for IT?
- IT Infrastructure Trends: 5 Worth Watching
- Network security vs. app security: What’s the difference, and why does it matter
- 2016 Roundup of Cloud Computing And Enterprise Software Predictions
- Microsoft plans to donate $1B in cloud services to nonprofits
- The cloud will own and drive your car
- Cyber war isn’t turning out quote how it was expected
- Wal-Mart merges tech teams in online push
- Wearables are everywere, but are they part of BYOD
- How will cloud computing influence the business world in 2016
- These are the worst passwords of 2015
- FCC CIO on fostering a team of creative problem solvers
- 8 Ways Cloud Storage Delivers Business Value
- Trends in CIO hiring: The road to the C-suite passes through operations
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Blockchain specialist Digital Asset gets $50 million to create a global digital ledger
Distributed ledger maker Digital Asset has announced $50 million funding to further its expansion of blockchain technology for the financial sector.
The start up’s thirteen fintech investment specialist backers included ABN AMRO, Accenture, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Börse Group and JP Morgan. Launched in 2015, Digital Asset is aimed at banks, exchanges, settlement and clearing firms, central securities depositories and financial services provider who need faster, but more secure and accountable electronic financial settlement systems.
Digital Asset founder Blyth Masters, a former JP Morgan banker, told Bloomberg that the technology is a ‘form of database’ technology that could a single ‘common source of the truth’ for every single aspect of every transaction in synch. The single source authoritative record of every stage of a transaction could obviate the need for the ‘questionable trade’ investigations conducted by Wall Street, the city and all global financial institutes.
The inventor claims its Distributed Ledger Technology cuts costs through a combination of business logic apps, privately permissioned networks and a cryptographically secure shared infrastructure. Digital Assets’s software will improve post-trade processing and lower the latency, error rates, risk and capital requirements.
“Our investors are putting their capital to work to prove out and drive global adoption of this technology because they see it will be very significant for their businesses in cost avoidance, capital reduction, risk reduction, regulatory compliance – these are big strategic issues for financial firms today,” said Masters.
Included in the round of investment was a contract to speed up settlement in Australia’s stock market ASX, in return for $10.5 million. “We can now trade equities in 150 microseconds, then it takes two days to settle. That makes no sense,” said Elmer Funke Kupper, chief executive officer of ASX. “This is the first opportunity in 20 years to re-engineer the way the market operates end-to-end. We should not miss that opportunity.”
Digital Asset beat 400 applicants for the contract to remake ASX’s clearing and settlement system.
Earlier this week, R3, a blockchain startup backed by 42 banks, said it successfully simulated trades of digital assets on a private network made up of 11 of its members. Meanwhile Overstock.com is expected to unveil the first securities-trading system using blockchain. Nasdaq has reportedly used the technology to complete and record a private securities transaction for the first time.
IBM buys streaming service Ustream to boost its cloud video portfolio
IBM has announced another cloud video acquisition with the intention to purchase video streaming service provider Ustream. The new acquisition will become part of IBM’s Cloud offering to enterprises. Financial details were not disclosed.
Ustream has developed a cloud model to support live and on-demand video streams. It currently has 80 million viewers per month from customers including NASA, Samsung, Facebook, Nike and The Discovery Channel. It has a San Francisco base and a development office in Budapest, Hungary with data centres in California, Amsterdam and Tokyo.
The newly-formed IBM Cloud Video Services unit is now comprised of IBM’s R&D labs and acquisitions such as Clearleap, Ustream, Aspera and Cleversafe, as well as its own R&D inventions.
In December BCN reported how IBM had bought video service provider Clearleap which aims to create APIs for every type of device on which video can be watched. The unit will offer video services including open API development, digital and visual analytics, management and a promise of consistent delivery across global industries.
In addition IBM’s R&D has led to 1,000 patents of its own in areas such as visual analytics and indexing and searching large collections of videos and digital images.
The foundation of the Ustream portfolio is the open Ustream Development Platform which helps clients to create custom video apps to run video on any device and embed video into any application. IBM will integrate Ustream’s development platform into Bluemix to allow clients to provide distinct video services to developers.
The Ustream portfolio includes Ustream Demand, which lets marketers collect and automate leads into marketing workflows and Ustream Align, for secure internal employee communications. Ustream Pro Broadcasting offers large scale live video streaming.
Unit General Manager Braxton Jarratt said IBM estimates there is a target market for cloud-based video services and software worth a potential $105 billion, because companies now communicate with customers and employees through video, webcasts, conference keynotes, training and customer care. Since video is expensive to manage and provide, Upstream’s understanding of how cloud computing can help rationalise costs is invaluable, according to Upstream CEO Brad Hunstable. “We’ve built a video platform that is easy-to-use, yet incredibly scalable and powerful. It is these qualities that made us an ideal addition to IBM’s portfolio,” said Hunstable.
The Evolution of IT: Toward Cross-Platform Solutions
Why Cross-Platform Will Be Even Bigger in 2016 2016 promises to be a year that continues in the same vein as 2015: the IT industry will continue to boom, digital media will continue to grow in importance, and the world will continue to be more digitalized and more mobile. The digital, mobile culture that people […]
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