What are the benefits of using an enterprise-grade orchestration platform?
In their session at 15th Cloud Expo, Nate Gordon, Director of Technology at Appcore, and Kedar Poduri, Senior Director of Product Management at Citrix Systems, took a closer look at the architectural design factors needed to support diverse workloads and how to run these workloads efficiently as a service provider. They also discussed how to deploy private cloud environments in 15 minutes or less.
Announcing @VictorOps Releases Inaugural State of On-Call Report [#DevOps]
According to research from VictorOps, DevOps is a growing trend from enterprise IT to SaaS solution providers. Additionally, the primary research shows that collaboration is essential as IT teams work toward faster time to resolution. Systems have grown too complex to continue limiting problem solving to just a few people in the IT organization, and collaboration using both mobile and desktop technology is a key component of success.
In the inaugural VictorOps State of On-Call Report released today, VictorOps surveyed 500 IT professionals to look at the challenges and general state of what it means to be on-call. The report examines everything from what teams are doing to decrease mean time to resolution (MTTR) to the prevalence of alert fatigue and the use of monitoring, automation and incident lifecycle management tools.
Why You Need a BYOD Plan, Now! | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
Though the problems seem daunting, the trend toward BYOD adoption doesn’t appear to be slowing. Many organizations see the drawbacks of BYOD but determine that the benefits are worth the extra risks. As long as companies practice common sense security policies such as app restrictions, data encryption on devices, and enforcement of BYOD rules, any damage caused by security incidents should be minimal. At all times, companies need to be vigilant and prepared for whatever may happen, while still enjoying the advantages from BYOD.
Product Review: Cyberoam CR10iNG By @GretenDave [#Cloud]
Data security has long been thought the exclusive domain of large enterprises. Why would cyber-criminals bother with small and midsized companies when the big prizes are to be found hacking into large organizations?
Unfortunately an increasing number of smaller companies find themselves at risk of infiltration, antivirus corruption, and data theft. Hackers are catching on that smaller offices are a softer target. Security in these organizations is generally looser as they often lack the financial resources for a comprehensive security system.
Announcing @Cisco Named “Gold Sponsor” of @CloudExpo 2015 NY | @CiscoCloud [#Cloud]
SYS-CON Events announced today that Cisco, the worldwide leader in IT that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Cisco makes amazing things happen by connecting the unconnected. Cisco has shaped the future of the Internet by becoming the worldwide leader in transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco and our partners are building the platform for the Internet of Everything by connecting the world of many clouds into the global interconnected Intercloud.
Cloud365 moves in to Equinix’s Melbourne data centre for Australian cloud push
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Equinix has announced that app hosting provider Cloud365 has selected its first Melbourne data centre to consolidate its push in Australia.
With Cloud365’s infrastructure deployed across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the US, the deal makes sense geographically as the Melbourne ME1 data centre can allow a high-speed, low latency and high availability cloud environment for its customers.
The deal represents a significant win for Equinix, who partnered up with Google last month to deliver services across three continents, including New York, Atlanta and Frankfurt, the current data centre darling.
“Cloud is the key driver for our clients and we’re seeing growing demand from customers as they realise the benefits of not having to invest in their own infrastructure and network capacity,” said Darren Moss, general manager and founder of Cloud365. “Equinix allows us to reduce costs and optimise infrastructure, giving us freedom to be great at what we do by serving our customers in migrating them to the cloud at the application layer.”
The state of the cloud in Asia Pacific is expected to grow to $31.9bn (£17.2bn) in 2020, from $6.9bn (£3.7bn) last year. The Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA) puts out yearly reports on the market, and this year’s version (pdf) saw the Pacific entrants – New Zealand and Australia – gain four places each, to second and third respectively.
Elsewhere, data released today from Synergy Research has found that Equinix is the market leader in three of the main seven countries for retail colocation revenues. The Redwood firm ranks highest in the US, the UK and Germany, with the US far and away the leader in global revenue with over 30% share.
“Looking ahead, the colocation market is actually reasonably well insulated against the huge shift in enterprises pushing IT workloads to the cloud,” commented Synergy Research chief analyst John Dinsdale. “The market will continue to grow.”
‘Cowboys & Bureaucrats’ with @QubellInc | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
«We have developers who are really passionate about getting their code out to customers, no matter what, in the shortest possible time. Operations are very focused on procedures and policies,» explained Stan Klimoff, CTO of Qubell, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
ES6 & Javascript in Harmony
ECMAScript 6 brings powerful new capabilities and some tasty syntactical sugar to the ubiquitous Javascript language, as it continues to grab an ever increasing slice of developer mindshare.
Now that the ES6 feature set is frozen and just minor refinements will be made over the coming months, much of this new functionality has already landed in modern browsers, and will continue to roll out with each new browser update.
For the impatient, there are also now several excellent precompile / polyfill / shim tools available, so you can start using these new features immediately; safely knowing that your code will run ‘natively’ on every Javascript platform.
Using Eclipse and WebLogic, Deploy to the Cloud
My first blog showed how to move to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) using Tomcat. This blog will show how to do the same using WebLogic Server, deploying webapps via eclipse to a remote WebLogic instance running in the cloud.
Let’s say we plan to move our app to production on Amazon Elastic Cloud (EC2). We have already developed the application using eclipse and have tested it on WebLogic running locally. Now, we may want to test our app on an EC2 environment before moving to production.
‘Different Clouds’ Presentation By @CiscoCloud | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]
As cloud gives an opportunity to businesses to buy services externally – how is cloud impacting your customers?
In his General Session at 15th Cloud Expo, Fabio Gori, Director of Worldwide Cloud Marketing at Cisco, provided answers to big questions: Do you see hybrid cloud as where the world is going? What benefits does it bring? And how does Cisco connect all of these clouds? He also discussed Intercloud and Cisco’s investment on it.