The key message of my presentation was that DDN’s WOS leverages OCP to optimize efficiency for object storage, but at the same time enables the Open Compute Community to build scale-out and more efficient object storage. The NO-FS (no file system) architecture of WOS enables OCP hardware customers to fully leverage all the benefits of the hardware and exploit the low-energy and high-density features.
Gamification: The Long and Short of It
Game applications in business result in both long and short-term success. Short-term effects will occur quickly, while proper implementation and use of game psychology will enable business leaders to maintain this success in the long term.
Gain valuable insights into both long- and short-term gamification success from these industry visionaries, and learn how to harness the power of games to fundamentally change the nature of work.
Our speakers, Byron Reeves, Professor of Communication at Stanford University and Co-Founder of Seriosity, Inc., and Steve Sims, Founder of the Behavior Lab and VP Solutions & Design at Badgeville, will share:
Six of the best: CloudTech’s top cloud stories from the web
It’s that time again: here are CloudTech’s six favourite stories from around the web.
No prizes for guessing which story dominates the selections, but this month’s gamut is a mix of seat swapping, storage and smack talk.
1) Microsoft chief goes back to the future [Financial Times]: There wasn’t any other place to start. The biggest job in the IT industry was announced last week, and it’s not a coincidence that the new man in the hotseat, Satya Nadella, moves up from executive VP of Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise division.
While most articles make that connection, this FT analysis examines the “boardroom dance” Redmond now faces. Reporter Richard Waters is less than convinced that Nadella will have a clear run amid the prying eyes of Microsoft’s two previous CEOs, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, although noted Gates’ new advisory role is “subtly diminished …
CIOs told in latest report to “embrace cloud or be left behind”
A survey from Capita IT Services has revealed that CIOs see cloud computing as a key enabler to business innovation, yet boardrooms are “nervous” places where execs have to convince them cloud adoption is the way forward.
The research, a combination of roundtable sessions and surveys featuring nearly 150 CIOs, found some interesting points regarding cloud adoption. More than three in five (61%) believe that improving the company’s innovation is now one of their highest priorities, with a further one in five (20%) believing it to be a low priority.
Not surprisingly, the report discusses the shift of CIO from chief information to chief innovation officer.
“The ‘C’ in CIO now represents communication, collaboration, change; ‘I’ represents integration, interfaces, investment; and ‘O’ means optimisation, organisation and operations,” the report trumpets.
“In order to assert themselves at board level and become strategic business influencers, CIOs need to align themselves with …
How Safe Is the Cloud?
How can your business benefit from using the cloud? We hear the term all the time in the tech world, but it’s never really clearly defined. Those of us who are using social media or saving data with online sources are already using it. Perhaps you just didn’t know it. Amazon is one of the largest cloud service centers. It houses information on behalf of Netflix, Dropbox and Autodesk. Other remote servers are Google, Microsoft and Rackspace.
Windows XP Countdown Foreshadows End of Support for Windows Server 2003
“Meanwhile, in Windows XP land, the countdown continues with the April deadline looming” said Jessica Davis in a recent article in MSPmentor. “Reports say that the XP installed base has dipped below 30 percent for the first time, while comments on this same story speculate that the numbers are much higher still. Meanwhile, if you have customers with XP machines still in place, you need to be worrying how you will secure those after the deadline. Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows XP is sharing the same dead date with the OS it supports, according to this report.”
Managing IaaS and DBaaS Clouds with Oracle Released
Over the holidays I actually spent some time reviewing the newly released «Managing IaaS and DBaaS Clouds with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c». This book is a step-by-step tutorial filled with practical examples which will show readers how to configure and manage IaaS and DBaaS with Oracle Enterprise Manager. If you are a cloud administrator or a user of self-service provisioning systems offered by this Oracle product, this book is ideal for you. It will also help administrators who want to understand the available chargeback mechanisms.
Managing IaaS and DBaaS Clouds with Oracle Released
Over the holidays I actually spent some time reviewing the newly released «Managing IaaS and DBaaS Clouds with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c». This book is a step-by-step tutorial filled with practical examples which will show readers how to configure and manage IaaS and DBaaS with Oracle Enterprise Manager. If you are a cloud administrator or a user of self-service provisioning systems offered by this Oracle product, this book is ideal for you. It will also help administrators who want to understand the available chargeback mechanisms.
Vertical Cloud Computing Providers Arrive for Financial Services Industry
The cloud’s main story so far has been one of horizontal providers, such as salesforce.com, Microsoft and Amazon, offering one-size-fits-all solutions. While these providers had some success in the financial services sector, their products weren’t specialized enough to address the needs of asset managers or bankers.
The advent of vertical SaaS providers was the topic of my latest article, Will 2014 be the Year of Vertical Clouds, written for Wired. Even though they’re a young market today, expect to see a larger number of these vertical cloud providers getting scale and attention, in 2014.
“In the days before the cloud, on-premise software providers that focused on selling into a vertical market were considered second-class citizens to the ‘big guns’ selling into the broader horizontal marketplace. However, with the advent of the SaaS model, the tables have turned,” according to Gordon Ritter of Emergence Capital.
Linux Containers – Next-Gen Virtualization for Cloud
Want VM agility with near bare metal performance? How about [milli]second provision/stop/start/restart times? Looking to achieve greater VM density on your hardware assets, or provision applications without worry of dependency hell? Look no further than next-gen virtualization with Linux Containers.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Boden Russell, an Advisory Software Engineer at IBM Global Technology Services, will provide a Linux Container technology overview including underpinnings, throttling, monitoring, tooling/commoditization, images, security, use cases, pros/cons and why containers are poised as “the next VM” in our modern cloud era. By the end of this session you will have a firm understanding of the Linux Container landscape in today’s industry and an appreciation for their realization.