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.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Cloud Analytics
«We are automated capacity control software, which basically looks at all the supply and demand and running a virtual cloud environment and does a deep analysis of that and says where should things go,» explained Andrew Hillier, Co-founder & CTO of CiRBA, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 14th International Cloud Expo®, held June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo® 2014 Silicon Valley, November 4–6, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Gigaom’s Ashar Baig to Lead Cloud Expo Power Panel
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, to be held November 4-6 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, announces that Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, will lead a Power Panel on the topic of «Choosing the Right Cloud Option.»
Mr. Baig has more than 18 years’ experience in the technology industry, serving in senior roles at Taneja Group, Asigra, Artisan Infrastructure, Camouflage Software, IBM, Telus, HP, Siemens, and Intel. With his focus on Cloud Computing, High-Performance Computing, and related topics, he is passionate about evangelizing and driving industry standards. He serves on numerous industry boards and committees.
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.
Gigaom’s Ashar Baig to Lead Cloud Expo Power Panel
Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, to be held November 4-6 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, announces that Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud at Gigaom Research, will lead a Power Panel on the topic of «Choosing the Right Cloud Option.»
Mr. Baig has more than 18 years’ experience in the technology industry, serving in senior roles at Taneja Group, Asigra, Artisan Infrastructure, Camouflage Software, IBM, Telus, HP, Siemens, and Intel. With his focus on Cloud Computing, High-Performance Computing, and related topics, he is passionate about evangelizing and driving industry standards. He serves on numerous industry boards and committees.
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.
4 Reasons to Improve Your Infrastructure Management On-The-Cloud
Infrastructure-as-a-service or IaaS is slowly yet steadily improving as the longest solutions towards successful integration of services and its management. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management systems are perhaps the quickest systems to adapt to legacy systems particularly on the cloud. Companies have not left any stone unturned when it came to adopting to the cloud, particularly towards adopting legacy systems. Not only have companies upgraded their spending potential for adapting to the cloud but it has also seen the adoption of cloud-based platforms as the leading trend with towards profit maximization and corporate sustainability.
Are companies inclined to spend more in IaaS?
According to a recent Gartner study, public cloud services are likely improve over the years which indirectly means that the global spending in infrastructure management is likely to grow. The growth rate or the CAGR will sustain at 17.7% over the years till the year 2016. Here’s what they predict about the investments in IaaS or infrastructure-as-a-service.
At a sustained CAGR of 41.3% till 2016, the investments in IaaS is likely to be the fastest growing segments in the world. As companies want to reach to a wider audience, there is no doubt that companies want to achieve a competitive advantage before their competitors.
Geographically too, companies across the world are increasing their IT spending towards cloud computing to enhance their company’s performance.
Essentially, companies in Northern America, and Western Europe are the most eager or have already captured the benefits of cloud computing with an integrated infrastructure management.
So, what is the direct advantage of having a cloud computing for integrated infrastructure management? Let’s take a look at the 4 critical advantages of having an integrated infrastructure management on the cloud:
- The lower your TCO, the better: When it comes to facilitating lower total cost of operations or achieving the best of cost savings, one of the critical ways of achieving either of these objectives is by going on the cloud. Not only have companies reduced their costs towards IT management services but they have avoided costs involved in severe challenges for managing various IT environments, while adapting to the cloud.
- Ability to concentrate on core businesses: Freeing up your time for core businesses is another critical way to facilitate enhanced business strategies. By implementing infrastructure management on the cloud, your strategic IT resources can concentrate on core IT strategies that facilitate business growth.
- Respond better to business needs: Enhance your flexibility and further your responsiveness to indulge into what your customers and niche clients want. Enhance your IT infrastructure with the availability of reliable and easily available services on the cloud.
- Improve the standards of service levels: Increase the level of security, stability, and IT infrastructure availability. With greater synergy between existing and newer technologies for infrastructure management, there are chances that one can make the entire IT infrastructure more accountable.
In other words, by implementing the best of IT integrated infrastructure strategies, one is virtually capable of indulging in cost savings, heightened competitive advantage, and greater accountability.
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Microsoft Acquires InMage
Disaster Recovery (DR) technology for Enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs).
According to Takeshi Numoto, Corporate Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing, Microsoft, “This acquisition will accelerate our strategy to provide hybrid cloud business continuity solutions for any customer IT environment, be it Windows or Linux, physical or virtualized on Hyper-V, VMware or others. This will make Azure the ideal destination for disaster recovery for virtually every enterprise server in the world. As VMware customers explore their options to permanently migrate their applications to the cloud, this will also provide a great onramp.
Microsoft Acquires InMage
Disaster Recovery (DR) technology for Enterprises and Managed Service Providers (MSPs).
According to Takeshi Numoto, Corporate Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing, Microsoft, “This acquisition will accelerate our strategy to provide hybrid cloud business continuity solutions for any customer IT environment, be it Windows or Linux, physical or virtualized on Hyper-V, VMware or others. This will make Azure the ideal destination for disaster recovery for virtually every enterprise server in the world. As VMware customers explore their options to permanently migrate their applications to the cloud, this will also provide a great onramp.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Analytics as a Service
«In my session I spoke about enterprise cloud analytics and how we can leverage analytics as a service,» explained Ajay Budhraja, CTO at the Department of Justice, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 14th International Cloud Expo®, held June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo® 2014 Silicon Valley, November 4–6, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
SYS-CON.tv Interview: Unified Cloud Services
“We are starting to see people move beyond the commodity cloud and enterprises need to start focusing on additional value added services in order to really drive their adoption,» explained Jason Mondanaro, Director of Product Management at MetraTech, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 14th International Cloud Expo®, held June 10-12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Cloud Expo® 2014 Silicon Valley, November 4–6, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
Conquering the Cloud: Skills to Master in a Services-Based World
In a recent survey of IT pros, not only did cloud computing rank as a top three technology both as most disruptive and as most significant to business over the past three to five years, but it ranked as the number one technology investment most needed for businesses to remain competitive in the next three to five years.
In short, the cloud is here, and it’s here to stay. We’re naturally seeing many enterprises move to the cloud, at least in a hybrid traditional computing-cloud approach (for now). As more cloud-based services are born, the shift will only accelerate. This begs the question, what does all this mean for today’s IT pro?