The private cloud is misunderstood. At this stage, vendors can be forgiven for not having a firm idea of what the private cloud is and how it can uniquely improve their processes. Too many service providers have branded legacy technologies as «cloud-based,» warping buyers’ expectations about what a private cloud actually is and should do. In some cases, what developers and testers get with these cloud-washed solutions are nothing more than heavily virtualized environments that offer little or none of the scalability, automation, self-service, and on-demand provisioning associated with cloud computing at-large.
As a result, organizations may think of the private cloud as simply a slight update to their internal IT systems, a fresh coat of paint on the same aging infrastructure that they have been looking to leave behind as new dynamic applications become more central to their businesses. They want a cloud platform that can enable more agile software lifecycles, with streamlined testing and abundant resources for developers, but these misconceptions may lead them to conclude that the public cloud is the only way to achieve these goals and facilitate quicker time-to-market, as well as higher programmer productivity.
The Federal Government Journey to Cloud Computing: Lessons Learned
In February 2011, Vivek Kundra announced the “Cloud First” policy across the US Government. The directive, issued through the Office of Management and Budget, required agencies to give cloud technology first priority in developing IT projects. He also described cloud computing as a “10 year journey”. According to a Deltek report, federal agency spending on cloud computing will grow from $2.3 billion in fiscal 2013 to $6.1 billion by fiscal 2018. This forecast clearly raises the importance of understanding what has happened over the past few years.
The Agile Enterprise Private Cloud
Business differentiation depends upon the efficient development, deployment and management of new applications.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Ruslan Synytsky, CTO of Jelastic, will describe and demonstrate how an enterprise can utilize a private cloud to deliver a scalable, highly available and self-managed platform for DevOps, architects and developers, while retaining control of the IT infrastructure.
VASCO Data Security Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that VASCO Data Security International, Inc., a global leader in authentication, digital signatures, and identity management, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10–12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
VASCO is a leading supplier of strong authentication and e-signature solutions and services specializing in Internet security applications and transactions. VASCO has positioned itself as a global software company for Internet security serving a customer base of approximately 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries, including approximately 1,700 global financial institutions. VASCO’s primary markets are the financial sector, enterprise security, e-commerce and e-government.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Private Cloud
The private cloud momentum among enterprises is undeniable. Private cloud is able to deliver the agility and ease-of-use that users have come to expect – without sacrificing any of the security or control that is critical to so many industries. But implemented incorrectly, there’s no question that private clouds can be a costly and frustrating undertaking.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Stuart Robbins, CIO Evangelist at Metacloud, will spell out the most common mistakes that he and his colleagues have seen in their experience working with companies that have attempted to implement private clouds. He’ll talk about what has gone wrong for these firms, as well as what steps your company can take to avoid falling into similar traps as you pursue your own private cloud.
Open source cloud: Exploring the commercial applications
During the course of the last twelve months the OpenStack community has advanced as more users of the leading open-source cloud technology have been reporting their progress – with the help of their partners – towards making a meaningful impact on their business goals and objectives.
We’ve also learned how these progressive technology users are pioneering changes in their own organisations – enabling them to become more competitive in the Global Networked Economy.
The OpenStack Summit 2014 opened with a keynote on the first day of the conference featuring lessons learned from industry leading organizations that have already deployed these open cloud technologies. Each case study had multiple instances of OpenStack that have been applied for a variety of commercial application scenarios.
Jonathan Bryce, the Executive Director of the Foundation, introduced the growing community of OpenStack Superusers. Glenn Ferguson, Head of Private of Cloud Enablement at Wells Fargo Bank and Chris Launey …
Lunch Power Panel | How Open Source Is Speeding Cloud Innovation
Open source software is powering the most successful public cloud offerings including Amazon and Google. At the same time, other initiatives like OpenStack and CloudFoundry are growing in popularity with a number of vendors actively contributing code.
In this Lunchtime Power Panel at 14th Cloud Expo, Greg O’Connor, President & CEO of AppZero, Cory Isaacson, CEO of CodeFutures Corporation, and John Derrick, CEO of Jelastic, will discuss the future of open source in cloud computing and how customer adoption will be influenced by open clouds.
CiRBA Executives Speaking at Key Upcoming Industry Events
CiRBA Inc. on Tuesday announced that three members of its management team will be speaking at four industry events over the next two weeks: Gartner Infrastructure and Operations Management Events in Berlin and Orlando, Cloud Expo in New York and the J.P. Morgan 4th Annual Cloud & Beyond Conference.
Over-provisioning costly IT infrastructure resources in order to reduce performance risk is a universal issue for enterprise IT today. The sessions will focus on how organizations can stop this cycle and greatly increase efficiency while controlling risk by actively balancing capacity supply with application demand. CiRBA invites event attendees to join the following sessions to learn how Fortune 500 organizations leverage CiRBA to solve this critical challenge.
The Future of Cloud Is Hybrid… and Seamless
It’s probably no surprise that I have long advocated the position that hybrid cloud would eventually become «the standard» architecture with respect to, well, cloud computing. As the dev/ops crowd at Glue Con was recently reminded by the self-styled «most obnoxious man in cloud», Josh McKenty, you can only add to what exists in the data center. You can’t simply rip and replace, forklifts are not allowed, and allowances must be made for how to integrate with existing systems no matter how onerous that might be. The future is, as he put it, open and closed, traditional and modern, automated and human.
I would add to that, it is both public and private, with respect to cloud.
Open Source Cloud: Explore the Commercial Applications
During the course of the last twelve months the OpenStack community has advanced as more users of the leading open-source cloud technology have been reporting their progress — with the help of their partners — towards making a meaningful impact on their business goals and objectives.
We’ve also learned how these progressive technology users are pioneering changes in their own organizations — enabling them to become more competitive in the Global Networked Economy.
The OpenStack Summit 2014 opened with a keynote on the first day of the conference featuring lessons learned from industry leading organizations that have already deployed these open cloud technologies. Each case study had multiple instances of OpenStack that have been applied for a variety of commercial application scenarios