SYS-CON Events announced today that Verizon has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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Five Changes Coming to Today’s Cloud Computing Options
Cloud computing has finally come into its own. While we’ve been hearing for 8 years or more that cloud computing would one day take over the enterprise, the fact of the matter is that it’s been slow going.
While the spread of cloud computing solutions hasn’t been as rapid as many early proponents predicted it would be, we are now to a place where cloud solutions are seen as viable for most organizations, and are being utilized regularly.
Psst – the Cloud Is Easy
What inspired this piece is “Complicating the Cloud,” a recent, insightful article by industry guru Jeff Kaplan. Kaplan makes a number of trenchant points, many of them coalescing around the idea that the vendor community has a vested interest in complexity. That meshes with my belief that it really is easy to get into the cloud — if the decision makers don’t allow the vendors to make it difficult.
Here’s what Kaplan has to say: «I have to admit that the cloud industry is doing a great job of making it increasingly difficult for… corporate decision makers to feel confident about making the move,» he writes. «The initial success of the cloud movement has created a series of problems. First, there’s the proliferation of players… some of whom rebrand or ‘cloud-wash’ legacy systems for this new market… [They want to] join the ‘cloud rush,’ [by] adding more solutions to their portfolios…» And these tendencies, as he sees them, have made migration to the cloud needlessly convoluted.
Tech News Recap for the Week of 7/7/2014
Were you busy last week? Here’s a quick recap of tech news and stories you may have missed from the week of 7/7/2014.
- How do I become a CIO?
- GE Power & Water CIO Discusses IT Speed & Agility
- Running vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery Supporting Infrastructure
- Russia Introduces Bill to Keep Citizens’ Data Within Country
- Is Rackspace Considering Going Private?
- CIO Meets Mobile Challenges Head-on
- A Few Reasons VMware Inc’s Virtualization Dominance Can Continue
- Data Breach Bulletin: Brazilian Banks Lose $3.75 Billion Because Of Boleto Malware
- The Future is Hybrid: theCUBE interview with Mathew Lodge at EMC World
- VMware Horizon 6: Updates, Improvements, and Licensing Changes
- Cloud skills now a must for every CIO
- Big Data Storms the Cloud
- Simplifying IT Pays Off With Big Savings, Better Business Success
- Empowered Millennials expect BYOD
- 5 key takeaways from Amazon’s big cloud day
- College Gives BYOD Users Secure Network Access
Are you interested in learning more about VMware’s vCloud Hybrid Service? We’re holding a webinar on July 23rd about how vCloud provides IT administrators and architects with a common platform for seamlessly extending existing data centers to the cloud by leveraging the same tools and processes they use today.
Fujitsu announces £1bn cloudy funding, strengthens IaaS, PaaS, SaaS commitment
Japanese IT giant Fujitsu has announced a strengthening commitment to cloud computing with a 200 billion yen (approx £1.2bn) investment over the next two financial years.
In a move that will remind CloudTech readers of competitors IBM and HP, Fujitsu is putting its eggs in one basket to “achieve its growth strategy” – in other words, bringing new offerings to market, growing its customer base and deepening deployments.
“Fujitsu has a vision of a human-centric intelligent society, one where social and business innovation is driven by the intelligent use of information and communication technologies,” Cameron McNaught, Fujitsu executive vice president, solutions, global delivery said.
“We see cloud as the natural platform for delivering these new types of applications, which is reflected in both the increase we are seeing in cloud adoption and how it is becoming a standard part of IT service delivery models for many CIOs today,” he added.
The company also announced the general rollout of RunMyProcess, Fujitsu’s PaaS offering, to tens of thousands of customers globally, as well as greater options available to customers on its private cloud infrastructure.
In the gaggle of analyst reports published over the past month concerning the state of the IaaS market, Fujitsu got a mixed hearing. Horses for Sources placed the Japanese firm as one of the top 10 vendors for business processes, yet Fujitsu was squarely placed as a niche player by Gartner, who praised the company’s heritage but noted the gap between the haves and the have-nots in IaaS was increasing, not narrowing.
One analyst house which sees potential in Fujitsu, however, is Frost & Sullivan. ICT director of consulting Alexander Michael said: “Fujitsu has established itself in the global cloud computing market with its diverse portfolio and attractive cloud offerings, in spite of the high competition.”
IBM announced a billion dollar expansion in March, as well as a rebranding to a cloud-first company, while HP did similarly in May.
What do you make of this move?
Understanding Application Performance on the Network | Part 4
We know that losing packets is not a good thing; retransmissions cause delays. We also know that TCP ensures reliable data delivery, masking the impact of packet loss. So why are some applications seemingly unaffected by the same packet loss rate that seems to cripple others? From a performance analysis perspective, how do you understand the relevance of packet loss and avoid chasing red herrings?
In Part II, we examined two closely related constraints – bandwidth and congestion. In Part III, we discussed TCP slow-start and introduced the Congestion Window (CWD). In Part IV, we’ll focus on packet loss, continuing the concepts from these two previous entries.
Business Management 3.0 and the Data-Driven Workforce
We talk a lot about so-called ‘business transformation’, but what do we really mean by this expression and how does it change the way (as workers) now operate on the shop floor?
Read any history of the industrial revolution and you will understand the massively impactful swings that our workplace went through from the 1800s through to the introduction of the automatic lathe around the turn of the last century.
Building an Agile Big Data Infrastructure: A Different View
There is no doubt that Big Data is here and getting bigger every day. Building a Big Data infrastructure today is no easy task. There are an enormous number of choices for database engines and technologies. To make things even more challenging, requirements are getting more sophisticated, and the standard paradigm of supporting historical analytics queries is often just one facet of what is needed. As Big Data growth continues, organizations are demanding real-time access to data, allowing immediate and actionable interpretation of events as they happen. Another aspect concerns how to deliver data in a meaningful way, one that really delivers on what end-users need to maintain a competitive position in fast-changing markets.
Building an Agile Big Data Infrastructure: A Different View
There is no doubt that Big Data is here and getting bigger every day. Building a Big Data infrastructure today is no easy task. There are an enormous number of choices for database engines and technologies. To make things even more challenging, requirements are getting more sophisticated, and the standard paradigm of supporting historical analytics queries is often just one facet of what is needed. As Big Data growth continues, organizations are demanding real-time access to data, allowing immediate and actionable interpretation of events as they happen. Another aspect concerns how to deliver data in a meaningful way, one that really delivers on what end-users need to maintain a competitive position in fast-changing markets.
Gigaom Research Named “Media Sponsor” of Cloud Expo
SYS-CON Events announced today that Gigaom Research has been named «Media Sponsor» of SYS-CON’s 15th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, will also lead a Power Panel on the topic «Choosing the Right Cloud Option.»
Gigaom Research provides timely, in-depth analysis of emerging technologies for individual and corporate subscribers. Gigaom Research’s network of 200+ independent analysts provides new content daily that bridges the gap between breaking news and long-range research.