At WWDC, among a litany of other announcements, Apple unleashed iCloud Drive, representing further entry from Cupertino into the cloud storage space. But is it too little, too late?
Sitting as part of iOS 8, Apple is offering up to 5 gigabytes of free storage, with users being charged a princely 59p a month for up to 20GB and £2.40 a month for 200GB. This certainly compares favourably with Microsoft’s OneDrive – £5 per month for 200GB – and niche players such as Box and Dropbox, with prices similar to Google Drive and Amazon Web Services.
But the question remains: with so many players in the market, why Apple? And why now?
With iCloud Drive, Apple in theory has the missing piece of the jigsaw for the full enterprise collaboration suite that Google and Microsoft already has. Yet some of the tech press remains resolutely unconvinced about this move.
In the wake of the end of support of Windows XP and the almost immediate exploitation with the IE vulnerability, focus has turned to the next big End of Support (EOS) event which is for Windows Server 2003. To help companies prepare to navigate large migration projects of WS 2003 AppZero and Microsoft teamed up last week in a webinar entitled “How to Solve the Challenge of WS2003.” You can view the slides and recording here (registration required).
Those who leverage managed server providers (MSPs) often use the MSP to access and manage public cloud services. However, there are right and wrong ways to do this.
Many believe that MSPs and public clouds live in very different worlds. Nothing could be further from the truth. In the past, ‘managed service providers’ was a term used to describe infrastructure services delivered on a subscription basis. With the advent of cloud computing, managed IT services and management services have become synonymous. Indeed, most MSPs are very cloud-like. Many even provide auto- and self-provisioning capabilities, as well as some elastic scaling features.
However, as MSPs continue to grow in popularity, along with cloud computing, best practices are beginning to emerge around how to use MSPs as management layers for cloud-based resources. Simply put, it’s the ability to leverage a tiered model to deal with public clouds using the MSP as …
While there are many ways to define DevOps, the goal of the concept is to be able to deliver IT solutions faster, leveraging several technology tools to add value for business. Cloud companies have demonstrated how they can manage massive pools of IT infrastructure, giving the developer a very flexible resource pool that they can leverage and IT is eager to do the same.
In this Power Panel at 2nd DevOps Summit moderated by Cloud Expo Tech Chair Larry Carvalho, Bernard Golden, VP, Strategy at ActiveState; Andi Mann, VP of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies; John Willis, VP of Customer Enablement at Stateless Networks; Randy Bias, Co-Founder and CTO of Cloudscaling; and Vasu Sankhavaram, Chief Strategist of DevOps and Cross Portfolio Architecture Alignment within HP Software, will discuss this movement that is delivering frictionless IT to the enterprise.
It used to be that only application developers knew what APIs were, but things have changed to the point where there are entire conferences dedicated to APIs, websites track them, and people can make a living from doing API reviews. CEOs tout their own APIs in keynote speeches, and CMOs allocate budget to API development. The fact is, however, that what an API is and does hasn’t changed. Functionally, APIs were created to expose data to, and across, applications. Originally based on SOAP/XML endpoints, they evolved into Web-based services that enabled ecommerce, data and communication transactions. Before long, it became clear that there isn’t much one can do online unless it involved an API.
Distrix (formerly Spark Integration Technologies) on Friday announced it will demonstrate the latest version of its flagship software platform at the Internet of @ThingsExpo in New York, June 10-12, 2014 at the Javits Center in New York City. Version 4.1 of the Distrix Gateway Router extends the manageability of remote networks while also improving the programmability of software-defined networking (SDN) environments, resulting in unprecedented network agility. Also at the conference, Jay Friedman, Distrix president, will deliver a presentation titled IoT Meets SDN for WANs – Keeping Networks Secure and Manageable as part of the Software Defined Data Center and Enterprise Cloud Stories track.
We’ve distilled lessons learned from Snowden scandal and created 5 questions every CEO should be asking their CIO / CISO in order to avoid a catastrophic rogue insider event in the private sector both in using cloud as a vector of exfiltration as well as protecting their data stored in the cloud.
Today is the one-year anniversary of the historic Snowden disclosure. In the year since the first stories about Edward Snowden appeared, one of the lasting affects of the scandal is a heightened awareness of the risk posed by rogue insiders. This increased focus on rogue insiders has spread beyond the government to the private sector, and from security circles to corporate executives.
Perfecto Mobile is using a variety of cloud-based testing tools to help its developers rapidly create the best mobile apps for both enterprises and commercial deployment.
We have surely entered a golden age of mobile apps development, not just for app stores wares, but across all kinds of enterprise and productivity applications. The notion of mobile-first has altered the development landscape so much that the very notion of software development writ large will never be the same.
Isaacson will give a brief preview of his upcoming book and answer questions regarding why we have been looking at databases all wrong.
Cory Isaacson is the CEO and CTO of CodeFutures, a provider of agile Big Data technologies. He has been actively involved in leading information technologies for more than 20 years. He has focused on efficiently addressing development and deployment challenges of emerging technologies such as SOA, virtualization and commoditization of resources to support real-world business applications. Cory’s expertise with high performance transactional applications has helped leading IT organizations respond to business needs for higher volumes while still managing cost pressures. Most recently, Cory has been an active evangelist on the need for using concurrent processing and scalable database techniques in order to improve application performance on multi-core architectures. Cory is responsible for the corporate strategy at CodeFutures.
OpenStack continues to grow exponentially as the de facto standard for open source cloud platforms. But how can someone quickly get started with learning this exciting new technology?
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Kenneth Hui, a Technology Evangelist with Rackspace, will walk participants through an overview of the OpenStack components and offer practical suggestions and resources for learning OpenStack.
Kenneth Hui is a Technology Evangelist with Rackspace. Prior to Rackspace, Ken was a vArchitect at VCE, focused on virtualized converged infrastructure. His passion is to help IT deliver value to their customers through collaboration, automation, and cloud computing. Ken’s responsibilities at Rackspace include helping to drive the adoption of OpenStack and the hybrid cloud.