A History of Citrix Products One of the issues businesses have with Citrix is choosing the right tool from Citrix’s multiple products and versions. The company has already released two dozen products with 200 names in a span of 20 years. Its first virtualization product, Citrix Multi-user, was released in 1991 and was succeeded by […]
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The push is on to better streamline unused data centre capacity – and according to a missive from network provider Emerson Network Power, 2016 will see a greater emphasis on shared service distributed cloud computing models.
According to the company’s five trends shaping the data centre landscape for 2016, enterprises which have data centres either as ‘comatose’ – buildings which have not delivered computing services for at least six months – or data centres with free room will be able to sell excess capacity on the open market as the evolution from basic software as a service to more hybrid environments intensifies. Recent Stanford research found 30% of physical servers were comatose.
This greater use of resources is seen elsewhere in Emerson Network Power’s predictions. No longer are companies focused on efficiency, but a greater emphasis on sustainability and social responsibility is key – and the company argues this trend will not just be limited to on-premise technology decisions.
A related survey, opining on the data centre of 2025, argues that data centres will in general be smaller than they are now; more than half (58%) of respondents expect data centres to be half the size of current facilities, while one in 10 argues the enterprise data centre of 2025 will be one tenth the size.
With regard to data centre cooling, the move towards sustainability was again noted. Chris Molloy, a distinguished engineer at IBM, argued data centre equipment will not need as much heat removal as it will either generate less heat, or tolerate much higher temperatures, or both. “As IT equipment becomes more resilient, we will see ASHRAE A3/A4-based data centres operating with temperatures in the cold aisle rising to above 100°F, reducing the need for cooling,” he said. More natural cooling methods, such as provided by the Node Pole facility in Sweden, are a major USP for those providers.
The Internet of Things (IoT) will also play a part in 2016 data centre trends, Emerson Network Power argues. Some of these predictions are self-fulfilling. The IoT will force data centre providers to use a common language, as currently thousands of devices speak a host of languages including IPMI, SNMP, and Mod Bus. The alternative the network provider proposes, Redfish, is one of their projects alongside Intel, Dell, and HP. Similarly, another prediction focuses on the ‘neighbourhood data centre’; large data centres which are supported by edge facilities for low latency content for IoT networks.
What do you make of these ideas for the future of the data centre?
Developers generally like to share their code, and many of them do so by open sourcing it on GitHub, a social code hosting and collaboration service. Many companies also use GitHub as a convenient place to host both private and public code repositories by creating GitHub organizations where employees can be joined. Sometimes Employee might publish things that might be sensitive in nature and these things might lead to compromise of a system.
Wearable technology has come a long way since the calculator watch. In the past whenever I thought of the term “wearable technology” the first things I would like of were always calculator watches and pedometers, but boy have things changed! Even if you’re a skeptic, this blogger thinks that pretty much everyone will be using some type of wearable tech by 2020.
It seems like wearable technology is everywhere. Whether it is Google Glass, or the Samsung Galaxy Gear, there seems to be nothing that you can’t tech out. There is Colour Change Couture, fabric that changes color when wet, The Programmable T-shirt, which, when combined with the smartphone app, allows the wearer to display tweets, Facebook statuses, and pictures. Celebs are even getting on the wearable tech bandwagon; Nicole Scherzinger wore a dress made of silk, Swarovski crystals, and 2,000 LED lights that displayed tweets in real time when the hashtag #tweetthedress was used. For more on the future of fashion, check out this slideshow (you really should, there’s some pretty cool stuff in there).
In today’s pharmaceutical supply chain, counterfeit activity is thriving. As pharma companies have expanded target markets and outsourced production over the last decade, the supply chain has become increasingly global, virtual, and vulnerable. Illicit activity has thrived, and patients have suffered, with hundreds of thousands dying each year from counterfeit and contaminated drugs.
More than 40 countries have responded with new laws that regulate prescription medications as they travel through the supply chain. While this is a quantum leap forward for patient health, the implications for supply chain stakeholders, from pharmaceutical companies and their contract manufacturing partners to the pharmacies that serve patients are daunting: they must master each country’s disparate track and trace requirements; create a system architecture capable of generating, managing, and storing what will be unprecedented volumes of regulated data; and figure out how to efficiently exchange that data with hundreds to tens of thousands of direct and indirect supply chain partners.
How often do you get questions like ‘Have you gone to the cloud yet?’, or ‘Why aren’t we in the cloud?’, or a myriad of others along those same lines. People still talk like the cloud is a destination. I discussed this tendency last year in a blog, “The Cloud – Is It Your Actual Destination?” For all the hype surrounding cloud, the benefits are real. IDC forecasts global public IT Cloud services spending to reach nearly $108B by 2017. Gartner expects that by 2016 the bulk of IT spend will be for the cloud. Those are pretty impressive numbers. The challenge is to remember, cloud is technology, it’s a vehicle, a conduit to help you provide value to the business.
As big data pioneer Splunk reported better than expected quarterly revenues and shares surged by 2%, its leader for the last seven years has announced his retirement.
Splunk CEO Godfrey Sullivan, who successfully steered the software company through an initial public offering in 2012, has stepped down to be replaced by Doug Merritt, a senior VP. However, Sullivan will remain at the company as non-executive chairman and has promised a smooth transition.
Sullivan, previously the boss of Hyperion until it was acquired by Oracle, has steered the company since the days when the value of machine-to-machine (M2M) intelligence and big data analytics were relatively unknown. The Splunk IPO in 2012 was a landmark for the industry, being the first time the public were invited to invest in a company specialising in the then-new concept of big data. Splunk’s IPO was acclaimed as one of most successful tech offerings in the decade with share prices surging 108% on the first day of trading.
Under Sullivan Splunk’s customer base grew from 750 to 10,000 and annual revenues from $18 million to $600 million, according to a Splunk statement. His successor, Merritt, a veteran of SAP, Peoplesoft and Cisco, has been with Splunk since 2011 and said he would work with Godfrey on a smooth transition. “We will continue our laser focus on becoming the data fabric for businesses, government agencies, universities and organisations,” he said.
“Doug brings enormous management, sales, product and marketing skills to his new role,” said Splunk’s lead independent director John Connors. “As senior vice president for field operations for Splunk, Doug has consistently delivered outstanding financial results.”
In its results for the third quarter of financial year 2016 Splunk reported total revenues of $174.4 million, up 50% year-over-year, and ahead of analyst expectations by $14.4million.
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By Ryan Kroonenburg, managing director at Logicworks UK
With the steady rise of AWS adoption in the UK, it should come as no surprise that AWS will be adding a new UK region by the end of 2016.
Last week, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels announced the new AWS UK region amongst five other regions set to open in 2016: India, Ohio, South Korea, the UK and a second region in China.
The new regions are a welcome addition for UK businesses that are interested in migrating to the cloud, but are struggling with data sovereignty issues, increased regulatory restrictions, and a greater prominence of security threats. Businesses must balance the regulatory risk of cloud migration against escalating costs associated with local providers and/or hosting in-house.
With the new UK region, yet another hurdle to cloud adoption is removed, allowing companies to take advantage of the significant cost savings and improved performance of AWS while reducing the regulatory risk of data stored outside the UK.
AWS’ new region is even more important in light of the in/out EU referendum looming in 2017. Should the UK choose to leave the EU, data would be mandated to remain within the UK. This uncertainty has caused many businesses to delay AWS adoption plans for fear that the referendum would force them to go through the time and expense of two migration projects: onto AWS and off the platform shortly after. The new region allows businesses to safely host on AWS regardless of the results of the referendum.
The final barriers to cloud adoption are usually a variety of concerns over security, and security will no doubt continue to drive nearly every cloud conversation. However, with the failure of local hosting providers to offer transparency into security practices, the recent security breaches of these providers, and increased cloud education, these conversations have shifted from “Is the public cloud secure?” to “How do we take advantage of the data protections the public cloud offers?”
As a result, a greater volume of UK companies will be willing to trust critical workloads to the cloud. AWS provides native capabilities for protecting their infrastructure from common security attacks such as DDoS, SQL injections, cross site scripting and so on, whilst still maintaining data sovereignty.
AWS is working feverishly to remove barriers to large scale cloud adoption, and with the new UK region, businesses are primed to take advantage of the cost efficiency, compute power, and scale of the AWS platform. It is an exciting time to be in the UK and watch the IT transformation unfold.
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Google has appointed former VMware CEO and current Google board member Diane Greene to head a new business-oriented cloud service.
Though Google is associated with consumer products and overshadowed by AWS in enterprise cloud computing, the lead is not unassailable, claimed Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in the company’s official blog, as the appointment was announced.
“More than 60% of the Fortune 500 are actively using a paid Google for Work product and only a tiny fraction of the world’s data is currently in the cloud,” he said. “Most businesses and applications aren’t cloud-based yet. This is an important and fast-growing area for Google and we’re investing for the future.”
Since all of Google’s own businesses run on its cloud infrastructure, the company has significantly larger data centre capacity than any other public cloud provider, Pichai argued. “That’s what makes it possible for customers to receive the best price and performance for compute and storage services. All of this demonstrates great momentum, but it’s really just the beginning,” he said.
Pichai stated the new business will bring together product, engineering, marketing and sales, and Green’s brief will be to integrate them into one cohesive offering. “Dianne has a huge amount of operational experience that will continue to help the company,” he said.
In addition, Google is to acquire bebop, a company founded by Greene, to simplify the building and maintain enterprise applications. “This will help many more businesses find great applications and reap the benefits of cloud computing,” said Pichai.
Bebop’s resources will be dedicated to building and integrating the entire range of Google’s cloud products from devices like Android and Chromebooks, through infrastructure and services in the Google Cloud Platform, to developer frameworks for mobile and enterprise users and finally end-user applications like Gmail and Docs.
The market for these cloud development tools will be worth $2.3 billion in 2019, up from $803 million this year, according to IDC. The knock on effect of those developments is that more apps will run on the cloud of the service provider that supported development and that hosting business will triple to $22.6 billion by 2019, IDC says.
Greene and the bebop staff will join Google once the acquisition has completed. The new name for Greene’s division has yet to be named but will include divisions such as Google for Work, Cloud Platform, and Google Apps, according to Android Central.
In his General Session at 17th Cloud Expo, Bruce Swann, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Adobe Campaign, explored the key ingredients of cross-channel marketing in a digital world.
Learn how the Adobe Marketing Cloud can help marketers embrace opportunities for personalized, relevant and real-time customer engagement across offline (direct mail, point of sale, call center) and digital (email, website, SMS, mobile apps, social networks, connected objects).